Evening star., 1942-11-22
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BY PHILIP H. LOVE
Junior Star Editor.

AOVE
Junior Star Editor.
Something new and different In
the way of interior decoration has
developed from the unusual hobby
of Hartzell Lincoln Dake, IL, Of Paul
Junior High School.
Hartzell's hobby is collecting pa
triotic posters. He began shortly
after the Japanese stab in the back
last December 7 and his first poster,
appropriately enough. was one urg-
ing Americans to Remember Pearl
Harbor."
Since then Hartzell has rounded
up so many posters that where to
keep them has become problem.
And that's where the interior dec
Grafton comes in. Hartzen has III
orally "papered" his bedroom with
his posters. ..
In fact, except for the ceiling and
the floor, there is scarcely an inch
of the room that Is not covered
with posters. There are all kinds
Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast
Guard, Red Cross, War bonds and
stamps and War Production Board.
After decorating the walls Hartzell
still had several posters left. Rather
than keep them rolled up out Of
sight he gave them to some Of his
friends. Putting them on the cell
ing was out of question at the tirne
because his collection of model air
planes was hanging from 1t by
strings. But the planes are down
now, so there is space for many
more posters if Hartzell wants to
use 1t.
Shortly after the picture on the
left was made Harzell was stricken
with bronchial pneumonia. He is
recovering ct this writing, however,
and The Junior Star hopes he will
soon be well enough to continue
with his collections. In the mean
time his parents are doing their
best to keep it up to date.
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Last year, when Hartzell was a
pupil at Brightwood School, his
planes won several prizes.
Next to planes and posters his
favorite pastime is listening to the
various quiz programs on the radio.
He does his listening with a re-
ceiving set worth $75 which he won
last February with a question he
submitted to the "Quiz Kids" At
the time his illness developed he
was working on a series of questions
for Information, Please" He hopes
to win an expensive encyclopedia.
Now that he is in the seventh grade
he feels it's about time he grad
uated from the old one-volume en-
cyclopedia he has been using.
Despite the war, American boys
and girls have much to be thankful
for this Thanksgiving. In contrast
to the young people of most of the
other countries involved in the war,
they are very we'll off, indeed.
The children of the lands occu-
pied by the Germans and the Jap
anese are enslaved, along with their
parents. Russias girls and boys
live in constant danger of death,
and life in Great Britain is little,
if any, safer. Everywhere there is
danger, hardship, even privation.
Everywhere, that is, except in the
United States. Here there is still
plenty of everything needed for rea-
sonable comfort and safety. We
have Wholesome food and good cloth
ing; our schools are still carrying
on; we remain free to do pretty
much as we please.
President Roosevelt has pro-
claimed Thanksgiving a day of
prayer. Boys and girls, as we'll as
men and women, will, of course,
pray for the continuing success of
our fighting forces. But they should
not forget to pray, too, in thanks
giving for the many blessings that
are ours.
Junior jottings:
James Jeffery has been elected
president of the February gradual
ing class of Mckinley High School,
Other officers chosen are Robert
Royce, vice president; Mildred Rob-
bins, secretary; Don jenkins, treas
urer, and Stan Hollander, sergeant
at arms Nan Austin, one of
The Junior Stars correspondents at
Anacostia High, has been made cir
culation manager of the school
newspaper, the Pow-Wow 1.
Woodrow Wilson High School stu
dents whose fathers are officers in
the armed services total 228. The
fathers of 1876 pupils are in the
Army, 81 are in the Navy and IL in
the marines William Chap
man, Banneker Junior High School,
assisted in directing traffic at Twen-
ty-sixth and K streets NV. during
the recent flood. He also helped
keep back crowds of sightseers, ran
errands and delivered messages" he
reports. II enjoyed doing such du-
ties" he adds, because I felt was
being loyal to my city" Jeanne
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