Evening star., 1943-05-30
Just
Between
Ourselves
BY PHILIP H. LOVE.
Editor, The Junior Star.

Editor. The Junior Star.
BY this time next week, some
reader of The Junior Star will have
rounded up enough old silk and
nylon hosiery to win a prize of SIS
in War savings stamps.
Will YOU be that lucky girl or
boy?
You CAN be, you know, if you
really want to be. Because, despite
my use of lucky" to describe the
winner of the first prize in the con-
test being conducted by the District
Salvage Committee, turning in the
most silk and nylon isn't a matter
of luck at all. 1t is a matter of in
dustry and enterprise. And the
lucky" boy or girl will be the one
who is the most industrious and
enterprising.
II you are a young person of in
dustry and enterprise, you will start
right now-this very minute-to
make your home and the homes of
your relatives, friends and neigh
bors the scene of patriotic treas
ure hunt"
Begin in your own home-if you
are a girl, In your own room. Do
you have any silk and nylon hosiery
that you no longer need? Have you
looked in the drawers of your
bureau, chifonier and dressing
table? How about your mother?
And your grandmother, sister, aunt
and other woman relatives? Don't
take NO for an answer; insist that
your relatives actually look through
their hosiery to make sure they
have none that have outworn their
usefulness to them. And remember
that even the most useless hose, be-
cause of the precious materials of
which they are made, will be useful
to Uncle Sam.
After you have gathered all the
discarded silk and nylon in your
home and from the homes of your
relatives, start on the neighbors
Go from door to door, explaining
that silk is needed for use in powder
bags and that nylon has other mill
tary uses; ask your neighbors to
stage treasure hunt of their
own while you wait. You'll be sur
prised how much TREASURE you can
dig up by the simple process of ring
ing doorbells.
Of course, the hosiery does not
have to be all-silk or all-nylon; the
important thing is that it contain
these materials. AS Horace Walker,
executive secretary of the District
Salvage Committee, explains: 'All
that is necessary is that the hosiery
contain silk or nylon. Mixtures of
silk and nylon. silk and rayon, nylon
and rayon, silk and cotton and nylon
and cotton are equally acceptable. .
Even if you fail to round up enough
hosiery to win the first prize of SIS
in War stamps you may win the
second prize, $40 in War stamps, or
the third one, IS in War stamps.
All hosiery must be taken to the
Office of the District Salvage Com
mittee, room 412 Albee Building
Fifteenth and G streets NV, before
noon next Saturday. Weighing will
begin then and the winners of the
three prizes will be announced as
soon thereafter as is practicable
Counting today, you have six days
to finish your treasure hunt" Get
busy right now-this very minute
and remember, thar's gold in them
thar stockin's! And NATURALLY
want to see the readers of The
Junior Star dig up some of it!
i: X
Daniel Hankin, former news editor
of the Roosevelt High School Re-
porter, is serving as Navy public re-
lations officer in San Francisco.
On the side he acts as correspond
ent of the Reporter. Three years
ago he helped to get out a Red
Cross extra edition of The Junior
Star. and a good job he did, too. His
brother Ezra is sports editor of the
Reporter.
Herman Littman. former coach of
the Roosevelt basket ball team, is
now captain in the Army, stationed
at Camp Lee, Va.
Keeping diary is the hobby of
Helen Herson, Roosevelt singer.
X Il
Kathryn Brown won a prize for
selling the most subscriptions to he
Anacostia High School yearbook, the
Totem Pole. She will be given a free
copy of the book, which sells for
$175.
Bob Scholten. who left Anacostia
to join the Army in 194l, has been a
prisoner of the japanese since the
fall of the Philippines. He was an
anti-aircraft gunner on Corregidor,
and his mother, Mrs. Inez Scholten,
last heard from him directly on
December 5, l941.
John Douglas is drawing some
clever cartoons for the Anacostia
Pow-Wow, under the title, The Ad-
ventures of Annie Costa"
Jane Fendrich, editor of the To-
tenn Pole, is one of Anacostia's honor
students.