Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 227, 4 August 1917 — Page 5

THE JUNIOR PALLADIUM WEEKLY SECTION OF THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM

Take the Junior with you on your Vacation. Tate tfce Cantor with peace! ywr Vacalirc RICHMOND, 1ND, SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 1317

Town Boys, Fall In !

BY GEORGE ADE Do you know of a boy, somewhere between 16 and 21, husky and of good mind, who understands about the war and wants to help his country win the war? If so, tell him to get ready to go to the recruiting station and enlist for nervice. He will not be sent to the trenches. He will not have to drive an ambulance over torn-up battlefields. He won't even hear the big guns. Just the same he-will be serving his country, and for this service he will be awarded a badge of honor which will be worth several times its weight in gold, for it will be evidence that the boy came to the front with manly patriotism when he was needed. President Wilson at his desk in Washington, the man hammering rivets in a ship yard, the expert mechanic adjusting the parts of an aeroplane, the farmer driving a self-binder somewhere In Minnesota all theso are helping to win the war, just the same as the American Boldiers who are learning to throw hand grenades. Gunpowder will never win a war unless the soldiers have something to eat. Any man or boy who helps to grow and harvest a crop while the war is on, is helping the United States in its big job of feeding the world. Town boys, everywhere, attention! Your country needs you. You are asked to join the Boys' Working Reserve. You are called upon for non-military service in the fields where crops are being grown. Watch your home paper and when the recruiting office opens, go and enlist. Remember that you must be at least 16 and under 21, in good health and free from threatening diseases. You must have the written consent of your parent or guardian. You must take the oath of service and be enrolled, but you will not be a real member of the Reserve and havo a right to wear the badge until you have "made good" in the work you tackle. You will have to do about three weeks' actual work on the farm before you are a "regular." Then, if you have worked loyally and faithfully during 1917, the local officers will. recommend you to the national organization and you will receive the "Honorable Service" decoration to be attached to the badge you are already wearing. All sorts of plans are being discussed for physical training after the boys enlist and before they go to the farm, for putting the boys into camps, for having special instructors and so on. The message I am trying to deliver herewith, as messenger boy for the State Council of Defense, is that the Boys' Working Reserve is to be organized in every part of Indiana and that boys who are just under the fighting age will have a chance to serve their country. Parents or guardians may revoke enrollment and withdraw the boys from service any time they see fit. You have, in a very small nut-shell, the plan for the Boys' Working Reserve. No matter how long the war lasts, the farmers will be short of help during the rush seasons. When the drafted men go away, the call for "hands" will be louder than ever before. In the cities and towns are plenty of strong and capable fellows, practically full grown, but still under fighting age and not yet settled into permanent positions. They are the only reserve workers to be found in the state. Most of them are fairly intelligent. Only a small percentage are downright lazy. The question is, can they be utilized on the farms? The answer is "Yes," because the Reserve is being tried out in several states and the reports are encouraging. There was a time when every country boy was supposed to be a rugged young giant and every town boy was a pale and sickly invalid. That was before the public schools went in strong for athletic sports. Nowdays the boy of high school age has learned to play foot-ball, basket-ball or base ball, or all three. He has tried for a track team. He knows the rules for training and prides himself on his good physical condition. If he volunteers to go out on a farm and help get in a crop, he will be a greenhorn regarding some details of the work, but how long will it take him to learn under kindly and sensible direction? The average town boy, if given a fair chance and not ridden or ridiculed by the young bucks who live in the country all the time, undoubtedly will learn to do his part. So get ready for the Boys Working Reserve. It comes with the official sanction of President Wilson. It is being organized and direct . ed by the Department of Labor. Governor Goodrich is the official head of the Reserve hero in Indiana. The State Council of Defense endorses it to the limit. Isaac D. Straus, of Ligonier, a member of the State Council, is the live wire in charge of actual organization throughout the State. The government is trying to get a direct message to the boys old enough to work, but not old enough to fight. It says to them, "Help us to win the war and we will pin upon your coats the badges of honorable service."

SLAV GIRL SCOUTS -COME TO AMERICA r Two girls scouts, accompanied by their mother, having come all the way from Petrograd, Russia, stopped In Chicago yesterday on their way to relatives in Duluth. They were Margaret and Vera de Ix)dyguine. Their mother is Mrae. A. T. do Lodyguine. They left Petrograd for Christiania and traveled by way of Finland, through Sweden and Norway. On June 2S they sailed for New York and arrived on July 13, after being held in Halifax for two days. "We are originally from Pittsburgh," Mmc. de Lodyguine said. "I am American and M. de Lodyguine is Russian. I met him in Pittsburgh and it is there that the pills were born. We moved to

Petrograd ten years ago. It feels so good to be back in American. In Petrograd the living is very hard. Each family is allowed not more than one pound of meat or one of butter each week, regardless of how large the family. We like the Kerensky government It is very liberal. Miss Vera explained that the girl scouts In Russia are organized much the same as the boy scouts are in America. The new government is encouraging the movement.

ONLY ONE TO A FAMILY ECONOMY, Ind., Ang. 4 Ferda, the 6-year-old daughter of Prof, and Mrs. Brurafiel, was told she could gather the cucumbers and sell them. The first sale made was to Mrs. Atkinson who sbaid she would take all the cukes at 2c each. Ferda said, "O no, but one to a family."

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Above at the left is Helen Hur ley, daughter of Edward N. Hurley, president of the Emergency Fleet Corporation. Her brother Jack is seen below, just off the veranda of the family residence in Wheaton. Above at left is Mr. Hurley.. All photographs by Moffett. World wars and national crises and government appointments may wheel across the horizon as they will, but they cast no shadow uppn Helen and Jack Hurley, children of Edward N. Hurley, who was recent ly made chairman of the United States shipping board. The youngsters are out at Wheaton trying to establish Just precisely what mileage can be got out of a certain Shetland poney, "Colonel," of rattling gate and villainous eyes. Mrs. Hurley leaves next week for Washington, where she has taken a house, but the children will remain at Wheaton for the summer, going East to school in September.

BOYS WHO KNOW WIRELESS CODE HAVE CHANCE TO HELP UNCLE SAM

Hundreds of youths who, in time of peace, rigged up wireless aerials on the roofs of their dads' barns or houses and sent "C. Q. D's" and other "official" messages to their pals in the next block or on the ad joining farms now have ah opportunity to play the game in real earnest Uncle Sam's Navy is badly in need of these amateurs, as well as professional radio operators. There are thousands in the country who can qualify to enter the Navy radio Bchools, either In the reserves or regular service. The reserve men must be able to receive at least 10 words a minute in the Continental code to qualify for training. Other? who have had more experience can be enrolled up to and including the rating of chief petty officer. Inexperienced applicants may enlist as apprentice seamen and be assign ed to training for radio upon denoting this at the time of making their application. One of the largest of these train ing schools is located at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station, situatedd on Lake Michigan, 35 miles north of Chicago, where 75 ycuns? men are now training. Here they are still sending much the same sort

IT of "official " messages tut with a more serious object than when they first begged their dad's permission to put their wireless "contraptions" on the barn. There is also a 6chool conducted exclusively for the traurtng of reserve electricians at Harvard unl versity, Cambridge, Mass. The Great Lakes Radla Station and school of instruction is in charge of Lieutenant A. Hoyt Tay lor, former Professor of Pyhsica at the University of North Dakota, considered one of the best informed men on technical phases of wireless telegraphy In the country. , The course completed, graduates of these schools are at once assigned to duty on the ships and shore stations of the Nivy. The need of competent operators cannot be too strongly emphasized. Every 6hip that sails the seas, must rely almost entirely upon the aerial message for its orders. As in all other departments of the Navy, promotion now depends upon the ability of the individual to perform his duty, not upon the length of previous service. The pay at the start of the landsman for radio is $32.60 a month. If found qualified, there is nothing in the wa of his being advanced overnight to chief petty officer at $73.00 a month.

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AMERICAN GIRLS ARE ABLEST NURSES "The American girt fa a&ptel peculiarly for Red Cross work." clares Miss Jane Hodsoru Bits Hcdsun in a graduate cf the Kew York"' Hospital tad Irectar tsC ttt workroom erf the New Tax thaptrr f the Red Cross tt Ko 411 Birth. avenue. She eaitf": "In my fcasiiftal txperfeence I have foxmxf the Aurerfcaa srl" ratelHsenra fir aJwrsa tfca vr ageShe w ' firfdt end fraa a way at pickfns thfrtga icp (dial 2s nil her own. "Where treat! b & the Canadian girl's giTEtest asset, fa fcer Rd Cress vcrk. the Airaeriesn gtrl has courage, pta. sad perseverance to stand her fa geed: stead.. WTfciicut questiMjuag, tfte Amxerfcin pW can grasp a sftautlotL. She tnowa tainitively vhat to do fa a crfaia. "It Is a wonderful thing to sea how the war , has made the girl of America buckle dlown to work.--Wage-earotrs and society girt alike are bending- all Ibeir cforta to accompJfch thefr sftare cf tl& work, tfitat in est fee done- K fo . a port of the American gM3 mafcaup to be cn the spot, wlren she t needed, and ft iar this wMch helpa. to make hr an effcieni. Red Crews nurse. "Even American cxosUkos Ra conspired to help tit American gfxl. for 'Red Cross wtnrk. Accustomed,, as ehe is, to meet men sotfaJly, ft wm be no dotcKt Jet Iter to euroo In contact -with tx? wo eroded soldiers. Her social Ee has taiijvit. her to speak to men freely trsi wittnoort reetrafnl, and tfms sbe -wilt be helped m Iter Biirsiiis- vorft.. "Good nursing is ac-t a tfttag cf nationalities. It ' lEepentfa cm t tnndividnal vomaa after altv Fct American women, cn tike w5oi. possess fftcalStiee . that tiat i make great numbers cf km ' first class morsesu. . .:.

cAr?xcs, Nacse Cteen by Amereean Ttccps PARIS, Acg-. - AimeErtfita (rcepa tn France bare tbcMea ttwir twit' today. They bare aftopfced tSm name name "AjBsexaa."' j This was fanned It (Kfear together the first two teCtcsn df t&j words Americaa Erpetfftfao.'" Sa aj manner li&e that adopted ta form-' tag the word "Anzacs," by whfcrh', the Australian and New Zeakuutf troops tn the British forces are knowa. U. S. BOYS WORKING RESERVE All boys in Indiana win register, next week, between IS and ZO yearsof age. There will he three teot in Richmond, one at Eleventh awi, Main, one at Sixteenth and T& streets and another at the fire de-' partment on West Fifth street? Both colored and white of all race, will register. Boys who are no-wi employed should 'register hat will not give up their jobs. J Every real American hoy owes tt to his country to do his bit. Places' on farms, in factories, etc, will be the places in which the boys can serve. Every township tn the covnty, has an enthusiastic leader ami headquarters for each wQl be bad' where all country boys can regtter. This is strictly a noawnQitary organization sad is endorsed by President Wilson and Governor J. P. Goodrich. Now fellows, let as all get together and make next week of registering one to be remembered. - V. D. BRAMMER. SEEK INFORMATION ABOUT RED CROSS UNIFORMS II AG ERSTO WN, Ind., July 9. lunior Palladium: We saw In thj exchange column of the Junior wanted all girls to wear Red Croes uniforms. We would like to see lathe next Junior full Instruction! whether you buy the uniforms orj can have them made or buy thet, Red Crosses. Can you wear thqi uniform if yon dont belong to tha Red Cross. Mary and Ruth Dutro, Minnie Manifold.