Evening star., 1942-07-12
Aircraft Model Building and Photography Are Boys Twin Hobbies
Just
Between
Ourselves
BY PHILIP HI. LOVE
Junior Star Editor.

"A new klllu VI Jccp Is SOlilk IltO
action this summer.
Every one Is, OF course, familiar
with the Army's jeeps-those tough
little automobiles that seem to be
capable of going anywhere and
doing anything. This kind of jeep
is used to carry soldiers, pull guns
or haul supplies. 1t gets it's name
from the letters with which it is
marked-"GP," meaning general
purpose" 1t Is, in short, a task force
on wheels.
And it is revealing no military
secret to say that the new jeep also
is task force, though not necessari-
ly on wheels.
A task force, as every one knows,
is a small, tightly organized unit
of highly trained men assigned to
do an extremely dangerous and Diff
ficult job-as often as not, a SEEM
ingly impossible job. The various
units of Great Britain's famous
Commandos, for instance, are task
forces. And it was American task
forces which attacked the Japanese
in the Gilbert and Marshall Islands,
and bombed Toxic and other Nip
ponese cities.
But the new jeep Is q task force
OF different type. It is to be made
up of members Of the American
National Junior Red Cross-boys
and girls whose patriotism makes
them want to continue through the
summer all the worthwhile war
work they carried on during school
months. AS the JRC explains in the
first of series Of special bulletins
to be issued during the summer:
"We are now commencing some
thing we haven't attempted on a
large scale since the summer of
1918-to create an out-of-school
organization to carry on the in
school Junior Red Cross program,
which has now become so vital to
the war effort that we must not let
it drop during the vacation months.
= This summer, life itself will
be our school"
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The new jeeps, like the machines
for which they are named, will be
small, fast and tough-tough, that
is, In that they will allow nothing
to stop them from carrying out the
tasks to which they are assigned.
Each unit will consist of from five
to Is members-maybe few more,
maybe a few less-and, as the JRC
bulletin says, will "do the things that
need to be DONE"
"All good task forces act under
definite orders" the bulletin con-
tinues. $50 will the Junior Red
Cross units. The leader for the
high school unit will be a school
official, teacher or a member Of
the chapters Junior Red Cross
Committee. For elementary school
units, any of the above or q men,
Der Of the high school council will
be the leader. Some units
will take first aid and accident pre-
vention. Some will learn water
safety. Some will tend victory gar
dens. Some will help In day camps
for part Of the summer, or help to
give care to the children of en-
ployed mothers. Some will collect
scrap rubber, cloth, paper and metal.
Some will war on rats. Some will
sew. S,dne will be Red Cross bicycle
messengers. Others will study home
nursing. Some will act as play
ground supervisors. The Junior
Red Cross units will do those things
within theiI abilities that need to
be done.'
# you are a member of the JRC
and have not yet received your
orders, get in touch with your
leader-or, that being impossible,
with District OF Columbia Chapter
headquarters Q730 E street NV,
National 1910, Eastern area head
quarters (615 South Asaph street,
Alexandra, Temple 7100) or national
headquarters Seventeenth street
NV, between D and E, Republic
5000 at once. And If you are not
member-well, right now Is Ger
tainly the time to Join.
The new jeeps are going to play
an increasingly important role in
our Nations war effort. urge
every hoy and girl to become q jeep
right nOw-this very minute, while
you are still thinking Of it-and let
your motto be-
The enemy ,Deeps because De're
jeeps!
And speaking of mottos and such.
here are some snappy slogans sent
In by Bert Robinson, Is, of Wal
dorf, Md:
A penny minute keeps US in 1t.
Hitler is crazy and thinks t1e are
lazy. So let's get to fpork and make
his perspective h1zy!
Build the tanks and back the
Yanks.
Euery day a gun keeps the Aris
on the run.
Your money, your dough, knocks
the Japs for row.
When ,0e sHow our fight, the Japs
die of fright.
To preserue the free race, stick
the Aris in its place.
Writing victory slogans" as he
calls them, is Bert's hobby. About
a month after the treacherous at
tack on Pearl Harbor," he explains,
Il realized more than ever that our