Evening star., 1924-11-08
CHILD PROTECTIVE BODY ASKS
RECRUITS TO AID VITAL YORK
Requests for Helpful Guidance to Children Not Get
ting Fair Chance in Present Environment
S,Uamp Society.

As it begins it's ninth year Of or
ganization the Juvenile Protective AS
sociation of the District of Columbia
finds itself swamped with requests from
judges of District courts, prosecuting
attorneys in criminal courts, clergymen,
parent-teacher associations, mems and
woman's civic clubs and many other
bodies and individuals to come to the
rescue of boys and girls approaching
or in the throes of delinquency, who
can be saved and made upright, honest
citizens.
With it's limited staff and funds, the
Juvenile Protective Association cannot
handle all the cases, and it is, there
fore, necessary to widen it's activities;
recruit more far-sighted men and wom-
en- who will be willing to take in tow
a youngster, show him or her the bright
and good side of life and ward off the
evil influence.
In other words, there are many boys
and girls in Washington who are suffer
ing for the want of a big pal, whom
they can look up to and try to emulate;
pal who will pay them periodic visits,
take them walks, rides and visits to
points Of interest instead of allowing
these children to continue with asso-
ciates who eventually will turn them
into undesirable citizens.
Work Highly Indorsed.
The work of this association has re-
ceiyed the highest Endorsement from
the leading men and women of the city.
1t is a humanitarian effort and the re-
| ward is in seeing an industrious boy or
girl approaching manhood or woman
hood with high ideals, interest In the
big problems Of life, in contrast to
living in a dirty hovel surrounded by
vice and with no future at all.
After you read the following three
cases that need immediate attention
and find you have some spare time
each day with which you do not know
what to do, call up the Juvenile Pro-
| tective Association at 2o3 street,
| telephone Main 2314, and offer your
| services, promise to rear this or that
! child according to the way you were
| reared. and attempt to give it some of
| the advantages you had. 1t will not
| cost you much and the dividends will
| be in happiness of the nature that
| comes alone from lending hand to a
grateful person, the association points
| out. These cases, only a few of the
! many the association cannot neglect,
are:
On the top floor Of a reoming house,
| two back rooms are occupied by John
and his mother. She is employed all
day from $50 to 4. Her husband, a
| complete invalid, is being kept in a
nearby hospital with no chance of re-
| covery. John is II and Billy, years
old, Is in a home. John, who should
be his mothers great support, has
gotten in with the wrong crowd of
boys. drinks and has taken to using
morphine. He will be gone sometimes
| for three days at a time, reappearing
| in a dirty condition, dazed and SEEM
| ingly no sense of where he has spent
| his time. For perhaps two weeks he
| will be working. bringing homo as
much as $25-then disappears again.
He needs help and interest.
Grafton, colored boy Of; 10 years,
fourth grade, public school, is really
live wire. His father deserted him
self and his mother in the Union Sta
ton. Grafton assumed all of the re-
sponsibility, which has not been easy
alone in an unknown city, with no
| one back home to help. He works
after school in a radio shop because
he is anxious to invent an apparatus
| which will connect up with hospitals
| and call ambulances to scenes of dis
aster without the use of a telephone.