Evening star., 1943-01-10
Girls Club Combines Fun and Patriotism Successful VICTORY
Just
Between
Ourselves
BY PHILIP H. LOVE =
Editor, The Junior Star.

WrlClng In CnlS space laSC OuIl-
day, I commented on the fine work
being done by Paula Ann Berry,
6-year-old Brightwood School pupil,
in the salvaging of tin cans and
suggested that other girls and boys
follow her example AS you will re-
call, Paula, who lives at 1914 Jeffer-
son street NV, has salvaged about
500 cans since last summer.
The comment and suggestion
brought from reader an interest
ing report on the efforts Of the
young people Of her neighborhood to
aid the tin campaign.
Il live in Maryland suburb" the
reader said. Although residents of
the community have been process
ing their tin cans for some time, no
one has called to collect them. This
has been rather discouraging, and,
as result, many people have
stopped preparing their cans. What
Is the use Of going to all that trou-
BILE, they argue, If the cans are not
collected?"
But the boys and girls of the
neighborhood decided to cut the
ground from under that argument
by solving the collection problem.
And 1t was easy, according to my
informant. The youngsters simply
organized themselves into groups,
rounded up all the toy express
wagons" in the neighborhood and
went from door to door, collecting
cans.
Keep on preparing them" they
told everybody. We'll be around
every week to collect and we'll see
that every can you f1x gets into the
hands Of the proper authorities.
Naturally, the residents Of the
community are delighted, and the
preparation of cans has been re-
sumed with an enthusiasm that was
sadly lacking before the boys and
girls took charge.
Why don't the young people Of
every neighborhood take a lesson
from the patriotic enterprise and
initiative Of those Maryland SAL
vagers?
There is no very good reason why
the salvaging of tin should be an
adult project. Boys and girls can
process cans every bit as we'll as
their elders. And they can collect
them, too, If necessary, as the Mary
land group has proved.
When I was a boy-or, to put 1t
another way. when your father and
mother were your age-every boy
and girl had certain duties to per-
form around the house. Chores"
the older folks called them, and
they comprised such jobs as chop
ping and carrying wood, carrying
out ashes, moving the lawn and
shoveling snow of the sidewalk.
Nowadays, thanks to the conven-
fences Of modern life, most Of these
tasks are unnecessary. But 1t is
good for boys and girls to have
chores to do, to have certain duties
and responsibilities. 1t helps them
to become strong men and women,
to develop the character needed to
assume the duties and RESPONSE
DllltleS OF adult lie.
So why not make the salvaging of
tin and other scrap your daily chore?
1t will take only few minutes work
each day, and by the end of the week
you will have every right to feel that
you have accomplished something
very worthwhile. And if you keep
at it day after day, week after week
and month after month, you will be
doing great deal to help put Hitler,
Mussolini and TOTO where they be-
long-on the scrap heap!
Readers of The Junior Star have
way Of turning up all over the
map. I was surprised when letters
came to me from readers In such
faraway places as Canada and Mex
leo, still more so when q girl VINO
lives in Hawaii sent me an eye
witness account Of the Japanese at
tack on Pearl Harbor.
Now, however, nothing in the way
OF long distance leadership will
cause me to so much as raise an
SJSDiOWs 4AiC lCuSOkl 10 OllkS llOlS,
which came last week from Carta-
gena, Colombia:
Il have reading with much pleas
ure the article of Miss Jeanne Bari
mott, Mckinley High School, and I
am interested in obtain her address
In order to MAINTAIN correspondence
with her.
Il was very grateful If the Director
Of the Newspaper indicates me the
address Of this miss. I am Carta-
gena University pupil and I am very
interested in MAINTAIN correspondent
do with some school american pupil
in order to practise the English Ian
guage.
with best wishes for 4 Happy
and Prosperous New Year. Very
truly yours, LEOVIGILDO MARTI-
NEZ E., P. o. B. 1876, Cartagena,
Rep. de Col, S. A."
I publish young Senor Martinez's
address with the thought that other
readers than Jeanne may wish to
correspond with him. 1t is, 1 be-
lieve, good idea for all OF us to try
to become better acquainted with
our good neighbors in Latin
America.