The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-11-08
JUNIOR RED CROSS
HAS NEW PLANS
OF HELPFULNESS
Membership Campaign to Be
Held in the Schools-Pro-
gram Prepared for Re
lief of Chile Sufferers
Abroad

The enlarged scope of the plans Of
the Junior Red Cross, whose cam
paign for a greatly increased member
ship will be conducted in the schools
at practically the same time hat the
Third Roll Call is in progress-No-
vember 2 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, Roumania and
other of the Balkan countries and Po-
land which the pennies and dollars of
the Junior department are making
possible.
During the summer months hun
dreds of children in the industrial dis
tricts of France were sent out into the
country, where they might regain their
health. War orphans and mutilated
children were cared for in large num-
bers in homes and clubs, and in east.
ern Europe clothing n food were
supplied to hundreds of boys and
girls who were experiencing misery.
Establishing a Nursery.
Yet through the winter months that
are ahead there is even greater need
of the work of the Junior Red Cross,
for with the coming of the cold wealth
er there will be, a great degree of
suffering among those who are living
in the ruins along the old battle lines
of Belgium, France and Italy.
To mitigate that suffering the Ju-
Nor Red Cross is preparing to take
1000 or more children from those dis
tricts down into the southern eli
mates. where they may be cared for
during the winter. At Belleau a
~"garderie' is to be established. A
~"garderie" 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.
In Belgium and in Serbia hundreds
of school children and youngsters who
are without parents or homes are be-
ing fed and cared for while the work
ers 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
ior Red Cross in those countries will
be apportioned to reduce as much as
possible the untold suffering that the
winter months will bring to the thou
sands of children who are without
homes, food or shelter.
Major General Organ, 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 100000 volunteers which
he is bringing into a state of organi-
cation 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 be coincident in many commun-
tiles 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
indefinitely.