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Evening star., 1941-04-03
New Unit Formed
To Guide Voluntary
Service TO SeIectees
Mrs. Harry Bernton Heads
Committee to Register
And Train Workers

Creation of a new committee o1
the District Defense Council tc
establish an orderly registration
training and assignment of volun-
teer workers in various kinds oi
service to selectees, military mer
and defense workers, was approved
yesterday by the Commissioners.
Mrs. Harry S. Bernton, who is
president of the Council of Social
Agencies, was named chairman of
the new group, which will have the
same standing as the other six
council committees, on welfare and
consumer interest, health, civil pro-
lection, industrial resources, human
resources and skills, and housing
works and facilities.
The new group will be known
as Committee on Voluntary Serv-
ice. Welfare Director Robert E
Bondy, head of the welfare and
consumer interest group, joined with
Highway Director H. S. White
hurst, District Defense Council ex-
ecutive, in recommending its Gre
alton, advising the Commissioners
that hundreds Of District residents
already are asking assignments for
volunteer service.
Members of the new committee
In addition to Mrs. Bernton, are
Mr.. Bondy; John Blake Gordon,
who is head of the Housing, Works
and Facilities Committee: Miss
Elisabeth Houghton, daughter of the
former United States Ambassador
to Great Britain; Wilbur La Roe,
jr., of the Federation of Churches;
Mrs. Raymond E. Lee, who is pres
ident of the American Women's
Voluntary Service of the District;
Otto S. Lund of the local chapter of
the American Red Cross; Mrs. Ar
thur T. Lyon; Richard H. Mod
derman of the Junior Board of
Commerce; William H. Press. execu-
tive secretary of the Board of Trade;
Mrs. John R. Pinkett. Mrs. John
A. Remon, Health Officer George
c Rutland and Mrs. Leslie B.
Wright.
Evening star., 1941-04-03
Former Attuche to Talk
On Wartime EnqIund

Conditions in England will be
described by Harvey Klemmer,
former attache of the American En-
bassy in London, before members
of the National Geographic Society
at 8 pm. tomorrow at Constitution
Hall.
Speaking on Everyday Life in
Wartime England" Mr.. Klemmer,
who spent 18 months in London, will
tell how the British continue to
carry on their daily work, how the
government continues to function
and how public service corporations
still operate with surprisingly high
rate of efficiency.
Evening star., 1941-04-03
Former American Ship
Reported Torpedoed
b. the Associated Press

NEW YORK, April 3.-Marine
circles said today they had received
a report that the 5,759-ton British
freighter Western Chief, formerly an
American ship, had been torpedoed
off the Irish coast while en- route to
New York in ballast.
The freighter was built at Port
land. Greg, in 1918 and was laid up
at Norfolk, Va. until the Maritime
Commission sold her to England last
October. She left New York in Feb
ruary for Newport, England, un-
loaded a general cargo and was re-
turning here.
Evening star., 1941-04-03

handled by the law firm Of Cobb,
Howard g. Hayes.
When the case came up before
Justice Oscar r. Luhring for pre-
trial, Attorney Hayes asked that
the case be dropped. Representa-
tive Mitchell, who reiterated yes
terday that he had been properly
and legally parked. said he had no
wish to embarrass Mrs. Curry, whose
husband died about a year and a
half ago.
Evening star., 1941-04-03
Bell Telephone Employees
To Exhibit Photographs

A collection of photographs,
representing the best taken by en-
ployeS of the Bell Telephone System
in various sections of the country,
will be exhibited for week, be-
ginning tomorrow, in the Explorers
Hall of the National Geographic
Society, Sixteenth and M streets
NV.
The exhibition is the 10th annual
Photographic salon of the Bell
System, whose employees have or
ganized camera clubs in a number
of cities. The Telephone Camera
Club of Washington is sponsoring
the exhibit
Evening star., 1941-04-03
Icy Low Sheriff Just
A Roll Coll in School
Rv the Associated Press.

7
LUBBOCK, Tex. - Lay Low
Sheriff" sounds like a warning
Nothing of the sort. however. It's
simply the roll call at Texas Tech
English class. Birdie Jane Lay, Rex
Lowe and Vienna Sheriff are listed
in that order on the professors at
tendance sheet.
Evening star., 1941-04-03
Students TO Tour CITY

Seventy students majoring in
government and social problems at
Pennsylvania State College will
come here Monday for a two-day
tour of Government departments,
the White House, social agencies
and other features of the Capital
The group will stay at the WASH
| ington Tourist Camp.
Evening star., 1941-04-03
DR.. G. J. Tompkins Dies

LYNCHBURG, Va, April LF).-
DR.. George johnson Tompkins, g.
who had practiced medicine here for
At years, died suddenly of heart
attack yesterday.
Evening star., 1941-08-26
Manners
of the
Moment

When baby first starts to answer
the telephone, I've noticed, parents
usually burst with pride. I wish
parents would try to remember how
it feels to be on the other end of
the wire.
Haven't they ever tried to call up
a friend whose little pride and joy
came to the phone and hung on for
Is minutes, saying cute things like
"Why?" "Who?" Il don't know"
''What?"
It's just trifle discouraging to be
at the other end OF a wire like that.
All you want to do is to speak brief
ly to mama to tell her where the
sewing circle is meeting tomorrow.
And you don't seem to make any
headway After much persuasion
and cajoling, you finally think you
have persuaded the youngster to
call mummy to the phone, only to
find that it's daddy who got the
message. And you have to start all
over again
Perhaps it's good training for the
children. But there ought to be
some way to manage it so that you
can train your children and still
encourage your friends to tele-
phone. Perhaps If you restricted
the baby's answering telephone calls
to a special children's hour and
warned all your friends. it would be
fairer. Then those friends who
want to help you bring up your
children could call during that hour
And the others could call later.
| JEAN,
Evening star., 1941-08-26
By Barbara Bell

Here is most satisfactory design
for a dress to make now-to have
for the first days of fall. 1t is right
for so many occasions, and by
changing accessories about, you can
dress it up to look different for many
of the times when you'll wear 1t.
Pattern No. 1888 is straight but
confront dress with a full-cut easy
bodice and a simple V neck. You
can trim the neckline with a smart
lace or contrasting collar. You can
tuck a scarf of bright color in the
neckline and match it with a hand
kerchief in the upper pocket. You
can wear pair of jeweled clips at
the neckline. You can make the
dress in black as a background for
a row of cleaning gold or brilliant
ieweled buttons down the front
matched with belt buckle. The
possibilities are almost unlimited,
the dress is one which is simple to
fit to yourself and easy to make.
Order the pattern today, then start
your fall sewing.
The dress may be made with long
sleeves, if desired and the pattern
Evening star., 1941-08-26

winter, for there is no heat except
in German-occupied apartments; of
the scarcity of food, which is now q
grave problem. The butcher shops
open at 10 o'clock, she says, but by
2 o'clock in the morning a long line
of hungry people starts to form, for
by IL o'clock there is nothing left
to buy. If one is so fortunate as to
know the proprietor of a restaurant
one may telephone a day in advance
and possibly get simple dinner.
If one does, he wraps up half the
meat and takes it home for an
other meal. This is true even in
such smart places as Maxime's,
famed for it's good food and ele-
gance. If one has plenty of pota-
toes, one may swap a few for few
Jumps of sugar, if it's possible to
find friend with sugar.
Transportation is another tre-
mendous problem. The subways
run, but not late, and in place of
calling a taxi there is a new convey
ance. 1t is powered by two men on
bicycles, tandem style, who pull a
box, in which you ride, climbing
over the sides of the box.
The stories which we have all
heard of the scarcity of soap were
reaffirmed by Nine. Pereire, who
said she took a whole trunkful of
unlaundered clothes to Spain with
her, because soap is unavailable in
France. She came to America on
a Spanish boat, and the 20-day trip
seemed a luxury, after Paris!
Evening star., 1941-08-26

I'm a snob as result of my shyness,
my embarrassment, and the hiding
of my true friendliness on my first
day and during my entire freshman
year.
Wont you please drop some hints
on this problem in one of your
articles?"
We will indeed, M G. And our
first hint is for all you young people
who will be freshmen in September
to remember that every other fresh
man will be in exactly the same boat
you are in!
Toward upperclassmen shyness
won't be particularly harmful. In
fact, you'll do we'll to err on the
side of backwardness rather than
brashness. Older students expect
you to be green and they expect to
take the initiative in getting ac-
quainted with new students. There
fore, any forwardness on your part
Is likely to be resented.
But with your own classmates a
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for snobbishness and it can do you
a lot of harm. That's why we urge
you to remember that, no matter
how you're shaking in your shoes
no matter how frighteningly un-
familiar everything seems, most of
the other freshmen feel just about
as you do. And a friendly word from
you-as from one victim to another
will probably be received with CRATE
full appreciation rather than with a
rebuff.
So resolve now that you're going
to speak that friendly word. Per-
haps you and your bosom buddy
will face the first day ordeal to-
gether, but if you do. don't shut
every one else out of your two
some. Talk to the other greenies
with whom you come in contact.
There will be hundreds of things
to talk about-every single item
connected with getting started in
school, your instructors, your class
rooms, your courses, the attitude
Va Viz uPPOt NAoSoillOli,
of the football team.
Practice introducing yourself
and your friend to other people.
Say: I'm Sally Jones and this is
Betty Smith. We were in Junior
high together, and we're taking all
the same courses" Or, MY name
Is Pete Johnson. This guys Ed
Brown. I wonder when they assign
us to home rooms"
If you're entering high school the
problem usually isn't so trouble
some, because you'll know many
other freshmen from your grade OF
Junior high school. But if you are
entering college or prep school you'll
probably know no one. Neverthe-
less, the fact that you are fellow
freshmen makes it possible for you
to talk to all other newcomers with
out an introduction. And converse
ton is the first step toward friend
ship.
After the first day is over make
q practice of nodding with a smile
or a word of greeting to any one
Evening star., 1941-08-26
By A ngeIo Pafri

Our grandfathers had a word
which implied approval of whole
some attitudes - forehandedness
People who looked ahead and pro-
vided for the duties and events
which they knew to be ahead of
them were called forehanded, and
their neighbors thought we'll of
them because Of their good sense
and good management.
There Is a bit of forehandedness
all parents ought to take to heart,
the preparation of their children
for the first day of school. If
grown people could know what the
first day at school meant to a new
pupil of grade one, they would
go a long way out of their rut
to help that child.
These little ones have spent their
lives close to their mothers. in their
homes where their needs and wants
were anticipated, where life was
adjusted to them, made smooth for
them, by loving attention. This day
they are sent into a strange new
world of strangers and strange ways
They may not go about as they
please, may not even get themselves
drink when they want to; may not
make a move without direction and
authority. Wherever they turn they
meet a strange face and a strange
situation. and they are afraid.
Give them a better chance by
breaking dowr some of this strange
ness. Arrange to take them to thu
school building and have a look al
it. Next time get closer to it; visit
the inside of the school; watch the
children playing; find the way te
the drinking fountain. Next time
have an appointment with thu
Evening star., 1941-08-26
Special Kits
For Coed
Glamour
Pack Essentials
For Grooming
And Beauty
By Patricia Lindsay

What fun packing for school! All
the treasures for ones room, the new
clothes, the beloved old clothes, and
the necessary aids to grooming and
beauty.
Mind you, I say grooming and
beauty, for I assume that every girl
packing for school will first pack
essentials to grooming and then the
aids to enhance her beauty!
The first group includes a box OF
good bland soap, scrub brushes,
stacks of face cloths "a clean one
each day is essential to skin love-
illness you know, brush and comb
and a good shampoo, tooth brush,
powder and dental floss. Those
should keep her meticulously clean.
Then for the precautions! A jar
Of cleansing cream for grimy days,
a deodorant or anti-perspirant II one
Is troubled that way, mouth wash
and depilatory to be used when one
leaves the campus for gala week
ends. Personally, I do not think
1t essential for the very young girl
W uoc ucPhdVoiy iuOic 1icquChIiy
than once a week or once every 10
days-especially if she keeps her
legs covered with knee socks or
stockings. Naturally excessive hair
growth should be removed as often
as necessary, for one desires to ap-
pear dainty even to ones classmates
Mother or auntie may object to
glamour aids, but they might as
well get used to the fact that most
school girls use them at one time
or another. 1t is not the custom to
attend classes with heavy makeup
on the face Gn fact, 1t is considered
good taste not to use anything other
than lipstick during class hours
but come the occasional date or week
end, and then any girl wants bit
of makeup!
In keeping with limited budgets
this autumn, leading cosmetic houses
have offered especially priced kits
for the college girl, which they call
charm boxes, or beauty treasure kits.
And they actually are.
Evening star., 1941-08-26
| |WhyGrow
Old?
By Josephine Louman

IL. y Wv P"spC A<O OAAps"P
Happy curves ahead if you will
follow Why Grow Old's suggestions
Usually the woman who is too
thin Is the energetic. high-tension
type She doesn't take naturally to
rocking chair or to lazy rest peri
DDS during the day. Her mind
buzzes at night after she has gone
to bed, and often her nerves are
tied up in such knots that she must
WOO sleep. This is true in such a
| large percentage of cases that the
| factor of nervous tension must be
taken seriously.
If you wish to gain weight, make
a real attempt to learn the art Of
relaxation. Even when you sit in
a chair learn to relax. Don't fidget
about, twill your handkerchief or
swing your foot up and down. These
little habits and mannerisms con-
sumo large amount of energy.
Take several short rest periods
during the day if it is at all possi-
BILE. When you take these or when
you 60 to bed at night do the fol-
| lowing. First, turn and twist and
stretch, reaching with your arms
and legs until you feel that every
muscle in your body has been pulled.
Next, yawn deeply several times.
After the first two you will want
to yawn again. After this lie still.
! Begin with your feet and come up
the body, consciously relaxing each
muscle as you go until even your
finger tips loosen their tense grip
on existence.
If you can learn to sleep deeply
at night, to relax some during the
day, and If you can form the habit
of less motion, pounds will mount.
Remember, also, that rest periods
before meal will aid you in the
assimilation of food.
| If you wish to have my kaflet,
valuable Hints for Women Who
Wish to Gain Weight" send q Scent
stamped, self-addressed envelope
with your request to Josephine Low
| man In care Of The Evening Star.
Evening star., 1941-08-26


terialS for. There is no wool for
warm clothing, but there is plenty
of lace. At the house of Revillon
there was not one fur coat, at any
price. But Herr Goering, she heard
had ordered a housecoat lined with
sable for his wife. He also had
bought the whole collection from
the house of MolyneuX, which has
been taken over by the former
French manager.
Strangely enough, the millinerS
are allowed to make as many hats
as they can. There has been plenty
of straw, flowers, lace, and in the
collection from RebouX which Nine.
Pereire brought there were hats of
precious, are supplemented by these
other materials, so millinery has
been easy to get. The hats are made
to perch well forward over the fore
head and to cover the back of the
head There is no long bob in
France Hair styles are short. close
ly curled or as closely cropped. If
the hair is long, it is worn in a
chignon at the back.
There are no buttons, and even
the best designers have had to use
their ingenuity to replace staple
materials This is particularly evi-
dent in shoes. There is no leather,
and such outstanding houses as
Perugia now are producing shoes
with wooden SoleS and straw tops.
They'll give little protection against
the winters cold.
How about stockings?" she was
asked
I'VE knit them ourselves. out of
cotton she replied, showing her
wide ribbed white stockings with
very open mesh. The big mesh
makes for thin legs, the white is
chic with dark clothes, and with
sports clothes we wear bright colors.
There are no evening clothes any
more. That is all finished
With these sad words, Nine.
Pereire spoke of the changes in liv-
ing which have hit the French peo-
pie. She told of the cold houses in
Evening star., 1941-08-26
By Dorothy Murray

For a feminine birthday gift
choose a super billfold made of fine
leather with separate places for bills,
change, cards and keys. These at
tractive accessories may be pur-
chased in brown, black and lovely
shades of blue and red
In the center of your picnic table
place a chromium plated tray with
a celluloid handle, especially de-
signed for holding paper napkins.
There is a heavy metal ball in the
center of the tray to hold the nap
kins securely and eliminate any
danger of their blowing of. :.
Any bride-to-be would appreciate
a combination tea pitcher, cream
and sugar container made of smart
pewter ware
A local store has on display a
collection of Lenox china. The
group includes ornamental love
birds. odd cups and saucers, indi-
vidual salt containers with ladies
and various flower vases of different
shapes and sizes. All may be
purchased in pale colors or Off
white.
If you are preparing to send your
children to boarding school or college
be sure and stamp all of their be-
longings with their full names OF
initials. There is a convenient kit
that makes this an easy task, which
contains stamper, red ink and ar
ink pad. 1t is inexpensive and may
be used over and over again.
In a leather-bound theater los
keep a record of the plays ano
movies you have seen. Each page
contains special places for noting the
name Of the theater, the city, with
whom you attended, the name of the
show, the actors and a space fol-
writing your opinion. Attached tc
each page is large envelope to
! hold a program.
Evening star., 1941-08-26
No Sewing Involved

For breakfast, lunch and other in
formal meals in summer, use bright
hued place doilies and matching
napkins. They can be made without
any sewing If the edges are raveled
evenly all around to form a fringe.
Any of the wash fabrics can be used
for this purpose and they make
charming table settings.
Evening star., 1941-08-26

you've met casually and to every one
who sits near you in your home
room or your classes. In some COL
leges all freshmen are forced by
custom to speak to all other fresh
men whom they pass on the street.
In the absence sof such a custom
you need not speak to everybody,
but you can certainly show a
friendly awareness of those with
whom you have any regular con-
tact.
Finally, one of the best ways to
make friends is to get into some
activity. This is particularly good
medicine for the shy person, be-
cause his reserve Is broken down in
the sharing of a common interest
with his classmates.
If you'll follow these suggestions,
and if you'll avoid anything smart
or pushing, you'll made a good first
impression-and you'll make that
impression stick.
Perhaps you'd like to have our
Overcoming Shyness" leaflet or
our suggestions on high school
manners. called Classroom and
Corridor" You can get either
for cents in stamps or coin by
writing to Kay Caldwell and
Alden Harrison in care of The
Evening Star.
Evening star., 1941-08-26

includes directions for making an
attractive collar with wide revers-
good for lace, embroidery or con-
trasting fabric.
Barbara Bell Pattern No 1888
is designed for sizes 36, 38, 40, A, A,
46, 48, so and So. Size 38, with short
sleeves, requires 5l4 yards 35-inch
material. Contrast collar requires
Is yard.
Select all the patterns you need
for fall-from the new Fashion
Book-just out. Covers all sizes with
wide range of smart designs. Send
Is cents for your copy today.
Evening star., 1941-08-26
Millinery Only Plentiful
Item Of Clothing Now,
Saws Nine. Pereire
Women Knitting Coarse Mesh
Hosiery in Brilliant Tones;
Sport Togs Predominant
By Beth Blair
By Beth Blair
NEW YORK CITY.


ut miracle that here
the
sharp
knitted
What do I a
night We
there thrilled
light clothes
Windows to
that there clothes
with LOfcial
May 194l First pictures of Frenchwomn
of n a
RebouX.
Women by the
the clothes
Evening star., 1941-08-26
First Day of School
Parents Must Realize Importance
Of This Event to Young Child

teacher who is likely to have this
child in her class next term and
let her make friends with this
child. Try to have a feeling of
familiarity and friendliness in the
child's thought of school. Then
the first day will not be an ordeal
Don't wait until the term opens to
prepare the child for the require
ments of entrance. He usually
needs his birth certificate, vaccina-
tionS certificates. Have these pa
pers in readiness, in their envelopes
Don't wait to the last minute, on
opening day, and discover the pa
pers are lost. There is no sense in
going to the school without the re-
quired papers, hoping that the
teacher at the desk will admit the
child without them. She won't
because the law does not allow hel
to do so. Have them ready.
Have the childs clothes ready
Let him wear the shoes and stock
ings he is to wear that day. Have
him wear his suit, or her dress, a
little while in the house so its fit
and comfort can be assured. Many
a child has formed a lasting dis.
like for school because his feet hurt
him, because his pants cut him, be-
cause he wanted a drink anc
| couldn't get it.
Plan ahead; prepare for this great
day and do your part to make il
successful. The teacher is ready
to do hers, eager to have things JUS
right, but she cannot make these
essential preparations. That i.
mothers exclusive Job.
Evening star., 1941-08-26
and Quantities of Cotton Stockings Fashion Loot From Paris
All First Impressions Are
Important to Freshmen;
May Affect College Life
Be Friendly With Classmates,
But Reserved With Seniors;
SnObbishness Mistake
By Kay Cald,eeH and Alden Harrison


fellows considered snobbish by their
opposite
they
attitude people really
fellows
their sef-proecon.
painful
It's particularly unfortunate fellow girl down
college month
realizes the seriousness this problem
following letter from M. G.:
freshman high school college? Tel
making
hardt ii is to al
shynes upperclassmen
me my year this
Evening star., 1941-08-26
Shower Pins

The woman who is fussy about
details will love the new shower
curtain pins which are made of
colored plastics. They come in many
colors to match all sorts of bath
room schemes. A tiny plastic rosette
ornaments the front of each pin
at just the spot where it slips into
the curtain hole. The pins can be
washed regularly with soap and
water
Evening star., 1941-08-26

Mr.. Patri has prepared a leafiet
entitled, Trouble With Number
Tables" in which he explains an
easy way to help children inn
prove in arithmetic. Send for it,
addressing your request to Mr..
Angelo Patri, Child Psychology
Department Of The Evening Star.
Inclose q self addressed, stamped
(3-cent) envelope.
Evening star., 1941-08-26
Relief for Burns

If you burn yourself in the kitchen
or laundry, you can get quick relief
by rubbing the spot very gently
with moistened cake of soap. Let
the lather dry and do not remove
for an hour or SO.