Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1921-11-11

ton of the collective care of the child in an institution. It is co-ordinating the work of the state, the school, and the home. It is looking to the child as an individual, future citizen. It is giving him what every citizen wants-not charity, but a chance"
 Now I want to tell you that this bill passed the House unanimously, but had some difficulty in the Senate. The club women of Southern Arizona, realizing what this bill meant to the children of this state, worked untlr- ingly with the senators who opposed the bill. You know the result. Let me take this opportunity to say that both the senator and representative from Mohave County never for min ute opposed, but worked very hard to pass this bill.
 Since the organization of the State Child Welfare Board in July we have had more than one hundred applica- tions for help and at the present time are caring for 122 children.
 Years ago it was thought that only institutions could care for these chil- dren, but now a different plan is be- ing tried, that of placing children in private homes to board or for adop- tion. We prefer to place children for adoption, but wish to give both parties six months probation. We have at present a number of children looking for homes, but not so many homes looking for children. That condition is due to the fact that our State Child Welfare Law is not we'll enough known throughout the State.
 There will always be some children who will not be placed in private hom- es, and many who will not come under the provisions of the State Child Well fare Law, but who will need homes and care, and as we have only one non-sectarian institution in the state, which is located in Tucson; and which is much too small for our needs, as it can accommodate only about 40 child ,ren, we are sadly in need of just such an institution in the northern part of Arizona, and from my observation l can find no better place for this kind of an institution than Kingman. Here we have a genial climate, moderate altitude, good schools and many good people whose hearts are just as big and who are just as willing. to help the little folks get start as in any place know. I cannot help but feel that if the women of the Thursday Afternoon Club of Kingman would help, and I am sure they. will, we would be able to take care of all the dependent children in Northern Ari- zona. The Child Welfare Board would pay, at the present time, to such an institution at the rate of $20.0O a month for any children it might place therein.
 May I tell you something of an in stitution I know great deal about?
 Away back in 1869, in Ohio, a great many children had been left orphans by the Civil War; The United States was caring for the soldiers, but not the orphans so some of the soldiers in the Dayton, Ohio, National Soldiers Home sought to take their children with them into that institution. As a result of this the children were not given the proper care and several sol diers clubbed together and rented a small three room house in side street in Xenia, just 19 miles east of Day. ton, and employed a good, motherly woman to take care of as many Ohio Soldiers orphans as the house would .accomodate. In a very few months she had more than she could care for and not near enough room. As a re- suit of this condition more soldiers joined in the work of supporting these children and purchased a plot of ground about miles from Xenia and built more and larger buildings. In a very short time these were filled and many children were on the wait ing list. .,
 The State of Ohio had it's eyes on this good work and after short while took it upon itself to take over this institution, making the children the wards of the state. Out of this small beginning grew the present institution known as the Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home, which has car ed for as many as a thousand children at one time. It is the largest and best institution of it's kind in the world and has turned out some of the most prominent men and women in the United States. To impress upon you what this home really means to these
 men and women let me quote short speech made. before the Ohio State Legislature in the fall of 1910 by John R. Malloy, one of the first boys ad- mitted to the Home, when Governor Harmon sought to have this institu- tion placed under state control. He