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Evening star., 1943-03-28
| Just
| Between
Yourselves
BY PHILIP HI. LOVE.
Editor, The Junior Star.

The nine members of the Boys
Victory Club are aiding the war ef-
fort in an unusual way.
Henry Fankhauser, IL, of Paul
Junior High School, organized the
club and worked out it's program,
which may be summarized in few
words:
To keep a steady stream of inter-
esting reading matter flowing to SOL
diers, sailors and marines wherever
they can be reached by mail
Walter Stewart, 13, also of Paul, is
president of the group. and the other
members are: David Dahl, 13; Billy
Gilbert, II; PaA Mcmahon, 9; Mich
olas Rails, II; Bobby Stewart, IL;
Hubert Theboe, II, and Carl Werntz,
II. The schools represented, be-
sides Paul. are Brightwood, Nativity
and Whittier.
1t was Henry's idea, when he
started the club, to bind magazine
stories and newspaper comics into
handy books to be mailed to men,
bers of the fighting forces. Learning
to bind the books was easy; a woman
in the neighborhood gave the boys
detailed instructions. The big prob
lem was how to obtain the money
needed to buy magazines, newspa-
pers, binding material, wrapping
paper, tWine and postage stamps.
But the boys solved that problem
by establishing museum" of relics
of previous wars. Paid admissions
totaled s9.75. which, with the dues
collected at each meeting, was
enough to finance the project until
just recently.
Then the boys found another So
luton to the money problem. They
presented a magic show which
brought them $633, enough to cover
their expenses for. some time to
come. An adult resident of the
nelghborhood wrote to me:
Il wish you could have seen the
show the boys put on. 1t was in
Evening star., 1943-03-28

lldO d pleSlUSDl,
but which now
has a dictator
for a leader, and
you are op-
pressed and per-
secuted with no
chance of escape,
you envy the
American people
more than any
other people.
When 1 first
arrived in this
country three e
years ago and
saw the Stars
and Stripes Way-
Evening star., 1943-03-28

SClilulS
In 1847, a pool of oil was found
inside a coal mine in Derbyshire,
England. A man named James
Young heard about it, and went TO
look at the pool. From the owners
of the mine, he obtained the right
TO take out the oil.
Young set up a refining plant
and soon it produced heavy oil
for use on machines, also thick
substance called "parafin wax"
and a light oil for lamps. The last
of these was kerosene.
Seventeen years before two Scien-
fists had produced kerosene in
their laboratories. One of them a
German had taken the liquid from
wood tar At almost exactly the
same time. Scotsman had refined
kerosene from petroleum. or crude
oil.
Kerosene From Coal.
So kerosene had been known to
science, but it was not placed on
the market until Young did his
work in England The name ''ker-
osene' grew out Of Greek word
meaning wax" Paraffin wax can
be taken from wood. coal, and so
on. the same as kerosene, but il is
very different when it comes to
burning.
Another early name for the burn
ing liquid was coal oil After his
pool of oil ran dry Young found
that he could obtain kerosene from
coal.
The name Of coal oil has been
used perhaps as often as kerosene.
At present. however, most kero-
sene is taken from petroleum.
Now the question comes, If kero-
sene has been used in lamps for
less than a century, how were peo-
pie Of long ago able to have oil
lamps?"
+ The answer is that oils of differ
ent kinds were used for ancient
lamps. Other oils had much the
same power of giving light as kero-
Sene.
The first lamps 90 back to the
Stone Age. In caves of Western
Europe, fiat stone lamps have been
dug up. They were slightly hollow
and would hold fat or grease. One
of them, made of sandstone. has
the outline of an ibex carved on
it and has traces of burnt fuel in
the hollow part.
Ancient Oil Lamps.
OIL lamps were common in ancient
Egypt, Greece and Rome Some
were made of clay, others of metal.
There were no lamp chimnevs" in
those days, but many lamps had
linen WlckS. Other lamps had Wicks
made by cutting rushes into sec
tlons. Now and then, a single lamp
had three or four wicks.
Usually the ancient lamps were
covered and had an opening
through which to pour oil. Oils
taken from animal fat and from
fish were used at times, but olive
oil became very popular for lamps
in Greece and Rome.
Near the center of the city OF
Rome was a temple in which the
goddess Vesta was honored. The
women who served in the temple
were known as ''vestal virgins"
A vestal virgin served for a pc
Rod of 30 years and might enter
the temple at as early an age as s,
During the first 10 years she was
taught her duties by the older
"veStais.'
One important duty of the vestal
virgins was to keep the holy fire
burning in the temple. From time
to time, they AIDED oil, and took
great pains to make sure that the
fire would not go out, day or night.
The Romans feared that if the fire
was allowed to go out i'll fortune
would come to the nation.
f'Uncle Rays Corner" appears
every day in The EDeninq Star.)
A robin spied a garden hose;
Said he, We'll, Ill be bound!
II 10 L.,
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Ing OH the CHM
ney and break
ing it. Also,
there was the
more S eri o us
danger Of drop
ping the lamp,
spilling the oil
and setting the
house on fire.
Kerosene lamps
are old = fash
ioned, but they
do not go back
for hundreds OF
Y e ars. T h e y
have been useG
for less than one
Evening star., 1943-03-28

would be inter-
esting to make
a map of Chevy
Chase.
However, one
must have the
r i 6 h t instru-
ments, so his
parents got him
a map table,
compass, an as
S or t m e n t Of
rulers, level and
magnifying glass,
a n instrument
for determining
how high one is
above sea level.
Evening star., 1943-03-28

read, and mod
els of the struc-
lures to be CAM
ouf ! a & e d are
started on wood
fiber boards.
Clay is one
medium used for
a model, which
can represent a
factory site or
the location Of
any vital con-
struction. The
site is built up of
clay, whether it
be hills or fiat
Evening star., 1943-03-28

Is IIle IcCcuIly-
installed physi-
cal fitness class.
The cl a S S ,
which was start
ed three months
ago, now con-
sists of slightly
over SO boys, all
juniors and SEN
iors who expect
to be drafted in
the not too far
off future. They
arrive at school
each morning at
o o'clock and
hurriedly change
Evening star., 1943-03-28
Even Husky Athletes Find
Fun in Collecting Dolls
BY RAY BLACK.

weighs something pounds football
ought a
all of a
well girls and belong to Month clbunoca
ganzations doll collector
to haveh
Evening star., 1943-03-28
WI. Physical
Fitness Course
Is Strenuous
More Than 50 BOYS
Report For Glass
Every Morning
Prize Contribution
By JOHN DUDLEY, 16,

Washlngton-Lee HlRh SCHOOL
The boys in the 11th and 18th
grades at Washington-Lee will be
the most physically fit group ever to
graduate from the Arlington (Va)
high school. The reason back of this
Evening star., 1943-03-28
Posers

Here are some questions that will
give you few minutes of real think
ing-providing you aren't so smart
that you have all the answers right
on the tip of your tongue!
l.. What and where is the largest
desert in the world?
2. What city did Joshua besiege
and take?
3. Who used the pen name of
Poor Richard"?
4. Who wrote. David Copper
field?
5. To what nation does Jamaica
belong?
6. What State is known as the
"Buckave State?
7. What city is the capital of
India?
8. How many United States Sen
ators are there?
A Cheerful Giver
whats that freshmen so stuck
up about?"
Ssh! Haven't you heard? They
say he gave the football captain the
measles
To darn the finger of glove
neatly and easily, slip marble into
it and work over this.
Evening star., 1943-03-28
Chevy Chase Boy Scout
Makes Maps as Hobby
Prize Contribution
BY PAULA SIMONDS, IL,

one day the
legged
doing he said he making learned that his
Reed that he
you his
| :ather surveying expedition to
Alaska When
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Prize Contribution
BY RACHEL McREYNOLDS, II,

Montgomery Blair High School
Camouflage is new course Of
fered students of Montgomery Blair
High School, Silver Spring, Md. All
available material on the subject is
Evening star., 1943-03-28
P0weU Girl Tells
What L. s. Flae
Means to Her
Prize Contribution
BY ELLEN SELIGMAN. IL

Powell Junior High School
This flag, the flag of the United
States of America, means more to
me than I can express. When you
are born in country which once
Evening star., 1943-03-28
Kerosene First =
Sold in 1847
By Englishnnan
Plant Was Set Up
To Refine Oil Found
In Coal Mine
BY UNCLE RAY.

Well do I remember days of my
boyhood when I used to read by
the light of kerosene lamps. There
always was the danger of knock
Evening star., 1943-03-28

A robin spied a garden hose;
Said he, We'll, I'll be bound!
I'd like to see the bird that pulled
That worm above the ground!n
Evening star., 1943-03-28
In China
Prize Contribution
BY BETTY LOU SUMMERS, 10.

Prize Contribution
BY BETTY LOU SUMMERS, 10.
John Burroughs School.
In China things are upside down.
At least, 1t seems that way,
For children wear pajama suits
Right on the streets at play.
And brides put on wedding dress
OF black instead of white,
And when Americans have day
The Chinese folk have night.
Staying Up Nights
Il told you our boy would be a
bad one to stay up, once he got to
the CITY,"
why do you say that?'
Il Just got a night letter from
him, the rascal"
Poser Answers
/. The Sahara in North Africa.
2. Jericho. 3. Benjamin Franklin.
1. Charles Dickens. S. Great Britain.
8. Ohio. I. Delhi. .. Nmety-stx.
Evening star., 1943-03-28
Some Helpful Hints
On This and That

When pencils insist on rolling off
your drawing board. stretch an elias
tic band over the corner and slide
the extra pencils under it to make
them stay put. Fasten one on YOUR
desk With push tacks to serve the
same purpose with both pens and
pencils.
To make one of those good look
ing fruit bowls, get an ordinary
chopping bowl and smooth it by
scraplns it with piece of glass
Then give the entire surface a coat
ing of mineral oil, using soft cloth
Let it soak in. then repeat the
process for several days until the
wood is rich gold in color and
has lovely sheen.
If YOU want to make a "disap-
pearlng" RED ink, take small
amount of phenolphthalein and dis
solve it in strong ammonia. This
ink will fade when exposed to the
air.
When your water colors refuse to
stick TO metal or glass, fill your
brush with color and then rub it
on a cake of soap. Now go to work
and see how the colors stay put.
Evening star., 1943-03-28
Practical

Practical
After three years" the aspiring
athlete said. I'm finally a regular"
so what?" replied friend.
What have you for your pains?'
'Liniment," returned the athlete
Evening star., 1943-03-28

f"Uncle Rays Corner" appeurs
every day in The EUeninq Starr
Evening star., 1943-11-22
Former EnUOv
Visits Here

The former Chilean Ambassador
in Washington, DR.. Miguel Cru
chaga, accompanied by his brother
in-law, Senor Jorge Matte are
spending short time in Washing
ton having arrived here from Ro-
chester, MINI. The former AM
basSador will be here only short
time and there will be no enter
tanning in his honor although he
has wide circles of friends in
Washington. He and Senor Matte
will go to New York tomorrow and
will be there several weeks before
going to Brazil and Argentina for
visits in Rio de Janiero and Buenos
Aires on his way back to Santiago.
There will be no party for the
former diplomat at his Embassy
here as the present Ambassador
Senor Don Rudolfo Michels, is in
New York where he accompanied
the president of the Chilean Cham
ber OF Deputies, Senor Pedro Cas-
telblanco, who came with a message
of good will to the House of Repre-
sentatives of the United States
Congress. With Senor Castel-
blanco on his trip to this coun-
try is his secretary Senor Guillermo
Lagos who will return to Chile with
him before Christmas.
Senor Cruchaga and Senor Matte
came to the United States for med
ical treatment in Rochester where
they spent several weeks.
Evening star., 1943-11-22
OAR Chapter Plans
Christmas Bazaar

A Christmas bazaar will be held
by the President Monroe Chapter.
OAR, December 4. in the adjoining
apartments of Mrs. Jessie Arnold
and Miss Laura Ruff, 1870 M street
NV. The money raised will go to-
wards the scholarship at the Tamas-
see School in South Carolina. The
bazaar will open directly after the
close of the National Defense Com
mittee in the chapter house.
A benefit card party and bazaar
will be given by the Chapter House
Corp. from 2 to 10 pm Wednes-
day at the chapter house. The
event is for the purpose of raising
funds to carry on philanthropic and
war work. Mrs. Elmer T. Cassel.
general chairman, is in charge Of
| arrangements.
Evening star., 1943-11-22

By the Way-
Blaine

We asked Mrs. Harold j. Cool
idge, jr., of Boston what part
she thinks social life in WASH
ington plays in helping interna-
tional understanding. Mrs. Cool
idge is well qualified to answer
this question. She has been one
of the leading spirits in the
United Nations Club ever since
her husband came to Washing
ton to do a war job for the
Government and she established
the Coolidge home here.
Mrs. Coolidge pointed out that,
in Washington's international
group, the men are under exact
ing pressure and the great ma
jority of their wives hold full
time jobs. Therefore she thinks
it logical that in the evening So
cial life should play and i'm
portant role for them in relaxa-
ton and in the making of new
friends. For this reason said
Mrs. Coolidge, 'the United Ma
tions Club has for two years
tried to create pleasant back
ground and meeting place for
members of the various diplo-
matte and foreign missions sta
toned in Washington. Especial
ly is the club useful to the junior
members of delegations who
have less opportunity for social
life than the ranking members"
1t is impossible to list the nu-
merous and important interna-
tional contacts which have re-
suited from the United Nations
Clubs social and educational
evenings. Even such activities
as the educational foreign and
documentary movies. the. round
table discussions. and the eve
nings of organized games are
planned to allow at least an hour
during which members and their
guests can chat and be intro
duced to each other.
The eight or nine different
foreign languages which one may
hear spoken at the United Ma
tions Club give unequalled OPP
portunity to the members of the
club who are studying modern
languages. Mrs. Coolidge says
that no matter what foreign
language member may be
learning, he or she will find op-
portunity to practice it with
some fellow-member of the
United Nations Club who is a
native of the country in ques-
tion.
Mrs. Coolidge is very much at
home in an international group.
She has travelled extensively in
Europe and has lived for num-
Der of years in the Far East
where her husband was doing
exploration and research. Add
that Mrs. Coolidge has a warm,
friendly manner and a sincere
liking for people and you have
a picture of charming lady do
ing useful and congenial Job.
Evening star., 1943-11-22
Writers Club
viii Present
Joint Recital

The Professional Writers Club Of
Washington will present Helen Tur-
ley and Norman Frauenheim in q
joint recital November 80 in Barker
Hall, YWCA.
Mrs. Turley has been heard in
the East and Middle West and on
WIZ.
A protege of Paderewski. Mr..
Frauenheim made his debut in Lon
don in 1925 under the patronage Of
the Marchioness of Carisbrooke and
the Crown Prince of Sweden. He
now inspects quartz radio crystals,
as his contribution to the war ef-
fort. at the Bureau of Standards.
Tickets are available at the
YWCA.
Evening star., 1943-11-22
College Girls Pnt
Hearts IN War,
|Student Says
By Catherine Hambley.

Heck, I'm an American!" ex-
claimed blond Aune Kangas when
asked if she had any yearning to
20 to Finland, the birthplace Of
her parents. AS president Of the
Zeta Chapter, Sigma Kappa So
rority, George Washington Univer-
sity, Miss Kangas has a lot to say
about her sorority sisters and the
war. although she is little interested
In discussing the home Of her fore
fathers.
my parents brought me up in
dependently of their traditions, u
she explained.
A senior at George Washington
University, where she is majoring
in chemistry, Miss Kangas is CO.
operating with dozens of sorority
girls in the war effort.
1.-The motive of a social sorority
in peacetime was too often to get
a man." she laughed. Now. Miss
Kangas pointed out, serious note
is struck among the girls who are
a busy and congenial group willing
to work and eager to make the
most of their opportunities. OF the
81 active members and 81 pledges
she said, many are engaged and
married to men at war. Instead
of brooding, they are more than
ever seeking each others COM
panionship, bicycling on Sundays
and holding dinners where, to boost
their morale, they try to out-de
each other in looking their best.
These girls, she continued, realize
that the future is vague and that
they may have to seek a living
against stern competition.
With this in mind we are at
tacking our studies with new vigor
hoping tomorrow will hold for us
that coupe. nylons and perhaps ever
a helicopter," she commented.
Seven members of the sorority
Miss Kangas said, serve at the Stage
Door Canteen. On Saturday after.
moons, members of the pledge clas.
serve at H street USO. These
pledges take turns at the univer,
sity's bond stamp booth, she added
Night students are employed by
the Army and Navy Department!
and other agencies. Many have
donated blood and serve the Rec
Cross. In addition, Miss Kanga!
continued. they collect money anc
clothes for the Maine Sea Coas
Mission for Needy Children.
From other remarks of the sorority
president it is apparent that sh'
believes girls basic contribution tt
victory is just doing the everyday
things well, and as for their con.
tribution to the postwar world, the
fact that they are taking con.
structive part now is proof enough
that they are going to take a pro.
gressive part later.
Evening star., 1943-11-22
Tu.Delfas Schedule
Founders Day Fete

The Founders Day banquet of
Delta Delta Delta will be at 7 pm.
December l at the YWCA, Seven
teenth and K streets NV.
The banquet will be combined
with scholarship benefit under
the war service project of the ma
tional organization. Receipts will
be allocated to Delta Delta Delta
from this area.
Washington Alliance president
Mrs. George Bailey, has appointed
Mrs. Harry T. Healy as genera
chairman for the occasion.
Mrs Raymond Welch is in charge
of reservations and requests that
they be in by November %.
Evening star., 1943-11-22
At Home Here
After Weddiuq

Mr.. James K. Jones, U. S. N. r.
and Mrs. Jones are making their
home at 1905 Seventeenth place
Sc, since returning from the trip
following their marriage here No
vember 13 at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Paul E. Jones.
Mrs. Jones is the former Miss
Betty Lou Kuntz, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. D.. D. Kuntz of Mars, Pa,
and Mr.. Jones is the son of Mr..
and Mrs. w. r. Jones of Clymer,
Pa. The Rev. r. w. MuSSen OFF,
ciated at the wedding ceremony and
the bride was attended by Mrs.
Paul E. Jones as matron of honor
Mr.. Weston B. Jones III was the
best man.
Evening star., 1943-11-22
Parties Honor
|Navy Artists and
Senator BarkIev

Several late afternoon parties yes
terday were of much interest to a
large section Of diplomatic, official
and residential society.
The Secretary of the Navy and
Mrs. Frank Knox opened the exhi-
bition Of the Abbott Collection of
Naval Aviation paintings now, on
view at the National Gallery of Art
and the reception which followed
was planned in their honor and for
the artists. The reception was held
at the Carlton, where 1t. Robert
Parsons, U. S. NJ, received the guests
with Mr.. C. De Witt Clough. Uni
forms of the Navy were much in
evidence, but the Army held its own
among the guests.
The artists whose works are a
part of the Abbott collection are
Don Freeman of San Diego, now a
private on duty at Camp Gruber,
Okla; Joseph Hirsch of Philadel-
phia, George Schneider, born in
Belgium, now of this country; Adolf
Dehn of Minnesota, Howard Baer
of Pennsylvania, Lawrence Beall
Smith, native of the District of
Columbia, and Robert Benney of
New York.
The long buffet table was laid in
the center of the Carlton room, and
small tables with chairs about them
were at intervals on each side of
the room, and here groups of guests
gathered for refreshment and con-
versation. A tall vase filled with red,
white and blue blossoms was in the
center of the table, and about the
room clusters of autumn flowers
were in bowls and vases.
Several hundred invited guests
assembled at the home of Mrs. Ed
ward T. Stotesbury for the annual
birthday party given by Mrs. Stotes-
bury and her son, Mr.. James H. r.
Cromwell, in honor of Senator Alben
w. Barkley of Kentucky.
Mrs Stotesbury received in a gown
of black satin made with a full skirt
that draped in long, deep folds, and
an overjacket made of black dotted
net. Diamond and pearl earrings
and a necklace of pearls fastened
with diamond clasp completed her
costume.
Mrs. Barkley, who has spent very
little time in Washington recently,
was present. and other guests in
cluded members of the diplomatic
corps with their wives, justices of
the Supreme Court and their wives
and scores of members of the Senate
and House and their wives. Resi-
dental society also was there in
almost countless numbers.
Evening star., 1943-11-22
Z0nta Club Plans
IFete for Relief

A benefit for United China Relief
will be given by the zonta Club of
Washington at pm. Saturday at
the Georgetown Presbyterian
Church, BIS P street NV. A group
of songs will be presented by Flor
ence Sindell and organ selections
will be played by Nancy Poore
Tufts. Good Books for Christmas"
will be the subject of talk by Mrs.
Helen T. Steinbarger of the WASH
ington Public Libary.
Mrs. Alice Speiden Moore, wife of
a returned missionary from Italy.
will be guest speaker Of the Zonta
Club at a Thanksgiving meeting at
l pm. Wednesday at the YWCA.
Seventeenth and K streets NV,
Mrs. Nan r. Street will introduce
the speaker.
The program will include a vocal
solo by Mrs. Dorothy Scates ac.
companied by Mrs. Emily Dickin-
son.
Evening star., 1943-11-22
Miss Gadd Weds
Pfc. ". G.. BurrelI

The marriage Of Miss Betty Gadd,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Gadd
of Graysville, Tenn, to Pfc. Will
liam G. Burrell, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Burrell Of Temple, Tex,
is announced. The wedding took
place November 10 in the home of
the brides brother in-law and sis
ter, Mr.. and Mrs. Vida Donak, in
Silver Spring.
The bride was given in marriage
by her brother -in-law and Elder l..
A. Hansen offlciated. Her sister,
Mrs. Donak. was matron of honor
and the best man was Pvt. Joe Cum
ningham, jr.
Evening star., 1943-11-22
Wedding in Alaska
OF Interest Here

Word has been received OF the
marriage of Miss Dorothy Elaine
Thiel, the daughter of Prof. ano
Mrs. Leo Francis Thiel of Takoms
Park, and Mr.. Oliver Graham Bal.
ley, son of Mr.. and Mrs. William A
Bailey of Rileyville, Va, which took
place in Fairbanks, Alaska. The
ceremony was performed by United
States Commissioner Eleanor Ely in
her Office, October II.
The bride, by train to Seattle, and
from there she flew to Fairbanks
where they were married just one
week from the time she left here.
They were given reception the
next evening by a group of Mr.
Bailey's friends. He is with con-
struction company in that section
of the Alcan highway.
Mrs. Bailey is a graduate Of the
Columbia Junior College and of the
Washington Sanitarium Training
School and is registered nurse.
Evening star., 1943-11-22
Waves Give Dance
THANKSGIVING

A Thanksgiving dance for officers
of the Women's Reserve of the
United States Naval Reserve, will be
held November Is at the Statler
Hotel by the WAVE Officers Dance
Committee for the benefit of the
Navy Relief Society. Music will be
played by the United States Navy
Band Orchestra.
Members of the dance committee
are Ensign Evelyn Faller, chairman:
1t. Eleanor J. Durrett: Its. q. e.
Sally Russell, Sara Rau, Anne Lau-
man and Ruth Hawkins: Ensigns
Jane Barton, Mary Mcdonald,
Jeanette Starton, Marion Stewart,
Ida P. Teatter and Helen Hood.