The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-03-29
CHILDREN ACTIVE
IN PATRIOTIC WORK
Volunteers Are Numerous at
Headquarters in Guitar
Building.
BOY SCOUTS HELP
War Bureau Co-ordinates Eff
forts-Letter Being Sent
to Every Voter.
BOY SCOUTS HEEL

Can you use me today?" The
speaker was bright-eyed boy of 16
and the question was addressed to
Miss Anna Pape, secretary of the wal
headquarters Office in the Guitar
Building.
This question is sometimes asked
many times a day at the bureau by
Boy Scouts, high school girls and
boys, college girls, and University and
town women who are eager to do their
part in helping at war headquarters.
Around the long table in the work
room one may often see boys in short
trousers and girls in knee dresses
folding circulars and addressing en-
velopes.
And they work. According to H.
H. Kinyon. publicity director, it is
marvellous the amount of work these
children can do. Thousands of post
ers and circulars are received at the
bureau and sent out all over the
county. At present, the bureau is
getting out 1000 letters to every
voter in Boone county on the War
Savings campaign. The volunteers
stay three or. four hours at time.
Miss Rose Rosenthal and her pupils
have also been of help in this work.
She often sends to the bureau for let
ters and circulars to have her pupils
fold and address.
CO-0peratlOn Helps.
Mr.. Kinyon says that he attributes a
large part of the success Of the War
Savings campaign to the cooperation
made possible by this central Office
for war activities. In this campaign,
twenty-four persons worked by sched-
ule each day for a whole month. 1t
took several days to get this schedule
made up, for list had to be made up
for each hour of the day. There was
never trouble in getting necessary help
because the bureau has people on
whom II can call, registered all the
time. Several hundred people have
given their services voluntarily since
the bureau was established, and there
fore the cost of operation has been
very small.
Another good feature of the bureau
is that the ninety-seven committees
representing the rural population can
cooperate more easily with the heads
of the departments. The country
people come to the Office and confer
with MIR. Kinyon and J. P. McBaine, |
the county chairman, about how to
conduct their campaigns. Speakers
for these campaigns are also obtained /
through the Office. and arrangements |
are made to send them out. Several |
are held in Boone County
every week. Reports Of sales and |
other activities are also brought to |
the bureau by the country people.
Five Departments There,
Five departments are represented
at the war headquarters-the Fuel
and Food Administrations the Lib
erty Loan and War Savings organiza-
ions; and the Missouri Council of
Defense The heads of each of these
keep their files here. The
Ise of the two rooms is given by the
owners of the Guitar Building, and the
urniture was contributed by the
persons having offices in the build
ng. One of the rooms is the office
Dom; Ihe other is the conference
DOM. The conference room is also
he work room.
Franked envelopes and postal cards
Ised by the bureau are furnished by
he Government, and stacks of these, ,
ogether with circulars, posters and
'amDhlets, are kept on the high book
aek ia the conference room.