Norwich bulletin., 1919-10-16
JUNIOR RED CROSS
 DRIVE IS TO START

1 The Junior Red Cross drive IS 10 | start this week in the Norwich schools 1 for on Thursday and Friday of this week five minute addresses will be giS- ] en in every room of the Nofwlch l schools for the interest and support | of the children of America were never more needed than now ] Norwich may well feel proud of her 1 Junior Red Cross. For the year 1 191S-1919 she has enrolled approxl-
 rnately 4.500 children from p schools
 nineteen public schools. two parochsal
 schools, and private school and the 1 Norwich Free Academy.
 | For the entire United States the i membership of the Junior Red Cross 1 is something over eleven million.
 ' The Junior Red Cross and the 1 American Red Cross are one and the l same organization. the only distinc- | ton being that the Juniors. who are | enrolled through the schools pay a membership fee of 20 cents instead of i HOO I Last year the Norwich Juniors con- l tributed $500 to the treasury of the 1 American Red Cross and of this | amount 60 per cent was used for the
 suffering children of Europe while 40
 per cent. was reserved for local re- 1 lief.
 l Many will ask how it can be possible 1 that, with the war at an end, continued | mem bership in the Red Cross should be urged.
 In answer to such queries Red Cross, officials wish the fact to be empha-, sized that the Red Cross progra mme, soon to be made ublic is even more extensive than it's war programme, and of more vital concern to the people of America.
 Tn IS months 45.oOO Ameri:an boys lost their lives at the front and during those same months 450.00 American
 children died of disease here at home. Three fourths of those dea thss could have been prevented. It is one of the aims of the Red
 Cross to so better theconditions. among our children, through Public Health Nursing service and other agencies that this terrible loss of life l among the younger generation. the hope of the world" as Hargerdorn SO ! tellingly, puts it. will be very material. ! ly lessened.
 Also millions of children must still be cared for abroad and a large work
 maintained among our soldiers and their families Every cent contribut- ed by the children of the Red Cross, however, will be used for the welfare of i children both here and abroad. It is hoped that each child will find i il possible to earn the 25 cents that | constitutes the membership fee, for | the ideal of service to which the child thus gives concrete expression. is, of | itself, of great value. However. if it 1 is rot possible for a child to contri- | bute the whole of the sum named whatever can be earned will be glad | ly accepted.
 1 yer. ScnOOi Tn Wn1ch chll0ren con- 1 tribute will be enrolled as a Red Cross | Aux il.ary whether not the total sum l turned by that school amounts to
 | p Cer,ts per child. Should the sum 1 contributed by a school fall far be-
 1 low the hoped for 23 cents per child
 the suggestion has been made at di
 l visicr headquarters that the school as 1 a whol ln should increase the amount
 l contributed by arranging a school en-
 | tertainment or by any other means
 | that comments itself to the teachers
 ] and the division director. This. how
 1 ever. is not obligatory and every child
 in an enrolled school will. ultimately
 l receive Red Cross button. the same
 | button that is to be worn by adult
 , members of The Red Cross. Enrolment in the Norwich Free
 ] Academy was started last week and
 1 the er.rollment in teh elem mentary
 | schools will begin today.
 A list of speakers in the schools is
 | as follows:
 | Mrs Willis Austin. Mrs. Arthur.
 ! Blackledge, Miss Jennie Case, Mrs. C
 R. Chamberlain, Miss Hannah CroweIl
 i Mrs Frank Farrell Miss Maria Gal l lup. Miss Eunice GuIliver, Miss Anna IT. 1 da Hall. Miss Olive Hunt Mrs. Johr | P. Huntingdon Miss Dorothy Jones { Miss Marion I>athrop Miss Delis l LeavenS. Miss Faith I,eavens, Mrs | Robert Perkins. Miss Mary Richards | Mrs William Norton, Mrs. F,dnaunT l Perkins. Mrs. Taylor. Miss Winifre@ | Wells. Miss Edith Young. Miss Gracf Young, Miss Woodwork.
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