Evening star., 1939-12-16

mountalnS-they soon will disappear.
At l pm. today they will begin
boarding a yellow feet of Evening
Star trucks, for dash to the city's
Christmas Toy Center. Commanders
of the fleet expect to finish their
transport job several hours after
nightfall.
At the Christmas Toy Center, a
gayly decorated three-story building
at Eighteenth and M streets NV,
toys will assemble according to
species.
Dolls will gather on terrace 10
feet high, where they can look out
on the rest of the showroom crowd
as from a grandstand. Tiny trucks
and autos will park with airplanes
on huge wooden table. and games
and puzzles will stand on second.
Toy Furniture will meet in one
corner while scooters, bicycles. tri-
cycles, sleds, skates and other
methods of transportation hurry to
another.
Greeted by Other Toys.
At the Toy Center, the hordes of
bright new toys from Toy Matinees
will be introduced to about 1000
older playthings already there.
These were donated largely by citi-
zens throughout the year and re-
paired by corps Of As P. w. A.
workers.
Workers have shown miraculous
powers in raising toys from the dead.
Battered dolls have been given new
eyes, new bodies. freshly curled wigs
and white teeth carved from oyster
shells.
The women who repair dolls and
give them fresh dresses, and the
men who do paint jobs on old toy
autos and put new wheels on ancient
wagons, will be glad to see play
things from the Toy Matinees
stream in-since these are fresh
from stores and in no need Of last
minute hospital treatment.
More than 200 volunteers from
the Girl Scouts, Congress of Parent
Teacher Associations, Federation
of Parent Teacher Associations,
Federation of Women's Clubs and
Volunteer Bureau of the Council Of
Social Agencies will begin their serv-
ice to the toys tonight.
Gifts to Fit Needs.
Using well-high endless lists Of
Washington families in desperate
need of Yuletide cheer, the volun-
teers will assign each gift to some
particular child-taking into account
the varied desires of boys and girls
Of different ages. The lists came
through the Council of Social Agen-
cies from social workers who have
had personal contact with the
youngsters.
Then early Monday morning the
Toy Matinee gifts will resume their
journey. Under direction of Miss
Sibyl Baker, director of Community
Centers and Fairgrounds, and Car
roll Robb, superintendent of grounds
for District W. P. A., they will be
trucked to distribution points in
every section of the city where q
child needs cheer.
Depots for Santa Claus will in
clude Fairgrounds, police stations,
and neighborhood houses supported
by the Community Chest. Deputies
for Santa will be the blue-coated
officers and more volunteer workers
who will see that each plaything
is safely and secretly tucked in the
closet of thankful mother.
Sfreou n Cnn%snu.
Not until a week from tonight,
December %, is the great toy migra-
ton likely to be ended-if you take
into consideration other sources
under auspices of The Star. In a
dozen major Government depart
ments and agencies employees will
next week set large toy collections
travelling on the highway to happy
boys and girls.
If you are one who attended Toy
Matinee today, rest assured your gift
is on safe journey to happy land
What more could any toy ask than
to live with child who has learned
the joy of owning playthings after
the loneliness of lacking them?