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CONTENTS
Editorial Page 3
W ho’s W ho Page 5
Page 6
The Intruders - - - - - Page 7
No Land of Liberty T hen - Page 9
Dead or Alive - - - - - Page 12
Ioannos W a it s ............................ Page 14
The Crime That Pays - - - Page 15
Sahara Journey - - - - Page 17
Partner in Crime - - - - Page 20
Home G uard ............................. Page 21
Pencil Sketches - - - - Page 22
Honors .......................................... Page 24
W ith the Blues and W hites Page 25
At h letic s..................................- - Page 26
W ith the Alumni - - - - Page 27
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JUNIOR JOURNAL
Published Three Times a Year by the Students of the Princeton Country Day School
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Vol. XVII M arch, 1943 No. 1
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BOARD OF EDITORS
Editor-in-Cbiej _____...
Peter Erdman
i Samuel Howell
Associate Editors .......................................................................................................... Charles McCutchen
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W ard Morehouse
\ William W etzel
Business Manager .............................................................................................................W illiam Harrop
Faculty Adviser ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Mr. Henry B. Ross
All Communications Should Be Addressed to: The Business Manager, Junior Journal, Princeton
Country Day School, Princeton, N. J.
Editorial
One of the most important problems confronting students in the Country Day
School these days is, "What definite contribution can boys of our age make towards the
war effort?”
There are many answers that might be made to this question, and each one of us
must find his own solution to the problem. The most obvious contribution we can all
make is to buy as many war stamps and bonds as we can. We can also collect rubber and
scrap metal for salvage purposes. Some of us are already planning to work on farms
during the coming summer. Meanwhile, within the school itself, we should strive to
prepare ourselves for the physical and mental fitness demanded by the armed services,
so that we shall be ready to serve our country both in war and peace when our turn
comes. We can do this by throwing ourselves with a little extra inlierest and spirit into
our school activities, especially in athletics, signalling, first-aid, and current events.
But is there not some more immediately necessary duty that we can perform ? It seems
to us that one community job we could do well is airplane spotting. There are many
boys of fourteen and over who know far more about types and differences of aircraft
than do their elders, and we feel sure that reliable, well trained boys would acquit them­
selves creditably in this essential task. Undoubtedly their participation would have to
be arranged so that hours of duty would not conflict with sleep or school work. But with
these difficulties and limitations met, we beiieve that a group of intelligent, air-minded
boys would make a valuable contribution in this very important field of Civilian Defense.
4 Junior Journal
With the school year almost half completed, it seems an opportune time to make
some sort of estimate of the innovations that were adopted during the first term. The
first of these concerns the prefect system. We believe that the inclusion of members of
the Fifth Form was a wise move; while the rotation of representatives from the two up­
per classes makes for a well-balanced prefect council. The Fifth Formers who are serving
on the council this year are receiving valuable experience and are gaining a sense of
responsibility that will be helpful to them next year. It seems to be generally agreed
that this is an improvement over the old system, which tended to develop a spirit of
animosity and a lack of co-operation between the two upper classes. It is to be hoped
that the new system will continue to provide harmony and good feeling.
Another recent change in school life has been the revival of the Color meetings.
We welcome their return, because we feel that these meetings help to imbue each Color
group with a spirit of unity and a sense of organization. Like the prefect system, the
Color idea has its weaknesses and may be open to a certain amount of criticism, but %ve
feel that both are greatly improved and have been very successful so far this year.
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rDepartment Editors
M arch, 1943
Editorial .............. Dean Mathey
Peter Erdman
Alumni .................
Charles McCutchen
Athletics ............... W illiam W etzel
Samuel Howell
Blues and Whites
W ard Morehouse
Advertising ......... W illiam Harrop
‘W ho’s W ho
1942-1943
THE PREFECT COUNCIL
Members of the Sixth and Fifth Forms
COLOR OFFICERS
Blues W hites
George Piper, President Dean Mathey, President
Samuel Howell, Secretary Peter Erdman, Secretary
JUNIOR JOURNAL
Members of the Sixth Form
LIBRARIANS
Peter Erdman William Wetzel
Richard Paynter David Ralston
CAMERA CLUB
President Secretary
Ward Morehouse William Wetzel
DRAMATIC CLUB
President Vice-President Secretary
John Schluter George Piper John Matthews
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rRevolt c5At l^giva
The bell in the town hall of the small They had not long to wait. To their
Polish town of Rowa was ringing loudly. amazement the young Lieutenant began to
It had not been rung for more than two address them in their native Polish. They
years, and to the ears of the people who were even more astonished at what he said.
lived in the town, the sound of the ringing "Citizens of Rowa,” called Lieutenant
bell reminded them of times of peace, be­ Kappel, "I am now going to speak to
fore the Germans had ruthlessly over-run you in the Polish tongue, so the German
their country. In those happy days the ring­ soldiers you see behind me won’t under­
ing of the bell had meant that all the stand, for the only other representative of
people should gather in the public square, the German Government who understands
in front of the town hall. the Polish language besides me is the of­
The bell had to keep ringing for quite ficer who is second in command to the
a Jong time before a few of the people German garrison of your town. He, at
began to come out of their poor houses the present time, has been called to Army
into the dirty streets. Soon everybody was headquarters and won't be back until to­
hurrying toward the town hall, to see what morrow morning. As you know, the men
the matter was. you see behind me have been in this coun­
The sight of a neat row of some forty try only a few days, so they haven’t learned
German troopers lined up against the front much Polish yet.
of the town hall made some of the more
"Today, I speak to you as a friend, for
fearful folk turn back, but the more curi­
I too am Polish, by heart and by birth.
ous of them kept on, determined to find
In 1929 I moved to Germany for business
out why the Germans had called them out
reasons. In 1936, like others of our coun­
of their homes.
trymen, I joined the German army, for
On the steps of the town hall there business was bad, and I thought some mil­
had been built a sort of pulpit, which was itary experience would do me good.
surrounded by swastikas and red and black-
"When my native land was attacked in
bunting.
September 1939, I was a trusted member
The silent townspeople waited patiently. of Herr Hitler’s army, and my officers had
Soon Lieutenant Kappel and his escort of no suspicion of my Polish nationality. I
three heavily armed Gestapo agents ap­ was chosen to become an occupation of­
peared at the rostrum. ficer because of my knowledge of the Pol­
ish language and my understanding of the
When the people saw the Lieutenant
Polish people. Now, I see your chance and
mount the speaker's platform, fear struck
my chance to reap vengeance on our Ger­
them. What had someone done now ? How
man oppressors.
bad was the offence? Was everybody going
to be perished? What would the punish­ Tonight you must strike! The guard will
ment be? These questions and many oth­ not be very heavy, because you have ac­
ers like them were whispered about among quired a reputation among the soldiers as
the population of Rowa. being "co-operative" people. If you are
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very quiet, you can easily subdue the two many of the men were rolling drunk. Even
guards who watch the small building the sentries were allowed to have a quiet
where most of the arms and ammunition drink now and then in honor of the good
supplies are. You will arm yourselves, and Lieutenant.
surround the two barracks. I need not tell Later on, as darkness fell over Rowa
you how to get rid of the two sentries and soon after taps had been sounded,
who guard the barracks. Then blow up things began to stir among the people of
the buildings with hand grenades and kill the little town. Creeping forms could be
the men who escape with small arms. It seen sneaking up on the half-drunken,
will not be easy, but if you are determined singing sentries. Other groups silently
enough, I think you will succeed. broke into the small armory building and
"After you have finished, go back to armed themselves with rifles, pistols, sub­
your houses with as many arms as you can machine guns and hand grenades. Soon the
get. Hide them away for further use. Yes, barracks were surrounded, and, at a given
you and I know that there will be retalia­ signal, hand grenades crashed through ev­
tions, but remember, it’s all for the glory ery window in the buildings. A few de­
of our beloved Poland! If you have any fensive shots were fired by the astonished
intentions of cheering my speech, please Germans inside, but it was not long before
do not do so, as that would arouse suspi­ every one of the surprised Nazis was in
cion among the soldiers. Here’s wishing just the state which every Nazi-at-heart
you the best of luck! Heil Hitler!” should be—dead. Meanwhile, Lieutenant
"Heil Hitler!” came the deep-throated Kappel had disappeared.
reply from the crowd. The happy Poles returned to their houses
Late that afternoon the Nazis returned to carrying the captured guns with them.
their barracks after what they felt had been The revolt had been a success, and, for
an uneventful day. That night for supper a few hours, Rowa was Polish again. Once
for some strange reason, every man in the more the bell on the town hall rang out.
company was given as many drinks of But it will never ring again, for the little
good German beer as he wanted, "as a town of Rowa is no more. . . .
present from Lieutenant Kappel.” Soon' Peter Erdman (VI)
^ h e intruders
My name is Hercules, and I am an ele­ Quickly I called Toto, the ape, and told
phant. him to summon all the people of the jungle
One day when I was peacefully feeding together for a council of war.
with my herd, Blacky, the panther, came In a few hours all the jungle people
to me breathless with excitement. As soon were gathered in a clearing of the forest,
as he got his breath back, he told me that to talk about what we should do.
a great bird had just landed in a grassy Some of the animals present were Leo,
plain not far away and that strange creat­ the lion, Slimey, the snake, Spotty, the
ures had descended from its wings. leopard, and many others.
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Slimey said that we should find out To our horror they started killing some
more about these strange newcomers, and of the jungle animals. They even killed
we agreed to send Blacky to do the job. two bulls from my herd. Toto, who has
Soon Blacky crept back to tell us that traveled much and knows about such
one of the creatures had aimed a long things, says these newcomers are called
stick at him. He had heard a loud noise men.
and felt a sharp pain along his side. After We animals were now thoroughly an­
that, Blacky came back right away. gered, so we again called a council of war
Then we sent Spotty to find out more, to decide what to do. It was finally planned
if he could, about the strange creatures to drive the white men from the jungle.
whose skins are white, and who hurt the After waiting another few days to see
peaceful people of the jungle and plains. if they would go away peacefully, we de­
Soon he too came back to say that he cided to attack.
had received the same treatment. Our plan of battle was for the leopards,
As a last resort we sent Toto to see if panthers, and lions to go first. Then the
he could find out anything about the great apes would drop down out of the trees.
, bird and" its companions. Then the water buffaloes would charge,
Toto had better luck, because he spied and after them, we elephants would at­
them from the trees. He found out that tack in all our fury.
there were three of them and that they The next two days were spent in pre­
spoke a strange, harsh language. paring for our task. The night on which
For five days we watched them from we planned to attack was bright with
our jungle lair. During that time Toto clear moon-light.
saw one of them put two round objects When the moon was about half-way
over his ears and speak into another round up in the sky, we heard a sudden roar.
object attached to a big box. The strange Soon the roar rose higher and one of the
creature spoke into the round object for great birds rose high in the air. When it
some time. was out of sight, the second bird also took
The next day another great bird came flight and disappeared in the star-lit sky.
down in the same clearing. The creatures Gladly we animals returned to our homes.
in the second bird spoke the same lan­ Again there was peace in the jungle.
guage as those who had arrived first. Grenville Paynter (III)