The border vidette., 1928-03-10
JUNIOR RED CROSS

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prominent western educator, the
superintendent of schools in one
of the most important cities on
the Pacific coast. This man
knows whereof be speaks, for
every school building under his
supervision is enrolled as a unit
in the American Junior Red
Cross.
The extent to which this post,
Office is operating today in Ari
zona is told in recent inter-
view by Miss Eva Hance. direc-
tor of Junior Red Cross for the
western territory, who has made
numerous visits to schools in
this state. According to Miss
Hance. 12.267 Arizona school
children are enrolled as mem.
bers of the Junior Red Cross and
pledged to its three-fold ideal of
"healthful living, unselfish SER.
vice, and international good
will"
Under this latter aim," said
Miss Hance, these Arizona boys
and girls have exchanged let.
ters, portfolios and gifts with
boys and girls in Greece, Rou
mania, Norway, Holland, Aus
-tralia and Japan. We grown
ups are apt to grow self center
ed and prejudiced. but children,
if given a chance, will love each
other despite every barrier of
distance and alien language.
They want to know and under
stand the children of other
lands; they have spontaneous
and affectionate curiosity. Red
Cross international school cor
respondence fulfills in a large
measure the natural childish
wish expressed by a little Lat
Wan girl: I want to know
what happens in other parts of
the globe, to find out how trees
grow and flowers blossom in
other lands. to learn what peo.
pie live there and whether they
live the same kind of life we
do
Educators tell u.s." continued
Miss Hance. that to answer
this natural wish to Learn is
the true aim of education. In.
ternational school correspoE.
dence as conducted under the
Junior Red Cross utilizes most
of the subjects taught IN modern
curriculum. Geograpy, history
and civics come amazingly to life
when the real children of real
country are being studied; pen
manship and drawing. grammar
and composition become matters
of pride when it is known that
boys and girls in Holland and
Greece or Brazil are going to
gain from their impressions of
their American friends.
sixth grade pupils of King.
man, Arizona, write to the child
rem of a corresponding grade in
Holland: What avery nice idea
it is that we, as memb bers of the
American Junior Red Cross, can
correspond with our friends in
far-away countries. We have
chosen your country with which
to correspond because of the
many interesting things to be
learned about your land, which
we have likely missed in our
study And then they describe
the natural beauties of their own
state-the Grand Canyon and
the Petrified Forest, and tell of
the many species of cactus which
grow on the desert and the uses
to which each variety may be
put.
"Of course. it isn't only with
foreign children that American
Juniors become acquainted"
Miss Hance pointed out. At
the time of the Mississippi flood
they made the most wonderful
contribution. not only of money
but of friendly, cheering, sym.
pathetic letters and gifts to the
children who lost their homes.
Thav have restocknd tho lihrar
les of hundreds of schools in
Arkansas, Louisiana and Miss.
issippi. They sent Christmas
gifts to all the boys and girls
who suffered in recent New Eng
land floods. I cannot begin to
tell you of the thousands of
things they are doing all the
time under their banner of un
selfish SERVICE
six million American child.
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