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Show 'mm: 4 Janey closed the bedroom door and locked it. Alone at last! She threw back her head and heaved a deep sigh. Then she peeked out of the corner of her eye at the mirror to see whether she really did look like Hedy LaMarr. Quite a lot, she decided. And now to business. She drew forth from the bottom of her top bureau drawer the sheet of pink . writing-paper and the envelope i that she had been saving for this day. She sat down at the table j by the window and dipped the pen into the bottle of green ink that her sister, &T- Rose was such ' JtfjtZl a pig about. I 'V-vs She wrote. with: A "f? beautiful ara- VvSA besques, "Dear t'WJkv Mr- Morgen-I liV;,. thau," and held; 1 C-- her head back ' to admire this effort of the best pupil in penmanship pen-manship class. "Here are my stamps for a bond. $18.75. I started last Christmas when I got $3.00. Not counting 50 cents, I have earned all the rest, working one or more days a week at a local grocery store, and I'm quite proud to say I worked hard to get it." Janey stared out of the window at Peterson's house and beyond at the big yard where the kids were playing football. She held her pen elegantly in air. "Sitting here looking out the window, I see a peaceful little town, and I wonder how the world can be in such a turmoil and the people of this world can have such hate for their fellow men. So I'm proud to send these stamps because be-cause I know I'm helping to make the whole world peaceful again like our little town." She signed her name with an important flourish, not forgetting a conspicuous "Miss" in front of the "Janey." After she had sealed the letter she went on staring star-ing out of the window. It really was awfully peaceful. Overhead she heard a plane go humming by through the sunny afternoon air. Then the voice of her best friend, Betty, called from outside out-side "Jan-ey!" In an instant Janey was on her feet and tearing tear-ing downstairs and out. She was not Hedy LaMarr nor a deep philosopher phil-osopher any more, but exactly twelve years old. (Letter from an actual communication in the files of the Treasury Department.! Grown-ups and children alike should all help the "breadwinner" "breadwin-ner" of the family to budget for War Bonds. Let's all join a payroll pay-roll savings plan and "top that 10 by New Year's." U. S. Treasury Department |