Evening star., 1943-07-18
lust Between
Ourselves
BY PHILIP H. LOVE,
Editor. The Junior Star.

Last May 2, this column quoted
parts Of letter from John Hellwig,
II, of Cranch School, urging that
the Districts annual Cleanup
Week" be extended into a sort of
Cleanup Year." The letter was
written on behalf of a group of
Cranch pupils who saw no sense
in cleaning up the city one week and
letting it get dirty and dirtier the
other 81 weeks. Now comes another
letter from John, to report that he
and his schoolmates are "practicing
what we preached"
I'VE transformed the land In
front of our school-which was an
eyesore-into beautiful green
lawn" he writes. I'VE made a
plot II by "a feet into pretty rock
garden. Another plot, 20 by 60
feet, was made into q Victory Gar
den.
I'VE hope you will visit us this
summer" John continues. IF you
will visit at the right time, you
may get some vegetables. And II,
by chance, you get some radishes,
you must be sure to eat the tops.
They have eight times as much
vitamins as the radishes them
selves.
I'VE tried an experiment by
planting radishes with onions, beets
and carrots. We watched the battle
between the vegetables and weeds.
The weeds almost won-and would
have, if we hadn't worked so hard"
Another experiment that the
young cleanuppers made was to
build a fence of laths around their
garden. But mischievous boys in
the neighborhood pulled up the
laths and played swords" with
them.
The place began to look awful"
John recalls. I'VE had discus
sion in class and decided that II
we didn't tempt the boys, they
would leave the garden alone. We
took the fence down and, sure
enough, they did not bother the
garden any more"
SQUIRRELS also gave the gardeners
some trouble, having taken a great
liking to the lettuce.
1--WE had another discussion
John says, land our teacher told
us the story of Daniel Webster's
first speech. Daniels father had
vegetable garden, and a wood
chuck was destroying it. The father
and his sons had discussion and
were all set on killing the wood
chuck. But little Daniel got up
and made short speech ending
with, Let the woodchuck live So
we decided not to begrudge the
squirrels their food"
Uncle Sans war chest is just a
little fuller today, as result of the
initiative and enterprise of six boys
and two girls from 10 to IL years old.
They contributed to the war chest
through President Roosevelt, to
whom they sent this note:
Dear Mr.. President: We children
Of the 1900 block of Oates street NE.
had carnival to raise money to pay
for some of submachine gun. We
raised $1405. We want to send the
money to you because you will know
what to do with it better than any
one else
The letter was signed by Morton
Freedman, Buddy Brown. Edmund
Heller. Martin Franklin, Leone Fine,
Connie Kiefer, 10 Bucca and Freddy
Miles.
= Junior jottings-Shirley Turner.
author of the prize winning story of
Donald Sparks and his paperweights.
IS vacationing in Atlantic City until
September. But I'll still be able to
read the j. S. regularly" she post
cards. Tanya Bruskin, 9. of
Madison School, Falls Church, Va,
has a collection of more than 80
dolls. There is one little Indian
doll more than 100 years old" she
writes. 1T was made by an Indian
child. A Russian doll started nv
collection when I was about 2 A
Mexican doll, two Indians. a Chinese.
Dutch and Puerto Rican are
among my favorites." Ruth
Davis, another Of today's prize win
ners. Is chairman of the literary
section Of the Paul Press Club.
Lois Marr, another frequent contrib
utor to the j. S., is chairman of the
poetry section. ;. Jeanne Barinott,
j. S. correspondent at Mckinley
High School, was awarded one of
OARS good citizenship" medals.
The other medal was won by Roy
Rowe, who also earned the Civitan
Club award. =. Seabury Quinn and
Patsy Peake were voted the wittiest
boy and girl among Techs June
graduates. The title Of most popu-
lar" went to Maurice Lacey and Jean
Tryon. And Bob Elliott and Hilda
Henderson were adjudged the best
singers.