Evening star., 1942-01-16
Bancroft School Sets
Paper Salvage Record
OF More Than 7 Tons
Teamwork and System
Of Sowing Bring in 4,239
Pounds in Week /

Setting an all-time high. Bancroft
School, located at Eighteenth and
Newton streets NV, turned in more
than two tons of paper Wednesday
in The Evening Star-P.-T. A. Sal
wage for Victory campaign.
The days collection was made up
of 1910 pounds OF newspapers and
429 pounds of magazines and netted
the PIT. A. of the school S2672.
According to Miss E. ". Andrews.
principal of the school. much of
this money will 60 directly into de-
fense work through the purchase OF
buckets in which sand will be placed
throughout the school for use in
case of air attack and in other
equipment which would be of great
value in case of disaster.
Collection System Perfected.
Bancroft's success arises out of
excellent teamwork. Two of the
parents in the school, Mrs. Russell
Howell and Mrs. Louis Deitch. have
served as a committee which has
undertaken the collection of paper
from persons who have notified the
school that they had quantities
which they wanted to turn into the
defense program through Bancroft.
Because the yield from this source
has been so great, the committee
is being expanded and other men,
bers of the association will partici-
pate and will be provided with help
ers to aid in gathering the paper
and loading it in cars.
Committees of children also are
setting up regular routes where they
call for paper each week
Miss Andrews has launched one
program for regular and orderly
collection which might we'll be
copied by other schools AS collec-
tions are made at Bancroft on
Wednesday. Miss Andrews plan
calls for the children to start each
Wednesday evening, beginning a
pile with the Wednesday evening
paper. To this is added the papers
received through Saturday after
noon and the bundle is then tied
A second bundle is started with
Sunday papers. to which are added
those of Monday and Tuesday.
Then on Wednesday morning the
pupil carries the bundles to school.
one under each arm, and thus the
weight is made easy for even the
smallest to carry.
Figure Presents Challenge.
Learning of the Bancroft success
Thursday afternoon, Miss E. S.
Emmons. principal of Kenilworth.
which has been we'll up among the
leaders of the fifth district, de-
clared that the two-ton figure was
a challenge which she and her school
would accept They are out to beat
that total in the next week or two
The directors of the drive are
especially grateful to the District
of Columbia Congress Of Parents
and Teachers for their acceptance
of the task of mailing out the
checks to the individual schools, in
cluding those of the Home and
School Associations. The Board of
Managers decided yesterday that
pending some better means of send
ing the checks to the individual
schools, the headquarters of the
congress would assume the cost of
mailing the checks. With each check
will go a statement prepared by the
Penn Paper & Stock Co.. stating
the exact amount due each school.
The headquarters of the congress,
Of course, receives no revenue from
the plan. as the entire proceeds go
to the schools in accordance with
the amount of paper and magazines
each has turned in.