Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 307, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 April 1926 — Page 5

APRIL 26, 1926

CHILD WELFARE WORK IN STATE WINS lU. PRAISE County System of Caring for Dependents, However, \ Is Criticised. Times Washington Bureau. 1522 Kew York Avenue WASHINGTON, April 26.—Indiana's system of taking care of dependent children through the child welfare department of the State board of charities is given .high praise in a current bulletin of the children's bureau, Department of Labor. But the Indiana county system of children’s boards and homes is severely criticised. One of the features of the State welfare department which is praised is its activity in placing children in homes, and thereby decreasing the number in county homes. \ •The county home system which prevails in Indiana, Ohio and Connecticut has never been satisfactory in any of these three States,' the statement said. Indiana is also named as one of the twelve States which have no State children’s home society, "Ohio, Indiana and Connecticut county children’s homes were supposed to be placing-out agencies," the bulletin says, “but the tendency has always been to accumulate the children in county homes and to minimize the placing-out work. "Indiana has for many years had county boards of children's guardians which had a certain degree of responsibility for the care of the neglected and dependent children of the county.” Placing of children In family homes, after careful Investigation and under careful supervision is recommended by the bureau. CHURCH TO BE REPAIRED Seventh Day Adventists Seek 55,000 —Explosion Damaged Structure. A drive will be started soon for a $5,000 fund to repair the Seventh Day Adventist Church, laurel and Orange Sts., damaged in an explosion last Thursday, It has been announced by the Rev. H. A. Lukens, pastor. James Wheeler, church missionary leader, will be In charge. GROWTH OF LODGE TOLD Odd Fellows Order Holds Service on 107th Anniversary. Growth of the Odd Fellows Lodge since its introdulrtion in America 107 years ago, was told by the Rev. Fred A. Line, Central Universalist Church pastor, at anniversary services Sunday. Odd Fellows and Rebekas attended in a body. Tho Reverend Line, past noble grand and past chief patriarch of the order, said membership today is 2,674,456. HOME MISSIONS TOPIC National Manager Will Speak at District Meeting. Mrs. Daniel Stecker of Wilmette, 111,, national manager of Methodist Home Missionary work, will speak on Wednesday morning before the Women’s Home Missionary Society of tho Indianapolis district, at the Central Avenue M. E. Church. Mrs. J. A. Shafer, president, will be Ur charge. Dr. Harry Andrews King, superintendent of the Indianapolis district, will lead the morning devotional service and Mrs. O. W. Fifer the afternoon. LEAGUE WILL MEET 1 oung Methodists to Hold Rally on Wednesday Night. Fifty chapters of the Indianapolis district, Epworth League, representi ing 2,000 young Methodists, will hold ' a rally on Wednesday night at St. Haul’s M. E. Church. The Rev. Elmer Jones, pastor, will lead devotional services. De Famv University trio will provide music. A silver cup will be awarded the chapter with the largest attend, a nee. WILL TALK ON CONGO The Christian conquest in the Belgian Congo, Africa, will be described Thursday at Central Avenue M. E. Church by Mrs. John M. Springer, Methodist missionary, at a meeting of Women's Foreign Missionery Society of Indianapolis district of the Methodist church. The unit having the largest numbe rof representatives in proportion to membership will receive a sls prize.

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By Gene Cohn NEA Service Writer NEW YORK. April 26.—1 t hadn’t occurred to the tent show folk that a ‘ What-Is-It” could die Just like other humans In whoso veins runs blood. You see, Zip had been a freak for seventy years—but, well, he was human after all. Zip died Sunday. But, then, Zip has always Inspired this confusion in those who knew him best. Where did the freak leave off and V l ® human begin? The Barkers The barkers in front of the side show have shouted: "What is it? What is It? Man or monkey—the missing link?” they have chanted millions. Queen Victoria stopped to ponder, as did King Edward VII. Charles Dickens, smiling at the query put to him by the great Barnum, is said to have christened Zip. The point is that hard-boiled showmen whose pores had fairly absorbed the tanbark, has accepted him as a freak, but as the years went on began to ponder, too. What was this strange little being with tho eggshaped head? They built legends about him. The topknot on Zip’s egg-like head grew grayer, and began to whiten. Things happened that were bound to be confusing— Now Zip could inspire terror or rouse to hilarious mirth. Children in the gaping crowds would run and cry as Zip shrieked his inarticulate mumblings, jumping up and down, baring his teeth and shaking the bearskin robe that covered his tiny brown form....and, yet, the folk of the circus left him to play nursemaid to their children when they left the grounds. Ho was very fond of children. But so Is a dog, some said. Yes, there was something in this parallel. A Hero And there was the time down at Coney Island when Zip Jumped into the surf and swam like a Ash to rescue little Irene Reynolds. How to account for that! But so would a dog— Then, there was the peculiar affection in which P. T. Barnum had held his freak. Funny Zip died in a gray room at Bellevue Hospital Just seventy years almost to the day that a drunkeh sailor, dragging a strange looking thing at the end of a rope, staggered up to Barnum and said he had a freak. What Is It? "What is It?” asked Barnum. “Thash Jus’ the idea,” said the sailor. Whereupon Barnum set Zip up in his New York museum, gave him a hayloft to sleep in and admitted him to be one of his finest "curiosities.” Yet when Barnum died he left to the “What-is-it?” a big strip of land on his Bound Brook, N. J„ ranch. Here Zip would go In tho winter season. The farm was looked after by a mulatto family naVned Johnson. Zip was given the inspiring name of William Henry Garfield Johnston. And since Zip was a "What-is'-it” the court gave him a guardian. At the death of Barnum this

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