The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-09-06
JUNIOR RED CROSS
A SCHOOL AFFAIR
Each Member Will Pay a
Quarter Into the School
Fund.

Henry P. Dawson, Chairman of the
Red Cross War Council, announces
t6eslaunching OF Junior Red Cross
open to all school-children in the
country. The new organization hopes
to become a channel for patriotic ser.
vice and interest to the % 900 900 boys
and girls OF schspI age in the United
States.
Membership in the Junior Red Cross
ia to by by schools, Whenever there
has been placed in the local school
fund an amount equal to 25 cents for
every pupil. the school becomes a
school auxiliary of the Red Cross, and
is entitled to display q special Red
Cross banner. At the sane time ev.
cry pupil becomes a Junior Member
and is entitled to wear the member.
ship button.
The school fund can be raised by
the school, or collected by subscrip.
ton. In some states it will be raised
by cities to cover all schools in the
city districts. In other state the cam.
paign will be for d statewide fund
and the enrolment OF all the pupils
in the state. In every case, however,
the schools are to be associated with
the local chapters OF the Red Cross
through teachers committee of the
chapter.
The school fund will be used for the
purchase Of materials which the chill.
dren will make up into Red Cross
supplies, and for other uses in which
the children will have personal
share, No part of it is to go for chap.
ter or general expenses.
Membership in the Junior Red
Cross will be developed by states. DI-
vision managers will appoint mem
bership committees and school activ.
tiles committees for each state. The
membership committee stimulates in.
terest and raises funds for the School
Supply Fund. 1t will be composed Of
the most influential people devoted
to educational affairs.
The school activities committee will
be made up OF vocational teachers and
other school officials. Under its di.
rectton patterns Of articles to be
made, and other instructions for use
in the vocational classrooms, will be
prepared and sent to all the schools.
The plan has been developed by
President MacCracken of Vassar, in
consultation with school authorities
and the National Red Cross. DR.. Mac.
Cracker said today:
Il believe in the Junior Red Cross,
not only because of the great sums OF
money it will earn and the immense
amount of supplies which the school
pupils, especially in our technical
schools will make, but because of its
educational and patriotic value for
the children.
1.-THE work for the Red Cross will
teach service for others and unselfsh
giving; 1t will stimulate interest in
our national government and its pol
icies during the war; and it will at
ford useful release for the judicial
energy which is stimulated by the
violent and morbid aspects of war
conditions, and If undirected, may
cause under wrong conditions great
increase Of juvenile delinquency and
crime.
ut is the success attained in many
schools last year which has decided
the Red Cross to undertake this i'm
portant new step. The vocationl
classes in New Yorw State alone last
apring made over 10000 articles dur
ing the last few weeks of the school
year for the Red Cross.
Universal testimony from the
chapters showed that these were in
every way up to the rigid standards
Of the organization. Mrs. Talbot, di.
rector of vocational educatioon for
girls in the state. says that in many
cases she was told that their work
was, If anything, better than that in
the adult work"