Show nations school chool S children ready to assume part in seventh drive washington D C the nations school children are again all set to assume as much responsibility as is given them in helping to meet the quota sot for sales of War Bonds to individuals in the seventh war loan ine demonstrated sales effectiveness of 0 school children was an important factor in the determination n of the dates date set tor for this new drive may t through june insistence on the part ot of many war finance fin n a nce chairmen throughout the country paid tribute to the vital support that pupils teachers and school a administrators have given previous bond drives A recent survey reveals that more than 20 million people heard about the sixth war loan from school children over eleven milli million were directly asked to buy bonds by these boys and girls a little less than a third of whom were soll solicited cited in no other way the participation of school children ranges from rallies at their a schools to the taking over of actual house to house canvassing in penns grove a small new jersey town during the last dr drive ve E bond sales were lagging behind in desperation the war finance committee turned t to 0 the students of the towns two high schools and one grammar school it if the adults wont do it its up to you the county chairman told them accepting the challenge within a week boys and girls had sold worth of bonds and before the close of the drive penns groves citizens had topped their E bond quota by lets chuck that worriment about youth taking responsibility into the ash can said the local weekly newspaper in michigan public schools sold worth of bonds in the sixth war loan with detroit schools contributing almost a third of this figure one school iri in the heart of detroit derrol t aver averaged a bcd sales of 60 per pupil another in a wealthier district tallied up for ench each of its students through special promotions staged by by 11 the e schools of the small town of laconia new hampshire whose pupils manned booths recorded the drives progress in downtown department part ment store windows and c canvassed an all 11 the towns fourteen districts E bond sales amounted to against a quota of 0 in the state of washington the school children in fit king county sold E bonds in one day worth and in kings county new york elementary and secondary school children tallied ui un through ah the sale of E bonds d during the sixth war loan on pearl harbor day in a remote virginia county school pupils canvassed the neighborhood and sold worth of bonds their total sales for the last drive amounted to eight per cent of which was estimated to be now new sales preparing fellow townspeople I 1 lor r solicitation by the pupils of fair mouna school hackensack hackenback Hacken sack N J the principal wrote you may feel that we are placing an unusual responsibility on our children but they are unusual children living in unusual times they are sincere in t their heir belief that the futie future of america depends upon our continued support ot of every man in the line of battle his pupils sold bonds worth more than in the sixth war loan |