The Washington herald., 1922-07-16

their children be placed in the In
dustrial Home SchooI.
To the public: II you are under
the impression that poverty is all
at fault in regard to these children.
try visiting Juvenile Court on court
days.
To the mothers: Mothers. before
you petition the Mothep Congress
to intercede for you to take your
children out of a private home and
place them in the Industrial Home
School, let me beg for your chill
dren's sake that you make a little
bit more investigation in all direc-
tions before you do so. You say
you love your children; then why
are you willing to deprive them Of
their freedom? You have yours.
and they have done nothing TO de-
serve losing theirs.
why are you willing to put them
in an Institution. that the very fact
of their having been there will sf-
feet their social well being ever
after, because even now in the pub
lie schools the child from the Home
School Is looked down upon by its
classmates. Parents do not care to
have their children make compsn-
ions of them
BY the farming out system your
children enjoy more OF less freedom.
In any home they may be placed
they enjoy the privilege of attend
ing public school and Sunday school.
where they can form acQuaintances
and make friends from among the
outside world.
In most all homes there are more
or less pleasures which they are
allowed &c share. Are you willing
to take this from them. and place
them in an institution whose only
advantage over the home is the con-
venience OF your getting to. see
them more often.
II your children are in bad
home, and you are sure II is aoso-
lutely bad, and have positive proof
of IL, you know, at least some OF
you know. that the Board of Guard
ians will look into the matter and
remove the child and close the
home. Some OF you know this. But
FIRST be sure the child's complaint is
just. Children are peculiar little
bundles of flesh and blood. They
| can see no justice in punishment OF
correction. You mothers know that
when you yourself punished them
how angry and rebellious they be-
came. A child always magnifies its
troubles. know this fact well
as have been working among chill
dren for some time. and dear as
they are, they can be very trying
and provoking at times.
The farming system has been
tried out and found successful in
the more progressive cities. In
! Scotland 1t has been in use for
| more than fifty years with marked
success. You mothers who know
your children are in good homes
and are receiving rood care. you
| know you don't want your children
| In an institution: then why will you
keep silent? II you know your
child has a good home. II is only
| fair to those who are helping you
rear your child to speak for those
who are caring for II and those who
helped place your child in good
care.
You relatives Of these children
who are allowed to see these chill
dren even though e. parents can
not. those Of you who know your
| children are In good homes ano
know that you have been received
as a guest in said homes, and every
courtesy has been shown you that
would be shown any other guest
even to sitting at the table and en-
| joying a meal with your children;
in some instances when the railroad
was a distance from the house, you
were met with the auto and taken
tn and from the ststion-I know
.oue of these homes, and you know
them too-it is only fair to the care
takers, the guardians and the chill.
dren themselves that you speak
Your silence may be the means OF
placing your children in an insti-
tuition where some of you do not
want them to be. Don't walt for
| some one else to try to save your
children from an institution. II you
don't want your children there
| speak up and say so. After IL Is
| done, 1t will be too late. Another
| objection to an Institution as a
home I can give better in the words
| of Rev. T. Davis Richards. d. D.
| quoted from something j have read
| somewhere, only in place Of the
| word 'iman." l shall put child:
| Sin spreads rapidly from heart to
| heart by the association of one with
another. A child has the sins OF
! but one to contend with. Put q
score of others with him and you
manifold his liability to sin, because