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196 Any public, private, or parochial school can join the Junior Red Cross. Then all the boys and girls in the school become members of the American Red Cross.

First, the school authorities must give their consent.

Second, the school must either collect dues or take a pledge that it will earnestly do Red Cross work.

Third, the school then makes formal application for membership to the local chapter or branch school committee, showing that it has collected the dues or taken the pledge.

Then the school becomes a School Auxiliary of the Junior Red Cross and each child in the school a member in the American Red Cross.

You need not wait until you grow up to be a soldier in Uncle Sam’s service. Here is his junior service, waiting for yon to enlist, and needing every boy and girl in America. Whether you wear the khaki of the Boy Scout, the Indian Camp Fire dress, or pin a Red Cross button to your coat, you are a soldier of the Union at work behind the lines to keep our country good, and safe, and strong.