The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-30
AT LUNCHEON with the CLUBS
ROTARY

A mere pittance oI st,oVV spoiieu the difference between neglect. pow erty, prospective criminality and
 normal upright. Christian citizenship
 for more than 100 children in Jeffer-
 son county last year" said Rai2
 Barrow, president of the Children's B
 Aid society, at the Rotary club
 luncheon Wednesday,
 More than 100 children were per-
 manently placed in family homes
 during 1921, and the cost of opera
 ton of the society was s7.5Oo. Care of one kind or another was given to 250 children and the lives of more
 than TOO young people were touched by the society during the year. These little children have been as- 1 simulated into normal families and
 have been saved from being a charge upon the community.
 While the Childrens Aid society has no physical building, 1t is mover | theless an institution. 1t Is a great Institution which has for It's walls the boundaries of the state of Ala
 bama, for it's roof the blue sky over 1 us, and for it's supporting pillars 100 | family homes.
 The work of the society Is done ] by co-ordinating that of other re- ] lief organizations. It works in co- | operation with the juvenile court l the Mercy Home. the city welfare l department. the Red Cross, the Sal
 vation Army and the Children 8 Home.
 | Children whom the organization
 touches come from the neither class | of our society. They are snatched l from under the guiding wheels of
 what we call civilization and saved
 from the juggernaut. They arc the
 wild weeds of society that are trans | planted and cultivated intb beautiful 1 flowers of useful citizenship. Under
 nourished, under developed. aenemic when the society touches them. they ! gradually develop into normal.
 healthy. happy children.
 Tt Is not possible to say what the method of the society is, for the
 methods are as multitudinous as the children helped. There is a different treatment for each child. and the
 plan of the society Is to fit the pro-
 cedure to the individual. The object I of the society Is Family life for
 children. This may. not mean much
 to the normaf child living in a happy | family, but to the outside child if means a tremendous lot.'
 Mrs. Ralph Barrow spoke after her | husband on the personal side of child | welfare work She told of the fine l results of salvaging fragments of | humanity.
 | Dan E. Dimick, chairman of the | boys work campaign. reported that q = than half subscribed and that 15 quotas.
 EXCHANGE
 "I am glad that I live in A land | that believes in Thanksgiving Day" said Dr. j. E. billiard. pastor of the 1 Southside Baptist church Wednes- day afternoon when he addressed the members of the Exchange cluo at the | Tutwiler hotel.
 "Plato was grateful for three 1 things: first because he was a man l and not beast, second, because he was Greek and not barbarian. | and third. because he was a philos- I opher and not a fol I, too. am | thankful that I am man, a white | man, man who has sense of | gratitude. The hog lies peacefully l on the ground and eats acorns with | out asking any questions of where | they came from or why. I am | thankful that I am man, who has l a soul which comes from above and | can look upward and know there l is an infinite God As there are i eight notes in an octave of music. so there are eight different facts for | winch I am most grateful and com bining them all makes the most l beautiful musical cords which has 1 ever sounded. These facts for which l am so grateful is first. that am 1 an American--it means liberty i freedom in thoughts, in speech, in 1 writing, so long as you do not i'm i terefere with anothers rights; free | dom in politics, education, freedom to marry whomsoever you please, and freedom to worship God according i to the dictates of your own heart. i Thank God that we can all be l Christians and that we are Americans and christians. I am also thankful that the members of the Exchange club have taken the time to stop and give thought to this Thanksgiving Day" N7s
 Ray l.. Lange, president of the National Exchange, reported that two cluhs had been recently organized. one fin Tuscaloosa and one in Livingston.
 The attendance prize was won by Tom Braggs and was presented by Dr. !. s. Gillespie. Jr. Maclin Smith. president. announced that the captains for the club teams for De- cember would be-: Lloyd St. Joha smith. T. J. Calvert Lamar Aldrich. W. Stuart Anderson, W R. Crane, T. J. Crittenden, pr. J. A. Livingston, Waddy W. Wood, Ralph A. Snallmap
 and Harris Saunders .fiir