The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1918-02-09
PLAN OF JUNIOR MEM.
BERSH|P RED CROSS.

oo'y /. DdVluSoU, QnalrmaI
! OF the Red Cross War Council
announces the launching of a Jun
lor Red Cross open to all school
children in The country. The new
! organization hopes to become &
channel for patriotic service and
.. interest to the 2O.OOO,OOO boys
and girls of school age in the
United States.
Membership of the Junior Red
Cross Is to be by schools. When
ever there has been placed in the
local school fund an amount equal
to 25c for every pupil, the school
becomes school auxiliary OF the
Red Cross, and is emitting to dis
play special Red Cross banner.
AT the same time every pupil be
comes a Junior Member, and is en-
titled to wear the mem bership
button.
The school fund can be raised
BY the school, or collected by sub
scriptiOn. 10 some states 1t will
be raised by cities to cover all
schools In the city districts. In
other states the campaign will be
for q statewide fund and the en-
rOllment of all the pupils in the
state. In every case, however,
the schools are to be associated
with the local chapters of the Red
Gross through a teachers commit
tee 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 per sonal share. No part of
it is to 60 for chapter or general
expenses.
Membership in the Junior Red
Cross will be developed by states.
Division managers will appOin,
mem bership committees and school
activities committees for each
state. The membership commit
tee stimulates interest and raises
funds for the School Supply Fund.
1t will be composed of some of the
most influential people devoted to
educational affairs.
The school activities committee
will be made up of vocational
teachers and other school officials. |
Under it's direction patterns of ar
ticles to be made, and other in
structions for use in the vocational
classrooms, will be prepared and
sent to all the schools.
The plan has been developed by
President MacCracken of Vassar,
in consultation with school au
thorities and the National Red
Cross. Or. MacCracken said to
day:
II believe in the Junior Red
Cross, not only because of the
great sums of money it will earn
aud the immense amount of sup
plies which the school pupils. es
pecially In our technical schools
will make, but because OF its edu
cational and patriotic value for
the children.
"The work for the Bed Cross
will teach service for others and
unselfsh giving; It will stimulate
Interest in our national govern
ment and it's policies during the
war; and it will afford a useful re
lease for the youthful energy
which is stimulated by the violent
and morbid aspects of war condi
tions, and If undirected, may
cause under wrong conditions
great increase of juvenile delin
queDcy and crime.
s'It Is the success attained in
many schools last year which has
decided the Red Cross to under
AXE this important new step.
rhe vocational classes in New
York State alone last spring made
,ver 10000 articles during the
ast few weeks of the school year
or the Red Gross.
Universal testimony from the
hap, ers showed that these we're
q every way up to the rigid
of the organization
drs. Talbot, director of vocational
'ducation for girls IN the state,
'ays that In many cases she was
old that their work was, IL any
hing, better than that IN the adult
york."