sentences:  De Ovies work with children would become a leitmotif throughout his life and in 1934 the National Council of Christian Social Services of the National Council would publish The Church and Family Relations, a short compilation of articles on the subject by de Ovies.De Ovies had begun writing a thrice-weekly column for the Atlanta Journal in 1930, along with the occasional full-length Sunday article, giving him wider exposure beyond the church.De Ovies's first book, Somewhere to be Had, was released in 1937 by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate and the book sold out very quickly.