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Show PREPAREDNESS AMERICAN RED CROSS TPHE Junior Red Cross is the American Red Cross in the schools of the nation. It is also the world's largest youth organization, organi-zation, with more than 14,000,000 members in the United States. The principal duty of the Junior Red Cross in war time is the making mak-ing of comfort and recreational articles for our service men everywhere. ev-erywhere. During the past year, Junior Red Cross members made more than 3,000,000 such articles, such as games, recreation room furniture and writing kits. The Junior Red Cross has also taken a very active part in the making of many essential articles for Civilian Defense organizations throughout the nation. These items included splints, stretchers, and first aid cabinets. "Earn, buy, make, give," are the four steps all Junior Red Cross members take in raising and using the money they get in their national enrollment drive. They must earn the money to buy the materials mate-rials to make the articles to give to the hospital, army camp or Civilian Defense organization. Junior Red Cross members have also been very active in salvage campaigns of all kinds throughout the nation, contributing more than half of the salvage gathered by children of school age throughout the country. , In addition to furnishing opportunity oppor-tunity to learn by making these articles for service men and others, oth-ers, the Junior Red Cross affords children of school age basic training train-ing in civilian preparedness so that they may take their places later on in the volunteer activities of the Red Cross or the Office of Civilian Defense. Prepared Exclusively for wrflj. |
