The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1918-11-16
THE WESTERN
FRONT AT HOME

In thrift. Instead Of the old problem
In the arithmetic hook. "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
% cents apiece will Mary own ut the
end Of 10 months II she saves 10 cents
n week? 2"
The girl in the grade above her II
learning In her arithmetic lesson how
MANY Thrift stnmps 1t tnkes to buy the
yarn for 800 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 md Give club OF
the younger girls Of the Young WOm
ems Chrlstlnn association IL organ
lied IT, turn those Thrift lessons into
giving. The children Of America have
been turning In pennies and nickles
and pnsting n green stamp on their
Thrift cards The Earn md Give club
can now use some Of those cards and
Wa. Savings stamps In their campaign
among the younger people for the
united war fund.
This full when the war council Of
the Y. W. C. A. made plans for the
1918 war drive, II 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-
dinnte 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
campaign by the American girls who
still c0nnt their nge In teens. Five
dollars apiece from the younger girls
Of the country Will mean that the M
ton us whole will MI Its charitable
organizations war chest.
Some high school girl In New York
city is going to earn her So by shining
her own shoes instend OF stopping ut
the Greek stand on her why to school
and by making her own sandwiches for
her noon lunch. Out In Iowa the girl
who hns been spending 10 cents plus
war tax for movie three nights a
week IL going to draw u line through
the movie habit except when there IL
IN especially good bill. More thnn one
girl plans to clean nll her own gloves
this winter and to salvage nil the I,n-
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
nsk others for the money. They are to
sacrifice and give In their own MINES
and older women Will make the public
requests for money elsewhere.
Many Of the girls who nre waiting
to join the Earn and Give club nre nj
ready Patriotic leaguers. md they have
learned several practical lessons In the
thrift that will make them effective
members OF the new club t,y their con.
servntion OF fruits and vegetables.
They hive canned and picked. Now
when the end OF summer brings the
beginning Of school they will chnnge
their thrift Into winter thrift md be.
gin Swing their s. for the Y. W. c. A.
war fund.
wherever You Are Is the Western
Front" Is the slogan which the Earn
and Give club has adopted. ANN. one
wiry thirteen. ycar-old daughter Of New
York's Enst side. who WINS one Of the
first md youngest members to Join the
campaign nj New York settlement
house. hnd to hive II explained to her
thnt instead Of western front meaning
fight and fight meaning fists. the west
tern front means work and work means
save In order to give.
The girl who Joins the Earn md
Give club will discover that In con.
Junction with her working and saving
In order that her club will furnish Its
quota Of the money that is going to
help the girls like herself In Frnnce
md Belgium. she will nlso find nuncr.
GUS ways 1.-The community to help the
war thu, she had never dreamed Of.
She will see that all the fruit pits and
stones that Gun be saved from her own
dining tnble and from those Of her
ncigl,bors. are dropped Into the little
red bnrrel at the corner. In order that
the cnrhOn which the seeds contain Gun
he used In making charcoal for the
American soldiers gas masks. She will
save NIL the tin foil TINT she sees for
the Red Cross. She Will help collect
clothing for the French and Belgium
orphans md perhaps send them some