Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-25
Producer Features Neghborhood Children Weekly
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Yourselves
. BY PHILIP H. LOVE
Junior Star Editor.

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Saturday. May IT, was big day
in the history of The Junior Star
1t was the day on which the J. S
made it's radio debut. A detailed
report on this first Junior Star OF
the Air" is printed elsewhere on thi.
page. My only purpose in mention
ing the program here is to express
my appreciation. on behalf of the
j. S., for the splendid cooperation
extended by every one who partici-
pated in it. So
To Joe Bill Stephens, Is, ant
Charles Beebe, 10, OF Woodrow Will
son High School; to Jeanne Bari
mott, l3, and Lucille Burgess, l3 Of
Taft Junior High School: to june
Sickels, Is, Powell Junior High
School; to Donald Goldstein, l6
Stanley Stephenson. Is; Russell
Smith, IT, and Orville Arnold, IS
Calvin Coolidge High School. ane
to Ellen Levy. IA, George Washing
ton High School, Alexandria
To all these boys and girls, thank:
for helping to get the Junior Stal
of the Air" off to successful start
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But no word of appreciation
would be complete without mention
of Bill Coyle, radio director of The
Star, and Robert A. Erwin, asso-
ciate editor of The Junior Star
who worked out the details OF the
program, and Mary Webster, II
Roosevelt High School, who covered
1t as the first J. S. radio CORE
spondent. So, to Messrs. Coyle ane
Erwin and to Mary-thanks, too.
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The program will be broadcas'
from WMAL every Saturday at II
am. and hope that every j. S. cor
respondent and reader will be
regular listener. And, of course, any
suggestions will be greatly appre'
ciated.
A 17-year-old Anacostla High
School girl begins letter to thu
J. S. with the rather surprising
admission, When I was a young
ster I didn't have much sense"
She goes on TO explain that Whei
she was about 10 years old, she wa
quite a tomboy" She admired he
older brother and tried to imitat
him in every way she could. HI
was" she says. my ideal"
One day, she saw her brother pou
gasoline on the sidewalk in such
vav as to spell out various word
and then set fire to them. She va
especially thrilled when the f1amin
letters spelled his name.
"Golly," she thought, that's fun!
She decided to try to translate
her own name into fame. First
however. she thought she'd tr,
something simple, such as flaming
circles.
Il poured small amounts o
gasoline on the basement floor t.
form circles" she writes. 1T burnet
nicely"
As the flames fickered out,
brilliant" idea came to her.
II began pouring gasoline on tn
dying flames" she continues. "Ther
was an eXplosion-nota bad one, ou
bad enough. When smoke poured
into the kitchen through the floor
mother rushed down into the celia
and found me battling the fame
with her new broom.
This little experiment cos
mother her new broom and SOM
Worries my correspondent con
cludes, "and it cost me a singet
eyebrow, Singed hair and many sal
hours in the confines of my room.
The girl was lucky. She nigh
have been seriously injured or ever
killed; her mother and any on
else in the house at the time ais
might have been injured or killed
and their home might have beer
badly damaged.
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when I was youngster,
didn't have much sense" the cir
begins her letter. And then sh
adds. Maybe I still don't"
But that is where she is mistaken
For, as her letter makes clear, sh
now realizes how dangerous it is 70
boys and girls to play with fire, hoy
foolish she was to try to initiate he
brothers senseless experiment.
She has sense" now, all right
plenty of it. And I hope that ever,
boy and girl who reads of her ex
perience will profit by it.
Don Buzzell. who tells all abou
his "Buzzy Theater" in one o
today's prize-winning stories, Wi
say farewell to his Arlington friend
in a few days to move to Messlns
N. Y, his father, an Army engineer
having been transferred to dut
there. He hopes to continue writ
ing for the j. S., however.
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Ellen Brown, George Washingto
High School, asks: Have you eve
seen a dog slide down a sliding
board?"
She goes on to say that her pet
"smartest trick" is sliding down tn
sliding-board at her school. "Th
children of the first grade all war
him to go down with them" sh
adds
The animals name is Happy-Go
Lucky, but she calls him Happy fc
short.
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