Evening star., 1943-07-04
lust Between
Yourselves 80.
BY PHILIP H. LOVE-
Editor. The Junior Star.

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ner, the 15-year-old Alice Deal
Junior High School student pictured
at the left. His collection Of news
in the form Of clippings from The
Star and other papers-is SO large
that 13 good-sized scrapbooks are
required to hold it. And he is still
adding to it.
The collection begins with the
sinking of the United States sub
marine Squalus. But most of it
records the vast amount Of death
and destruction spread by Hitler
and his henchmen, so Arthur has
entitled it "The War Up to Date. u
II have the detailed story, with
pictures, of all the German in
vasions," he writes. ANY one read
ing through my scrapbooks can see
how one nation after another fell
under the Nazi yoke.
This is all interesting" he con-
tinues, but things really get under
way with the Japanese punch at
Pearl Harbor have all this COM
plete; also Rommel's drive into
Egypt and the victorious Rght of the
British 9th Army. then the Ameri-
can invasion of North Africa.
Screaming headlines and inter-
esting pictures mark these 13 his
tory books Now am waiting for
the second front in Europe"
Arthur lives at 4707 Connecticut
avenue. His only brother is in the
Army.
Every year at this time boys and
girls old enough to work are tempted
to get jobs and keep them. This
year the temptation probably is
greater than ever before, because of
the war and the resulting demand
for even inexperienced help. If you
happen to be wrestling with this
temptation perhaps you will find
the strength to overcome it in this
letter from 15-year-old Powell
Junior High School boy who failed
to graduate with his classmates:
Il fell down on the job for two
reasons. One was sickness. That
I'm not going to mention again
because it was one of those un-
avoidable things. However, the sec
ond reason was that held an after
school job. I let measly So job
hold me back in my school work.
Though I needed the money, I
did not realize that to go to school
would. in the long run. mean a good
deal more money later. I was
throwing my life away for SO a week
I'm sure my life is worth more than
that.
Some fellows quit school to work.
Others, like myself, fail. They, too.
usually quit school eventually. I'm
not going to quit school. I'll make
up the work; III go to summer
school; I'll take the grade over.
But I won't quit.
III need that education the Dis
trict is providing for the postwar
world. That's not far off. I'll have
to take my place in the future
America. 1t is. the patriotic duty
of every American boy and girl to
take advantage Of every educational
facility available to them.
Liberty is holding her torch. She
gets tired, like every one else. She
needs our support. We. the future
America, must give it to her and
we'll need good knowledge to keep
that flame burning brightly. We've
got our schools. Let's take advan-
tage of them!"
Laurel Jean Brown. author of
today's prize winning poem, "A Sum-
mer Evening" writes:
Il think my hobby of poetry is
one of the most interesting that
any one can have. 1t doesn't take
a glass case. or a lot of boxes to
keep it in, nor does it take much
time.
Il have always enjoyed reading
poetry to myself and aloud, but it
was my fifth-grade teacher, Miss
Rose, who really showed me the
fun of writing it. Sometimes, at
our dinner table, we make up
rhymes about the children in our
neighborhood, like this one:
shy little Girl is our Jean.
Seldom heard, but often seen.
II enjoyed writing the words for
a school song. but I like best to
write poems about the outdoors"
The last day of school brought g
surprise" to pupils of Silver Spring
CMdD Elementary School, says
Ernestelle Loffler, 13. The jeeE
we had bought for the Army was
outside. waiting to be christened,
she explains. Frances Bowie
christened it The Fuehrers Night
mare with a large bottle of ginger
ale. We hope it will cause the