Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 20, Number 197, Decatur, Adams County, 22 August 1922 — Page 7

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HOME AND CHANCE FOR EVERY CHILD

RIVALRY among states to OBTAIN YEOMEN HOME final decision on location to be MADE BY DIRECTORATE FROM THE FIVE OR SIX SITES SELECTED BY BY THE LOCATION COMMITTEE.

The Brotherhood of American Yeomen, a fraternal organisation numbering more than 300,000 members throughout the United Sates, is plannine to build a home for fatherless and motherless children which will eventually cost $10,000,000. There is keen rivalry among the! states to have the home established within their borders. Sites have been offered from almost every state in the Union. Many of the large cities are in keen competition for his great institution. These sites will be considered by the site committee of the society and j the committee will select five or six 1 of the most advantageous offers and pu; them on to the directorate which : intake the final decision at a ineetmat Yeomen’s headuarters in Des tunes, la. v A. N. Farmer of tiie Yeomen, a nationally known educator, is making f > personal investigation of sites in the Middle West. He has held conferences on the question of the home’s

Building Solidly as We Grow Steadily—Step by Step, the Kirsch-Reppert Lumber Company’s business is growing and we, the individual units who compose it, are growing with it.—There’s been many an example in the boom towns, of business that grew too fast—Lumber firms that rose to huge proportions almost over night. Usually they grew far faster than the caliber of the ones who controlled their destinies, and when adversity came they were unable to meet it. We have set our mark in Decatur very, very high, and we are going to he prepareu to keep it when we reach it. Each day each month each year—we solve the problem of how to make this lumber business necessary to a few hundred more ahea( j a i it ti e faster all the time, hut never so fast that we lose sight of the principles that all businesses must maintain if they would build for the future. To Our Old Friends and the Yeomen We Bid You Welcome. The Kirsch-Reppert Lumber Co. “Build Now—ln Decatur."

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location with chambers of commerce and civic organizations in many cities. "Save the American child,” is the basic idea which actuates the Yeomen in their home building plans. The home eventually will care for 1,500 fatherless and motherless who if left to shift for themselves and deprived of the inenal and moral education and direction of the home, would represent so many potential units of undesirable citizenship. In this connection, Mr. Farmer pointed out some impressive facts. From the ranks of negected chil- | dren come 80 per cent of ail the nai ion’s criminals. Fight out of every 1 ten murders are committed by inen i and women who were neglected in their childhood. Four hundred thousand of the halfmillion persons incarcerated in Amerj ican jails and penitentiaries are from l the same class. Out of 22,000,000 school children in the United Sates, 75 per cent are physically defective.

++*++**+++++*++ I + NIGHT CHAIRMAN + ++++++++ + + + + + + + C. A. DUGAN President of the First National Bank and chairman of the night program 1 committee for Yeoman Day. 1 Tweny-nine per cent of the young men examined in the United States for war service were physically unfit. Pennsylvania, until recently one of the greatest exploiters of child labors, had 55 per cent of its men physically unfit. The death rate of workingmen between the ages of "0 and 45 years is 50 per cent greater than the death rate of all other men of the same age, i due in great part to the fact that workingmen go to work too early in life at occupations that destroy their : health. Five million people in the United States can neither read nor write any language. Tens of thousands of the nation's I children are housed in insanitary and i

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++♦♦++♦♦♦+♦♦♦♦+ + PROGRAM CHAIRMAN + *++*++++ + ❖ + + + * * : HPWW - "u •: * . W C. J. LUTZ Well known attorney and chairman of the general program committee for the Yeoman Day celebration and ? real worker. dangerous school buildings. Moral risks for children who work are as great in the country as in the city. There is a vital difference between child labor and children’s work. The first usually destroys child life; the latter enriches it. Three-fourths of the child workers in this country are engaged in some kind of farm labor. Every year in the United States over a million children between 14 and lii leave school and go to work. “These are serious problems,” said Mr. Farmer, “which the American educator has to face. These conditions can be eradicated by education only through several generations of

■+++*+*++♦**++++ ■ * THE GENERAL CHAIRMAN -I + + v 4 4 ■? + 4 4 !■ t (' '!■ 4 t F. M. SCHIRMEYER i | Vice-president of the Old Adams ■ County Bank and general chairman of the Yeoman Day committee. proper school methods. The solution of these problems figures in the plans of tho Yeomen’s home. “The purpose of the home will be to care for the fatherless and moth--1 erless children of the society. In as--1 smiling the responsibility qf parenthood to these children, tho Yeomen recognize their obligation to provide lull opportunity for the highest development of the latent powers and talents of the boys and girls consigned to their care, that they may hecomp fitted to render to society the largos' measure of unselfish service, it is the aim of tlm society to build fur 1 its troy* and girls-the’finest institution of its kind in the world, where the (Continued on Page 4, Section 2)

NATIONAL CONCLAVE OF YEOMEN AUTHORIZE HOME - PLAN A GROUP OF HOMES IN WHICH CHILDREN WILL HAVE NORMAL FAMILY LIFE WITH LOVE AND CARE OF FOSTER PARENTS.

Three hundred thousand members of the Brotherhood of American Y'oemen, recognizing tlioir obligation to 1 the Childhood of America, particularly to the fatnerless and motherless chi! dren of tlnjir own deceased members, acting through delegates < hosen to represent them at the National Conclave which meet in Denver, in June, 1921, unanimously authorized the es- , tablishment of the Yeomen Children's Home This Home is not to be an institution, with children cared for en masse, with little, if any, attention to , the special needs of the individual child, but rather a group of homes in ' which tho children will have a normal family life; with the love and care of , foster parents chosen because of their special fitness both by training and natural ability, with every child sharing in the work of the home, the , "yard amUgiiii'deh to make it as attractive and fine as possible; with every , phase of the children's environment especially designed to contribute in

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tiie largest way to tho wholesome and all around development of those boys and girls, that each may be fitted for the greatest possible service, not alone to himself, but to society generally. Consecrated to the cause of childhood and development of the most 1 vigorous and efficient manhood and womanhood, supported by the Great Hear of Yeomanry, with a leadership that seeks the advice and co-operation of those best qualified to give it, his Home is destined to become and will lie made the greatest child building and child training institution in tho 1 world. Family Life and Home Activities. I Not more than twelve to fifteen children will live in a cottagd. The family life will tie not unlike the life | in a old-fashioned family of that size. Older children, as in a normal fainj ily, will have, much responsibility in ' I the care and training of tiie younger members. Tin's not only is of great i benefit to the .younger child, but r - I I -- "i ~ (Continued on Page 2, Section 2)