Wake County Welfare
To county Superintendent of Welfare Children, The Times would extend its best wishes.
He has something of a job; it is gratifying to learn that he is much of a man.
Mr. Childress has been supply pastor to ta church near
Wendell. That’s fine! No man can be too good to be a county superintendent of
welfare. He is a graduate of Wake Forest, which again is fine; his new job
requires vision and should be held by an educated man. He has in times past
been connected with the Old Fellows’ Orphanage, and this is even better; a man
without warm sympathy with and understanding of children would be an utter
failure in a position which makes him chief truant and probation officer for
the county.
He is to receive $2,000 per annum as salary. He will be
worth vastly more or not that much, and if he deliver the goods, he can expect
to have his salary raised.
We are not sufficiently temerarious to attempt to advise the
new official as to his specific duties; in a general way everybody at all
familiar with the new laws governing compulsory education, child labor and
juvenile courts knows that the prime prerequisite of an efficient county
superintendent of welfare is an intelligent interest in the well-being of
others.
This, we are quite sure, Mr. Childress has. If he receive,
as he must receive, the support of the rest of Wake’s sentiment folk, he should
be able to polish and brighten the community’s uncut and tarnished gems till
they gleam like those of Cornelia, mother of the Grachii.
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