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9 How Illinois Society Brings Homeless Chil- 



dren and Childrenless Homes Together 



Page Thirteen 



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F)R 47 years the Illinois Children's 

 Home and Aid Society has been em- 

 ployed in the most serious business in which 

 human beings can engage. It has been un- 

 dertaking to find fathers and mothers for 

 boys and girls who for various reasons have 

 been deprived of their own 

 parents through death or 

 tragedy of any nature. 

 During these years it has 

 become the legal guardian 

 of 11,000 children. These 

 boys and girls have come 

 from every county in the 

 state, and the service of the 

 Society is rendered to them 

 regardless of their age or 

 race. 



The beginning of this 

 work is more than a mat- 

 ter of history. Martin Van 

 Arsdale, a young clergy- 

 man, spent a portion of 

 Sunday afternoons in teach- 

 ing a Sunday School Class 

 in a county poor farm — it 

 was then the custom to 

 send needy children to the 

 poor farm. He saw attrac- 

 tive little homeless children 

 with an unspeakable long- 

 ing for the love of parents 

 subjected to the miserable 

 environment of the alms- 

 house and their inadequate 

 care through persons who by age, morals 

 or infirmities were in no position to care 

 for them properly. , ;Hr, .- ,y ■ 



One day as he left the institution fol- 

 lowing his customary Sunday afternoon 

 service, a little girl took his hand and ac- 

 companied him to the top of the hill. Be- 

 fore she left Mr. Van Arsdale, she plead 

 with him to find her a home with a father 

 and with a mother so she could be like 

 other children. Mr. Van Arsdale with a 

 sinking heart, saw the little girl go back 

 to the wretched conditions that she was 

 daily obliged to face. He then went into 

 the woods and on his knees in prayer to the 

 "Father of the fatherless" dedicated his life 

 to such little children and prayed that he 

 might discover the way to help them. 



Bring Them Together 

 One day while at work in his garden, he 

 found the answer to his prayer. He rushed 

 into the house and exclaimed to Mrs. Van 

 Arsdale "I have found it! I have discovered 

 the remedy. 'God setteth the solitary in 

 families.' Why should not these little 

 children who are starved for lack of pa- 

 rental care, be received into homes where 

 there are no children?" Mr. Van Arsdale 



saw two needy conditions and he sought to 

 bring them together. 



When he gave up his pastorate in Illinois 

 and devoted his entire time to the spread- 

 ing of this gospel that children deprived of 

 their own homes should have fathers and 

 ^ mothers, he pioneered a 

 movement which is today 

 recognized in every part of 

 the civilized world as eco- 

 nomic and practicable, for 

 the Illinois Children's Home 

 and Aid Society (of which 

 he was the first superin- 

 tendent) is the mother of 

 the movement and the 

 work rapidly spread from 

 Illinois to other states. 



Cover Entire State 

 The Illinois Children's 

 Home and Aid Society now 

 maintains a staff of trained 

 field workers who cover 

 the entire state. With the 

 general office in Chicago 

 and branch ofiSces in Pe- 

 oria, Springfield, Duquoin, 

 E. St. Louis, Edwardsville, 

 Salem and Lawrenceville, 

 the members of the staff 

 maintain their headquarters 

 at Morris, Savanna, Rock- 

 ford, Paxton, Champaign, 

 Galesburg and Metropolis. 

 These trained workers undertake to solve 

 the problems of children in trouble without 

 removing them from their own homes, but 

 when that cannot be done, they serve the 

 Society in seeking to secure for these chil- 

 dren permanently bereft of their own par- 

 ents, homes in carefully selected private 

 families. ';^ 



The Society maintains three small insti- ' 

 tutions. Receiving Homes at Evanston and ' 

 Duquoin for the temporary care of waiting 

 children, and a Training School for girls 

 in Vermilion County near Potomac where 

 older girls receive intensive training in 

 household arts. These institutions are in- 

 cidental to the primary purpose of the or- 

 ganization which is to restore the children 

 to their own homes if possible, and if that 

 is not possible, to find for them, suitable 

 foster homes. 



Eight To Fourteen Years 

 The Society is making at this time, a 

 special appeal for homes for boys from 

 eight to fourteen years, and girls from 

 twelve to sixteen years of age. A careful 

 study has been made of their family back- 

 groimd, and they are physically and men- 

 tally normal, and have no homes to which 



JOHN WANTS A HOME 

 John is eleven years old. 

 He is from central Illinois. He 

 was desertecl by his father, 

 and has mother died. He is a 

 fine boy, . a|>preciative and 

 eaffer to please and to learn. 

 He loves country life and will 

 be a credit to the family that 

 will open their home to him. 



For information, communi- 

 cate with the Illinois Chil- 

 dren's Home and Aid Society. 

 203 N. Wabash Avenue, Chi- 

 cago. 



they can be returned. They need more 

 than anything else in the world, a place in 

 the hearts and affections of men and women 

 who will give to them, a place in their own 

 families. 



Because of its experience of 47 yean in 

 the placing of 11,000 children in family 

 homes, the Society is able to bring about 

 these adjustments of children in families 

 with scientific precision. There is nothing 

 haphazard about it. Before the placement 

 of the child, a member of the staff will 

 visit the family who is interested, in order 

 to secure a proper adaptation of child to 

 the family. The child is placed with the 

 family only on trial. He may be returned 

 at any time. The greatest of care is exer- 

 cised by the Society in the selection of fam- 

 ilies who will have regard for the proper 

 training of the child from the standpoint 

 of his spiritual, social, vocational and edu- 

 cational needs. 



Illinois Grain 



Files Application 



(Continued from page 4) x' 



As we go to press the new board of di- 

 rectors of the Farmers National is in session 

 in Chicago. New policies will probably be 

 adopted which will clarify not only many 

 of the issues raised above, but also other 

 points not mentioned. 



The fact that the I. G. C. plan involves 

 individual contracts with each elevator 

 member means that it is out to fulfill one 

 of the chief objects of a sound co-operative 

 grain marketing program, namely, to as- 

 semble and sell a large volume through co- 

 -operative channels. Other plans have 

 been tried out not only in Illinois but else- 

 where with indifferent success. 



Grain Marketing '_'-i]':^\: 



(Continued from page 12) ,- V.'f 

 organization for the purpose of concentrate 

 ing a large volume of grain into single 

 hands, should not be confused with a con- 

 tract that delegates to a few selfish and un- 

 scrupulous officials power that might be 

 abused. ■ i 



THE CONTRACT or agreement system 

 is sound and has been very effective. It is 

 recognized today in all life's activities. By 

 "little business" by "Big Business" and by 

 Babe Ruth — the papers are signed. 



IN THE CORN BELT we have never 

 tried the agreement system from the local 

 co-operative elevator to the terminal mar- 

 ket. Let's give it a chance. We ought to 

 write "Let's give ourselves a chance." 



(Continued on page 14) . i- 



