The Children's Home Finder (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 3, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 1, 1905 Page: 3 of 8
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April, 1906.
THE CHILDREN'S HOME FINDER W
Of The Oklahoma and Indian Territory Children ! Horn* Socxeiy
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REPLY TO OR. KNOIKL
Guthrie, Okla., Jan. 11, 1906.
Rev. G. C. Knobel.
Chicago, 111.
Dear Sir and Brother:
Your letter of 10 inst. has been
received, and considered. Also,
your pamphlet came today, and
has been carefully read.
In reply, I beg to refer you to
a letter I wrote to Dr. H. H.
Hart, Chicago. December 24,
190^fr which was in reply to some
communications received from
him in same month, Dec. 1904.
on this same subject of National
Endowment fund, and of cross-
ing children agencies from state
to state. That letter contains
my views on these questions.
Will you please ask him to let
you read it, if he have it yet. If
not, write me and I'll send you a
duplicate or copy of the same.
I asked Dr. Hart to read it be-
fore the Superintendents' meet-
ing on December 29, 1904, in
Chicago—I don't know whether
he did or not. I am thinking of
publishing it in the next issue of
the Oklahoma Children's
Home finder-the Jan. 1905
nnmber is out.
In further reply to your letter
of 10 inst. must say, I am not of
the opinion that it would be wis-
dom for the National Society to
make appeals for funds, in these
Territories, in view of conditions
here, and of the young and new
stage of the Society's work in
Oklahoma and Indian Territory.
It would practically be annulling
the very end that the fund is
claimed to be desired to do. We
have not asked for help from
outside, nor so far, from our
legislature on the inside of our
borders—yet each year, the work
of the Society has grown in in-
terest, and its financial feature
has also made some advancement
each year of its four years' life.
It was born in May, 1900.
I must conclude, therefore,
that we are not ready to encour-
age from a moral, Christian or
business view of the question, or
to invite, outside appeals, and
hope you and Dr. Hart will not
continue to assume, or press this
matter as binding upon us, for
such is not the case, and if need
be, must be opposed, and I think
our people will approve the posi-
tion taken, for the reasons given
in the letter referred to, and in
this reply to your letter of
10 inst.
Respectfully and truly,
Noah B. Wickham,
Superintendent.
Placed Six Children In One
Week
During the week ending March
25th, 1906, The Children's Home
Society placed six children in
approved family homes Some of
these children had been in our
Headquarters for some weeks,
others shorter time. Two
remain, others are expected.
Then as soon as suitable homes
are settled on they all will go;
and others will come. So the
work increasingly goes on, and
our
RECEIVING HOME
Is becoming a great and much
needed necessity. Will
SOME ONE OR MAN AND WIPE
Give it? or shall The Children's
Home Society have to make a
canvass for special funds with
which to buy or build it? We
must have it as soon as possible.
The growing work demands it.
And all good citizens will be
glad to know this--
OKLAHOMA PROVIDING
In the best way for Oklaho-
ma's dependent children, by
placing them in carefully select-
ed and approved family homes
will meet the heartiest approval
of all our people, and intelligent
-citizenship
And mush t« the work of The
Children's Home Society
We have a high Christian
standard for homes that apply
for our children, and require as
near its attainment as we can.
If applicants can not give good
recommendation from their
neighbors, the Society will not
place children with them; or if a
mistake should be made, the
child, on recommendation of our
Local Advisory Board in the com-
munity where the child is, would
be removed and placed in another
home, if the investigation of the
case should warrant such action.
Home Is The Place To Mould
Character.
There are some professing Chris-
tian and other people who seem
to have no control over themselves
or their families, whose children
at the giddy age in the "teens,"
are uncontrollable,and violate the
laws of God and of the city, or
country. This speaks one of
two things: 1st that the parents
themselves have no correct idea
of home, law and order. 2nd, or
the children are rough naturally,
or by bad association, or neglect
by parents in childhood, and so
are rude, impudent law breakers
in youth and can never make the
best citizens, church members,
or parents in homes of their
own.
Notice the children and youth;
and more especially, see the
homes they emanate from, and
you will know for yourselves.
To S«ve Themselves Trouble.
I And by correspondence reach-
ing our office, that other States,
and Orphan Homes in other
States, are proposing to send
children into families in Okl*
homa.
To save themselves trouble and
expense, it would be well for
them to look up the new law on
this child-question, passed by the
Eighth Legislative Assembly of
Oklahoma, and went into effact
on March 10. 1906.
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Wickham, Noah B. The Children's Home Finder (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 3, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 1, 1905, newspaper, April 1, 1905; Guthrie, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc119343/m1/3/: accessed May 5, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.