Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 299, 27 October 1917 — Page 11

THE JUNIOR PALLADIUM WEEKLY SECTION OF THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM , RICHMOND, 1ND., OCT. 27. 1917

Boys Prepare for Wild and Spooky

Party at the "Y" Oow-oou! Ghosts-goblins-clutch-

ing hands-spoolis , Say boys, aren't

you scared? Just think of all those

shiver-causing animals sneaking in

to dark corners there at the Boys' Department and lying in wait until

the dread night, when they can

pounce out on you and clutch your

hair while they utter wild Phrieks and make the goose flesh crawl

over the back of your neck. All that will be part of the glor

ious Halloween party next Wednes

day night, when all boys, (that is, ex-boys, now beautiful dainty little girls who are so bashful they have to put their finger in their month), can let loose all their pent up bad feelings of the past year; and good feelings too, If they wish. But, boys, there is going to be something more than wild spirits at that party. There are going to be several prizes first for the sweetest, most lovable litle girl, and second for the best make up, and then probably some more too. And after that, can you guess what will come next? "Eats." Yum. So every single member wants to be there, exactly at 7:30, bo you wont miss anything. Be sure to be dressed up, but don't wear a mask. And then have the time of your life.

PATRIOTIC BOYS TO SAVE CORN ON HALLOWE'EN This year all boys who are really patriotic will do their bit by saving corn on Hallowe'en. This is one

of the easiest things to do, because after all the most fun is being

maskea and Joining the crowd up

town, where there isno chance or

need of throwing corn. Or, if you cannot be uptown, you can make tic-tacs out of empty spools, or

Jack-o-lanterns out of paste board boxes, and celebrate by scaring all

the neighbors with them.

Gilbert Snider, of Finley school

was the first to suggest this way of

being patriotic, and he knows what

it means because he had planted some corn of his own last spring Just so that he could have plenty

for Hallowe'en, but now that it has

come time to use it, he has decided he can have fun other ways where

he would not. waste valuable food, bo he has given almost a bushel of corn, all he had raised, to his mother. . Also, Gilbert suggested that patriotic boys would give up their bean shooters, since the small army beans are so scarce now, and are needed so badly for our soldiers. ' "V

School Children Help Government

Richmond school children are helping the government by asking their mothers to sign the cards stating that they will do all they can to save food. This is one of the biggest parts towards helping win the war, and Mr. Hoover, who is directing the campaign to fight the great waste of food hero in America, is doing almost as important work as General Pershing, over there in France. Because the Germans think our food is so important to helping us win the war. they are spending thousand's of dollars to hire spies to burn up our flour mills and stock yards, and yet we ourselves are destroying hundreds of Bounds of food each week by throwing out odds and ends, just because we- do not know how to use them. Often times it is the mothers and sisters who cry the hardest when the new soldiers are leaving, that

come nome rrom tne. station ana

prove themselves enemies to their

own country by wasting sugar and flour, and not even trying to learn ,

to save it.

Our government is spending at

great deal of time and trouble try

ing to teach people how to stop

wasting food, and yet there are still homes here in Richmond that

are either so ignorant or so blindly selfish that they persist in their same old ways of wastefulness, and refuse to sign the card saying they are willing to learn better ways

and help save enough food to keep

our soldiers and allies as well as

ourselves from being hungry this winter.

But the boys and girls in school

are now helping to get their par

ents to sign these cards, and soon they will count everyone a slacker

who does not have one of the food

cards in their front windows. .

ANNA'S HALLOWE'EN

One dark night, I would not doubt but what it was Hallowe'en, a little girl was going out by herself, and

the moon was shining bright.

This little girl's name was An

na. She was about six years old. Anna wears a dress with a full

L skirt and is high waisted, with a

bow in the back. She has little slippere and little white half socks. Anna has light hair, and wears a small black hair ribbon. Anna was walking along when she happened to see something which of course looked black in the night. It has eyes, nose and a mouth, the same as a person would have, but it was only about three-fourths of a foot high. This frightened little Anna very much. She didn't go much farther because she met all kinds of funnylooking things, so she ran back home very fast and told her mother and father and they laughed because they had put the pumpkins there themselves to scare their little girl. Belle Campbell, Starr School. .

Girls Do Red Cross Sewing

Saturday Afternoons Each Saturday afternoon since

school began there have been from

six , to fourteen girl3 from all dif

ferent schools, down at the Red Cross rooms to help with the work.

Last Saturday the girls who passed

could see the good example they

were making for slackers who

were outside.

Last week the sewing consisted in basting and ripping. New directions had come to make the pa

jamas for wounded soldiers a different way, so the girls were ripp

ing those which had been made

the old way.

Hibberd School Notes.

At Hibberd school some boys

have started a "Boys' Club." Our

object is to teach how to run a

society according to correct rules,

The officers are: President, Roland Ebrse; secretary and treasurer, Wilbur Bennett. We will have

a full election of officers, Nov. 3rd

in the northeast corner of the

school yard.

Lucile and Ruth Moormann had a

Halloween party this afternoon.

Twenty girls .were present. They had a nice time. The party lasted three hours.

Josephine Harlan of Hibberd

school, visrted .... her grandmother,

who lives in the country near India-

sapolis, for ten days. ,

OUR YOUNGEST POET

Even the third room at Warner school has an author who can write

a verse for the Junior, and since

this is the youngest poet we ever have had, we publish the following little rhyme with the greatest pride and pleasure: Dear Aunt Molly: Here's your Uncle Sammy, Red, White and Blue, After the K.aiser And after the Germans, too. -Marcia Weissgerber, 3B grade, Warner school.

Rabbit Hunting is Popular Every morning and evening I go

rabbit hunting. I take my gun and a long pole. I leave the pole at a

certain place. I have a 22-caliber

Winchester rifle. I get a rabbit

about every day.

I know where there is a squirrel

nest, too. They are my pets. I also

have pet rabbits. George Slick, 6A

Grade, Starr School.

ST. MARY'S SCHOOL

HAS ENTERTAINMENT We had an entertainment Tues

day at 2:30. The program was:

Chorus, Mother Theodore: St.

Mary's Orchestra; piano duet, Melody in F, P. Maher and A. Stauber; reading, Mother Theodore, Mary Carroll; piano duet, Sonata, Jeanette Schell and D. Coyle; High School orchestra; "recitation, "The Countersign," Ruth Wolke; National Airs, duet, Francis Mercurio, E. McCarthy; recitation, The Hidden Treasure; Closing chorus, Holy God We Praise Thy Name. The St Mary's orchestra is composed of William Engelbert, Roland Lawler, Griffin Jay, Herbert Markle, Vincqjit Mercurio, Paul Geers, Austin Br ok amp and Nolan Markle. We played "Home, Sweet Home." The accompaniment was played by Thomas Noland and Thomas Ryan. "The Countersign" was an incident of Civil war fame. It was

about a sentinel on guard. He saw some one coming and he asked who It was, friend or enemy. ."Friend," came the answer. "Friend, advance and give the countersign," said he.

But the man said he did not know

the countersign. The sentinel told

him that he must die because his orders were very strict that night. The man knelt down and made the

Sign of the Cross. When the sentinel saw this he told the man to rise that the Sign of the Cross was the countersign that night At the end the hymn, "Holy God, We Praise Thy Name," was sungi by all. This celebration was in memory of Mother Theodore coming to j

America to found the Order of the Sisters of Providence. It was the seventy-seventh anniversary. Grif

fin Jay, St. Mary's School.

Many Boys and Girls

Buy Liberty Bonds

Many boys and girls have bought

the Liberty bonds in this second great war loan, and are very proud

to own them. Some have asked

their parents to buy the bonds for

them, and others have changed sav

ines accounts to the bonds, while

a few of the boys who have paper

routes or means of making their

own money are buying the bnds on the Christmas Savings plan.

little -Mary Louise Dillon of St

Mary's school is one of the patriotic

children who have bought a bond, but Mary Louise did not think she wanted Jo be patriotic at first When her father asked her about

putting her money into a bond, she said, "No,-1 don't. want to give all

my money away. But when she found that the bond was better than money and that twice a year she can clip off a little coupon that means, a dollar, she felt much better, and she even wrote her own name to the application. .

Boy Scouts Do Great Work , In Selling Liberty Bonds The Boy Scouta;. of Troop 3 ara doing the best work of any boys In Richmond to help in Belling the bonds for the second liberty load. On Saturday, October 6th, when the aeroplanes did not fly over the city as was expected, the boya decided to dq what they could to "bomb", the city, so they gathered together great piles of pamphlets about tho , bonds, and then, crawling out on a narrow ledge from the fourth story windows , of the Second National Bank building, they bombed that corner of Eighth-and Main for at least fifteen minutes. After this they went.4own to the market house and. stood on street corners, giving out the pamphlets to all passers by. When the people were not very anxious to take the pamphlets the boya invented i a way of making sure they would. Since it, was cold that day, most everyone had their hands in their pocketa, so the boys . simply slipped a pamphlet under their arm, and when the people would feel something there, they naturally would look to see what ft was. But the 'scouts of Troop 3 are

doing more work than simply passing bills. From October 20th to 25th they made a house' to house

canvass, urging people to buy the bonds, leaving pamphlets and then

taking subscriptions. And at the

end, they found that altogether,

they had sold about one thousand

five hundred dollars worth of bonds. No wonder the boy scouts have the standing of being one of

the most patriotic organizations in

America today, and no wonder President Wilson has honored them in his speeches and in the trust he puts upen them at this great hour in the history Of our country.

Invitation to Sunday School How many go to Sunday School? I go to the Central Christian. It is on North Twelfth and B streets. We would be glad to see any girl or boy who wants to go. It takes up at five minutes till nine, but if you are not there before half paBt nine, youe are counted not there at all. I hope I will see a lot of my friends there next Sunday. Elsie Baker, Finley School. THE WITCH'S CAT Once upn a time there was an

old witch, and she had a big black cat that followed her everywhere

she went. '

One night the witch came to a

house that looked very shabby. She

went in there and saw a big black cat, like hers. She traded cats. The other one was magic, so she got ( everything !she wanted. Frances Unthank, Starr School.

George Ade Tells Older Juniors How to Help W

(Letter prepared for the State "Council of Defense by George Ade.) This is a letter to the fortunate ones who, ten years from now, will be enjoying the benefits of what all future histories will call the Great War. . You (the girls of sweet sixteen and the boys who are getting ready to vote) will know more about thiB war when you are plump and middle-aged than any one can possibly know this year. When the dust has cleared away and the large events of the war can be seen from a distance then you will understand that the issues Involved had to be fought out, that the United States had to take part, that the task we are now undertaking had to be accomplished. Let ns hope that each of you can say, twenty yeare from now, "I was young at the time but I knew what the war meant and I helped. Not all of the heroes are in the trenches. To prove that brave men remain at home, here am I, as case-hardened bachelor, venturing to give advice to young women, every one of whom knows all about the war or,

at least about one young man who has marched out to win the war. No need to tell them to knit. They are knitting. Why whisper to them" to beware of "slackeis." The poor "slacker," already has felt the scorn of their glances. Perhaps some hints may be tabulated in the methodical style so dear to professors. Efficiency of Soldiers at the front and in the Training Camps Dependent Upon : (a) Physical Welfare, resulting from comfortable garments and sensible attentions, provided by young women. (b) Spiritual Exaltation, encouraged by the occasional receipt of letters from sisters and home folks. From the above analysis it becomes evident that the successful prosecution of the war is not dependent upon the President and Cabinet or evn upon the National Council of Defense, but upon Flora and Elsie and Agnes and Jessie. Don't let any one tell, you that war is strictly a business proposition. We cant win the war unless the bands play and the girls wave their handkerchiefs. The French weep a little and kiss one another on each cheek and Bing

the "Mareeillalse" and then they are ready. to capture some more trenches. , Repressed emotions sometimes turn sour. Don't be ashamed to let your enthusiasm float publicly to the breeze. You never saw a football team advance the ball unless it was getting encouragement from the girls on the side lines. Now for the boys. Perhaps you have heard about the Working Reserve. It has been carefully organized under government supervision. It has received the official endorsement of the President. The whole plan is working out successfully wherever it is understood. The trouble is that some of the boys and some of the parents are still a little doubtful regarding enlistment, because they don't know how much of an obligation Is assumed. Here is the plan in a nut shell: Thousands of enlisted and selected men have gone to the training camps. It may be that thousands more will go next year. These men are being called from factories and workshops and farms. Every factory and every farm must continue production if we are to render full service to our faithful allies during the war. How can we fill the plac

es of the young men who have gone away to fight? We must rely upon the boys who are old enough and husky enough to work, but who are still too young for military service. So here is a trumpet call for all city boys and town boys. Prove your patriotism and help your country by jumping in and doing the work of a solider who has gone to the front. The United States Boys' Working Reserve is not being organized for lads who have to work for a living. Nearly every soldier now wearing a uniform could make more money at home. You are not asked to work because you need the money. You are asked to work because your country needs your help and relies upon you to chuck aside false pride and join in the team work. If your big brother can dig trenches surely you can plow corn. Go to the recruiting officer and enlist for the Boys' Working Reserve. Then, when you are called upon, go and make good in the job assigned to you and win your medal and wear It and be proud of it. When tho government began to organize this voluntary service among boys, bo as to meet the inevitable shortage of man-power, the skeptics and fault-finders got busy.

They said that boya living In cities and towns never could be induced to work on farms, that farmers didn't want to have the town boys around because they would prove to be green or lazy or indifferent and the whole thing was a fool contraption. Doesn't your common sense and your knowledge of addition and aubtratcion tell you that If we suddenly take l,000j000 or more men right out of the productive industries of this country, we must either find a million men to take their places or else go short on production? Are we going to do as thley have done in England dress the women and girls in men's garments and put them to cleaning the streets and making explosives and wiping up locomotives in round-houses and doing all the hard menial tasks? We musn't come to that not while we have on hand a whole army of young fellows nearly every one of whom has gone in for come kind of athletic sport and is physically able and would be as mad as a hornet if you told him he was, a mama's pet and not able to do a man's work. The boya can and will supply the shortage of man-power. There will be a loud call for them in 1918 and they must answer the call.