New Britain herald., 1921-12-14
JR. ACH'MT XMAS
 PLANS BOOMING
Tree to Be Decorated Daily by
 Different Clubs

Springfield, representing the Spring field headquarters of the Junior l. achievement bureau of the Eastern States league, officially starts work towards the big community junior achievement Christmas tree which is destined 10 demonstrate to New Brit ain people just what the junior achievement work really means. Miss " Donahue will remain in this city until Christmas and will have general ! supervision of the tree.
 4 The general committee is on the . job q leaders meeting is planned for ', this evening or tomorrow. and final arrangements are nearing completion. In Gas Company Window. The tree will be placed in the win dow of the New Britain Gas Light company and will be illuminated by courtesy of the Connecticut Light and Power company, Different junior achievement teams will take places in the window every day, probably after school in the afternoon, where the members will show their skill in mak- ing toys, mending rubbers, manufac- turing various articles, useful, orna- IlitIiloll anu tlllASlIS Ohl Ol llil NttA4Si cigar boxes, old shirts or any other discarded article. Hats, dresses, etc, will be made in full view of the pub lie every day for a week.
 Object of Work.
 The real object of junior achieve ment is a self help program whereby the children are taught how to take articles which usually would be thrown away as worthless and turn them into something useful and of cash value. Boys are taught how to mend old rubbers, which ordinarily would be thrown into the ash barrel. Girls are taught how to make every thing in the line of feminine wearing apparel from shoes to the flowers on their hats including the very hats themselves. Head to Foot" clubs, as they are called, include the making of a complete outfit for either sex to .,wear. Toy automobiles, fly traps, rat traps, broom holders, coat hangers and countless articles too numerous to mention are made from old tin cans and empty cigar boxes.
 Will Decorate Trees.
 As fast as these articles are made next week they will be hung on the tree, which will stand directly along side the table where the children will work. In front of the table will be seen a sign inviting other children to join rne work and will read as follows: ITO the boys and girls ol New Britain: Join a Junior Achieve ment cub in your neighborhood
 ,,pl;cotion Hanks Available,
 Application blanks for membership may be had all during the week, be- ginning next Monday and lasting ltn- til Saturday night, at the office of the Gas company, at the Chamber of Commerce, the Boys club ana the Welfare association.
 On ton of the tree will be another | sign painted in green and red col ors of Christmas inviting the people | to "Watch the Tree Grow" Marshall | R. Cook, superintendent of the Boys club, is chairman of the general com | mittee.
 Gifts for Poor Children.
 Miss Cora M. Beale, executive sec retary of the Welfare Workers asso- citation, has charge of the schedule of | clubs operating in the window and | will look after the disposition of the articles made. These articles will be | taken off the tree Saturday night and | will be distributed by workers under the direction of Miss Beale to the children in the city least likely to find many toys in their Christmas stock ings Sunday morning.
 Demonstration at south Church.
 Walter l.. Williams, who has charge of half a dozen wooden toy making clubs in the city, and who had charge of an interesting demonstration at the South church Monday afternoon and evening where a number of people in spected the work done by the boys of that church and the Burritt Mission, will have charge of the window dec orations acting on a committee with II. F. Hodge, superintendent of the New Britain Gas company, which company is donating the use of it's window, and Mrs. E. NJ. Pratt, who has volunteered to furnish the tree.
 Miss Donahue will be eX-ofticlo chairman of all committees and will be a sort of advisory director of the display all during the week.
 Questions on Cards.
 On the application cards Ar mem bership will be found the Slowing questions; Name, address, school and age On the other side of the card will be a list of projects possible un- der the junior achievement program and will include toy making, dress making, rubber mending, hat making, , shoe repairing, salesmanship and many others
 Each club as it operates in the win dow will display a placard giving the name of it's club, it's leader and it's members. Somewhere in the window will be a sign giving a list of the 80 or more active clubs in the city, their E names and the names of their leaders. The official slogan for the week has been adopted as Make Someone Else | L Ia 1,ra1.,, q nd will he lisnl Nel