Bingham Bulletin | 1920-10-15 | Page 1 | Junior Red Cross Active in Europe

JUNIOR RED CROSS . ACTIVE IN EUROPE Garden seeds for Polish orphans, milk for anaemic Greek babies, carpenters' car-penters' tools for Czecho-Slovakinn cripples these sre only a few of the , gifts that young Americans are sending send-ing to the war-crushed children of the Old World. Through the Junior Red Cross the , boys and girls of the Uniled States ' are giving a fresh start In life to little war orphans scattered all over Europe. They have set up orphans' homes In France, school colonies In Relgium and Montenegro, and day schools In Albania. Al-bania. They are sending dozens of yonng Syrians, Montenegrins, and Albanians to American colleges In Constantinople and Beirut, and maintaining more than a hundred brphans of French soldiers at colleges and trade schools. In orphanages or-phanages and farm schools up and down the peninsula of Italy there are nearly 500 wards of American Juniors. Last winter a thousand French children chil-dren from the Inadequate shelters of the devasted regions were sent by the Junior Red Cross to spend the cold months In warmer parts of France. At the same time five thousand little Belgians were having a hot lunch every day at Junior Red Cross school canteens. can-teens. American school children have already al-ready raised something like n million dollars for these enterprises, and they are still hard at work. In China, through campaigns of education, ed-ucation, the Junior Red Cross Is helping help-ing to combat widely prevalent blindness blind-ness md cholera.