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labor and social services side.

It was about this time that I said to Katharine Lenroot in the Children's Bureau in early 1940, “you must begin to make a plan for the evacuation and care of children in wartime. We might have to evacuate them. We don't know. You must make a plan for the care of children. If this country should ever get into a war, or if we should have to accept an enormous number of refugees in this country, as we may have to, we must have a plan in advance or we'll just go crazy. We must know what are the resources, the private institutions, the private charitable and civic organizations, as well as the public ones, that can be utilized. There must be utilization of the churches, utilization of the existing orphans homes. We must make a plan for the maintenance of family relationships even though whole areas may have to be abandoned. Certainly what we know from the English situation is that it's a bad thing to separate children from their mothers. If you have to evacuate the children, get some of the family out with them. That's a thing to be thought of. Also make plans about the employment of people who are now called children. What are we going to do about the employment of people from fourteen to eighteen. There'll be a





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