Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1920 — AN APPEAL TO THE JUNIORS! SHALL WE ANSWER IT? [ARTICLE]

AN APPEAL TO THE JUNIORS! SHALL WE ANSWER IT?

The chairman of the Jasper county Junior Red Cross has just received a letter from the Lake Division headquarters, from which the following is quoted: One of our field representatives hak Just >told us a pathetic story of a little Kentucky county where they have never had a Christmas tree. She’s going to have a community tree for the children this year and wants a few loyal Juniors to make some bright things for the tree—chains of colored paper, paper dolls, etc. There will be about sixty children who will have Christmas with this field representative and I wonder if any of your pupils could make a few little things to send down. Juniors complying with this request should mail their donations to Helen Lamson at Rensselaer by Wednesday, December 15.

A training school for Y. W. C. A. secretaries, the first of its kind In the country, was opened in India, Nov. 1, directed by a secretary from' the United States. Bight young Indian women, the same number as started In the first class of the Association Training school in the United States in 1804, are in the first class, studying administration of association activities, club work with girls and organization of girl students. There are 47 Y. W. C. A. workers in India at present and 161 centers of work. A