Licking Valley courier., 1918-11-14
THE WESTERN
FRONT AT HOME

Earn and give. For year the young
people Of America have been coached
In thrift. Instead of the old problem
In the arithmetic book, "If Mary's
mother gave her three apples, Jane
gave her two, and she ate one, how
many would she have?" the third grade
girl Is now sent to the blackboard to
solve, "How many Thrift stamps at
% cents apiece will Mary own at the
end of u months if she saves 10 cents
week?'
The girl in the grade above her Is
learning in her arithmetic lesson how
many Thrift stamps it takes to buy the
yarn for 800 helmets for the soldiers
in France. Still farther on the eighth
grader Is told to figure in terms ofWur
Savings stamps how much 1t costs 10
supply regiment of Uncle Sans mon
with shelter tents.
And now the Earn and Give club Of
the younger girls Of the Young Wom-
ems Christian association Is organ
lied to turn those Thrift lessons into
giving. The children of America have
been turning in pennies and nickles
and pasting green stamp on their
Thrift card. The Earn and Give club
can now use some of those cards and
War Savings stamps IL their campaign
among the younger people FOR the
united war fund.
This fall when the war council OF
the Y. w. G. A. made plans for the
1918 war drive, it included in its pro7
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 to cO-Or-
dinate the efforts Of the girls in all the
districts over the country, the Earn
and Give club is enrolling members
and has given out an estimate of So
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
tion as u whole will fill its charitable
organizations war chest.
Some high school girl in New York
city is going to earn her So by shining
her. own shoes instead of stopping at
the Greek stand on her way to school
| and Inv mailing hor ovn cond,yichac for
her Aoon lunch. Out in Iowa the girl
who has been spending 10 cents plus
war tax for movie three nights a
week is going to draw a 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 the junk
/ man to be worked over into some pro
ductiye industry. The girls in theiI
teens are going to earn instead Of
ask others for the money. They are t.
sacrifice and give in their own name:
and older women will 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 hav,
learned several practical lessons in tn,
fnf1ff thiFe~ make Them elfectiv
members of the new club by their con
servatiOn of fruits and vegetables
They have canned and picked. NOS
when the end of summer brings til
beginning of school they will chang
their thrift into winter thrift and be
gin saving their So for the Y. w. G. A
war fund.
wherever You Are Is the Wester
Front" is the slogan which the Ear
and Give club has adopted. Anna, on
wiry thirteen-year-old daughter of Me-
YOrk's East side, who was one of tn
first and youngest members to join tn
campaign at n New York settlemer
house, had to have 1t explained to he
that instead of western front meanin
fight and fight meaning fists, the ives
tern front means work and work NEAR
save in order to give.
The girl who joins the Earn an
Give club will discover that In col
junction with her working and savlI
= In order that her club will furnish 4
D quota of the money that is going
help the girls like herself in Franc
: and Belgium, she will also find hume
4 Gus ways In the community to help Il
war that she had never dreamed q
She will see that all the fruit pits aI
= stones that can be saved from her 0v
g dining table and from those of h
4 nelghbors, are dropped into the lit
red barrel at the corner, In order tn
y the carbon which the seeds contain CT
= be used in making charcoal for Il
American soldiers gus masks. She W
save all the tin foil that she sees I
D the Red Cross. She will help collie
+ clothing for the French and Belglu
f orphans and perhaps send them sol
of her own.
{ School girls In India, children fro
e squalid, dlngy homes, with absolute
o. no spending money, gave last year
Belgian and Armenian relief VIII
: they themselves were not gettl
o enough to eat. They gave up III,
"a meat once week for the Belgian
though they only had 1t twice we
themselves, and for the Armenia
Ie they set aside the handful of FIRE
grain that otherwise each girl wO,
have ground In her own little stO
mill. Both contributions, from all
girls In one missionary's scho
amounted only % So u month. "But
)r was n tremendous sacrifice th
~ teacher writes, although joyous o
!. II actually meant less bread each d
and once week meal Of dry bre
al and water. This was done by 50 q
D. from the mennest homes In the wo
children between the ages of