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14 GREfXSEORO DAILY NEWS. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1921 WHAT THE HOME NEEDS By LENOIR CHAMBERS North Garol-mffrGh r 41, 1 1 y"l' f 1 cv f ' IF. P ,1 W 3? f f . t 1 Jf X V-;. -J if-' : -' f - i Baby Department at the Homi I.ast Friday. Armistice day. the na tion paused in the full current of Hh llfo to pay tribute to the I'nknown Hnldler who gave hla. I.lf that th faith In which thla people live should not be overwhelmed by any power of darkness. Kvery. national honor, the highest in the power of the nation to extend, every governmental, military, naval, and official tribute was extended to thin man of the ranks who lost his own Identity In becoming the symbol of all for which America fought and for which America would live, Presently In a few days this nation will pause again, will lay aside its work for a moment, to give thanks to the (lod of men and of women and of little children. In one great national day of gratitude, for the faith of those pioneers of faith who in earlier days dared their lives that here on this continent men and women and little children might live In the wholesome nesa for which they were created. (Ireatrat 1'nknima Koldlrr. And et a little further ahead," In : a few weeks, this nation will pauKe a third time on the deepest and moHt significant day In all the year to re member that other day 19 centuries ago when was born in a far country a Little Child Whose life was one eternal message of hope for every n-wrsmmrTrnff'rsrehlw whose eyes turn to Him with the un wavortng faith of the human raee. This child waa the Unknown Boldlor of all time; thla child was the Bon of Him to Whom this nation gives Its na tional thanks: this child became the Man Who In later years reached out his hands and said. "Suffer the little children to come unto ma and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of heaven." "Huffer the little children to come unto ma"? . . , Into thla city of Oreensboro there came not four nights ago three little children, one girl IS years old, one boy four years old, one boy 14 montha old. They came from a far country as time and . space are measured to them. It waa an all-day Journey on a train and It waa longer than that, much longer than that to them, for Ihey came alone, they came from the blackness of a broken and destroyed home, and they came to And here for a little time another home, a real home where the struggle and heart-break of all they had known be fore would be lost and forgotten In a new love and a new tajider care. These three children had lived a life such as those who pass In eaHe from day to day know not of, a life of poverty and worry, no light, no childhood Joya, no freedom of play. The mother had died shortly after her baby was born. The father became the mother and In hla way he aouglu to give hla children the love and care that should be theirs. Then he too died six weeks ago, and there were left the three children, the 18-yenr old frirl, the four-yeur old boy, the baby little more than a year old. Kke Could Not Win. To the headship of the family, once the mother's, then the father's, step ped the oldest girl, and with some slight help from friends and nelsh bora she became the mother of her two little brothers. Kor six weeks this burtlen she bore and the child becume woman and the Joys of her early life wore lost In the struggle to mother those who needed mothering. . , . It was an unequul battle and of course ahe Inst: ahe could not win. Until one day the anna of a greater mother stretched out toward the three of them and the voire of a Father whs heard, "Huffer the little ones to come tin to me," Bo to thla city of Oreensboro they came, a full-day's Journey, a long, tire some Journey; but at the etui- Ihey found the home for which they hurt been yearning and now all thought of a dark puat Is fading before a new life of love and car. ..... All over North Carolina things like this are happening every day. The nation pauses to sntute the Unknown Hnlriier but the Unknown I'hlld strug glea on. The nation pauses again l give thanks to the Father Who loved little children, but here and there and everywhere little children are being born without hope and are struggling onward to a lii'o of uncertainly with out a guiding hand. The nation will pause yet a third time to remember the birthday of a Little Child, but In North Carolina many little children are born every day and many of them have not even the home of Hint who was born In a manger. Kor what did the llnknown Soldier 41a except thnt little children in this America and In this North Carolina and in this Greensboro might live more ' abundantly? For what can the na tion give thanks morn than for Its lit tie children? For what was th Chris, born except for the love of little children? The experience of the three children who oatne to (Ireenehoro is not an tin sual experience. It Is the kind o( thing that happens every day. A foundling Is left at the door; a child Is born to' a mother who perhaps does not know who the father is; a home 1k wrecked In the mountains and Ave children are left by themselves; an other home fa dealroycd In the east and two children are alone. Many More Children. .. These are the children who come every day to the white house on Fair mont street where is a home for Just as many children, and many more, as the house can hold. These are the children for which the Children's Home society of North Carolina was Itself horn and for which it la living with a faith and a courage and a love that can be compared only with the faith and courage and a love of the Father Himself. Up In the mountains a father be comes craxed .with whlaky, kills hie jwife. and Is sent to prison. What be comes or tneir rniuirenr uown near the aeacoast a father died , and a mother loaea the fight to keep the fam ily In health and happiness. What becomes of, the children? Somewhere else In the suite a father disappears and a mother passes Into a Ufa such aa people do not speak of openly. What becomes of the children? And again there Is born, and again and 9T?iH,-t)aMW'tf -rnnwi "h " eaifndt keep them? What becemes of the babies? The Children's Home know. For many of them, Just us many as it can tako care of, come to this home, the white house on Fairmont street, there to forget alt past troubles, there to learn the first lessons of liv ing, and from thore eventually to pass on to other homes where a father and a mother can give the love which Is the children'! due. For ' this white house on Fairmont street Is first of all If such a material term may be used where such an t rf't- i: ' ti"? ej la. '. tl '!"' 1 -VVoil It, .',1,1 sb i'layground abundance of love surrounds all Uv- ng a clearing house for children. liuniFi for children there are In many institutions in North Carolina, place where Ihey go to live. The Children's Home Is thia too, but It tries to do more and It does do more. It bellevoh that a real home Is a real home and It knows that for every motherless and fatherless child in North Carolina fhere Is a childlea home In North Carolina. It would provide a home for those who have no home and then it wtuld tlnil a real home In a real family where hlldren are wanted and where they will rccelva the care of a father and mother. It would lend the children to the homes. It finds homes for ohli- lren; It finds children for homes. Has rineea Over ". This It has been doing for some 17 ir 18 years and there are now In North Carolina homes more tluin 600 of the children whom It has found here and there attd shown to those who wanted children. And this it Lk doing now to the 11 in it of Its resources. - "How do wa get these children?" repeated J. J. I'hoenlx, the auperln- tendenl, one of those big-hearted men but for whose intelligent Interest there would be no home. "How do wa find the children? In every way. The newspapers tell of our work and poo pie send us word of homeless children The preachers know of cases. The county superintendents of public we! fare and many charltalile organization tell us. There Is no trouble in finding children. We hear of them everywhere and If wo don't hear of them, they come anyway." They come to the white house on Fairmont street, there to And a ten der care they have never known, or if it has ever been theirs, the nicmor i of It hae often been wiped out by tht hardship of more - recent days. And there they find their new mother in Mlsa Mary Holt, The work of this woman cannot be measured in words She Is a registered nurse , and slu might find work, highly remunerative work, 'anywhere. Khe chooses to re main the mother of tho white house. And when they want to pay her, In part, for her services, she shakes her head and turns again to her children. A little la forced upon her; it la no part even Of a nominal pay. Her pay comes elsewhere. She mothers at the white house about 30 children, ranging In age from a few days to 14 or 11; most of them are between six months and 12 years. Tho number Is not large because there Is oonstant change In the children. Ke membor that tho average stay of a child In the home Is about 30 days. For the very young and for those above 18 or 14. the time may be longer. But there Is steady come and go. This vear the home haa sent to other homes' 188 children, which makes an average of more than 18 children placed in homes every month or one every other day. Miss Holt, Miss liilyeu, and Mr. Phoenix never forget that they are not trying to hold chil dren here In the white house; they ire trying to find suitable homes for them. Cleanliness First. When children come to the home, the drat thing Miss Holt and her da-sistantj- do. Is well, you have guessed it; they get them clean, as clean as they can be made. "What's that big white thing?" one of Ihem asked Miss Holt, pointing to a bath tub. He had nevt. seen one. before. "What's that?" asked another, pointing to a tooth brush all the tooth brushes hang In rows, each with Its wash-rag by It. Or here Is a baby who came In to the Haiti, wrapped In a dirty flour sack. Then comes for some of th older hlldren a little motherly discipline. The Home will not Bend out any child that It does not feci Is worthy. Here Is a boy of 14 who haa lived In the mountains. He knows how to run a moonshine still and has often worked all nistht on a biir run. He la used to a man's life. Him they teach, gent ly and (Irmly, until he learna to mind. Others are wayward and wild birds and flit about like animals. Then they teach too the things a mother teaches iU!aut..j:fMej(:t..ajidimlnUi it.4a.-swt-always easy and now and then a lit tle animal skips loose from the Home and seeks tho outside world. But not often. For every lesson la tempered with love. Then comes a close study of the child. Physically, of course, and here the doctors of Greensboro have done much fine work In examination and correction of minor faults. The Home does not like to receive children who are deformed physically because It know the difficulty of finding homes for auch children. But It has helped, through Greensboro physicians, to cor rect many faults, and the ame physician (iav helped keep the chil dren well a,nd atrong. After the phyalcal. the mental study, the tem peramental study. For they ar f all different, MIbs Holt will tell you, and she docs noti want a child to go Into a home for which It Is not suitable. Learn Mnny Tblnga- Whlle they are In the Home' they l.learn many things. They learn to keep clean, those who are old enougn to take care of themselves. Those still older, the girls, learn at a sow ing clana which la held twlca. a wek. They have a physical culture class, they have kindergarten wora, tney have a Sunday school, they even learn something about cooking. They keep the house clean; they learn nouae work of all kinds. They even learn to eat. "We had a boy from the moun tains who was used to half-cooked biscuits, fried meat, corn beef, and nbhage." said Miss Holt. "At flrat he did not ilk oat meal or anything else." And they learn to piny. Outside in the yard Is a complete modern play ground plant, the gift of a Greensboro man. On rnlny days are doll ano other wonderful things, tstory hour A child of 12 who had never heard a tory came to the. home he ha heard them now. Olrla from the Greensboro lollegns have helped In thia work. Mies Holt will tell you that the Home is designed to take care of chil dren between six mornth and U yeara. It receives younger bablea and ilder children than these age, but It la handicapped by luck of equipment nid It makes no real effort In theae fields. For the babies, in their mall -luartera. there Is the best and ciean est and most m.idern equipment of ,'very kind. A registered nurse will have no other, ltables have come there so undernourished and starved that the breath nf lire was scarcely In them. Yet the Home has had only one death of any kind In live years. It's care, motherly care, srlentiflo care complete caro. . . . Children older than 18 need special equipment of many kinds and this the Home does not have. "Thore Is nothing North Carolina needs more than some place for Its homeless girls between 12 and 18,' nay Miss Holt. "We are not equipped for them, though we sometimes have them. I know of no other place where any child can go. Nor Is there any adequate plaeo for the very young .Surely here Is a lack about which people do not often think; yet we here know how great Is the need. "W hat We .Need Mini." "What we need most, what we dream of every day, la a separate cottage for halites. They otmht not to be tn the same building with older children. We have to keep them here. Hut they Interfax with each other. The chil dren love to mother the lutMes, but nevertheless I think the noise of bablos crying Is disturbing. We ought to have a cottage. Some day maybe wo shall have one," and there was In her eyea a wistful look. ' From this Homo these children go out Into childless homes all over the jtate, all of them the home of people who are well fitted to take care of :lnldren. Home of the most beautiful liomea in North Carolina hav children 'rom the white house on Fairmont street. This la part of Mr. Phoenix's work and he can tell you many a atory if those who have com to him beg ging for children. There la never any question of th quantity of homes. Mr. Phoenix hag many more appllca Hons tharrUenran take care of, Jiftt as he has more application to enter the receiving home than he can take care of. To safeguard these children . th I toclety has a strict method of Inves tlgation and thla work it la doing all the. time. When someone writes about children, he 1 required to an swer many question about himself and about his home and to give refer ences. But that Is not enough, for these children must have no chance taken with them. Mr. Phoenix ha other ways of finding out. He -uses references of hla own. Hi field work er investigate quietly until they are certain of the quality of the horn. And even after the child la In the new home the work Is not finished. The society still watches. It keeps records. It know what each of Its 600 children In the state la doing. It checks every three montha during the first year and at intervals afterwarda. When the 'home turn out, a it does once In a while, to be not right for tile child, the society brings back the child to the white house on Fairmont street. "We found once that a boy waa not being sent to school," said Mr. Phoenix, "so w thought It best to bring him back to us here until we could find a better home for him." Graduate Doing Well. That does not happen often; for not many persons seek children unle they love them. The records Of the society show that the graduate of the white house on Fairmont street are getting along wonderfully well. Many have grown up and are working over the state. They - come back to the white house to e their old friends; they tell the atory. It waa 17 or H year ago that the Children's Home Society was started, Arst In Ashevllle, later In Greensboro. The society 1 Incorporated and la a member of the North Carolina Orphan association, of which Mr. Phoenix Is vice-president. It has a board of 60 directors, .of whom 21 live in Oreena boro, the others over the state; and an executive staff, headed now by A. M. - Scales. It own its white house on Fairmont street with It big, sloping "lot, part of It the gift of Mr. Scale. To It friend everywhere It owes many things for their gifts, their : -it ' , , -rf 3?h. ' , ,r-i .v - f ;. iH;;';;-. tf,y v i l.u ' ft j l .V , H ' ' ' -.- .'. ..'.'Ml.( .. , i .. fcciLHMMii s-laas.j.'tt.Jwa.rjrr m'-.l.WAaai.iViEiisia.-wAja - - n M i 4 I'orra Scene at Children' Hons thought, th care they take with it and beatow upon It. The Hotarlan of Oreensboro have helped tremendously. Sunday chool classes, organinatlons of many kind. Individual, all hav Joined In. For support, for maintenance, for Its very Ufa and for th life of Its chil. dren, the society depend on tho gift of It friend. Th budget amount to about 11,000 a mouth with a per capita cost In October of 147, friend give thla money, From sum of th counties too come help and now th list has grown to 17 coun tles which contribute to It support. The state does not appropriate for It Miss Bllyeu, who ha been ' with th aoclety longer than anyone else, la doing moat of th work now In connection with Interested person In the society . . , The many Oreensboro men and women who have help ed do not eek word of It. R. W. Glenn eek no cred it for the enthusiasm with which he has stirred, not only himself, but many other,'. Mr. Scale seek no credit for hi work. Nor do the others. Nor doe Mr. Phoenix. Miss Holt, Mia Bllyeu, or any of the countless others who have touched the white house on Fairmont street with their love. Enough for them that here little children ar brought Into th light of horn and helped to other home where they max live more abundantly. ; VJ.. - . M ?' t "A 7 I ' V eV -J 'V-t 1 ivi l. -: -A 4 .' -, ,-f ' -J,tl. - -Si an ') -1 ' - - . ' .'.,.,H,.a.ri iint ',V''Ur"I-'-j'!.Ji:Vi Ti mmis-t l 11 4)rnn ! Veventren iluy at tk Hum As Far Into the Great Frozen North As Civilization Extends, to the Most Torrid Deserts Of Africa, Thousands Of Franklins Are Daily Demonstrating WnyT)irect Air-Coolmg Is the Most Advanced Engineering Practice For Automobile Engines 1. 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