Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-05-14

The School Children Have Taken An
Active Part in All War Activities
Which have Come Up During the
Year.
Undoubtedly many of our citizens
have not stopped to consider the large
amount of war work which has been
done by our schools iii Wausau and
Marathon county, during the past year,
and of interest in this special
work among the teachers and children.
The regular school work has not been
sighted or abridged in any way, and
yet the schools have aided greatly
and are doing their share in the great
war. The children have been encour-
aged to devote leisure hours to these
services. Following are brief men
tons of the various activities in which
they have participated:
AMERICAN RED CROSS
The big Red Cross drive was
brought into the schools and many
took out memberships. Later the
Junior Red Cross drive was started
in the public and parochial schools
of this county, which resulted in al
most all schools having 100 per cent
memberships. Various benefit enter
tainments were given for this cause,
which helped greatly in bringing
about whit wonderful results.
THRIFT AND WAR STAMPS
The Wausau schools deserve special
praise in the sale of Thrift and War
Savings stamps, and the children of
this city are surely learning the saw
ing habit, ard are willingly borrow
ing their earned money to Uncle Sam
that we may easily come out lover
the top In several buildings holt
days were given when a certain per-
centage of stamps were sold during
the school week, and the children
worked hard and industriously and
made splendid results.
ARMY Y. M. C. A.
In the drive for "Y' war work, the
children gave voluntary contributions,
and many helped along in this cause,
that the boys in the training camps
may enjoy the privileges that only
a Y. M. G. A. can offer a boy.
TAG-YOUR- SHOVEL DAY
The children of the schools played
an active part in Tag-Your- Shovel
day, which was requested by our
governor, and the children distributed
tags to the homes in the city.
FRENCH RELIEF
Early in the school year the teach
ers and children became very much
interested in doing something for
the destitute people of the war dis
tricts. Many garments were made
for the needy people of France and
Belgium. Old garments, but clean,
were made over for the children
across the sea, while blankets, made
out of knitted squares of bright colors
of yarn were also made.
KNITTING
Knitting" was the popular and
well worth while past time of many
of the school children the past year,
and great deal was accomplished by
them, especially by the older students
and those attending High school, The
great deal of work along the line
OF hospital garments, bandages, knit
ted articles, etc.
PATRIOTIC AGRICULTURAL SER
VICE ~
Older boys attending schools, espec-
tally those in the High school, have
been registered for farm work and
many have left our schools to help
on farms. during the summer, or until
schools open up again in September,
receiving full credit for the school
year. The farmers needing help have
also been registered, so that the num-
Der of farmers in need of labor could
be easily ascertained.
GARDEN LEAGUES
The teachers have worked hard to
get the children !, interested in war
gardens this spring, and many es-
pecially the boys, are busy hoeing and
spading, while the girls are spending
all their spare time in sewing for
the people in the devastated districts
of Europe.
ANTI-TUBERCULOSIS SOCIETY
The sale of Anti-Tuberculosis seals
was entereed into again this year by
the children with great interest, and
they worked diligently, attaining a
splendid result.
These are a few of the extra ac-
tivities entered into by the school
children of Wausau and Marathon
county during the school year, which
is about to close, and all deserve
much credit for the large amount of
work which has been accomplished
through the schools, largely due to
the untiring efforts of the teachers
of our schools and the teachers of
the rural districts. They have done
great deal in assisting our country
in the world struggle, besides keeping