that the schools are not merely doing their bit, they are determined to do their best.

JUNIOR RED CROSS

A plan for organizing these war-service activities has just been announced by the American Red Cross Society. This plan contemplates the organizing of a school as an auxiliary to the Red Cross and an opportunity is given to work under the immediate guidance of this great organization. A manual of school activities of the Junior Red Cross is being prepared by trained vocational teachers so that the directions will be explicit and the work will be adapted to the abilities of the children.

THRIFT STAMPS

Participation in the war-savings plan of the government by the purchase of thrift stamps and the organization of thrift clubs is especially successful among school children. This work is so organized that every school building has an authorized agent for the selling of thrift stamps and every pupil is encouraged to start an account and to accumulate all the savings possible.

EFFECT OF WAR ON SCHOOLS

In these various ways, by both instruction and projects of war-service work, the great issues of the war are being brought home to the school children of to-day. In carrying out this work we find a wonderful spirit of enthusiasm and patriotism on the part of both pupils and teachers. The war is vitalizing the work of education and is giving to the

schools a new conception of free institutions and what must be done to preserve them. Our boys and girls are entering anew into their American heritage and they are being prepared as never before to make possible for all the world the principles and ideals which America represents.

THE HOME

Not only are the schools feeling the effects of this spirit. From the schools it is reaching thousands of homes and is helping to bring nearer the day when all, both young and old, shall realize the nearness of the war and the necessity of making it our chief business until it is finished-"until the last gun is fired."

OUR FLAG

ARCHIBALD M. HALL

MEMBER OF THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION

I saw it-Proud Old Glory-as it fluttered into view,
The emblem of our country, and o'er cheering thousands flew.
Electric waves of feeling from its folds came rippling down
Which breaking o'er the music with delirium swept the town.

I saw it-Proud Old Glory-through the glare of battle-field,
The swaying columns urging freedom's struggle not to yield,
Its streaming tatters flashing patriotic zeal along;
And when the day was ended, lo there rose a victory song.

I saw it-Proud Old Glory-as it wrapped the honored dead
Its folds enshrined their virtue, o'er their valor luster shed;
And when in state they rested where a nation's eye could see,
It seemed that they were donning robes of immortality.

I saw it-Proud Old Glory-signal from the harbored mast,
The clouds and winds of England bowing homage as they passed.
Around her domes imperial I could hear its message ring:
The free-born man of honor is as great as any king.

I saw it-Proud Old Glory-as it caught the balmy breeze
And flung it back in blessing o'er the islands of the seas;
Then speeding toward the Orient, over waves that foamed and curled,
It bore our love of freedom down the circle of the world.

I see it-Proud Old Glory-mid the banners of the Race,
In onward march of progress it is taking foremost place,
As down the glowing ages slow they pass in grand review
I think "The Great Commander" has His eye upon it too.

WAR-TIME SAVINGS AND BUSINESS AS USUAL

BY EVANS WOOLLEN, STATE FUEL DIRECTOR

In these troubled times when exceptionally we need clearness of thinking and sureness of purpose we are plagued by two conflicting exhortations.

We are exhorted to help win the war by saving. And then we are exhorted to help win the war by spending so that business may go on as usual.

How can we help win the war by saving? We can not help by losing our heads and saving howsoever. We can help by saving in three quite distinct ways:

First, we can help by reducing our consumption of things limited in supply and yet indispensable to the winning of the war. Such a thing is gasoline. The president of the Standard Oil Company has warned the country against the serious consequences of further waste. Another such thing, and the most important, is wheat. We are told by Mr. Hoover that we shall not have wheat for shipment to our Allies, wheat that will be indispensable to the winning of the war, unless we reduce our own consumption by a third. We must have a wheatless meal every day. That is a way, a vitally important way, in which we can help win the war by saving. It is a way, too, in which all can participate. It has nothing to do with money-this saving of wheat. It is for rich and poor alike.

A second way in which we can help win the war, a way unrelated to money and in which all can participate, is by saving health. Professor Irving Fisher of Yale has pub