Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 41, Number 187, 24 June 1916 — Page 16

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THE JUNIOR PALLADIUM The Junior Palladium is a section of Tho Palladium Issued every Saturday for boys and girls of Richmond and vicinity. All boys and girls are invited .to contribute. Stories, sketches, personal Incidents, happenings In the school room are acceptable and will be printed. Write on one side of the paper, and give name, age and address. Send alt mail to The Junior Palladium. No manuscripts that are not printed will be returned. The Junior Palladium is the flr6t newspaper for children printed In Richmond. It will be devoted entirely to their interests. For this reason, it will be glad to have-you write, or if you are too young to write, let your parents write the letter for you.

MISS MATHER IS EDITOR .Miss Mary Mather will edit the Junior. She .began her .work this week. Miss Mather will be glad to have the boys and girls of the city and county drop into the Palladium office and call for the Junior editor. She will assist them with their problems. Address all your communications to the Junior Editor or to Aunt Molly. Dear Folks: Do you really understand what we want the Junior Palladium . to be? A-real newspaper all your own with all the things you do and thing about Jn it. There are all your parties, your Sunday School work, the picnics you have, the clubs you form, the games you play, the new ideas you girls have for making doll clothes and play houses, and all the interesting things you boys do fixing up wireless stations and building boats and everything, besides all the great things .that keep happening outside of Richmond which will give you so much to think about. And we want to put all this into our Junior paper, just for you. Now that it is vacation, don't you often wish you had something new to do? Or don't you wish someone would write you a. real interesting letter? Well, that is exactly what your Junior Palladium will be, and it will come to you each week so that yon can read it every Saturday night while your father and mother are reading their big paper. Did you know that just a hundred years ago, Richmond first began to be a little town? Sec. how many stories you can find about the way things used to look and the queer things your grandmothers used to do, and then send them in to us, so that all of us can enjoy it. And then, don't you often play circus and have shows and parades and everything? Tell us about it, so that all of us can have fun, too. And don't some of you have lemonade stands out in front of your houses? Tell us when you do, because maybe we would like to come by and get some. Why folks, we can have the best time ever with more things to do and think about than you ever dreamed of before. Call me up ov er the telephone and tell me about the good times you have, or write it out and send it to the Palladium office. And don't forget thajt you have an editor all your own, who Is planning out the news for your own newspaper, and that there is no one who wants , to make you have a better time than your very own. AUNT MOLLY. Governing Yourself Children wonder why their parents lay down so many rules governing their conduct. They cannot understand why they are not permitted to do what they want to do. They cannot seo why father makes rules and why mother makes them, and why a reprimand follows disobedience. The answer is this: Children are unable to govern themselves. They are not mature enough . to know what is good and what is bad for them.' If a boy had his own way, he would stay out late every night because he does not know that a boy must go to bed early in order to gain strength and vitality. The rules of parents are based npon years of experience. They

know why rules and regulations are necessary. Children must look to their parents for guidance and advice. Consequently it is better to obey the rules your parents lay down than to disobey them.

Fourth of July This big holiday is not far off. The birth of the nation will be celebrated. The United States is facing a happy birthday. Its fathers and sons are not in trenches, or making desperate charges in the face of machine gun fire and bursting shrapnel. Peace and prosperity are with us. The Fourth of July will be celebrated by men and women who have little to worry about. But this peace and prosperity ought not blind us to the real significance of the day. We ought remember that once this day ushered in a season of fighting and bloodshed. It marked the beginning of a struggle to free ourselves from the oppression of England. It was the foundation on which later was erected the Republic of the United States. Let us keep this in mind when we celebrate tile holiday this year. Day Dreams There are two kinds of day dreams. One brings no results, the other leads to happiness and fortune. A boy or girl sitting on a chair and dreaming that some day they will bo rich and ride in automobiles, and travel across the continent in a fast train, seldom see their dreams corne true. Other boys and girls dream how they will be able to overcome diffieul ties, how they will start a business, how they will train themselves to become experts. Their dreams initially come true. The reason for this is that the latter are planning rather than dreaming. They are trying to solve a problem. They are advancing solutions. When they grow older they will be able to take up a serious question and by thinking about it come to a conclusion. Use Your Eyes Many boys and girls have eyes, but can see only one-third of what is going on about them. Their eyes have lost their effectiveness, not because they are defective, but because their owners do not use them. One boy will walk along the creek and see beauties of nature, strange rock formations, pretty flowers, gaily colored birds, growing trees. Another boy following the same road will detect nothing but a river and a valley. Ask him what he saw and replies, "Lots of things." Rut he cannot name one thing that impressed as worthy of being remembered. You have eyes to see and observe. Use them. BOY RAISES LITTLE PIGS. Not long ago a boy wrote about a pet lamb he had raised. My father gave me three little pigs for my own two months ago. Now they have grown a good deal and are getting fat. I hate to think that after they get big and fat I irill sell them and add the money to my savings to take me through col lege. But I guess pigs grow to be eaten, so I am not worrying about it much. FRED C, After June 1 journeymen plu:nbers of Cleveland are to receive $6 a day for eight hours' work.

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM, SATURDAY. JUNE 24, 1916

The Man There was once a man who joined the northern army in ihe Civil war, and he fought so bravely that although he was only a common enlisted man at first, he soon was made an officer. On the long tiresome marches it was' he who would be the most cheerful, and at night when they all would be lying around the camp fires it was he who would lead in singing the camp songs or telling good stories of home, and so he grew to be the most popular man in the whole company. But one day something happened. It was when they were close to the enemy and an attack had been ordered. The men were maneuvering for a good position and the drums began to beat an advance. Our hero knew that he was to lead his men into the thick of the battle. Leaping. to the crest of a little knoll, he flashed his sword high in the air, shouting to his men to follow him. With a cheer they were off, making straight for the flag bearer of the enemy. Firing a volley, they threw themselves flat on the ground and waited. The enemy wavered and then slowly moved forward. They fired again and again, but still the men in grey came on and on. The smoke grew more and more thick, until they could scarcely see the dim grey figures that were coming closer to them all the time. Finally the command came to charge again. It meant that ,tbey would have to fight hand to band. The fire was centering around the flag of the Confederates and the officer knew that if he could only reach that spot and capture their flag, the day would be won. Firing and charging, and firing and charging they finally worked their way up to the enemy's line and with a supreme effort, grappled with them. In the blinding fog and smoke, they could scarcely tell one from another, but all at once the man who lead caught a sight of the hated flag close by him. He made for the standard, and grabbing the bearer by the shoulder, he thrust his bayonet deep into the boy's side. He felt the boy's body writhe and stiffen in his arms and then fall limp. AH at once the horror of it all came over him, and he let the silent form drop to the ground. He was a young fellow, not more than sixteen, with ' big brown eyes. The man stood looking down at him for some time, unconscious of everything else. And then he made up his mind Q UERY CORNER The editor will try to answer questions readers of the Junior submit to him. He will not promise to answer all of them. The. questions will be answered in rotation, so do not expect the answer to be printed in the same week in which you send it in. F. B. We do not know what use you can put tin ink bottle lids. You might try to make ink soup out of them. R. W. Both of you are wrong. "The Prince of Pilsen" is not the national song of the Germans. L. C Iet a bee sting you on the finger if you want to find out whether the sting hurts. Experience is tho best teacher. C. G. You might learn to swim on land, but you cannot get wet unless you enter the water. B. H. Ask a Chinaman. We know a few languages, but Chinese is not in our line. R. G. No, we never handled a left-handed monkey wrench, but once we looked for a round square and tried to buy five cents worth of strap oil. A. F. From the way you knock in your letter, you would not be a good player in the high school orchestra. Join the anvil chorus. You will feel perfectly at home there and also will be a valuable player. 11. S. Ask a cannibal or become a missionary to find out why savages eat human beings. R. H. A fourteen-year-old boy ought be in bed at 9 o'clock instead of calling on girls. At that age most boys do not know enough to keep their necks clean.

Who Quit

His men were shouting and cheering all around him when he realized at last what had happened, but he put his hand up to stop them." Don't shout, boys," he said, "I've just killed the poor fellow." That night he went to the captain's tent. "Sir, I have come to ask for my dismissal," he said. Can you imagine all that happened? He was threatened with trial by the court jnarshal for being a traitor, but his former record pleaded too strongly for him. Then they begged him to slip away at night, saying that no questions would be asked, and they would simply count him among the . missing; but this officer was too honest, and he refused to do anything that would be sneaking. "Shoot me if you must," he said, "but I shall never murder a man again." It was some time before the commanders could decide what to do with this man who would not fight,

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but at last they did what they never had done before they granted him an honorable discharge. And that man was my grandfather. What can you tell about your ancestors?

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