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Go nev. 10-28-57) , Pearl Buek Will Ad--- Negro-Japanese that they all need hom , By Emma Bugbee tha i eed home YLE , Pa., Mar. 24,//0Ving care. elleve & 5 po 1 STO lands and hu-}Modern attitude. At least, it is ASMA Sort tc cxpemalthe attitude of the most intel. her Welcome House adoption|ligent people, and they will lead program to include unwanted|the way for others to follow. children bom of American Others To Be Adopted Negro-Oriental parentage inf «~ gma) humber of other Jepan and Korea. =f’... Negro-Oriental children are Buck continued. “It F lief that a child is a c’ gardless of religion or She and her husband,|/soon to be brought over for Richard J, Ish, publisher,/adoption by other members of will soon “adopt an eight-year- old girl, half-Japanese, half- American Negro, who: is pected in this country late April. Mrs. Buck said today at her home in Perkasie, near here, that she had not seen the little zirl she is to take into her home, but that friends in Japan had made the selection. see Negro-Oriental children “A Good Child” brought here for adoption! “She is intelligent and gay—|stemmed from the fact that in|, a good child. That is all I care,”|Japan and Korea these chil-|' said the writer. ; dren, sired by American sol- She added that she had been|diers, are subject to severe inspired to take the new child|Prejudices. The position taken because the German-Negro|by many social welfare author- child, already a member of her|ities that it is better to leave family, “wanted a sister.” war orphans “in their own], Henriette, whom Miss Buck|Countries,” does not annly here, an dher husband adopted in ee neck Explained. 1953 and who is now eleven), . oo gh asked Ten oun years old, attends public school|“¥? Am nt ed. The hil aren ing Bucks County, and is thor- are as much American es Ko. oughly “well adjusted,” except) oan or Japanese, and they will that she needed the compan- P “ ey Ww: iobship of another child have a better chance for a nor- I have no qualms . about mal life herg in homes where ; a they are welcome, than they adopting another child, Miss: would in the poverty and prej- - {udices of their mothers’:coun- tries.”” . New Element in Program | Though the Negro-Asian chil-: dren are the new element in .the Welcome House program, in actual numbers they will be exceeded by children of white American - Asian parentage, Miss Buck said. Welcome House, which has now become an agency for ar- ranging adoption of Asian war orphans, was started ten years ago by Miss Buck as a foster home for such children. ~Thel. ‘children first established there will remain until they are grown but no others will be ac-|. \ cepted as foster children. The! rey 5' house, in a remodeled barn ad- . . Joining the Walsh home, is un- Welcome House or its friends.|' Miss Buck’s sister, 7 Fas d ington, are planning to adopt a Japanese-Negro boy who is a victim of infantile paralysis. Others will be taken into homes of American Ne- groes. . Miss Buck said her desire to Nefro G. I.’°s born overseas eigt-year-old Japanese ‘with the 0 < 4 > oe om. oe H = = Lb f ‘sa 4 : re: REG CAVED 47MAR 33 1958’ es me bs. SER Lata et Sw Th sa Buckwi PY adopted daughter, Henriette, eleven. Rd her husband, Richard J. Walsh, plan to expand their program of assi anted children of girl, expected in this country ' mext month. Henriette was born in Germany. Date ——_————————_ yithen —r— n Belmont he Mohr née 2 Ppfsons sen Tamm Trotter ___ Clayton Tele. Room - Holloman Gandy i adoption of an ~sameS—aweual Wash. News Wash. Star ___,_ . Y. Herald _4& Tribune . Journal- _ American N. Y. Mirror N. Y. Daily News — N. Y. Times Daily Worker The Worker New Leader —————- __ _