Evening star., 1938-10-09
Real Effort
For Prizes
Is sUrged
Lads Fail to Heed
Five Simple
Rules.
BY PHILIP H. LOVE,
Junior Page Editor.

Are girls smarter than boys?
For reasons that should be readily
apparent, we'd hate to think so. And
Well, take look at this weeks prize
winning contributions, and you'll see
that four out of the Ave are by girls
Every boy in the Washington area
ought to feel that this is rather sad
state of affairs And no boy worthy
of the name should be content to
stand idly by and allow such condi-
ton to continue-not for long, any
how.
A fair share of the contributions that
have been coming in during the last
few weeks have been from boys, but
for some reason. they just haven't been
up to the rather high standard set by
the girls. Why this should be so, we
don't pretend to know. 1t just is,
that's all, and-well. for the same
reasons referred to above, We don't
like lit.
One reason why the girls walked off
with most of the prizes this week is
that, on the whole. the boys have been
much more careless about observing
the contest rules. And no matter how
good contribution may be. it isn't
eligible for prize if it disregards any
Of the five simple rules laid down in
the box printed elsewhere on this page
If you forget to give your age, for in
stance, your contribution won't be
considered when the prizes are handed
out, even though it may be so good
that we can't resist the temptation to
publish it.
Well. fellows, what are you going to
do about it? Are you going to let the
girls win all the dollars? Or are you
going to make this a real contest, one
In which every winner will know that
he or she has had plenty of stiff COM
petition?
NICKY ARUNDEL, who is pictured
in the next column. and his
younger sister. Jocelyn have the un-
usual distinction of having had two
giraffes named in their honor. Nicky's
3'C"o NdSCd a NlsOIoOo CQilol ldl Idli.
paign on the slogan -Four Giraffes for
the Zoo" And when the animals were
obtained, DR.. William M. Mann, direc-
tor of the Zoo, decided to name one of
them Nicky and another Jocelyn.
The present platform Of Nicky's
News contains the following planks:
81. New restaurant for the Zoo.
80. Longer recesses
g. Children over 8 to have two
wheel bikes"
SPEAKING Of newspapers, we have
very interesting letter from La
verne Kleinwachter, 16, of 441l street
NV, inclosing copy of the Foxall
Weekly. mimeographed four-pager
edited by Miles Charest and Howard
Surface, It's good little paper-and
Miles and Howard have every reason
to feel proud of it. We'd like to see
copies Of other papers edited by chill
dren.
REGINNING tomorrow The Star will
publish an unusually interesting
and informative daily feature known
as Uncle Rays Corner" After you've
read it for few days let us know
how you like it.
X * x
JUNIOR JOTTNGS:
Peggy O'Connor, Is, of 1917 Tay-
lor street NE, the "marionette girl"
pictured on this page three weeks ago,
writes: Il want to thank you for the
nice write-up. My picture is hanging
in the Art Room at school," Con-
gratulations, Peggy And your picture
is pretty enough to hang anywhere!
:. Joseph McGolrick. jr, II. of l412
Chaplin street NV, st. Paul's Acad-
emy pupil, reports he has "a fear of
great heights" and explains: Looking
out of second-story window thought
I saw a friend pass, so I leaned out
further. Suddenly the world seemed
to reel, and when it stopped I saw
the shingled wall of the side of my
house, had slipped out the window
and was hanging to the sill by my
toes. My mother heard my calls and
pulled me in by my legs" Whew!