Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-07-15
Having The Time
Of Their Lives

In an account Of Junior Red Cross
work in the Peace Street Grammar
School Pvoidence, Rhode Island, the
Providence journal says:
Romance has been put into the
study Of geography Tor children and
teachers since the organization OF
the Junior Red Cross. What men
do in Czecho- Sloyakia, the names
of the cites they live in and the
rivers they travel on, all become
more important when one knows the
live boys and girls who are their
sons and daughters. Vice versa,
bows and girls in schools IN Bohem-
ia, France, Italy, China, every
where, take a deeper interest In the
Rocky Mountains and the Mississip-
pi Valley when they know American
boys and girls.
"All the school has to do to get
this new human side Of geography
is to Join the Junior Red Cross,
which means sending to Washington
National Headquarters a subscrip-
ton to the Junior Red Cross News.
Every class in the Peace Street
Grammar School has joined. The
magazine, which is full OF pictures
and interesting news about Juniors
all over the world, is used in Geog-
raphy and English and is very Of
ten the basis for opening exercises.
Particularly when the picture
shows a little girl from Budapest
holding a doll, the gift Of Juniors in
America, or a little Italian feeding
Italian porridge TO toy giraffe
that came in one Of the Christmas
boxes from Juniors over here, and
so on, the question resolves itself
into where to start and where to
stop. Exchanges Of gifts the world
over is quite the thing among Jun
iors. a child in the United States
makes some pictures in the Draw
ing Class which ultimately, go 20 a
sick little RumaEian perhaps in the
hospital. IS.
il"Ihis is what the 4ppiors at the
Peace Street Grammar School are
doing and ,thdy are having the time
of their lives. The ologan Of all
Juniors lis III serve A Junior works
for others but most Of all for other
Juniors. Carrying up coal for
Mother is Junior Red Cross service,
so is running erFanls. But there is
also united service among Juniors
for Juniors at Peace Street. When
boy or girl is out OF school for
long time, entertaining boxes are
made up to cheer him along a bit,
full of letters, jokes. and funny
presents. .i.. .
Last November Peace Street Jul
niors sent a barrel Of flour a day
for Is days to the Near East to
feed other children and their par
ents. There was great excitement
getting that flour off. At Christmas
time bundles Of magazines were
collected for the soldiers, in the hos
pitfalls and great care was taken to
see that every number of a thrilling
serial was present in the bundle
When spring comes the baskets
which are made in the drawing clas-
ses are filled with candy and sent to
the children in the hospitals. A
letter is tucked into each basket,
from one boy or girl to another
Very soon the Peace Street Ju-
niors aEc going to begin correspond
ing with juniors in countries of Eu-
rope. Interest in this runs so high
that geography marks are expected
to touch the top"
Work of American Children
The visit Of Or. J. Ross Hill.
Vice Chairman Of Foreign Opera
tons, American Red Cross, 10 IL
rama, Albania, for the inauguration
of work on the Albanian Vocation
al School, April II, was made the
occasion Of national ceremony, ac-
corling to a cable receiyed at Ma
tional Headquarters in Washington.
The day was declared a holiday
throughout the city and the
Prime Minister and his Cabinet, =
from the British
Government, members of the
League Of Nations Boundary Com
Is well as several promi-
nent Americans attended the cerc-
monies. DR.. Hill made the principal
address and turned the first sod.
This idea Of a technical school for
he training Of Albanian boys was
adopted By American Red Cross
Juniors in July, 1871, and money
was appropriated for this purpose
rom the National Childrens Fund