The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-10-02
The WESTERN
FRONT AT HOME

Earn and give. For yearythe young
people of America have BEEN Goa hed
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
25 cents apiece will Mary own' at the
end of - months If she saves 10 cents
a week.
The girl in the grade above her Is
learning in her arithmetic lesson how
many Thrift stamps il takes to buy the.
yarn for 500 helmets for the soldiers
in France. Still farther on the eighth
grader is told to figure in terms OF War
Savings stamps how much it costs to
supply a 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 Is organ
lied to turn those Thrift lessons into
giving. The children of America have
been turning in pennies and nlcklcs
and p:;sting a green stamp on their
Thrift card The Earn end Give club
can now use some of those cards and
War Savings stamps in their campaign
among the younger people for the
united war fund.
This fall when the war council OF
the Y. w. c. A. made plans Tor the
1918 war drive, it included In its pro-
gram the rule that no young girls I'M
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-
dnate 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 50
apiece to be earned for the war fund
campai On 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
ton as whole will fill it's charitable
organizations war chest.
Some high school girl in New York
city Is going to earn her SIS 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
| $ox 20 ,nnvin fhrDo NIGHTS q
week is going to draw line Though
| 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
ductive industry. The girls In theil
teens are going to earn instead OF
ask others for the money. They are tt
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
to join the Earn and Give club are al
ready Patriotic leaguers, and they hav'
learned several practical lessons in thu
thrift that will make them effective
members of the new club by their con
servation of fruits and vegetables
They have canned and picked. Nov
when she end of summer brings tn
beginning of school they will chang
their thrift into winter thrift and be
gin saving their SIS 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 thrteen-year-old daughter Of Ne'
YOrk's East side, who was one Of Il,
first and Youngest members to join tn
campaign at a New York settlemer
house. had to have 1t explained to he
that instead of western front meanin
Hght and fight meaning fists, the ives
tern front means work and work mean
save in order to give.
The girl who joins the Earn an
Give club will discover that in col
junction with her working and savin
In order that her club will furnish II
quota of the money that is going
help the girls like herself in Franc
and Belgium, she will also find hume
GUS ways in the community to help Il
war that she had never dreamed
She will see that~all the fruit pits an
stones that can, be saved from her ON
dining table and from those Of h
neighbors, are dropped int the lit
red barrel at the corner. In order tn
she carbon which the seeds contain CT
be used in making charcoal for Il
American soldiers gas masks. She "
save all the tin foil that she sees Z
the Red Cross. She WIN helm cole