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Evening star., 1942-06-07
Wilson Senior Has Held All c. Championships Swimming and Diving
Just Between Ourselves
BY PHILIP H. LOVE,
Junior 1sar Editor.

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continue the practice with
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making peanut dolls not Dasys only activity She also draws
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greetings people considers fortunate than herself
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spirit very Daisys that
heart trouble at the Christ Child Farm Rockville Nd
would be going Jefferson Junior
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until they well enough home you come out here
we have to care continues IF some
fall down get hurt in other he would be taken
ON holidays birthday anniversaries always
I'VE have swimming pool and PLAYHOUSE also playground
We have fireplace which have campres We have many good
ish the grounds beautiful With all the flowers blooming
s IT v we e h eul onh ana get mi" from
Mary Daisy happy despite physical handicap
found enjoy life Gould fine spirit under
similar circumstances?
School found
money
Shirley Kaufman into the business of dorat
Easter and invested the profits In their ons effort
Grey Cohen Roswell Chstoph
Kathryn Chrstoph.
money parttme empoye of store Mole by
cooking
working Saturdays bakery shop and Bette and the
Chrisoph taking children,
bonds Junior Star
interesting enough it may prize
Sampeon popularity poll taken by the senior
Central High School the holder of five Cte for football
University of Virginia Felicia Miller Central
our-year scholarship Washington University The
Bulletin predicts that will probably take place the out
standing the 1912 graduating class Twenty Wilson boys
this
Wilson Yuaneh Hsu who from China
recently Clipper His home city, Chungkng continually bombed
for three
Evening star., 1942-06-07
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Evening star., 1942-06-07
Ry DAISY WEIGH.

am an invalid girl. I cannot sit
up long at time or get around like
other young people, but find much
pleasure in my hobby of making
peanut dolls.
I got the doll idea one day when
I was looking at some peanuts that
we got for Christmas. I noticed that
some Of them had one part shaped
like a head and another part shaped
like a body, so I thought it would
be fun to dress them up and have
them for dolls.
I picked out four of them and
drew the eyes, nose and mouth on
them in India ink. Then I colored
the eyes and painted the lips with
water colorS. Next, cut of wire the
right length for the arms and COW
cred it with tissue paper. I used
matchsticks for the legs, and fas-
tened them to the body Of the dolls
Evening star., 1942-06-07

er flags wave so proudly in the
breeze.
think the best way to tell you
how a flag feels is to describe a
parade. The parade on Memorial
Day was a gorgeous one and made
me gladder than ever that I am a
flag, so I think I will tell you about
it.
The sun had not shown his round
yellow face over the horizon and it
was quite dark when the sound OF
the morning bugle was heard. I was
excited, from my topmost star down
to the lowest stripe, for this was the
day was to be carried IN the pa
rade.
When the parade started. I never
felt so grand in my life. The band
was playing and the soldiers were
marching, but best of all were the
crowds of people. To think that they
were living for the good of Nation.
to keep it strong, to defend it. Just
to think I was the symbol OF the
Nation for which all these people
were living sent thrill through me.
The parade lasted a long time.
and ! was very sorry when it was
over and I guess you would have
been, too.
must stop now because taps has
just been blown.
Evening star., 1942-06-07

The Stars and Stripes was not the
first flag to fly over our country.
The first and probably the least
known of these was the white BAN
ner with black raven on it planted
on New England soil by Left Ericsson,
about the year 1000. This is said to
have been the very first flag ever to
be raised on our shores.
The second was the Royal Stand
ard of England-a white field with a
red cross of st. George-set up by
John Cabot, and this same Royal
Standard was flying on the May
flower when the Pilgrims arrived
on the Atlantic Coast.
Many Flags.
But these were the flags of other
nations brought to our shores. They
were not our flags. However, there
were many flags used by our early
settlers before the Stars and Stripes.
One of the first of these was. called
the "Rattlesnake Flag" and showed
a coiled rattler in yellow back
ground, with the words Don't Tread
on Me"
Another and more familiar flag
is the Pine Tree" pale-green tree
on a white field, with the motto IAN
Appeal to Heaven" This was de-
signed in ITS by Col. Joseph Reed,
military secretary to Gen. George
Washington, for use by the Navy.
But the Colonial Standard, with
its 13 stripes for the 13 Colonies,
alternately red and white, with a
union carrying the British crosses
of st. George and st. Andrew in
the corner, was the first flag to rep
resent the settlers as whole, and
so it is considered the first flag OF
our country. 1t flew from January 4
1776, when 1t. John Paul Jones
raised it for the first time aboard
the flagship Alfred, until the Cont
mental Congress adopted the Stars
and Stripes on June IA, 1777.
Ever since 1851, June IA has beer
observed as Flag Day, but today the
date has special significance. To-
day we are proud that it has never
been a flag of aggression. We are
proud that it flies over more than
100000 square miles of American
soil, all of it freel But we are even
more proud of what our flag has
always stood for: "One Nation, indi-
visible, with liberty and justice fol
all"
Evening star., 1942-06-07

a person becomes proficient in music
he would not have to practice exer-
cises, but Pat says that is not so
because otherwise one could not
keep up with the piano or any other
instrument.
Although Pats favorite piece is
The Flight of the Bundle Bee"
by RimsN Korsakov, Mozart is his
favorite composer and he can play
most of his compositions.
Sometimes Pat will play the piano
at school-usually when the chill
dren are marching into assembly.
While waiting for the teachers to
come in the children often ask Pat
to play and he can give them any
selection they desire. He does more
than just play; he makes the piano
laugh, sing, cry and talk. The chill
dren will listen as long as he will
play and then they clap their hands
and beg for more.
Pat would like to belong to an
orchestra, but the nearest he ever
came to it was to play over the
radio with a group of other children.
think music goes right along
with Pats family, because his great
grandfather was a composer of Irish
ballads, among which was "Kath-
leen Mavoreen."
Evening star., 1942-06-07

by making holes in the body part OF
the peanuts.
For the hair I used rope and glued
it on. I cut feet Of the right shape
out of wood, made holes in the heel
part, and glued them to the legs;
I dressed the dolls up In clothes
made of tissue paper and crepe pa
per.
All of the first four dolls I made
we're little girls. Next, I made man
and woman, two little boys and a
baby. Later on I also made hens,
roosters, cats and dogs out Of pea
nuts, and called them all the Pea
nut Family.
have made 242 dolls In all, and
no two of them are exactly alike.
Almost all of them have blue eyes
and brown hair. Some Of them were
made from walnuts, too. My collec-
ton now includes a peanut orches-
ira. Snow White and the Seven
Dwarfs, and a bride and bridegroom.
Evening star., 1942-06-07

Sunior High School, Patsy was in the
swimming class which Dudley Cor
don, coach of the Shoreham team,
observed one day. He quickly rea-
Hzed her great possibilities along this
line and asked her to join his team.
Ever since then, In swimming and
diving meets, Patsy has come
through as winner.
Some of the titles she holds at
present in outdoor events are: 100.
22O and 44O yard free style; 100-yard
backstroke, 15O-yard individual med
lev, and low-board diving. She
holds the record for the first four,
and in the backstroke she broke her
own record. In indoor events, she
Is the holder of the 220-yard free
style championship, the 150-yard in
1dividual medley, and the 100-yard
breast stroke. In the 220-yard event,
she broke a record which had been
UNCHANGED for flve or six years,
while in the 1D-yard individual
medley, she broke her own record
four times.
I
the District indoor diving cham
pionship, which she was unable to
defend this year: the Airport diving
championship, and the 50-yard free
style championship. She was run
nerup in the Junior National 880-
yard free style, placed third in the
Junior National relay and holds
some records in Western Maryland.
All the hours this Wilson mermaid
has spent in pools are represented
by 40 or so medals and five trophies,
three of which were won for high
point individual scores.
The Palmer sisters, Patsy and
Phyllis, have given many exhibit
tions in the city, and for two years
they've starred in the Aquacade,
a benefit for the Red Cross. They
have given performances at various
nearby country clubs and at Boiling
Field for the U. S. o.
A champ needs pep, and to keep
physically fit Patsy adheres to train
ing rules which her coach advocates.
The most important are daily train
ing, plenty of sleep, wholesome food,
and sunshine. Pastries and candy
are eaten sparingly.
Patsy dives and swims because
she enjoys both, and whether she
wins or loses she doesn't get excited
or nervous. She says, cts all for
fun"
Evening star., 1942-06-07

youngest nations in the world. our
flag is one of the oldest! OF course,
the older nations all had flags long
before we adopted the Stars and
Stripes in 1777, but practically all OF
them have changed theirs since that
date. Spain's present flag was not
adopted until 1885, the French tri-
color came into being in l794, while
Great Britain changed to her pres
ent emblem in 1901. Even the flags
of the Oriental empires have been
changed since Congress established
ours.
StimsOn's Choice.
Another interesting fact which is
often overlooked Is that Henry l..
Stinson, Secretary of War, actually
Is responsible for our present flag.
In 1912, during his first term as Sec
retary of War, both Arizona and
New Mexico were admitted as States.
This necessitated adding two stars
to the 46 already on the flag. Sew
eral arrangements were submitted
for Mr.. Stimson's approval. He
chose the present setup OF six rows
of eight stars each.
Did any one ever tell you that the
stars represented particular States
and their position indicates the
order of their admission to the
Union? If they did, forget it. be-
cause the Government says it is not
true. A bulletin issued by Uncle
Sam puts it this way: The 48 stars
represent the 48 States collectively
No law has been passed to designate
how they shall be arranged"
On the face of it, the first idea
could hardly be right. At first. the
stars were arranged in circle; later
this was changed to a star shape
and even after they were set in
rows the order was changed with
the addition of new States, so the
present arrangement must be taken
to mean the United States, without
regard to place or position.
Proper Title.
Here is something that will sur
prise lot of you-the Stars and
Stripes should never be called THE
American flag" 1t Is THE flag of
the United States of America" and
you and I should recognize this and
see that we use the proper title.
Some of our most treasured pos
sessions are the flags which have
been connected with the develop
ment of the country. One which is
especially priced is the flag which
inspired Francis Scott Key to write
THE Star Spangled Banner" A
close second is the one which, in
1924, was presented to William
Driver, who was the first person ever
to call the flag "Old Glory" A COL
lection of these flags is preserved In
%I,o Mo ofinyo1 MIco,1yn
Evening star., 1942-06-07
Uncle Rays
Corner
BY RAMON COLEMAN.

The human race has gone through
periods called the Stone Age, the
Age of Bronze and the Age of Iron.
What "age" ought we call the pres
ent period in history?
In weighing that question, have
thought about the many amazing
inventions which have been made in
/ the past 200 years. Since the steam
engine was improved by James
Watt, We have had mighty changes
| in our way of life. The railway
locomotive, the steamboat, the auto
mobile, the electric light, the phono-
graph, the radio. the moving picture
/ and the airplane are among the
inventions which have led us into a
| different world.
Such name as the Age of Power
or the Age of Steel and Electricity
might be used for this period of
mankind's progress. Yet it perhaps
would be better to say that we have
entered the Age of Fast Transport,
since the new inventions are largely
in the field of travel.
Sailing Rate.
Just 60 back, in your mind. to the
time when Watt was a boy. In
those days sailing vessels went over
the sea, but they could not make
very good time. To cross the At
lantic a person needed about a
month of time. The sailing rate
| hardly reached the average of 10
miles per hour.
On land, sometimes but not
always. a person could do better
than that. In a long stagecoach
| journey, with time lost in stops, the
traveller made an average well below
10 miles per hour.
Steam coaches, sometimes called
road monsters" came into use in
England more than a century ago.
For time they made such journeys
as from London to Bath and from
Birmingham to London. Their usual
speed was 6 to IL miles per hour.
That was not much of a change
from the old type of stagecoach, but
1t was step in the right direction.
Automobiles of today run along
good roads and can go at high
speed. Until the tire shortage came
along it was common for motorists
to drive mile a minute on high
ways outside of cities and towns.
Race Track Speeds.
Race track speeds have been far
above the mile-a- minute clip. They
have gone so high that it might
almost make a person dizzy to read
about them.
In 1899, on the Bonneville flats
Of Utah, John R. Cobb drove a mile
In ga seconds. If he could have kept
up the same speed for one hour he
would have made a distance of 37O
miles.
No one ever has been able to make
such speed for as long as a min
ute. The world record for an hour
of automobile driving is 1921 miles.
1t was set by Alb jenkins in 1910,
also in Utah.
There no longer is need to worry
about speed power for automobiles.
We have all we need-in fact, more.
If we want more speed, with
safety, we must look to the air.
Airplane records of the past two
or three years have been In large
part military secrets" Yet some
airplanes are known to have made
speeds of from 400 miles an hour
to above $50 miles, perhaps to 500
miles per hour.
No airplane. so far as is known,
has Travelled as far as 400 miles in
one hour. Keeping such a speed
for minute or two is one thing,
but keeping it for full hour is a
very different thing. On a long
flight an airplane does well If 1t
averages 200 miles per hour.
(Read Uncle Rays Corner
every day In The Eueninp St0ry
Evening star., 1942-06-07
Wasp Mystery is Solved
'By Paul Science Student
Insects Presence
In Home Bamed
Girls Family
Prize Contribution
BY DOROTHY L. FISHER, Is,
Paul Junior High School.

Paul Junior High School.
About two months ago a friend
gave me a wasp's nest which he
had found on his back porch. !
was very glad to accept the nest
because I would be able to use 1t
in science class.
Wrapping the nest in a soft cloth
so 1t would not break, I put 1t in a
drawer.
One night about three weeks ago
while my family and I were eating
dinner, I saw a large black wasp
crawling up the curtain. AS one can
we'll imagine. the unlimited guest
was put out of commission in double
time. We thought it quite strange
that a wasp should appear so early
in the year, but soon dismissed II
from our minds. During the next
2a weeks, however, we found and
killed four more wasps.
Later, after we had Just killed
two more of these visitors, we began
to discuss the situation. Suddenly
I thought of my wasp's nest. Of
course, that was where our callers
were coming from!
took the nest and very carefully
unwrapped it. There was the answer
to our problem.
When my friend gave me the nest
he did not know 1t contained eggs
that had not yet Matched. He had
driven the adult wasps away and
thinking the nest empty, brought it
to me. 1 had wrapped his gift in
warm clothes before tucking 1t away
in the drawer. Because the nest
was so warm the eggs Matched.
Now comes the question of how
the young wasps could live without
food. 1t is really very simple.
If you have ever observed the
back of a wasp's nest you have seer
small compartments with flies ano
beetles in them. These are fol
the wasps to eat when growing
This nest was no different. The
wasps did not need any one to get
food for them because it was already
there.
Evening star., 1942-06-07
A New Song for Victory
(TO the Tune of Yankee DOOdleO
Prize Contribution
CARMEN LOUISE SMOKE, IL,
Powell Junior High School,

Oh! There's a big war going on,
Let's fight for the u. S. A.
So help to keep your country free
and join up today!
CHORUS.
Soldier boy, just keep it up!
Soldier boy so dandy,
Don't forget that NUNS" the word
And gossip do not handy.
If YOU do know some secret news
That Hitler'd like to get,
Keep it to yourself, my friend,
Just let him stew and fret.
The Japs will beat if we repeat
What's none of their affair,
So guard that secret with your life
And watch your tongue with care.
Evening star., 1942-06-07

plano when he
was 6, and now
that he is 10 he
can play beauti-
fully. He even
likes to practice
which l think is
quite unusual.
Pat practices
every day and is
so busy with the
piano that he
has no time for
any other instru-
ment, although
he would like to
have. One might
think that when
Evening star., 1942-06-07

Nation that be-
lieves in free
dom, to look at
the ranks of SOL
diers marching
day in and day
out for the lib
erty of a Nation.
Maybe y o U
don't know how
it feels to be a
flag (not being
one), so I will
tell you as best ]
can, and maybe
you will under
stand better why
T opd rnarv nth.
Evening star., 1942-06-07

If there's a girl you'd like, to WOO
Be careful how you do 1t.
She may be one of Hitler's spies
And you'd be sure to rue it.
Or even if she's innocent,
Who's In the crowd out there?
The Japs and Germans have big ears.
So, soldier boy, beware!
And Mussolini's great big mouth
Is full of VOWS and stuif:
Let's capture him and prove to all
It's only show and bluff.
Since we are In this big war now,
It Is most sane and wise
To watch yourself In case you meet
A wolf in lambs disguised
Evening star., 1942-06-07
Star Spangled Banner Is
One of Oldest Flags
BY KATHERINE HOUISON.

Now that countries be losing their national identity
a significance We
standing greater the flags his
tory, the prouder of it.
What gives that although Of
Evening star., 1942-06-07
Patsy Palmer, II, Just Picked Up Skill
That Enabled Her to Make Many Records
Athlete Keeps Fit
By Adhering to
Health Rules
Prize Contribution
JEANNE BARINOTT, Is,

MCKINLEY HIGH SCHOOL,
Whenever swimming champions
are discussed, the name of Patsy
Palmer is invariably included in the
list. At II, this woodrow Wilson
High School
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senior has held
e very District
championship in
amateur SWIM
ming and diving,
in addition to
making a vol
ume of records.
Patsy's SWIM
ming C a r e e r
started a bou t
four years ago.
AS she explains,
it, something
that she "just
picked up
While a student
at, Alice Deal
Evening star., 1942-06-07
Riddle Answers

Riddle Answers
/. I've been deferred (defurreO &.
2. When they're in flour (flower). :.
3. Telling a hair-raising story to a
bald-headed man. 4. A girl. 5. Be-
cause the train takes you.
Evening star., 1942-06-07
Lafayette Boy
Is Talented
Musician
Schoolmate Says
He Can Make
Piano Talk
Prize Contribution.
BY PAULA SIMONDS, 10,
Lafayette School.

Many children like to play the
piano. but there are few who take
the keen interest that Pat Reed does.
Pat, who lives at $685. Thirty-frst
place NV, started learning the
Evening star., 1942-06-07
Riddles

l. What did the rabbit say when
he ran out of the flaming forest?
q When are a cooks hands like a
garden?
8. What is wasted energy?
4. What most frequently becomes
a woman?
5. Why should you never say I'm
taking the train?"
Evening star., 1942-06-07

His Own Business
How do you like your new Job
as a travelling salesman"
well, I'm my own boss-I'm not
taking orders from any one"
Evening star., 1942-06-07
4 Am the Flag
Girl Tells Fancifnl
Story of Parade
Prize Contribution
BY NANCY HAMILTON, 10.
Potomac School.

I am the flag that waves over an
Army camp near Washington. The
greatest thing in the world, think,
is to be a flag, to be the symbol OF a
Evening star., 1942-06-07
Beauty Operator.

Fourteen-year-old Madolyn Pin
zone of Brooklyn, N. Y. makes her
sisters beautiful and earns spending
money at the same time. She has
set up a beauty parlor with chair
and a small table in corner OF her
home.
81 make my own shampoo, sne
says, "by melting olive oil soap. MY
three sisters are my steady ana
only customers, but I am satlsned'
/ charge 10 cents for all items sucn
as shampoos, facials, tweezing, man
touring and oil treatment"
AT this rate she often makes as
high as a dollar week when her
sisters are working. Her sisters
willingly cooperate because 1t saves
a good deal of money for them as
well. s,-.
How do you earn your spending
money? Write to Money Makers.
care of The Junior Star. giving all
the details. You may win special
prize of 81 in War savings stamps
Evening star., 1942-06-07
Dark Outlook

Dark Outlook
Poor Jim! I hear he's on the
rocks now"
Yeah. He got q Job as q light
house keeper"
Evening star., 1942-06-07
Enterprising
Youth
War Worker.

Richard Venable is combining two
important aspects of war work.
He's aiding the Nation by salvaging
critical materials and earning
money to buy War savings stamps
at the same time.
, Richard. who is II and lives IN
= indianapolis, Ind, gathers the
. hangers on which cleaners deliver
clothes. He cleans them, repaints
those that are rusted and straight
ems out the bent ones. Then he ties
them in punches of 10 and takes
them to a local dry cleaner.
He pays me 5 cents for each
bunch of TO-" Richard says. with
the money I receive I buy War
stamps"
Evening star., 1942-06-07
Trapper.

:. Another boy with an unusual way
of earning money is Raymond Wust,
40, of Greene, Iowa.
- Il live on a farm where gophers
do a lot of damage" Raymond ex-
plains. Dad gives me 5 cents for
every gopher I trap. There is also
a State bounty of 10 cents. l
take the animals front paws to the
COURTHOUSE where they give me the
money. I caught Al gophers last
summer, keeping track of them on
a chart I made.
During the winter I also trapped
Six weasels, four civets and a mink
and sold their skins. I've saved all
the money I've made and bought a
bicycle with it. Since school is Z
miles away, it saves me a lot OF
walking"