The Holly chieftain., 1918-10-24
THE WESTERN
FRONT At HOME

people Of America have been coached
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 havef" the third grade
girl Ia now sent to the blackboard to
solve. How many Thrift stamps at
% cents apiece will Mary own at the
end of IL months II she saves 10 cents
a week?''
The girl In the grade above her is
learning In her arithmetic lesson how
many Thrift stamps II 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 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 is organ
ized to turn those Thrift lessons into
giving. The children of America have
been turning In pennies and nickles
and pasting a 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 the younger people for the
united war fund.
This fall when the war council of
the 7. w. C. A. made plans for the
1918 war drive 1t 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, out 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 Is enrolling members
and has given out an estimate of IS
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 will mean that the ma.
ton a. whole will fill Its charitable
organizations war chest.
Some high school girl In New York
city Is going to earn her S. by shining
her own shoes instead of stopping Rt
the Greek stand on her way to school
and by making her own sandwiches for
her noon iupch. Out In Iowa the girl
who has been spending Is cents plus
war tax for movie three nights q
week Is going to draw line through
the movie habit except when there Is!
an especially good bill. More than one
Sirl 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
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 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 will make them effective
members Of the new club hy their con
servation of fruits and vegetables.
They have canned and picked. Now
when the end of summer brings the
beginning Of school they will change
their thrift into winter thrift and be
gin saviag their IS for the Y. w. c. A.
war fund.
Wherever You Are ls the Western
Front" Is 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 membe, 8 to Join the
campaign at a New York settlement
hQ1ss. bad TO- haze il explalped t. her