Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1918-10-03
THE WESTERN
FRONT AT HOME.


In the arithmetic book. ri Aiary's
mother give her three apples. jane
give her two. and she ate one. how
many would she have?" the third grade
girl III now sent to the blackboard to
solve. slow many Thrift stemps at
Is cents apiece will Mary own at the
end Of II months II she saves 10 cents
week."
The girl In the grade above her Ia
learning in her arithmetic lesson how
many Thrift stamps 1t takes to buy the
yarn for 500 helmets for the soldiers
In France. Still farther on the eighth
grader is told to figure III terms Of War
Savings stamps how much II costs to
supply regiment Of Uncle SAINTS mer
with shelter tents.
And now rhe Earn and Give club Of
the younger girls Of the Young Won.
ems Christian association Ia organ
tied to turn those Thrift lessons into
giving. The children OF America have
been turning in pennies and nic!;les
and pastfng green stamp on their
Thrift card. The Earn and Give club
can now use some Of those ca .ds and
War Swings stumps In their campaign
among the younger people Tor the
united war fund.
This full when the war council Of
the Y. w. G.. A. made pluns for the
1913 war drive, 1t included In Its pro
gram the rule that no young girls I'm.
der eighteen can do any soliciting.
on the streets or otherwise. They can
give. but they can only give by earn.
ing. Consequently In order tu co-or.
dinatc the efforts of the girls 10 al the
districts over the country, the Earn
and Give club is enrolling members
and has given out IN estimate of IS
apiece to be earned for the war fund
campaign by the American girls who
still count their age In teens. Five
dollars apiece from the younger girls
of the country will mean that the ma
ton Us whole will fill its charitable
organizations war chest.
Some high school girl In New York
city is going to earn her IS by shining
her own shoes instead Of stopping ut
the Greek stand on her way to school
and by making her own sandwiches for
her noon lunch. Out In Iowa the girl
who has been spending 10 cents plus
war Tux for movie three nights u
week is going to draw line through
the movie habit except when there is
an especially good bill. More than one
girl plans TO clean all her own gloves
this winter and to salvage all the pa
per and collections of junk about the
house which should be sold to tie Junk
man to be worked over into some pro-
ductivc industry. The girls III their
teens are going to earn instead Of
ask Others for the money. They are to
sacrifice and give in their own nnlnes
and older woilien will make the public
requests for money elsewhere.
Many Of the girls who are waiting
to join the Earn and Give club are al
ready Patriotic leaguers, and they have
learned several practical lessons in the
thrift that will make them effective
members of tile new club by their con-
servation of fruits and vegetables.
They have cnnned and picked. Now
when the end of summer brings the
beginnn; Of school they will change
their thrift into winter thrift and be
gin saving their So TOR tie Y. w. C. A.
war fund.
wherever You Are Is the Western
Front" is the slogan whia, the Earn
and Give club has adopted. Anna. one
RI -<1I fn,
YOrk's East side, who was one of the
first and youngest members to join the
campaign ut New York settlement
house. had to have 1t explained to her
that instead of western front meaning
fight and fight meaning fists, the west
tern front means work and work means
save in order to give.
The girl who joins the Earn and
: Give club will discover that in con-
junction with her working and saving
in order that her club will furnish Its
quota of the money that is going to
help the girls like herself in France
and Belgium, she will also find numer-
Gus ways in the community to help the
war that she had never dreamed of.
She will see that all the fruit pits and
stones that can be saved from her own
dining table and from those of her
neighbors. are dropped into the little
red barrel at the corner, In order that
the carson which the seeds contain cnn
be used In making charcoal for the
American soldiers gas masks She will
save all the tin foil that she sees for
the Red Cross. She will help collect
clothing for the French and Belgium
orphans and perhaps send then some
of her own.
School girls in India, children from
squalid, dingy homes, with absolutely
no spending money, gave last year to
Belgian and Armenian relief when
they themselves were not getting
enough to eat. They gave up their
meat once week for the Belgians,
though they only had 1t twice weeS
themselves, and for the Armenians
they set aside the handful of fresh
grain that otherwise each girl would
have ground in her own little stone
mill Roth f~o,. Ill 49,