Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 41, Number 199, 8 July 1916 — Page 12

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THE JUNIOR

The Junior Palladium Is a section of The Palladium Issued every Saturday for boys and girls of Richmond and vicinity. All boys and girls aro 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 all mail to The Junior Palladium. No manuscripts that are not printed will be returned. The Junior Palladium Is the first newspaper for children printed In Richmond. It will be devoted entirely to their interests. For this reason, it will be glad to havo you write, or if you are too young to Write, let your parents write the letter for you.

AUNT MOLLY'S LETTER. Now that so much is happening about , war, and we are so proud of all our grand looking soldiers who are going down on the border line, I wonder if you ever atop to think, even for a minute, how the thing: seem to those little Mexican boys and girls down there. In the first place you must remember that they' haven't had the same kind of lives that you .have. They live in awful houses, and there aren't any schools like yours, and lately there hasn't been very much to eat, and they have been hungry.: And for years now they have been having fights all the time with each other. Can you think how that would be? You think it is awful to see anybody hurt in an accident and terrible if anyone is killed; but just think of seeing a lot of the men in your neighborhood out in the street shooting each other, and ' dying there. That is what has been going on ever since some of them can remember and so, you see, they don't think of anything much except war. And now, what's happening? Well you see, all that they understand is that a lot of big Americans are coming down there, and marching through their country, and killing their fathers and big

Ban Fell 160,000 Times In Two Days and Still Did Not Get Hurt At All

Ban; is a little over three feet short, a little over twelve years young, and tips the scales at a little over sixty pounds. This Is why they call him Ban. You see, when he was still younger they called him Bantam Rooster, but that was rather too long a name for such a little .boy, so now they have lopped some of it off and call him Bimply Ban. There never was a nickname that fitted a boy better than Ban, or Bantam Rooster, for Alfred Paxton. You no doubt -have observed the grit and. the spunk of the bantam. I have seen a little bantam tackle a cow because the cow got too close upon the tiny chicks. That Is the spirit of Ban, and in order to prove it to you, I am going to tell you something about Ban's 160,000 falls In two days without getting hurt. We are told by scientists that when we take a step we ' simply let our, body fall forward until the fail 1m arrested by the forward swing of one of our feet. Now it takes a distance of about two feet tor Ban to stop the fall of his little body when he takes a step. To walk- a mile, therefore, Ban must take about 2,500 steps, or must let his body fall 2,500 times. Ban belongs to the Whitewater School Hiking club. He has been on every hike but one since spring -hikes that were from 10 to 22 miles In length. Ban always kept in the lead, setting the pace, and always Insisted on going farther than the scheduled distance. Ills one great ambition was sometime to hike to Indianapolis where he ad lived for a short time when a baby and about which he had heard such wonderful things. As a reward therefore for hid spunk he was given the opportunity to realise his one great ambition a hike to Indianapolis. On the second of July at 6 o'clock In the morning we left the court house In Richmond and the next day at 8 o'clock In the evening we reached Indianapolis, walking all the way. distance of sixty-four miles..

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brothers. They don't know why our soldiers are there, lots of them they don't understand what Villa and Carranza are doing. All they think is that their father is a great hero, and when some old American comes down there and shoots him, and he is brought home stiff and dead, that little Mexican boy clinches his teeth and grips his hands :and mutters to himself, "You wait, you Americans. When I get a chance I'll kill every one. of you I see." And can you blame him? Wouldn't you? Why, folks, you couldn't even explain to those poor Mexican boys why we have sent our men down there, If you were talking to them yourselves. They can't speak our language. So after it is over, what would be the good of it all? Of course, all we can do now, when we have been insulted or mistreated, is to fight; but boys, when you grow up, don't you think you can make great international courts that can decide all these quarrels and punish the ones who are wrong with an international police force? And then all these boys' fathers won't have to be killed, and they won't naie us any more. At least, that is something to think about. Isn't it? AUNT MOLLY. it is a simple problem in arithmetic that if it takes 2,500 falis for Ban to walk one mile, it takes 160,000 falls for him to cover sixtyfour miles. This is how Ban had that many thousand falls in two days without once getting hurt. The first day we walked about thirty miles and at 6 o'clock . in the afternoon arrived at Dunreith where we had supper and spent the night. We had utonnoil for twn hours in Cambridge City for dinner nau witnessed a couple of innings of a baseball game at Strawns, had a half dozen rests and drinks of water on the wav. ana 'had walked thirty miles; all this in less than twelve hours. We retired at 7 o'clock and rose at 5 o'clock, making a total of 10 hours for sleep and for recupera tion, ir Ban had made a record that day of SO miles' hiking, he certainly made another splendid record that night in snoring. I do not know whether he struck the bed before or after the first snore, and so I will compromise by saying that both happened at the same time. I counted about twenty snores a minute which number. multiplied by the number of minutes per hour and the number of hours per sleep makes, you will agree, another good long distance record. The next day we intended to walk as far as Cumberland, a distance from Dunreith of about 29 miles and a distance from the heart of Indianapolis of about 11 miles, which latter distance we expected to finish early In the morning of July the Fourth. We left Dunreith at 5: SO in the morning and walked five miles . before breakfast, which we thoroughly enJoyed at Knightstown. Arrived at Greenfield, 18 miles from Dunreith, at 12 noon, where we had dinner and a two hours' rest. At 5:30 in the afternoon we reached Cumberland. Here we had our first disappointment in that we could not secure any lodging. Cumberland enjoys one rooming house and every room was occupied. 9 we

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went outside of the town and laid ourselves down to rest behind a hedge and under an apple tree. The question was whether we should remain here for the night or after taking a rest, bike on for a distance of about six miles to Irvington, where we could board a city car and yet be able to say that we walked from Richmond to Indlanapofis. The other alternative of taking an interurban car at Cumberland had been disposed of by Ban as soon as it was suggested: Well, the mosquitos, the ants, the pnats and the chiggers backed by Ban's Insistent argument that we should not remain here and could make the six miles to the outskirts of Indianapolis decided the matter, and we made them with Ban keeping In the lead and myself holling him back as much as possible for my own sake, I must confess, as much 'as for his sake. So we arrived at the outskirts of Indianapolis at 8 o'clock in the evening, having walked a distance of about 64 miles within 38 hours, 10 hours of which were spent in sleeping and several hours in eating, drinking and resting. We had about a dozen rides offered us along the way in automobiles and buggies, but all were consistently declined with thanks, the decision in every case being left to Ban. However, we had our reward, for in Indianapolis we met a former member of our Indianapolis Hiking club who owns an automobile and he brought us back in his machine on the afternoon of July the Fourth after we had seen the principal sights of the city and after Ban had duly celebrated by shooting off firecrackers all along Illinois, Washington and Pennsylvania streets and Massachusetts avenue. TUB MORAI.r-When you hnve that tired feeling, remember Ban learn his 30 mile ways and snore to your heart's content. JOHN M ELPOLDER. Centennial Notes You remember this is the centennial year both for Indiana and Richmond, and it is hard for us to realize how different things are now from then, or even for the past fifty years, and bo from now on we thought it would be fun to have one little corner each week in the Junior for the things our folks can tell us about those old times. One of the queerest things for me to realize is that cows and all sorts of animals used to be right out in the streets all the time, and people used ' to have fences all around their yards to keep them out. My mother says that she used to be so afraid of the big cows that she would go two or three squares out of her way to miss passing them. Aren't you glad you didn't live here then? On Patriotism ' Many folks are wildly enthusiastic about the soldiers, but especially two little boys I know of-who havn't missed seeing a 6ngle train load even' when they don't como until midnight. One of the boys wears a colonel's badge on his arm, and he shakes hands with every soldier he can, and the other wears a red, white and blue cap, and spends the day marching up and down in front of the house. And then perhaps you saw these two little girls who were dressed In American flags, did you? Didn't they look cute? HOW TO MAKE A WIRELESS INSTRUMENT. In order to make a wireless telephone for the distance of 100 yards, or from the house to the barn, the apparatus needed" for transmission is one spark or Induction coil, one transmission coil and ground, and 6 new batteries. For receiving a mureal dectector, 75 obm receiver, an aerial and ground. No switch or key is needed, as the transmitter represents this, and the vibration of the voice makes the connection in the transmitter. Try experimenting in this, and see what results you have, and any questions you would like to ask send in to the Junior. LLOYD SNYDER. Andrew Jackson wa the oldest of the retiring Presidents going out of office eleven days before bis 71st birthday.

Our Saturday Talk

STRAIGHT LINES. There is 'only one straight line, but there are any number of crooked lines between any two points. A straight line used to be called a right line. Whn we do right we keep straight when we do wrong we are crooked. A straight line is the shortest Sine between two points, a crooked line is always longer. The shortest way to what we regally want to be is the right course. The crooked way is always a. waste of time and strength. The straight way is always the most easily followed. We get lost on crooked paths, but in the straight way we keep right on and get there. We never get lost or Something To Three-Face Here is the "Giant Pigeon" of Three-Face Town. Paste his pictures on a piece of white paper. Color his eyes, his beak, and his web feet, and leave his body white. Sometimes you will find it easier to copy these drawings larger on another piece of white paper before painting. After coloring, cut out each fig ure separately. Now fold in the

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Exchange TO TRADE A good flashlight with a new battery. What will you give? Address E. K., 1233 Main St. TO TRADE 1,000 stamps, mostly foreign, worth about $20, for a tennis racquet. Call W. W., at 2551. TO TRADE 30 rugs from cigar ette packages to make a blanket. Address D. R., care of the Junior Palladium. TO TRADE Grey Mackinaw for a good tennis racquet. Address W. N., care of Junior Palladium. TO SELL Unusual stamps; 3 Burmuda, 1 Chinese, 1 Japanese and several old American. See R. S. T. at 21 S. 20th, or call 3642. TO SELL 2A Eastman folding kodak. Call 2321. TO SELL A 2A Scout camera. Call 2475, or address Junior Pal ladium. FOUND A boy's air rifle. The owner can have eame by calling at 910 N. 10th street, and identify ing it. FOR SALE Ingersoll watch in good running order; also two good Water Pistols. Frederick Marsden, 333 S. 10th St., Richmond, Ind. FOR SALE American Model builder. Number 2. Will trade for anything. Phone 2780 or see Byron Wet tig.

loose out by keeping the straight line of right. It is not easy to draw a straight line. You can draw a crooked line with your eyes shut. Anybody can do wrong it is not to anyone's credit to bo crooked. It is the easiest thing in the world to be bad. We require a ruler or guido of some kind to make a straight course. Or we must keep the way of good example and wise teaching. The way of right has been made plain to us in ' many ways and in one great simple life it has been lived for us. Let us take the path of right and keep the straight way, the nearest surest safest path to all we want to be and have. Keep straight! DO RIGHT! DR. J. J. RAE, Pastor of First Presbyterian Church.

Cut And Paste Town No. 4 center as shown by the arrow and paste each figure "back to back" so that you will have three figures made into one, which stands alone and faces in three directions. Save all your figures until you have the whole town. Next week comes the "Policeman." Column STAMPS A Belgian soldier interned in Holland, desires to obtain used stamps for the Committee of Relief and for his own collection. Write to Eudorc Verbiest, brigadier, 18 erne Battcrie de place interne, Baraque 28. Camp I, Zeist, Holland, Europe. FOR SALE OR TRADE Good Squirt Gun. It cost 25c when new. Will take 15c for it if sold. If you have anything to trade what will you give for it. Everett Lasly, 1520 N. A St., City. WANTED To trade a new gymnasium suit for a good $1.25 base ball. Russell Sullivan, 352 South Sixth street. I have outgrown a ball glove. It is in excellent condition. It is for sale or trade. Call 1010 S. Eighth st. FOR SALE OR TRADE Angora Billy Goat. John Ilipskind. Jr., 2205 East Main St., Phone 3795. FOR SALE Cheap, a rabbit pen. It is in excellent condition. Ernest McDonald, 1221 Boyer st. TO TRADE A good base ball tat Will trade for pitcher's mit Garthe Pilgrim, 714 South 9th St. STAMPS A Belgian soldier interned in Holland, would like very much to obtain some American or other stamps for his collection, in exchange for European stamps. Write to Antoine De Coster, 18 eme Batterie de place interne, Baraque 2L Camp 1. Zeist, Holland. Europe.