Children Help in Mercy Work. Washington. How faithfully American Ameri-can school children did their bit toward to-ward winning the war is revealed in the final accounting of the war coun. cil of the American Red Cross, which shows that during the twenty months ending February 28, last, members of the Junior Red Cross produced 15,-722,073 15,-722,073 relief articles to an aggregate ' value of $10,152,401. This was over a tenth of the total Red Cross chapter production of these necessities.