The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-11-01
BOYS AND GIRLS
ENLISTED FOR DRIVE
Each Group Will Have 10000
Pledge Cards

Jew or Gentle, Catholic or Pro-
testant, every boy and girl in Yer
mont is to be given an opportunity
to serve on the great home firing
line when the United War Work
Campaign is launched Nov. 18th in
behalf of the Salvation Army, the
National Catholic War Council, the
Jewish Welfare Board, the Y. M. C.
A., and Y. w. C. A., the War Camp
Community Service and the American
Library Association. Two distinctive
organizations, formed for the express
purpose of uniting the boys and girls
of America in the greatest free-will
offering in history, offer unique cam
paign advantages, and the process
of forming the "Victory Boys " and
the "Victory Girls Divisions in
this state is already well under way
To take charge of the divisional
work among the boys and girls two
leaders whose experience with young
people is we'll adapted to the work
in hand have been selected. Miss
Florence NJ. Wellman, superintendent
of the Brattleboro Schools, is at
the head of the Victory Girls Divi-
sion, and R. G. Reynolds of the Vail
School, Lyndon, who is State Direct
OF of the United States Boys Work
ing Reserve, of the Federal Depart
ment of Labor, is in charge of the
Victory Boys Division. TO every
town and city in the state they are
looking for close cooperation among
the Junior citizens of the republic
and if the enthusiasm shown thus far
is an indication of what is to follow
anything may be asked of the boys
and girls of Vermont.
! The state quota is S20,280 for each
+ division, but neither the boys nor the
girls are going to be content with
raising this amount for its goal
Five dollars from 5000 boys and girls
each or $4,000 is the mark each di-
vision has set for itself and to double
their quotas $4,000 pledge cards viii
be circulated among the boys and
girls of each division. Every boy be-
tween the ages Of II and Is, anC
every girl between the ages Of II anc
20 must serve in his or her division
if the goal is to be realized. Carr
and Give" is the slogan of the cam
pagn as it is being developed by the
Victory Boys and the Victory Girls
They have been fired with the en-
thusiasm that is animating their ED
ers in their determination to make
Vermont's gift to the seven constit
uent organizations in excess of {
half-n1illion dollars. In the words
of Dr.. Mott, director general of the
campaign throughout the nation, "Ir
these greatest days in the life of oul
generation it is a great thing for the
boys and girls who are to be the
leaders of tomorrow to be the
heart of this magnificent enterprise
RI Everywhere the directors Of the
two divisions are encountering {
splendid spirit of cooperation. The
Catholic Church in Vermont IS max
ing a special effort to lend the assist
ance Of its boys and girls and Pro
: testant churches are matching tha
effort. Every phase of juvenile &C
tivity in Vermont is to be covered
: by the work of the two divisions, anc
: when the final returns from the cam
: paign Of Nov. II to Is are canvasset
: it will be found that the Victory
Boys and the Victory Girls were two
/ of the biggest factors in the drive.