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 . ecome 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 s
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 . ecome 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 other children. The money is used to buy supplies from which to make use-ful things for the soldiers abroad and the needy children ofEurope. It is used to pay for the food of some child in Franceor Belgium whose parents have been killed by the Germans. Inthis way a school may adopt a French orphan, by agreeingto pay a certain sum each year to feed and clothe FRENCH BOYS BEING TAUGHT CARPENTRY IN SCHOOL ESTABLISHED BY THEFRANCO-AMERICAN COMMITTEE, AND SUPPORTED BY THE RED CROSS How Members Can Earn Money Some schools have helped to raise it by giving entertain-ments and charging for the tickets. The boys and girls speakpieces, play on the piano, sing, or give tableaux and little playsto amuse the audience. Some children have earned their money by collecting andselling to the junk man tin foil, lead, zinc, wastepaper, old rub-ber, etc. This helps save these things, which are badly neededin war time, and teaches the children to avoid waste. 116 Our Countrys Call to Service Others have gotten people to subscribe to magazines, whileothers have sold seeds for war gardens. Still others have given up money that had been given tothem to spend selfishly for their own pleasure, on candy, gum, or movie
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