Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-10-16
The WESTERN
FRONT AT HOME

barn and give. For ycar the young
people Of America have been coached
IN thrift. Instead OF the old problem
In the arithmetic book. III Mary's
mother gave her three apples. Jane
gave her two, and she ate one, how
many would she havef" the third grade
girl 10 now sent to the blackboard to
solve, "How many Thrift stamps at
Is cents apiece will Mary own at the
end Of ~ months II she saves 10 cents
. week."
/ Tho 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 ID told to figure in terms of War
Savings stamps how much 1t costs to
supply regiment Of Uncle Sans men
with shelter tents.
And now the Earn and Give club of
the younger girls Of the Young Wom-
ems Christian association IL organ.
lied to turn those Thrift lessons into
giving. The children Of America have
been turning In pennies and nickles
and pasting Q 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 tho younger people for the
united war fund.
This fall when the war council Of
the 7. w. @. A. made plans for the
1918 war drive, II included In Its pro-
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 10 enrolling members
and has given out an estimate Of s.
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 viii mean that the ma
ton q Q whole viii Ill its charitable
organizations war chest.
! Some high school girl In New York
city ID going to earn her s. BY shining
her own shoes instead Of stopping at
the Greek stand on her way to school
and by making her own sandwiches for
her noon lunch. Out In Iowa the girl
who has been spending Is cents plus
war tax for . movie three nights q
week Is going to draw q line through
the movie habit except when there Is
IN 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-
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 viii 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 leaguers, and they have
learned several practical lessons In the
thrift that viii make them effective
members Of the new club BY their con-
servation Of fruits and vegetables.
They have canned and pickled. Now
when the end ok summae brings the
beginning Of school they win change
thsir thrift into winter thrift and be-
GIN saving their 8 for the 7. W. @. A.
war fund.
wherever You Arc Il the Western
Front" IL the slogan which the Earn
and Give club has adopted. Anna, one
wiry thirteen-year-old daughter Of New
York's East side, who was. one Of the
first and youngest members to Join the
campaign at New York settlement
house, had to have 1t explained to her
that instead Of western front meaning
fight and fight meaning fists, the west
tern front means work and work means
save in order to give.
The girl who joins the Earn and
Give club will discover that in con-
junction with her working and saving
In order that her club will furnish Its
quota Of the money that is going to
help the girls like herself In France
and Belgium. she will also find numer-
Gus ways In the community to help the
war that she had never dreamed Of.
She will see that all the fruit pits and
stones that can be saved from her own
dining table and from those Of her
neighbors, are dropped into the little
red barrel at the corner, In order that
the carbon which the seeds contain can
be used in making charcoal for the
American soldiers gas masks. She will
save all the tin foil that she sees for
the Red Cross. She will help collect
clothing for the French and Belgium
orphans and perhaps send them some
of her own.
School girls in India, children from
squalid, dlngy homes, with absolutely
no spending money, gave last year to
Belgian and Armenian relief when
they themselves were not getting
enough to eat. They gave up their
meat once . week for the Belgians.
though they only had 1t twice week
themselves, and for the Armenians
they set aside the handful Of fresh
grain that otherwise each girl would
have ground In her own little stone
mill. Both contributions, from all the
girls In one missionary's school,
amounted only to IS a month. "But it
was . tremendous sacrifice" their
teacher writes, although Joyous one.
1t actually meant less bread each day,
and once q week a meal Of dry bread
and water. This was done by 80 girls
from the meanest homes In the world