Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1920-11-18
YOUTH or SOUTH
SET EXAMPLE IN
RED CROSS WORK
With Opening of Schools, Thou
sands Join Junior
Organization

Roll Call that children OF the south
are displaying in renewing their al
legiance to the Junior Red Cross, the
southern division will show a record
number Of Red Cross members when
the Roll Call ends.
Truly children are learning the way
for. the grownups in joining the Red
Cross, according to figures given out
today at Red Cross division headquar-
tiers in Atlanta.
Reorganization OF the Junior Red
Cross was begun when schools opened
this fall. Now, although but little
more than a month has passed, more
than twenty thousand children in the
southern division have renewed their
membership in the Red Cross, and be-
fore Christmas, it is expected triple
that number will have enrolled.
The Junior Red Cross, while auxil-
larry to the American Red Cross, is
separate and distinct organization,
with its own program of service. 1t is
organized through the schools, where
it is one of the most popular and high
| ly regarded of student activities. The
Juniors have their own roll calls,
the time varying with the different
| schools.
Many Juniors had their roll calls
when school first opened this year.
That the children are more enthusiast
tic than ever in Red Cross work is
demonstrated by the fact that, while
less than 1000 had joined the Red
Cross by November l. 1919, more than
10000 have joined already this year.
Last year the Junior Red Cross in
the southern division had total men,
bership of 162,S07. Judging by the
way in which children are enrolling
this year, the 1920-21 membership will
go we'll beyond 100000.
The purpose of the Junior Red
Cross and its activities could not be
better explained than by James N
Rule, national director of the Junior
Red Cross. He says
The Junior Red Cross is the child
hood of America modified through the
schools-public, parochial and private
for the purpose of intoxicating ideals
and habits of service among children
the world over, with the idea that the
men and women of tomorrow will, as
result of this childhood practice,
think in terms of service to others;
for the purpose not merely OF training
in citizenship for the future. but of
making unselfish useful young citi-
Gems today; for the purpose of instill-
ing respect and obedience to the law
of the land, and for the purpose of
transmitting America to succeeding
generations cleaner, healthier and
happier than it was found.
THE requirement for membership
is solely one of service. There is no
individual membership fee. The use
fulness of a Junior Red Cross auxil-
larry in alternating want and suffering
among children at home and abroad
depends on the initiative and enter
prise of the classroom group and the
teacher, the latter being the auxiliary
leader.
Everything done is by cooperative
effort of teacher and class, whether 1t
be in raising money by some entertain
ment or industry; the making of gar
ments, furniture, toys, scrapbooks, or
in a community betterment activity.
Training in Citizenship Through Serv-
ice and Happy Childhood the World
Over are slogans of the Junior Red
Cross which broadly characterize it's
mission.
Formed in 1917 to help win the
war. the Junior Red Cross, with mem
bership of 100000, produced In
twenty months $15,000,000 worth of
useful articles for American soldiers,
sailors, marines and war stricken
people OF other lands. But in this
service the childhood of America was
only awakened to a consciousness of
it's power for good, with the result that
Armistice Day, 1918, sounded to this
unprecedented childhood's organiza-
ton as a clarion call to carry on.
Since then the Junior Red Cross
has grown to approximately 100000
members; has raised considerably
more than million dollars in money;
has produced countless articles of prac-
tical use for destitute families at home
and abroad, these articles including
layettes, clothing, toys, tables and
chairs, and has distributed free milk
and other food in various forms.
Essentially a school organization,
the Junior Red Cross operates along
educational lines, it's relief projects
being introductions for the promotion
of goodwill, good citizenship and al
truism.
Forty per cent Of the auxiliary
funds raised by group cooperation is
devoted to purely local relief among
needy children. Sixty per cent is for
warded to National Headquarters in
Washington, where 1t is administered
without overhead expenses.
This is being used for orphanages,
schools, gard ems and health and play
ground activities in Albania, Montene-
gro. Belgium, Czecho-Slovakia, France,
Greece, Italy, Palestine, Poland. Rou-
mania, Serbia. Siberia, China and the
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