Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1922-09-28
RED CROSS PLANS
FOR ENROLMENT
CAMPAIGN FOR JUNIORS WILL
BE LAUNCHED IN SCHOOLS
EARLY IN SEPTEMBER.
ADVICE FROM DIRECTOR DUNN
Ways in Which the Children Can Give
Active Assistance - society's Sur
plus Supplies in Europe Given to
Nurses There.

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Washington. The re-enrollment
plans of the American Red Cross are
now. complete. School enrolment sup
plies-buttons, posters, membership
rolls and other material-are being
distributed among the chapters When
the public schools closed last June,
24,52S of them were enrolled as aux
iliaries with 4,4S3,S45 pupils wearing
the Il Serve" button of the Juniors.
II Is planned TO launch the re-enroll-
ment of schools in the Junior Ameri-
can Red Cross early in September in
order that the Juniors may be ready
70 assist and participate in the annual
roll call in November.
Chapter roll call committees will be
urged TO consider a more extensive
use Of the Juniors in organizing their
campaigns this year. 1t is pointed out
that a chapter which is alive to its
opportunities will see to 1t that the
schools have a representative on the
roil-call committee, since the enroll
ment, or re-enrollment, of the schools
in the Junior Red Cross is an impor-
tant part of the duty of a chapter in
the promotion of the roll call.
"One of the many ways of linking
the Junior Red Cross with the roll
call" said National Director Dunn, us
TO arrange with the school authorities
for a Red Cross day in the schools.
This should be in advance of the open
ing of the membership campaign. The
juniors may be placed in charge of
the program. which could consist of
Junior songs, patriotic rectations,
brief papers ON the work of the Red
Cross in its various phases. and ten
minute address by some speaker care
fully selected by the roll-call commit
tee. In this way the message of the
Red Cross and the purpose of the roll
call would be carried into the homes
of the school children in a most eff
fective way"
Mr.. Dunn believes the chapter roll
call committee can easily promote
Junior Red Cross work in the schools
and at the same time facilitate roll
call work by inviting the Juniors TO
assist actively in the roll call through
the performance of a portion of the
clerical work mt committee headuuar-
tiers, by aiding in the distribution of
supplies, by acting as messengers,
serving as ushers at public meetings.
making posters, participating in plays
and pageants and doing the scores of
things children will gladly and will
lingly do TO aid the committee and TO
add color and life to the roll-call CAM
paign. One point made by Director
Dunn is that the Junior should not be
asked to solicit funds during the roll
call.
AT the time the armlstice was
signed Quantities of supplies were
stored in the American Red Cross
warehouses at home and overseas. In
Guided was limited amount of
nurses equipment, intended for the
replacement of worn equipment of
Red Cross nurses In the army or with
the Red Cross. This had been assem-
bled upon the order of the surgeon
general, who had requested that
enough supplies should be purchased
Tor the equipment of u, 900 nurses a
week for period of eight weeks"
The sudden ending of the war there (
fore found the Red Cross with a sur I
plus stock of this equipment on hand
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