Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-14
$4,000 Pupils
SCriinnp toLend
Savings toU. 5.

The scholastic army OF Detroit
and Wayne County, more than
$4,000 students in public and
paFeehiai schools, composeS
vital section in the current drive
to raise the community's quota OF
the Second War Loan.
In every classroom students are
their spending money
and their savings in bonds and
stamps, the purchases being cred-
tied 10 their school totals.
This will form a huge slice IT
the Sl40,0O0,000 Wayne
County quota in the national drive
for 13 billion dollars, the worlds
greatest war finance undertaking.
Supt. Warren +. Bow of De-
.trolt'S school system; the Rev. FIR.
Carroll +. Deadly, superintendent
of the parochial schools, and Fred
C. Fisher, Wayne County superin-
.tendent were among the officials
who today declared that no other
task ever assumed in the schools
here brought such enthusiastic,
spontaneous and unanimous re-
sponse' by students.
MINUTE MAN FLAGS
Yesterday United States Treas
Jury minute man" flags were de-
livered by ieeps to six more public
schools showing more than 80 per
cent of their students buying
bonds and stamps. In addition TO
the honor of winning the flag, the
students were treated 10 rides in
the speedy little army "buggies,
ldriVen by-women OF the Red Cross
Motor Corps.
The flags went to Hampton,
Mcdowell. Van Zile, Grant and
Mccullough elementary schools.
and Nolan intermediate School.
Seven public schools already had
won the flags and nine parochial
schools had qualified for them.
At Isaac Crary Elementary
school a fair" will be staged by
the students next week TO swell
bond sales. Booths will exhibit
products of parents hobbies. the
displays to be auctioned for bond
and stamp purchases.
AVERAGE 81 A WEEK
/ Northwestern Highs $3.50 stu
dents, averaging 81 per week per
Student in war savings invest
mentS the last 40 weeks, are being
Ipepped up TO buy even more dur
ing the war loan drive.
Tappan intermediate Schools
goal is $4,000, of which $4,000
had been subscribed when the
stamp and bond booths opened
yesterday. Teachers said the rush
kept them too busy to check the
new total last night, but they es-
/ timated the schools sales had
reached $4,000 today.
Wilson intermediate Schools
1000 students have pled~c9 the
equivalent of a SIS bond per stu
dent The school yesterday held
an auction of household articles
utensils. appliances and bric-a-
brac-and sold" them for bond
subscriptions.
One girl carried $3.50 cash TO
classes 10 buy $1,000 worth Of
bonds. A boy had $500 for an
other bond purchase, and still an
other boy bought $500 worth OF
bonds when he successfully bid in
vase somebody put on the auc-
ton block.
WALK TO SCHOOL
HutchinS intermediate students
and teachers today pledged to
walk 10 school for the duration of
the big bond campaign and put
their saved street car and bus
fares into stamps and bonds.
Thus they relieve the DSR war
load and add still further TO the
war effort by loaning their money
to Uncle Sam.
Similar wholehearted response
of children is reported throughout
Detroit and Wayne County.
i All schools are StreSsing the
particular Importance of getting
partly filled stamp books COM
pleted for conversion into bonds
during the campaign