NOERWOOD & UnneRwooo. N.Y 1. How would you like to live in a cave like this? Fourteen Montenegrins have a $50,000 view 1n front and about $4 worth of furniture inside. 2. American milk feeds a starved Russian girl. 3. French children trundled along with khaki- clad Americans to colonies supported by Juniors. 4.A shell-torn blockhouse, monument to fallen Rumanians who here stemmed theGerman Army. YING ABOARD THE “FRIENDSHIP’ By Carlyle T. Williams

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The Corinth Canal cuts historic Greece in half.

. ‘Where shall we adventure, today that we're afloat, Wary of the weather and steering by a star? Shall it be to Africa, a-steering of the boat, To Providence, or Babylon, or off to Malabar?”

UT of course there’s no ‘“Friendship’s” tour by a call in question, now that we're Dadizeele. Our call must be Juniors. It is to Europe made somewhere around noon- that we have been sending our time, and we shall go straight gifts and our letters and our to the new little schoolhouse. money ; let us clamber aboard an It is not a very prepossessing airplane which we will call the schoolhouse on the outside— Friendship,” and go there our- about as picturesque as the fore- selves. We must provide our- man’s shack that an American selves with a special Junior Red building company would put up Cross map (you will find a small near its excavations. But just copy of it on page 5) because, peek in. The Belgian school- even in one year on the other children are sitting in long rows side of the Atlantic, Juniors have at rough board tables; they are managed to put a good many as busy and happy as any chil- modest little places on the map dren ever were, for each child is for the first time. giving his single-minded atten- For instance, in Belgium there tion to a big chunk of bread and is Roulers with its little village a generous bowl of thick meat- neighbor Dadizeele. Probably and-vegetable soup. We shall you won't find Dadizeele on any pass about forty of these soupes map in your geography. But it The children of liberty-loving Poland, scolaires, or school lunchrooms, is not a new name to Juniors, who have suffered much, are receiving in ruined villages near Roulers, and we may well begin the some assistance from American Juniors. and that means that the Junior [3] Red Cross is providing one good meal a day for several in fact one girl was so sure of it that she tried to thousands of Belgian schoolchildren. smuggle in her baby brother, who was not invited be- When we cross the border into France we must turn cause unfortunately for him he was only two years old. the ‘‘Friendship’s’’ nose toward the battered city of Marie had a long full cape and she succeeded in get- Rheims, so that we can have a look at a certain beau- ting little Pierre safely into the train. tiful fifteen-acre estate out in Villers-Allerand, five But at Paris the children had to change cars, and miles from the city. Here the children of Rheims, while they were waiting a big automobile truck took pale and hollow-cheeked after years of hiding in damp them to the American Red Cross warehouse to get cellars and caves, are learning something quite strange some extra clothes for their outing. Marie stood and new—they are learning what it feels like to have around in corners while the other children were being a good time. Here are beautiful parks to play in, and fitted; she insisted politely that she did not need any a garden and rabbits and chickens to look out for, and more clothes than she had. But Pierre was not so self- on pleasant days even the studying is done outdoors. controlled as his big sister. He was tired and it was Living in a cave is all very well when you have a good dark and stuffy under the cape and presently a loud supper and a clean bed to come home to, but when wail was heard in the warehouse. The wail was evi- your home is gone and you have to stay in that cave dently issuing from the near neighborhood of the em- all through cold whistling sleet-storms it is a long, barrassed Marie. It was all up with Pierre. The kind long way from be- lady who carried ing fun. Fifty ata him off promised time, the tired little that he would be cave-dwellers come well taken care of for their two- and that Marie months’ outing in would hear from this lovely place, him often—but it and twenty of them wasalimpandemp- are always the ty-feeling cape that guests of American boarded “the train Juniors. for the beach that From Rheims let winter afternoon. us travel in the di- If our airship can rection of Paris, so make a diagonal that we can make across Switzerland a surprise call on we shall travel our friends at Pe- straight to Venice. rigny. The Perigny At Venice is the children are having school-ship Scilla, a picnic beside the Brushing one’s teeth is a new and fasci- and Juniors have a nating pastime to Albanian war orphans. river that runs be- special interest in hind their house. the Scilla because Dédé and Lili, the babies of the family, are wading twenty-eight of the young war orphans who are learn- around on stepping-stones near the bank, while some ing their trade of fisherman here are having their ex- of the older ones run races in the meadow. Claire is at penses paid by the Junior Red Cross. One of them is work in Paris, but the rest of the little family of twen- Ruggero; let us not fail to meet Ruggero, best swim- ty are in sight, all looking well after the winter which mer on the ship and proud wearer of the Italian medal the Juniors have enabled them to spend so busily and of valor. Ruggero was only nine when the people of happily in their comfortable new home in the pretty his little village fled in terror before the approaching little village of rose-gardens. Austrian army. Already the war had killed his father If we had been making this journey a few months and mother, and Ruggero could only patter along be- ago we should have planned a little excursion to Porz- side his neighbors. Just as the terror-stricken villagers Even in sunny Brittany, or else to Toulon and La reached the Piave River the bridge crumpled under Seyne on the Mediterranean, so that we could see the the Austrian shells. Wagons were pushed ahead into Junior colonies where children from the cold devastat- the current, and in the confusion little Ruggero was ed regions of the battle zone spent the winter as guests the only one to notice a frantic mother whose baby had in cheerful comfortable peasant homes of the warmer rolled out into the swiftly-moving water. Ruggero parts of France. May is too late for winter visits, but plunged into the icy river, made for the baby and perhaps we shall have the good luck to meet near their brought it safely to shore. That is how Ruggero hap- homes some of the little guests themselves, plump and pens to be wearing a medal. sun-browned and eager to tell about the wonderful Not far from Venice is Udine, center of a wasted places where flowers grow all winter. They knew when region where thousands of little war orphans have lost they first started off that they were in for a good time; their homes as well as their parents. Italians have [4] THE JUNIOR MAP OF EUROPE EVERY ROUND DOT e IS A SCENE OF JUNIOR RED CROSS ACTIVITY

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There are forty-three dots on this map, and Juniors are doing something at each of the forty-three places. already provided a school home, but there are so many negro the ‘‘Friendship” flies north to visit armless of the little waifs that some would have to be left out Frantik of Prague and his crippled schoolmates, then if the Juniors of America had not chipped in. At northeast to Warsaw, where Junior Red Cross play- Florence, too, we have been able to make the good ground leaders are making life happier for children of things go around a little farther. Italian soldiers in the Polish refugee camps. Florence have given a day nursery for the children of It is time to head for the Atlantic again; but before their dead comrades; but the city seems to be full of we point the ‘‘Friendship’s” nose toward the west let the little war orphans, and the soldiers are only too us go north a little way, just far enough to travel over glad to have the Junior Red Cross help them to help one corner of the big mysterious country where history a few more. is being made too fast for any of us to understand. After Sicily and Greece our next stop is far to the Making history fast is very uncomfortable for people east. In Constantinople there are two up-to-date who are in the midst of it, and here in Livonia and American colleges, one for men and one for women, Esthonia and the other Baltic provinces of Russia and there are now fifty new students here who have there are about 300,000 children who are badly in need come from Syria, Albania, and Montenegro with of the kind of help American Juniors can give. By scholarships given by the Junior Red Cross. the time we are safe at home the Junior Red Cross will At Belgrade and Vranja, in Serbia, we shall see be busily at work in this region around Riga—the school homes where several hundred young Serbians latest but by no means the last forward move toward are being taught to support themselves. From Monte- our goal of “happy childhood the world over.” [5] A POST CARD FOR “QUENTY-QUEER”

TIRED man was taking a well-earned vaca- there was to be done, no matter how tired he was, the tion at Yellowstone Park after months of President would start a bevy of letters to the boys and hard work, vexing problems and tremendous girls he had left behind at the White House. They responsibility. The year was 1903. The man was must share a part of every day with him, even to Theodore Quentin, the Roosevelt, baby of the

Presidentofthe ! family. One United States. night by the For months Cf~C 16° S703 camp-fire he he had _ been wrote Quentin counting the Doe 1 14 AA Lt ee “4 Po eens as follows: y days to this Lorre « 72 ee “Blessed playtime with J 2 Quenty-quee, all the eager- peteta 4, (Cre <7 ~ Seti Gene o Cl I love you very > ness of a boy much. Here is going on a first ooe-se & lOO f c & tAnz ? <% a+ ae or Cleo a picture of the . « camping trip. Chad ? . inti Pe mule that sf o> - « = ar «fp @-¢, There were 2 7 oe carries, among snowshoes and J. other things, skis to be + my bag of donned, and clothes, etc. miles of crusty {| Here the Pres- white snow to Rows as i Core t- Fe peeas (rs ae ident drew a skim over. picture of a There were 4 mule with a oe Back Qo... / fen we tr: fre Co strange birdsto pack upon its xa. an otto, ace ay <> watch and fol- ii <-f back. | low. John Bur- “There are roughs, the aC irtenny [=f Pe een ~~ wm Che about twenty naturalist, was mules in the x | the President’s dc ate 4&0 yplacaecens, pack train. -“ s. =f companion. A They all follow pack-train fol- one another in lowed them . 7 <* Za, Cat pen pe . single file up bearing the and down needed sup- ow Flhnes the mountain plies. paths and Day after across the day on horse- streams. back the Presi- “Your loving dent would Father.” charge over the A number of long trails of Two sides of a hitherio unpublished post card from years have the Park. Now Theodore Roosevelt to his youngest son, Quentin. passed since and then a deer this letter was or antelope written. Little would poke its head in sight. Quick as a flash the man “Quenty-quee” grew up to be a skillful and daring on horseback would give chase. At night by the camp- aviator. Now neither father nor son is with us, but fire, the President and Mr. Burroughs would compare the lessons of service and patriotism which they taught the adventures of the day. Then no matter what else will always live. They were fine Americans.

This is the word that year by year, This they all with a joyful mind While in her place the School is set, Bear through life like a torch of flame, Every one of her sons must hear, And falling fling to the host behind— And none that hears it dare forget. “Play up! play up! and play the game!”’ —Henry Newbolt. [6] AM Ss Boe J QUE

The Story of a Hen and a Hand Grenade

By Fisher Ames

URING the last of the fighting around den every day. Rheims, old Pierre went back to his native Pierre took village close by. He found it a mass of stone, pleasure in her mortar and dirt, spread out over streets and gardens company, but un- as if a volcano had cast it forth. No one was there. fortunately she was However, Pierre did not find himself wholly alone. continually A sturdy little hen of the Plymouth Rock breed was scratching up the picking about, and Pierre named her Angelique. seeds that he planted. While he was putting together some of the fallen It was plain that An- timbers, Angelique would stroll up and inspect the gelique was very long work with her head on one side. At night she refused and strong in the to sleep near the cellar where he had his bunk. Instead leg. She began to get she went quite to the other edge of the little town, busy with her back- roosting on the remains of a pump in a desolate ward raking kicks. PAUL THOMPSON PHOTO garden. The more she was One night a flock of shells hummed over and into shooed away the more If this fat little Plymouth Rock isn’t Angelique, she the ruins, many of them bursting near Pierre's cellar indignant and persis- looks very much like her. like cracks of thunder. A week later they came again. tent Angelique be- Pierre was so familiar with the look of the broken came. It astonished walls that in the morning he could tell where some of her that Pierre did not understand what gardens were the shells had landed. The interesting thing was that really created for, but as there seemed to be a hopeless none had struck in the quarter where Angelique difference of opinion on the subject, Angelique decided roosted. He decided that the hen had learned from that it would be tactful to choose her own hour for experience that the pump stood in a comparatively recreation. Accordingly she rose early and betook safe spot, so he picked up his bed and few belongings herself to the garden while it still shone with dew. and moved into the cellar of the house near the pump. His breakfast over, Pierre also walked gardenward. When a party of American Red Cross men came He was grieved to see the gawky figure of Angelique into the town a few days later he told them about it. already in action, but he was somewhat mollified when They advised him to go away altogether. The Ger- he realized that she was scratching, not on planted mans would soon be driven back, they said, and then ground, but at the point where he had left off digging he could return. But Pierre declined to follow this the previous day. Her energetic strokes could do no good advice. harm there. “I’m getting along with my sheds,” he replied. Angelique saw him coming, and knowing that her ‘Besides, I wish to start a garden. Food will be scarce fun was over put extra power to her scratches. Then when my neighbors come back.”’ something appalling happened. There was a flash and “Look out how you dig around this place,’’ warned a crash, and a great rosette of smoke hid the garden. one of the Red Cross men, ‘‘there was hand-to-hand Shocked, Pierre stood rooted in his tracks. In an fighting here and that means grenades. You may hit instant he understood the tragedy. Angelique’s big one with your spade.”’ feet had touched the delicate firing mechanism of a “T’ll consult my little comrade,” joked Pierre. half-buried grenade and by unlucky chance had set it “Her head is small but full of wisdom.” in train. He himself might have done the same thing Pierre quite forgot about grenades, however, when with his hoe a few minutes later. he marked out his garden with two long pieces of wire. He hastened to the fuming hole where the grenade The Red Cross men brought him a stout hoe and had been. There was no trace of Angelique. some canned food the next time they came. The “Poor little comrade,”’ he said sorrowfully, “‘if there hoe was just what Pierre wanted. He began to break is a heaven for hens, I am sure she will go there.”’ up the soil at once. He looked up; there, floating tranquilly in the Gardens have an irresistible attraction for hens, and smoke-stained air, were two or three white feathers. Angelique was charmed by Pierre’s new labors. She ‘“‘At any rate,’’ he added, ‘‘Angelique has started in became more sociable and stalked gravely to the gar- the right direction.” [7] ALITTLE VISIT TO BRITTANY WITH ANNA MILIO UPJOHN

For sheer poetry, sec- tions of the Cote du Nord cannot be sur- passed. Everywhere gorseand mimosa were in bloom, even primroses and daisies.

The people seem ina primitive way to stand for the true things of life, home, work, and the adventure and romance of the sea.

Islands of jagged rock melt into the dis- tance, pale violet and dim rose, or stand out sharply in the foreground, velvety black with seaweed. The shore ts very irregular and the sea cuts deeply into it, so that masts of ships slip between the trunks of pines and pass in front of little villages of granite cottages. The country is beautiful and as the coast is washed by the gulf stream the climate is soft and delicious.

[9] this: Substitute health and happiness for wealth as a JUNIOR RED CROSS NEWS Published Monthly, September to May inclusive, by THE world-ideal; and translate that new ideal into action DEPARTMENT OF JUNIOR MEMBERSHIP OF THE AMERICAN RED by education from babyhood up. To do this, states Cross, Washington, D.C. must organize education spiritually—in other words, VoL. I. May, 1920 No. 8 must introduce religion; not the old formal creeds,

National Officers of the American Red Cross but the humanistic religion of service for the common Wooprow WILSON, President JOHN SKELTON WILLIAMS, weal, a social honor which puts the health and happi- WituiaM H. Tart, Vice-Pres. Treasurer ness of all first, and the wealth of self second.” RoBERT W. DE FOREST, ALEXANDER C. KinG, Counselor Vice-Pres. MABEL T. BOARDMAN, Secretary

LIVINGSTON FARRAND, Chairman Central Committee WILLouGHBY G. WALLING, FREDERICK P. KEPPEL, Vice-Chairman Vice-Chairman The Fable of the Happy Traveler FREDERICK C. MuNROE, General Manager | James N. Rute, Director Department of Junior Membership | A group of boys and girls were journeying A sufficient number of copies of each issue of the Junior Red along the highway. Cross News to provide one copy for each teacher will be sent with- “‘T shall look out for number one. The others out charge to each school organized as a Junior Red Cross Auxiliary. Should additional copies be desired by any school, or may shift for themselves,’’ snarled The Selfish should individuals desire to have the Junior Red Cross News sent Boy, as he strutted on alone. to their personal address, subscriptions can be made for such additional copies through the Chairman of the local Chapter “Someone must help me carry my bundle. I School Committee. Such additional subscriptions will be re- want to play, not carry things,’’ grumbled The ceived, at the rate of 45 cents each, only for the period of one full school year of nine months. Subscriptions not received in time Lazy Boy. to run concurrent with the school year will be continued into the A third, The Manliest One of all, said ensuing year for a total of nine issues. nothing. Instead he looked about. The Little Cripple Girl and The Blind Boy were far in When You Really Think bout it, the the rear. The journey was proving hard for Junior Red them. Cross has carried a message of good will, expressed “T will walk with them,” decided The Manly through practical helpfulness, over a vast part of the Boy. “‘Perhaps they will let me share their earth’s surface during its third year. It has made burdens and guide them over the rough places.”’ friends for America and especially for American chil- | So The Blind Boy, The Little Cripple Girl, dren in scores of places scattered over a dozen coun- and The Manly Boy traveled together. They tries, and the harder it has worked for others the | sang as they went. And The Manly Boy was stronger it has become. | the happiest one of all. In helping his comrades || The map on page 5 shows the locations of forty or | he had forgotten the weight of his own bundle. | more of the principal relief projects abroad, stretching 3 from Warsaw in Poland to Jerusalem in Palestine, but the map does not give an adequate idea of Junior for- eign activities. There are fully forty tiny villages in Song: On May Morning Belgium alone where school lunches are given Belgian Now the bright morning-star, day’s harbinger, children—and there’s precious little hookey playing! Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her And the map does not show China, where active edu- The flowery May, who from her green lap throws cation in sanitation is being promoted, nor does it The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose. show Vladivostok, Siberia, near which, on an island, Hail, bounteous May, that dost inspire the Junior Red Cross is co-operating with the Ameri- Mirth and youth and warm desire! can Red Cross in caring for 800 homeless children Woods and groves are of thy dressing, from Western Russia. Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing. While this number of the News directs your atten- Thus we salute thee with our early song, tion more to Europe than to any other part of the And welcome thee, and wish thee long. world, it must be remembered that much important —John Milton. good is being done here at home, and ‘‘home’”’ includes * * * the insular possessions of the United States—the Philippines, Guam, Hawaii, Alaska, Panama, Porto Sunshine Cake Rico, and the Virgin Islands. Into a dark and rainy day, Stir a cupful of kind deeds; Others Are Thinking as we do, that the Mix in well some cheery thoughts Junior ideal is true. And a pint of happy seeds. It is interesting to hear the following from so eminent Add good humor, the size of an egg, an author as Mr. John Galsworthy, who, after a rather Love enough to make it light; gloomy picture of international conditions in The Bake in the stove of a warm little heart Atlantic Monthly for February, declares: And the cake will be just right. “If there be a saving way, at all, it is obviously —Jane Grey Syme. [10] Infinite Variety Marks Junior Activities IN THE FOUR CORNERS OF AMERICA

HILDREN of the ungraded schools of New underwent an operation. Now he is at home again, York City have made and sent many toys to able to walk for the first time in his life. Ellis Island where there are nearly 200 immi- * * * grant children in a hospital. They also sent stacks of Idaho, Oregon, and Washington Juniors in 110 high toys to European children. schools are corresponding with pupils in France, and * * ok 50 schools in those states are exchanging letters with A little deaf and dumb girl in Alma, Kansas, is re- pupils in schools of Chile. joicing because the Juniors found her. Through their * * * aid she attends a special school and is being trained Tulsa, Oklahoma, Juniors gave money and time to to take her place in the producing knitted articles world. to keep youngsters warm * * * last winter in an out-of- Among articles made by doors school attended by children of Wyoming, Utah, ailing children. Colorado, and New Mex- * * * ico were 2,000 curtains for Sweaters and socks for Army and Navy hospitals. little patients able to sit The soldiers and sailors said outdoors; wash-cloths, “thank you”’ by making a dresses, and jackets for ba- big box full of toys to be bies and kimonos for chil- sent to Europe by these dren able to sit up in bed, Juniors. were hospital gifts made by aS * * District of Columbia Jun- European children are iors. They also gave $500 eager to learn about the for the care of needy chil- United States. Scrapbooks dren and collected maga- filled with picturesof Ameri- zines for rural schools. can life are to be sent across * * * the sea and hundreds of Juniors in Waverly, New boys and girls in the At- York, have been supplying lantic and Middle Western two quarts of milk daily to states are making scissors three children whose wid- and paste fly, completing owed mother was unable 10,000 of these “‘happiness to provide for them. books.” © unverwoon & UNDERWOOD * * * Somewhere in America in May. * * * One little girl in New The Juniors of Clifton Albany, Mississippi, was Forge, Virginia, paid $150 towards the tuition of 20 without clothes to wear to school, her parents being children who otherwise would have been unable to very poor. The Juniors provided not only clothes but attend school. all necessary school supplies that she might continue * a“ a her studies. Little tots whose parents are not able to afford it, are given medical and dental attention in a Spokane Young salesmen are springing up in Oakland, Cali- hospital through the generosity of Northwestern fornia, where Juniors are conducting a Red Cross Juniors. Shop. These little merchants collect articles made in * * * the schools and also cast-off garments which are re- The Juniors of Jefferson County, Alabama, have ex- modeled and sold at very low prices to the needy. pended $100 in equipment for serving hot lunches in a No element of charity, however, enters in. The cost country school. Other rural schools are to be speedily of material and a share of the profits go to contributing equipped. schools. Saturday is known as “School Day”’ in the * * * Shop, the teachers and pupils acting as salespeople. Eagle County, Colorado, Juniors raised $107 to send In one month the encouraging sum of over $1,000 was a little crippled boy to a hospital in Denver, where he cleared. [11] Boys and girls of New The Broom Brigade be- York City, whose lieve in a spotless town. parents have come from So of course they are good all parts of the globe, Juniors! Vacation time give a demonstration of is clean-up time all over their devotion to the the country, and back- ‘Stars and Stripes’’ yards and school grounds and the idealsit from Pennsylvania to represents. © Under- California are in fora wood & Underwood. spring offensive. © Under- wood & Underwood.

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Toys and garments bound for Europe to help better the awful conditions of the children, in whose happiness and welfare the Junior Red Cross is interested. Everything in the exhibit was made by the school children of greater New York. [12] LURENZU AND Hie Bane

T was probably the By Marjory Stoneman Douglas smiling at him. “That dirtiest one-lira cannot always be so,’ ’ piece in all Naples. she said. “I know fifty But to Lorenzo Papari, ten years old, this Italian coin little city children who have gone from Naples toa worth less than twenty cents was greater wealth than beautiful place in the mountains. They play all day any street boy of his acquaintance in the fields and drink milk and grow had ever known. He had found the fat, but they are not afraid of bears.” one-lira piece under a half banana Lorenzo looked incredulous. ° ‘ But skin on the pile of refuse at a café do they not work, those children? back door. He had also found the Who pays, then, for the food to make end of a loaf of bread, rather the worse them fat?” for wear but still good for a dinner and “Didn't you know? Children in perhaps a supper. It had been a great America have been selling papers, day for Lorenzo. shining shoes, and doing other things Lorenzo strolled opulently along so that little Neapolitan children like the curb of the Via Nuova, looking at you can live better and happier lives.” store windows. In the toy shop were ‘Do theydo that?”’ Lorenzo looked painted carts and horses of a most thoughtful, that feeling of enormous entrancing spottiness. wealth still resting heavy on his mind. “That one with the black mane Once he glanced at the horse, then and tail, that one is mine,’’ he chanted turned away with hishand in hispocket. aloud, pointing with grubby finger “‘1 too will give.’’ And he held out pressed against the glass. the ragged one-lira piece. ‘‘He is beautiful,’’ someone said “But I can’t take this, my dear,” beside him. ‘‘But what of the brown said the woman with the crosses. bear that jumps?” “What will you have for supper?”’ Lorenzo glanced up quickly. She Lorenzo magnificently pulled from was like no one he had ever seen, his pocket the heel of the muddy loaf. this woman. She wore a belt like an “This is my supper,” he said. officer, and on each shoulder a tiny Lorenzo's lira is now on the desk of red cross. his friend the Director of the Junior “You like him best?’’ he asked Red Cross, and Lorenzo, happy and politely. ‘‘But bears eat people. I well-fed in a wonderful school among have heard that in the mountains the hills, is so busy learning to make children do not dare to walk alone, clean eatable things grow out of the because of bears.”’ Lorenzo couldn't buy ground that he never stops to wonder The woman of the crosses was tailor-made clothes. why there are no bears about.

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LONE small boy came tagging into Kovel witha Finally he burst into tears. “I group of the Polish refugees who were pouring am tired,”’ he confessed. through on their way home from Russia. He The Americans prevailed on didn’t seem to belong with any of the refugee families. him to eat a piece of bread, and “Who is he?”’ asked an American Red Cross officer. they put him to bed in their own ‘““No one knows,” said one of the Poles. ‘‘He will home. ‘‘Wewillsee that you have let no one do anything for him. He says he can take a good home,” they told him care of himself.’”’ again. The American sought out the little fellow. ‘‘We “IT can take care of myself,” will find you a home,” he said. “Come and stay with he said drowsily, and fell asleep. us.’’ The boy shook his head. At daybreak next morning he The American doctor offered him food and clothing was gone. to replace his rags. That is what homelessness is ‘I can take care of myself. I am not begging!’’ the doing to the child population of youngster stoutly insisted. Poland.

[13] NOW, INTO THE WATER WE GO

EARLY ten thousand lives are lost yearly in when free quickly turn him to a carrying position. the United States by drowning. Shocking, When caught around the neck, push his face away isn’t it? Why not begin reducing this use- from you and duck under the encircling arms. If less sacrifice of life? Learn to swim and to rescue clutched from behind, bump him on the nose with the drowning. Let's your head. Get into call it another bit of motion as quickly as Junior Service. possible; a moving Having learned to body floats more A swim, you must easily than a sta- know how to bring a tionary one. drowning person or Restoration work a spent swimmer to ashore calls for quick shore. You must action but no excite- practice repeatedly. ment on the part of Be sure you can keep therescuer. Practice afloat while support- this easy method, ing a heavy weight. called prone-pres- To make certain of sure, approved by success when at- the Red Cross ex- tempting a _ rescue, perts: procure an oar, life- Place the uncon- preserver, or other scious person face object that will keep downward on a flat at least one person surface, the hands afloat, before you being pulled from enter deep water. under the body and Now for a lesson = the arms raised to in life-saving. This shoulder level or Above, a Junior swimmer is demonstrating the sidestroke carry in is an easy one. the water. At the left is a reduced reproduction of the Junior Red higher. Remove any Swimming on your Cross Life-Saving Corps emblem, which is red, white, and blue. foreign matter from back, float the semi- Below and at the right, a boy is demonstrating the prone pressure the patient’s mouth conscious person on method of recuscitation, pressing and releasing the floating ribs. and turn his face to his back by placing one side, the back of both hands over his ears and by using a kick stroke one of his hands being placed under his cheek to raise tow him to safety. it from the ground. Kneel over his body at the level Here is another method (the one shown in the pic- of the hip joints, place your hands, palms down, over ture): Swim up to a drowning person from the rear and the floating ribs. Holding your arms stiff, throw your by passing one arm across his shoulder and under the weight forward and then suddenly release this down- opposite armpit secure a powerful hold, using the ward pressure but do not remove your hands. This under-water arm and both legs for swimming. To movement must be repeated in regular rhythm about aid a tired swimmer, fifteen times a minute. direct him to turn toa & ei i NE Out goes the water; in floating position and rushes the life-giving then holding by one 2 : Daisies air. After the patient arm near the shoulder, begins to breathe wrap Over the shoulders and slopes of the dune place your elbow un- him in a blanket or I saw the white daisies go down to the sea, der his back and sup- A host in the sunshine, an army in June, some other covering port him while strik- The people God sends us to set our hearts free. and give him a drink ing out with your free of hot coffee or tea. hand and both legs. The bobolinks rallied them up from the dell, This method of To keep from being The orioles whistled them out of the wood; pumping air into the dragged down, if And all of their saying was sé Earth, it is well!”’ lungs is also used clasped by the wrists, And all of their dancing was “‘ Life, thou art good!"’ successfully in restor- turn the leverage of —Bliss Carman ing to life persons your arms against the : overcome by smoke, holder’s thumbs and ol “en EA html iti i A gas or electric shock. {14] THE JUNIOR BOOK CORNER

Books That Take Us Adventuring in Vacation Days

“To do as we are told should be (Of course) the aim of all of us; Yet O the joy of being free, Exploring and adventurous!”

Du CuHaiLiu, P. B. Stories of the Gorilla Country. MASEFIELD, JOHN. Jim Davis. (F. A. Stokes Co., (Harper & Bros., N.Y. $1.50) N.Y. $1.35. The same in ‘‘Every Boy’s Library.” An exciting journey is planned in this book to the Grosset & Dunlap, N.Y. 75c) west coast of Africa in the region of the equator. A cave, secret signals, wary smugglers of the You will go through dense tropical forests where English coast, and the kidnapping of Jim Davis all wild beasts, terrible gorillas and savage cannibals enter into a thrilling hold-your-breath-till-the-end prowl about. Take plenty of ammunition, for you story. will need it on this trip. SHAw, F. L. Castle Blair. (Little, Brown & Co., Dumas, ALEXANDER, the elder. Black Tulip. (Little, Boston. $1.55) Brown & Co., Boston. $1.50) Castle Blair is a very old castle in Ireland, with A great, grim fortress in Holland, a prisoner, a long, dark corridors, quaint stairways, endless doors, wonderful black tulip, the jailer’s daughter—then and rows and rows of rooms into which no one ever the trouble begins to brew! goes. A group of boys and girls are standing inside the castle door to welcome you, and then—“‘‘needles DuNCAN, NORMAN. Adventures of Billy Topsail. (Flem- and pins’”’ the trouble and fun begins. ing H. Revell & Co., New York and Chicago. $1.50) SLocum, JosHua. Around the World in the ‘Sloop Introducing Billy Topsail, the son of a fisherman Spray.’ (Charles Scribner’s Sons, N.Y. 56c) of Newfoundland. Before the introduction is over Board the good ‘Sloop Spray,” an ‘‘A1”’ boat, there is a puff of wind, a dog rushes in, and Billy’s “strong enough to smash ice”’ and sail with Captain adventures have begun in earnest. The book will Slocum over forty-six thousand miles of bright blue tell you the rest. Followed by ‘Billy Topsail and water. Company” and “Billy Topsail, M.D.” SpyRiA, JOHANNA. Heidi. (Ginn & Co., Boston and Chi- KIPLING, RUDYARD. Puck of Pook's Hill. (Double- cago. 60c. Illustrated by Kirk, J. B. Lippincott Co., day, Page & Co., N.Y. $1.50) Philadelphia. $1.50) Dan and Una had just seated themselves in the First you follow a footpath through the woods “unthistly” part of Pook’s Hill, and were ready to until you come into the open where the heath with eat their supper of hard-boiled eggs and Bath Oliver its short grass and sweet smelling herbs begins, and biscuits, when they heard a whistle among the then you start to climb up the rugged, steep side of alders, the bushes parted, and there stood ‘‘a small, one of the Alps in Switzerland. At the very top you brown, broad-shouldered, pointy-eared person, with find a dark-brown mountain hut, in which lives the a snub nose, slanting blue eyes, and a grin that ran heroine of the story, Heidi, with the Alm-Uncle. right across his freckled face.’’ After that things Here the story begins for you. just naturally happened. Perhaps you would like to be in on the fun too? Stockton, F. R. Personally Conducted. (Charles Scribner’s Sons, N.Y. $2.00) LAGERLOF, S. O. L. Wonderful Adventures of Nils. A trip is planned for you in Europe. Your travel- (Doubleday, Page & Co., N.Y. $1.50. The same, ing arrangements are made, all you have to do is to with illustrations by Frye. $2.50) follow the guide and enjoy the sights in the “city Cling fast to goosey-gander’s neck with Nils and of the bended knee,”’ ‘‘little Pisa and great Rome,” you shall fly over the fertile and good lands of far- “Queen Paris,’ ‘‘King London,” and other noted away Sweden; you shall visit an old castle; watch places. an interesting battle between the black rats and the gray rats; sleep in a dark cave; be kidnapped by the THOREAU, H. D. Canoeing in the Wilderness. (Hough- crows, and have adventures too wonderful to be ton, Mifflin Co., Boston and New York. $1.25) true! The companion volume of the book is ‘‘Fur- A birch bark canoe is moored within this book ther Adventures of Nils.”’ and an Indian guide waits to take you on a trip through the Maine woods. Lucas, E. V. The Slowcoach. (Macmillan Co., N. Y. $1.50) Wicoin, K. D. A Summer in a Caiion. (Houghton, The Avory children and their friends go a-gypsy- Mifflin Co., Boston and New York. $1.35) ing in a real caravan. Kink, the driver, cracks his How would you like to go on a camping trip in whip; Moses, the horse, strains at his collar, and one of the cafions of California? Here is one all the ‘‘Slowcoach”’ creaks noisily out of the yard and arranged for you, with the jolliest sort of a party to down the road that leads to Stratford-on-Avon and keep you company, together with a ‘‘Chinee’”’ ser- Bredon Mill. Oh! now for adventures! You shall vant and a Mexican man-of-all-work to do your have all you can find. bidding. [15] Th, Ettore Metter H Yor!

Dear Juniors: in promoting happy childhood the world over A group of typical American boys is shown on your through the inculcation of ideals and habits of letter page for May the last month of the 1919-1920 service. You members have an almost limitless power school year and a fine, manly lot of fellows they are. for good so long as you cling to the true spirit of the Some of them are carrying others on their shoulders, movement. but as they are doing it together, collectively, no one “We are young America, and should therefore try feels a heavy burden. They have locked arms and to be the best citizens possible,’’ writes Ida Forth, an are advancing in pyramid formation singing and eleven-year-old Junior in Detroit, Michigan, in a little laughing. Perhaps they are singing that funny old essay on Americanism; and I am delighted to bring song, Ida into this letter, for I don’t want you to get the “We are the boys impression because of the boys in the picture, that I That hear no noise am talking only to boys. She goes on to say: ‘‘Uncle "Mid the cannon’s awful roar.” Sam wants boys and girls who can walk with heads up and eyes clear; who are not afraid to tell the truth or And well they might, for they are of the same splen- admit a wrong.” did, imperishable manhood that Yes, to admit a wrong is walked, like the Spirit of important, for therein you ac- America, through the white-hot knowledge the need for righting furnace of war not so many it, and the very next step is to months ago, and did it gladly proceed to right it. That you in behalf of what we conceived will do, remembering at the to be the principle of right. same time that there are rights During a recent address by to protect—the rights that go a high elected official of our with an orderly free government government, who talked of his such as ours. schooldays, I was reminded of In fulfilling this obligation a green-backed geography that you future men and women of some of you may still use, which America will be serving not has on its top cover a picture only your own country and of Atlas, the stupid Titan of people but all countries and classical mythology, who, as a all people. Already you are punishment, had to carry the sowing the seeds of interna- whole of material creation on tional good-will through the his shoulders. The expression forty-odd relief projects which on old Atlas’ face was not at you are supporting through the all like the expression on the Junior Red Cross in foreign faces of the boys in the picture lands, as indicated on the Jun- on this page. He was making Materiai of which presidents are made ior Map of Europe on page 5, the most awful face you ever and if you will read the whole saw, and seemed to want to get rid of the great weight of page 11 you will get a fair sample of Junior on his back just as soon as possible. activities in our own bountifully blest United Now you all have some weight to carry, some re- States. I believe these examples of what you are sponsibility in life, and you would not be entirely doing today will cause some grown people—at least happy if you did not have. But it depends on how those who allow themselves to become engrossed you go about carrying it whether it shall be an oppres- with selfish and sordid pursuits—to wake up and sive burden that will gall your shoulder blades and shoulder a fairer proportion of the world’s burdens, cause you to make a wry face like Atlas, or a pleasant and do it with the same spirit of co-operation that responsibility carried co-operatively and as lightly and you manifest. joyfully as the boys are carrying their comrades in the It is the co-operation of all that makes the lump picture. burden light. With the realization of that truth and On the eve of your vacation, therefore, let me remind with an unshakable faith in the eventual absolute you—and you ought to be glad to be so reminded !- dominion of the forces for good, you will continue to that as the future citizens of America and the world advance, in school time and in vacation season, with you are to carry forward all that is best in our civiliza- arms locked and heads up, laughing and singing— tion, and not merely to carry it but to guard and pre- and serving. serve it. The Junior Red Cross of America is engaged AUSTIN CUNNINGHAM. [16]