Not Room in N.C. Orphanages for All Children Mothers Must Surrender After Deaths of Husbands, September 1920

Raleigh, Sept. 22--The North Carolina Orphan Association in annual meeting here yesterday elected officers as follows: President M.L. Kestler of Thomasville; First Vice President Charles O. Baird; Second Vice President Rev. W.T. Walker; Secretary and Treasurer M.L. Shipman. President Kestler sounded the keynote of the discussions in his address on "Holding the Home Intact." A state law providing for mothers appears to be the solution for the problem of providing relief for the various orphanages, all of which are taxed to capacity and are forced to turn many away. Addresses were heard from Archibald Johnson and former president R.L. Brown. (From the front page of the Hickory Daily Record, Sept. 22, 1920.)