Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1918 — First Victory Boy’s Work. [ARTICLE]

First Victory Boy’s Work.

“Say, I’m wiar to you, all right,” a Western Union messenger boy whispered to one of the directors of the United War Work Campaign in the New York headquarters. The director’s desk had only just been moved In and the work of the big drive bad hardly begun. “I’m onto your stunt,” the boy went on as he swung a grimy fist over the desk; “you’re goin’ to give us fellows that ain’t old enough to go to war a chance to earn an’ give to back up a fighter an’ help win the war. Listen; I’m in on this.” The crumpled -?5 bill he dropped on the desk made him the first of “a million boys behind a million fighters” who are to be lined up as Victory Boys during the Week of the drive. There will be a division of Victory Girls, too, and every boy and every girl enrolled will have to earn every dollar he or sh.e gives to the war work fund.