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i MINHINNETT, JR.
Appreciate Your Vote
and Influence
FOR
FAX COLLECTOR
OF FULTON COUNTY
He Is Efficient, He Is
Loyal, He Is Courteous”
Subject
March
to Primary
9, 1932
For One of the Two
To Be Elected—
Vote For
GEO. B.
LYLE
for
COUNTY COMMISSIONER
a Clean, Progressive Business
Government and the Welfare of ALL
Fulton County.
Mabel Abbott MacNeill
Daughter of Uncle Bill
Abbott
For Re-election
TREASURER
FULTON COUNTY
Appreciate Former
ndorsement and Solicit
Your Vote and Influence
for a Second Term.
Subject to Democratic Primary,
March 9, 1932
GORDON HARDY
On Captain
Lowry’s Ticket
I hanks for Your
Support
HEBREW ORPHANS' HOME ACTIVITIES
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and happiness New foster mothers con-
tinue to apply to us for the care of
children and our work has aroused a
real interest among our Jewish women.
these are truly difficult times when
not only must the social worker make un
usual demands upon reserve energy, but
must cope with curtailed resources on
every side. It is indeed unfortunate that
a year of misery and lowered standards
of living should follow the promulgation
of a Children’s charter enacted as a
summary of the White House Conference
on C hild Health and Protection, called
by President Hoover in November, 1930.
1 his Conference followed those called
first by President Roosevelt in 1909, the
keynote of which was that “Home life is
the highest product of civilization, and
no child should be deprived of it for
reasons of poverty alone"; and ten years
later by the second White House Con
ference during President Wilson’s admin
istration, where family life for the child
was again stressed. The last White
House Conference was preceded for 14
months by a painstaking study and re
search by 1,200 experts working on about
150 different sub committees of 17 main
committees—all under the four sections
on Medical Service, Public Health and
Administration, Education and Training,
and the Handicapped—physically, men
tally and morally. These reports were
presented to not less than 3,000 dele
gates interested in child welfare.
In none of the nineteen specifically
mentioned “rights” of childhood, is any
reference made to institutional care of
dependent or neglected children, and the
only time the word “institution” appears
is in the pledge referring to the child
who is in conflict with the law, and even
here the child is to be regarded not as
an outcast but society’s charge, to be
utilized along with the court “when
needed.” On the other side of the ques
tion practically every pledge relates to the
conservation of childhood.
Pledge I.—“For every child spiritual
and moral training to help him to stand
firm under the pressure of life.’’
Pledge II.—For every child understand
ing and the guarding of his personality as
his most precious gift.
Pledge III.—For every child a home and
that love and security which a borne pro
vides; and for that child who receives
foster care, the nearest substitute for his
own home.
Pledge VII.—For every child a dwell
ing place, safe, sanitary and wholesome,
with reasonable provision for privacy;
free from conditions which thwart his de
velopment; and a home environment har
monious and enriching.
Pledge XV.—For every child the right
to grow up in a family with an adequate
standard of living and the security of a
stable income as the surest safeguard
against social handicaps.
While resources and personnel may pre
vent us from achieving 100% of these
pledges for the time being, I challenge
any other type of care than what we
are striving to give our under privileged
children, to approximate this ideal, or
hope to do so.
This, then, is the ideal to which we
aspired before the enunciation of prin
ciples by this last nation-wide corps of
experts, our unfailing sense of right and
justice, guiding us unerringly to a policy
in which human hearts ordered the ad
vance and generosity provided the com
batants.
In appraising the changes which have
taken place in our world during the past
decade, the awakening of the social con
sciousness would seem to be one of the
outstanding facts, a quickening which has
laid special emphasis on the child as a
human being, as a separate entity with
inherent rights and just demands.
Board members as well as social work
ers are coming to a deeper appreciation
of the value of the family for the care
of other people’s children—preferably the
child’s own home. If his own home is
not conducive to his best interests, our
next concern, then, is to give him the
special type of care he most needs. We
are anxious to retain the bond between
the child and his relatives in the hope
that broken homes may be rebuilt. We
have made progress in caring for our
subsidized children in their own homes,
•md in finding a good substitute when
necessary, thus cementing the complemen
tary parts of our entire present program.
'Ne have made everv effort to have
relatives care for their own. Some have
been both willing and able to provide
for these children; some others have
been willing but were financially un
able. 1 his latter group we have helped
to live in their own family group.
Contacts are kept through correspond
ence and visits to the relatives of our
foster home children, with the hope that
the family will be prepared to receive
the child in the near future.
(If the many letters that we receive
from the children, I would like to read
two that will give you some understand
ing of the results of our work or place
ments. (Read letters from Lena and
Jack).
I am happy to report that all our Foster
Home children have gained in height,
weight, and general physical improve
ment, with two exceptions, that of two
girls who were twenty pounds overweight,
who have reduced in weight.
Fhe results of our foster mother’s
meetings are threefold: They are means
of instruction in the lives of these busy
mothers; over the tea and cookies they
promote friendliness and understanding
among the foster parents; and perhaps
best of all, they provide an opportunity
for the exchange of ideas and solving
of problems. During the year we have dis
cussed recreation, health, stressing the im
portance of rest and diet, sanitation, care
of teeth and body; education, and the im
portance of the right sort of reading of
books, newspapers and magazines. The
foster mothers continue to subscribe to
the Parents' Magazine, and the Home
through the Library Committee, supplies
the children with many worthwhile pe
riodicals.
We have tried to make our foster pa
rents feel that the service they give
could never be paid for in money and that
only the rich in spirit ran qualify. There
is a great field here for useful and sat
isfying work. Our foster parents have
many trying experiences in caring for
these children who are visited by unstable
relatives who often sorely try their pa
tience, but who must be dealt with tact
fully and with good judgment. I cannot
find sufficient words of praise for these
co-workers—our foster mothers and their
great contribution to our work.
There has been established an unus
ually fine spirit lietween foster parents
and children. Many of them have ex
pressed their delight to the visitor and
could show no greater love for children
of their own. Fhe question has frequent
ly been asked as to the length of stay
of children in foster homes and the diffi
culty of parting between child and foster
parent. We try to show our foster moth
ers that they are doing a service and
everything for the best interest of the
child. They have an understanding of
the necessity for keeping the family to
gether whenever or wherever possible.
However, in those instances where there
are no parents or relatives, the child,
when given a home where harmony and
affection prevail, fine, sound growth of
the parent-child affection usually results
and the child looks upon this home as her
permanent home.
We are now caring for children from
infancy to the age of 18. Occasionally
children over 18 years of age are re
tained under active supervision if it is
felt that thev are incapable of adequate
adjustment in the community. Even after
discharge supervision is continued, al
though less intensively until the boy or
girl appears to be well adjusted. ITiere
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For Re'election
TAX RECEIVER
FULTON COUNTY
EDWIN F.
JOHNSON
▼
FRANK B. McCOLLUM,
Chief Deputy
DEPUTIES:
Mrs. J. E. Maddox
David N. Williams
W. Henry Arnold
Mosi Glorge
Henry Coleman
Clyde E. Duncan
Mrs. Esther S. Bird
J. F. (Jim) Backus
Carl C. I Ieard
John W. Ball, Jr.
Emory L. Brooks
M. C. Waites
Louie E. Jones
▼
Subject to White Primary
March 9th, 19} 2
VOTE FOR
J.W.
SIMMONS
CLERK SUPERIOR
COURT
Serving Unexpired Term
of T. C. Miller
Candidate for
Full Term
Subject to Primary
March 9, 1932
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