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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM, OCT. , 1917

MOW YOUNG AMERICANS CAN HELP TO WIN THE WAR ' Prepared for the Indiana State Council of Defense by George Ade. Can a mere child be of service to his or her country while we are trying to make the Kaiser behave? Undoubtedly. How? By observing the conduct of weak-kneed, hysterical and com

plaining adults and then being just as different from them as possible This war is neither a joke nor a protracted funeral You will notice that some of the older people refuse to accept it as a fact, while others move about in a blue funk, exclaiming, between sobs, that the U. S. A. is going to the bow-wows. Let the very young children set their elders a good example by re remaining calm but determined. If you pick up the morning paper and read that the U-boats bagged 17 ships Instead of the customary 15 and the Canadians captured only one line of trenches Instead of two, do not shake your head and declare that the Germans never can be licked. .:' Set a good example to your fathers and mothers and uncles and aunts by renewing your faith daily, in spite of an occasional set-back. Quote to them the words of Abraham Lincoln: "Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty." You might remind your grown-up relatives that all, during the Civil war the northern states harbored a good many well-meaning people who went about moaning that the Union never could be preserved and we had better accept peace at any price. These invertebrates (an invertebrate, children, is a creature with a string of macaroni where the backbone should be) these spineless ones were willing to let certain Btates secede. The blacks were to remain In slavery. Our flag was to be lowered. Anything to avoid a light to a finish. " Even after the battle of Gettys burg, when the fortunes of war began to favor the North, just as they are now favoring the Allies, every community had to put up with a few of the whiners and fault-finders who belittled each victory and magnified each reverse. Your grandfather can tell you about these peace-lovers who helped to prolong the war by failing to give united and loyal support to the soldiers at the front. If it should happen that grandfather was one of these "peace at any price'" advocates, doubtless he will change the subject and talk about something else. 'V''' Even if you are less than six years of age, surely you can understand that the issues involved in this dreadful war must be settled and settled right before the world may hope for abiding peace. Therefore, if any one asks you what you think about the war, reply as follows: "President Wilson was right when he said that the world must be made safe for democracy. The American people have no desire to destroy Germany or prevent it from regaining commercial importance. They want Germany to restore the stolen property and go home in a chastened mood. They want to jam the knowledge into every closecropped Prussian head that just be. cause a man owns a high-priced automatic gun and has a lot of ammunition and a college education, he has no right to go out and shoot ! up his neighbors. The American people are hoping to make it clear to the Kaiser and the Crown Prince and the various square-jawed Hindenburgs that it is highly improper to form a partnership with God for purposes of murder, and then treat God as a silent partner. As to the final outcome, the battle of the Marne was the beginning of the end. For two hundred years all the big events of history have marked an irresistible ad vance toward the establishment of democracy. When the Germans failed in their mad rush of 1914, It meant that an all-wise Providence and the laws of evolution were not to be thwarted by a military despot with a bristling mustache. Germany cannot win and therefore Germany must lose. The end of bloodshed and sacrifice and wide-spread terror will come as soon as the United States of America begins to Btrike aggressive blows. The more men we send to the front, the fewwe will lose. Our greatest enemy at present Is Indecision. Our strongest ally is Speed. Our most needful watchword is Faith. We are going to end the war and then

sit at the council table to repress

greed and curb injustice." Of course, the foregoing will sound rather hifaluting to come from a six-year-old child, but it will be the truth and the truth is needed in large doses at present, especially by people more than six years of age. That will be all for today, children You may run along and play. Members of Warner's Good Government League Are Elected The pupils of Warner school have been much excited over the election of representatives for the Good Government League, which took place last week. The first meeting for organization took place Wednesday of this week. The following representatives and alternates were elected: Representatives Benjamin Dallas, Lucile Leonard, Fuy Lephart, Donald Chenoweth, Nellie Hoffman, Elizabeth Sauer, Robert Sudhoff, Helen Sell, Virginia 'Overdeer, Finley Bond, Ruth Wintersteen, AlberDallas, June Schram, Wade Williamson, Mary Elizabeth Longbrake. Alternates Eugene Spanier, Mildred Burns, Argus Ogborn, Frank Dallas, Mildred Gardner, Mary Jane Schillinger, Robert Thomas, John Smith, Robert Conley, Ernest Perkins, Bernice Smith, Charles Schweizer, Martha Wood, Charles Apt, Thelraa Canan. FAIRY TELL TRUE (Continued.) Now the forbidden door still remained unopened; but such a longing desire arose in her heart to see what the room contained, that she said to her companions, "I will just open this door a very little way, and peep in." "Oh no, dont!" said one or the good children; "that would be wrong; the good fairy has forbidden you to do so, and something droaedtul will happen if you do." The young girl was silent, but the longing desire in her heart would not be still, and day after day her curiosity increased so much that she could not rest. At last, one day when all her young companions were absent, she thought to herself, now I shall be able to go in and have a peep, and no one will ever know. So she fetched the keys, and taking the right one in her hand, plac ed it in the lock, and turned it i around. i The moment she did so, the door) sprang open, and she saw three i beautiful fairies seated on a throne in a blaze of Kght. She stood for a while bewildered with astonish-1 ment. .Turn she moved forward a I little, and placed her finger in the! Hit Ini-im Hjyht- irwl tx-Iw.m i-ln drew it back, her finger was cover-1

ed with gold. On seeing this, she!,;1' u,H,Hfl1 n J'nu was seized with a terrible fear, and I k"'f'd a r n,u hi' shi.ftinrr ii,-rtnnr ,,i,.n.r eh Sunday we are going out

away to another part of the palace. nut she could not overcome ,1Pr i fear, and her heart beat violently , when she found that, the gold would . ,-, , ... .... . she rubbed and washed it with all I her might. Not very long after this the good fairy returned home, and calling the maiden to her, requested her to give up the keys of the palace. As she placed them in the fairy's hand, she looked earnestly into the young girl's eyes, and said, -Have you opened the thirteenth door?" "No," was the reply. 'TVin TJ'nrl Pfilir !(.! Ihm. li ,1 i j ii.il j in i iiaijii me young gin s neart, and Knew bv its beating, which she felt, that she had been disobeyed, and that the door had been opened. Then she said again. "Have you opened the thirteenth door?" "No," was the reply for the second time. Then the fairy caught sight, of the maiden's finger which had become golden when she touched the fiery light, and knew by this that she was guilty. For a third time she asked the same question, but the young girl still answered, "No." Then the good fairy said to the maiden, "You have not attended to my commands, nor spoken the truth; you are therefore not fit to remain with the good children In this beautiful palace in the clods." As the fairy spoke, the maiden fell into a deep sleep, and sunk down upon the earth. , (To be Continued.) ANSWERS TO BOYS NAMES 1. Clayton. 5. Henry. 2. Leslie. 6. Iroy. 3. Bennie. 7. Harry. 4. Roland. -By John Russel, Finley school.

GARFIELD GIRLS

HAVE "WEENIE" BAKE - One night not long ago, the Hiking Club of Garfield which is com posed of girls, took a hike to the woods near the hospital. The girls each took their weenies and marshmellows. I forgot to say that Miss Margaret Wickemeyer chaperoned the girls When they got to the woods Miss Wickemeyer told the girls that they could not toast their weenies or marshmellows until they each brought an arm full of wood to make a fire, so they all started out hunting for wood. We piled the wood all up and then started a fire. The girls all had long sticks on one end of which they put their marshmellows or weenie. We stayed there until five-thirty and then started for home. I arrived home at six-fifteen. Grace Simcoke. . . NEW CIRCULARS FOR JUNIOR RED CROSS New circulars have just been sent out telling how to organize the Junior Red Cross. Anyone interested and wishing to find out more about it for their school may ask at the Red Cross headquarters for these new leaflets. A state committee has been appointed for the Indiana schools, and Mr. Giles is waiting to hear from them before going on with the local organization of Junior Red Cross. They may be at any time, however, and all the boys and girls who are interested in helping with this great work could not do wrong by finding out as muehabont it as possible. Junior Red Cross Buttons. In the new circular it also says: "The Chapter furnishes. buttons tor Junior Members "on application. Banners and other special insignia may be adopted by authorization of the Chapter School committee." So probably very soon now, all the Richmond boys and girls will be wearing Red Cross buttons, Red Cross arm bands, Red Cross caps, and even putting Red Crosses on their tablets and books, to show that they are loyal member of the mercy work. Good Times on Sunday Saturday my aunt; and uncle came in from the country. When they started to go home they 'asked us to go with them, so my mother and father, Robert and I all went. ft was so late when we got there we did not even milk the cows. When morning came I got up at 5 o'clock and went to get the cows. Uncle George and papa went to the bain to milk. When dinner came we had butterbeans, fiied chicken -and manv 01 h" "''"K-4- . . , h aRa:" ami , a?e l -o wc ( an stay all day. 1 ney will ('0I"e a,,1 uf ' nt on a ' ,a,n ' inrd f. , wa "until next Sunoay. Llsno Baker, .Fmley j :Ivay.S j The Little Girl Who Wanted Her Way Once upon - a time there was a little. girl vha always wanted her own way. -Her name was Martha, and since her father and mother were very rich, of 'course, . t-he got everything she wanted, and like nearly all children I'm afraid, she was very much .spoiled. One (lay when she was even years old her father and mother said, - "Martha, yon ore old enotiah to go to -school now." But Martha answered, "I'm not going to school. I don't want to go to school. I won't, go to school." So her father and mother knew it was useless to coax her. They waited until she was nine years old, and then Martha had to go to school by force. She disliked school so much that every morning alter ner mottier had her ready and told her to go straight to school, she would sneak off into the woods which was close to the school, and there she would stay the rest of the day, laughing, singing and chatting with the bird3 and butterflies. But one morning when she was playing with the birds, she happened to look down and there on the ground was a little manHe wasn't any bigger than a baby's thumb so Martha stooped down to sec him more plainly. Then the little man said, "Martha, you are a bad girl." Martha was so surprised that she

sat very still and listened, which was something she never would have done if anyone else bad said it.-.. "Since school began you only have gone one day, and the rest of the time yop stay in tho woods. So I am going to cure you of this bad habit." The little man drew out the prettiest little bracelet from his pocket. It was silver with ten diamonds in It. He put it on her arm and then said, "Now the trst time you come in the woods again Instead of going to school, this bracelet will squeeze your arm until you never will be able to use it again." So after that Martha went to school and made many friends and liked her school very much. By Grace Simcoke, Garfield Junior High School.

DICK (A Fairy and a Rabbit Story.) Once there was a mother rabbit who lived In a forest. She had three small rabbits. One of the little rabbit's name was Dick. They lived In a large hole under a big tree. One day the mother rabbit went out hunting for wood. She told Dick to take care of his two little brothers. The three little rabbits were in their hole when they heard some footsteps outside. "Oli, what shall we , do," cried li k. The hunter kept coining closer and closer. Just then Dick jumped out of the hole and started to run as fast as his tittle legs could carry him. The hunter chased after him but suddenly Dick disappeared and the hunter could not find him. The hunter looked and looked and I alter a while he grew tired of looking so he went on. He did not I think of' going back to the hole sol this saved the two other rabbits After all- was quiet again, .Dick crept out, 'lie could not. find hisj way hack to the hole. As h'?' walk-1' ed along the read- he saw a big tree' and by this tree there was a-big i clover field, and this was just what Dick wanted because lie was him-j gry for some supper. . I He lived by this tree and at his meals in the clover field. 1 The next day as Dick was sitting! by a stone, he saw a fairy, i The fairy walked up to him and said, "Good morning." Hick an swered the same. The lairy asked! Dick how he got there, and he told i his story. . '..;.' ;- .'.,.-1 The fa fry. took Dick brick home, j and his mother" I hanked her verv i much, after. -school And they i.ved happy ever' loiin Uizio, Whitewater fiA grade. ;' OLD FALL i W hen old man, Fn 1 1 c o m e s 1 1 u in pi n ' . in Floweis droop away Tlic PoPP'es down there by the creek That cheered us through the day Begin to turn a funny brown And shrink all up and die. That funny kind of bluish flower That grew amidst the rye Has all dried up and turned to seed And scattered everywhere, And- so have all the plants and leaves, Till things just seem so bare. Where have they gone? Why when I see We've really got to part, I wonder, just twixt you and me If fall has got a heart. ' . 4 When ol' man Fall comes humpin' in The birds all fly away. The robm in the locust tree That cheered us through the day Begins to fly round restless like While flocks are passing by An' the funny li'l yaller finch That sung amidst the rye His coat of yaller's turned to gray An' now he's joined the rest While all the birds and everything Have each one left their nest. Why have they gone? Why. when I see We've really got to part, Say, I wonder, between you and me If Fall has got a heart. Henry McFarlone. FOUND A small gold beauty pin. Owner may call at Palladium office to recover property.

A GOLDEN APPLE (Continued) "Where's father?" said Flossie, she had many brothers and sisters, but she was the youngest of the family, and the others all combined to keep her in order, but at the same time to spoil her. "Where's father?" cried the little girl again. "He is out, Flossie; don't make a fuss!" said Constance, he elder sister. "We have friends in the drawing room; don't shout that way." "But I must see him. Where is he?" "You can't he won't be home till tomorrow." "Oh, dear! I did want him so badly." "Well, I can't attend to you now," said Constance. "Don't be a troublesome girl." Constance was wearing her most grown up manner as1 Flossie expressed it. "It's like her best dress," thought the little girl; "She puts It on when company comes. I hate her when she Is in her best dress and her grown-up manners. I won't ask her to give me the apple for Joey, but periiaps it has fallen since I looked at it." She ran off to the orchard and looked, but looked in vain. There was only one tree in the orchard which bare this special fruit; there was only one tree which was laden with the golden apples with their crimson cheeks. There had been a wind in the night, and several apples were blown down. Flossie took them up one after the other and examined them. Alas! the whole of them turned out to be poor specimens of the windfall or

der some not ripe, some small and some badly injured. "There isn't one that would suit him," thought the little girl. "Since he has got awfully particular. Oh! what am I to do?" Just then there was a rustling heard not far off, and the sound of voices came to Flossie's ears. Constance's high-bred tones were distinctly audible. "I wish I could let you taste a really delicious apple," she was saying; and Flossie, peering through the trees, saw that Constance was approaching what she considered her special tree, in company with a lady and a gentleman. ' If I could only get you a really ripe one," said Constance. "A really ripe one," thought Flos-.-de. She glanced desparingly at the tree...-' "She will take it; I know she will take it and rive it to those horrid grown-up people who can have as much f i nit as ever they want; and poor Joey does long for a perfect apple,", thought Flossie. . "Oh, she shan't have it, she shan't!" Within a moment Flossie had the apple securely and safe. 1 y Ii id away in her pocket. The moment she had picked it she had a horrid sensation of guilt Nevertheless Flossie , flew on wings of. the wind to Joey's house. She rushed upstairs and presented the apple. "Why, your cheeks are nearly as red," he said as he took it. "Yes, I have done a big sin, to get it. for you. I hope you'll enjoy it," said Flossie. "I feel like Eve. She picked an apple and I picked one. Fat it up, quick!" "So, I am to be Adam," said Joey, but he was not inclined to be critical and the apple smelled delicious. He plunged his little teeth into it. Soon Flossie ran home. She did not know what to do, she went here and there and everywhere trying to keep down that horrid conscience. She played with her pets until bed time. Flossie lay in her little bed: once again the memory of what she had done came to her, and she had horrid dreams, during which she thought that the apple had choked Joey, and he was dead. "I wish the moon wouldn't shine in on me!" she thought. "I wish the moon didn't look so angry." Just then there came a step on the stairs. Flossie strained-her eyes in the direction of the door. Some awful person coming to tell her that Joey was dead. "Who was it?" She wondered. Finally the door opened and someone put in his head. (To be Continued.) Helen Mashmeyer, Junior High School. ANSWERS OF NAMES OF AUTHORS 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. C. Washington Irving. Alfred Tennyson. Matthew Arnold. Robert Browning. Benjamin Harrison. ' Charles Eliot. By Joy J. Bailey,