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Evening star., 1946-01-13
Public Library
ARCTIC COUNTRY,
By Ruth Mccoy

Readers Adviser in Travel Washington
Public Library.
An interesting map of the natural
vegetation of Asia is found in
Cresseys "Asias Lands and Peo-
pies" Along the entire Arctic
coastal plain is a belt of tundra
or stretches of treeless, marshy
plain. This area has assumed a
new Importance since the opening
of a northeast passage through the
Arctic Ocean. Ruth Gruber's II
Went to the Soviet Arctic" gives a
good idea of recent developments
there.
The tundra country of our hemi-
sphere is described in Regional
Geography of Anglo America, by
c. Langdon White and Edwin j.
Foscue. Since the war many have
thought of Alaska as possible home
and for those people Opportunity
In Alaska" by George Sundborg, and
"A Guide to Alaska" by the Federal
Writers Project, should be of in
terest.
Vilhjalmur Stefansson has done
much to correct popular miscon-
ceptions Of the polar region in "The
Friendly Arctic" and "The Arctic in
Fact and Fable" Evelyn Stefans-
sons Within the Circle" gives an
excellent idea of life in the tundra
Evening star., 1946-01-13
Vim a Cash Prize
Writing, Drawing
For Junior Star

Ii you are not more than 10, or
have not yet finished high school,
you are eligible to write or draw for
The Junior Star. AS many as five
cash prizes of 81 are awarded for
the best contributions published
each week, and writers of stories
which, in the opinion of the editor,
are Of sufficient merit are issued
cards identifying them as Junior
Star reporters. Here are the rules:
!. All contributions must be original.
,. Stories, articles. poems. etc, must be
written on one side of paper; If type
written they must be double spaced. Draw
ines must be in black ink or erayon on
white paper. and must be mailed fat, not
rolled or folded
3. Name; age: address, teIephon. mum.
in the upper lefthsnd corner OF written
contributions and on the back of drawings
4. The editors choice OF winners is
flnal and he reserves the right to publish
any contribution in whatever form he
thinks best, refardless of whether II Is
awarded c prize. He may also withheld
TO be original
5 No contributions will be returned.
Checks for contributions awarded
prizes today will be mailed this
week. Address your contributions to;
Junior Star Editor. 727 Star Build
ing, ll01 Pennsylvania avenue NV.
Washington f. D. c.
Evening star., 1946-01-13
II Meetings Slated for Week

The Federation of Citizens Asso-
Citations and Is of its member bodies
will hold monthly meetings this
week. Three groups have postponed
their meetings until next week.
Hillcrest and Lincoln Park asso-
Citations will meet January 81, while
Chevy Chase citizens will meet
January %.
Schedule for the week follows:
Monday.
American University Park-Hurst
Hall, American University, Massa-
chusetts and Nebraska avenues NV
Brentwood Terrace-Oyster Social
Club, 1851 Saratoga avenue NE,
$50 pm.
Burleith - Gordon Junior High
School. Thirty-fifth and T streets
NV. 8 pm.
Fort Davis - Ryland Methodist
Church, Branch avenue and
streets Sc, 8 pm.
Kalorama-Adams School, Nine
teenth and California streets NV.
pm.
Mount Pleasant-Mount Pleasant
Public Library, Sixteenth and La
mont streets NV, s pm; Canadian
films.
National Gateway Church of
Christ, Twenty-eighth and Douglas
streets NE, 8 pm.
Northeast-Ludlow School, Sixth
and G streets NE, SPIN.
West End-No. 3, police precinct
2017 K street NV, 8 pm.
Tuesday.
Cathedral Heights Cleveland
Park-3420 Thirty-sixth street NV
8 pm.
Petworth-Petworth Public Ii
brary, Upshur street and Georgia
avenue NV, pm.
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Paul Robeson's Ballad
Arouses Patriotism
PRIZE CONTRIBUTION
By Mary Pat Nicely, Is,

AnacoStia high ocnooi
One of the most stirring things
that I have ever heard is the Bal
lad for Americans" sung and mar
rated by Paul Robson. 1t seems to
me that this composition is just an
unrolling of the great American
epic.
1t begins by telling of the colonies
revolt and fight for liberty. and Of
bad King Georges" uneasiness at
their many protests. Then it tells
of the dozens of nationalities and
innumerable religions represented
in this melting pot of the world.
The music explains the many ca
reers and fields of work that the
United States has to offer her citi-
Zens.
Throughout the ballad Mr., Robe
son acts as an anonymous per-
SON" That is to say, when he is
asked what he is he says he is Eng
lish, Dutch. Swedish, German,
Scotch. Irish and many others.
When questioned as to the nature
of his business, he is a lawyer,
preacher, clerk, housewife, banker
merchant, rich man and poor man.
His religion is Baptist, Methodist,
Roman Catholic. Jewish, Seventh
Day Adventist and many others
At the end he finally says who he
is-"an American"
It is very interesting and prob
ably one OF the most historical
themes ever used In a musical ar
rangement.
This ballad really could not be ap-
preciated until heard. and then dc
not see how 1t could possibly keep
every loyal Americans blood from
tingling with that indescribable
feeling called patriotism
Evening star., 1946-01-13

In the British Museum, London
there is a section of the trunk of q
giant tree. 1t is 16 feet from side
to side, and weighs about 9 tons.
There is an interesting story in
that tree. 1t grew in California. and
this part of the trunk was shipped
to England after the tree was cut.
AS you study the tree section in
the museum, you find that it has
hundreds Of rings. Each ring is
sign of a new year of growth. There
are 1,34l rings. Tracing the rings
back from the time the tree was
cut, it was found that growth must
have started about the year $50.
Think Of thatl The three started
to grow soon after the Roman En-
pire was overrun by German tribes
Starting ss q mere sapling, 1t rose
to a height of more than 100 feet
in the course of a few centuries.
This huge tree was very old when
it was cut down, but California has
others of the same kind which are
much older. Some of them are be-
lieved to be more than 1000 years
old! They are known as big trees,
or esequoias."
In the Kings River Grove there
is a tree about $50 feet high which
has a trunk "a feet thick. In the
Caleveras Grove another tree rises
326 feet.
Evening star., 1946-01-13
Daughters of America
Install Officers

Barbara Fritchie Council in.
stalled Mrs. Margaret Horstman
councillor; Mrs. Irene Callow, asso-
ciate councillor; Mrs. Nettie Beck
vice councillor; Mrs. Nena Mayhem
conductor; Mrs Nettie Barnett, war.
den; Miss Emiline Soper, inside sen.
tinel; Miss Betty Franciscus, outside
sentinel; Miss Emiline Soper, l8-
month trustee, and Mrs. Gertrude
McCracken, vice councillor.
Mrs. Eunice Gettings, State coun-
cilor, will appoint member from
each council as chairman of the
Keep the Cookie Jar Filled" Com.
mittee for cookies for the soldiers
at St. Elizabeth's Hospital
Mrs. Margaret Taylor will. hold q
good order meeting Tuesday al
Northeast Masonic Temple.
Visitation to Goodwill Council to-
morrow.
Evening star., 1946-01-13

of the artists English born wife,
who was present with him at the
opening.
An outstanding work on view is a
large double portrait Of two elderly
French women whom the artist saw
entering a Paris church, and was
struck by their appearance After
meeting arranged by the woman
in charge of the candles. he induced
them to pose for him. 1t is a paint
ing admirably arranged, full OF
character. The frail but indomit-
able London charwoman, pathetic
old Tom of Whitechapel" and a
heavily bearded modern Francois
Villon all bear witness to Mr. JON
niaux's ability to transcribe appear
ance and personality in an agree
able and convincing manner.
He has been using the guest
studio at the Corcoran Gallery OF
Art but hopes to establish his owr
studio here at the earliest oppor-
| tunity.
Evening star., 1946-01-13
Water Color Club
Golden Anniversary

The golden anniversary exhibition
of the Washington Water Color Club
will open at the Corcoran Gallery of
Art on February 10. Circulars have
recently been sent out, giving in
formation about this annual. which
is open to club members, also to nom
members who reside within the
Washington area, and to any one
who can have entries delivered to
the gallery unpacked and ready to
be hung on Friday, February /.
Artists in this area who have not
received the notice and entry cards
can obtain them from the secretary,
Iona M. Keplinger, 1905 Battery
lane, Bethesda, Md, by sending an
application with inclosed stamp.
The exhibition will comprise orig
inal works not previously shown in
public, in the City Of Washington, in
water color, pastel, drawing, lithog-
raphy and etching. Each exhibitor
is limited to three entries in each
medium, which certainly seems to
be a generous allowance. Water
colors and pastels must be simply
framed, graphic arts entries must be
unframed. AL works must be de-
livered at the gallery unpacked
Other details will be found In the
circular.
Evening star., 1946-01-13
Sculpture by Ann Wolfe
At the Whyte Gallery

Modern idiom and traditional
character are seen side by side in
the exhibition of sculpture by Ann
Wolfe at the Whyte Gallery
through January 81. Nine of the Is
works on view are portrait busts
simplified but nevertheless conserv-
ative, conveying an impression Of
good likeness to each subject. The
others are heads and figures
strongly simplified and stylized, re-
-vealing to the layman no relation
ship whatever to her portrait sculp-
ture.
This exhibitions dual nature af-
fords a good refutation of remarks
often heard from the public, that
modernists paint. draw or carve
"the way they do because they can't
do good work" Regular gallery
goerS, of course, can recall innu-
merable instances of esthetic radi-
calls, from Picasso down Cor up)
who have created works quite
capable of winning popular prizes.
But Miss Wolfe's exhibition
strengthens ones conviction that it
would be a constructive gesture If
every artist who has a one-man
show would include in it works
illustrative of his or her entire
range.
In reply to this reviewers request
for a statement about her imagina-
tive works, Miss Wolfe said, ITO me
the simplicity of form in early
sculpture, like the Egyptian, Orien-
tai, Mexican, ETC., emphasizes the
emotional quality and essence OF
the concept involved"
Certainly she has captured sue
cessfully and in its essence single
emotion in some of her figures,
notably the embracing couple in
cement entitled Saturday Night
and the Tennessee marble Mother
and Child" But the reviewer failed
to get any responses from Adam
and Eve" or THE Prophet" or the
little figure embodying the quota
ton from Lamentations" my chill
dren are desolate because the en-
emy prevailed. The last mentioned,
in black Belgian marble, has such a
beautiful, touch-tempting polished
surface that it seems to overshadow
the conception.
individuality as well as racial
characteristics are well conveyed in
Miss Wolfe's busts of DR.. Syngman
Rhee (former President of the pro-
visional government Of Korea, DR.
Margaret Mead, eminent anthropol-
ogist (illustrated. Prof. Morris r.
Cohen and Lancelot Hogben, au-
thor. Also on view are the cement
head "Kimi" and the cast stone
Woman" which won the Society OF
Washington Artists sculpture prizes
in 1914 and As, respectively.
Miss Wolfe, born in Poland, was
brought to the United States at the
age of S. From 1881 to 1888 she
studied sculpture in Paris with
Despiau and also in Manchester
England and had another trir
Evening star., 1946-01-13
Safety Circus Talks
BY Dick Mansfield

Inspector Dick Mansfield, direc-
tor of The Stars school safety pro-
gram and former chief of detectives,
is giving Safety Circus" series OF
chalk talks to pupils of elementary
and junior and senior high schools
The program is sponsored by The
Junior Star in cooperation with
school authorities of the District
and nearby Maryland and Virginia
This weeks schedule: Monday, II
m. Peabody; Tuesday, ais pm,
Taylor; Wednesday, 2:l5 pm. Ed
monds; Thursday, AIS pm; Hilton;
Friday, 2:15 pm, Madison.
Evening star., 1946-01-13

Takoma D. C.-Md.-Takoma Pub.
lie Library, Fifth and Cedar streets
NV, 8 pm.
Wednesday.
Citizens Forum of Columbis
Heights-Powell Junior High School
Hiatt place and Lamont street NV.
pm.
Dahlgren Terrace-Crosby Noyes
School, Tenth and Franklin streets
NE, 8 pm.
Sixteenth Street Highlands -
Brightwood School, Thirteenth anc
Nicholson streets NV, 8 pm.
Friday.
Glover Park - Stoddert School
Fortieth and Calvert streets NV.
8:15 pm; election of officers.
Saturday.
Federation District Building
Thirteenth Place and D streets NV.
8 pm.
Evening star., 1946-01-13

were taken to Italy by their mother
to visit their grandparents. The war
kept them there.
I'VE just escaped from many years
Of terror" Joe wrote, "and we are
now here in Washington, where
everything is so wonderful"
One of the most wonderful things
of all, Joe indicated, is that Ameri-
cans don't have to be afraid"
The Marino boys are puzzled,
however. by the attitude Of some
other Americans. Joe put 1t this
way:
1--WE have so much, so many nice
things to eat, and We don't freeze,
and We hear 50 many people COM
planning, so will you please let us
tell the people how lucky they are
here in America?
They should have been with us in
Italy when the Germans came in
and took everything away and killed
the people, and some people they
took away and nobody knows where
they are.
"We are so afraid now that God
will get mad with the American
people because He is so good to
them, gives them so much to eat
and good Government which don't
frighten them, torture and kill
them, and still they complain. He
might really get mad and punish us
like He did the Italian people.
We have to thank the State
Department that we haven't been
killed like other people in Italy and
that we are brought home safe al
ready. Please tell everybody to pray
with us that God will keep on low
ing us and that our State Depart
ment and Senator Mead and our
soldiers and sailors will be strong
and not let the Germans fool them"
Junior jottings: Jane Winnings,
former Junior Star correspondent
at Bethesda Chevy Chase High
School, is now assistant advertising
production manager for a large
Philadelphia department store. e.
Mary Zola, club director of the
Jewish Community Center, invites
boys and girls to participate in the
following activities: Dancing class,
Mondays, 7:30 pm; arts and crafts,
Tuesdays, pm; swimming. for
boys, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays,
4 pm, and for girls, Mondays and
Wednesdays, pm. Barbara
Cronk, Eastern High School, made
Christmas toys for children in Glenn
Dale Sanatorium. .. Greeting cards
designed by Susie Helfrich and Dick
Guy. Woodrow Wilson, were sold at
the high school to raise money for
the purchase of equipment for the
art classes. Judson Croft, Nc
Kinley High School. reports that %
Techites served as councillors at
Camp Ernest w. Brown last sum-
mpr
Evening star., 1946-01-13
Businessmen
Four Groups
Meet This Week

The Federation of Businessmen S
Associations and three member
bodies are scheduled to meet this
week.
Officers will be installed at the
Cleveland Park Businessmen's AS
sociation meeting. The schedule for
the week follows:
Monday.
Cleveland Park Businessmen's As
sociation-Wardman Park Hotel,
7:30 pm.
Southeast Businessmen's Associa-
tion-314 Pennsylvania avenue Sc,
$3.50 pm.
Tuesday.
Washington Hairdressers and Cos
metologists - Mayflower Hotel,
pm. L
Wednesday.
Federation of Businessmen's As
sociations - Boardroom, American
Security y Trust Building, S.ls
pm.
Evening star., 1946-01-13
Current Exhibitions
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART. Con

NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, Con-
stttutiop avenue and Sixth street.
Paintings and sculpture by great
Selection OF paintings on loan from
French Government soon to be re-
S.TinSs tpFnsd ths1Ssh shM EserpsTg Nai,o8al B. COL
lection Of Fine Arts, Constitution
lean paintings from private coliec-
Special exhibition, paintings by Al
fra sernisSx ,hT11nsh nisH Sanqsry ,y,.ion ~
of Graphic Arts, Independence ave-
nue. and Tenth street-Special ex-
hiibtion of lithographs by Charles
B. Wilson through February 3.
FEEER na GAL.Ekf at+..ts SF AaI ana
etchinss ss'esy BY Whistler and other
American artists. CLEANSING ex-
coRcoRAN GALLERY OF ART.
Seventeenth street between New
York avenue and z street-Amer-
ican painting and sculpture. the
W. A. Clark collection. Special ex-
hibition. fourth annual OF Artists
esri atIo M sehuisheiss. fss.0oi Open January
pH1lLiPs ha LifPs0uss asHMoRfai sspSsfs 30 GALLERY,
1900 Twenty-first street-Chang;
ing exhibitions. paintings and
Library OF CONGRESS. East capi.
tol and First streets-.Division OF
Prints. Special exhibition Of Illus
trated books and manuscripts from
the Rosenwald collection. to Janu..
airy l5. Also Texas centennial
WHITE GALLERY. 1918 Connecticut
avenue-Exhibition Of sculpture by
Ann Wolte. through January q.
Exhibition by Howard Bosnia and
Merel S. saser. through Febru-
BARNETT-ADEN GALLERY. 1a7
Randolph place NW.-Paintings by
groupe Of artists on flower themes,
puBLHC hsLGesn LisRHRY, HsRaity Eighth and X
streets N.W.--Exhibition water col
ors, scenes of Italy. by Henry o.
PAN ;S AMhRiChs thToHsh FfSESsSS, S1oS, seventeenth
and c streets N.W-Group OF
American prints, through January
TEXTILE MUSEUM OF THE DIS
street W.-Rugs, tapestries and
other textiles OF the Near and Far
East Open Monday. Wednesday
and Friday. 25 p.rn. Admission
by card obtainable at once OF
Georae Hewitt Myers. 730 Fifteenth
street NV.
Evening star., 1946-01-13

There are now IT girls in the club,
although so signed up for it. Pref
erence was given to the upper
semester girls.
The interest of the girl deter
mines the article that is made.
Bracelets, rings, pendants and ear
rings are the most popular items.
One girl designed a pickle spear a
relish spoon and lemon fork for
Christmas presents.
Thus far the girls have learned
to solder silver, make links, twist
square wire, twist round wire with
two, three or four strands; braid
wire, saw out designs in sheet metal
file edges square and finish the
articles. All the work is done In
sterling silver, which is available
in sheets and as round, square ano
half-round wire.
Some of the girls learn to per.
form the various operations quickly
Many have difficulty doing simple
arithmetic, such as finding the cir.
cumference when the diameter il
given or finding the area of a sheer
Of silver
The club may later develop int,
a regular metal craft class for girls
Mr.. Jacoby says his creates
problem is ito get the girls to sto,
working and get out of the shop S,
I can get home for dinner"
Evening star., 1946-01-13
Exhibition at National Museum Introduces
Alfred Jonniaux, Belgian Portrait Painter
By Florence S. Bergman

ny run eHt6 -. DtfJ y""H
A Belgian portrait painter, Alfred
Jonniaux, is introduced to WASH
ington in an exhibition of more
than so of his canvases in the
foyer of the Natural History Build
ing, United States National Mu-
scum, to remain through Sunday,
January 27. 1t was opened last
Sunday under the patronage of
H. E. Baron Robert Silvercruys,
Belgian Ambassador to the United
States. This is felicitous time for
the showing, as Mr.. JonniauX will
soon be an American citizen, and
expects to make his home in Wash
ington.
He works in the traditional man
ner, using sound, unobtrusive brush
work to obtain as close a likeness
as possible. A fair for resemblance
feeling for personality and an
appreciation of character combine
to give his portraits vitality. Their
pictorial appeal could lead one to
believe he wears rose -colored glasses
while painting He either views his
sitters in a rosy atmosphere or Sc
lects them with care, for all of the
present group are attractive. All Of
the young women are beautiful, the
older women are handsome and
aristocratic, the children little dar-
lings. His masculine sitters are all
men Of distinction" and the half
dozen humble characters in the
group are lovable or picturesque.
One can only regret that this large
proportion of ingratiating qualities
does not prevail in real life.
But it makes for an exhibition
which should prove to enjoy popu-
lar favor. Furthermore, the artist
is not content to concentrate on
the heads; his painstaking crafts
manship extends to hands, clothing,
furniture and accessories. The
sparkle of jewels, soft richness OF
velvet, sheen of satin, gleam OF
high lights on china, ETC., afford
pleasurable recognition.
Worked in Many Places
These paintings, including a few
devoted wholly to still life, repre-
sent work done in many places.
Mr.. Jonniaux had studios in Paris
and London before the war. He
got out of France after the German
victory, through Spain and Portu-
gal, and went to Argentina. There
he painted a portrait of Mrs. Alex
ander Wilbourne Weddell, wife OF
our Ambassador to that country at
the time, which is on view, along
with portraits of her and Mr.. We'd
dell painted after their return home.
Completed just in time for this
exhibition is portrait of Mr.. JUS
tice Burton. Others of Washing
tonians or people well known here
include those of the Rev. DR.. G..
Freeland Peter, DR.. Walter Free
man, the late Maj. Gen. William
P. Upshur, U. S. M. c.; Brig. Gen.
Carlos Romulo, Gen. Charles Evans
Kilbourne, an imposing portrait
which is to hang at Virginia Mill
tary Institute, of which he is super
intendent, and Mr.. Randolph Will
liams of the Virginia Historical So
ciety. There is beautiful portrait
Evening star., 1946-01-13
lust Between
Yourselves
BY Philip Fl. Love

The Marino brothers, Joe, 10,
and Faustino, 7, of 1929 Geranium
street NV, are worried about the
American people. They are, as Joe
puts it in a recent letter to the
editor of The Junior Star, so afraid
that God will get mad at them.
Joe and Faustino have different
viewpoint from that Of most other
Americans. 1t is viewpoint born
of a life of terror.
Back in 1889, Joe and Faustino
Evening star., 1946-01-13
LOntentnent
PRIZE CONTRIBUTION
By lie Roy T. Morgan, II,

By lie Roy T. Morgan, II,
St Adams School.
Contentment steals in, warm and
soft and slow.
1t creeps unnoticed through the
opened gate
And gathers peace around me. Lift
ing woe
So gently in one hand, it seizes hate
With silent f1rmness in scolding
fist,
And reaching out, 1t drops them
far away
Beyond my gate, where ruthless winds
will twist
Them round and mix them in the
fray.
But calling low, Contentment's voice
beguileS
Ephemeral fancies born without
care,
Builds quaint and easy castles in
the air,
And never fnds feproach. It's subtle
wiles
Suspect me now, it seems tt
hesitate,
And slipping out, leaves open wide
the gate.
Evening star., 1946-01-13
insignificant Sun
PRIZE CONTRIBUTION
Bv Richard E. Kafs, Is,

Calvin Coolidge High School.
'Tis the sun that shines on plains
On yellow wheat, on wooded crests
In the bluebirds' new-found nests
And also on the window panes
On the cobbled English lanes,
And where the shepherd rests,
On the young colt full of zest
Let's not forget the weather vanes
Until, at eve, the sun does set.
When the bean will yield its pod,
We think of better things to be
And these we hope to get,
Well give our thanks to almighty
God
And the moon will rise on shining