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\ V -r % '/ The Clinton Chronicle, Clinton, S. C., Thursday/ April 26, 1934 'I TJ ! “STIRRING THE NEST” Address of Dr. A. T. JamisoiirPlnesident of Tri-State Con- ^ ference of Orphanage Workers, Delivered Here Last Night At Opening Session. ^ Insurance Company deals with statistics from 1901 to 1930 to we may ascertain the resources of relative before deciding show that the mortality rate has greatly changed during the pe- whether a child should be accepted as a public or a semi-public riod. Parents-are not being swept off by typhoid or other epidem-1 charge. If the child’s'o\\'n people are quite able to bear the finan- ics as in former years. The great movement for better health un- jcial responsibility such information should be discovered We der state and county departments has resulted in prolonging very [should, in the light of the new knowledge, cease wasting money greatly the lives of mfddle-aged pel-sons. The cbp of orphans has , on children for whom we are able to do little in the way of hblp therefore been greatly reduced in ^our nation. The Metropoli- and training. Any institution is equipped to do only certain things tan Ljfe Insurance Company claims that ^he number of orphans*but e\’tery child does not need the same thing. No methods \nll has been reduced more than a third within the period., The intima- fit every child that comes along. Much money may be saved by a tigure that is matchless for the si^mplicity and beauty of its more than 5 per cent of orphans within care. The statistics do not that there happened to be room for him. That is the good old rule poetic expression. Ismel is said to have been stirred from her prove that it is unnecessary longer to provide for mal-adjusted or so many of us have followed. But the child should hot come in complacency by a divine (jisturbance. in His power did the neglected children, for there are many broken homes caused bv di- unless we are in position to give him what he ought to have. stirring and it was done rutWessly. Israel s quiet and satisfied vorces and desertions. There is much to be done for the children,; The new knowledge has brought us revelation of the fact that settlement was shaken bv Jehovah as an “eag e stirreth up her hut most of them are not ornhan children u-i!r uiuugm, us reveianon oi me laci mat nest, fluttereth over l,er young, spreads abroad her wingS, tLeth ^ ^^^"dfather them and beareth them.” Stirred by the State The stirring of the eagle’s nest gives us a picture that applies Again, the eagle’s nest is being stirred in a new wav bv the 1 M * 1 I * *1x1* * A A fV^l 1 *• i*>l VV*a « * * and grandmother. A few years ago we w’ould have said that was silly. Johnnie makes application to come in. A trained investi gator is sent out to get information about Johnnie. We cannot to many a happy familyl. The group is congenial, the income is state. The decision of the United States Supreme Court in the!know the whole situation about Johnnie until we know something sufficient, all are complacent. But on a day there comes a stirring case of Professor McIntosh of Yale indicates that' duty to the Gov- alxiut the paternal grandfather and grandmother Were they well " that is highly unwelcome. It brings discomfort and unhappiness, ernment now takes precedence over one’s duty to his God. A man ,matched and did thev have a happy home‘s Was the grandfather and yet it is of necessity. The day has arrived when the oldest son must fight now for^his country whether his conscience forbids ori^^'er-bearing?- Was the grandmother a cowed person? Was the must leave the nest. He cannot remain at home and get his college not. Concessions aie not to be made to the conscientious objector, grandfather alcoholic and did the errandmother have to live the course. It sterns cruel, but it is inevitable. The nest must be In Germany the Nazis are taking over everything even the admin- life of a self-denying drudge? Find out about this and you have stirred or the boy will ne\er get his due. istiation of ieligmn.^j\ brother asked me the other day w’hat the some insight as to the family atmosphere in which Johnnie’s fath- The figure inay be applied to manv a situation in life and it Orphanages >yoi^--xnr^ their property was placed under jer grew- up. The next step will be to find out about the maternal is applicable to riiany a situation in the field' of social w’ork. ^ , grandfather and grandmother. Was the grandfather plain and turbances are coming our w-ay and in the department of child w?l- Roosevelt is leadingin the direction of taking most of bur ac- easy-going and the_grandmother inclined to play the high society fare^'e are being shaken w-ith agitations and disquielings that w-e tivities under Government direction and our people know not w-hat | stunt ? Or did they live happily together in a lovely home that the New Deal is >et to do for them. - gave Johnnie’s mother beautiful rearing? Getting some light on The children’s organizations are already having new problems the bringing up of Johnnie’s mother and Johnnie’s father, inquiry My subject is..Xhe Stirring of the Eagle’s to face. Within three years a number have been closed; some have is next made'as to whether thev were well mated and whether I been merged; others have changed the type of work they were try- they got along happily. Was the father sober and well-behaved, jing to do. The tendency is markedly towards closer alliance with land was the mother fractious, high-tempered, quarrelsome and Our first maior consideration shall be in connection with the r^uinicipality or state. In some cases we are already realizing that rebellious? Did they live happily and normally together? Trace ’■estion that w-e are all tremendouslv stirred bv the snirit of competition with the state in trying to carry forward our all this out and you will know something of Johnnie’s environment the tlrn^ The arl^elngl ?Tvio- T'" Ke^U'rland what ..ort of a home he haa had I. makea a great difference lent shaking up. The bankers are beinit-ConieUeito gi^-e puMl- ““7 ‘J* House Conference m 11109 It was suggest- whether he has grown up in normal surroundings or not.’ It jrill .citAao^lidetaW thelrrusiness.n1n^nni^^ ami re- ,'>* f"'*' "K" Conference that private ms itu- give insight as to whether Johnnie’.s health has been looked after, sentment with which Mr. Morgan ten vears ago would have treat- har e state inspection Dr Kesler almost gnashed his; t will give an.udea as to whether be has nerves or not. One can ed anv person who suggested that all' his transactions should bo V't'T'’ S'"- whether he has had encouragement to lie and steal, made public. The Dean of the Columbia Law School as reported ‘““'h’"’ Albert Sidney Johnstone of the State Board of Charitios Johnnies home environment has largely made him what he is. - in the New York Times recently said ‘‘There is a irreat shortage Correction to inspect Thornwell Orphanage after a law provid- The new knowledge puts us m position to do a rather thorough job of law>Ws who can cope with the present trend. At this present institutions had been pas.sed. dn making an investigation about Johnnie and in deciding what he time there is bewilderment because the old techniques are out-w as entirely agreeable, needs and whether we are in position to give him what he ought ♦» ibvit he refused to allow him official inspection. We think the ques-1 to have. To be sure only a highly trained person can make an Einstein is reported tc have^recentlv allow'ed an interview with*V^^^ now asked of us bj the Duke Endow-ment are difficult. W ait, in\estigation. ^ a bright young reporter w-ho questioned him, ‘‘They tell me that some of those that will be asked us by state otficials in thej a man who is perhaps our leading authority in the child w-el- you have studied the higher mathematics, is that true?” “Yes.” and >>. If some of us are not taking note of this tenden- fare field in this country said to me in private conversation some- ‘‘And physics?” “Yes.” ‘‘And astronomi'?” “Yes.” “Then w ill might me well to get ready for chaiiges. The articles that w’e|tiine ago that most of the w-ork done for dependent children in this you please state how' you havreome to change your mind with re-i*'^^“ magazines and the things we hear in various discussions |country is po^r w-ork. He referred to the child placing societies, gard to so many w-eil established and inherited regnant princi-,®^ not academic. If any of us are not living up to the modem to the institutions, and brought all the agencies in the condem- pl^s?” ^ \ ^ " ’ connect his name w4th this quotation Einstein answered, I came to all these changes w-hen I began come w hen no institution w’lll be allowed to follow- the but the fact is h6 said it. to question axioms.” ' t'ndlrds orCr’ye^s a™ ThY hnf somethfneMpS 'T*'- “head of us are not easy. For the-immediate Think of what the poor scientmts are up against today as they ‘J;^king we have ate>ady hid il mild VeHk. the """ may not welcome. W’e are being harasred, bothered and embar rassed by the criticisms that w-e hear, though some of them origi nate w’ith our friends. Nest.~^ Stirred by the Spirit of the Times najor consideration shall be in conm suggestion that w-e are all tremendously stirred by the spirit of are torn from the old moorings. For all this time they have under going Imrkward if we stand still. In view of the (listurbances that break up our complacency these days it becomes us to be thought ful. You have observed that I have not sought to be didactic for I have not tried to show you what to do. ^ut there are wise heads calculations. Michelson had announced only recently that the ve * .u u-i i r u o r . locitv of light is one of the most fundamental of the constants in of course, to the child welfare field. Some of this know- natuVe. Now it is declared that the measure is inconstant, that stood that it w-as an invariable fact that light travelled at the rate s nest is being stirred by the state. of 186,000 miles per second. Of'a sudden news comes from Mt.j - Siirrd bv the Stress of the New Knowledge W^ilson that the velocity of light is not constant. Two profes.sorsi i .u . * i i i after three years of minute investigation are upsetting all Previous New klowlel^^ ‘he.v sholTUl he thinking very pro- May 1 express the hope that in seeking to be frank I have not •rfr*nfi,Qra«'^;n*Vrhvrhrni> w"ftv^and thafTts vagaries have knock- roughly. It is good to know the new- knowledge has cleared away unkind. I am aware that I have not been entertaining. There It fluctuates in a rhythmic wa> and tnat its vagaiies na\e kiiock antaironisms between the merelv varvinir forms of effort which I might have contributed more definite v to the ed away one of the fixed hitching-posts of the universe. New ap- lue oia aniagonisms neiween ine merei> \ar>ing toims ot e lort briirhtne.ss of this gathering But I recall the familiar nroverh iinaii«neptpd whimsieH in earth sea and skv for dependent children. Since the Hoover Conference in 1930 w-e -lui i oui i itcai ine lamiiiar proverb paratus is revealing unsuspected whimsies in earen, sea ana SKy- no lomrer claim that there is actual antagonism betwe *n the^^^^^ “haithful are the wounds of a friend.” Certainlv there are The old fundamental virtues are being questioned, and we have to fan .no longer claim t^ flattering things that could have been said of the workers oup. Taken as a body you are faithful as our accomplishments as leaders and execu^ I’kable in the face of panic, depression and loss. I could have said many a true word in your praise. Never- thele.ss. I have cherished the feeling that I might render a more valuable service to use this occasion to bring before us some of the difficulties that press. Facing some of these stern problems we may become forearmed by being forew-arned. Some of the criticisms that have lieen voiced to you have come from authoritative |)eop!e. While a person in high place may ex press views with which one may not agrei^, it is becoming to con- .sider and weigh them. Some criticisms that I specified may not have come from friendly .sources. We should not be particularly in terested in whether an accusation is friendly or not but should be v-er.\- solicitous as to whether it is true. Even an enemy may tell the truth on one. The whole point of my remarks is bv w-ay of effort ,to get you to think. “Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.” _ “Then, welcome each rebuff That turns earth’s smoothness rough,_ F2ach sting that bids nor sit nor stand but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hx)ld cheap the strain; Learn, nor account~the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!” - In our own field the ilstitltions are charged with living too child whether he is in an mstiOHon, in a private hinne or else largely upon the momentum oDthe past. 1 We are accused of stand-,where, provided he comes within the class ot those children who ng on the principles that our predecessors established rather than 'must be cared for outside their own homes. So tor the lir.st tjnie justifying our existence by producing the best possible results at m our history we have an agreed nomenclature and a decent frieiid- the present time. A distinguished friend of children has charged bnes^ , , . , u. u . . . .i, that some of the institutions are comfortably tucked away in med-1 The new knowledge has brought hundreds and even thou- icated cotton having a soft, easy time of it, living off a great en-'sands of books to us that help at one point and another. In my dowment or else from the income that is regularly supplied by a‘own library I happened recently to ob.serve that there are five great friendly but unprogressive, constituency. It has to be ad-!shelves of volumes, perhaps more than 100, relating more or less mitte’d that we cannot justify our existence by clinging to outworn closely to children’s work. This of course is a small number as methods There is' such a thing as antiquated goodness. Feudal ,l make no claim to versatility in this regard. But the fact is that ism was of course better than anarchy, but there came a time when I entered this field of service I could not find even one vv-hen civilized men pronounced feudalism a piece of antiquated!volume that bore directly upon the work I was trying to do. After goodness and it had to go. Slavery was of course a much bet-1 some eight years there appeared Dr. Reeder’s book, “How Two ter svstem than that of cutting off the heads of members of cap-^Hundred Children Live and Learn.” And this, I believe, was the tured tribes but mankind reached a period at which slavery was first. Parenthetically, I will name one book that every institution nronounced a piece of antiquated goodness and it had to go. iperson should have. Its nearly 700 pages are cheap indeed at the Three great apostles may be set before you as representatives price of $5.00, for it is an encyclopedia of information and help, of child welfare work in the three quarter century periods that!its title is “Children’s Institutions.” It is written by Dr. John M. have iust passed Charles Loring Brace inaugurated in the third Cooper of the Catholic University of America and published by the ouarter of the 19th century a type of work that we would not be;Dolphin Press, Philadelphia. A wealth of information is brought willing to reproduce today. Df. W. P. Jacobs was an outstanding to us in these various books and they are continually telling us FINAL SETTLEMENT in the first quarter in the Present century Probably none arnong who has peculiar characteristics They .show us that in dealingj ,h.t on the ir.ih day of us would accept the principles of either of these men and try to set with a child for some infraction the real object is not to stop his! „ ,93^ , them up to work in full force today. This is said without deroga- annoying behavior but to try to study him in such a fashion as to ^ount of my acta and doing.a as Exe-|- tion from either of these mighty ones who wrought so nobly and discover why he began to do that way. One of these books shows cutrix of the estate of Henry J. Na-i^“^® ''**1 present them on or before who so marvelously met the demands each in his period. , Ihow by expert investigation it was found that a delinquent boy.jbors, deceased, in the office of the proven, or be forever fro in .ve<^trt^i^— Any person indebted to said estate i.H notified and required to make pay ment on or before that date; and all persons having claims against said ea- !had previouMy had double pneumonia, followed by fever at 105 J Judge of Probate of i.Aurens county, was in a stupor for two weeks after w-hich there w-as a’total “New occasions teach new duties. Time makes ancient good uncouth. ‘,’*chsnge in his behavior. One cannot give himself very attentive- Th'e spirit of the times is full of criticism and is stirring us to look j scanning of these books without feeling that he is being anew to the testing of our methods. Shall we heaMhe^cjffmisms ^ decidedly stirred. of-those who tell us that some of our ways are worn entirely too Stirred by the Statistician ari1)--t>'n!im“r*nrrr5lRd'~o^^^ »K?>StE A. N.ABORS," day will apply for a final discharge ,5-3-4tcy Executrix. The new- knowledge condemns us by bringing the „ reminder that we frequently have been guilty sinners in the way we have broken up families. Many a family situation could have been pre*- Annfhpr consideration relates to the tremendous stirring that served in its integrity if we had not imagined we were doing the !! i, beimr Kiven by the statisticians. A statistician is regarded as best thing to mee^he .^tuation by shattering the relationship IS oeiiig , J J-yjjjuai and yet when he gets on one’s track it is and taking the children off to an institution. We have come upon ;; usuaffy vdse to pause long enough to give him attention. Othe^r-ia period in which new attentioiris given ^to that e^senUal .social o w’ise he will show nc) pause nature to be unit that we denominate, the family. State as well as church or- B. D. HSNRT r. M. BOLAND H. D. Henry & Company INSURANCE STOCKS BONDS REAL ESTATE LOANS negotiated c Ainia number are in their own lamuies anu wimi mx: a»u m €Ayy^A.- eni ii.uiupc auu me umn-eu iio»v av* .v..^ ot inis num^i children alone, but for whole families. We are;up bulwarks of safety for the preservation of this unit. Quoting. f rnnre than 200 000 are in the institutions of the country; from one~af lhe findings of the first White House Conference, I told -f having very little information as to who would say that “borne life is the highest and finest product of our and ^ whether they are orphan, half orphan, illegiti- civilization. It is the great molding force of mind and character these cn are 1 without competent parents or without resources Children should not be deprived of it except for urgent and com- o mate, delmqu , ... ^should shake our complacency to piling reasons.” Some of the things being said on the subject in <, * cCrge hurled it ue. 'such an emphatic way at the present time bring at least some of * atfttiatician hurls another missile at us to shake our corn-,u8 under condemnation for having broken up families when there , rpminds us that we are spending too much per (»pi-i was no necessity for such action, placency. ne rc institutions and that many children ; new knqwledge has brought and is bringing to us much more econcSmically and live more happily in their own | valuable help that bears upon the decision of what child shall bei could.be kept more jf competent, could have a little fman- received and who shall be declined. We are now being made to| homes, proviaeq .ine ^ ^ hor income. 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