Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1916 — GIRL WOULD BUILD WARSHIP [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GIRL WOULD BUILD WARSHIP

Cannot Be a Soldier 8o Bhe Starts • Movement to Raise Fund for Battleship. New York.—Marjorie Sterrett, a thirteen-year-old girl of Brooklyn, has started a movement among school children to raise a patriotic fund to build an American battleship. She earned the first dime for the fund by helping her mother in her housework, and sent the money with a letter to a New York newspaper. Because she’s a girl and cannot b* a soldier she wants to do something for her country, for which her grandfather and great-grandfather fought.

"I am a true blue American,’’ says Marjorie, I want to sea Uncle Sam lick all creation if he has to, like John Paul Jones did.” The New York school children have taken upon the idea with a whoop and already have sent in thousands of dimes. President Roosevelt has written her a remarkable letter commending her patriotism, and sending her ten dimes, one for each of his four grandchildren already born and the Six others he hopes for in years to come. Marjorie has refused offers of $250 for this letr ter. : -