American

A FILIPINO GIRL (Philippine Islands, U.S. A.—See page 3)

A.M.UPJOHN Ten American schools in China are enrolled in the Ameri- can Junior Red Cross. American Juniors in Peking are providing a special education for a little Chinese girl SEPTEMBER, 1924 Supplement to Junior Red Cross News The Teacher’s Page

BY RUTH EVELYN HENDERSON

HILE administrators and teachers are busy Rage seyiseiele and other group work is invaluable. getting the machinery of the schoel to running but sometimes the quiet child gets lost on a com- smoothly, Juniors may be busy starting the machinery mittee or is left off altogether, For this reason the im- of their Junior Red Cross organization. If the school portance of “Personal Service” is emphasized. In the is to be enrolled for the first time, the Junior Red Cross work of welcoming new children, every Junior may take Chairman of the local Chapter will part. There are four concrete sug- Organization for give suggestions and help. A. R. C. Getting Everybody gestions under “Personal Serv- Service 616 and A. R. C. 618, Supplement 1, Into the Game ice” along this very line of look- give instructions for enrolling and ing after new, shy, backward, or organizing. A, R. C,. G18 gives a summary of leading younger children. But such children are not present activities, and the September page of the Calendar is merely to be looked after. They, too, have contributions rich in suggestions of service. Remember, that the to make, and frequently it is left to the tactful teacher children should be encouraged to help in initiating the to discover their gifts to the other children. program. If the school has a Junior Red Cross organization UNIORS will want to work out some plan for check- already established, committees may be appointed from ing or otherwise keeping track of their service activ- experienced Juniors to prepare posters, to plan an as- ities. At the end of each month they may be inter- sembly program, to give talks before room groups, to ested in comparing this year’s record of services with take charge of the individual membership roll, and to the record of those performed a year ago. Perhaps the plan for or to present particular service activities. The Calendar for each year should be the prop- organization should not be allowed to become too com- Keeping a_ erty of the group using it and should be ' plicated, but an effort should be made to draw as many Record “promoted” to a new room with the ma- | children as possible into the work, so that all may re- jority of the group for such comparison. ceive the educational benefits of active participation, If a teacher wishes to retain the Calendar for her own and so that too great a burden may not be placed on a use in comparing groups, her file should be available to few. a committee of the children who were in her room the preceding year. W the Junior Red Cross Calendar you have received a supplement telling you the principles THE SEPTEMBER NEWS IN THE upon which it has been worked out in order that it may be helpful in classroom work. One of these principles SCHOOL is that of continuity. This is also true of the Junior I, Taking Stock Red Cross News, and a little farther The Calendar on, under “Looking Ahead,” ways are ANY schools now require a physical examination suggested in which plans may be laid of every pupil at the opening of the school year. for work later in the year. The September page of the Unfortunately, this is still looked upon by some children Calendar carries suggestions for correspondence, for at best as a tiresome bit of red tape, and at worst as an Christmas boxes, for starting indoor flowers for winter, ordeal to be dreaded. Can you not make use of the for beginning preparation for a swimming campaign, “Fit for Service” page to prevent or over- and even for looking ahead to the relief of sufferers “Fit for come such a feeling? By discussion in class from hay fever another year! Children as well as adults Service.” lead each child to keep his own “Fit for are capable of sustained effort over a long period of P. x11 Service” book. He may enter some items time, if their interest is genuinely enlisted. The power from the doctor’s or nurse’s record, and also of such sustained effort is an invaluable asset in life, an estimate of his gains or losses during vacation in and education should make an effort to increase it. new health habits formed, harmful habits conquered, Hence both the Calendar and the News are designed to wholesome new foods he has learned to eat, unwhole- lead Juniors to look ahead. Naturally, preliminary some habits of diet he has overcome, improvement in plans will be altered and refined, some suggestions will healthful outdoor games, and additional new knowledge he rejected, and other suggestions will be added later; about health. He may add a list of objectives towards hut projects will be carried through more intelligently which he intends to work. The class may decide upon and successfully because of laying plans in advance. certain group objectives. Another underlying principle of the Calendar is that of coérdination of the parts of the program. Here the OOM or assembly talks may be given or posters teacher’s help is essential, for children do not, unaided, prepared giving a résumé of the principal service detect relationships. Some time towards the end of the projects carried through or begun last year. The chil- month the teacher may want to summarize the work dren may wish to keep individual hegun in Cleanliness, under “Fitness for Service, “Serv- Taking Stock project cards on which they note (1) ice for the School,” and “Community Service,” by help- of Service Group projects for school, community, ing the children to draw up a chart which shall be national, and: world service in which posted in the room for reference and later additions. they have participated. (2) Individual services they This will help them to see the connection between indi- have performed. (3) Phases of service in which they vidual health habits and community sanitation. intend to coiperate more heartily. SEPTEMBER, 1924 THE SEPTEMBER NEWS IN THE SCHOOL

Il. Looking Ahead HE directions for packing Christmas boxes should HE editorial suggests many lines of group discus- be read very carefully. The specific instructions sion. Are we a strong or a weak link in the Chain given there may be tabulated and posted for easy refer- of Service? Let the children discuss ways in which ence. Very great care should be they may strengthen their link. If possible, help them “Christmas Box taken that nothing is included in Directions.” P. 16 the boxes which would cause em- to decide on one new service project which they mean to carry barrassment to the Junior Red “Chain of Service Cross or would in any way mar the pleasure of the re- Links All through while improving on for- Juniors.” P. 10 mer ones. Setting their own ob- cipients. The children can be led, through class discus- sion, to understand the reasonableness of the necessary jectives will make them more purposeful and will keep Junior activities out of the rut restrictions, and thus to codperate heartily. of dull routine. Such discussion may make a lively civies lesson. F a special Learn-to-Swim program is to be launched, each room may appoint its own committee to make Each Junior is, in a sense, a little link. Let each a survey and to report to the Council. The project may state in his own words his individual conception of what be launched by special Assembly or room programs, is meant by the Junior Red Cross chain of service, the perhaps including demonstrations of relationship of Junior Red Cross to his own life, and “Learn to strokes or of life-saving, advice how to his personal share in this great program of service. Swim.” P.6 behave if someone should ever try to These paragraphs can be read aloud or circulated about save you from drowning, or an original the class. The best may be chosen to post on bulletin play which points out the values of knowing how to boards or filed, perhaps to be used later in portfolios. swim. This also furnishes material for oral English and for physical training and hygiene classes. FTER your Juniors have read or heard about the Children’s Congress of Good Will, ask them, “If EVERAL Juniors will enjoy reporting on the you had been going to attend that congress of good will, items under The March of Junior Activities (pp. what message would you have 7 and 8), presenting to the class a list of “A Children’s liked to carry to represent the Additional activities carried on in some other school Congress of Good spirit of American Juniors?” Projects and recommending one or more for adop- Will” P. 5 After each Junior has made a tion by their own class. The Junior Red written or oral contribution, let Cross Calendar for September should be studied, too. the class combine the best suggestions into a written Why could not the Juniors help in making next year’s message. This may be of use in Assembly. Let them Calendar? “Of course, you may think of worth-while find on the map the city where the congress was held. things not mentioned in the Calendar,” the article (p. 9) remarks. If you do, instruct vour Junior Secretary HE Juniors will want to look ahead towards their to send a list of them to the Editor of the News. interschool correspondence for the year. Plans for this may be discussed in classes for composition, hand- HE Children’s Congress of Good Will (p. 5) may work, art, nature study, geography, etc. What materials be read aloud by the best Junior reader. Just This do they wish to collect or make for exchange? (See Minute (p. 16) may be recited from memory or may also the article Handwork of Jun- suggest ideas for a play to emphasize the value of just “Just Between iors Exhibited, p. 15.) Can they this minute, from a Junior’s point of Juniors.” P. 14 begin a collection of specimens gath- Suggestions view. The Toothbrush’s Family His- ered in nature study? Can they For Red Cross tory could be made uproariously plan to make models, dress dolls, begin fancy work, and Assembly funny as a dramatization. Perhaps whittling? Can they begin a list of topics suitable for Juniors would like to tell what their portfolio compositions? Can they begin to think about toothbrushes, soap or towels would say if they had a the standards they wish to set for their work? The chance. Supplement for following months will offer help along An ambitious assembly committee might arrange sev- this line, but they will be more ready for it if they have eral tableaux based on Miss Upjohn’s pictures (pp. 3 talked the problem over in advance. and 4) to be presented while some good story-teller re- counts Miss Upjohn’s experiences RE your children interested in Miss Upjohn’s pic- tures of children playing their national games or ANNOT each teacher sit down with her program eating “typical” native food? Might not Juniors of of studies for the year and take stock of the uses other lands be interested in snapshots or cartoons of which she, in her own specific situation, can make of American children playing games or eating “typical” Junior Red Cross to vitalize her work? When your American food? Here are sug- Juniors have charted their plans, note ways in which “People of the gestions for their portfolios. Can their particular financial problems may Pacific.” Pp. 3 & 4 they write essays on an _all- Teacher, Too be used in arithmetic. Begin a list of American supper? Their corre- articles and pictures in the News of spondents might be interested in learning about what use in this year’s geography. As you come to these goes into a dinner basket for the rural school lunch or topics, refer again to the articles or pictures. The about the city school cafeteria system. Are all the Juniors will re-read them with renewed interest as oc- items on the menu American? Another outgrowth of casion arises. Begin similar lists for each subject. The this topic may be a discussion as to what other countries Editor of the News will be glad to hear of your prob- they were indebted to for today’s breakfast. lems and vour successes, PEOPLE OF THE PACIFIC

Notes from the Junior Red Cross Staff Artist's Travel Log

By Anna Milo Upjohn

(Evrror’s Note: Miss Upjohn has visited Hawaii, Japan, Korea, China, the Philippine Islands, and Siam in Pacific waters and made many charming pictures of the young people of these lands, which, together with her writings, will be shared with Juniors from time to time. Miss Upjohn is visiting all American Junior Red Cross projects in Europe, and readers of Junior Rep Cross News may expect a series of articles and pictures on these activities during the coming year.)

AVING a perfectly good appetite myself | am apt to feel that others are as interested in food as I am. And as the good things to eat have added to my pleasure in Hawaii | like te tell of them. Besides some of the dishes have stories attached which make them all the more appetizing. Today a friend gave me an all-Hawaiian luncheon as a farewell kindness and | ate it on a porch shaded by mango trees, the trim myner birds pattering about attentively. When almost ripe, the papaia, atype of Hawai- This was the menu: A fruit cup ian melon that grows on trees, is taken from the tree in a bag attached to a pole of papaia and pineapple. Baked mullet wrapped in ti leaves which sion church with the lions of Spain carved on the bases lend it a delicious flavor. With it of its columns, and a gray old watch tower, now sur- hot crisp taro cakes and fried ba- mounted by bells, but where in more troubled days the nanas. The chutney was of mango, anxious Visayans scanned the sea for Moro pirates. In Miss Upjohn the pickles of pineapple, alligator Dumaguete is the Silliman Institute, a college for Fili- pear salad followed and then a des- pino boys and girls, with academic and _ industrial sert of guava preserves and freshly toasted cocoanut courses. There are over 1,000 pupils, but as the sum- flakes with coffee from Kona. mer vacation has already begun I did not see them at Everyone knows what pineapples are and that the work, best are from Hawaii. The papaia fruit is something While I was sitting on a wall getting a pencil sketch like a melon but grows on a slender tree. It clusters of the old tower a group of girls joined me, beautiful close to the trunk under the branches, a dark bluish- children, who offered to take me about (see magazine green at first, but growing yellow as it grows larger. cover.) They spoke English with a sedate precision When almost ripe it is taken from the tree in a bag very charming, and their manners were delightful. attached to a pole as in the picture. Otherwise it When we parted the eldest, who was probably fourteen would fall and split open. It is a nourishing, satisfying or fifteen and in the high school, said: “I am Pura fruit and so full of pepsin that tough meat or fowl Magellanes and this is my sister, Clarita. We are very cooked with papaia seeds becomes quite tender. In the glad to have met you.” I took the names of the other picture the boy holds what is called a calabash to re- little girls, such quaint, truly Spanish names, Concep- ceive the fruit. It is of a very hard wood called Koa, cion, Encarnacion, and Felicia. Then across my own the Hawaiian mahogany, cut and polished with stone visiting card I wrote “Junior Red Cross, Washington, tools. Fried bananas are not unusual with us but in D. C.,” and gave it to Pura. “Have you ever heard of Hawaii they have cooking bananas as we have cooking the Junior Red Cross?” I asked. “Why, we are all apples, and they are delicious. Juniors!” they gasped. As I went back to the steamer by way of the water Yesterday afternoon we put in at a little port called front, a cart with solid wooden wheels drawn by a Dumaguete on the Island of Negros (Philippines). Did caribou, passed slowly along. Above it towered three any one ever hear of it? There was an ancient mis- majestic palms with the shimmering sea as a back-

Junior Red Cross News is published monthly, exclusive of June, July, and August, in Washington. D. C. Volume 6, September, 1924, Number 1, cents a year; 10 cents a copy. Entered as second-class matter January 18, 1921, at the post office at Washington, D.C. under Act of March [3] 3, 1879. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, ‘authorized January 3, 1921 Ae Battledore and ridge poles. Dolls are out of season now, and : and cock shuttle- was “in Lattledore s and shuttlecock — have taken i their hei place. ac season”’ when Even little Japanese mothers hop about on clogs the _hine Junior ete. playing . battledore and shuttlecock : with , their ; ited Japan daughters. 7 In China I visited the Peking-American School at the request of the Principal, Mr. Tuttle, who asked me to come and give an informal talk to the pupils. The school has 157 pupils, twenty-five per cent of whom are Chinese. There are also French and Russians, but the majority are English and American boys and girls of interesting and intelligent appearance. The school is quite solidly Junior Red Cross. The ground, and I took one object at present is paying the tuition of a away from little little Chinese girl who would otherwise have no Dumaguete, dream- chance for an education. ing on the southern shore, an impression I have just come down from Siam to catch a of friendliness and steamer from Penang to Calcutta. From there I understanding which am going across the northern part of India by I shall not soon for- rail, getting a steamer from Bombay for Mar- get. It is surprising seilles. to find nothing bar- I had a most interesting though hurried week in baric anywhere, Siam. The day | arrived in Bangkok there though really I have was a Red Cross parade and the membership touched no point drive was going on. There were many curious which has not been and striking floats. The Junior Red inhabited and _ civil- Cross has been in existence about a year, and ized for many centuries. Why should they be bar- counts 25,000 members. baric ? Even in the nipa huts of the Moros, built out The next day I left Bangkok for Petchaburi. As I over the water and approached by a gangplank—look- was passing through the train to the dining car, a par- ing very south-sea islandish, with their background of ticularly chubby, bright-eyed baby gave me a wink, so palms and the brown men in canoes pushing out from I stopped to get better acquainted. And then someone them-—I have found a serene and industrious life. behind me said: “So, you like my baby, do you?” It was Prince Valbodakorn with a little girl of three in In Japan when a girl is born a towel is hung on the his arms and a boy of four holding onto him. He was door, indicating the arrival of a housekeeper. When taking his family to his summer place on the Gulf of a boy, it is a bow which announces the fact that there Siam. That baby is six months old and would take is a hunter in the house. One day in the year is set first prize at any baby show in the world! He wore a aside as a birthday for all the girls of the nation, an- little shirt two er three inches below his armpits and other for the boys. On the former wherever there is a chain of gold beads a girl in the family a doll appears in the window, but around his little brown on the boy’s birthday it is a fish which is shown. Since tummy—too adorable! the carp is a brave fighter he is the favorite, and schools I got seven or eight of carp flutter across the sky in the form of fish-kites, drawings in Petcha- At New Year’s time ; buri. But who could J the boys and girls put Siam on paper ina alike fling their gay few days? Such an kites to the wind. Drag- intensely —_ interesting ons, men, airplanes, a | hats and birds mount in have a_ delightful gleaming colors. And stateroom. This is a a, el - through the freighter, but carries length of Japan 80 passengers. The there is a trag- breeze is delicious edy of kites and it is no hotter hanging from- than I have often trees, from tele- A.NiuP 20H! known it on Long phone wires, Fanning a charcoal fire in Siam. There are 25,000 Siamese Red Cross Juniors Island Sound. (4] CHILDREN S CONGRESS: OF GOOD WILL

T is the 19th FS WCQ ...V..“ Masarykova of April in the speaks. She is Wy Ma, ancient city of the President of Prague. Weare the Red Cross.” jostled by the “That was great throng in splendid — what the Parliament. she said. Espe-. There is Presi- cially that trans- dent Masaryk in lation of that the box on our hymn to war in- left—and there, toahymnof also, is his work. We could daughter! Look do with a lot

at all the min- WWMM fewer battle isters and high hymns in the officials occupy- world,” says my ing the seats of CAE aS (IE neighbour. honour. Are we “Ah—but now ‘‘We are preparing for peace,” said the children of the Prague Confer- to hear a legis- ence. ‘‘We are trying to be strong and healthy and happy to help each comes the real lative debate? other—not to be envious, but to desire all good for our neighbors” part,” he adds, If so, what can leaning forward be the meaning of that mov- By Charlotte Frances Kett with one hand to his ear as a ing mass of reds and greens slender Slovakian lad stands and pinks and all gay colours in the gallery behind the up by his seat, and, in a clear vigorous voice, with no tribune? Are they not children taking their seats, boys trace of hesitation, reads out the children’s appeal. and girls in the varied costumes of every part of the “We want to work for the time when soldiers will Republic of Czecho-Slovakia? How does it happen also no longer have to go to war ; we want to fight for peace. ee that there, facing us, among the officials, are more chil- We are preparing for peace. We are trying to be dren—not only from this Republic but from the neigh- strong and healthy and happy, to help each other, not to bouring nations of Bulgaria, Rumania, and Jugo- be envious but to desire all good for our neighbours. Slavia ? “We ask you to-day to help us. Hush! The hymn begins. This can be no ordinary “This is what we desire so ardently: occasion and indeed it is not. We are assembled to “To replace the struggle for money and selfish gain hear a declaration of peace—of that Red Cross Peace by a fight for justice and the common good: at Easter which endures but for three days, but which “To aim that everyone shall be able to enjoy soul, stands as a symbol of that dream for the realization of sun, water, and air: which the Red Cross lives. “To combat impurity and disease: For three days all hearts and minds, all conversations “To replace hate and laziness with love and joyous and newspapers in the Republic are keep a clear work. devotion to the plus signs of the universe. E.xpres- “To accomplish this we must have peace and unity sions of enmity, envy, hatred, slander or adverse criti- of all men of good-will. We ask not only these three cism are to be abandoned and all thought is to be di- days of peace; we ask you to prepare for peace and to rected towards such positive considerations as those of think of it always. Let us unite our efforts to conquer health, happiness, harmony, love, justice, and beauty. selfishness and to put service in its place. “T have heard that it is the children who are to pro- “The youth of Czecho-Slovakia is conscious of the task claim this Peace this year,’ says my distinguished- to which it is called by the history of its country, and it looking neighbour with the white hair. is going to fulfill it hand in hand with the youth of other “Surely not,” says the one next to him. “Tt would nations. In fighting against selfishness and for health it be too ridiculous to have children speaking in the Par- is preparing the peace and happiness of humanity. It i. 7 liament, specially before such an assembly.” calls to-day to all grown people: ‘Come with us!’ ” “But why not? Do the grown-ups administer the “Bravo! Bravo! I’m with. you my lad!” cries my world so well that the results proclaim themselves be- neighbour, ab applauding wildly. “It’s the youngsters yond improvement? I think we might do well to ask have the right idea. What did I tell you old man? counsel of wise children,” says my neighbour. Good—wasn'’t it ?” “It amuses you to be eccentric,” his friend scoffs. Serbian and Bulgarian youths followed in cordial “And see—you are wrong. It is the President of the support, and the three days’ truce of the Red Cross Parliament who will address us. And next Dr. Alice Peace was on! [5] LEARN TO SWIM and Win a Junior Award

‘ =u Bee » Photograph by Paul Thompson Children of employees of a Staten Island, New York, ship building company, have an exclusive swimming club of their own

\ ' TOULDN’T it be great if every boy and girl in make an effort to become sufficiently proficient to pass the Junior Red Cross were a good swimmer ! swimming and life-saving tests for which individual What a splash they would make if all the pins and emblems will be awarded. Juniors should jump into the water at once! Six mil- There will be activities for the promotion of water lion small splashes would make one tremendous splash, safety, and each group of Juniors is asked to engage in indeed. But to be able to swim is a fine thing in itself— some of these. A certain standard of accomplishment a useful and delightful accomplishment. Do you know has been set and at the end of the year those schools that many babies in Hawaii, and in parts of Japan, reaching the standard will receive an award. Water learn to swim before they learn to walk? And to en- safety principles laid down by the Red Cross Life courage the development of this art and to reduce the Saving Service must be followed. In communities many water tragedies which occur annually in the where there are Red Cross Life Saving Corps members United States and its insular territories, the American and examiners, they may be called upon for assistance. Junior Red Cross is launching a swimming campaign. A life-saving representative may be obtained from the Full details of the plan cannot be given here, but every Division Office of the Red Cross to train members and school enrolled in the Junior Red Cross should apply examiners on request of the Juniors, made through the to its local Red Cross Chapter or (if there be no local local Chapter of the Red Cross, or the Division Office. Chapter) to the Division Office of the Red Cross for Buttons for individuals passing the Beginners’ and detailed information regarding the “American Junior Swimmers’ tests will be awarded by the Red Cross Red Cross Swimming Campaign.” free of charge. There is a fee of 50 cents for the / This Junior campaign is a “fit for service” activity Junior Life Saving emblem, pin, and card of member- that should continue throughout the entire school year. ship. While the swimming campaign is for Juniors of When the Juniors decide to launch upon this campaign, all ages, only boys and girls 12 years of age and over a survey of the school should be made to learn how are eligible for membership in the Junior Life Saving many Juniors are able to swim at this time. The Corps. At the end of the campaign, the Juniors should Juniors who cannot swim at the launching of the cam- make a second survey of the school to determine the paign should agree to make an effort to learn to swim progress made and to see if the school has reached a during the year. Juniors who can already swim should standard meriting an award. [6] OF JUNIOR ACTIVITIES

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At a Junior Red Cross rally in Pasadena, California, a delightful pageant called ‘World-wide Friendship” was presented

UNIORS of Ottawa County, Michigan, having largest of the ten American schools in China, has a become interested in foreign children through the 100 per cent enrollment. During the past year the pupil Junior Rep Cross News and foreign cor- activities included the following: Ten or fifteen minute respondence, have recently contributed $50 to the Na- talks on first aid, cleanliness, and proper food; posters tional Children’s Fund. These Juniors carry on an were made; stories on safety first were written; book- active program of service throughout the year. They lets of Chinese scenes were prepared to be sent to have just received an interesting collection of letters children in America; letters were written to other from Honolulu sent to them in return for letters from \merican schools; responsibility for keeping fresh the Ottawa Juniors. The officers of the Junior Red flowers in school rooms was assumed; unselfish per- Cross, together with a few guests, were entertained at sonal service was stressed. Official literature of the Grand Haven, at which time this collection of cor- American Junior Red Cross sent from Washington was respondence was displayed. distributed among the schools during the year. The ten American schools in China have an enroll- The Raynal School, at Denison, Texas, won the ment of approximately 850 American children. Junior Red Cross cup offered to the grammar schools in Denison for keeping the neatest and cleanest grounds A summary of Junior Red Cross activities carried throughout the year. This is the third consecutive on in the elementary schools of Winchester, Massa- time the Raynal School has won the cup and for that chusetts, follows : reason it is the property of that school. One school has had meetings of Junior Red Cross once each month with a program pertaining to Red Successfud enrollment of American schools in China Cross work. Clothing and toys have been collected in the American Junior Red Cross is reported by the and sent to National Headquarters in Washington. China Central Committee of the American Red Cross. Christmas boxes of toys have been sent to Europe. In view of these enrollments, greater activity in the Jointed toys, stockings, dolls, and valentines, have been Junior program is expected in the China field during sent to Little Wanderers’ Home. A play was given the coming year. by girls of the fifth and sixth grades at the home of one The Shanghai American School, which is one of the of the girls, the proceeds being devoted to Red Cross. [7] It was full the first nigiit. ‘he second night there wasn’t standing room any- where. I am so proud of the event in its entirety that I can’t write enough about it. ‘Patriotism’ was so fine and appeal- ing. I wish you could have seen ‘Pre- paredness’ and the Bathing Beauties. There was a little seven-year-old lad that played an old-fashioned accordion that brought down the house. He was just as solemn as an owl. Then there was a truly live monkey that was a star. The King, a seventeen-year-old tall boy, was fine and dignified. The lighting effect and the music were all that could be de- in Hardin County, Kentucky, the county in which Abraham Lincoln was born, sired. is the Red Oak School where the Juniors have beautified their school grounds— and were caught in the commendable act, as this photograph shows “The ideals are so high, every influence uplifting. Every Chapter ought to have Scrapbooks and puzzles were made and given away. an active Junior organization.” Each school subscribes to JuNior RED Cross NEws. Face cloths were knitted. Toys, vegetables, and Fifty attractive scrap books have been sent by the canned goods were collected for needy persons in Juniors of Memphis, Tennessee, to the United States Winchester at Christmas time. Scrapbooks were Veterans’ Hospital at Alexandria, Louisiana. The made for the Children’s Ward, Boston City Hospital. books contain pictures and magazine stories greatly en- Nut cups were made and donated to the Mothers’ joyed by the men in the hospital. Club Thanksgiving Sale. “Safety First” posters Recently a request came to the Juniors for flowers were made. Programs for meetings have been pre- for the Veterans’ Hospital at Memphis and the response pared by pupils. A Red Cross scrapbook has been was so generous that not only were there flowers for

made. Members of Junior Red Cross have done every room in the hospital but enough for decorating —_—$—$—$ $$$$$ Le janitor work after meetings of Mothers’ Club. the halls and the main floor. Enough flowers were Personal Service to the school included: Care of then left to fill three large baskets that were sent to plants, room, hall, and yard, and helpfulness to others the Adult Cripples’ Home, the General Hospital, and at school. to the Charity Ward of the Baptist Hospital.

Forty-one baby garments were made by the Red One hundred Bibles and many Testaments, copies Cross Juniors in Pasadena, California, Part Time of St. John’s Gospel, the Psalms, and hymn _ books High School for the children of the colored troops at were among a collection of books sent by the Juniors Ft. Huachuca, Arizona. Junior Red Cross supplied of Bonham, Texas, to the Dallas Newsboys’ Home and material to make books, bags, etc., for hospitals, to the United States Veterans’ Hospital, at Kerrville, the Vacation School at Pasadena. At the close of this Texas. Most of the Bibles were sent to the Veterans’ school, the articles made by the children were donated Hospital and were received with great pleasure by the to the Junior Red Cross. patients. The Testaments and copies of St. John’s A radio set recently sent by Pasadena Juniors to Gospel received equal welcome at the Newsboys’ Ft. Huachuca has been installed in the large general Home in Dallas. medical ward of the hospital and Major Baker, the Commanding Surgeon of the hospital, writes: “We A Flag of the United States has been presented to received the radio set a few weeks ago and the pa- United States Veterans’ Hospital No. 57, at Knoxville, tients are enjoying it greatly—particularly after 9 lowa, by the Junior Red Cross of the Burlington, Iowa, P. M. when the concerts in Los Angeles and the Red Cross Chapter. Pacific Coast come through. The loud speaker seems very satisfactory. We cannot thank you enough for Watertown, Connecticut, Juniors take charge of re- this welcome gift.” newals to the Junior Rep Cross News for all district and parochial schools, also subscribe to the Red Cross The Executive Secretary of the High School Sec- Courier for the large buildings. The Juniors made a tion of American Red Cross, in Grand Haven, Michi- special drive for Japanese disaster relief, sending a gan, writes of the production of the Junior Red total of $61. They have assisted in local welfare cam- Cross pageant, “The Court of Service,” as follows: paigns. With the co-operation of the Americanization “Greetings to tell you the Pageant was a splendid and School Department, they presented a pageant— success! The Auditorium seats about seven hundred. “The Light”—in a most acceptable manner. [8] JUNIOR RED CROSS CALENDAR, 1924-25

BOUT the time that this number of the News reaches you, you will also receive for your school room a copy of the Junior Red Cross Calendar for 1924-25. This calendar brings a greeting to each individual Junior and the wish that it may add age materially to the pleasure of the school year. Are not its illustrations attractive? They are the work of your own Junior artist, Anna Milo Upjohn, with whom every Junior is already well acquainted, or will have opportunity to become acquainted through her pictures and stories in the JuNior Rep Cross News. On another page of this number of the News you will find an account of her travels for the Junior Red Cross. Several of the illustrations in the Calendar are re- minders of her recent visit to the Orient. All of the other illustrations portray scenes encountered on her earlier travels in Europe and America. Each picture has a story connected with it. You will find one relat- ing to the September illustration on this page, called “The Belfry of Bruges.” — But the main purpose of the Calendar is to suggest “The Bridge of the Horse” and the Belfry of Bruges things that Juniors may do from month to month to carry out the purposes of their organization. It is not THE BELFRY OF BRUGES supposed for a minute that any Junior, or any single group of Juniors, will do very many of the interesting By Anna Milo Upjohn things suggested on any single page of the Calendar. But many things are suggested so that each group of LIVELY lot of young Belgians lived in the Juniors will have plenty of opportunity to make a Street of the Horse. When they saw me cross- choice of the things it can do best. In order to make ing the bridge at the end of their street they your choice wisely, you will want to study each page would rush forward tumultuously asking who was to of the Calendar quite carefully and talk over among pose that day. I made them gardening, polishing brass, yourselves and with your teacher the various possibil- fishing along the canal, and the last day in order to sat- ities. Of course, you may think of worth-while things isfy those who were left, I drew a group of them com- to do that are not mentioned in the Calendar. That ing home from school across the Bridge of the Horse will be so much the better. as I had so often seen them. The first great purpose of the Junior Red Cross is They were fair-haired Flemings and dark Walloons, to cultivate in its members the spirit of service. But the two strains which made up the history of Belgium. it has two other great purposes. One of these is to And their background was the mellow old city of develop team work among the children of our own na- Bruges with its guardian Belfry reflected in the canal, tion and to establish friendly relations between them on which swam stately swans. and the children of all other nations. That is why on Long ago in the turbulent history of Bruges a noble- each page of the Calendar there are suggestions for man was falsely accused of a crime and put to death. “National Service” and “World Service.” The third Later, when his innocence was proven, the people of great purpose of the Junior Red Cross is to help its Bruges, filled with remorse, decreed that from that time members to be as “fit for service” as possible by form- the swan should be a privileged citizen free to come and ing habits of healthful living. go unharmed. And to this day a large brood of swans, In deciding upon your program each month be sure having the freedom of the canals, is maintained at the that it includes some “Fit for Service” activities and city’s expense. also activities for “National Service” and “World Serv- Gradually the estuary on which Bruges lay silted up ice” as well as for “Personal Service,” “School Serv- and the city was cut off from the sea. Its greatness ice,” and “Community Service.” Rounding out your fell away but its beauty remained, dreaming in its dark program in this way will greatly increase its interest canals. And the spirit of excitement still lives in the at the same time that it helps your organization to serve chimes of the Belfry. all its purposes. Query: Who wrote a poem on the Belfry of Bruges? [9] HURCAAUAEAAEAUOUUOU UU ELEEDTEANAAAAUU ULL VANUALUAANUAUAUUUUUULULENASAEAMANA LAU UU ONNAELUAAMUAMUMUUUUL in the Union, but also our far-away territories. More a AMERICA EY than 5,000 of the links are in Hawaii, Porto Rico, and ' JUNIOR RED CROSS the Philippine Islands, and some of them are to be found in Alaska, Panama, the Virgin Islands, and the | wee. .0fe MEER ate «to little Pacific island of Guam. Growth of the chain Published Monthly, September to May, inclusive, by in the United States was marked last year by the addi- AMERICAN JUNIoR RED Cross, Washington, D. C. Copyright, 1924, by American Ked Cross. tion of 184 “links” in schools for American Indian chil- Subscription rate 50 cents a year, exclusive of June, July, and August; single copies, 10 cents. School subscriptions dren and also by the inclusion of schools in some of should be forwarded to the local Red Cross Chapter School Committee ; if unknown, to Red Cross Division Headquarters. the more isolated and less accessible sections of our if both the Chapter School Committee and the Division Head- quarters are unknown, subscriptions should be sent direct to |: country. Think what it means to a remote little school, American Junior Red Cross, Washington, D. C. All sub- seriptions for individuals should be sent to American Junior perhaps many miles from a railroad and without the Ked Cross, Washington, D. C. advantages that many of us enjoy in our schools, to Vou. 6 SEPTEMBER, 1924 No. 1 become a “link” in this living ““ “chain of service!” National Officers of the American Red Cross “In eight years,” says the Junior Red Cross Journal Catvin COoo.rpce.. kbk od eaGhwhusseknanaebeie President of Great Britain, “the Junior Red Cross movement has Wintiam HH, PG T cnc oes ibe ebd a baee eee esnebne hs Vice-President Remtee W. BE FORT. .ccccccss covcscvcescese Vice-President spread to the schools of twenty-one countries. One

Joun BarTon PAYNE...... 008. Chairman Central Committee does not require great imagination to see this move- James M. BECK...... -eeee0e Counselor |2 Ba2O8 WAROWORTE 2 occcsccecccesccs Treasurer ment as a chain of service linking the children of all Sn Sn nw db eee acti a Secretary Tanned Ey. PUMGM, «002 cveccccnenacccesavecsosces Vice-Chairman lands, each school a link in the circling chain, nor to ins Te: Te, . od0650ne6g es Cpan0nceneeeuns Vice-Chairman ArtHuR WiLuiaAM Dunn....National Director, Junior Red Cross be inspired by the power and the possibilities of such

Editor, Junior Red Cross News a league of children, for their own nation and for the Austin CUNNINGHAM world.” ae AVAVOULEELTUOLOGDORELUAT AE DOUE DORE AAAAA A OODNO TY a This world circling chain has grown and increased in strength in a remarkable manner during the past THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE year, and all signs point to an even greater advance FOR GOOD WILL during the coming year. One of the principal means by which this world-wide chain is being welded is In- —CuHaries Evans HucuHeEs ternational School Correspondence. During the past BRAND NEW Junior Red Cross magazine has year some 1,500 American schools were linked directly just come to our desk. It is the Junior Red with schools in other lands by this means. Elsewhere Cross Journal of the British Red Cross Society, in this number of the News you will find a few ex- published in London. ‘This makes nineteen national cerpts from this correspondence. Do you not want to Junior Red Cross magazines in existence, including our take advantage of this means of helping to weld the own JuNior News. An edi- chain ? Chain of Service torial note describing the pur- American Juniors are linked very closely with Jun- Links all Juniors pose and plan of the new iors in many countries of Europe by reason of the Journal says, among other service they have rendered over there through the Na- things, “We shall give you quotations from other tional Children’s Fund of the American Junior Red Junior magazines and we hope other Junior magazines Cross. Last April the News gave a vivid account of will find us sufficiently interesting to quote from us.” the happiness and good-fellowship created through the In this first number of the Journal we find a num- expenditure of those funds which American Juniors ber of things well worth passing on to American Jun- have contributed. The program of service in Europe iors. Among these is the information that in England will be continued this year in an unusually interesting the Junior Red Cross organization in each particular way. Next month the News will contain a somewhat school is called a “Link” in a “Chain of Service.” In detailed description of some of the interesting projects the United States we use the somewhat formidable term in Europe in the support of which you will doubtless “Auxiliary” for a school enrolled in the Junior Red want to have a share. Cross, and in some European countries they have Jun- “Tf we do not keep in touch with one another,” again ior Red Cross “Circles,” but when our British friends says the new Junior Red Cross Journal of England, say that a school has been organized as a “link” in a “we may be links, but we do not exactly make up a Junior Red Cross “chain of service” they express chain, do we? The Journal, then, is a means of keep- clearly just what happens in the United States and in ing in touch—will help you to realize that you and the every other country when a school enrolls in the Junior others do make up a chain; the sense of comradeship Red Cross. will grow in you all, and though you are not very In the United States 5,653 “links” have been added strong people in yourselves you may, all together, be- to the Junior Red Cross chain of service during the come a power.” ‘This is precisely the purpose also of past year, so that on June 30, 1924, this chain was made the Junior Rep Cross News in the United States. up of almost 30,000 links (29,942), of which your With this September issue the News enters upon its school is one. This chain embraces not only every state sixth year of service in linking schools together. [10] N response to an invita- A is for Apple, tion extended to Juniors Juicy and sweet. through JuNior Rep One each day Cross News and the Junior We all should eat. Red Cross Calendar, in the 1923-1924 school year, to D is for Dust, We must drive it away ; prepare fit-for-service books, an interesting collec- And also for Dirt, We can’t let it stay. tion of such books was re- ceived and displayed at Na- E is for Eggs, tional Headquarters of the Very fine food— Red Cross in Washington When served with bacon during the summer of 1924. Are especially good. These books were all shapes and sizes, and gave many F is for Fruit, suggestions from boys and *Most every kind girls as to what to do in You will surely find healthy order to be fit for service. For body and mind. The point was emphasized H is for Health, in many of these books that And Happiness, too ; clean or wholesome living is If you wish to have both, the principal requirement Read this book through. for fitness for service. No attempt has been made to M is for Milk, judge the books as best, So creamy and yellow ; Peter Zanzer, Grade 5 B, Hoboken, New Jersey, next best, and so on. All We must drink lots made, wrote, and ornamented this fit-for-service book To bea sturdy, fine fellow. had good features. What do you think of the following fit-for-service N is for Nuts, habits, taken from the pages of a hand-made book by Both creamy and fat, Michael Pawelko, of Grade 2B3, Public School 15, They make splendid eating New York City? And are healthy at that. “T play out of doors. P is for Prunes, “TI go to bed at nine. A rich, dark blue; “TI wash my face and hands three times a day. They are good for babies, “T take a bath at least twice a week. For you and me, too. “T brush my teeth each day. R is for Raisins, “T clean my nails every day. We mentioned before, “T help my mother every day. But if you are like me “I bring money to help the poor children. You can always eat more. “T have a habit of eating spinach. “I drink three glasses of milk each day. U—Understand, children! “T eat cereal every morning for breakfast. You must try and keep clean, For when you are dirty “T cross at the (street) corner. You are not fit to be seen. “IT do not lean out of the window.” V is for Vegetables, Michael decorated his book with colored crayon de- As ripe as can be; signs and tiny pencil sketches of himself doing the They are very healthy various things listed above, or not doing them as the For you and for me. case may be. Unfortunately, the drawings could not be reproduced. X, Y, Z. Of course I can’t find rules To go with these letters. But perhaps when I’m older Margretta West, a seven-year-old girl of Millers- I’ll be able to do better. town, Pennsylvania, prepared an attractive scrapbook in which she wrote original alphabet verses on fitness for service and illustrated her book with colored pic- Fitness for service is, of course, a continuing activity tures clipped from magazines. Space will not permit of the Junior Red Cross, and the Junior Red Cross the giving of all the verses, but here are some of them: Calendar is designed to promote such fitness. [11] THE TOOTHBRUSH'’S FAMILY HISTORY

*‘For once in my life,” said the Toothbrush, ‘‘I’m going to say what I think”

‘ OR once in my life,” OVERHEARD BY “And Toothbrushes will be said the ‘Toothbrush, Toothbrushes,” retorted the “I’m going to say what I Louise Fran klin Bache Toothbrush. “And I’m_ for think.” DRAWINGS BY ANNA Mito UpJoHN standing on my dignity. You'd The Tooth Paste, to whom think I was a nobody the way the remark was addressed said nothing. She merely Dicky Stout acts. I'll have him know my family is looked at her friend; saw she was bristling with as old as his. In fact I’d be willing to wager there rage and very wisely drew her own tongue in and wasn't a Stout in existence in the days of my first fastened it down securely. ancestors.” “Dicky Stout is simply unbearable.” “How interesting,” said the Tooth Paste in her “Richard Prendergast Stout, you mean,” said the creamiest tones as she uncorked her tongue. “De Tooth Mug, who liked nothing better than to egg the tell us about it.” Toothbrush on. The Toothbrush did not need urging. In fact “T shall call him what I choose,” said the Tooth- nothing in the world could have stopped her. One’s brush, and she yelled so loudly that the fringe on family is always more interesting to one’s self than the Towels curled in terror. to anybody else, you know. “What has he done now?” asked the Tooth Mug. “To begin at the beginning,” said the Toothbrush, “You heard him! Everybody heard him! You every bristle standing straight with couldn’t help yourselves! He got up late this pride, “although I am a good Ameri- morning and was in a most frightful humor. His can, my people originally came from mother caught him running off to school without China. There’s an ancient book pub- brushing his teeth, and back she marched him lished in China in the year 272 B. C straight to me. He knows he has to clean his called ‘Precepts for the Fair.’ In a teeth after each meal just as well—as he the first mention of my family occurs. knows his ABC’s. He knows his lower I shall recite the passage to you: teeth should be brushed up and the ‘Prepare, little maid, upper teeth should be brushed down, For your beneficent mistress but if he can get out of brushing them The instruments of the toilet. at all, he will. That's honor for you,” Prepare her wash-bowl of blue sputtered the Toothbrush wrathfully! porcelain, “This morning what did he do after Her towel of yellow wool, his mother was out of sight but come back The toothbrush of green jade, and sling me as hard as he could down on And the tooth powder whiter than the marble basin. Now he knows very well snow. that that is no way to treat a friend who Then, after she is cleansed and per- saves him from all the trouble I do. His fumed, mother has told him a hundred times if Make reverently the morning salu- once, to cleanse me with soap and tation.’ warm water, rinse me well and put me in some place where I can dry. “My family is found existing I prefer the sunshine, but then of under many conditions and in almost course my _ preferences don’t every land. The Arabs cleansed count.” = their mouths as part of their reli- “Boys will be boys,” said the ® © ts gious service and the Japs used a Dental Floss, who always tried “To begin at the beginning, although frayed stick of bamboo. In a certain to come between things and lama American, my people part of Africa the natives send tooth- people and make them happy. originally came from China” brushes as a token of their friendship and [12] affection. ‘As I think of my teeth, morning, I know of is Becoming to a noon and night, so I think of you,’ is the swell’d Face; not to consider message the gift brings with it. But it was of the Payn.’” not until the year 1742 that there is any “How extraordinary,” said mention of our residence among the white the Turkish Towel. people. Think of it! Up to that time “Someone should write it the Stout family had lived in ignorance of down,” said the Tooth Paste our very existence.” in her creamy voice. “In Dicky’s case the continuance of “Yes! Dicky might like to that ignorance would be bliss,” said read it, you know,” mimicked the Tooth Mug, but it is significant that the saucy Tooth Mug. he whispered the words so that the “T’ll do it and gladly,” said Toothbrush should not hear. a Fountain Pen, who had all “It is in the letter of an this time been lying unobserved American girl by the name of on a shelf over the basin. “T’ll Sally Annis written to her sis- do it because I believe if every- ter that we have the first men- one knew the interesting history tion of our family’s migration of the Toothbrush they would to America. I can recite it to look forward to their meetings you word for word, for every with it each day with greater well brought-up toothbrush pleasure.” knows the history of his people The Tooth Paste, the Dental by heart,” continued the Tooth- Floss, and the Turkish Towel brush. applauded heartily, but the Tooth The Toothbrush cleared his Mug, aping Dicky, screwed his throat and in a very grand voice face up in an awful grimace. began: ““Besides these, and ye smalle Indian Poster Next Month combe, my father brt. me from his Fulfillment of a promise to Indian voyage a new mouth-brush made of schools enrolled in the Junior Red Cross to reproduce in the September, eyvory ; the back parte inlayd very pretty 1924, News, the prize-winning fit- with silver ; and ye brissles long and stiffe for-service poster made in such and set very firme; wch he is Assured schools during the past school year, will helpe me of my Tooth Akes, wch you will must be deferred until the October guesse deer Judy I do pray it may, and if indeed . ea — a And ———— it . doe, will ir Prize it me more ye than all, even a the redd girl **It is by in the the name letter of of Sally an American Annis” _ it Or is desired NEWS to W reproduce the poster flour’d silke; for no silke of anie collor that in its original colors. SCHOOL HOUSE STANDS IN FLOOD ee HE little school house is left standing, but now the The cloudburst, which left the little school house in Carden’s children have no playground at Bluff standing while carrying away nearly everything else, was all. . . . You can’t ever described by Blanche Blevins as coming down the mountain imagine how thankful I am to side as a twelve-foot wall of water. The Director of the Junior God for having my family safe and our Red Cross for the Southern Division of the United States was home spared us.” despatched to the scene of this flood, among other relief agents These two sentences are from a letter of the American Red Cross; written by Blanche Blevins, a school girl an appropriation of $5,000 was and a member of the American Junior Red made for emergency relief, Cross, at Carden’s Bluff, in Carter County, tents were provided for Tennessee, following a cloudburst in June, temporary shelter, and 1924, when two mountain communities otherwise the Red Cross were almost entirely washed away. served Carter County, In the issue of American JuNrtor RED as it has served many Cross News for May, 1924, page I3I, a another community in leading article told of the growth of the the United States, in Junior Red Cross in the mountainous its hour of distress regions of the southern part of the United and need. States, and said in part: “In the heart of the southern Appalachian Mountains fif- teen schools in Carter County, Tennessee, have enrolled this year in Junior Red Cross and during the past winter have been en- gaged in a variety of interesting activities.” It was not long after this article ap- peared that National Headquarters of the Red Cross in Washington received from the Central High School, of Chattanooga, Tennessee, the fine log cabin shown in the illustration on this page. Every little log was gathered by enthusiastic mountain Juniors who wanted their "Saaler canine in other schools z the United States ‘Every little log was gathered by to see a real, hand-built log cabin, such as is common in the enthusiastic mountain Juniors mountains of East Tennessee. The cabin was put together by who wanted their associates to see —— High Scent’ manual training class of the Chattanooga Central gq yeal, hand-built log cabin” Miniature model of the type of playground in- JUST BETWEEN JUNIORS stalled in Belgi- um, France, Italy Letters that Speak for Themselves and Jugo-Slavia Eprror’s Note: Twenty-seven countries now are engaged in Junior Red Cross international school correspondence. From 600 to 1,000 letters and portfolios between schools in the United States and schools in other lands pass each month through the School Correspondence office of the American Junior Red Cross in Washington. These portfolios, prepared by groups of children, are, in many instances, works of art. Some of them have decorative covers, and many contain photographs, drawings, and paintings showing local scenes and industries, together with de- scriptions of national and community customs. This Junior Red Cross activity is making a substantial contribution to world understanding and friendship. Below are a few paragraphs from recent letters:

A National Playground Association, with 220 trained playground workers, is one result in Belgium of American Junior Red Cross activities

ve EF thank you for your beautiful album A reply to an Eskimo letter, from a school in Zas- views,” writes a school in Riga, Latvia, to muky u Kourime, Czecho-Slovakia, is equally fascinat- a school in Hawaii, one of the United States ing. It reads: island territories. “It is the first step toward our “What beautiful toys you can make! I like to help mutual acquaintance. Latvia lies near the Baltic Sea mother with her kitchen-work. I would like to send and has an area of 63,29G square kilometers. Since you some of our Czech plum dumplings, which are November 18, 1918, it has been a Republic. Since my favorite meal. But it would not bear the far voy- prehistoric times the inhabitants of Latvia have been age, and so you will have to come and eat them with us. the Letts (Latvians), who a very long time ago had a After dinner we will have a little dance and song be- culture of their own. On the shore of the Baltic Sea hind our barn, where the finch has its nest. The con- much amber has been found, which was bought and sold ductor of our town-band will play to us, as he played by merchants from ancient cultured nations. Therefore on our Children’s Day. Next year we will have another Latvia is also called the ‘Land of Amber.’ The ex- fete. Come, too, you might use the aéroplane which is istence of Latvia has been recorded first in the ancient flying daily over our school. Such a voyage would not manuscripts of the first and second centuries B. C.” take you long.” An Eskimo native school in Mt. Village, Alaska, the A letter from the Boys’ Normal Class, Botosani, northernmost territory of the United States, writes to Rumania, addressed to the Emrich Manual Training a Czecho-Slovak school as follows: High School, in Indianapolis, says: “We have benefited “T will tell you about our sleds and dogs. The sleds by the. culture of Rome, Athens, and Constantinople. are made of wood. They do not use any nails when Each of these big cities has been, at different epochs, making a sled, but use white whale skin and tie it. the center of culture in Eastern Europe. Therefore we Some of these sleds are about seven feet long. Some have many traditions. Our language is a Latin lan- people have two dogs, some four dogs, and some three guage. We have worn the same national costume for dogs. The harness is made of white whale skin and 2,000 years. The way we build our houses is very seal skin. Sometimes the dogs eat the harness when original and the churches built under the Byzantine and the men go away, for the men do not give the dogs Gothic influence are particularly beautiful. I wonder enough to eat, because they will not work hard. Of if you expected to find in Rumania such fine archi- course, they give them plenty to eat while in the village. tecture, such fine paintings, carvings, etc., as those you We use dogs instead of horses, trains, autos, and flying will see in the portfolio. You see these things make machines. Most of these things we have never seen.” life worth living.” [14] HANDWORK NI Pal —— - Pg Fer —— ba ne ee _ — —- EXHIBITED big Ve DF ee OM pv NAS eo ath —— 2 Qe ti< D ARELY has there been col- by oS fi (i> ee £ lected anywhere such a va- Y|\\ / > J e . e e260 i hh A | } ~~ SS yy riety : of useful and artistic jay ( i ie Le BT ~WS < school-made things as was exhibited ¢ \ |} ae = in ] ~~ by the Junior Red Cross at National ‘ \/ IN =~ SS \ ~ 2 SN S Headquarters of - the American 4 Red » ne is LIS ~ Cross during the annual convention , 7 XN aS SSS of the National Education Associa- oy Ay ; . . ‘ ay ISS. tion, in Washington, D. C., in July, SSS = re > 1924. The articles shown were pro- X OS duced by members of 7 the Junior : et ae Red Cross “ in . many lands. rys They <> 2 ~ were arranged on the walls, in glass <— cases, and on tables, and occupied ‘Itt one wide corridor and a spacious te” Geerge Leho Maurk — Ea. room in the marble headquarters Guves Bile Hawk, Grade 6 A, an Indian Junior in Haskell Institute, building of the Red Cross. Nearly Lawrence, Kansas, made these drawings of tribal apparel aad other articles four thousand persons, most of them teachers, visited this fascinating exhibition of program of the American Junior Red Cross has been children’s handwork in the week of the educators’ con- made a part of the regular curriculum of Government vention. Indian schools. In glass-covered cases and on walls A huge map was about the first thing to be seen—a were samples of rug and blanket weaving, needlework, map showing by tiny silken strands how twenty-seven basketry, pottery, and legendary and symbolical figures countries are engaging in international school corre- carved in wood or molded in clay. Tomtoms, bows and spondence of the Junior Red Cross. It was good to arrows, “katchinas” or rain dolls, drawings and paint- note this map first, for a placard on it told in a few ings, were other gifts from the Indian children. In words what the exhibition connection with the Indian was all about — rather, it section of the exhibit it was told the purpose of the learned that the Junior Red Junior Red Cross, which is Cross is not only promoting the same thing. It said: friendship between the In- “Tf we can link together the dian and other schools in children of all nations in this country, through an ex- world-wide bonds of under- change of handwork and standing and _ friendship, group correspondence, but we shall create an un- is seeking “to foster among rivaled power for interna- the Indian children a love tional peace, justice, and of and pride in their ab- security.” Isn’t that rea- original arts, and to pre- son enough for an exhibi- serve for the nation the tion of Junior Red Cross beauty and worth of Indian handwork, especially when designs.” most of the articles ex- In a glass tower was hibited were gifts ex- shown extraordinary minia- changed by Juniors of dif- ture art groups fashioned ferent countries ? from bits of tree bark, One of the very attract- crooked twigs, acorns, pine ive features of the display cones, and horse chestnuts, was contributed by Indian by pupils of the Bakule girls and boys in various School in Prague, Czecho- One wall in the Junior Red Cross Exhibit showed Slovakia. These included parts of the United States, contributions from children of Japan, Czecho- a reminder that the service Slovakia, Poland, France, Austria, and Hungary rabbits, storks, birds, geese. [15] CHRISTMAS BOX DIRECTIONS

HE op- conspicuously portunity on this page.) is before The boxes or members of the cartons, which American Jun- are furnished ior Red Cross through local again to dis- Red Cross tribute 100,000 Chapters, are boxes of good- 9X 4x3 inches. will gifts at Their contents Christmas may include among the chil- simple toys and dren of some other articles twenty foreign made by the countries and The origin of the Junior Red Cross Christmas box idea, as drawn by a grateful European child Juniors as a insular terri- part of their tories of the United States. Advance directions are class-room work. Otherwise the following articles are given here, because the boxes must be in New York suggested as satisfactory : City ready for shipment not later than October 25. Rag or celluloid dolls, hair ribbons, handkerchiefs, There is a charming silhouette stockings, mittens, picture books, drawing on this page, done by a puzzles, rubber balls, small toys, grateful European youngster, to Ship Junior Red Cross Christmas marbles, tops, wash cloths, cakes boxes to illustrate the origin of the Christ- of soap, toothbrushes, tooth paste mas box idea. Just as wise men DAVIES, TURNER & CO., or powder, combs. 45 Water Street, two thousand years ago carried If desired, a card with no post- New York, N. Y. gifts to a little child, an infant age attached, addressed to the herald of good-will, so wise boys (Marked) Junior Red Cross Cartons school filling the carton, may be Consignee’s name and address, and number and girls to-day dispatch annu- of cartons in package, should be marked on enclosed as a means of securing package. Boxes will be shipped from New ally through the American Junior York October 25. an acknowledgment from abroad. Red Cross gifts which, while Do not send any clothing other simple and inexpensive, awaken than articles listed above. Send world-wide good feeling and friendship among children. nothing that you would not be willing to give to close Letters and post cards have streamed back to the friends at home. Soiled and worn-out articles should, United States in countless numbers from all quarters of course, never be included. Do not send candy, fruit, of the world, expressing in inti- nuts, cake, food, or other perish- mate and touching ways the JUST THIS MINUTE ables; nor perfume, liquids, etc., thanks of children who have re- for these are likely to spill and If we’re thoughtful, just this minute, ceived American Christmas In what’er we say and do; spoil the contents of the box. boxes, and telling something of If we put a purpose in it No box should be filled until it the lives and surroundings of the That is honest thro’ and thro’ bulges, as this makes uniform We shall gladden life and give it writers. Grace to make it all sublime; packing of cartons difficult. It has been said that “no single For, though life is long, we live it Boxes cannot be accepted for Just a minute at a time. project financed through the Na- specially designated countries, but tional Children’s Fund has been Just this minute we are going the Juniors may know that their Toward right or toward wrong; more far-reaching in its effects, Just this minute we are sowing gift boxes will be divided this both at home and abroad, than Seeds of sorrow or of song. year among the following coun- this Christmas box enterprise of Just this minute we are thinking On the ways that lead to God, tries: Albania, Montenegro, Es- American Juniors.” Or in idle dreams are sinking thonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Bel- To the level of the clod. In order that the greatest bene- gium, France, Italy, Czecho- fit may be given, all pupils in Yesterday is gone; to-morrow Slovakia, Bulgaria, Rumania, schools that undertake to fill Never comes within our grasp; Just this minute’s joy or sorrow, Austria, Hungary, Jugo-Slavia, Christmas boxes should be per- That is all our hands may clasp. Poland, Greece, Santo Domingo, mitted to share in the activity. Just this minute! Let us take it As a pearl of precious price, and Haiti. Christmas boxes will (The address to which the And with high endeavor make it also be sent to Porto Rico and cases should be shipped through Fit to shine in paradise. Virgin Islands, United States —Anonymous. the Red Cross Chapter is given territories, [16]