Milford chronicle., 1942-10-16
Frederick. School Is
Getting In The Scrap
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l have no idea of the weight o
, our scrap pile at present, but it IL
of considerable size, and is thu
result of good deal of effort OF
the part of our pupils.
Many of our students live so fal
from the school that it is imposs-
ible for them to bring their scrap
If every child riding the school bus
carried with him a couple of old
tires, a burlap sack of kitchen
utensils, and one of those ante
quated vacuum cleaners worked
with hand pump, the driver would
kids at home, and when we learned
that we could obtain at Bowers
Beach an old automobile with the
wheels off, we decided to borrow a
truck and see what could be done
about it.
OF course the automobile was the
big attraction. If our boys at the
front could have seen the deter
mined faces of two fifth and sixth
grade boys armed with hack saw
and hatchet, as they divided it into
two halves, and could have watch
ed the effort of half dozen little
Americans as they finally managed
to get both halves into the truck
ii they could have seen this they
would never feel that they were in
this fight without backing from
home. If Hitler could have seen
this same little group actually pry
up from the muddy bed in which it
had been reposing these many years
"a heavy ships anchor so firmly
planted that believe no one man in !
the country could have budged it,
yet the team work of six small |
boys did the trick-if he could have
seen this he would have known
that America means business. And
if all of our fellow countrymen who |
until now have remained indiffer-
ent to the country's call for scrap
could have seen the results of one
days work on the part of this little
band they would have been inspired
to become scavengers on their own.
1t would be tiresome to list COM
pletely the days haul, but it might
be mentioned that it included in
addition to the automobile and the
anchor an electric range, gas
range, several kerosene ranges, a
metal bed and over a dozen tires.
1t would be uninteresting to read
the names of all persons who do
mated scrap or helped collect it, but
l should like three boys from Bow
ers Beach to see their names in
print. Those names are George
Giutarri, George Davidson, and
Coleman Morris. l have never seen
any people anywhere work harder
than those boys worked yesterday.
And there is one little boy in the
first grade who would probably not
recognize his real name, because
he is always called by his nick
name "Stuf." He had collected more
old iron than any other person in
the school. To this collection he
had added his own velocipede. He
has brother in the armed forces in
and he thinks that this
will be shipped to Eng
land in its present state and that
possibly his brother may recognize
it. Don't laugh-it's not absurd
his brother will recognize it. Our
soldiers have the imagination to
recognize that what comes as sac
rifice is such. Our young Americans
recognize that sacrifice is essen
tial and is not useless. Do all adult
possess this imagination? Possibly
the spread of such imagination is
the great gift that the very young
can make to the cause. -
Very sincerely yours,
]. H. Morrison Darbie