The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-02-21
HOMES And HELP FOR
HOMELESS CHILDREN

Were any one of us that child,
how grateful would we be to anyone
and any society which would take an
interest in US and help find a good
home for us. Many a child has been
so unfortunate as to lose father and
mother and home were it not for the
fact that there was a home ready to
receive the homeless child and give
him a mothers and a fathers love
he would miss the greatest blessing
which comes to any child, parental
affection and the wholesome infu-
ence of a good home. These un-
fortunate children have been on the
increase. Few hearts are so hard
that they are not touched by the APP
peal of the homeless child. There
is many a home without a child, crav-
ing the opportunity to caress and
love a little child left motherless.
Such a child is loved just as dearly
as parents love their own children.
1t is the business of the Montana
Children's Home Society to receive
these homeless children and to hunt
up a suitable home for them. So
successful have we been that 90
per cent of our children have made
good. About $500 such children
have been placed in good homes in
this state the past quarter of a CEN
tury. The development of these
children has been watched so that
we know how they are getting along.
The work has been supported at an
average expense of only $136 for
each child. That amount would not
keep a child in an orphans home six
months. No society could possibly
do more for the good of humanity
and for the good of our country. We
have helped to make these children
assets rather than liabilities to So
ciety. What have you done to help
the homeless child?
The district superintendent of the
society has recently visited this
community and received a goodly
number of contributions from the
friends of the society, and the CON
have been more liberal
than in the past few years for which
we are very grateful. It was inn
possible to see everyone. Should
wish to help this work, a
contribution will be gladly received
at the Office at Helena. You could
not help humanity in a more effect
i've way.
The past year a special campaign
has been put on for our new build
.ng which we need very much. Con-
we are asked to take tempo
,ary aid cases, children usually of a
or mother who has been left
to support them and while t
young are unable to give them prop
or care. The parent is willing to i
send in support as much as they can
f we will take the children for 2
little while. Three hundred such
eases were turned away the past year
because we did not have room to
AXE them in. We regret this very
much. When we get our new home
We will be able to help care for these t
,ases. Considerable money has come /
n the past year for this purpose and
t looks like we will be able to begin {
the building in the spring, but we q
will need considerable more yet to q
:omplete the building. Surely some i
Of the society who reads this Q
viii be glad to help in erecting this a
Someone who reads this s
may some day have occasion Q
o put a child into the home. Il
A number of our friends are re- i.
n~embering the society in their wills 0
nd helping to endow the institution. v
'erhaps we have other friends who t
would like to do the same. v
Yours in the interest of the home Q
ass children of Montana.-F. r. h
Brown, Dist. Supt., I'LL End Ave. |;
Great Falls, Mont. f