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Show AMERICAN JUNIOR RED (ROSS ACTIVE IN FOREIGN LANDS Although the American Red Cross after eight years has closed the bulk of its European relief operations, America is still very potently represented repre-sented in this overseas field for its school children, through the Junior American Red Cross, are still carrying carry-ing on. For the present fiscal year $120,000 has been appropriated out of the National Children's Fund, raised rais-ed entirely by these Juniors, for work in behalf of European children whose lives have been so darkened by war and its aftermath. World concord and understanding is a fundamental aim of the Junior Red Cross, this conforming with a joint resolution adopted at the International Inter-national conference of the Red Cross at Geneva, April 1, 1921. The object of the overseas program is to put heart into the dispirited children of Europe, to give them courage, to build up their faith in the future. It takes to thousands of impoverished and spiritless children the opportunity opportu-nity for health, play, education and happiness otherwise denied them. The countries in which help will continue, through the cooperation of the school children and the Junior American Red Cress, are Albania, Austria, Belgium, Czecho-Slovakia, France, Hungary, Italy, Jugo-Slavia and Poland. At Tirana, Albania, the vocational school is to become a permanent per-manent institution for the technical training of boys. In Austria, where suffering seemed to increase after the close of the war, the work includes in-cludes health games, a production program in the schools, and financial assistance. School gardens, workshops work-shops and an art class are also included in-cluded among the activities. Belgium has intensified the playground play-ground work of the Junior Red Cross and plans include completion of a playground at La Louviere, its operation opera-tion for one year, further assistance for Charleroi and other playground extension activity. Educational work in behalf of French war orphans entails en-tails a contribution by the American Juniors to the education of thirty-one thirty-one scholarship and apprenticeship holders, assistance at a child welfare center and maintenance of a playground play-ground in Paris. A representative of the American Juniors will continue to assist the CzecKo-Slovakian Junior Red Cross in an advisory capacity. Aid to Hungary is centered in promotion pro-motion of service to children in the schools, who show their aptitude by issuing a Junior Red Cross publication publica-tion of their own which is spreading news of effective service. Ancient Rome has welcomed the American playground idea and a model playground play-ground will be opened with ceremonies ceremo-nies before the end of the summer. A chain of farm and trade schools, including in-cluding two school ships, receive assistance, as-sistance, and a playground was established es-tablished in Florence, the birthplace of Florence Nightingale. Jugo-Salvia offers a field similar to Austria and is virgin ground for the inculcation of Junior Red Cross ideals and habits of service. In Poland Po-land activities are centered mainly in the devastated territory, and conditions con-ditions along the Polish-Russian frontier are receiving especial attention. atten-tion. According to R. P. Lane, European Euro-pean director of the Junior American Red Cross, "the spread of the Junior idea throughout the countries in which American Junior projects are under way is attested by concrete proofs." |