Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1917 — ORGANIZE JUNIOR RED CROSS [ARTICLE]

ORGANIZE JUNIOR RED CROSS

Among the School Children of the United States. Henry P. Davison, chairman of the Red Cross war council, announces the launching of a Junior Red Cross, open to all school children in the country. The new organization hopes to become a channel for patriotic service and interest to the 22,000.000 boys and girls of school age in the United States. Membership in the Junior Red Cross is to be by schools. Whenever there has been placed in the local school fund an amount equal to 25 cents for every pupil the school becomes a school auxiliary of the Red Cross, and is entitled to display a special Red Cross banner. At the same time every pupil becomes a junior member, and is entitled to wear the membership button.

The school fund will be used for the purchase of materials which the children will make up into Red Cross supplies, and for other uses in which the children will have a personal share. No part of it is to go for chapter or general expenses. - -

The plan has been developed by President MacCracken of Vassar, -in consultation with school authorities and the National Red Cross. Dr. MacCracken said recently: “I believe in the Junior Red Cross, not only because of the great sums of money it will earn and the immense amount of supplies which the school pupils, especially in our technical schools will make, but because of its educational and patriotic value for the children.”

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