The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-21
JUNIOR RED CROSS IS BIG FACTOR
 IN WAR RELIEF
Army of 2O,0Oo,oOO Youthful Workers to Be MobiIized by
 Washington's Birthday.

When the Junior Membership Cam paign of the American Red Cross ends on Washington's birthday, the public, private and parochial schools of the United States will have been mobilized for war work in the interest of Ameri- ca and her Allies.
 The enrolment campaign was launched in every State in the coun- try on Lincoln's birthday. It opened amid marked enthusiasm on the part of the pupils and teachers-an enthu- siaSm which has convinced the Red Cross that the movement will be en. tirely successful.
 Each School to Be Given Charter,
 The campaign is being conducted by the schools themselves. The Red Cross is not canvassing the schools, but is depending for it's results upon the ini- tiative of the pupils. Enrolment is by schools and not individuals, and no schools will be given a Junior Red Cross Charter unless all it's pupils are included in the blanket enrolment. As a necessary step to the formation of a Red Cross Auxiliary the school must raise fund equivalent to twenty-five cents for each child. This fund may be completed through entertainments or through contributions from outsid- CTS. The impression has gone out that the individual child can contribute not more than one penny This is not true. According to Andrew Ten Eyck, in charge of Junior Enrolment for the Atlantic Division, the children can contribute from one cent to twenty five cents each to the fund.
 Hundreds of schools in the Atlantic Division have for many weeks been doing war relief work under the su- pervision of the Atlantic Division. One of the principal forms of work has been the preparation of garments for French and Belgian refugee chill dren. These garme ts are made from the apparel of grownups. The gar ments are taken to the school rooms, where they are cut down and sterilized and made ready for shipment abroad.
 Children Aiding In Many Ways.
 School children give many forms of service. Pupils in the first and sec ond grades wind balls of yarns for their older sisters to knit into sweat CTS. socks and wristlets. They also wind thread on pieces of cardboard | for the convenience of those pupils who devote their time to making sew | ing kits for the men in service. Oth- CT children in the lower grades are occupied putting pins in completed garments, attaching buttons or cutting cardboard for pin balls.
 The Red Cross has found excellent workers in the children of the fourth fifth and sixth grades. The boys ir these grades will work like Trojans They have profound admiration fol American fighting men, and anything they can do to help them they do witt effervescing enthusiasm. So these boys, for the most part, have been as signed to the task of making wooll! cloth, two and a half inches square put up in packages of from twenty t thirty. This cloth can be used by sol diers for cleaning and shining theil guns.
 Another useful occupation for schoo children is the making of puzzles fo
 soldiers. Nothing hangs heavier ol the wounded soldier than time. Tn,
 authorities of France and Engian' have found that puzzles divert tn
 mind of an injured man from thought which tend to retard his recovery. , A good puzzle can be made by past
 ing a colored picture on a piece o l cardboard and cutting it into innU merable pieces of all shapes and size:
 The wounded men then try to arrang : the pieces properly.
 The Red Cross Junior workers als prepare scrap books, collect novels an
 magazines, put up jellies and jams make sp1ints and crutches and innJ . merable other things that are nece: 2 sary.
 f For the successful conduct of tn . affairs of the Red Cross every bit C | this work is absolutely neceSsar. l Some one has to do it or our soldier = will suffer many discomforts. An
 the men in the trenches may be ai
 sured that it is not going to be left LII
 done and that behind them there is a
 army of 20,000,000 true blue America . school children devoting their labor a the work of the American Red Cross