Connecticut western news., 1919-11-13
JUNIOR RED CROSS HAS NEW PLANS
 OF HEI.PFULNESe
Membership Campaign to Be Held in the Schools Pro gram Prepared for Re lief of Child Sufferers
 Abroad

The enlarged scope of the plans or the Junior Red Cross. whose cam paign for a greatly increased member ship will be conducted in the schools at practically the same lime that the Third Roll Call is in progress No vember 3 to IL Armistice Day--are described in a report of the Depart ment of Junior Membership. which has just been made public
 Although there are thousands of children holding regular memberships in the Red Cross in the Atlantic Divi- sion. there are other thousands who. through the Junior Red Cross. are helping war weary children of foreign lands A survey of those European activities of the Junior Red Cross re- veals the splendid aid to the children of France. Belgium, Czecho-Slovakia. Italy. Serbia Palestine, Roumauia and other of the Balkan countries and Po- land which the pennies and dollars of tho Junior department are making possible.
 During the summer months hun drrGs of children in inc industrial dis tri"ts of France were sent out into the country. where they might regain thoir he2lth. War orphans and mutilatnd children were cared for in large num- bers in homes and clubs and in east ern Europe clothing and food were supplied to hundreds of boys and girls who were experiencing misery.
 Establishing Nursery.
 hot are ahead there is even greater need of the work of tho Junior Red Cross. for with the coming Of the cold wealth or thore will he q great degree nf suffering among those who are living in the ruinS along the old battle lines of Belgium France and Italy
 To mitigate that suffering the .Tu- nior Red Cross is preparing 10 take 1000 or more children from those dis tricts down into the southern eli mates. where they may be cared for during the winter. Al Belleau a "garderic" is to he eSta ablished A "garderic" is an institution somewhat similar to a day nursery, where the younger children are cared for during the hours that their mothers are at work and where the older children may have recreation under proper supervision out of school hours
 Tn Belgium and in Serbia hundreds of school children and youngsters who are without parents or homes are be- ing fed and cared for while tho work. CTS of the Junior Red Cross are plan ming the assistance that must be had to rebuild and re-equip the schools which were destroyed or stripped of all furnishings during the war. Investigators are at work in other parts of the Balkans and in Poland, determining how the work of the Jun. for Rcd Cross in those countries will be apportioued to reduce as much as possible the untold suffering that the winter months will bring 10 the thou sands of children who are without homes. food or shelter
 Major General O'Ryan. commander Of the Twenty-seventh Division and chairman of the Red Cross Roll Call Committee of the Atlantic Division. has asked his co-workers in the or ganization of 500OO0 volunteers which he is bringing into a state of organi' zation for the drive in November to keep continually in mind that. while the Junior Red Cross will conduct it's own annual membership campaign. it is to he coincident in many commun. ities with the drive of the parent or. ganization and deserves every assist ance the parent organization can ex- ! tend
 The junior work in the interest of suffering children abroad will continue 1 indefinitely