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Evening star., 1944-06-11
Guide to New Books
For Young Readers
FICTION.

Logging Chance, by M. H. Lasher
(Winston) Adventure in a logging
camp in the Northwest, with mys-
terry and action combined to make
a gripping tale. Illustrated by
Hamilton Greene.
Storm Canvas, by Armstrong
Sperry (Winston - Story of ad-
venture aboard an American frigate
during the War of 1912. Exciting
Illustrated by the author.
What's Coming? by Marion "
Ridgway, with pictures by Roberta
Paf1in (Howell, Soskin) "A novelty
book for younger readers, combining
brief text with colored illustrations
in semipuzzle treatment.
Happy Days in the Garden, by
Ella H. Hay, with pictures by L.
Raymond Jones (Beckley- -Cardy)-
Information for young Victory gar
deners presented in the form of an
interesting story.
NON-FICTION.
Log Of a Sea Captains Daughter
by Alice Rowe Snow (Meador) A
four-year voyage on sailing vessel
in the 1880s, with a visit to Robin
son Crusoes island. illustrated
with photographs and drawings.
Now We Fly, by Frank E. Soren-
son and George E. Rotter (Winston)
Story of aviation, illustrated with
photographs. Should appeal to every
boy and girl interested in flying.
Evening star., 1944-06-11
Uncle Raw Corner .

Knights seemed never to grow
tired of fighting. If no war was
going on they spent much of their
time fitting" or "jousting"
With their lances leveled, two
knights would ride toward each other
Each would try to knock the other
from his saddle by the force of the
lance blow.
Often, the lance of one or the
other was broken. Now and then
both men were knocked from Their
steeds. If they felt heated up,
they might 60 on with the fight
on the ground, striking with swords
or even with daggers.
The tits, however, were friendly
affairs in most cases. The object
was simply to learn which knight
could strike stronger blows and there
was little or no i'll feeling afterward
The more serious fighting between
knights brought alarm to priests oi
the Christian church. Rules were
made that a knight must never
strike woman, a farmer, a trades
man or a priest. If he did so he
was to be expelled from the church
Another church rule was thai
there must be no fighting on Sun
days or on certain holy days. The
knights did not always keep peace
on the days mentioned, but the
priests were able to limit the fight.
ing to some extent.
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Prizes for Best
Contributions

The Junior Star awards as many
as five prizes OF 81 each for the best
contribution published each week.
Boys and girls of high school age
and under are invited to compete.
Here are the rules:
All contributions must be orig
inal. Write on one side of paper
and give your name, age, address,
phone number and school. Type
written contributions must be double
spaced. The editors choice of win
ners is final and he reserves the
right to use any contributions in
whatever form he deems advisable
regardless Of whether it is awarded
prize. Checks are mailed to the
winners the week following pubIi-
cation of their work. Reporters
cards will be issued to writer's who,
in the opinion of the editor deserve
them. No contributions will be re-
turned.
Address The Junior Star, 727 Star
Building, Washington, D. C.
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Public Library
Book Pointers
By Helen Haperfy,
Circulation Department, Public Library.
The Outdoor Living Room.

The Outdoor Living Room.
Fright in Your Back Yard" by
Harold w. Steck, will make one
want to stay just there. 1t gives
succinct and carefully chosen ma
terial on the use of the yard for
recreation and relaxation There
are down to earth suggestions
about garden lamps and lighting
outdoor kitchens, the use of salvage
materials on the lawns, the wheel
barrow hostess and the children's
yard.
1t Is well to keep an outdoor liv-
ing room simple. Given a good
sized tree, you can soon add few
rustic chairs, tables, or even bright
'ly painted kegs.
Many magazines and books at the
Public Library contain useful sug-
gestions for both making and en-
joying an outdoor living room. An
indispensable help is Leonidas W.
Ramsey's "The Outdoor Living
Room" which tells how to make
use of carpet of sod, a leafy roof
and walls of green. Another sim
liar little book is Ellen D. Wang
ners "The American Home Book of
Outdoors" Both have many pho
tographs and sketches which sup
plement the simple material in
them. A more elaborate and de-
tailed help is Margaret O. Gold
smiths beautifully Illustrated de-
sign for Outdoor Living" which in
cludes everything from rustic pic
mic tables in the woods to formal
patios with wrought iron furniture.
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To a Rosebud
PRIZE CONTRIBUTION
By Betty Nesbiff, II,

George washinRton High School.
Oh little rosebud, soft and red,
Loveliest blossom in the flower bed
Your gracious petals soon unfold
In beauty-thus your tale is told
A rosebud is the sweetest thing,
The greatest miracle God can bring
The queen of all the garden flowers,
Nourished by sun and summer show
ers.
When a smiling sun sinks in the
West,
AS each weary creature stops to rest,
The golden glow on your wine-red
petals
Will give us glimpse of heavens
portals.
So, little rosebud, keep on smiling
Never fear for a petals fading,
Dear little rosebud, soft and red,
Loveliest blossom in the flower bed
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Montgomery Blair High School,
The Santini sisters, Dorothy. l6,
and Elsie, IA, are pursuing mu-
sical hobby together. They have
taken piano lessons for 10 years
and played in many entertainments.
Dot and Elsie made quite a hit
in Montgomery Blair High Schools
annual variety show They played
a piano duet. For years they have
also played-solos as well as duets
in recitals given by their music
teacher In st. Marks Parish Hall,
Fairland, Md.
Blond. blue-eyed Dot plays the
organ in church occasionally and
likes it very much. She plans to
study the organ in college. Brunei,
brown-eyed Elsie, on the other hand,
is not sure she wants to follow
music as a career, as she has be-
come intensely interested in dress
designing.
The Santinis both belong to Blair S
Glee Club. Dot was a soloist in
the 1912 variety show and her ia
vorite composers are Chopin and
Schubert. Elsie prefers Tschaikow-
sky. The girls play both popular
and classical music, the former
by ear.
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team, which rates first place, and OF
the basket ball team. However. his
favorite sport is baseball, and he
makes 1t point to see all the pro-
fessional teams. In fact, this spe-
cial interest has led him to become
manager of the scoreboard at Grif-
fifth Stadium. He is convinced that
Washington will win the pennant
this year.
In the rest of his spare time, Kent
collects stamps and is dance fan.
His favorite orchestra leader Is
Harry James.
Kent will enter the Navy July !,
under the via program. He has a
brother in the Army. a lieutenant
in the Air Forces. After the war,
he plans to go to George Washing
ton University.
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Ctanps
Ry Janes Waldo Fawceff.

Dt JOWeS " "'""
Postal service between the United
States and the beachheads OF the
American Expeditionary Force IN
France were established on D-day
June g.: but no announcement as
vet has been made concerning the
markings applied to letters mailed
or received by members OF the
liberation forces.
A series of nine stamps for use
in the Netherlands when freed will
be released in England on Thurs
day. The designer is Prof. j. B.
Romein. Denominations are: IA,
21a, 3, 5, III. 10, 1914, 20 and 80
cents. Collectors interested may
communicate with the Netherlands
Ministry Of Home Affairs, Arlington
House, London.
One of the beautiful new COM
memoratives OF the United States
is being mutilated by a corporation
which vainly attempts to protect
its stocks of stamps against petty
thievery by the use of a machine
which punches initials through the
adhesives.
Walter A. Weber, artist in the
National Museum, Smithsonian In
stitution, is the designer of the
81 duck hunters license stamp OF
1914. His subject is three white
fronted geese, part OF a flock
coming in"
First-day sales for the Scent
railroad stamp, May 10, have been
reported as follows: Omaha, 483 800
stamps, $14,499, 171,000 cancella-
tions; Ogden, 308, 200 stamps, $9,246,
ISL 400 cancellations; San Fran
cisco, 100000 stamps, $4,000, 1885,
900 cancellations; total, 2,191, 500
stamps, $65,745, 447,490 cancella-
tions.
The Associated Press Feature
Service says: More than q year
ago, Cuba announced plans for a
set of postage and airmail stamps
to mark the 450th anniversary OF
the discovery of America in 1892.
Late last month, the stamps finally
were issued almost two years after
the event they commemorate.
Each inscribed with the dates
1892 and '1942,' the stamps portray
events coincident to the discovery
Of America and honor Christopher
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The Neuv Books
The Rest of Your Lite
By Leo Cherne. Doubleday,

By Leo Cherne. Doubleday,
Doran.)
Like about so per cent of the
books now being written, this one is
about the postwar world. Despite
the figure, however. there is some
thing refreshing about the volume
1t deals with postwar conditions in
terms of such facts as are available,
instead OF In terms of somebody s
lush political dreams.
1t is not CHEEKY picture which
1T offers. 1t is distinctly grim one.
But people who like their forecasts
done In nonfiction will find 1t brac-
ing, even so. Better the unpleasant
probabilities than out-and-out i'm
possibilities. no matter how super
colossal-radiant.
Leo Cherne, who Is executive sec
retary of the Research Institute Of
America. in showing us his con-
servative view Of paradise just
around-the-corner. come peace, does
not dwell particularly on the fact
that when that great goal is
reached, some millions of American
boys may be dead. He takes it for
granted that the American people
by now take that for granted. What
he does point out Is that, at the end
of this second war to save the world.
America will have from IL to IT
million unemployed, If figures
worked out by dependable agencies
are to be believed. That will be
about twice as many as we had in
1882, when we had suffered no cas-
ualties. No satisfactory plan has
been evolved to care for these peo-
pie, he observes, and the tax burden
is already approaching the limit, If
we think we can fall back on old
fashioned relief. So, in his view,
that is what we shall have as a
starter for our world of high
standard of plenty for everybody
He next points out that after the
war big business will be bigger than
Evening star., 1944-06-11
Safety Chalk Talks
By Dick Mansfield |

Inspector Dick Mansfield, director
of The Stars school safety program
and former chief of detectives, is
giving a series of chalk talks on
safety to pupils of elementary and
junior senior high schools. The talks
are presented under sponsorship of
The Junior Star in cooperation
with school authorities Of the Dis
trict and nearby Maryland and Vir-
ginia. This weeks schedule:
Monday, 2 pm, Fillmore; Tues
day, 2 pm, Corcoran; Wednesday
noon, Abbot Vocational; Thursday
noon, Chamberlin Vocational: Fri
day. II am, Wormley.
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Martin Dies
By William Gellermann.
/nns,

This book, by its authors state
ment, is an expose Of the intoler-
ance, bigotry, personal bias and
general bad ethics Of Representa-
tive Martin Dies In his conduct OF
the House Committee on Un-Amer-
ican Activities. On its own show
ing, however, 1t is rather a state
ment of William Gellermann's an
tagonism to the Congressman. The
work runs to nearly 300 pages and
contains brief biography Of Mr..
Dies and a.report on the committee
work. Editorially it is unf1aggingly
sage. Yet the facts presented do
not always seem to bear the bitter
charges out. Mr.. Dies has his own
idea OF what is "un-Americanp and
Mr.. Gellermann has his. The ideas
are in obvious disagreement. But
Mr.. Gellermann's claim that Mr..
Dies would destroy constitutions
liberty and attack the base of the
traditional American way of lifs
does not appear to be upborne in
his testimony, even when he has
been able to show that the Con-
gresham was high handed or fool
ish in handling the investigation.
What does appear Is the disagree
ment aforementioned. The review
er's word would be that those who
hold with Mr.. g. will like his book
very much and those who hold with
Mr.. D. will laugh it to scorn ane
that the American way Of life will
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she was asked to play for the Home
and School Association meeting.
She also has performed at numer-
Gus programs and teas, and has
been asked to play at Walter Reed
and at one of the USO centers.
She has studied violin for seven
years and now is working for a
scholarship. Her ambition is to be-
come a concert violinist.
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Columbus. The five postage values
and their designs are: 1c, green
portrait of Columbus; SC, brown
Father Bartolome de las Casas de-
Tending the Indians; &c, blue, statue
of Columbus; 10c, purple, xeres and
Torres discovering tobacco, and 13c
red, Columbus in Cortes Inlet.
"The airmail values are Sc, olive
Silla de Gibara, first Cuban land
seen by Columbus, and 10c, gray
proposed Columbus lighthouse.
Garnett w. Mcgee, letter engraver
in the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing, and his wife, are assured
of the sympathy of the stamp col
lecting public in the death of their
little daughter Donna, aged 5, q VIC
tim Of spotted fever.
A commemorative in homage to
John Chapman, better known as
Johnny Appleseed, has been re-
quested. and collectors ought to ap-
plaud the idea. The story Of the
wandering apostle Of better orchards
is q true American folk classic
which would be more widely ap-
preciated as the result OF stamp
calculated to publicize it attrac-
lively.
Johnny is supposed to have been
born at Leominster, Mass, Septem-
ber 26. 1774, and died at Fort Wayne,
Ind, allegedly on March II, 1847. He
visited many different parts of the
Middle West between 1900 and 1910,
planting apple trees wherever he
went. The Indians regarded him as
a great medicine man, the white set
tiers considered him crazy. He
probably was both. What matters
Is that America is indebted to him.
Harley G. Moorhead, postmaster
at Omaha, Nebr., and q good friend
OF stamp collectors, died on May
81 as the result of injuries sus-
tanned in q traffic accident.
Col. and Mrs. A. G. Townsend
lost their household goods, fur
nishings, family pictures and a
valuable stamp collection in q fire
which destroyed a storage ware
house at Oklahoma City on April
10.
David H. Davenport Of The Star
business Office put through 300 In
vasion Day covers showing the flags
of the United States and France
flanking rising sun above the
Arc de Triomphe in Paris. He also
used the scent flag of France stamp
on the envelopes. all conceled at
Washington, June 6, 1914, $50 pm.
George w. Weimar of Westfield
N. j., associated with the stamp
business of the late Eugene Klein in
Philadelphia, died last Sunday, aged
A.
Cover collectors who were thought
full enough to arrange for markings
from Rome, N. Y; Rome, Ca, or
Rome, Ohio, on the day when Rome
Italy, fell to the Allies-June s.
having interesting souvenirs of one
of the most important events of
modern times.
---
The Collectors Club will meet at
the Thomson School Tuesday eve
ming and the Washington Philatelic
Society at the Lee Sheraton Hotel
Wednesday evening. Both will have
exhibitions, auctions and bourse.
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lust Between
Yourselves =.
By PHILIP II. Love

Badminton is the favorite game
of people who are too lazy to play
tennis.
It isn't easy to play tennis in
washington. The nearest court Is
likely to be miles from your home,
and getting to it is something of a
problem. Walking is rather a
bother, If you're lazy, and riding the
bus or streetcar is little better, as
you'll probably have to stand most
of the way, which is the equivalent
of walking without benefiting from
the exercise.
It's trouble, too, to obtain permit
for the use of the court, and with
out it you may find that you've
travelled the distance for nothing.
But even if you have permit the
people using the court may not want
to quit, and you may have to choose
between fighting them or playing
doubles, when you'd much rather
play singles.
All this adds up to lot of trouble,
and it's no wonder that lazy people
shy away from it.
Well, that's where badminton
comes in. You can play almost any
where. You don't have to travel
halfway across town; you can set
up net in your own back yard, OF
on the vacant lot down the street.
and you don't need a permit. And
quarrelsome strangers can't bother
you. either.
The game itself requires far less
energy than tennis. The court is
smaller, so you don't have to cover
as much ground. The rackets are
lighter than the ones used in tennis
and the shuttlecocks, or birds"
stay where they land-which means
that you don't need a streetcar pass
to retrieve them when they 60 out
of bounds.
Badminton is made to order for
people who are too lazy to play
tennis. It's my favorite game.
X "
Donald Walton of Anacostia
High School came back from a
visit to Wildwood, N. j., with a
stuffed shark-almost.
Don and some friends decided it
would be fun to get up early and
search the beach for shells, he told
Ludean Earnest, a schoolmate. I'VE
were on the beach at $780," he said.
while walking up to Anglesea, a
little bay about miles UP the
beach, we saw a man surf fishing.
He was pulling in a shark.
After being dragged on the sand"
Don continued, "the fish Topped
from one side to the other until it
died. The man gave us the shark
on our promise that we would not
let 1t go, After tying it In our
towels. we went to Anglesea, drag
gins our prize through the water.
On reaching the bay we threw the
fish into sunken rowboat."
Don intended to bring the shark
home. stuffed as a trophy of the
trip. But when he went to get it.
he changed his mind. He and his
friends buried the fish, instead.
X
Junior jottings: The Mckinley
High School G. o. has organized a
flower house." with Pasquale Pull
verenti as president; Henry Ward,
vice president, and Doris King. sec
setary. The L. H. can advise the
executive committee, but cannot
vote. Members of the COM
bined Glee Clubs of Holy Cross
Academy and Dunbarton College
were heard from coast to coast re-
Gently In a Church of the Air" pro-
gram sponsored by the National
Catholic Welfare Council. !.
Twelve paintings by Ruth Greene,
staff artist of the Dunbar High
School News Reel, were exhibited
recently in the Whestley YWCA.
Pastel portraits Of two Dunbar stu
dents were included.
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oPoAAAoAi ~ 4 u ~,
the Saber Club,
the Nat / on al
Honor Society,
and the school
bank, he is cap
tain OF Company
E OF the Cadet
Corps. And he
has won the Civ
itan Award as
an outstanding
senior. !.
Kent also Is
an athlete and
sports fan. He
Is q member OF
pnoraxyo1f,c 0n1f
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Best Sellers
FICTION.

Strange Fruit, by Lillian
Smith.
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, by
Betty Smith.
A Bell for Adano, by John
Hersey.
The Razor's Edge, by w.
Somerset Vaughan.
Canal Town, by Samuel Hop
kins Adams.
NONFICTIoN.
Ten Years in Japan, by Joseph
G. Grew.
Good Night, Sweet Prince, by
Gene Fowler.
Yankee From Olympus, by
Catherine Drinker Bowen.
Here Is Your War, by Ernie
Pyle.
The Ghost Talks, by Charles
Nicholson.
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announcement
I'm tired of going to school, Pop"
said the son.
"Why?" asked his father. What
is your objection to going to school?"
oh. answered the boy. ut breaks
up the day So"
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been a promi-
nent member of
the school or
chestra, but not
TIL recently
has she per-
formed as a vio-
lin soloist. With
vladimir Vasa,
conductor Of the
orchestra, as ac-
conlpanist, s h e
played with ease
the dffic C u | t
"Cz ar dis" by
Monti, at a stu
dent assembly.
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Multiplication

w NIfTpTILNTTUW
Boy-I want paper dollar In
change.
Bank clerk-Here's q silver one;
that's just as good.
Boy-Oh, no, it isn't. I want a
paper dollar.
Bank clerk-Why? What's the
difference?
Boy-Well, when I pull a silver
dollar out of my pocket, it's Just a
silver dollar, but when l pull paper
dollar out, I find it in creases.
News ReeI
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Orchestra Member
Becomes Soloist
FHIZE CONTHIbUTIUN
BY Lois B. Mar. IS.

Calvin Coolidge High School
One of the outstanding pupils at
Calvin Coolidge High School is
Emmel Billings. II, 1870 Philadelphia
avenue, Takoma Park, Md. Since
her arrival at Coolidge she has
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Dafynifions
Girls pocketbook-Six-room house
with kitchen.
Ice cream-Milk scared stiff.
Dunbar News Reel.
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ever, since only big business has
profited lastingly by war conditions,
and small business will find ever
increasing obstacles in postwar days.
Government regulation. though
aimed at the big man, has hurt only
the little ones, he says, adducing
figures accordingly. The property
owning middle class will be the
great sufferer OF the war. in his
view, and may even be the chief
casualty.
Organized labor, he believes, hav-
ing earned the hostility of most Of
the rest Of society, will be in for q
retreat. 1t will survive, he thinks,
but it will have to pipe a much less
imperious tune. AS for the Govern
ment, which has played so huge a
part in war economy, 1t, too. will re-
treat. 1t will abandon much of its
control Immediately after peace, If
only because it will not know what
to do and, for the moment, letting
go will give 1t popularity, for it will
seem to mean restoring free enter
prise. Then, when business finds
itself unable to cope promptly with
the resulting chaos, Government will
come back. In other words, Mr..
Cherne seems to see the politicians
getting out from under until the
emergency structure which they
have built falls. then coming back
for whatever can be found in the
ruins.
That, in the main, is the outlook.
as he finds 1t hanging in the sta
tistics. As for John Public, he prob
ably will 60 crazy. Psychiatry has
been making great advances, OBJ
serves Mr.. Cherne. He seems to
think that lot of us will need their
benefit.
Peter Domonig
By Victor White. (Bobbs-Mer-
riH.)
This long and deeply serious
novel is devoted to a purpose rather
rare in novels of the long an6
deeply serious kind-the struggle oi
an adolescent to find himself. Fol
while novels of adolescence are q
common publishers item the stock
work tends to be short and tender
and somewhat poetic in mood
Moreover the stock work deals
usually with late adolescence, with
the passing Of the period into. early
maturity. None of these conditions
are to be found in Peter Do
manig," nor are the problems which
It's hero meets merely the typical
ones of the growing boy. Peter is
13 when the story opens and II
when it ends, and in the TOO pages
devoted to his youthful history, he
has lived with the grim seriousness
OF a man and been treated by his
author with the same full drawing
and coloring. The novel, indeed,
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Boy Attains Success
In Varied Activities
At Roosevelt High
PRIZE CONTRIBUTION
By Evelyn Lekrman, Is,
Roosevelt High School.

fVoUSestII dlKH SCHOOL.
When Kent Kuhn graduates from
Roosevelt High School this month,
he will have an enviable record.
Besides being president of the
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To Whom 1t Moy Concern
By James r. Farrell. VAN

The 13 stories of this volume con-
tain nothing new to the reader
familiar with James Farrell, nor
can it be said that they add any
thing to the abundant laurels which
belong on Mr.. Farrell's brow. They
are run-of- -the-mill stuff, it being
remembered always that the mill Is
the mill of a genius. Mr.. Farrell is,
after all, the man who wrote Studs
Lonigan," book which belongs
among the half dozen great novels
of the century. He has been repeat
ing himself since then, and these
stories seem to be fragments OF
that repetition. The difference be-
tween 1t and what went before is
that 1t has the substance without
the passion.
In this volume. most of the selec-
tions deal with the lifeNof American
middle or working class Irish and
show the familiar absence of en-
| |lightenment which 1t has been Mr..
Farrell's unfiagging determination
to demonstrate There are also q
couple of tales devoted to laying
bare the lamentable effects of Hol-
lywood success upon virtue, and q
skit, called Clifford and William
which satirizes the conspicuous
|mannerisms of two contemporary
|playwrights.