Our town and civic duty

Chapter 149: THE JUNIOR RED CROSS’ FIRST BIRTHDAY

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A school reader for elementary pupils offers short stories, adapted tales, and practical lessons that introduce civic virtues such as courage, self-control, thrift, perseverance, kindness to animals, and patriotism. It then profiles public servants—police, mail carriers, firemen, street cleaners, and sanitation workers—to illustrate dependence, interdependence, and community cooperation. Subsequent sections address personal and public safety, sanitation, and insect control, and conclude with guidance on Junior Red Cross activities and patriotic service. Teacher notes recommend dramatization, discussion, and hands-on projects to connect classroom learning with daily civic habits and to encourage respect for public institutions and duties.

THE JUNIOR RED CROSS’ FIRST BIRTHDAY

When the Junior Red Cross was one year old, 8,000,000 children had become members.

50,000 refugee garments had been made by the members in the first six months of its existence.

3,004 pieces of furniture had been made by school children for Red Cross convalescent houses.

A fund of more than $10,000,000 had been raised by the Junior Red Cross before its first birthday.

Crop harvesting, berry picking, and gardening are some of the ways in which the 8,000,000 members saved money and made money for their country—for their United States.