Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-12-22 | Page 18 | Red Cross to Enroll Pupils

RED CRDS,S TO EiOpPILS Mountain Division Director of Junior Organization Outlines Program. "The principal object of the junior Red Cross now is to teach the children to work for the relief of children less fortunate for-tunate than themselves," according to Miss Grace K. Ensey, who arrived in Salt Lake yesterday. She is director of the junior Red Cross of the mountain division, divi-sion, which includes the states cf Utah, Colorado, Wyoming and New Mexico. Miss Ensey is here to place before the Utah Educational Association convention the plan to estahlish the junior Red Cross organisation in every public school of the state. The peace-time program of the junior Red Cross, Miss Ensey said, is ta establish estab-lish junior Red Cross organizations throughout the world. The fundamental object of the organization now, according to Miss Ensey, is to teach the children to help others to forget selfishness; to produce articles needed in hospitals or by the poor; to establish first-aid work in schools, including nursing, and to have and to follow a health program. She said the aim is to have former President William Howard Taft and President Garff, of the superintendent's organization organiza-tion of the National Education association, associa-tion, present the plan at the coming convention con-vention of the National Education, association as-sociation in Cleveland in February. Miss Ensey has just returned from a conference of junior Red Cross officials in Washington, I. C. where the junior Red Cross membership plan for public schools was discussed. The National Bureau Bu-reau of Education appointed a committee, commit-tee, she said, which is at present elaborating elaborat-ing on the present program. Mrs. W. O. Cleiand is secretary of the Salt Lake county chapter of- the junior Red Cross, and the various j chapters throughout the state have already partly organized through the help of the Utah public school officials. '