Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 229, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1919 — JUNIORS PLAN TO BE BROTHERS AND SISTERS TO WORLD CHILDREN [ARTICLE]

JUNIORS PLAN TO BE BROTHERS AND SISTERS TO WORLD CHILDREN

LITTLE brothers and sister* to all the. children of the world — that’s what the school boys and girls of America are going to be called from now on. The Junior Membership department of the Red Cross has a plan which will gather them all into this relationship. Even the smaller kiddies wilt be included. In central Europe 200,000 children are starving—7s,ooo are hungry and homeless In Petrograd alone. Sixty per cent of the membership fees are to bp sent to National Headquarter® for e Natibual Children’s Fund to rein America, in smaller numbers, there are children In need of help. These unfortunates are not to be forgotten while the orphans of France and Belgium are receiving aid. The remaining forty pe» cent of the Junior fees, as well as any additional money raised by the school children, Is to be expended for community activities. Under this head there are many classes. Crippled children are to be found in almost any town, and the Junlors will help them tu buy crutches or artificial hands and legs. Little folks in need of hospital or medical care will. have Amfirtcaa . Red Cross Juniors ready to foot the bills if the fathers aren’t able to pay the expenses. Junior auxiliaries will try to furnish diversion for t.ha children who live in orphanages and for the shut-ins. Th 3 ideal of the organization is to estab4ialv—international understanding anfL ■good-wttl-tupong att children; to provide motives for purposeful school activities, and to carry out ideals and habits of service.