Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1920 — JUNIOR RED CROSS ACTIVE IN EUROPE [ARTICLE]

JUNIOR RED CROSS ACTIVE IN EUROPE

Garden seeds for Polish orphans, milk for anaemic Greek babies, carpenters’ tools for Czecho-Slovakian cripples —these are only a few of the gifts that young Americans are sending to the war-crushed children of the Old World. Through the Junior Red Cross the boys and girls of the United States are giving a fresh start in life to little war orphans scattered all over Europe. They have set up orphans’ homes In FrAnce, school colonies in Belgium and Montenegro, and day schools In Albania. , They are sending dozens of young Syrians, Montenegrins, and Albanians to American colleges in Constantinople and Beirut, and maintaining more than a hundred orphans of French soldiers at colleges and trade schools. In orphanages and farm schools up and down the peninsula of Italy there are nearly 500 wards of American Juniors. Last winter a thousand French children from the inadequate shelters of the devasted regions were sent by the Junior Red Cross to spend the cold months in warmer parts of France. At the same time five thousand little T’elgians were baving a hot lunch every day at Junior Red Cross school caneens. American school children have alroady raised something like a million dollars for those enterprises, and they are srill hard at work. In China,, through campaigns of ediicntion. the Junior Red Cross is helping to combat widely prevalent bllndn“ss *»nd cholera.