The Dolores star., 1918-11-08
THE WESTERN
FRONT AT HOME

gave her two. and she ate one. how
m ny would she have?" the third grade
q is now sent to the blackboard to
solve, How many Thrift stamps at
. cents apiece win Mary own AT the
er;a of ls months If she saves 10 cents
a week -
The girl in the grade above her Is
le;rniilg in her arithmetic lesson how
many Thrift stamps il takes to buy the
yarn for 800 helmets for the soldiers
in France. Still farther ON the eighth
grnder Is told to figure in terms of War
Savings stamps how much II costs to
supply regiment of Uncle Sans men
win shelter tents.
And now the Earn and Give club Of
the younger girls of the Young Wom-
ems Christian association is organ
i@rd tu turn those Thrift lessons into
giving, The children of America have
been turning IN pennies and utckles
ARA passing II gren stamp on their
Thrift card. The Earn and Give club
Ci,l now use some AT those cards aud
War Savings stamps in their campaign
a on. The Younger people for the
united war fund.
his fall when the war council of
til Y. w. c. a. made plans for the
] $ war drive il included in It's pro-
m III" rule that uu Young girls un-
d. eighteen can dn any soliciting,
- fhp streets or otherwise They can
gEe. but they can only give 10y earn.
ii Consequently in order to co-or
Il ate the efforts OF the girls Il, all the
al ~.
II 4 Give club is enrolling members
ard has given out uu estimate of 50
:, zee 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
al the country will mean that the ma
tiOn as a whole will I'LL its charitable
organizations war chest.
Some high school girl in New York
city is going TO earn her 81 by shining
her own shoes instead of stopping at
the Greek stand on her way TO school
aud by making her own sandwiches for
her noon lunch. Out in Iowa the girl
who has been spending Is cents plus
war tax for a movie three nights
week is going to draw line through
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 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 Will make the public
requests for money elsewhere.
Many of the girls who ure waiting
to join the Earn and Give club are al
rendy Patriotic leaguers, and they have
learned several practical lessons in the
thrift that will make them effective
members of the new club by their con.
scrvation Of fruits and vegetables
They have canned and picked. Now
" iien the end of summer brings the
beginning of school they will change
their thrift into winter thrift and be
gn saving their 50 for the Y. W. &. A.
war fund.
Wherever You Are Is the Western
Front" is the slogan which the Earn
aud Give club has adopted. Anna. one
viry thirteen-year-old daughter of New
Iorks East side, who was one of the
II st and youngest members to join the
c;inpai,.n at Il New York Settlemeni
hfuSe. had to have ii explained to he
F'tHt instead of western front ueanin.
i-lr and fight meaning fists. the wesi
torn front means work and work mean
save in order to give.
The girl who joins the Earn and
Give club will discover thar In con
junction with her working and saving
IN order that her club will furnish it
quota of the money that is going I,
help The girls like herself in Franc
and Belgium. she will also find numei
Gus ways in the community TO help tn
VAR that she had never dreamed oI
She will see thai all The fruit pits nu'
stones that can he saved from her oWi
dining table and from those OF h.
ntighhOrs, are dropped INTO the liIt
red barrel al the corner. III order ih.,
The carbon which the seeds contain can
he used in making charcoal for th,
American soldiers gas nnskS She VII
save all the tin foil that she secs 70.
the Red Cross. She viii help colleci
clothing for the French and Belgium
orphans and perhaps send them SOM
of her own.
School girls in India. children from,
sguald. dingy homes, with absolutely
no spending money gave last year "a
Belgian and Armenian relief when
they themselves were not gettii:
enough to eat. They gave up thet
meat once week for the Belgium
though they only had ii twice we->
themselves and for the Armenian
they set aside the handful of fresi
grain that otherwise each girl would
have ground in her own little ston,
mill. Both contributions, from all tn.
girls In one missiOnary's schoOl
n,nnpntaJ DrIy t1 e. =, month