The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-14
To Be OF SERVICE BOYS IN BU'
Boys and Girls To Spend Sum- Topeka Youths d.
mer In Camps Selling Geld
War Spirit of Children Won't Many Stands Opers
Be Allowed To FixzIe. rious Parts OF q
PUT HOE BEHIND THE FLAG ARE DELIBERATELY
HefD Raise Food and Both Sol Sheldon Hogeboom
dierS and Civilians Anderson Piol
Toys VIII Be Sent to Riddles In They Queneh Thirs
War Zone. lists and Pedes
Boys and Girls To Spend Sum-
mer In Camps.
PUT HOE BEHIND THE FLAG
Toys VIII Be Sent to Riddles in
War Zone.

BOYS and girls who will spend all
or part Of the summer in one Of the
hundreds Of camps thrueuS the ceun-
try Will be stimulated to sreud a por-
ton OF their time in performing some
useful service for the country At
conference Of camp dfrel-tc4s Just held
II was decided that the war spirit of
the children must not be allowed to
lizzie into eagIeisu. bat must be d.
rected into wise channels of juliet
The Woodcrzft League If America
camps from Maine to Colorado TO car
ry to all, the results OF tie confer
ence ard the experience OF the direc
tors Ernest Thompson Seton. chief.
Philip D. Eagans, executive ecrstary
F. H Schmidt. camp representative
and Miss Lima D. Miller. head Of the
girls department.. leave his week fer
this purpose
The chief industry in which all boys
and girls may engage while at camp
Is to Put the Hoe Behind the Flag
in helping raise food for the soldiers
and the rest Of Us. Thousands Of boys
and girls viii conduct plots Of their
own or will work for farmers near
the camps and give the money they
earn to Red Cross or other organiza-
tons All the camp entertainments
this year viii be pay affairs. the pro-
camp which has a manual training
camp department will put the boys
and girls at work making articles to
sell for the benefit Of the Red Cross
Work for Boys and Girls.
The girls largely will be engaged
in sewing knitting. rolling bandages.
making ditty bags for the soldiers.
and in writing letters of cheer to the
boys in the trenches
The boys will do carpenter work.
basket making, wood turning and
similar things One group. with ma
teFiaI supplied by the camp director,
will make toys to be sent to the war
/ orphans and neglected kiddies Of the
warning countries. and another camp
will make toys to be sold for the beue-
fit Of the Red Cross Camp Wild
wood. at Lake Duumore, VT will de-
canes and clutches to be sent to the
battle front Camp Wake Robin in
/ the CatskiIIs VIII give shows for the
summer tourist sand send the money
/ to the Red Cross Some OF the camps
t will give their Bit to the Z NJ c.
/ A war work
All of the camps will be encouraged
and many of them already nave agreed
to 1t. to adopt a company in one Of
/ the American training camps and q
+ send regular letters of cheer. EefiIne
i OF the activities of the camp. Whai
;
/ with photos some of the camps vii
t take companies in the trenches
The boys and girls will be encour-
i aged. also to do work for the prison
ers in the detention camps in Europe
i Many OF these are hard pressed for
( f0od-are actually near the starvation
/ point. II is said-and the I. NJ C. A
Il to which the welfare of the prison
I camps has been committed by al the
( warning countries has asked that boys
assume the responsibility for some OF
i this work 4 single dollar wiz r1akt
/ 4 prisoner happy for a week or mors
and the boys are asked TO earn dollars
4 for this purpose
t Besides the military training which
| will be given the lads. the wan vii
4 De brought farcibIy home To them 81
various activities suggested. and vii
/ make them real patriots. doing theil
i Bit as successfully as their elders
7 The Woodcrafr league Representatives
+ in presenting their own work at thE
camps will urge the adoption of def
I rite war plan at each camp visited