The Red Cloud chief. [volume] (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923, 1918-10-31
THE WESTERN =.
FRONT AT HOME

gave her two. and she ate one, how
many would she huve?" the third grade
girl is now sent 10 the blackboard to
solve. "lIow many Thrift stamps at |
% cents apiece viii Mary own ut the
end of 10 months If she saves 10 cents |
u week."
The girl in the grade above her Is |
learning In her arithmetic lesson how |
many Thrift stamps IL takes to buy the
yarn for 800 helmets for the soldiers
in France. sun further on the eighth
grader Is told to figure IN terms Of War
Savings stamps how much # costs TO
supply a r,..Hont OF Uncle Sans men
with shelter tents.
And now HE Earn and Give club Of
the YOUNG girls Of the Young Won.
ems Christian association IS organ
tied 10 turn those Thrift lessons into
giving. The children OF America have
been tuning in pennies ana hicEleS
and pu-.ug 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 laIl when the war council OF
the y. ". G. A. made pnns for the
1918 WA rive, 1t included in its pro.
grain a.. "ulc that no young girls I'M
der cigu.n'n can do any soliciting"
on the streets or otherwise. They can
give, but they can only give by earn
Ing. cQucntly IN order to co-or-
dlnatc the efforts Of the girls in all the
districts over the country, the Earn
and Give club is enrolling members
and hus given out IN estimate Of 50
apiece ~ loo earned for the war fund
campaign by She 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 whole viii fill It's charitable
organizations war chest
Some high school girl In New York
city Is going TO earn her 50 by shining
her own shoes instead of stopping ut
the Grcol, stand on her way 10 school
and by making her own sandwich for
her noon lunch. Out in Iowa the girl
who has been spending - cents plus
war tax Tor a movie three nights II
week is going to draw line through
the movie habit except when there Is
an especially good b!ll. 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
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man to be worked over into some pro-
ductive industry. The girls in their
teens are going To earn instead OF
ask others for the money. They are to
sacrifice and give In their own names
and older women 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 leagucrs, and they have
learned several practical lessons In the
! thrift that will make them effective
: members of the new club by their con
servation. of fruits and vegetables
They have canned and picked. Nov
wien the end Of summer brings tn,
beginning of school they will change
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