Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-09-10
Junior Red Cross
Now Being Formed

Red Cross war council, announces
the launching of a Junior Red Cross
open to all school children in the
country. The new organization hopes
to become a channel for patriotic
service and interest to the 22,000,00O
boys and girls of school age in the
United States.
Membership in the Junior Red
Cross is to be by schools. Whenever
there has been placed in the local
school fund an amount equal to 25
cents for every pupil, the school bet
comes a school auxiliary of the Red
Cross and is entitled to display spe-
cial Red Cross banner. At the same
time every pupil becomes a Junior
member and is entitled to wear the
membership button
The school fund can be raised by
the school, or collected by subscrip-
tion. In some states it will be raised
by cities to cover all schools in the
city districts. In other states the
campaign will be for a statewide
fund and the enrolment of all the
pupils in the state. In every case,
however, the schools are to be asso-
ciated with the local chapters of the
Red Cross through teachers COM
mittee of the chapter.
The school fund will be used for
the purchase of materials which the
children will make up into Red Cross
supplies, and for other uses in which
the children will have a personal
share. No part Of 1t is to go for
chapter or general expenses.
Membership in the Junior Red
Cross will be developed by states.
Division managers will appoint men,
bership committees and school activ-
tiles committees for each state. The
membership committee stimulates in
terest and raises funds for the school
supply fund. It will be composed of
some of the most influential people
devoted to educational affairs.
The school activities committee
will be made up Of vocational teach
ers and other school officials, Under
its direction patterns Of articles to
be made and other instructions for
use in the vocational class rooms
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..
MacCracken said recently:
81 believe in the Junior Red Cross,
not only because of the great sums
of money 1t will earn and the i'm
mense amount of supplies which the
school pupils, but especially in our
technical schools, will make, but be-
cause of its educational and patriotic
value for the children.
"The work of the Red Cross will
teach service for others and unselfish
giving; it will stimulate interest in
our national government and its poll
cies during the war, and 1t will az
ford a useful release for the YOUTH
full 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.
"It is the success attained in many
schools last year which has decided
the Red Cross to undertake this i'm
portant new step. The vocational
classes in New York state alone last
spring 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 education 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"