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PENNSYLVANIA S O C I E T Y to PROTECT CHILDREN From 36TH ANNUAL REPORT PENNSYLVANIA SOCIETY to PROTECT CHILDREN from CRUELTY FOR THE YEAR 1912 OFFICE OF THE SOCIETY CHARITIES BUILDING 419 SOUTH FIFTEENTH STREET, PHILADELPHIA H z >- 0) - t I < < K tt I 10 H O 0) I- 1- u w 0 — < - ir m UJ z < u .— K t !; ^ " ?,« I I- I- U •" - 2 < o 5 H 36TH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE PENNSYLVANIA SOCIETY TO PROTECT CHILDREN FROM CRUELTY FOR THE YEAR 1912 OFFICE OF THE SOCIETY 419 S. FIFTEENTH STREET PHILADELPHIA THE PENNSYLVANIA SOCIETY TO PROTECT CHILDREN FROM CRUELTY 419 South Fifteenth Street The Board of Managers presents this report for 1912 to the supporters of the Society. Whatever work has been done for the protection of children has been made possible by you; the Board acts simply as your representative and agent in seeing that helpless children in Philadelphia do not suffer. We trust you will read this report, so that you may understand the kind of work we are doing, and the spirit in which it is being done. MEMBERS' SUBSCRIPTIONS for 1913 are now due, and will be gratefully received. Send to JOSEPH P. MUMFORD, Treasurer, 419 South Fifteenth Street. Additional members and larger subscriptions are urgently needed, to reduce the increasing annual deficit due to enlarging work and rising standards. The interest of children in protecting other children from cruelty seems suitable and desirable. Children wishing to begin useful lives by helping other children are invited to contribute to the Junior Branch fund. THIS SOCIETY EXISTS (1) To secure for children in their own homes, from neglectful, delinquent or cruel parents, a proper standard of care—by persuasion or compulsion. (2) To rescue children from hopelessly cruel and depraved parents, or from vicious and degrading surroundings. (3) To prevent the employment of children in dangerous theatrical or acrobatic performances, or as beggars. (4) To assist in the enforcement of all laws designed to protect minors. BOARD OF MANAGERS—1913 President MR. CHARLES BIDDLE, 505 Chestnut Street. Vice-Presidents MRS. GEORGE W. ELLIS, 514 Fifth Avenue, New York City. MR. HENRY M. GRATZ, 261 S. Seventeenth Street. MR. J. PERCY KEATING, 701 Arcade Building. MR. G. HEIDE NORRIS. 439 Land Title Building. MRS. LOUIS STARR, 1818 Rittenhouse Square. Treasurer MR. JOSEPH P. MUMFORD, 328 Chestnut Street. Term Expires January 1, 1914. MR. JOHN HAMPTON BARNES, 1817 DeLancey Place. MRS. GEORGE W. ELLIS, 514 Fifth Avenue, New York City. MR. SAMUEL S. FELS, 3640 Chestnut Street. MR. H. O. HILDEBRAND, 1323 Walnut Street. MRS. EDWARD MARTIN, 1506 Locust Street. MRS. J. WILLIS MARTIN, 1721 Locust Street. MR. B. FRANKLIN PEPPER, 1438 Land Title Building. MR. EDWARD B. SMITH, 306 S. Nineteenth Street. MRS. EDWARD LOWBER WELSH, 1422 Spruce Street. Term Expires January 1, 1915. MRS. EDWARD COLES, 2010 DeLancey Place. MR. THOMAS E. DUNN, 133 S. Fifth Street. MR. HENRY M. GRATZ, 261 S. Seventeenth Street. MRS. JOHN C GROOME, 1018 Clinton Street. MRS. J. OGDEN HOFFMAN, Radnor, Pa. MRS. ROBERT W. LESLEY, Haverford, Pa. MRS. NORMAN MACLEOD, 2009 Walnut Street. MR. G. HEIDE NORRIS, 439 Land Title Building. MRS. EDWARD T. STOTESBURY, 1925 Walnut Street. MRS. WILLIAM J. WILLCOX, 2011 Pine Street. Term Expires January 1, 1916. MR. CHARLES BIDDLE, 505 Chestnut Street. MISS EDITH B. BURT, 1203 Walnut Street. MR. J. PERCY KEATING, 701 Arcade Building. MRS WILLIAM LINTON LANDRETH, 1705 Rittenhouse Square. MR. JOSEPH P. MUMFORD, 328 Chestnut Street. MR. FRANK T. PATTERSON, 2200 St. James Place. MR. JOHN W. PEPPER, 1305 Spruce Street. Miss CHARLOTTE SITER, 241 S. Eighteenth Street. MRS. LOUIS STARR, 1818 Rittenhouse Square. General Counsel, SIDNEY W. YOUNG, ESQ. Counsel, THOMAS STOKES, ESQ. Physicians, W. ESTELL LEE, M.D. CHARLES M. MONTGOMERY, M.D. STANDING COMMITTEES FOR 1913 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MR. GRATZ, Chairman MR. BARNES MRS. EDWARD MARTIN MISS BURT MR. PATTERSON MR. FELS MR. JOHN W. PEPPER MR. KEATING MRS. WELSH FINANCE COMMITTEE MR. NORRIS, Chairman MR. KEATING MR. SMITH HOUSE COMMITTEE MR. DUNN, Chairman MRS. COLES MRS. STARR MRS. LANDRETH MRS. WILLCOX COMMITTEE ON DIFFICULT CASES MRS. COLES, Chairman MRS. LESLEY MRS. J. WILLIS MARTIN MRS. EDWARD MARTIN MRS. WILLCOX COMMITTEE ON PLACING CHILDREN MISS BURT, Chairman MRS. GROOME MRS. MACLEOD MRS. HOFFMAN MISS SITER MRS. LANDRETH MRS. STARR MR. KEATING MRS. WELSH REPRESENTATIVES ON THE JOINT EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE CHILDREN'S BUREAU MR. BIDDLE MR. JOHN W. PEPPER MRS. EDWARD MARTIN MR. WALLACE REPRESENTATIVES ON THE JOINT FINANCE COMMITTEE MR. NORRIS MR. WALLACE REPRESENTATIVE ON THE JOINT SUPERVISORY COMMITTEE MR. JOHN W. PEPPER OFFICE OF THE SOCIETY 419 South Fifteenth Street, Philadelphia. ALWAYS OPEN Secretary MR. ROY SMITH WALLACE Assistant Secretary MRS. ELIZABETH H. ERSKINE Supervisor of Agents MISS JANE PARKER DEETER Office Secretary MISS MARION HILLYER Representative in Juvenile Court MR. DAVID JOHN TERRY Agents MR. WILLIAM R. BECK MR. JACOB KEPECS MRS. LUCY K. BLADES MR. ANDREW J. KINKADE MISS HELEN L. BLANTON MR. L. G MCMILLAN MISS MARY C. CLENDENIN MISS MIRIAM E. NASH MISS VIRGINIA L. COULSTON MISS LILLIAN PEACHEY MR. CLYDE G. DURGIN MRS. RUTH E. RAMAGE MR. DOUGLAS P. FALCONER MISS COSETTE SPENCE MISS EDITH SWEETSER Visitors MRS. MARY H. BLAIR MISS GERTRUDE BRIGHT MISS ANNIE E. GRIMES MISS EDITH M. JACKSON MISS CLARA E. KISTLER MISS SARAH A. MCCONNELL Bookkeeper MISS ELIZABETH H. REEVES In the Office Miss VIOLETTE E. DAWSON MISS PEARL HENRY MISS MARIE DORAN MISS ERMA HILTON MISS MARJORIE DORAN MISS SARAH S. LINGAMFELTER MISS LENA HACKENBERGER MISS EDITH S. REID MISS HILDA A. HEILMAN MISS JANET M. SPEIRS REPORT OF THE BOARD OF MANAGERS. fcuo .£•5 This report assumes that the kind of work which the Society >•> does is now, at the end of thirty-six years of active work, sufficiently well known not to need detailed description. This tz report will merely record certain progressive steps achieved during the past year. En­ HOME CONSERVATION. In the first place, this Society has made successful progress o in its work of keeping families together by enforcing such OQ conditions in the home as will make it possible for children to remain with their parents. This progress is revealed in the _o fact that while during the year 1910, at our instance, the *2 Courts removed 692 children from their parents and com­ mitted them to this Society and during 1911 the Courts com­ mitted 564 children to this Society, during 1912 they committed only 447; and this notwithstanding the fact that the number of children involved in the complaints received by this Society each year remains practically the same. This happy result we believe has been attended with no lowering of the standard of parental care insisted on by this Society and by the Courts; rather does it represent an increased effectiveness on the part of this Society and increased effectiveness and co-operation among the social agencies of Philadelphia. THE CHURCHES. In our judgment the most notable improvement in the effectiveness of social help to low-grade families has been made by the churches. Without question the families with whom the Society has to deal are essentially at fault in character; bad living conditions, liquor, underpay, filth and degradation of all kinds all emphasize bad character. For the reformation of character we turn regularly to the church, and, to-day, we have an increasing confidence that something will be attempted and accomplished. It is part of the regular routine work of the agents of the Society to bring into contact with the church of its natural affiliation every delinquent family with whom we have to deal. Two- years ago a special record was kept of a definite number of families, who were, in a special way, referred to their church affiliations, and a similar record was kept during the year just ended. REPORT OF THE BOARD OF MANAGERS. The comparative results are striking. In January, 1911, 99 families who acknowledged a church connection, and who were of marked bad character, were referred to the churches of their affiliation—some Protestant, some Catholic—about half and half. Of the 99 ministers to whom these references were made, in each case by both letter and a personal call of our agent, asking not for material relief but for spiritual aid in the upbuilding of character, 17 refused to have anything to do with the family; 82 said that they would accept the responsi­ bility and try to help the family. Of these 82, 49 did not visit the family even once or arrange to have the family visited by a church visitor. Of the 33 who did visit at least once the families which they accepted, 24 improved conditions and 9 did not improve conditions. In every case before a failure to arrange for a visit was marked up against the minister, one month's time was allowed. A similar special record of references was kept during the month of January, 1913. Seventy-eight families were especially referred to the church of their affiliation for spiritual nurture. Of the 78 ministers to whom these references were made, 5 refused to accept any responsibility for the family. Of the 73 who said that they would try to help the families, 12 did not call on the family even once, nor did they arrange for visitation by a church visitor. Of the 61 who did call, 33 made noticeable improvement in the condition of the family and 28 have not yet apparently made any improvement at all. The greatly increased readiness of response and service on the part of the churches in the second period is one of the most encouraging signs of the times that this Society observes.
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