Milford chronicle., 1924-05-02
WORK AT DELAWARE
COLONY IS PRAISED
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assembly today may well bear witness
to the determination Of the people ol
Delaware to properly care for thai
portion of its negative population
represented by this Colony. The
Legislature of 1917 pledged the State
to that policy and the session of 1925
signally honored that pledge by pass
ing additional important legislation.
you are interested in our activities
and the result of those activities and
we consider it a duty and . privilege
to keep you informed.
1--WE have made Investigations into
rather a large number of applications
recently and we are becoming more
and more convinced that the cause
of a majority of the cases may be
traced ultimately to our ancestral sins
in the form of violation of natural
laws or moral transgressiOn. All
honor to the forces that are working
for the elimination of those sins. May
they not be discouraged? This much
may be said in favor of prohibition,
that those who indulge too freely to-
dav are far less likely to transmit the
results of their dissipation to future
generations, for the simple reason
that if they imbibe freely enough the
line will end with the present genera
tion.
'T will not take the time to enumer-
ate in detail the various kinds of work
that our boys and girls are being
taught to do. We are continuing and
irving to improve in the various
things concerning which I have told
YOU before If you could drop in on
the Deemer Cottage some morning
about eight o'clock and see the girls
at their work and note how orderly
and systematically they go about their
work, many of you would wonder why
thev are here. I mention the girls be-
cause they have been in training long
er than the boys. But the boys can
and will be trained to be just as capa-
BILE as the girls. The few boys that
we are able to use in the cement block
work should becredited approximately
fifty per cent. Of the labor that las
gone into the blocks in the new build
ings.
"There is one tendency to which
would like to call your attention that
is only more evident at the present
time, but one that will become more
evident as time goes on. This Is the
desire Of the parents wnen they come
here and see the improvement in the
stability and improvement physically
Of their child, to make an effort to take
the child home again. This is some
thing that should be left largely to ex-
pert judgment, together with some
sound reasoning with those parents.
Some Of the higher grade individuals |
may eventually be returned to the |
communities from which they came,
but in most cases, they will be vastly
better off and or more economic value |
here.
Our population now numbers sixty, |
thirty boys and thirty girls. Two of
our girls have been transferred to
two have been allowed to
go home and one has been turned over
to the Delaware Children's Home
Society.
It has been our policy to keep the
home atmosphere in evidence as much
as possible and we shall continue to
do this, but as we grow we find it in
necessary to govern our
selves by very different rules and re-
gulations. Even with the number that
we have now, we cannot give each
child the amount of individual atten-
ion we would like TO. When we Sc
cure teacher, which we expect to do I
n the fall, she will be able to give US
assistance in helping the {
children to utilize their time to better
advantage.