Evening star., 1943-01-24
| Just
| Between
| Yourselves
BY PHILIP III. LOVE
Editor, The junior Star.


What does America mean to you?
Here is what it means-or meant,
rather-to one American boy:
America, to me, means a land
where all men stand free. No mat
ter what his religion, a man is al
ways admitted to the churches OF
America. In America, if man
steals or commits any other crime,
ne is tried fairly and punished just
ly. This is quite unlike the Justice
of s-dominated Europe, where a
man is shot if he listens to radio.
I'VE just can't realize how lucky
we are to be in America, where we
can live free life and breathe
free air. A few months ago, eight
Nazi saboteurs landed on our shores.
They were caught and tried.
After a long trial, the saboteurs
we're found guilty and six of them
we're sentenced to die in the electric
chair. The two others were spared
because they talked of the Nazi plot
That is justice.
Now if this had happened in
Germany or Japan, the men would
have been shot Immediately. We
aren't fighting men; we are fight
ing monsters"
The author of that analysis of
American freedom was Pelham Sam
derson, II, of Washington Grove,
Md, a seventh-grade pupil at CATH
ersburg Junior High School. Short
ly after writing it, he was seriously
burned while building fire in the
stove in the kitchen of his home.
In the midst of his suffering, Pei
hams father, H. Y. Sanderson, COM
plimented him on being "a good
soldier"
YES" the boy replied, "but
paratrooper who forgot to pull his
ripcord"
Those were almost his last words.
He died December 81.
His patriotic spirit is, think, typi-
cal of the youth of America.
Dorothy Knight Fannon, II, of
507 King street road, Alexandria,
Va, has found two ways to help
the war effort.
"I am Girl Scout" she writes.
mot long ago, we had to go around
and collect old silk and nylon hose.
1t was a lot of fun"
Dorothy, who is in the fifth grade
at st. Mary's Academy, Alexandria,
collected 260 pairs of hose for use
in the making of parachutes.
"I also save our tin cans" she
continues. Il keep them in box
on our porch. When the box is full
I take the cans to the junk man. I
also get other people to save their
cans for me. AS a Girl Scout, I am
glad to do my part in this war, and
I am sure that every one else feels
the same way"
The boys of Cub Scout Pack 232,
East Bethesda, Md, have declared
war on broken glass-and, they in
sist, there will be no armistice until
the enemy has been routed from
every street in their community.
Sixty collection bins have been set
up in East Bethesda, one for every
block. The boys call them bins,
anyway, though they are really five
quart cans donated by neighbor-
hood filing station. The cans have
been painted red and nailed to
stakes which have been driven into
the ground. Each bin Is equipped
with brush and dustpan that the
boys made themselves.
Every day after school the Cubs
patrol the streets with their brushes
and dustpans, gathering all the
broken glass in sight and depositing
it in the bins. They clean out the
bins once a week.
Douglas Cornell, jr., is master of
the Cubs, and his assistants in su-
pervising the work are Neil Carter,
Richard Jewett and Joel Norgen.
Junior iottings:
For the second time in her schol-
astic career, Emma Tubbs, Mckinley
High School, has been awarded the
OAR medal for scholarship, leader
ship, character and service. She
won her first medal as a student at
Langley Junior High School .
Elaine Bresler, whose ballad, 1.-THE
Red-Haired Boy" was a recent j. S.
prize winner, says 1t is "a true
story of one of our unsung heroes"
/. And Janet Ralph, author Of
a prize winning contribution on New
Year resolutions, reports that her
mother commented. 1T sounds like
one of the Presidents fireside chats"
From Harry F. Young, jr.,
Washington representative of the
National Amateur Press Association !:
'Demetra Bacas and Joan Caster
lin, both j. S. correspondents, are
now members of the NAPA. Joan
is now in New York, studying to be
a concert pianist" The Stu
dent Council of Central High School
is conducting campaign to collect
old keys If your school
isn't represented here, the way to
remedy the situation is to send in