Show CARE OF VETERANS VETERANS' CHILDREN Government Bureau Will VIlI Operate Co-Operate With Legion In Plan for Atten tion to Dependents Full operation co-operation of ot the children bureau of the United States Department Depart Depart- ment meat of Labor will be extended d to the American Legion In the plan for care of dependent children of World war veterans veteran This assistance to the program pro gram grain of ot the Legion on a problem which Legion leaders believe bellee will eventually approximate care of disabled dis will be rendered In every possible possible possible pos pos- sible way according to Miss Grace Abbott chief Of ot the childrens children's bureau In charge of welfare work ork for the government Miss Abbott has hns clearly outlined to George A. A Withers chairman of the Legions Legion's national committee on children's childrens childrens children's chil chil- drens dren's homes her Ideas of what the veterans veterans' organization should undertake undertake under under- take In this work In the Ole first place I Miss Abbott sn says s 's that eyer every effort i should be bent toward keeping the children of the tile Legion whose fathers have died or are Incapacitated with their mothers or near Dear relatives who are willing and competent to care for them Miss Abbott declares that In Inthe Inthe Inthe I the past It has been a n common practice practice I tice Uce to take away children from the remaining parent If means are arc Insufficient In sufficient to care for the dependents Usually according to child welfare workers this operates adversely causing a double loss to the child Sometimes a mother Is allowed to struggle on under a load obviously too great for her shoulders and the family becomes demoralized demoralIzed some some sometimes times Umes delinquent Here thinks Miss Abbott Is where the Legion posts may I help In this portion of the tile problem by friendly help and care and by I lending assistance In the schooling I Miss Abbott sa says s 's that foster homes home are generally regarded as better than I Institutional If children must be betaken betaken betaken taken from their parents nal or relatives i u |