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American JUNIOR RED CROSS October 1924 Z es ‘T Serve” WHAT YOUR NATIONAL FUND | WILL DO THIS YEAR Ly SHES SEY BEER Dr EAE EEESINIHAFPBN WS SSNS AAA AAA SSR SS Ret, Was SP SRBiw8wAAN LWW SS NW WH SA{H An Austrian Junior Red Cross ‘‘sportfest’’ in the suburbs of Vienna. The boys’ suits were made by the girl Juniors OR the cover design of this number of the News and practice of service and good will among the children we are indebted to a fourteen-year-old pupil of of the world. the Cizek Art School in Vienna, the story of The representative of the American Junior Red Cross which is told on pages 22 and 23. American Juniors in Europe writes to us: “The American Junior Red have helped to make this school possible, and the cover Cross has been mainly instrumental in founding and design is one of the tokens of appreciation that have inspiring these Junior organizations; it would be deeply been sent back to American Juniors. On pages 24 and regrettable if, having put our hand to the plow, we 25 there are reproduced the cover designs of eighteen should now withdraw when the harvest is almost as- of the twenty Junior Red Cross magazines now in sured. We anticipate that for two or three years, at existence (Italy has two Junior magazines). Most of least, most of the Junior organizations in Central and these magazines published on the continent cf Europ? Eastern Europe will need the small assistance which we have been made possible by assistance from the National hope that you can give them, and which will continue Children’s Fund of American Juniors. Each of these to be tremendously appreciated.” magazines which we have helped to establish has On page 20 there will be found the first of a series brought joy to thousands of children who were without of articles by the American Junior Red Cross staff pleasurable and wholesome children’s publications, of artist, which will be continued throughout the year, ac- which we have such an abundance in this country. companied by drawings and paintings made by her on Each of them represents a newly-organized Junior Red the scene of activities which our National Children’s Cross which is actively carrying on enterprises started Fund will make possible this year. Meanwhile, the with assistance from our National Children’s Fund. readers of the News will be interested in a brief outline At the head of this page is an illustration of activities of some of the things that this Fund will accomplish on one of the scores of playgrounds established in this year. Europe with the help of American Juniors, and now CuristMAs Boxes.—It will pay the cost of shipping carried on by European Junior Red Cross groups. On 100,000 Christmas boxes to European countries and page 29 there is a reproduction of a health poster made some of our insular territories, carrying messages of by an American Indian Junior. Your National Chil- good will to several hundred thousand children. dren’s Fund has helped to bring health-giving activities AMERICAN INpDIANS.—It will provide an experienced to these Indian children and to perform other services Indian teacher of weaving for Navajo girls, in order for them. They themselves are now organized in that the declining art of weaving the famous Navajo Junior Red Cross, performing service for themselves rugs may be perpetuated. In other ways it will promote and others. health-giving and useful activities among these isolated The really fine thing about the National Children’s children, and help to cultivate in them and in Juniors Fund of the American Junior Red Cross is not that it everywhere an appreciation of the Indians’ contribu- has afforded relief in cases of destitution, but that it tions to civilization. has started enterprises that have put disadvantaged chil- Our INSULAR TERRITORIES.—An appeal has come for dren on the road to self-help and has spread the spirit assistance in starting a playground in the Pacific Island [18] OcToBEr, 1924 Supplement to Junior Red Cross News The Teacher’s Page BY RUTH EVELYN HENDERSON HE teacher should keep in mind a two-fold use- which did much to contribute to civilization the ideal fulness of the News and Calendar; first, as actual of physical health. Such study may extend to consid- class-room material for study, illustration, report and eration of Grecian sculpture, other forms of art, and later reference; second, as “leads” in beginning broader ideals of liberty. class-room discussion, research, and projects. 2. Closely tied to this is the whole problem of giving, into which a teacher may lead her Juniors as deep as THE OCTOBER NEWS IN THE their maturity permits: a. the difference between help- SCHOOL ful sympathy and harmful sentimentality; b. local or- ganizations for taking care of needy people; c. sound HE October number, particularly in the four edi- principles upon which such or- torials and articles listed, carries, in a picturesque Wise and Unwise ganizations should be built; d. and vivid manner, information which is itself of educa- Giving. relief or cure, prevention, and re- tional value as to the far-reach- habilitation in such matters as Lighting Candles, ing service rendered by the individual or community health, disaster relief, ete. p. 32. National Children’s Fund. (see supplementary pamphlets of Red Cross services, Introducing the Every Junior is thus reminded such as A. R. C. 209, When Disaster Strikes); e. the Baltic Juniors, that he is an active partner in efficacy of group giving in promptness and permanence Pp. 20, 21. great national and world enter- as compared with individual giving; f. reasons for a What Your National prises. Such material is worth great volunteer organization of international scope such Fund Will Do This use as a basis for silent read- as the Red Cross. In hearing the story of Latvia, even Year, pp. 18, 19. ing, for reports, and for sug- tiny Juniors will realize that the National Children’s Putting Juniors’ gestions in poster work (for Fund has not only given relief where it was needed, but Money to Work, p. instance, drawing or pasting that the Juniors served have been quick to help them- 26. cut-outs of lighted candles on selves and to extend help in turn to other comrades. maps of the countries named, So, again, patronage is replaced by respect. drawing lines on a map to show the international con- 3. There are good and poor ways of getting money tacts made through the Children’s Fund, drawing cos- to give. To go home and ask daddy for a dime for the tume pictures of children of countries affected, holding National Children’s Fund is a poor way. The Chil- their candles,.ete.). dren’s Fund stands for service rendered in earning the money as well as in using it. No Junior is too young A National Children’s Fund Project to recognize that a gift is doubly ISCUSSION of this material will rouse Juniors Service Money valuable if it has been earned by, to a desire to share in national and international Earned by and thus really belongs to, the service. Such a project opens three main lines of study, Service. person making the gift. A by- which teachers can follow through, as far as their chil- product is a clearer understand- dren are able to understand: ing of the value and meaning of money when it has been earned instead of merely asked for, while the use of 1. The countries served by the National Chil- money for unselfish purposes forestalls any danger that dren’s Fund, the child will expect all service to be paid for in “hard 2. Ways of using such a fund, cash,” losing sight of more real rewards. But there will 3. Ways of raising a local contribution. be the double satisfaction of realizing that a concrete value is put upon one’s service and of using this new 1. The countries served: a. learning their location by power for worthy purposes. Activities for raising such poster work, drawing, or “pointing out”; b. learning a fund may be group or individual, or both. Some out- about the customs, costumes, population, government, of-the-ordinary home service may merit money com- etc., of these countries as they are today; c. studying pensation ; some part of regular weekly earnings may be their development since the World War; d. studying out- contributed; basketry, place-cards for luncheons, other standing facts of their history before the war; e. learn- art or hand work, garden produce, homemade candy, ing of contributions made to the world by any of these ete., may be sold at bazaars, fairs, or markets. Old countries. papers and rags may be salvaged, or a rummage sale This last point is worth stressing, for it will help to conducted. Pageants or plays may be given. Partici- substitute for a very general human tendency to con- pation in such activities is one way of earning individual descension a more wholesome attitude of respect for the membership. peoples of other lands and races. For instance, most young Americans are fully in- Communication Advances Understanding—Under- Not Charity but formed about international Olym- standing Advances Good Will Reciprocity. pic games. They will be inter- The National Children’s Fund may be thought of ested to learn that in helping to both as being in itself one means of communication and support a health colony for Greek Juniors, we have a as stimulating other forms of communication.

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