Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-08
ORPHANS CHANCES
BETTER IN HOME
No Institution Can Replace
Family Life, Says Aid
Society Head.

The orphan has q far better chance
for future happiness and success il
raised In home-preferably an owned
home-than II he is raised in the most
model institution, says Carroll H. Sud-
Ter, Chicago president of the Illinois
Children's Home and Aid Society. writ
ing in the National Association of Real
Estate Boards ninetieth of series OF
stories for the public
This organization-that is given $780,
900 year for its work by the county
and several times that amount by pri-
vate supporterS-haS not established the
customary orphan asylum for the un-
fortunate children for whom it cares
but boards them in carefully selected
individual homes.
AsyIums Change Methods.
Here is what Mr. Sudler, who is a
business man serving without pay, says
about the society's policy on orphan
asylums:
"I believe that social agencies en-
gagged in caring for orphans and unfor-
tunate children are getting away from
the asylum or institutional idea. In the
days when Dickens wrote Oliver Twist,
orphan asylums were pitiful places. AS
time went on, and influential people in
terested themselves in the plight of
conditions were improved until today
we have model institutions where the
inmates are given the best possible
care.
but no institution, however well or
ganized, can give a child the blessings
found in an individual home, however
modest. No group of trustees or paid
caretakerS can give q child the cheer
and warmth and inspiration it can get
tsak De ANt re
own.
Place Children in Homes.
Most of our children are placed in
very modest homes IN which the fam
fly may or may not already have chill
dren. These families are carefully in
vestigated, and our system provides for
periodical checking up through the
years to be sure that the child is faring
well. Most of the homes receive no
cash consideration for the care OF the
children they take from us. In add1-
ton to a large number of children le-
Cally adopted, nearly 1,100 are In free
foster homes without adoption, and we
have always between 400 and 500 chill
dren in carefully selected homes at
board.
NATURALLY we prefer owned homes
for our children rather than rented
quarters, however desirable the family
NAV be. TO Degln WlCn4 IaLlA1AeS III
owned homes usually remain perma-
nently in the same home which Is
good thing for the child from the point
Of view Of uninterrupted school work.
Living in the same community Is also
good for the child in that it enables
him to properly develop as part OF
the community and to understand MS
obligations to the community, not as
charitable ward, but as a normal child
being taught his place in the scheme OF
modern life.
Social Education Better.
"The child placed in an owned home
viii be more likely to be taught lessons
of thrift. He will be more likely to be
ambitious because the people IN whose
home he is placed are ambitious else
thew would not have their home.
Parents should ponder Mr.. Sudlers
remarks, says the realty association.
Re makes a good case for home owning.
II the unfortunate child, without Ia
stfer or mother, needs the atmosphere
of home-preferably an owned home
and If charitable organizations are see
ing that such children get the things
that only can be obtained IN owned
homes, then home owning Is good Tor
All children, anG all children should be
given the things that inevitably go
with it.