NEWS: Memorial contribution for Louisville Baptist Orphan's Home, Jefferson Co., KY ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net Submitted by: Pat45324@aol.com Date: 16 Apr 2001 ********************************************************************** The one and only sister of the late Mr. Snider Vaughn of Jeffersontown, Ky, has given to the Louisville Baptist Orphans' Home the sum of $510.00 as a memorial to her brother. Mr. Vaughn, at the age of 58, died October 28,1942. He left a will which provided that the larger part of his estate should go to his sister and that the remaining part, which consisted of his books, a few pieces of his furniture, his guitar, etc., should go to the Home. Mr. Vaughn loved our orphanage during his life and delighted in giving toward its support. His sister also loves the institution. So she decided she would give to the Home the larger part of the proceeds of her brother's estate as a memorial to him. This memorial fund is designed to aid indigent mothers, who are worthy, so that they can keep their own children with them. The fund, of course, is to be administered by the Home. This is the first fund our Louisville Home has ever received which has been expressly designated to be used as "Mother's Aid." Needless to say our Home is deeply grateful for this memorial fund which is to be used for such a highly worthy purpose. The writer for some time has been pleading with our people to start a Mother's Aid fund. We are so happy now that this fund has been started. It is hoped that many will add to it. There are many good mothers in Kentucky who are financially unable to keep their children with them. But should they have to break up their homes and turn their children over to an orphanage just because they are poor? Is it right for Christian people to permit this, or by any inaction make it necessary for such to take place? Child welfare workers everywhere have learned through experience that as a general rule a good mother will do a better job in rearing her child than an institution. More than thirty years ago, the United States Children's Bureau, made the pronouncement that children should never be removed from their parents for reasons of poverty alone, but only for considerations of serious inefficiency and immorality. And this has remained and stands as a guiding principle in child welfare work today. It is hoped that within a short time the Home will be able to give help to a number of indigent mothers, so that they can keep their children with them. We are in correspondence at the present with at least three such mothers who are being faced with the necessity of breaking up their homes and sending their children elsewhere. Let me thank this friend of needy children and indigent mothers, again, for her goodness and generosity in establishing this beautiful and worthy memorial to her brother. Certainly there is nothing that she could have done that would have pleased or honored her brother more. And certainly there is no other way that she could have used the fund that would have done more good or have met more real needs. The donor of this memorial fund has requested that her name be omitted from this article. She desires no publicity for what she has done. Her only reason for permitting this article was that others might be induced to follow her example and add to what she has started. And may the lord grant that this shall be done!