Evening star., 1940-06-23
Students Build Dams and Gardens Repair Beauy School Grounds
Just
Between
Ourselves
BY PHILIP H. LOVE,
Junior Star Editor,

Ouiilol OVAL LuItOT.
If you have never tried your hand
at writing for The Junior Star, now
is particularly good time to have
a go at it, as the English say. With
the closing of schools, there is al
ways a noticeable decrease in the
amount of material received from
correspondents, and this, of course,
means that new writers stand a
better chance of breaking into print.
Not that there is any letdown in J..
S. standards of quality-because
there never is. It's just that, for
a few weeks after the end of the
school, the competition naturally
slackens a bit.
The principal reason for this is
graduations. Each year at this
time, we naturally lose several of
our best correspondents. This year,
for instance, we shall have to learn
to get along without Ruth Buchan-
an, who is looking forward to en-
tering Duke University in the fall.
With her graduation from Central
High School last week, Ruth round
ed out two years of service as a j.
S. writer. And during those two
years she turned in some of the
most readable stories that it has
been our privilege to print.
They Will Be Missed.
We cite Ruth as an example be-
cause, as We write, we happen to
have before us what probably is
her swan story" so to speak. But
there are at least half dozen 9TH
ers whose names also will disap-
pear from this page during the next
few weeks-Florence Hunter, Mil
dred Sears, Janet Moran, to reel
of the first few names that come
to mind. And we are going to miss
every one of them.
But that is where the new writer
stands an excellent chance to come
in. With some of our old standbys
lost to us through graduation, others
leaving the city for vacations of
varying durations and still others in
cllned to lust sorta lazy around for
WHILE" as one correspondent put
it-well, there couldn't be a better
time for new writer's to go to work!
So. if you like to write but simply
haven't got around to doing any
thing for the J. S. up to now, don't
put off any longer. Read the rules
of the contributors contest-and get
busy. You may find the thrilling
words. Prize Contribution, over
your name next Sunday-or better
still. you may even win an appoint
ment as regular J. S. reporter
Junior Jottings.
Mildred Elders poem, "Graduation
Day. was the only poem accepted
for publication in Anacostia High
Schools 1910 year book. Patsy
Sawyer, II, Anacostia Junior High,
reports that her Girl Scout Troop
(No. 72) visits Red Cross headquar-
tiers every Saturday to roll bandages.
Every bandage must be rolled ex-
actly right" she says. >. Drawing
and printing" are the hobbies of
James Edwards. Is, Brown Junior
High School. Il hope to be a car
toonist-maybe for The Star" he
writes. Why don't you submit some
of your cartoons to the J. S., Jim?
:. Jean Bryan, in a note accom-
panying batch of poems. wants to
know if her graduation from Cen
tral makes her ineligible as a j. S.
contributor. For the benefit of 9TH
ers with the same question in mind:
No, Jane-you're eligible until you
either enter college or pass 18,
whichever comes first. You'll find
one of your poems in print today,
and We hope to use some more of
them before fall rolls round.