Evening star., 1941-12-28
Japanese Attack Hawaii Described by Junior Star Correspondent
Just
Between
Ourselves
BY Philip II. Love
Junior Star Editor.


The Junior Star wishes for all Its
readers a happy new year.
And, despite the war, 1912 can be
a happy year for most OF us IL we
choose to make 1t so.
Not an easy year, for war years
are never easy. 1t will be year
of work and worry and sacrifice,
but none of those things are bars to
happiness. On the contrary, they
are sometimes the price we are re-
quired to pay for happiness. And
everything worthwhile In life has
its price.
Our forefathers paid with worry
and toil-and sometimes with their
lives-for the freedom they found
in the New World The men and
women of George Washington's time
paid In similar currency for the in
dependence Of the United States.
Victory in the first World War had
its price, and so will victory in this
one. The gallant people Of the
British empire have paid-and are
stu paying-for their liberty. and
the same can be said of the brave
Russians and the Chinese. And
now the people of the United States
have begun to pay the same price.
The price of liberty is the same
today as 1t always has been-brave
hearts, clear heads, a willingness to
work and sacrifice, determination
to win, regardless Of the cost.
But there is q kind of happiness
In work and sacrifice. Only the
timid, the confused, the lazy, the
selfish and the weak are unhappy.
And their unhappiness is, OF course.
the price they pay.
Not an Of rs can be soldiers.
sailors and aviators, nor even air
raid wardens, policemen. f1remen
and nurses. But every one Of us
can chip in" on the total price of
national security and happiness-by
helping the American Red Cross and
the United Service Organizations,
by buying defense stamps, by saving
waste paper, by doing without some
Of the luxuries to which we have
become accustomed, by refusing to
listen to idle rumors, by being calm
and cheerful regardless Of what sac
rifices we may be called upon to
make.
So the Junior Star wishes for all
It's readers a happy new year-a
year Of happiness earned by courage,
cheerfulness and service.
Year end cleanup Of miscellane-
Gus notes on one thing or another:
Ruth Mosteuer, Paul Junior High
School, has . dozen pet crickets.
Twenty students Of Coolidge
High were excused from school to
obtain practical experience working
In stores during the pre- Christmas
rush. Girls outnumber boys 95
to A In the February graduating
class at Roosevelt H. S. .. Stanley
Moore, IL. writes all the way from
Minneapolis: What fun I have
reading your excellent page. The
Junior Star. A friend in Washing
ton sends it to me every week. I
would be delighted to become a
reporter for your paper" He'll have
a Junior Star reporters card before
this is printed. Shirley Turner,
J. S. correspondent and publisher OF
the Turner Inquirer; Harry F.
Young, jr., who monographs her
paper and also gets out an amateur
publication of his own called Wash
ington Correspondent, and Dorothy
ONeill are forming an organization
to be known as the Washington
Amateur Press Association. All the
group needs is a place to meet, ac-
cording to a note from Harry, who
lives at 21361a H street NV. i
Phyllis Jeanne Zimmerman, Alice
Deal j. H. S.. whose recent article
on Christmas customs in various
lands won prize of 81, writes:
Thank you 50 much for my check.
I was so thrilled to see my article
in the paper. 1t Is the first money
I have ever earned, and I am going
to buy something to remember it
by" From Demetra Bacas,
Coolidge H. S.: III try to make the
New Years resolution of one of
your correspondents of writing at
least one story every week." An
excellent idea for all j. S. corre-
spondents. Jeanne Barinott, Nc
Kinley H. S., used a recent prize
dollar to help pay the expenses Of
party in her basement for the
benefit Of the Red Cross War Relief
drive. June Sickles, Powell j. H.
s., another recent prize winner,
reports: "The dollar was just what
I needed to get my mothers Christ
mas gift with"