The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-11-08
LEAVENWORTH BOYS AND GIRLS
MUST SHOW THEIR PATRIOTISM
They Are Made Next Week
Opportunity to Show Stuff of Which

Representatives of the seven agep-
cies concerned in the United War
Work Campaign have agreed to eX-
tend the scope of the drive so as
to afford the boys and girls of Amer
lea an opportunity to do their share
in this great work of caring for our
fighting men. In accordance with
that decision a Boys and Girls earn
and Give" division has been author
lied and the details of its organiza-
ton worked out and approved. 1t is
intended that this feature of the cam
paign shall carry to every American
boy and every American girl, every
boy and girl of every religion and
race, an opportunity to share by SER
vice and sacrifice in the winning of
the war. The boys of the division
are to be called 'Victory Boys" and
"a million boys behind a million
fighters is their slogan. The girls
are to be called "Victory Girls" and
their slogan is "Every Girl pulling for
victory"
The chief aim of the Victory Boys
and Girls effort is the development of
boys and girls in intelligent, sacrifi-
cial investment of their lives in be-
half of the "great cause" The appeal
is to earn and give. The gift of
money should result in challenge to
full preparation for the largest use
fulness in the reconstruction days
ahead and in a growing consciousness
of the spiritual significance of the gift
of life and talent in the cause of
righteousness.
The Victory Boys and Victory Girls
division of the campaign should prove
an inspiration and stimulus to in
creased effort by men in the general
campaign. Learning of the sacrifi-
cial price the boys and girls pay on
the "earn and give" basis, men and
women will give larger amounts and
work harder.
Enrolment consists in signing a
statement of purpose to "earn and
give" towards the work of the seven
organizations mentioned in the pres
ident's letter. Each boy states the
amount he will plan to "earn and
give" toward the total. Thus the
boys purpose is to share in the rails
ing of the entire $170,500,000.
Upon signing up each boy will re-
ceive an enrolment button, also
home window banner. When pay
ment is completed each boy will be
given an engraved certificate-receipt.
This is not a campaign run exclu-
sively by men and women, but should
in fact as well as in theory, be a
Victory Boys and Victory Girls cam
paign. The greatest value will not
be in the money raised but in the de-
velopment Of the boys and girls thru
their sharing in the responsibility of
organization, the caring and giving,
the sacrificing.
This is an "earn and give" cam
paign. Money must not be solicited by
boys and girls from men and women,
but can be solicited from other boys
and girls. Money pledged can be
paid from money earned during the
past summer, money to be earned, or
money saved from regular allowances.
The carrying on" of this campaign
is all the more important after the
wonderful news we have just received,
from the fact that the money will be
needed just as much in caring for our
boys in the long reconstruction period
that must elapse before their coming
home.
The quotas as assigned for the
Leavenworth Boys and Girls is $125.
The boys and girls of Leavenworth
did wonderfully well in the thrift
stamp and bond campaigns and will
no doubt raise this amount in short
order
The county's apportionment is $3.50
reapportioned as follows:
Wenatchee, $500.
Cashmere, S145.
Leavenworth, $125.
Peshastin, $55.
Sunnyslope, $50.
Chelan, $45.
Entiat, $40.
Monitor, 35.
Malaga, S25.
Manson, S25.
5000 has been allotted to the rural
districts