The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-28
By PATRIOTIC PATRICIA

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 By PATRIOTIC PATRICIA
 Anniston. September 27.-(Special) All children of Alabama. Mississippi and Louisiana arc expected to enroll in the Junior Red Cross during the junior mem bership campaign, which began Septem- ber 15 and ends October 15.
 The gulf division wants 100 per cent enrollment of junior patriots under the aew peace time banner. Chapters throughout the three states are being urged to aid in forming Junior Red Cross auxiliaries in every school under the ju- risdiction of the various chapters. Every School Red Cross Auxiliary fS the slogan
 Anniston's loyal teachers, who rendered such invaluable service by the inculca- don of patriotism in the schools during the war, have entered with enthusiasm into the plans for helping the juniors to carry out their peace programme.
 Through tho training given by patriotic teachers the school children are keeping in touch with all of the events of this wonderful history making epoch. These children, filled with the spirit of help fulness, are eager to assist in relieving the misery of the unfortunate children of foreign lands who are suffering as a result of the war. These little foreign children will receive aid in clothing theiS bodies and in building up, mentally and morally. those whose development has been retarded by the suffering visited upon them.
 The peace programme of the Red Cross calls for personal service for the chill dren of returned soldiers and any other children of the community who may need help.
 Mrs. Helen Smith woodruff. the fa- nous philanthropist and author, who f<SNvv Avtxv 10 l,A l. and Anniston. together with Il other well-known authors, has established iu New York a home where little boys and girls whose fathers have paid the su- preme sacrifice on the bloody battlefields of France may come from any part of the country and be mothered and cared for.
 Mrs. Woodruff expects to resume. her work among the juniors when she re- turns to her city home this fall. She is greatly beloved by many New York tots whom she has influenced as leader of the junior patriots and as4leader of the junior book committee of the American Library association. She edits a column in the National Defense which is of great interest to juniors. Mrs. Woodruff is keeping up her patriotic work among the children who are with their parents at their ancestral homes in Litchfeld Conn. Some of these tots were recently entertained at a lovely lawn party at Mrs. Woodruffs Litchfeld home to honor her little niece. Evylyn Byrd kobbe, the daughter of Mrs. Walter kobbe (Florence Smith). The party was given additional interest on account of the three generations represented. Mrs. Oscar k. Smith, Mrs. Kobbe and little Evylyn, and because of the presence of tho world famous Sothern and Marlowe.
 The work of the Junior Red Cross for the coming year. together with instruc- tions for the third roll call and drive in November and all details of the great peace programme of the Red Cross will be discussed at the Red Cross con- ference to be held in Birmingham on Oc- tober 1o. Mrs. Richard H. Stickney, chairman of the Calhoun county Red Cross chapter; Mrs. Eva Powers Comfy, executive secretary of the home service section. and Mrs. Ebert J. Lyman, pub- licity chairman of the county chapter, and other representatives from chapters in Calhoun will attend the conference, which will be conducted by Dr. Liv- ingston Farrand, chairman of the cen tral committee of the American Red Cross, who has recently reteurned from Europe, where he made a special study of the situations affecting the children in the different countries. pr. Farrand' S lecture on the peace programme of tho Red Cross is being anticipated with great pleasure by Red Cross patriots who are interested in this new activity recently adopted by the greatest humanitarian or ganzation in the world.
 Peace does not mean cessation of activities conceived for the bettefment of mankind, a stoppage of Humanitarian work, because sterling men are no longer being moved down by bullets. return