The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 3, 1940, Page 15

e — [ — . CHILD WELFARE WORK IS BEING CARRIED AHEA | One unit purchased a baby incu- \-bater and ‘denated it to their local hospital. Hospital and surgical care has been provided by units, Others have provided -playgrounds for chil-. dren .as their major - achievement. Most units have provided under- nourished children in their district with milk. All units have remem- | bered the Alaska children in the By MARION K. HENDRIGKSON | Orthopedic Hospital with Christmas Department Child Welfare Chairman The American Legion Auxiliary is composed of 52 Departments, Al- aska being one of them. Our De- {ment consists of 10 units, all which are active in child wel-| P of fare work. During the past year a surprising amount has been accomplished. | gifts, also each unit has made a .cash donation to a shoe fund for these children. For ‘Al Children Our Child Welfare interests nat- urally lie in the children of vet- erans, but our program must em- brace ,all -children. We find this essentially a fact when we enter the field of legislation. Our De- partment has been working under Time to Call 7117 For YourCab BROADWAY CAB C0. Welcome Alaskan Legionnaires Remember — Sears at Seattle Serves Alaska Best) Sears Roebuck and Company Junean Order:Office : 205 Seward St. PHONE 233 Greetings - THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, SEPT. 3, a well prepared Child Welfare pro- gram for over ten years, so'I won’t - use many words in preparing your minds to receive suggestions in-, tended to improve conditions for the children of Alaska, but shall simply mention again that in this work the same old principle re- mains, viz: The Child Must Come First! | These past ten years have been spent in gaining experience-in how | to use the laws of our Territory,! promoting the welfare of our chii- dren, These years have taught us that in some respects, our laws are inadequate, in fact, antiquated when compared with the welfare legislation in the rest of our coun- * try. | ‘We should spend our time this year in teaching the citizens of Alaska what our present laws are | and how they operate. Permit me to enter into a discussion of our OFFICER children in their own home and sets up certain -inflexible sums to be paid the mothers of children. Until February 1, 1940, this was | administered by the Governor of | Alaska. Since Febru: 1, through action taken by the last Territorial Legislature, all matters coming un- der this heading are supervised by the Territorial Department of Pub- | lic Welfare. It appears to the writer that both | this thought, chief of which is one | that can’t be successfully disputed, | viz: Under the law creating the Territorial Department of Pubiic Welfare, it is provided employees of the Department mu: ‘| be trained in Social Welfare Serv- present Territorial laws. Under the Mrs. Marian Hendrickson of Ju- ice. They are now working in fund headed “Aid to Dependent peay s Depattment ~Executive Alaska and common sense dn':n(l's Children,” the Territory provides i that problems affecting the welfare for the care of children in foster Gemolitasmonin, of mfv children and your children homes. This fund is disbursed by found guilty 4s charged, the child can best be solved by persons Boards of Children’s Guardians, is committed to the Board. The trained in this work. In spending each Judicial Division having majority on this Board is composed our money providing for our un- awn Board. Each ‘Board is com- of persons officially ,appointed to fortunate children, why not spend posed of the Federal Judge, the U. deal with matters foreign to the it through persons trained to spend S, Marshal and some female resi- problems of unfortunate children. dent of the Division appointed by the Governor. In order for these Two Funds We also have a sum of money it wisely? Not Costly The Territerial Department of hoards to legally spend money from appropriated under the title, Moth- pupiic Welfare was created by the this fund, a criminal complaint ers’ Allowance.” The purpose of| Territorial Legislature primarily to must be made before a U. S. Com- this fund is very commendable. It ,qminister relief to the aged resi- missioner having jurisdiction. « WE WISH SUCGESS TO'THE AMERICAN LEGION AND ITS CONVENTION! WE CAN. PLACE ORDEJ 11 is an attempt to render aid to R RS W g g D D Bl i 1 z this FOR {Groceries, Vegetables, Meats, Liquor | Califernia Grocery \ e s [ ST (OSSR S S S & | WE’RE ON HAND ; TO GREET THE AmericanLegion TO JUNEAU Gastineau Cafe “We Never Close > Phone 158 o 128 S. Franklin 4 | | | Best Wishes Juneau, z@laska 1st Annua Convention £ September 4-7, 1940 atzonal Bank Juneau, Alaska dents of Alaska. Why are our chil- dren barred from the benefits of service? The argument is ad- vanced that it would cost us too much, Isn't this a disgrace, to say that we can spend money to cafeguard the lives of people who travel by airplane, but we cannot stand the expense of caring for unfortunate children, We hear the argument advanced that in order | to come within the welfare provi jons of the Social Security Act a fecting children we would have to include the natives. That is also |a provision of the Social Security | OSSR BODDING'S TRANSFER Extends Greetings to the LEGION and Its AUXILIARY During 1940 | { § | { | frrrrrrrrrrr ) | i YOU | at the S&N 5-10-15 STORE | Sitka and Juneau Grocery | EXTENDS GREETINGS | to-the 21st ANNUAL AMERICAN LEGION}| CONVENTION | Staple and Fancy GROCERIES A ‘PLEASURE TO SERVE YOU { o 133 FRONT STREET PHONE 37 o e e rrrr s ey that ftield BRI s SR - A S | snnire 940. SECRETARY POPPY-PROGRAM IMPORTANT PART OF UNITS" WORK (MRS. JOHN) By BETTY McCORMICK Department Poppy Chairman | of these funds should be under ol Atk e the Territorial Department of Pub- | ‘_Nf‘” ”“)‘h( Y W e e | lic Welfare and one fund only be . e e | appropriated to be known as “Aid Poppy Program meant as much as P 4 v . AT it does today and never has the o iDependent u“l‘d'“‘" Tl little red fower that bloomed in e . Inany Grgiments. ih . Javor oLy Flanders Field in Belgium during the World War 22 years ago carried its message of rememberance as strongly as today The Poppy Program of the Amer- ican Legion Auxiliary dates back to 1921, to the organization's first meeting in Kansas City, Kansas It was there that the resolution Mrs. Betty McCormick of Juneau | was passed making tie poppy the is Department Secretary-Treas- | memorial flower of the American urer. Legion Auxiliary, and the wearing - ——of it by all citizens on Memorial Act which was accepted in caring pay encouraged. It was also adopt- for the aged, but it wasn't used as eq that the sale be promoted for an excuse to block the Territory the sole purpose of aiding veteran's from taking up that obligation in yelier work. favor of the aged, T am of the ¢ js the responsibility of the opinion that it won't cost the taX- members of the American Legion payers of Alaska much more than| auxiliary, to make known to all for the So- they ‘.‘“‘ I‘m\\ aying that the American Legion and cial Security Act (as amended) American Legion Auxiliary Poppies| would match one-half of each grant are “Veteran-Made;” that the dis- made up to $18 for the first child apled are compensated for the and $12 for each additional child.| fashioning of these crepe paper Under the provisions of the Act replicas and that every penny de- this would allow the Territorial rived from their sale is used for Welfare Board to take care of 156 the veteran, his family and needy children coming under the “First Child” class instead of 100. It case workers, I believe that it 1 permit the Board to in- would be better legislation to pro- e the number of “second child” vide a maximum amount that cases from 200 to 333 children. could be spent, This would permit Trained Workers more flexible administration and These figures are ed on the allow the case workers more lati- fra new in use which are inflex- tude to meet each problem on its ible. At the time these rates were merits, fixed it was imperative that these, I have been reliably informed sums be allotted in order that some that the Legislative Committee of children would not suff for it the Legion is having bills drafted must be kept in mind that at that to accomplish leg ation intended time, trained Child Welfare worl to improve the Child Welfare stan- ers were not available for case dards in Alaska. I urge each Unit work in the field. The rest of the Chairman to study the legal mach- nation has progressed and we inery by which our unfortunate find ourselves with these case children are benefited and when workers in the field ready to func- copies of these proposed bills are tion in our favor for the benefit received, study them and do every- of the children primarily. If we thing possible to create interest in avail ourselves of the services of support of the proposed measures. oo s s s s s oo —ee——e WE LL()ME LEGION Speclal Delivery “KELLY BLAKE” 115 Seward Street Phone 442 to the LEGION and AUXILIARY ! Juneau Motors borrrvctrocrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr e May Your Visitin JuneauBea | Long-Remembered One | Welcome Legionnaires and Awxiliary CHAS.W. CARTER MORTUARY ...”-m---’,,—--¢—’o~#m--m,--»’~w | Columbia Lumber Co. JUNEAU, ALASKA DEALERS in— ' Building Materials Lumber R RS WHOLESALE RETAIL Sitka B b e Mrs. Florence Tobin of Ketchikan is Department Music Chairman and Past President. community through the Rehabilitation and Child Wei- fare programs of our organizations Alaska Distribution Alaska, this year ordered poppies which were handled by the ten units of the American Legion Auxilia and two posts of The American Legion. The gross sales of these popples for Alaska amount- cases in our | ed to $1,983.66, Out of this amount the cost of the poppies was deduct- ed and $148.66 was sent National for Child Welfare and $223.04 was sent the Department for rehabili- tation work, the balance being kept in the various units for the work in their mmunities Poppy Day is always the Satur- day before Memorial Day, and on this day one will find the wives, mothers, sisters and daughters of the men who served during that period of 1917 and 1918, offering for sale the little red flower in “Rememberance” of the sacrifice in the cause of justice In our schools Poppy Poster Con- tests are conducted, divided in three classes so that everyone has an equal chance; these posters are submitted to the -Units and the winning poster picked and .in turn submitted to the Department which in turn’ submits the winners to National for final judging. The prizes are cash awards. The publicity given our program by the newspapers and radio ¢ | tions throughout the Territo helped a great deal in the success |of our sale: to them and the Governor for his proclamation we are deeply grateful. - o Colombia South America’s greatest gold producer, but her $35,000,000 coffee crop is seven times as great as her annual gold pro- duction, is U TR R ¥ e WELCOME to JUNEAU American Legion and Auxiliary Members BEER SOFT DRIN TOBACCO CAFE THE BRUNSWICK BOWLING ALLEYS 499 SO. FRANKLIN STREET CHEERIO tothe LEGION!! See Us for DRINKS of All Kinds Capitol Cocktail Bar