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VOLUME SEVEN
NUMBER tHIRTY-THREE
PLEASE HELP TO FIND ME A HOME
E are agreed that there is one In
stitution, the oldest and the best
beloved in all the world, namely,
the home, where character can be
successfully formed. The Chil
dren’s Home Society wishes to be
known to the public as having
been organized in Georgia as a
“character* building” Society.
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The Society was chartered and in
corporated under the laws of the
State, and a definite organization
was effected July 12, 1911. The ob
jects of the Society are to receive and
provide for destitute, neglected, ill
treated, and orphaned white chil
dren; to seek out suitable family
homes for those that are normal, and
to protect their interests by proper
contract and otherwise, and to per
form such other acts as will tend to
improve the condition of the above
mentioned classes of children. .
The Society is organized to work
out the salvation of the destitute
children of the State by bringing to
gether “The home that needs a child
and the child that needs a home.” It
is an established agency to provide
the homeless child with a home and
the childless home with a child. In
so far as it succeeds in accomplishing
this end two vital human needs are
being satisfied.
Child specialists agree that family
life is essential to the highest devel
opment of character and social effi
ciency of the child. It is further
agreed, that when for any reason the
normal child is deprived of the nat
ural home, a well-selected and care
fully supervised foster-home is the
best substitute.
The foster-home affords individ
ualizing care, good example, moral
training, and a vital union with the
life of the real world; and best fits
the child for the acceptance of the
moral responsibility of self-support,
home making and parenthood.
What The Georgia Children’s Home Society Is
Doing.
Though the Society has been established on
ly a few months, it is already accomplishing
good results in its distinctive sphere of philan
throphy. Thirty-two cases of destitute chil
dren have been referred to the Society. A
goodly number of these cases have been dis
posed of satisfactorily without requiring per
manent release to the Society for placement
A LETTER TO DICK RUSSELL-Page Five
ATLANTA, GA., OCTOBER 12,
By CLIFFORD GROOVER, State Superintendent,
in family homes. A number are yet to be dis
posed of pending further investigation. Twelve
children have been legally released to the So
ciety. Nine children have been placed in good
family homes. Two have been returned to
relatives. The Society has only two children
on hand at the present time, pictures of whom
appear on this page. By separating them,
they could have already been placed in splen-
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did homes; but the Society has deemed it best
that this brother and sister should be placed
in a home where they could grow up together.
We hope that some deserving family, seeing
their bright faces and realizing their great
need, will recognize the opportunity of service
to their Master in taking these two young lives
into their home and hearts, and giving them a
chance to develop into useful Christian lives.
Will you not let us hear from you immediately,
if you feel that you can give them a place in
BABIES FOR SOMEBODY’S HOME.
your home? The Society expects to take over
four or five children during the week in which
this article appears, and, if you feel that God
would guide you in taking some unfortunate
child to be cared for as your own, please let us
know of your decision at once.
How Is The Work Os The Society Done?
When petitioned to assume responsibility for
the care of a child, the circumstances surround-
ing the child’s need are inquired in
to carefully before it is accepted.
Once accepted, the child is main
tained temporarily at the expense
of the Society, pending the finding
of a suitable family that is willing
to take it and care for it during its
minority. Before entrusting a child
to the care of any family, a trained
representative makes a personal in
vestigation into the fitness of such a
family to have a child. After a child
is placed in a family, it is protected
by frequent visits by representatives
of the Society.
The Society.
Offers help to any child in trouble.
Receives homeless and neglected
white children under twelve years
of age after careful consideration of
each case.
Places children in family homes.
Selects these homes on recommen
dation of local authorities, after a
visit by an experienced worker.
Supervises children after place
ment by correspondence and by vis
its of officers of the Society.
Transfers children from homes
first selected, if necessary
No child will be refused such as
sistance as the Society is able to give
on account of age, creed or social
condition. Os course, it is recogniz
ed that very young children will be
more largely benefited through the
care, love and training of the indi
vidual fireside; and it is usually
the more deserving applicants for
children that want them at a tender
age, for they want to rear them as their own
and to start in their training as early as pos
sible. Then, too, the Society does not receive
children as permanent wards that are not nor
mal in mind and body, or, who through proper
medical skill, cannot be rendered normal.
The Children’s Home Societies are organized
in thirty-two states in the Union. They are
founded upon the principle of home-care for
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