Evening star., 1946-03-10
lust Between
Yourselves
BY PhIfb II. Love.


The Gonzaga High School news
paper Aquilian polled three students
recently on the question, What Are
Your Views on District of Columbia
Suffrage?" And the answers,
though given in different words,
added up to the same thing-that
residents of the Nations Capital de-
serve to have a real voice in their
own government.
Henry Scruggs, member of the
Aquilian staff, put the question to
Jules Lob, Anthony Pirrone and
Peter A. Campanelli. Here are the
answers:
Lob: THE residents of the Dis
trict of Columbia gladly accept all
the duties of other citizens of the
United States and do not object to
being taxed or to risking their Kves
for the protection Of their country
Yet they are denied the priceless
privilege Of expressing their views
on these matters"
Pirrone: Although there are
many reasons both for and against
District of Columbia suffrage, I am
of the opinion that it would, in the
long run, aid this city. If we had a
definite representative, elected by
the people, he would be far more
diligent in providing for the city s
needs than is the present Board OF
commissioners"
Campanelli: II think it's about
time that the citizens of Washing
ton be allowed to vote Plans are
in progress for admitting Alaska
or the Philippines as the 49th State.
Yet Washington, the Nations Capt.
tai, the city which contains the
White House, the Senate and the
House of Representatives, is not al
lowed to have say in the Govern
ment. I quote James Otis: Taxa
ton without representation is still
tyranny"
So many different kinds of hob
bies have come to the attention of
The Junior Star in its seven and
one-half years existence that it is
difficult to imagine anything new
under this particular sun. In fact,
until just few days ago, I was
quite convinced that there was no
such thing as new hobby-that
the J. S., at one time or another,
had covered 'em all.
Then I met Alexander Xerxes
Pumpernickel, a 15-year- -old hobby
ist with an altogether new slant on
things collectable. Most boys and
girs are content to collect things
that are. to drag in a IS word, tan
gible: that is, things that you can
see. hear or feel But not Alex; he
collects things that are-wen, to
compound that same IS word-in-
tangible
Alex, who is sophomore at No
such High School, developed his
unique hobby after becoming fed
up" as he so originally puts it, with
the everyday diversions of other
boys and girls.
Their hobbies are routine and
dull" he says. They collect auto
graphs, coins, insects, movie stars
photos, postcards and stuff like that
there. All very tangible. But me
I'm different. I collect something
that is-well, different"
Alex stumbled onto his hobby
after doing bit of scouting. or, as
it's known in the newspaper busi-
ness. 'leg work." for the J. S. He
came across boy who collected
match covers, but that inspired only
an extremely low pun to the effect
that it was nothing to make light
Of" Then he discovered a girl who
collects-of all things-teabags.
That, as the saying is, did it.
If girl can collect teabags, Alex
decided. a boy can collect anything
tangible or intangible (Which, on
per word basis. adds up to s10.
And that's when it occurred to Alex
that the most original collection of
all would consist of nothing more
tangible than-you'd never guess it
air.
Yes sir. Alexander Xerxes Pun
pernickel is a collector of air. He
has gathered all kinds of samples
from all kinds of places-day air,
night air, basket ball air, dance air,
football air You name any
kind of air, and he has it. He even
has Maryland and Virginia air, as
well as the kind that permeates
(another $5 worO the District of
Columbia.
Alex keeps his air-including the
hot kind that he picked up on
recent visit to Capitol Hill-in
paper bags. The bags are all
marked to identify the kind of air
they contain, and Alex has them
hanging in an especially con-
structed alright closet in his home,
When I visited Alex the other
night, he was huff1ng and, as they
say, putting into a paper bag.
THE trouble with my collection
is" he explained. between huffs,
that it's too impersonal. It's all
good air, but it isn't tied up with
any particular personality. So," he
added, between puffs. I'm adding
some purely personal air. Any
body who opens this particular
bag"
But, of course, nobody will.
I title PeOple