Cheyenne record., 1919-01-23
THE WESTERN!
FRONT AT EiOME

In thrift. Instead of the old problem
in the arithmetic hook "lf Marys
mother gave her three apples. Jane
save her two.> and she nir one. how
'unny would she hayc:" the tiird grade
s:irl is now sent TO the hlnci:hn#rd TO
solve, How many Thrift stamps a,
- cents apiece will Mary own al the
end OF - months If SiIa saves 40 cvnts
a week 2"
'ihe girl in the grade above her Is
'"nTnln,: in her. :lrtha9tic I%%~un ls1M
r#nN Ihrif, STAMPS II rnl:ps TO i.ry rhr
T;Irt sfOr 100 helmets fch| The soldiers
~ Er1urr. %ail! furiher 0n the ei;;;iih
grader is told tn figure in lu!u.S ng War
%aTIn-s SralaI'> Eow much it costs to
supply u rH,i@ent,oc Unc!e S;:;.l's men
With ;heI;cr tents.
And NOW, the Earn and Give club Of
the younger girls of the Noun. Won
ems ClriSiiunN aSSoriution is organ
i:ed 10 turn those Thrift lessons into
giving The children of Auicrir:; have
been turning in pennies and nichias
ANA paSiin. q green stamp On ti!rir
Thrift card. The Earn and Give clia
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. c. a. made plans for the
1918 war drive. 1t included in its pro-
gram the rule that no young girls uns
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 gTls In all the
districts over the county. the Earn
| and Give club is enrolling members
and has given out an estimate of 81
| apiece to be earned for the war fGnn>
campaign by the American girls who
s:ill count their age in teens. Five
dollars apiece from the younger girls
of the country will mean that the M
tim as Il whole will fill il. charitable
! organizations war chest.
| S"nc hi;h school girl in New, YORK
! city is going to earn her 81 by shining
i her own shoes instead Of stopping ut
| II" Greek stand OF her WA; to school
and by making hCr own sandwiches for
, her nrnn lunch. out in Iowa the ,5rl
i WHO has been $pCluing ID cents i,!GH~
! Wnr tax FOX nCv!" thl,'r nights a
week is "cn:, to draw II In" lnrou,;!
! ~ mnvi" habit except WNr. ,hrre is
IN especially god biz. More :l."n one
! ,.rl plans to c!v"n all her o"n gIc"rs
! his winter and 10 AaIV".,c al t!p pa
/ lrr and co!icctiou% Of jl.ull ubuut the
+ nuu>r Which ahruld be SGId to the junk
( ..lHn - I've Vurkyr! uyrr into some pro
/ vnrliye Industry. The girls in i!r,ir
, '""nS ar" c1iu" st" earn. instead Of
/ Sk hers for tho money. They are ~
| ,a"rii.rc and give in their own naluAE
/ tnd ni'irr women win make the public
',"Iur&ts for money elsewhere.
/ Many OF the girls who are waiting
to join I'll" Earn and Give ciUb ere al.
! ';tdI Patriotic ic;i@.:rrS and they have
! learned several practical lessons in the
/ thrift that Will make them effective
Nrl'lh""S uf the E"~ club ly their CON
%.'rv"tinn Of fruits and vegetables.
/ They have canned and picilcd Now
When the end of summer brings the
! beginning" cr school they will change
their thrift into winter thrift and be-
! ;in saving thrir 50 for the Y. w. c. a.
war fund.
( "Whrrrvcr You Are Is the Western
! 'FRONT.' Is the slogan which the Earn
! and Give club has adopted. Anna one
NirN thirteen yrnr-old daughter of New
lork'S East side, who was one of the
J nrSt and Youngest members to join the
d r;!npli;n ut Il New York settlement
house. had to have 1t explained to her
that instead of western front meaning
fight an1 fight meaning fists, the west
j tern front means work and work means
save in order to give
The -irl who joins the Earn and
Give club will discover that in con
junction with her working and :,avin.
in order that hrT club will furnish its
quota Of the money that is goiilt, to
, help the girls like herself in France
and Belgium, She will also find If1lncr-
Gus ways in the community to Rrlp TIL
war that She had never dreamed Of
She will see that all the fruit pits and
stones that can be saved from her own
dining table and from those of her
n'lghhor>. are dropped into the little
rcd barrel at the corner, in order that
the carbon which the seeds contain can
be used in making charcoal for the
American soldiers gnS masks She will
save all The lin foil that she sees for
III" Red Cross. She will help collect
clothing for the French aAtl Belgium
orphans and perhaps send them some
Of her own.
School girls in India. children from
>QUa!,l. dngN homes, with absolutely
, nr Sl'ruG!n% money. gave last year to
Er!-ian and Armenian relief when
rhr! themselves were not getting
enough t" "nt. They gave up their
Hirat once Il week. for the Btlgian<
II. uSh they "nl! had it twice Il We
nvm>cIN,>. Iu,l for tho Armcnian.-