Our Children By Mrs- w- B* Davis
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Make Adoption Sale
If you want to adopt a child,
and want to make a success of it,
you should relax, and plan to be
expectant parents for a while,
just like any others! Apply for a
child through an accredited agen
cy and your waiting period will
not be longer than is necessary. A
great deal of skillful work goes
into a good adoption. It means
the bringing together of a mother
and father and child who give
every indication that they will be
a happy combination. Physical
health on the part of both parents
and baby is not enough by any
means, and that is why it is ex
tremely unwise to obtain a baby
for adoption by any other method
other than through a recognized
and qualified social agency. In
some States, laws have been pass
ed to safeguard adoption proced
ures, and eventually all States
will have laws such as those re
commended by the U. S. Chil
dren’s Bureau to protect the peo
ple involved. Adoption is a many
sided social problem. There are
often many people and many re
cords concerned in each one. The
adopting parents, the trained
social workers, the doctors, the
psychiatrist, psychological tests,
family records and interviews.
Experience shows that children
and their parents flourish when
emotional, tempermental and in
tellectual and educational differ
ences are not too extreme. These
factors are just as important as
specifications concerning physical
characteristics which adopting
parents may think of first of all,
though a good agency has these
in mind too. Most reliable agen
cies insist on a trial of six months
to a year before permanent legal
adoption takes place. Of first im
portance is the child himself. If
he is very young, his educational
and social background is of less
importance than what can be
learned of his temperament and
intelligence. It wouldn’t do, to
perhaps place a child of just aver
age intelligence in a family of
brilliant professional people. Still
more vital to the child’s welfare
is his placement in a climate of
warm steady love. The Social
workers have acquired a good
deal of skill in sensing the emo
tional atmosphere of a home, and
they hesitate to place a child in a
home where there is anxiety, or
tension or lack of understanding
between the husband and wife.
The presence of a child is not a
cure for those conditions. Every
couple who are childless and cap
able should try giving some little
fellow an opportunity to become
a useful citizen. It carries along
no more pleasure and pain than
the ones we call our own.
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Officers Installed
Lebanon Lodge No. 3 A. F. and
A. M., recently elected and in
stalled the following officers:
Worshipful Master, Edwin
Todd; Senior Warden, Sam Kim
brough; Treasurer, William High
tower; Secretary, John W. Reed.
Appointed officers are: Senior
Deacon, James Adkins; Junior
Deacon, Charles J. B. Bradley;
Senior Steward, McKinley Tarp
ley; Junior Steward, Walter Rife;
Tyler, James C. Wilson and Chap
lain, Clyde W. Malone.
Grand Master Clayton P. Lewis
was in charge of the installation.
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Joint Meeting
Robert H. Huckles consistory
No. 32 Valley of Lincoln, State of
Nebraska will hold a joint session,
Sunday, January 26, at 3:30 p.m.
with the O. E. S., it was announc
ed bv the Grand Secretary, J. R.
Kelley.
The purpose of the meeting
will be to set up a sister consistory
chapter. All ladies of the O. E. S.
Chapter are urged to be present.
Refreshments will be served.
BOB’S MARKET
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Fresh Fruits & Vegetables
New Location — 201 So. 10th
This is My Community
by Eloise Finley
(Interviewed by
Mrs. Alberta J. Cooke)
We (the girls) would like to
agree with the boys in a lot of
things, that we read in the voice
last week. We too, would like
more competitive games, hikes,
skating parties roller skating as
well as ice skating, and the card
games on the market. The girls
would like to have a basketball
team. We would also like to make
a suggestion. Boys, how about
helping to make the parties a
success by mixing with the entire
group* instead of sitting on one
side of the room by yourselves.
A mixer game might help break
the ice. These things call for co
operation of our parents and other
adult friends.
We are sure that the older
people would enjoy some of our
fun if they could and would just
try. Doing things together is more
effective than just looking on,
how about it Mom and Dad?
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This is My Community
by Richard Holcomb
Bowling is another competive
game that we could enter into.
This sport is healthful as well as
a pleasure. A boys bowling team
that would meet once a week to
bowl and then later enter the
tournament would represent our
group in this part of the country.
This sport is not a costly one and
entails no more expense than a
show, to each individual. One of
our parents or an adult of this
comunity could arrange this for
us. Ice skating is a sport that the
girls and boys could both take
part in, and it is very healthful.
It developes the body, and say
girls it takes off the excess
pounds. Then there is photogra
phy, a camera club for the spring
boys, and these pictures can be
entered in the camera exhibit that
is held in Lincoln each year and
maybe make the national exhi
bits. These are suggestions that
we wish could be realities. Are
you with us?
Title—"Pavillion of Women
Author—Pearl S. Buck
She who had begun by seeking
only for herself ended by sharing
the lives of all these others for she
had learned now the true mean
ing of self.
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