The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1952-01-05
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the health and welfare needs of
Dade Countians.
Workers hope to complete a
major portion of the campaign
on this Sunday, to help attain the
countrywide goal of $976,00O. AS
this final phase of the campaign
of the goal has already been given
begins approximately 80 per cent
by workers in plants and business
firms; lawyers, doctors and den
fists; employees of federal, state,
county or city governments;
school teachers and school en-
ployees and by corporations and
large individual contributors.
The county Metropolitan
division goal, to be raised during
January is $4,000, with Rev.
Byrd's division responsible for
$4158 of this.
How do we citizens benefit
through the Community Chest
they help support?
THROUGH BOY SCOUTING.
More than 900 boys are MEM
berS of FL scout troops, eight cub
packs and / Scout Explorer Post.
Under, direction of E. N. Taylor,
Negro field scout executive, these
boys have fun, learn useful skills
and stay out of trouble.
Near Princeton, Camp Rocky
Pines for Negro Scouts offers IA
cilities for all major camping ac-
tiVities. Last summer more than
800 boys joined in the three week
summer camp program, and every
weekend, groups of Scouts are
there.
ADOPTION SERVICE is of
fered through the Children'S
Service Bureau, the only agency
in Florida offering this service to
Negroes. An average of. 26 Negro
children a month are under care
of this agency, supervised by Mrs.
Lois johnson, caseWorker.
What are the situations facing
Negro parents which make it
necessary for their children to be
placed for adoption? Let's take a
quick look at some of the cases.
An intelligent girl released her
baby for adoption so she could re-
turn to college and complete her
education. A little school girl of
IA released her baby because she
had no means of providing for it.
A father whose wife died in child
birth decided that while he could
struggle on with the older child
rem, he should release the new
born baby who had never lived
in the family. Sometimes parents
have deserted their children {.
or when parents mistreat their.
children the law steps in and
takes their children away.
For those fine mothers and
fathers, victims of circumstances
beyond their control, what COM
fort it is to know that their babies
will have the finest of care
through the Children's Service
Bureau, finally be placed with
loving adaptive parents. For in
nocent babies whose parents neg
lect them, what blessing this
agency is on the Job to care for
them.
And for families with no child
rem of their own who want to
adopt them, the agency can meet
the need - giving them asSur-
ance that the child they take for
their own is suited tc them in in
telligence and background.
Strangely enough, the Negro
adoption situation is in exact re-
verse of the White. The White
quests for children than they can
adoption agencies have more re-
Bureau has difficulty locating
fill, while the Children's Service
suitable Negro adaptive parents
to take all the children under its
care.
Miss Julia Hatch, executive Sec
rotary. of the agency, attributes
this in part to lack of knowledge
of Florida's Negro citizens that
they may adopt children through