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Show UTAH CHILDREN ARE ACTIVE IN JUNIOR RED CROSS Conducting "clean up" campaigns, protecting birds, beautifying school yards, and maintaining correspon-dence correspon-dence with chilrden of many other lands are some of the activities of more than 6,000' Utah school children, members of the American Junior Red Cross, cited in the organization's annual an-nual report1 madepu blic here today. Enrolled under the motto "I serve," the Juniors are said to by carrying on activities in their schools and communities the influence of which literally reaches around the world. Through a system of international correspondence fci.ered by the or- J ionization, they have boon exchanging' portfolios and letters during t he j school year with the Juniors of other countries, which, a.MiIe from its c;:;- j rational value, is believed to be pro-1 muting international eraity and un- j demanding. A part of this inter-i national program is the gedir.g of tokens of good will in tho form of i Chiistmas packages to children of j foreign lands. At home they have carried on lo- j cal service activities, one feature of which is providing presents and entertainments en-tertainments for fellow Juniors who are ill, and for disabled veterans in government hopistals. In Utah, 24 schools are participating participat-ing in the Junior Red Cross, in which ; 0,(174 pupils are enrolled. Beginning as a war measure precipitated pre-cipitated by the wish of school children to participate in war relief and other activities, the Junior movement move-ment has spread throughout the world and is hailed by many educators here and abroad as the most significant movement 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 nations. |