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Evening star., 1942-02-22

IN AUTOGRAPH collectors Is that the
first lady of the land, Mrs. Roose-
yelt. doesn't sign in pubic. A1IeI
six HEADINGS, she weakened ana
signed for persistent Raymond. Be
sides having patience and oeter-
nination, Raymond cheers otners
Uho get disheartened when tney
are not successful.
Like all hounds" Raymond mas
q fayorite cherished autograph. IL
is that of Wendell Willkie, the Re
nublican nominee for President IN
ia4o. About a month after the
election he read in local paper tnat
Mr. Willkie was in town and was 10
dine at friends home: RaynloIlo
arrived before Mr.. Willkle 10 oe
erected by a butler who told nilh
he could sit and wait in the CLOAK
room His admiration for Mr.. WILL
kie was so great that he took many
nictures of him at various occasions:
w. Somerset Vaughan, author OF
sOf Human Bondage" is Raymonos
next favorite. When Mr.. Maugnam
was here, Raymond went TO tne
hotel where he was staying ana
nhoned his room, asking to see MN.
The reply was, I'll be down IN
the lobby in a short while" ABOUT
40 minutes later, Mr.. Maugnan
walked up to Raymond (who hadn't
recognized HIM asking II ne were
the Young man who wanted ms
autograph. Afterward, they hao
q pleasant chat.
Since the summer of 1899, when
RAYMOND first started autograph
collecting, he's obtained ABOUT Ioo
signatures. The Presidents blrtn-
day ball and the entire WlnIer 10
4 fruitful season.
The names of many men entrusted
NTH the task of governing our
Nation can be found in one OF
Ravmonds albums - Secretary OF
state Hull, Chief Justice Stone ana
vice President Wallace, as well as
Lord Beaverbrook, British minister
of war production, new!y-createo
most: Lord Halifax and others.
stars of the stage and screen re-
sponded well to Raymond, and ne
has the signatures OF many: Helen
Haves. Maurice Evans, Katherine
Cornell. Charles Laughton, Lily
Pons, Orson Wells, Dorothy Lamour'
Glenn Miller, Deanna Durbln, BOD
Hope, Paul Muni, Robert Mont
eomery. Ann Sheridan, Eddie Du-
chin, John Garfield, Jimmy Dorsey,
Gloria Jean and Sonia Henie. Sergel
Rachmaninoff, the great Russian
composer and pianist; Walter VIM
chell and "It Was a Good Flght
Joe Louis, all signed for 17-year-old
Raymond. ~
A successful autograph collector
must have stamina, an unlimited
amount of patience and must STAND
for hours in inclement weather. Ihe
ability to recognize individuals
quickly is invaluable and one must
keep continually posted by scanning
local papers to see who will be the
next visitor to the Nations Capital.
Evening star., 1942-02-22

!.
wooden box made Of II" cypress
boards. Make 1t water tight by
placing strips Of muslin soaked in
white lead in each joint as you put
the tank together. And to further
guarantee your job. paint all the in
side surfaces Of the box with a coat
Of asphalt paint.
Inside the Tank.
Next, make q wooden frame like
the one in figure 3, and tack on to
it a 4xy piece of l" wire mesh. Use
thin strips Of wood Y" wide for the
frame, and follow construction de-
tails in figures and S.
Then slip this frame inside the
tank and fasten it in place with
small brads exactly 6" from the
tanks inside bottom. In doing this.
use brads thin enough that they
won't split the wood.
Now turn the tank over and bore
a q" hole in the bottom at one Of
the corners. This done, find cork
to fit the hole tightly.
Finally. obtain enough excelsior to
cover the wire mesh inside the tank
with a layer 2" thick-except for
the 3"x2" opening shown in figure l..
The tank is now completed, and you
are ready to make the plant-growing
solution.
Chemicals Needed.
The following chemicals are the
only ones needed. They can be
bought at any drug store or chemi-
cal supply house for little cost:
Calcium nitrate, 20 teaspoons.
Magnesium sulfate (epsom salts)
1914 teaspoons.
Monopotassium phosphate. "
teaspoons.
Ammonium sulfate, az teaspoons
When you buy them, however
purchase two or three times the
quantities called for, because every
two weeks the solution grows stale
and must be changed. and at every
change q new solution must be
mixed.
The formula given is one de-
veloped by DR.. J. w. Shive. an emi-
nent American horticulturist. 1t 1:
intended for mixture with Is gal
Ions Of water, which Is the amount
for which the tank was designed.
To mix the solution, pour water
into the tank through the 3"x2'
opening in the excelsior until the
water level Is about III" from the
inside bottom. Now add all the
chemicals In the formula. and gently
tilt the tank left and right few
times to insure an even mixture
Finally, pour more water into the
tank until the solution is exactly
3as" deep. A cheap ruler can be
used to measure this.
Caution: Be sure to keep the So
luton at this level. 1t is the 25-gal-
lon mark, and the liquid should not
90 below or above it-with only one
Evening star., 1942-02-22

the easy and Elizabeth Fitzpatrick.
then the more difficult finger twirls
with the silver baton.
1t wasn't long before Edna Mae
was a full-f1edged drum majorette.
In 1888 she went with the corps to
the American Legion Convention in
Chicago and the next year to the
Legion convention in Boston. There
she appeared at several places, in
cluding a tour of the hotel lobbies.
where she soon lost all fear of large
crowds. .
When the movie Sergeant York"
came to Washington last year, the
great World War hero himself,
Sergt. Alvin York of Tennessee, also
came, and Edna Mae and the Junior
Drum Corps of Fort Stevens Post
Evening star., 1942-02-22

Then came the actual making Of
the tags. Four boys could work
at one time, two boys to a set Of
dies. The letters had to be select
ed individually and struck with
mallet. About five tags per period
is the average production of each
boy. AS they do more, naturally
they become more expert.
At first, the Is boys who were
to make the tags, worked during
their free periods, lunch periods,
and during their metal shop class.
Lately, it has been arranged for
boys to work every period of the
day by getting groups excused from
classes. 1t is planned so that a
boy will miss no more than one
period of any one subject week.
The cost of the tag is approx
mately cents, and the chain will
cost 20 cents, making the total cost
to each student IS cents. BY hav-
ing the tags made in the metal
shop, the cost is greatly reduced.
Evening star., 1942-02-22

dents OF Mont
gomery Hills
Junior H l 6 h
School, s ii v er
Spring, recently
held a victory
book dance" to
aid the national
defense program
IT h e results
were great" says
q note from
Elizabeth TORY,
13. More than
200 books were
turned in, and,
in a d ditto on,
Evening star., 1942-02-22

lIS way " hAy
desk, gives Peggy
her first by-line
as q collie g e
journalist. Her
name-only it's
Marjorie instead
Of egg gy--ap-
pears over an
interesting story
about two CO.
eds who are
earning money
through opera
ton of q busf-
ness they call
"Snappy Serv-
Ice" The girls
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specially is just what their f1rm
name promises-"Snappy Service" In
everything from running errands
to playing practical jokes.
Until she moved into Hendrix Hall,
Columbia, Mo-, Peggy was The
Junior Stars No. l correspondent
al Blair. She also participated IN
THE Junior Star Of the Air" which
is broadcast at 1o:45 am. every
Saturday from WMAL.
Several months ago, while attend
ing a conference Of high school
journalists at George Washington
University, I met Connie Young,
who shares the editorship of Silver
Chips with Donald Boyer. Inevi-
tably, I suppose, we got to talking
about the fine work Peggy had done
for both the ]. S. and Chips.
"You know, Peggy used to write
nearly everything that went into
Chips" Connie said. Il guess she
was just about the best editor we
ever had"
Although Peggy picked Missouri
as her university because she wanted
to study journalism, her favorite
subject right now is general expert
mental psychology, judging by a
letter I received from her recently.
That's some course she writes.
1--WE stick each other with pins,
bang people with wooden mallets
and use other means of torture, all
for the sake of science"
Incidentally, Peggy still reads The
Junior Star, which reaches the uni
versity's journalism library on We'd
nesday Of each week.
Junior jottings:
Making necklaces and bracelets
from colored grains of corn is the
hobby of Esther Hill, 16. Lincoln
High School, Rockville, Md.
Evening star., 1942-02-22

81 in cash" Demetra Bacas, IS,
]. S. correspondent at Coolidge High
School, has made" the student
newspaper, the Courier, as report
er. "Knittin' for Britain" is one
of the favorite defense activities at
Central High School. according to a
report from Esther Demas, IS. Even
some of the boys are knitting. she
says. The Children's Museum,
Villa Rosa, 4215 Massachusetts, ave-
nue., will be open to the public today.
Its gala opening was held Friday.
Evening star., 1942-02-22

jorette-and the
first one in
Washington, she
believes since
1888. The op-
portunity W a S
given her by her
father, who was
a member of the
Drum and Bugle
Corps of the Fort
Stevens Post of
tn e American
egion. The
drum major of
the corps helped
teach her first
Evening star., 1942-02-22
By PAULINE BLOOM.

We are all accustomed to think
ing of doorstops as large cumber-
some objects. But this isn't abso-
lutely necessary. You can fashion
doorstops yourself, with just some
cardboard, paper, few designs for
decoration, and set of nimble
fingers.
Cut a long strip of cardboard, 2
Evening star., 1942-02-22
Riddles

/. What is a put-up job?
2. How are boat and well
alike?
3. What is always behind time?
4. Name three makes Of automo-
biles that start with K.
5. Why are grasshoppers like
watches?
Evening star., 1942-02-22

HaAo INV, ~iouSAi oAAAJ O AA~e 4AAoAS
than halfway through her freshman
year, she has succeeded in making"
the university newspaper, the
Missouri Student.
The February II issue of the
weekly tabloid, which has Just found
Evening star., 1942-02-22
Identification
Tags Made
For Students
Project Adopted at
Anacostia After
War Started
Prize Contributions
BY ARNOLD MICHAEL, I6,
and
KLOCZEWSKI, ]
Anacostia High School.

On December 7, the people Of this
country knew they were at war and
that their cities were subject to
bombing A few weeks later there
arrived in the metal shop of Ana
costa High School two sets of dies
and a request from Mr.. Collins, the
principal, to make identification
tags for each of the 1900 students
in the school.
Each tag contains the name, ad-
dress and telephone number of the
student, as shown in the illustra-
ton below. They are small metal
blanks about one by one-haf inch
in size. First, a method of align
ing the dies so that the lines Of
lettering would be straight had to
be worked out. After several meth
DDS had been tried, one proved sat-
Evening star., 1942-02-22

uldhcS L1Sooiy y
repeat itself by
always being on
the spot when
a famous person
is due to arrive.
This ardent COL
lector of auto
graphs is undis-
courag e a b lie.
Failure to get
a signature from
an admired ce-
lebrity a few
times does not
make him give
up.
A fact known
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isfactory. Special anvils were cut
from a piece of angle iron and
highly polished. These anvils were
then tapped for two screws which
were to clamp a metal straight-edge
and the tag to the anvil. In this
way the straight-edge could be used
for the alignment of the dies.
Evening star., 1942-02-22
Drum Majoree Contends Leading Parades ol
lust Between Ourselves
BY PHILIP H. LOVE,
Junior S.af Editor.

Students of Montsomey Blair High School Silver Spring Md will
learn that Peggy Weiss editor their
Silver Chips has made excellent start journalism the University
peggy, is avenue, Park
Missouri last September having graduated
Evening star., 1942-02-22
Victory

lCIOI
BY BETTY ROSENDORF, IL,
Bancroft School.
Anywhere, when you see a V,
Remember the men across the sea;
They're Americans fighting, brave
and strong,
To keep those Japs where they be-
long.
The battle is one which we didn't
start,
But we'll end it with Victory, for
its in our heart;
So buy bonds to preserve our pride,
And when you buy stamps, you lick
the other side.
We're fighting hard for everlasting
peace,
And we'll have them coming to us
on their knees;
We're all united, brave and strong,
To keep those Japs where they be-
long.
Evening star., 1942-02-22

I've lived on vegetables for two
weeks"
That's nothing, I've lived on earth
for Is years."
Evening star., 1942-02-22
BY CHARLES r. THOMSON.

You longer need soil to plans And willing
little ingenuity will find yourself picking nasturtlms
Or forget me nots, or voets from a of water
Soess gardening" the discovery that enables this
suggests 1t the growing without dirt
capable of raising flowers and vegetables
will
Evening star., 1942-02-22
Tech Student
Seldom Fails
InHis Hobby
Persistent Appeals
Won Autograph of
Mrs. Roosevelt
Prise Contribution
By JEANNE BARINOTT, Is,

In days gone by in the theater
there was invariably stage door
Johnny" Raymond Mcfarland, II,
Mckinley High School student,
Evening star., 1942-02-22
Riddle Answers

/. The paper on the wall. :. They
both have wet bottoms. 8. The
works Of q clock. 4. None. They
all start with gasoline. 5. They
both move by springs.
Evening star., 1942-02-22

Judge-Have you ever been up
before me?
Defendant-I don't know. What
time do you get up7
Evening star., 1942-02-22
Prise Contribution
BY ELIZABETH FITZPATRICK, 16,
Roosevelt High School.


How times have watched parade and then said TO
yourself MY what time that drum has?"
Plenty Of times I'll bet all because think takes nothing but
the ability the the band the desire
twhl a baton
that according Mae
AGarh Of luehec laces
Evening star., 1942-02-22
Answering Your Questions.

Donald r. The book Cit to
Fly," published by Appleton
Century, tDiH ansUer your ques-
tions on the Flying Examination.
Evening star., 1942-02-22
Cuddles and Tuckie
BY FRANCES ROYSTER WILLIAMS.
Trademark Resistere4 o. . Patent once.

The neighbors started calling us,
They said that every day
Our puppy grabbed their papers up
And carried them away.
Evening star., 1942-02-22

NV, student at Roosevelt High
School, who has been a drum ma
Evening star., 1942-02-22

What's your question? Send it to
I. r. Hegel, care of The Junior Star,
mclosing a Scent stamp for q per-
Sonal reply.
Evening star., 1942-02-22

Continued on Next Pags.)
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-12-19

ldCb ClldI Size is SlTl-lI women
hang on to the place they are
making for themselves in today's s
world.
Unless women let themselves be
pushed back into the home and in
to "Women's work. when the war
is over-the baby girls of today
can be anything they wan to be
and do anything they want to do
when they grow up.
They can, unhandicapped by
rulings and regulations against
women, go into any profession and
into any kind of work. because
the wartime need of women S
hands and women's brains is pull
ing the label 'men's work. off
all sorts of jobs.
Given the chance to try, women
are proving they can handle jobs
that they had always been told
were too difficult for them.
IT'S UP TO WOMEN
But if they don't make up their
minds now to keep the place they
are making for themselves in
business, in the professions. and in
industry-today's little girls won't
grow to womanhood in a world that
gives them an equal chance with
men.
It's up to the women. Men can't
push them back into the old mold
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-12-19
Mrs. Edward B. Clark.
Entertained At Party

ELIZABETHTOWN. Dec. 18.-
Mrs. 2 L. Hamilton, Jr., and
Mrs. Oliver Garter were j o n t
hos.e ,ses Friday night at the home
Of Lrs G. W. Fisher, when they
entertained a, a party honoring
Mrs. Edward B Clark, who left
th's week for Camp Forest, Tenn.
The Christmas motif was attrac-
lively oooerved in all the party
appointments AT the close Of sew
Pral 0rogsessions of bridge, Mrs.
Clark was presented a book con-
taining many lovely handkerchiefs
paced between the pages, gifts
nom the guests. High score was
won by MS, G. w. Fisher, while
tie travelling award went to Mrs.
Carh, W1o also was presented an
honor gift Ginger bread topped
with cream cheese sauce was
served with Russian tea. E a C h
pate he'd tiny lighted candle.
quests were: Mrs. E. B. Clark,
nonorae, Mesdames H. H. Clark,
J. Blair. G. W. Fisher, Mac
campbell Clyde Jordan, Jr., Leon
y Smith, Boyd Hammer, Misses
frances Person, Mary West Gro
Marhe, Kelly Mosely and Mrs.
Billy Case
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-12-19

pronounced Bark-o-vltch-over a
year ago. Today, at %, Anna is
what one might truthfully call a
typical American girl. She thinks
tnat ii she went back to her home
land today, nobody would recog-
nize her And if they did they
probably would not approve.
Personally, Anna likes her new
self. She has learned to walk in
high-heeled shoes, to use cosmet-
les, wear American clothes, and
drive an automobile. Most i'm
portant, she has learned to oper-
ate a testing machine at the Tim
ken Roller Bearing Co.
Anna likes her job. not only be-
cause it pays her $31 a week, but
because she is doing war work. "
'It is very good that l do this, "
says Anna solemnly in her careful
English, for my brother who
came to America with me is now
in the Army. My brother, he is a
brave fellow. Just wait until he
gets at those Germans!"
When Anna speaks of the Ger
mans her young face tightens and
her voice S full Of hatred. Kiev,
where her parents lived. has been
ravaged by the Nazis. Her sweet
heart, a Russian soldier, is a Ger
man prisoner.
The other day she received a
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-12-19

letter from her parents saying
that they were safe and still in
Kiev. But when she hears stories
of the German treatment of civ.
ilians, she wonders just how safe
they are.
Although Anna was born in
Cleveland. Ohio her parents re.
turned to Russia when she was 3.
1T was as if | had never been
here before" she says.
STILL IMPRESSED
Despite the fact that she has
caught on quickly to American
ways, Anna still is aWed by them.
Her daily bath is still luxury,
and she likes the feel of silk TN
derWear and silk stockings against
her skin. 'In Russia, it was nearly
all cotton" she explains.
She can't get over the fact that
she can have all the ice cream she
wants, instead of three or four
times a year. And that she can &C
to movies cheaply and often. II
Russia, movies are shown only or
Saturdays, and they cost so cents
She was surprised that Arneri
cans stayed UP so late, but has
concluded that it must be all right
because everybody does it. In Rus
sia, even though she was 10, she
had to go to bed by 10 o'clock.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-12-19

~ ANAA OSI WIZ
CANTON, O.-A frightened Rus
sian girl stood in New York S
Pennsylvania Station and watched
red-capped man pick up her
bags and walk away with them.
She Wept, because the bags con-
tanned all her possessions, and be-
cause she had never seen Negro
porter before
But, even at the risk of losing
her baggage, Anna Barkowicz was
glad to be leaving New York for
Ohio. She and her brother had al
most starved when they first ar
rived from Russia. They didn't
know a soul in New York and they
didn't know a word of English.
Finally, hunger drove them from
their room to a restaurant There
they pointed greedily to food on
the counter, and thus obtained
their first American meal.
NO AMERICAN STYLE
Even after they arrived in Can
ton, Anna wasn't comfortable. An
ma was tall and handsome. But
she wore her hair flat and combed
down at the sides. Her clothes
were shapeless and had no style.
She used no lipstick or rouge. By
American standards, she was very
plain looking.
That was Anna Barkowicz -
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-12-19
Wrightsville Beach Chapel
To Have Christmas Service

A Christmas service will be con
Quoted at the Little Chapel-on the
Boardwalk Wrightsville Beach
Sunday morning, at II O'Clock.
The service is designed to ap-
peal to all age groups, with fea'
lures of worship and praise and
special exercises for children. Ii
is hoped by chapel leaders that
large number Of residents of the
beach and surrounding territory
who are connected with the armed
forces VIII attend the service.
Those in charge have planned the
service, it is said, to provide
Christmas period of worship es-
pecially for families connected with
the war services. who are away
from their own homes and church.
eS.
Several commissioned officers
and others will have part in the
service of worship. Special music
has been arranged and the story
Of The Other Wise Man" by Hen
ry Van Dyke will be presented
as special features of the occa.
sion.
The Sunday school will meet as
usual at 10 am, under the lead
ership of E. j. McIntire, when
the Christmas story from the Cos.
pei records will be taught.
The chapel is owned and con-
Quoted by tie First Presbyterian
and st. James Episcopal church
es of Wilmington.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-12-19
Printing And Point System
Troubles DELAY Rationine
BY ANN FRANCE WILSON
NEA Service Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.-It's a
cinch that the No. 2 ration books
won't be dis,tribted by January
but then, OPA never said they
would be. Despite the MANY ru-
mors that meat rationing would
start by the first of the year,
there has never been an official
Statemen to that effect because
OPA officials knew what a head
ache they were in for when they
first ordered the point system ra-
ton books.
The printing alone of these
$50, 100000 books is a terrific job.
The number of stamps in these
ration books is equivalent to the
number of all denomination post
age stamps printed during twelve
years. And the job of determining
tn, point value of meats is another
headache; since me.s alone con-
sists of 8 per cent of consumers
expenditures in the United States.
However. the fact that 100000
900 ration books are being printed
is fair enough evidence that the
point system will be used.
More About Points
The point system as used in
Great Britain will provide merely
very general outline. Details will
have to be worked out to suit
American requirements.
Already meat cuts have been
standardized. There are now only
10 primal cuts into which whole
salers may divide beef. And point
value will be set on the wholesale
cuts. This means that even If
your butcher gets fancy and pro-
duces an unorthodox cut, he'll
still only be able to charge the
point value set on the specific
primal cut.
Contrary to general belief. no
thought is being giver to tying
the point value of meats to the
prices. The point value of meats
will be governed by the demand
and supply. For example, if roasts
are not popular, and chops are
the roast supply will be greater.
Therefore the point Of value OF
roasts would be less than that OF
chops. So despite the fact that
roasts might be more expensive,
in dollars and cents, they might
still have lower point value than
the cheaper chops, whose popular
ity makes them scarce.
Standardized Bottles
WPB is getting ready to iaunch
another standardizing order O
bottles. Bottles for whiskey, wines,
beers and some food products vii
be standardized SO that you won
be able to tell one product from
another except by the label. SC
far there's been Standardization o1
medicine bottles and milk bottles
but the pinch bottles and other
odd-shaped brand bottles vii
soon be gone.