Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 229, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1919 — BE A MEMBER OF THE JUNIOR RED CROSS [ARTICLE]

BE A MEMBER OF THE JUNIOR RED CROSS

ANT American school, whether It be public, private or parochial, may have a Junior Red Cross auxiliary. Membership in the Junior Red Cross may he obtained by applying to the nearest Red Cross chapter. As soon as the school enrolls as an auxiliary, every boy and girl in that school becomes a member of the Junior Red Cross. Membership fees depend upon the size of the school. The yearly fee for each school is one-fourth as many dollars as there are pupils in the school. The Junior membership auxiliary fee is a school fund, not a sum to be collected from individual pupils. Soane auxiliaries raise their money by sales or school entertainments. Others have “sacrifice boxes” where candy money is contributed to the Red Cross fund. The chapter school committee receives the money from the school. Sixty per cent is forwarded to National Headquarters for the National Children's Fund, and forty per cent retained for neighborhood relief work.