Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1931-09-25
The Problems Of Three Children.

Children from homes everywhere through
out the county scampered back to school
last week. Many with rosy cheeks. happy
expressions and fresh pinafores. There are
three large-eyed youngsters who have not
yet begun their school, not because they
played truant nor because they had prob
lens themselves but because their problem
was too great for them to s5lve.
Rosa, aged seven, Carl. nine, and Billie,
thirteen, were all promoted last year. Billie
did exceptionally well in his classes. His
teacher said he was child of supermen-
tality. He was most anxious of all to start
to school. because each year checked off
means one year nearer his goal of being a
man and being able to help his mother look
after the two younger children.
The attendance officer of the school
| called the Social Service League to say
Rosa, Carl and Billie were in distress. They
did not have proper clothing to begin
school. These youngsters who had never
before come under the observation of an
agency, because their mother has always
been able to manage, are, this year, waiting
for the Social Service League to outfit them
so that they may begin their school year.
The mother lost her job this spring and all
the summer has been working only part
time. A part time salary cannot buy the
food for this growing family and provide
shoes. trousers and dresses, too.
When the news came to the League of
Rosa, Carl and Billie's distress, a worker
hurried out to talk with Mrs. Brown and to
get the chiidren's sizes. Mrs. Brown was
very diffident at first as she did not wish
her friends and neighbors to know how
desperately she has been up against it,
but when assured the League did not
reveal identities she unburdened her long
pent up reserve. The worker learned that
the children's clothes have been giving out
by degrees for two years until they are
now in shreds. This summer the little
brood has had no shoes and Mrs. Brown
could not send them back to school bare
footed and in the torn and faded garments
that they had been wearing around home
it was more than her pride could
bear and. too, it would make the children
so self-conscious she was afraid they would
feel different from their playmates.
A search through the Social Service
sufficient clothing to provide this group.
There have been so many Rosas. Carls and
Billies known to the League this week.
that the supply of clothing on hand has
not nearly met the demand The workers
have been busy measuring, fitting and
delivering all the clothes we own. But due
to the fact that now, as never before,
fathers and mothers have been laid off from
work and can hardly buy food for the
growing family, there are still more than
half score of children sadly in need of
being QUILTED.
The League is appealing to you, the most
fortunate families of the county. asking if
you will make a search through your
closets, in an effort to supply those needy
and deserving youngsters who are waiting
to start to school and who will need to be
kept there throughout the coming winter
Any serviceable articles for boys or girls of
all ages, can readily be placed. A package
sent Social Service Leagne of Rock
vile. will help the agency to meet the
demands it now faces.
The office of the League contains much
clothing at present but this has been culled
and reculed, until now only that remains
which is good for rummages and for salts
flying those who have a taste for frills
instead of demand for durable articles.
A rummage sale is being planned to clear
out the frills and to use these towards
amassine a small sum with which shoes
may be bought for the Rosas, Carls and
Billies.
Donations may be sent to the Social
Service League directly or delivered to the
Branch Chairman of the League. or the
Chairman of the Home Welfare for each
section or a call to the Social Service
League, phone Rockville 1T, will bring a
worker to your door the next time she is in
| YOUR vicinity