From the seven with which a beginning was made, the
number of Centers has grown to nearly sixty.
There is a great deal more to do in starting more Centers, and in
equipping those we have, and we can do part of it. With our
church school classes, we can give CleanUp and Kindergarten Kits
like Cissy's and Jimmie's and our leaders will tell us other
things we can do, such as collecting bedding and clothing and
toys and money. Best of all, we can give our friendship to these
homeless people.
For they're just children like you. When you grow up, perhaps you
may help our country become a place where no single child need be
homeless.
Florence Crannell Means
Denver, Colorado
ACROSS THE FRUITED PLAIN
[Illustration: Beechams in Reo]
1: THE HOUSE OF BEECHAM
"Oh, Rose-Ellen!" Grandma called.
Rose-Ellen slowly put down her library book and skipped into the
kitchen. Grandma peppered the fried potatoes, sliced some
wrinkled tomatoes into nests of wilting lettuce, and wiped her
dripping face with the hem of her clean gingham apron. The
kitchen was even hotter than the half-darkened sitting room where
crippled Jimmie sprawled on the floor listlessly wheeling a toy
automobile, the pale little baby on a quilt beside him.
Grandma squinted through the door at the old Seth Thomas dock in
the sitting room.
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