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subject to return if it proves to be feebleminded, incorrigible, afflicted with an incurable disease, or otherwise clearly unplaceable. If money has been appropriated by the county, the society will return such portion of the appropriation as the supervisors may declare equitable, if the child has to be returned.

The legal custody of the child is to be given either by written surrender papers from the parents or by court commitment under the Juvenile Court law, the surrender papers or the court orders to be subject to approval by our attorney.

If the child is received by the society without an appropriation from the county, it is to be understood that the county will bear the following expenses: (1) The expense of receiving the child (not including the salary of our agent). (2) The expense of clothing the child with two serviceable suits, including underwear, shoes and night dress. (3) The expense of boarding the child until a home is found for it. (4) The expense of delivering the child at our receiving home in Chicago, Rantoul, or Shelbyville. All expenses of selecting a home, placing, replacing, visiting, corresponding and supervising will be borne by the society.

The Illinois Children's Home and Aid Society regards the appropriation of county money to its treasury as a very doubtful advantage, either to the society or to the children. We have not been pushing this matter for several years past, and we shall be very glad when we reach the point where we can dispense with such appropriations altogether, and can carry on our work entirely by the free contributions of our supporters.

The disadvantages of county appropriations are as follows.

First: It tends to dry up free contributions. People say: The county is supporting the society, therefore it is unnecessary for us to give.

Second: It creates the impression in the community that the society is engaged in the business of placing out children for money and that the county appropriation is the chief consideration, whereas it ought to be the last consideration.

Third: It cheapens the work of caring for children, and sometimes leads to

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has a sweet attractive little girl whom some neighbor is anxious to adopt, he is tempted to place the child in the home, though it may not be the best, in order to save the $50.00; but if he has a boy who is blind in one eye or minus a finger, or addicted to disagreeable habits, he is tempted to turn him over with a $50.00 draft to the mercies of the Children's Home and Aid Society. The excuses for county appropriations are:

First: They enable the county to utilize the machinery and the trained agents of the society.

Second: They effect a large saving to the county treasury by stopping all further expense for less than it would cost to board the child six months.

Third: They enable the county to make an immediate cash contribution to

what is believed to be a worthy charity and the supervisors generally believe that they are actually assisting a good work.

The Illinois Children's Home and Aid Society is the largest, oldest and best equipped organization for placing out children in the United States, west of New York.

F. W. Biebinger, Pres.

The efficiency of the society is indicated by the fact that at the World's Columbia Exposition in 1893 it received a Bronze Medal, placing it in the third rank of the Child Saving Agencies in the United States, while at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis in 1904, the Society received the "Grand Prize" the highest award made to any child saving agency in the United States. This award was made by a jury of the highest experts, in competition with the best orphan asylums, children's homes. and children's aid societies of the Eastern and Central States.

We hold the certificate of the State Board of Public Charities and we shall be pleased to have our books, our methods and our receiving homes examined at any time by any representative of the Board of Supervisors.

The state of Illinois makes no public provision for its homeless and neglected children except the alms houses, but the facilities and agents of the society are freely offered to the counties of the state, with or without compensation.

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a shameful competition between rival JEFFERSON MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE

societies boasting of the cheapness with which they propose to pretend to do the most sacred and responsible work in the world.

Fourth It exposes county officials to the temptation to neglect the real welfare of children in order to save money for the county. If a county supervisor

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A TRIP VIA

Chesapeake & Ohio Ry.

IS A PERPETUAL PANORAMA

The scenery along the entire route is entrancing, surpassing in variety, beauty and grandeur anything to be seen east of the Rocky Mountains. The 160 miles beside the beautiful Ohio, on whose surface steamers and odd craft are sighted every few minutes, are succeeded by miles of graceful curves along the banks of the Big Kanawha, and then come the canons of the New River with their awful wildness and grandeur; the gentle Greenbrier with its pastoral loveliness; the heart of the Alleghenies with its matchless beauty of scenery; the famous Springs Resorts; the renowned Snenandoah Valley; the towering Blue Ridge; the wonderful panorama of the Piedmont Valley; the famous battlefields of the late war; and the surf of the Atlantic at Old Point, or the beauty and interest of Washington-just as one's destination may be.

Stop-over will be allowed at Covington, Va., where branch train is taken. for Hot Springs on all first-class one-way tickets and on return portions of all round-trip tickets. When ready to resume journey ticket agent at Hot Springs will exchange tickets which have expired. A Delightful Sea Trip to and from New York Via the Old Dominion Steamship Co. Magnificent steamers sail from Old Point Comfort at 4:30 p. m. daily except Sunday, and from Norfolk at 7 p. m. daily except Sunday, arriving at New York next afternoon about 3 p. m.

I. P. SPINING, N. W. P. A., C. & O. RY. 238 Clark St., Chicago.

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IT IS WISER AND LESS EXPENSIVE TO SAVE CHILDREN THAN TO PUNISH CRIMINALS

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The Juvenile Court reports an appreciable decrease in both the number of the offenders, and the seriousness of the offences. That boys appreciate an effort to help them into useful manhood is evidenced by several cases where they asked to have the probation period extended another six months, and are living faithfully to the requirements. In several instances boys, who had not so far as known committed any offences, came to the office accompanied by former probation boys and asked to be placed under the care of the probation officer, so that they would not get into trouble. Quite a number came in for consultation and advice, and many parents brought their children to be talked to, and in some cases placed on voluntary probation. This latter feature should be enlarged and encouraged and made a regular department of the probation work. The children were given bulbs, seeds and plants; and were shown how beauty and fragrance would develop from them. So in each child, they were told was latent manhood with all its power and usefulness; but like the plant it must be cultivated.

Statistics for six months ending Dec. 31, 1904.

Probationers' reports by school teachers

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Letters written to Boys

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Age of maximum number delinquents, Boys 11 years

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Girls, 14 to 16 years

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Under active supervision Dec. 31

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Disorderly conduct

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Vagrancy

IDA L. GREGORY, Chief Probation Officer.

ZED H. COPP, Probation Officer.

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