Evening star., 1943-10-31
| lust Between
Yourselves
BY PHILIP H. LOVE,
Editor. The Junior Star.

-Dy IHALAI II. AoNE,S
Editor. The Junior Star.
Christmas may seem a long way
off to you, but to the Junior Red
Cross it's just around the corner.
Already JRC members are busy
playing Santa Claus to boys and
girls overseas who have been evacu-
ated from war zones.
Every day pupils of the Districts
elementary schools go to JRC head
quarters, 2020 Massachusetts avenue
NV, to do what they can to make
the coming Yuletide little bit hap
pier for some young victim of the
war. And they've been working
away at the job for severals weeks,
with the result that more than 500
Christmas boxes have been packed
for shipment overseas.
The boxes contain a wide variety
of gifts, all bought by the JRC
workers out of their own spending
money. There are comics, drawing
materials, jump ropes, hair ribbons,
face cloths, soap, toothbrushes,
tooth paste and-Well, all kinds of
things. And as soon as all the boxes
are packed the Red Cross will ship
them abroad for distribution at
Christmastime.
Not all the JRC helpers have
understood that breakable or perish
able gifts cannot be sent overseas.
Several of them have brought in
bottles of perfume, for instance,
only to be told that such articles
cannot be shipped.
But one little boy was ultra
conservative in his approach to the
problem of what to send. Clutching
a brand-neW fountain pen, he asked,
somewhat timidly, 'Is this perish
able?"
He was told, Of course, that 1t
would make an enviable addition to
somebody's Christmas box.
Who could resist such an appeal
as the letter below, which comes
from Mary Margaret Mueller and
Dick Stogo, classmates at Cranch
School?
Last year Mrs. Pinck's sixth
grade started song about War
bonds and stamps. This year we
thought it would be a good idea to
start it up again. Though the Back
the Attack show has left. there is
still the need of backing the attack
So we would be pleased if you would
publish our song in your paper.
The reason We want you to dc
this is We would like to inspire the
people. 1t might be fun to have
everybody singing our song Maybe
in week the whole city would be
singing it. Maybe in a month the
whole East Coast would be singing
it. Maybe in three months the
whole country would be singing il
and backing the attack. 1t isn't
much. but we think it is a good
inspiration for the people. Won't
you publish it for us?
We sing our song to the tune Of
the round, Are You Sleeping Broth.
or John?' We make " round of oul
song. too, and do we have fun"
Well, all right. here it is:
BUY WAR BONDS.
Are YOU backing. arc YOU backing
Owe ' en- 'sfat s51r no TO hsht asia'kR with.
Give en- stun TO feht With
Buy War bonds. buy War bondsl
Are YOU help,nE are you helping
To defeat the AXIS.
To defeat the AXIS?
Buy War bonds, buy War bonds!
Are Ten you nte lendns dtn are yo4 gs4 Lending
Our OF every paycheck.
Our OF every paycheck2
Buy War bonds, buy War bondsi
Junior jottihgs
Catching insects" is the hobby o.
Peggy Jean Topping, TO- Hyattsvillt
Md Elementary School.
Emanuel De La Rosa, IA, Hint
Junior High School, is an excellent
artist for his age. Barbara Sey.
mour, ninth grade pupil at Langley
Junior High School, likes to write
short stories. Aloysius Schwartz
l3, Holy Name School. is a scien-
tist in the making. One of his eX-
periments was making a miniature
steam engine that worked The
materials were an oil can, a cork
a piece of cardboard and two wire
hairpins. The study of science
should appeal to every young stu.
dent, as it does to me" he says.
Leland Junior High School was re,
modelled so extensively this pas
summer, reports Daniel Fendrick
IA, that returning students hardly
knew their old hall of knowledge.
. Another talented young short
story writer is Nancy Saunders, l3
Macfarland Junior High School.
Elaine Frazier, l6. Dunbar Higf
School, writes: The best and easies
way for us to learn about our in
teresting world is by visiting mu
seums. Many of us learn more il
few minutes of seeing than W,
can by hours of reading and study
ing" A somewhat different viev
/ is taken by Jane Boat. l3, Pau
Junior High School, who loves t.
read. especially of the adventures o
the late Richard Halliburton.
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