Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 107, 17 March 1917 — Page 11

NEWS OF THE BOYS AND GIRLS OF WAYNE COUNTY IN THE JUNIOR

THE JUNIOR PALLADIUM WEEKLY SECTION OF THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM

BOYS "AND GIRLS WRITE MANY INTERESTING, LET. TERS TO'MUNIOrV'

RICHMOND. IND.,

SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1917

Children of Newcastle Need Immediate Help Junior Folks, if you could see how bo many of the Newcastle children have lost everything they had, and could realize how things really are over there. I know you would be glad to help in any way ' you can. As you go down street af- ' ter street, one place you find a . little shoe in the mud, in another t place a drabbled stocking caught ' under a broken window frame, a

lew crayons scaiterea unaer spimi-

ered rafters , a little red chair '' crushed under a fallen chimney or perhaps the body of a doll, half i hcwing beneath a mass of rubbish, where one little rm dangles helplessly over a jagged brick. , Some of the children have relatives who can give them clothes and plenty to eat, but many of the ; children's fathers and mothers do not have anything. And so, Junior Folks, if you have any money at all that you could give to the Red Cross people, or drop into the ketiles on Main street, you can know that in giving it you are giving some little boy or girl new clothes

or something to eat, and I suspect you will be mighty glad ever after.

WRECK AND RUIN IN WAKE OF TORNADO THAT STRUCK NEWCASTLE

NEWCASTLE BOY DESCRIBES STORM

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At about 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon some young men were standing in the door of a drug store, discussing a dark gray cloud which shifting about on the western horizon. "What a peculiar cloud that is in the' -west," said one young man. "And ndiice the white smoke that hangs about it," said the other. Suddenly a darkness gathered over 1he whole town and in the distance was heard a low rumble. "Boys, from the descriptions I have heard, that is a cyclone," eaid the young man. Just then an old man came along and said, "No, that isn't a

cyclone; they don't have them arcund here and that roar you hear is a train on the Big Four Hailroad." . But the roar grew louder and louder and Ihe funnel shaped cload grew blacker and was bearing down upon the city with terrific speed. . By this time the other people on the street were getting very uneasy. The cyclone bad now struck the outskirts of the city and was hurling tress, timbers and houses high in the air. People were panic

stricken and wore running here and there in the streets not knowing which way lo go. )2) five minutes all was over,-one hundred people had been killed or injured; three hundred homes destroyed; and over a million dollars lost. Barry Kamp, Newcastle Bif h Sehcc!.

Newcastle Boys Tell Exciting Stories If you like to hear exciting stories all you have to do Is to go up to New Castle and walk along the streets. Since the' schools are dismissed for an early spring vacation boys and gh'ls are everywhere on the streets and ail of them are telling each other and anyone else who will listen how they escaped" the cyclone. ' Harold Poe said that he had been skating and playing polo with the other boys that afternoon, but that they had decided to play ,' marbles so had just taken off their skates and started the game when they heard the queer noise nd saw the awful cloud coming; then shingles and boards began flying through the air and somebody shouted! "Run for the cellar." So he ran but had only gone half way down, the cellar steps with his other .folks when the storm swooped upon them, their house crashed in, and after the short downpour of rain was over they Crawled out to find what was left, and everything was gone. The first thing Harold looked for was his skates because hesaid he bad bought them.with his own money a few days before and they cost two dollars and forty cents. .One of them he found half way" down" the square, but the other, one probably is somewhere between Newcastle and JIagerstown. , Now poor Harold doesn't have any home, any clothes or even so much as a button hook of his own, but none of his folks were killed and he has a' friend named Virgil Shee who took' him in, and so they proceeded to enjoy life and" vacation Tuesday afternoon by investing ten cents in hot chocolate. . "

Above Scene on Lincoln Avenue, Newcastle, Indiana. Below: Searching for bodies. These are typical scenes in Newcastle, Indiana, swept late last Sunday by a tornado which killed a ficore of persons, injured as many more, and rendered hundreds homeless. Practically every city in Indiana has offered aid to the homeless Newcastle residents, and the Indianapolis Red Cross i3 collecting $100,000.

SCHOOL STUDIES FAMOUS PICTURES

Boy Scants Were Busy Sunday afternoon immediately after the tornado the Newcastle Boy Sccuts proved their worth by going at once to the wrecked districts and helping in the rescue work. Although they are not workiug directly with the state militia 1 bey. are doing all they can, and the officers spoke in highest terms of their ready services.

Hunt For School Books Monday morning many of the children came back to South School to search among the ruins for their school books. In the principal's room there was such a huge pile of bricks all over everything that they couldn't even find the desks, but In tbe lower grade rooms the debris was not so bad. In Miss Carson's room when one of the boys found three or four bricks on his desk and five or six more on his seat, he pirked up one of them and said, "Well, I guess if I had been here when thin thing came down I wouldn't be here now." And the sad pait i3 that out of that very rccm there are come children who won't cc me 1 ack any more.

St. Mary's school has taken up the study of famous pictures and Dorothy Conner of Grade 5, tell us the good points of "Christ and the Doctors." This picture is a representation

! of Christ's visit to the Temple, at

the age of 12 years. The Temple can be distinguished by a few pillars, and a half drawn curtain. The boy Christ is in the center of the learned doctors. They have their eyes fixed on the boy. Christ has one hand resting on the reading desk and the other pointing to the book about which they are talking. He has a face of singular, beauty, intelligence and charm. He is

dressed in a simple while robe and

the light shining on Him gives prominence to his position. He is answering their questions, and asking them other questions about the

! Messias. The group looks very

natural and have gathered together to talk about the Messias. The are looking in wonder and astonishment on the boy's face for they know not he is Jesus the Savior. The picture was painted by Henry Hoffmann in 1S71 and is in the Royal Gallery, Dresden, Germany. It ranks as a masterpiece of German art. Dorothy Conner, Age 10, Grade 5, St. Mary's School.

BOYS HAVE FIRE DEPARTMENT We have a play fire-department. Some of the boys have skates and some have tricycles. We play that we have fires. When we ring the fire bell we all go to the fire. One day when we were playing the real fire bell rang and we went to the fire and played that we put the fire out. Samuel Kolp, 5B Grade, Warner Schoo'.

Boy Watched Tornado Newcastle, Ind. March 1?., 1917. Dear Children: I will wtite you a letter about the cyclone that struck our town, Sunday evening about, three o'clock. I am about 13 years old and live on 20th Stret, six houses from where it killed Mrs. Asa Williamson and ber daughter. It blew the top off of the school. It knocked the houses one after another. I saw it knock the whole side off of a house and carry it three squares, and yet it left the stove standing where it was. It knocked windows out and the glass was everywhere. It was a sight. My mother was staying at another lady's houfse. I was not hurt. You ought to have been here. I hope Richmond was not in the storm. It was in the paper that 21 people were killed. It tore the rolling mill all to pieces. Some of the tin even come around our house. The rolling mill is west of town. Bricks are everywhere. It went through the town in five minutes and tore the town up. Your friend, William James Cox, 1229 South 20th St., New Castle, Ind.

Arabs Are Interesting Ginila is a little girl who lives on a desert. She is called a little Arab girl. She does not live in a house like we do, she lives in a tent made of skin. For her breakfast, dinner and supper she has ostrich eggs and camel's milk. Richard Brown, Whitewater school, 3A.

There is a quiet spirit in these woods. That dwells wher'er the gentle pouth-wind blows. Longfellow.

MEANING OF OUR .NHAiClONL SYMBOL The American Eagle stands for our country. In the first place it is the most powerful bird in ' the world. It's white head stands for purity, and also peace. I really love it. These birds are scarce now. Most of these birds have been driven away. They are very pretty to my notion. They are pretty because we have a pretty country. And may it stand for the brave, powerful truth and purity to the end. , Also may it stand for a free country. And may we still keep our same red, while and blue. Francis Byers. " ,

Dog Saves Boy's Life Kink was my pet dog. One day I crawled out on tbe car track and the street car was coming. Kink saw the car coming. She grabbed roe by the waist and dragged me off the track. Another day I crawled out and swallowed a piece of glass. Kink heard me screaming and ran to the house. She pulled grandma out in the yard. Grandma beat me on the back and it came out of my throat. After that we gave her to a man that lived in the conntry. Kink would play catcher in a ball game. Finally she lost all ber teeth. So they had to kill her. Glen Bromley, Age 10, Warner School.

THE FIRST MESSAGE The first message sent in Germany by electricity was sent by Sommering who invented a way of pressing a button at oie place and at another place which wa3 connected with it to cause water to boil. Kow he let a tube full of water represent the letter "A" another "li" etc., and he could very easily send a message. Richard A. Thornburfib.

WISHES SHE HAD STAYED AT HOME Little Dorothy Lawrence is having to sit propped up in a big rocking chair, so wrapped up with tight, bandages that she can't even wear her own clothes and had to put on one of her father's big roomy shirts instead. She says it hurts awfully badly to have a broken collar bone, and now she wishes she had .stayed

at home during the tornado. fWhen tbey heard the cyclone 'coming they were afraid to go down in' their cellar because it is so "arg, that the whole house could llave

easily crushed them, so they ran outside but before they could reach, safety, Dorothy was hurled infothe

gutter and ner cottar Done Drofcen, while their house remaind etanding after all.. , But she is very thankful that she ,escaped the two large pieces of sheet iron from tlje roller mill, one of which dropped In her front yard while the other was caught up in the branches of a tree, close by. . .

THE TELEPHONE

The word "telephone" cornea from the Latin word "tele" meaning afar, and "phone" meaning voice sound. In 1837 Page, of Salem, Mass., policed that a bar of iron suddenly magnetized and then de-magnetized would give forth certain sounds. This is now called "Page's effect." Bourseul of France discovered the fundamental idea but did not use it. He proposed a device by which a vibrating disk under the influence of the voice would make the same vibrations in another disk at the end of a conducting wire. In 1860 Reis of Frankfort, invented an instrument which he called a telephone. He is entitled to the credit of having the principle, but the honor of development and of the making actual use of the tele-, phone must be given to Alexander Graham Bell who March 7, 1876, received patents' for the telephone." Richard A. Thornburgh. .

A BRIGHT BOY

The teacher sent an exceedingly bright boy in our room to the blackboard to spell a number of words -I can only remember two of them.-

"fulfill" and "perilous." He spell

ed as follows:- "folfiU'' an4 'pear-. les." R. Miller. ' .