The record., 1918-10-24
THE WESTERN =
FRONT AT HOME

Earn and give. For q year the young
people of America have been coached
In thrift. Instead of the old problem
In the arithmetic book, "If Marys
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 at the
end of IL 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 it 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
DSSh III pSl1lilCS IllShiCo
and pasiing 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 Y. w. G. A. made plans for the
1913 1riUa If inplI11o6 in itS
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-
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 So
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 as a whole will fill it's charitable
organizations war chest.
Some high school girl in New York
city is going to earn her So 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
war tax for a movie three nights a
week is going to draw a line through
the movie habit except when there is
an especially gCod bill. More than one
girl plans 70 clean all her own gloves
and to salvage : Or,
nd COLLECTIONS of junk about The
house which should be sold to the junl
man to be w3rked over into some pro
ductive industry. The girls in thei
teens are going to earn instead O.
ask others for the money. They are t.
sacrifice and give in their own name
and older women will make the publ
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 tn
thrift that will make them effectiv
members of the new club by their cor
servatiOn of fruits and vegetables
They have canned and picked. NOV
when the end of summer brings tn
beginning of school they will chang
their thrift into winter thrift and bt
gin saving their So for the Y. w. G.
war fund.
"Whereyer You Are Is the Wester
Frontn is the slogan which the Ear
and Give club has adopted. Anna, on
wiry thirteen-year-old daughter of Ne
YOrk's East side, who was one of tn
first and youngest members to join tn
campaign at q New York Settlemer
house, had TO have it explained to he
fight and fight meaning fists, the ives
tern front means work and work NEAR
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 +
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 tt
war; that she had never dreamed O
She will see that all the fruit pits an
stones that can be saved from her OW
dining table and from those of h
neighbOrS, are dropped into the lit
red barrel at the corner, in order th
the carbon which the seeds contain ca
be used in making charcoal for Il
American soldiers gas masks. She W
save all the tin foil that she sees f
the Red Cross. She will help cole
clothing for the French and Belgiu
orphans and perhaps send them son
of her own.
School girls in India, children fro
squalid, dingy homes, with absolute
no spending money, gave last year
Belgian and Armenian relief VIII
they themselves were not gettil
enough to eat. They gaze up the
meat once IL week for the Belgian
though they only had it twice a We
themselves. and for the Armenia
they set aside the handful of fire
grain that otherwise each girl wou
have ground in her own little stO
mill. Both contributions, from all t
girls in one missiOnary's SchO
amounted only to So month. "But
was Il tremendous sacrifice" th,
teacher writes, although T joyous oE
1t actually meant less bread each d;
and once & week q meal Of dry bre
and water. This was done by so 81
from the nleanest homes in the VOL
children between the ages of fl
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