Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-25
MISS c. FRANCES LOOMS


DHILADELPHIA school children who
l. are taking part in the activities of the
Junior Red Cross are to be taught to enjoy
local work as well as the more spectacular
phase of helping starving European children,
according to Miss c. Frances Loomis. cx-
ecutive secretary of the Junior Red Cross
here.
Especially is work among tubercular chill
| dren and those in local hospitals, orphan
| asylums and other institutions being stressed
| by Miss Looms and her coworkers for the
coming year. From a membership of ninety
| three schools this year. the Junior Red Cross
expects to achieve perfect enrolment of all
| the elementary schools next year.
"The Junior Red Cross declares Miss
| Loomis, ''is the American Red Cross in the
schools. doing its work among the children of
| the country, with its eyes turned to the
future when those boys and girls will be men
| and women. 1t is building and planning.
| firm in the faith that a body Of citizens
trained to mutual service will swing America
to new heights.
Learn of Debt to World
"When the schoolboys ahd schoolgirls OF
America provide clothir g.. food and educaa-
| tional advantages for little refugees in
| Europe by aid of the machinery set up by the
Junior Red Cross, they get clearer view of
their own national advantages and their debts
to the world
"Whcn the Junior Red Cross establishes
a chain of correspondence between the school
| children Of the United States and their
| young friends across the sea. 1t develops a
world wide outlook fraught with great future
possibilities for all concerned.
"But. in the meantime. what is this or
ganization doing at home, in the development
| Of appreciative citizens among the school
| ,bil1rppo This phQsp 0f tho work which iS
being strongly emphasized at the, present
| time includes a great many varied angles.
For example. the Junior Red Cross of Phila-
delphia is contemplating assistance to the 800
or more children suffering from tuberculosis
or those with tubercular tendencies who are
now in open air schools maintained by the
Board of Education in the city.
Want to Aid Young Workers
'It will be our aim to help feed these suf
| ferers, and the money with which this is to
be done will come from the hands Of the chill
| drcn interested in the Junior Red Cross
are planning to cope even more thoroughly
than ever before is that of children leaving
school to work for living at the very
earliest age that the law allows.
"The local Junior Red Cross organization
has about ten scholarships. administered
| under the direction of the White Williams
Foundation. which will be applied in the
direction Of keeping such children as | have
mentioned in school for a few more years
| This will be accomplished by giving these
children, or their needy families: the equiva.
lent OF what they would earn If they went
to work. whether it be 81 week or $40.
"Sewing, both for overseas and for the
charitable societies here, is another feature
of the Junior Red, Gross, as is the making of
| toys for both foreign and local shut ins We
also are interested in the work of the modern
health crusade in purchasing supplies for
children in hospitals and orphan asylums.
and will do our part in this form Of service
work.
| n definite figure of twenty five cents week
as dues from the children, but we have aban :
doned this plan, and now set no fixed amount,
but just ask all that the boy or girl in ques .
tion can afford. In fact the work Of our or
ganization is not, specifically speaking, a
work dealing with individuals, although of
| course the individual note must come in for
the good of the work. We base our enroll
ment on the number of school units, not on
the number of bows and girls contributing.
The donations come from the schools as n
whole and are often raised by fairs or en- :
tertainments in which all the children Join
together to achieve success.
Each School an Auxiliary
"Since each elementary school is Junior
Red Cross Auxiliary, we must have the co :
tion we certainly have In no half eartpd
way. Principals and teachers alike have
helped up get the 100000 or more local
school children interested in the helpful
work In further, assisting us to keep in
close touch with the children, we have the
Junior Red Cross News, which has appealed
particularly TO the children in the past be :
| cause it has told just how the contributions
of different units were expended among the
needy children of Europe.
'"fhis account naturally, appealed to tho
imaginatiOns Of the children Now, how
ever, we hope to get those children Just as
much interested in the new phases Of local
work we are contemplating.
''For, after all, fine as has been our work
In conjunction with that Of the parent Red
CSpss In the desolated lands Of Europe In