The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1918-10-10
THE WESTERN
FRONT AT HOME

people OF America have been coached
in thrift Instead Of the old problem
~ The arithmetic book. III Nury's
mother gave her three apples Jane
gave her two and she ate one, how
many would she havef the third grade
giH Is now sent 70 the blackboard 90
solve. How many Thrift STAMPS at
- cents apiece VIII Mary own at the
end OF y months II she saves 10 cents
d weekFr
The girl I'm The grade above her Is
learning IN her arithmetic lesson how
many Thrift stamps IL takes 90 bus the
yarn for 500 helmets for the soldiers
In France. still farther IN the eighth
grader Is told To figure in terms Of War
Savings stamps how much DO costs 10
supply regiment of Uncle Sans men
With shelter tents
And now the Earn and Give club OF
the younger girls of the Young Won
ems Christian association Is organ
lied 20 turn those Thrift lessons into
giving. The children OF America have
been turning IN pennies and niciles
and FASTING green stamp on their
Thrift card The Earn and Give club
can now use SOME Of those cards and
War Savings stamps IN their campaign
among the younger people for the
united war fund.
This fan when the war council Of
the \. W. &. A. made plans FOR the
1915 war drive. IL included Ga its pro-
gram the rule that no young girls un-
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 10 cO-0r-
dinate the efforts of the girls iu an the
districts over the country. the Earn
and Give club Is enrolling members
and has given out an estimate Of s.
apiece 90 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 viii mean that the ma
ton as a whole will an its charitable
organizations war chest.
Some high school girl IN New York
city Is going 20 earn her 50 hy shining
her own shoes instead OF stopping "a
the Greek stand on her why 90 school
and by making her own sandwiches for
her noon lunch. out In Iowa the girl
who has been spending - cents plus
war tax for a movie three nights a
week IS going 10 draw a line through
the movie habit except when there -
an especially good bill. More than one
girl plans % clean all her own gloves
this winter and 10 salvage all the pa
per and collections OF junk about the
house which should be sold 10 the junk
man 10 be worked over into some pro-
ductive industry. The girls Ga their
teens are going To earn instead OF
ask others FOR the money. They are TO
sacrifice and give Ia their own names
aud older women viii make the public
requests for money elsewhere.
Many Of the girls who are waiting
10 join the Earn and Give club are al
ready Patriotic leaguers. and they have
learned several practical lessons IA the
thrift that viii make them effective
members Of the new club by their con-
servatlon OF fruits and vegetables.
They have canned and picked. Now
when the end OF summer brings the
beginning OF school they viii change
their thrift into winter thrift and be-
gin saving their s. for the Y. w. q. A
war fund
wherever You Are Is the Western
Front" IS the slogan which the Earn
and Give club has adopted. Anna. one
wiry thirteen-year-old daughter OF New
FORKS East side, who was one OF the
first and youngest members TO Join the
campaign at a New York settlement
house had 10 have IL explained 20 her
that instead Of western front meaning
fight and fight meaning fists. the west
tern front means work and work means
save In order 10 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 10 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
nelghbors. are dropped into the little
red barrel at the corner. In order that
the carbon which the seeds contain can
be used In making charcoal for the
American soldiers gas masks. She VIII
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 them 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 10 eat. They gave up their
meat once a week for the Beigians'
though they only had Il twice a wees
themselves and for the Arnenians
they set aside the handful OF fresh
grain that otherwise each girl would
have ground In her own little stone
mill Both contributions. from all the
girls In one missionary's school,
amounted only TO IS month But II
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