EVERY American boy and every American girl is to have a chance this year to help win the war by real service for Uncle Sam and real sacrifice for our fighting men on land and sea. This chance will come as a result of President Wilson's request that seven of the great organizations engaged in caring for our fighters join this fall in the United War Work Campaign to raise the $170,500,000 they will need to continue their wonderful work another year. It was quickly decided by those managing the campaign that the boys and girls of the land must not be disappointed in their eagerness to do their share for the greatest cause the world has ever known, and plans on a vast scale have been made to give them their opportunity to serve. The boys and girls are each to have a seperate division in the campaign. Both, of course, will be integral parts of the whole big war-winning effort of the nation. The boys will be lined up in the "Victory Boys," whose slogan is, "A million boys behind a million fighters"; and the girls in the "Victory Girls." Their slogan is, "Every girl pulling for victory." All who enroll in either division will pledge to earn and give to aid our fighters, and each may specify the amount. For five dollars a boy or girl can provide one fighting man, during five whole weeks, with the unselfish service of all seven of the great organizations-the Young Men's Christian Association, the Young Women's Christian Association, the National Catholic War Council (Knights of Columbus), the War Camp Community Service, the Jewish Welfare Board, the American Library Association, and the Salvation Army. But this cannot be done merely by giving. No Victory Boy and no Victory Girl will be allowed to use in payment of the pledge any money he or she has not earned. Only by real service and by real sacrifice can the war be won; and this is to be the greatest war-winning effort in which the girls or boys of any nation have ever shared. But they must not undertake too much. Only an amount may be pledged which a boy or girl may earn and give without harm or too great a sacrifice. Some will wish to provide a fighter with the services of the seven organizations for six months or a year, others for a shorter time. But those directing these two divisions of the campaign will insist, in every case, that the tasks undertaken shall not be allowed to interfere with He will also receive a window banner, stating that a Victory Boy in that home. is backing up a fighter by earning and giving to the United War Work Campaign fund. When his pledge money has been paid he will receive an engraved receipt-certificate. will, during the period determined by the amount of pledge money paid in, send comfort and cheer to one fighting man, no matter where he may be, in trench, or camp, or in a prison pen in an enemy land. That Victory Boy's or Victory Girl's For schools and places of business where service and sacrifice will put within reach HOMELESS CHILDREN CARED FOR IN ITALY BY THE Y. M. C. A. fifteen or more boys have enrolled, there of the fighter every hour of the day and I will be honor awards. The Victory Girls will also have but tons, banners, and honor awards; and both these divisions of the United War Work Campaign will be carried into every city, town, and village in the United States, and even into the open country. Whenever it is deemed necessary, special effort will be made to secure jobs for those unable to find tasks for themselves. What a Victory Boy or Victory Girl does in this nation-wide "earn and give" effort can be done outside of school hours or before or after regular working hours. And each who enrolls and "carries on" night a number of tremendously important things-paper on which to write home, books to read, opportunities to engage in sports and games, to hear lectures, to be entertained by singers and players, and to attend religious meetings. These are only a few of the helpful things that "earn and give" pledge money will buy for a fighting man. It will buy the full service of all seven of the great organizations whose purpose is to do everything that will make our soldiers and our sailors everywhere happier and more fit while the war lasts and after their homecoming. FOR the first time in the history of the city, and of the country, perhaps, Minneapolis has just observed a Girls' Day, in which more than ten thousand girls participated. The celebration marked the grand finale of the Girls' Liberty League's summer war and recreational program. The Girls' Liberty League is a junior branch of War Camp Community Service. Swimming contests, tennis matches, a big baseball game, æsthetic and folk dancing, and a gorgeous pageant were features of the celebration, and at the end of the sports program more than a thousand medals were presented to girls whose summer war work had measured up to the standard set by the league. A picnic supper was served on the lawn of "Fair Oaks," after which followed the pageant. A procession of the various club groups, representing the factories, stores, and settlement centers, displayed original costumes, devised by the girls themselves. The can ning section contained a life-sized "kaiser" carefully canned in an immense glass jar, and other girls in the group were picturesquely garbed to represent ears of corn, string-beans, pea-pods, and numerous kinds of vegetables. There were Red Cross "Angels of Mercy," and a land army of THE PERSHING UNIT OF THE CINCINNATI GIRLS' PATRIOTIC LEAGUE MADE THREE HUNDRED LITTLE DRESSES IN THEIR OVERTIME. 300 farmerettes armed with garden tools. Last and most spectacular in the parade. came the "Legion of Liberty," 2,000 female soldiers, who have been drilled for several months under the tutelage of bonafide officers of the United States Army. "Fair Oaks," the club headquarters of the Girl's Liberty League, was the residence of the late Senator W. D. Washburn, and is one of the most palatial old family homes in Minneapolis. The way its spacious parks have been turned into playgrounds and equipped for tennis, croquet, drill, and other outdoor activities is typical of the sort of thing that is coming more and more out of W. C. C. S. work. No matter what great gatherings of social and political leaders have met under its roof, "Fair Oaks" has never been so appropriately and fittingly used as to-day, when it is given over to the use of working-girls of the city. How fine and wholesome they are kept, with what team spirit they handle big patriotic undertakings, and what genuine fun they get out of life were all demonstrated in their show. Excitement ran high over the baseball game between the league's two crack teams. Interest was stimulated a good deal by a certain "Mamie," and the sang froid with which she played up generally. There were a crowd of jackies in the side lines, who had come over from a near-by training-station to laugh at the game; but their resounding cheers created almost as much commotion as did Mamie herself when she made a home run. When the game was over, the spectators crowded around with suggestions that a big league, composed entirely of girl teams, be established to take the place of the regular teams during the war. THE GIRLS PATRIOTIC LEAGUE OF CINCINNATI "I am glad to hear," said Edna Ferber, who spoke during the day, "that nearly all the Liberty League girls are workinggirls"; and she urged that the league itself be made a permanent institution, saying, "When this war is over, by means of it there will be found written on the asset side of the ledger of the United States, item one, a working habit belonging to all American women. Value? Priceless!" The idea of having the clubs working of themselves rather than being worked for by their leaders has been followed in every town, with excellent results in developing the initiative of the individual members and a keen spirit of competition among the various clubs co-ordinated by the league. "There seems to be no limit to the possibilities of organizing new leagues," writes the War Camp Community representative in the cities of Davenport, Iowa and Moline, Illinois. "The big stores in these cities have been thoroughly surveyed and leagues started in numbers of them. One day, two leagues were organized among the telephone-girls, and they bid fair to be active organizations. The candy-factory girls and tool-company girls followed up by organizing in the next week. There are now twenty patriotic leagues here." The factory groups among the league members of Cincinnati have given a most wonderful response to the appeal for help in garment making. Their cry everywhere is, "We are not doing enough! Tell us how to do more!" It has been |