The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-08

1 family boarding houses where neg | lected children are cared for over periods varying from one to six months before they are ready to go into their permanent foster homes.
 Tn these other mother homes, the children are cleaned up. built up physically and are taught manners. The boarding homes giving this ser vice are under the supervision of the society and the board of health, and are maintained with high standards of sunshiny care.
 When these children. once num- bered among the liabilities of the state of Alabama, are made as near l physically perfect as possible and are ! placed in permanent family homes for adoption, they become assets in very real sense. Our records and the records of older societies show that they become the splendid, nor
 nal fine citizens of the state in the same proportion as children from any
 other homes in Alabama.
 This is the modern common sense method of taking care of all the chil- dren whom we have called the under | privileged children of our state This kind of work is indeed the con ] servation of the most important re- source of our great state. and as ] such, 1t has definite economic and | social value. The permanent good accomplished by placing these chill dren, who have for one reason or an other been deprived of family life back into the loving arms of a new father and iiew mother cannot be overestimated.
 MT. Barrow declares:
 The Chfldren's Aid society is using All inc fnrgeg a af ganization of men and women throughout Alabama to fight the causes of dependency, of neglect and of cruel treatment of children. The
 other half from which these chill dren spring. live in poverty disease crime. ill health and under improper housing. conditions. and without the proper Safeguard for moral living.
 The society is using the over whelming evidence it has gathered by It's work with f,700 children as a great weapon of power to prevent the continuing of the forces which will make future children dependent and neglected"
 Mir. Barrow continues
 Tt is hard to visualize the num- Der of children who have been rescued and saved from such unfor- tunate environments. Yet if these ABtVV were kdlHtTtu lOBtlntF III one place they would make a good sized town.
 Scattered about as they are all over the state of Alabama. from Lau- derdale and Madison counties on the north. to Mobile and Houston coun- ties on the south. the service that has been given them has brightened and brought joy to the home life oi probably 1.5o0 Alabama families.
 "0ne of the most important fea- lures of the work done by this so- ciety Is that of the physical upbuild- | ing of the children.
 Every single child who comes into the temporary or permanent care of the society is given a thorough phy- sical overhauling by the very fines children's specialists in the state. The doctors. hospitals, nurses and clinics i everywhere are always open anc ready to serve these little children so that no matter how long it takes each child Is finally given clean bill 1 of health
 l "When you realize that the chill 1 dren of your homes go through thi: | process in a normal way over a pc l riod of years. and consider then tha l the Children's Aid society has tt 1 crowd all of this physical rebuildini work into few months you can
 realize the problem"