Evening star., 1943-03-07
Just
Between
Ourselves
BY PHILIP H. LOVE
Editor, The Junior Star.

ended and you had every right to
expect the Sunday before Easter
to be typical spring day. But
when you awoke the ground was
covered with snow-deep snow. Re-
member?
Well, March is like that. It is
the least predictable of all the
months of our calendar. Perhaps
that is why it was named for the
Roman god Of war, Mars.
A day in March may range from
warm to cold, calm to blustery; it
may bring sunshine, rain, sleet,
snow and winds in rapid succession.
The month is, in short, about as
tickle as any god of war possibly
could be.
Not because it is tickle but be-
cause it is the month of war, March
is the best of all possible times for
the Red Cross to wage its annual
drive for contributions. Because the
Red Cross is in war-a determined
war against want.
This month the Red Cross must
raise $125, 100000.
AS the Junior Red Cross Bulletin
points out, "This money will be used
to carry on the humanitarian works
that are the obligations and op-
portunities of the Red Cross-aid to
men in our armed forces and their
families, assistance on the home
front and relief for people in war
stricken countries"
The amount of money sought by
the Red Cross is large, but, in COM
parison to the needs, it is small.
Because the needs, as every thought
full person knows, are enormous.
Every American-boys and girls
as well as men and women-owes
it to himself and to his country
to do everything he can to help
the Red Cross to win the war against
want. Every contribution to the
Red Cross, no matter how small, is
a shot fired for freedom. Have you
fired your best shot? Have you
done your best to make this March
a month of victory, as well as a
month of war?
Collecting autographed photo
graphs of movie stars is the hobby
OF Joan Silling, 13, of 242 Madison
street NV, a pupil of Nativity
School.
Altogether I now have 63 pic
tures," Joan writes. Some of my
larger photos measure by 10
inches. My smallest measures about
~ by 4 inches"
Joan has received personal letters
from Bing Crosby, Sabu and Anne
GWynn, she says, continuing: ITO
obtain these photos and autographs
all you have to do is write penny
postcards to your favorite movie
actors and actresses. Iy you wish
to keep your collection neat and
clean all you need is small album.
I am sure that If you do this you
Will find 1t a very interesting pas
time"
Some Of the students of Powell
Junior High Schools ninth-grade
art class recently visited Washing
ton Cathedral" says a note from
Julie Bien, IA, 1914 Eleventh street
NV. "Of all the trips have taken
at school, I enjoyed this one most"
X X X X
Laura Mister, 8, of 13 West Del
Ray avenue, Alexandria, Va, heard
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs Benton G.
Mister, read several letters from
friends who are medical mission
aries OF the National City Christian
Church. She composed a little talk
on the information contained in
the letters and delivered it at serv-
ices attended by junior members of
the church. She said:
"Dr. Howard and DR.. Marjorie
Horner have gone to Congo Beige,
In Africa, to heal the sick. They
went because they love God. They
are members Of our church. It took
them two years to get there.
They live in mud home. The
driver ants drive them out some
times. They call it Mud Manor
They have baby / year old,
And they have time with him and
the patients. They take the baby
with them when they go to work,
and they call him the youngest
medical student
THE light is not so good, so Dr.
Horner sticks the patients feet out
the window. Sometimes they just
take the operating table outside and
have a picnic operation"
X X X X
The Students Citizenship Council
OF Mckinley High School is waging
a vigorous campaign for the sale of
War savings bonds and stamps with
the slogan Every Month a Jeep."
The current issue of Tech Life
features photograph OF a marine
shaking hands with 1t. Paul Strau-
bus OF the Mckinley Cadet Corps in
front of jeep from which Jeanne
Barinott, Junior Star correspondent.
smiles at them.