Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-05-23
lust Between
Ourselves
BY Philip n. Love,

douglas SCTe6G Ne, anu tllTce Ol
his friends came upon nest of tiny
rabbits. AS the boys stood admiring
the babies, a man brought them the
news that the mother rabbit had
been killed by dog.
IF you boys don't take those rab-
| bits" the man said, they'll either
starve or be killed, with no mother
to protect them"
Tom and his friends-Bob Ed
wards. 10; Jimmy Curtin. H., and
Billy McGill, 11--gathered up the
four orphans and headed for home.
Each boy was going to adopt" one
of the babies.
But the housing problem upset the
plans OF Bob, Jimmy and Billy, with
the result that Tom wound up being
the foster father" of four babies
instead of one.
Caring for the rabbits proved to
be a problem. They were too young
to eat anything but milk, and that
had to be fed to them from nurs-
ing bottle. Three Of them died.
The fourth rabbit thrived on the
bottle, however, and at this writing
has begun to nibble lettuce leaves.
Tom has named him Super Bunny.
The best idea thought up here
abouts in many day is the Junior
Community Improvement Project OF
the Washington Board of Trade. 1t
gives boys and girls Of all ages, from
the first grade through high school,
an opportunity to exercise their i'm
agination and skill in planning the
kind of community in which they
would prefer to spend their adult
lives. Never before, to my knowlede,
have young people been given such
a chance.
The idea, initiated by the Trade
Boards City Planning Committee,
has been taken up with enthusi-
asm by officials of public and paro-
chial schools throughout the Greater
Washington area. Already, pupils of
140 schools are at work on more
than 200 projects to be entered in
competition for awards of Excel
lent" Good" and Honorable Men
ton" The projects-in the form OF
charts, maps, scale models and pic
tures-will be exhibited in the Dis
trict National Guard Armory for
three days, beginning Thursday,
June 3.
THE Southwest of Tomorrow" is
the joint project of two junior high
schools, jefferson and Randall. The
entire student bodies of both schools
are at work on two projects which,
when put together, will form a
single exhibit.
Dolly Madison Junior High School,
Arlington, will send eight exhibits to-
the Armory and Francis Junior High
will be represented by seven. The
Madison entries will include plans
for a recreation area, while two
scale model projects will be among
the Francis exhibits.
Other schools which have reported
interesting and unusual exhibits in
preparation include Langley, Lovejoy
and Thomson.
A novel experiment was tried re-
Gently at Woodrow Wilson High
School. under the direction of Miss
Jean Dorrel, art teacher. AS re-
corded music was played the students
drew or painted whatever pictures
came into their minds.
John Barrow has caught the
mood Of the 'Saber Dance in an
outstanding painting OF brilliant
orange mixed with a dull black
background" the Wilson Beacon re-
ports. Jill Mills silhouette inter-
probation of 'Spellbound' has blue
and green backgrounds, while an
almost entirely different mood pre-
dominates in Dolores McCauley's
Interpretation of the same music
The music also inspired interest
ing paintings by Lois Bildman,
Steve Karpman, Marilyn Kettler
and Ardythe Trimmer.
II u
IT have letter from 14-year-
old English girl who would like to-
write to some boys and girls her
age" says a note from Mrs. Ellen
Winlund, 1107 North Longfellow
street, Arlington. Her address is:
Miss Jean Bletcher, 266 SHARON
Vale road, Sheffield II, Yorkshire,
England. I do hope you can IND
some one who will write. It's a