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PRESIDENT WILSON ASKS BOYS AND GIRLS TO FORM JUNIOR RED CROSS. Utiles Proclamation to School Children. President Wilson has issued the following proclamation to all the school children of the United States, asking them to aid the Red Cross by forming a Junior branch and making their school an active agent in serving the country at this great time of need: "To the School Children of the United States: "A PROCLAMATION. "The President of the United States is also president of the American Red Cross. It is from these offices joined in one that I write you a word of greeting at this time when bo many of you are beginning the school year. "The American Red Cross has Just prepared a junior merbershlp with school activities in which every pupil in the United States can find a chance to serve our country. The school is the natural center of your life. Through it you can best work in the great cause of freedom to which we have all pledged ourselves. "Our Junior Red Cross will bring to you opportunities of service to your community and to other communities all over , the world and guide your service with high and re ligious ideais. it win teacn you how to save in order that suffering children elsewhere may . have the chance to live. It will teach you how to prepare some of the supplies which wounded soldiers and homeless families lack. It will send to you, through the Red Cross bulletins, the thrilling stories of relief and rescue. And, best of all, more perfectly than through any of your other school lessons, you will learn by doing these kind things under your teacher's direction to be the future good citizens of this great country which we all love. "And I commend to all school teachers in the country the simple plan which the American Red Cross has worked out to provide for your Teachers of

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Mrs. Mary Borden Turner is the only American woman to win the double honor medal, the Legion of Honor and the Cross de Guerre. General Petain, commander of the French armies conferred the decorations. The photograph shows Mrs. Turner with a French officer in the rear of the first line.

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co-operation, knowing as I do that school children will give their best services under the direct guidance and instruction of . their teachers. Is not this perhaps the chance for which you have been looking to give your time and efforts in some measure to meet our national needs? WOODROW WILSON, "President." The plans for working out the Richmond branch of this Junior Red Cross have not yet been completed, but In general the idea will be this To make each school a unit, so that when the school becomes a Junior Red Cross School, then every pupil in the school will be a member of the Junior Red Cross, but not until then. The membership dues will equal twenty-five cents a pupil, so that if a school has 200 members, the school dues will be $50.00; but this money may be raised by giving entertainments, having sales, selling scrap paper, or by contributions, instead of making each child pay twenty-five cents, which would be much harder for some children to do than others. A second point is that the money raised by the Junior Red Cross is to be kept entirely separate from the Senior Red Cross-. fund. It will go to buy material for the children to work with and prepare for use, themselves. And the work they do also will be different in many ways from the work the Senior Red Cross is doing. The Junior Red Cross probably will furnish supplies for the relief of war orphans, and all children who are suffering " because of the war. " 'Also they will make articles for the army and navy, to be used in the mercy, .work. In organizing the work Mr. Giles, superintendent of the schools, will be general chairman. Then the work probably will be done through four divisions, 1 high school, 2 Garfield, 3 upper classes of grade schools, and 4 lower classes of grade schools. Each boy and girls in every school which becomes a member of the Junior Red Cross will be given some active work to do, in packing and wrapping, in buying the material, in supplying reports for the newspapers. In helping to keep the books, and much of Art of War n it.

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the actual detail work of a big organization, as well as the sewing and cutting itself. In this way it is hoped that the children will learn how great constructive work is done and be doubly interested in the cause since they will have made every part of it their very own. ." Henry MacFarlpne Says: TIMOTHY JAWN AND ME (Dedicated to M. F. and M. S.) Hark! my children and you shall hear Of one great ride plus lots of fear i'Twas on Thursday morn so early at dawn That I witha friend named Timothy Jawn, Went out in an auto to ride Joyfullee Just Timothy Jawn and poor little me. ,.. . .' We aroused bright and early why almost three And swallowed a pillow to muffle our glee. After donning our suit of cinnemoil clothes We survey ourselves from our feet to our nose, ' In a looking glass standing close by. Said Timothy Jawn, "Let's get out our Ford And thru the fair country, let's raise some discord." So Timothy Jawn with his mind all made up Went out the door, at his third coffee cup, ; And with me on the inside working the brake Jawn began cranking for goodness sake. Said Jawn thoughtful, "Bless me, if this blighted ol crank Doesnt say there's no gas in the gasoline tank." Then up did Jawn filler and in midst of his mirth pgan cranking the flivver for all e was worth. It gave just one puff then It would die. - After many more swear cranking and thus words. The crazy ol' Flivver sat up one big fuss. ' ;..;' So Timothy Jawn overheated and such Hopped into the buss while I threw in the clutch And away went out Flivver away down the road (And here marks the middle of my episode.) We came to a place where the fence was all down And three pigs were grazing with coats of light brown. Ve hit just one of them oh but the squeel It tickled Jawn so he grabbed at my wheel. But we went, sailing, sailing along, I Bteering the boat and Jawn warb ling a song. , Listen my children, for this is the end It happened up near St. Calis's Bend. as we nearea it we saw a onehorse cart . And at this with Jawn's help made a big dart And I hit it, believe me I hit it some whack. It turned Henry Fliver clear over on his back. Now, when I wake up at night, I still hear. The wrench of the rods at the stealing gear. Ves, Jawn dear ol' Jawn broke a bone In his nose. ixl tore a big hole in his cinaman clothes. ?o loud did he holler, and long did he wail, And this is the end of ray fliveroous tale. MY TRIP EAST Dear Aunt Molly: I want to tell you about my trip east. We went to Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey. We bad the most fun in Atlantic City.. We went In a' big building called a Steeple Chase. It cost 25 cents to get in it. In it there are big slides and a -soup bowl, There is one great big slide about three or four stories high. We had the most fun on that. At the end of it there is a soup bowl. . You cant get out of it unless you take hold of a rope and pull yourself out. Edwin May, Warner School. 1

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Warner School Starts Student Government Work Next Wednesday afternoon is the date set for the first meeting of the Good Government League at Warner School, and the student government work will be begun then. . The election or representatives from each of the rooms is never held until at least two weeks after school begins, in order to give the boys and girls plenty of time to get acquainted and decide who is best fitted to represent the others. Since it Is such an honor to be elected, it is only fUr to the new boys nnd girls who come from other schools to give them a chance to show what ideas they have and what an attitude they will take towards school affairs, before the election is held. Since this is the eleventh year the school has had the Good Government League, probably they will decide on many important matters this year, especially since this Is the first year of war and such ques GIRL SCOUTS AT WORK The Girl Scouts of America are hard at work for the Food Administration. So far they have con cerned themselves with two tasks, that of assisting in, and giving canning demonstration, and of aiding in the distribution of Food Pledge Cards of the housewives of the nation. In many cities, local chapters, under the guidance of graduate sent by the State Agricultural College are being taught scientific canning. Accustomed to strict obedience, the Girl Scouts, have been exceedingly apt pupils. , It has been suggested that the Girl Scout wear, so far as possible, the Food Administration Uniform. This is of cbambray or gingham.

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Parade Is Great Feature The part about the Horse Show that many people enjoy is the parade, which is led by the marshal riding a bay horse. Then come some boys dressed in white with red, white and blue caps on, riding bay ponies. Next come the band playing such inspiring music. Then men leading horses, and horse back riders, following them are the draft teams, hitched to wagons and other farming implements. At the last of the procession come the buggies and carriages, and finally. automobiles from far and near. -Neva Sonder. INTERESTING FACTS Telescopes were invented in 1590. The first air pump was made in 1650. Newspaper advertising began in 1652. The first balloon ascent was made in 1783. FOR FOOD C0NSERVA1 1 "VtzJ V. Their use would release for soldiers the khaki that now figures in Scout uniforms. When a girl becomes a Scout she weds herself to the ideal of American womanhood, promising to love, honor and obey the Scout law that helps her to reach that ideal. Girl Scouts are really Soldiers of the Home. From nature lore and sports they learn the lessons of health, comradliness and simplicity. They learn household science in a way that makes it yield 100 percent service to the family; and, they also learn thoBe things whereby they can serve that bigger family, their nation, in its present crisis photography, signaling, gardening, telegraphy, dairy work and first aid.