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Show ! JUNIOR RED CROSS 1 ACTIVE IN EUROPE Garden seeds for Polish orphans, milk for anaemic Greek babies, carpenters' car-penters' tools for Czecho-Slovakian cripples these are only a few of the j gifts that young Americans are send- ' ing to the war-crushed chlldreD of the Old World. Through the Junior Red Cross the boys and girls of the United 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 Belgium and Montenegro, and day schools In Al- tiania. I They are sending dozens of young Syrians, Montenegrins, and Albanians to American colleges In Constantinople and Beirut, and maintaining more than a hundred orphans of French soldiers . at colleges and trade schools. In or- j 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 al-1 al-1 ready raised something like a million dollars for these enterprises, aud they are still hard at work. In China, through campaigns of education, ed-ucation, the Junior Reel Cross Is helping help-ing to combat widely prevalent blind-j blind-j ness and cholera. |