Evening star., 1946-06-09
| lust Between
Yourselves
BY Philip n. Love-

The folks who run the District
Savings Bond Division OF the Trea-
sury are right proud Of the record
which Washington boys and girls
have rung up this school year. The
latest report, the divisions Marty
Dietz tells me, shows they have
bought Cor sold, depending on where
one sits more than s5,50o,0oo worth
of Savings Bonds and Stamps since
1912.
This makes the Capitals girls and
boys multimillionaires-
that is. And while they have been
accumulating this vast fortune,
they've been learning a few very
practical things besides.
At Stoddert School, for instance,
girls and boys from to II have
learned to make community gardens
Victory gardens" they were
known as during the war-produce
Savings Bonds and Stamps. As Mr..
Dietz sees it:
Youngsters at Stoddert are grow
Ing vegetables on the school farm
as Savings Bond project, as well as
contribution to world food relief.
They plan to invest the proceeds
from the sale of their garden pro-
duce in Savings Bonds. They're
raising radishes, beets, onions,
stringbeans and other garden truck.
These youngsters did the hoeing
and planting all by themselves,
under the guidance of the faculty.
Now they are busy little weeders
and hope not only to produce prof.
liable crops but to make their gar
dens models for others to emulate.
Every youngster who desires has
his own individual plot to cultivate.
They'll do their own harvesting be-
fore summer vacation and sell the
produce to their families or neigh
bors. And they'll buy Savings Bonds
or Stamps with the proceeds"
At Jefferson Junior High School,
according to Mr. Dietz, Savings
Bonds have given a FLIP to the
youngsters who collect and sell
waste paper under The Evening
Star-PTA salvage program" pic
ture in adjoining two columns.)
Saturday is collection and weigh
lng-ln day at the school," Mr.. Dietz
reports. Then it is that Principal
Hugh Smith dons work clothes and
acts as collector, in his own car. for
the kids who, during the week, have
piled up salVaged paper in their
homes. The paper Is taken to the
school basement. weighed and cred
tied to the student collector. Mr..
Smith pays off at the rate of SIS
cents per 100 pounds of paper. This
65 cents is disbursed as follows: 80
cents to the school PTA fund.
cents to the string fund, which paws
for the cord needed to tie up the
bundles, and 80 cents to the student
collector-paid in Savings Stamps.
When the students have amassed
slS.75 in Stamps, they exchange
them for s25 maturity value
Savings Bond. So far, more than
$500 has been turned over to the
Jefferson PTA and an equal amount
invested in Bonds and Stamps.
Two ace salvage collectors at
Jefferson" Mr.. Dietz continues,
ARE Donald Seaman, 10. of 1925 L
street NV, and Mary Dinsmort, IA,
OF 228 F street NV. Don has COL
lected more than $4,000 pounds of
paper and owns three bonds; Mary,
who is secretary Of the Salvage Club
has about 10000 pounds of paper to
her credit and Is working toward the
purchase of her second $25 bond"
High school students are doing
what strikes Mr.. Dietz as "a real
mans and womans Job in order to
buy Bonds" AS an example. he cites
Margaret Rose, 1S, of 30l8 Bladens-
burg road NE, a member of this
months graduating class at Eastern,
who is holding down a part time
job in, department store
Margaret is putting in full
days work every Saturday at the
cosmetics counter Mr.. Dietz says,
and will switch to full-time job
when vacation begins Most of her
earnings go into Bonds, which she
buys through her schools Bond and
Stamp program. However. when
working full time. she'll buy her
Bonds through the companys pay
roll savings plan"