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Show Junior Red Cross Is Active In Utah Conducting "clean up" campaigns, protecting birds, beautifying school yards, and maintaining correspondence correspond-ence with children of many other lands, are some of the activites of more than 6,000 Utah school children, members of the American Junior Red Cross, cited in the organization's annual report made public here today. Enrolled under the motto "I serve,'' the Juniors are carrying on activities activi-ties in their schools and communities, communi-ties, the influence of which litterally reaches around the world. Through a system of international correspondence, correspond-ence, fostered by the organization, they have been exchanging portfolios and letters during the school year with the Juniors of other countries, Which, aside from its educational value, is believed to be promoting international amity and understanding. understand-ing. A part of this international program pro-gram is the sending of tokens of good will in the form of Christmas packages pack-ages to children of foreign lands. At home they have carried on local service activities, one feature of which is providing presents and entertainment entertain-ment for fellow Juniors who are ill, and for disabled veterans in government govern-ment hospitals. In Utah, 24 schools are participating participat-ing in the Junior Red Cross, in which 6,074 pupils are enrolled. Beginning a war measure, precipitated precipi-tated by the wish of school children to participate in war relief and other activities, the Junior movement has spread throughout the world and is j hailed by many educators here and I abroad as the most significant movement move-ment of the last quarter of a century. The Juniors in this state are part of a world wide movement in which more than 12,000,000 school children are enrolled in more than forty na-jtions. |