Show WHITTIER STUDENTS I SIGN POETICAL WAR AR PLEDGE B Bo Boys Bys ys' ys s and Girls in All Classes Class Class- cs es Active in Patriotic Causes I wilt avo will avoid d all waste to this I truly swear I will be careful of my clothes and everything I wear N No foolish pennies will I spend but save that save that I may give To those less fortunate than I who find it hard to live And what I take upon my plate I will eat up every bit Nor make complaint because I am not very fond of it And Arid dishes es new I will learn to eat as asfar far as I am ablo able Out Cut one thing I 1 will never be that be-that that is is finicky at table Every pupil of the Whittier school has signed the above pl pledge dge according to Mark Brown Drown principal Y f Every Ever effort he says is being made bj by teachers and pupils to avoid oid wa waste te Heretofore after aftel children had written on one side of the paper it was destroyed de- de under the new plan it is put in the scrap basket until there is oc occasion occasion occasion oc- oc casion to use the other side I pupils of the sixth A cl class ss under the direction of Miss Jennie Crabbe claim laurels for thrift They gathered gathered gathered gath gath- ered three thirty-three and three-fourths three pounds of beans from the ground in a neighboring yard after the owner had harvested These were vere sold for In addition to this thi tinfoil was picked up In m the streets and sold With the proceeds the class has contributed as follows to charities One dollar to the Y W W. C C. A A. Jl 1 I to the Armenian sufferers sufferers suto suf sut- o r 1 to to the Red Cross 50 60 cents fot for Red Cross seals 1 I to the Red Star animal fund To relieve the parents from the constant pleading for nickels said Miss Crabbe we we contrived to get money without asking for it and we thought of this scheme In one room the windows are blooming blooming blooming bloom bloom- ing with narcissus which will later find the way to the mothers of the children The bulbs bulbS- were planted a month ago so that they would bloom bloomIn In time for Christmas The feature of the Christmas exhibit at the school is the posters designed to promote food conservation Most of them are beautifully done and show artistic treatment Twenty former students of the Whittier Whittier Whittier Whit- Whit tier school have joined the tho colors color and l' l their pictures pictures hang in the corridor A I flag designates those who are in service service service ser ser- vice while a gold star represents those who have enlisted but have been honorably honorably honorably hon hon- dl discharged on tm account of ill health The first grade children under the direction of Miss Rae Hae Woodcock have lave made boxes in which which they have sent candy to the boys boys' in service has In this room t l' mere been turned into a fireplace across which tiny paper stockings have hafe been suspended to await Santa Claus Glaus I |