New Britain herald., 1926-09-09
UNLOVED CHILDREN
 IS STATE PROBLEM
Judge Day Tells Rotary Club
 How It Is Solved

Society consists of three classes, the dependents, the delinquents and those who haven't been caught yet. according to Judge George H. Day of the juvenile court of New Haven, who spoke to the New Britain Rotary club today.
 Judge Day explained the' work of the Connecticut Child Welfare society, stating that one of it's chief problems is the neglected and uncared for child whose home is not suitable for reasons other than poverty. He told how years ago when a child became an orphan it was taken into the home of neighbor and raised as a member of the neighbor's family. But the time came when there were not neighbors enough who were able or willing to do this and the state found it necessary to assume some responsibility.
 He said the first orphan asylums treated the children as units, each one wearing the same kind of clothing and all going through the same daily routine. Now, he said. the orphanages are applying scien- tific and psychological tests and children receive individual attcn- ton.
 The child gets more education Tn the years before it goes to school than 1t ever does after. wards, he said. He explained that in the old time orphan asylum the child had no one 10 run to with questions or if it had, the questions were quickly suppressed.
 He explained that the child gets hygienic instruction, saying that, white tile and modern plumbing standards can be raised to a point where they cannot be equalled in anyone's home"
 The child of the old fashioned asylum had not learned to live in a family. Today it's greatest useful ness, he explained, is to put the child in first class condition physic- ally and psychologically so that it is better qualified to get along in a home, and then find a place where it fits.
 There Is nothing to equal a good private home properly run," em- phasized the judge.
 The speaker explained that the bureau of child welfare was created for the purpose of taking children from county homes and placing them in private homes. He said these must be free homes and be- cause of this people who offer their homes are very particular. The chil- dren must be physically and ment- ally attractive, normal, of good dis position and similar religious faith as the family. These children, he said. are the cream and are not all ways available.
 'Frcquently illigitimate children show more possibilities than those of parents who go through a for mai ceremony which they regard illOi V uo d u'tlttl elIClI Ol Ndli lHt judge remarked.
 Environment is the greatest fac tor in the makeup of the charac- ter and disposition of any human being" he stated, explaining that between 500 and 900 cases come before his court every year. "Modi- fiCation of a childs environment can make am entirely different per son out of that child" he contin- ued.
 He declared that social educa- ton is necessary so that persons may learn how to get along with other people and told his hearers that your social education begins when the nurse comes in and wraps you up in blanket"
 He said New Britain has Is children for whom the society is seeking homes and 16 others who have been helped.
 A red button indicating perfect attendance for two years was pre- sented to F. C.. Russell by the club