The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-05-29
:sSe,7s3 TOTAL
OF WAR SAVINGS
IN SCHOOLS HERE
Fully $4,000 Was Earned by
Younger Pupils,

A total Of S86.78562 was invested in
War savings stamps by the school
children OF Oklahoma City during the
past school year
This amount was divided among the
twenty-seven schools in the following
order High school. $l6,404 30; Lin
coin, $l5,S4424; Mckinley Sl29lO22
Jefferson Sl0008l5; Eugene Fields
$SS2j69; Washington, $,947S0; Viii
lard, 1904 40; Putnam Heights, S.
847; Edgemcre, $2,j874S; Whittier
&00Ol7; Culbertson, Sl,627j5; Bryant
Sl4977S; Lee, Sl,438N; Emerson, ST.
385Sl; Lowell, $3.50; Hawthorne,
$l,2224S; Wheeler $l,0jl7S; Garfield
%40.3s; Franklin, S664S0; Columbus
83Sol; Riverside, $S6O05; Linwood,
S7l70; Shields Heights, SS6S2; Har-
mony S26764 Longfellow $2558 ;
Walnut Grove, $685. lockwood $44H
OF this sum fully $4,000 represents
the earnings OF children ranging from
to IS years Of age; the earned saving
waneS as the upper grades are listed
the high school being lowest with fifty
percent earned for its $1,000 fund.
Twenty eight schools, representing all
grades from the special boys school OF
sixteen at the Irving building to the
high school with its enrolment of 1874
have collected war stamp funds.
Societies Organized.
Since the launching of the war saw
ings stamp campaign, Us war savings
societies have been organized in the
schools. each having a charter, offices
and a membership OF ten or more. Each
society covers a certain territory with
a two-minute speaker.
While several OF the school children
have been the recipients OF parental
aid, the bulk OF their funds represents
the rewards gained by their own ef-
forts.
BY far the largest body of wage
earners is represented by the newsboys,
400 strong, who earned $4,000
Following closely upon the newsies
come the boys who run errands, beat
carpets, sweep barns and sidewalks, cut
lawns, set out Bermuda grass sod, hoe
and weed war gardens, sell their gar
den produce, make pretty porch boxes
and do various other small jobs to
add to their stamp funds.
Sisters Strong Competitors.
But they have had keen competitors
in their little sisters. Washing dishes,
tending baby at home and in neighbor-
ing homes, sweeping and busting rooms
at break of day, wedding gardens and
hoeing them, too, transplanting hot bed
flowers, and vegetables watering the
flower beds and war gardens, running
ertands, combing mothers hair to rest
her tired spirit, scrubbing the bath
room and kitchen linoeum, feeding the
chickens and marketing the eggs. These
are the Joan OF Arc deeds OF the little
girls Of tender years who went over
the top" with their brothers.
Down the line the thrift stamp spirit
burst into the kindergarten rooms, and
here is where the heart is touched at
last Tears are hidden behind smiles.
for they, too, have had large share
in the win the War Spirit" Their
only hope OF thrift stamp purchases
lay in a life OF sacrifice Everything
dear to a childish heart was sacrificed
gum, sweets and movies. and the price
of these luxuries went into stamp pur-
chases.
Funds Earned by Students.
Many OF the schools have earned
their entire fund among them the spe-
cial school at the Irving building.
This school has an enrolment OF six
teen boys, they have earned every dol
lar OF their $5S42 thrift stamp fund.
Leo Cupp one of the students, in
addition TO adding to this fund, has
purchased one Liberty bond and sold