Our country's call to service through public and private schools; work--save--give; a summons and a plan of action for American boys, girls, parents . RED CROSS MEN AT WORK ON THE BATTLEFIELD ii^ The Senior Red Cross is asked for more than it can of these things for which it is asked can be made just aswell as not by the younger folks. And here the Junior RedCross can help. Then, too, it offers a great chance for children to learnlessons in love of country, in service, in doing without thingsfor the sake of other people, in saving, in helping those whohave suffered cruelly through t
Our country's call to service through public and private schools; work--save--give; a summons and a plan of action for American boys, girls, parents . RED CROSS MEN AT WORK ON THE BATTLEFIELD ii^ The Senior Red Cross is asked for more than it can of these things for which it is asked can be made just aswell as not by the younger folks. And here the Junior RedCross can help. Then, too, it offers a great chance for children to learnlessons in love of country, in service, in doing without thingsfor the sake of other people, in saving, in helping those whohave suffered cruelly through the war. 114 Our Countrys Call to Service How It Came to be Organized Early in September, 1917, the War Council of the UnitedStates voted to invite the children of the nation to take partin the work of the Red Cross. By the 1st of January, 1918, there were 2,531 differentschool auxiliaries and 860,740 children who had BELGIAN ORPHANS BEING FED AND CARED FOE This seems a great many, but really it was only a small pai^of the school children of the United States, for there are nearly22,000,000 of them all told. So during February, 1918, a hardeffort was made to get them all to join. Several cities reportthat every child has joined and others are Agoing over the topevery day. To become a member a child has to pay twenty-fivecents, and this sum looks large to many families who are notrich. Of course, it would be easy for some children simply to asktheir fathers or mothers for the money, but in most cities it isasked that the children should earn it. The Junior Red Cross 115 Some one will say, Why ask money? The answer is,first, that the five and a half million dollars which would comefrom the twenty-two million American school children is amighty sum and can do a great deal of good; second, that it isa good thing for a child to give up something that he wantsin order to supply the much greater wants of
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