Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 311, 10 November 1917 — Page 12

CAMP FIRE GIRLS DO ! " V ItATRIOnC SERVICE To thow what th Cam Fire Girls tot America to e doing to help our country to this time of war and groat need for patriotic servle,'the Camp Fir Girls; : headquarters hate taken the years reports from all or the camp from all over the country - and" by adding together the exact. number T girhrln each group who took part-in the "different types of work have been able to send out the- general reports. It truly is surprising td see how orach they have ddne, and the general public soon will begin to feel that the Camp Fire Girls are doing a great and . Important a work as th Boy Scoots. The-report from the headquarters, foHows: r :,, ; . The number of Camp Fire Girls who are carrying out Mr. Hoover's program for saving food and preventing waste in the home is 68,474. . ; '. . The number of Camp Fire GirlB who planted and cultivated gardens this summer was 70,448. There were 37,680- Camp Fire Girls caring for children, thus relieving their mothers and older women for Red Cross and other work.: ' -! : ' s The number of Camp Fire Girls who themselves contributed money and made articles for the Red Cross was 83,350. - The Camp Fire Girls who carried out the rigorous health program of walking ICO miles a month, keeping clean inside and outside, getting nine hours' sleep at night, and the rest was 58,558. This makes a total ' of 318,526 girlB who were doing thehr bit in j various ways; about three timeB the total membership, so that each Camp Fire Girl must have been doing at least three of these things. President Wilson and ex-Presi-" dent Taft are honorary president and vice-president of this organization.''."-- ' . v Its magazine "Wohelo" (the first three syllables of the words "work" health" and "love") has been converted Into a "service bulletin" to help the government in food conservation,, crop preservation and all that it attempts. - The girls of this organization distributed Food Pledges and Window Display cards at the request of Mr. Hoover, and checked up the homes not displaying cards. I At the request of Mr. Davidson of the National Red Cross they have built up local chapters, raised money for Red Cross work, and assisted in making comfort kits for the soldiers. At the request of Mr. Benson of the States Relations Service of the Department of Agriculture, they - Jl-i-ll.... ISWill Thrift RllllA.

- ftaVO U1511 iiULCTM fuw -- tins direct to the homesdistributed Food Thrift Posters to stores and nubile places, and used "Wohelo" as a service magazine looking to-, ward the conservation of food and waste prevention.. , At the request of the Woman 9 Committee of the Council of National Defense they have been enrolling all girls over sixteen in the food saving campaign. The Commission on Military Training Camps have asked them to assist inthe organization of the social forces of towns adjacent to the camps, and this is being done. Finally, Miss Lathrop of the Children's Bureau of the Depart ment of Labor has asked them to co-operate in caring for the children of the nation, and 37,690 Camp Fire" Girls responded. Who shall say that they are not doing their part? DOING OUR BIT Our teacher asked us to bring dd sheets and old tablecloths to school. We are going to make handkerchiefs and napkins for the led Cross. They are going to send i hem to our soldier boys iri France. We hope to have eight or ten do n hemmed, bo some of the mothers lave offered to help. We enjoy dong this work because it is for our Soldier Boys. Helen Brown, 4 A, Vaile. , THANKSGIVING DAY ffs not the feast so richly spread, And not the words we say, If s not the greeting nor the song That makes Thanksgiving day. tiut here's one little though for us To take and keep always: two helpful hands and one glad heart Will make Thanksgiving day I Entel Dunn, 6B Grade.

WAR ALPHABET i A stands for the . Allies,- surely ' ; they'll' wis! , B Trtaods for Britain, Belgium, Ber- : Un.- i ' ' ' - C for the Colors, the red, white and blue; : .- - - - D Is for Duty; well fight the war '.-' thru. v . a , E stands for Every one, doing' his .bit; . F is. for Family; some sew and some knit G stands for Gerard; his pen has Vevealed AH that the Kaiser would fain have concealed.' -II is. for Hoover, the food conservator; " I is for Italy; well hear from her later. J stands for Joffre, all France by him swears, K is for Khaki our "soldier boy" wears. -L stands for Ledger, a paper well known-. . Twas mighty in aiding the "Liber- : ty Loan." Mi is for Marne, reclaimed by the French; What cared those brave men for danger or trench? N stands for Nation; think proudly of ours! O stands- for Other belligerent Powers. P stands for Pershing, for Peace and the Pope, Q Is for Query, is "peace" a lost 'hope? - " R Is for Roosevelt; to France he wonld go, And take his own army, but Wil- ; son said "No!" S stands for Soldiers, and Sailors ftt Well V With sword' and with saber they'll make their blows tell. T stands for Treason, a terrible .. foe. U is for U-boat that menace must go! V is for Vim; we're just full of that Not a yellow one with us (unless it's the cat.) , W is for Wilson, our own President; Xerxes he follows on victory bent. Y and Z are for Youth and their Zeal we commend. In fighting with valor the struggle to end. M. W. W., in Philadelphia Ledger.

The Unhappy Little Girl Once there lived in a big house very unhappy little girl with her father. One night when her father was asleep she ran away. She ran and ran until she got to the woods. There she saw a little light in a little hut near a high hill and she ran to it. . The HsUe girl walked in and she saw at the table a wee elf and a little boy. They were eating their supper. They had plums and cornbread and coffee and apple dumplings. It looked good to the little girl, she was so hungry. The elves asked her to come in so Bhe went to the table and ate her supper. Then all three went upstairs into a little bed room and there they saw three beds all dressed in white. All of them got In bed. In the morning the little girl got up and got the breakfast for them. She had a very nice time, and they lived happily ever after. Can you guess the girls name. Ema Resast. Myrtle Petty, 6A Grade, Starr School. HIKING CLUB HAS FUN We have a hiking club. William Campfield and I belong to it, and we would like to have two more boys. We took a hike over to our farm, last Friday, and we had some time. A man picked us up on his wagon and took ns half way. Then we had a picnic and went to Cedar Springs, and there we waited for the interurban. It was so cold that we played follow the leader and did all sorts of silly stuff to keep warm. And then we discovered an echo so we played with that for about an hour. But at last the interurban came and took us to Weatville, where we bad to change cars and the other car was late, so finally one of our friends came and took us home. We started at five minutes after two, and got home at quarter after six. It was five and one-half miles out, and that coming back and so we went eleven miles altogether. Nortbrope . Elmer, 5B grade, Starr Bchool.

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- Life M Greensfork School j I wish some one' would refer me to bo me doctor who possesses seme tablets, of a Jagodoian nature (that Gulliver tells about.)' These contain lessons, that, when digested, go to the brain and become part of your knowledge. ; Don't refer me to Dr. Allen for all his tablets are made of paper and I am afraid they won't digest. I prefer those tablets in particular that contain Latin lessons. n holidays I am going on a trip to Lapnta, the flying ilsand, for the special purpose of employing a flapper to accompany me. on my expeditions to Latin class. . Anyone else who feels the necessity of employing one of these personages, (they are guaranteed to keep you awake and alive to your dally surroundings,) may write to me for particulars. In Biology we learn that more energy is released on a. hot day, but the fact Is not apparent by looking at a bunch of school kids. The other day we learned in civics that there are four forms of government, Pa, Ma. Brother and Sister. This distinction was given to a picture of three men by a little school boy, "Here is a picture of a soldier, sailor an' a man." The other day when everything was quiet in 'the assembly room, Mr. Shaeffer broke the silence by saying this, "Is it any wonder that some students get such low grades? Here is an answer that reads: 'The amount of atmosphere in the air determines the height of a person'." Here is a secret that I will tell you. A boy's brilliance is determined by the amount of time he spends scratching his head and looking blank. The more scratching, the more knowledge. A girl's brilliance is determined accordingly, except she chews her nails. I will conclude by saying that the 4upils of Greensfork school are very brilliant Chester Atkinson, Greensfork Ind. Oh! airmen true, With the Red, White and Blue, Fly over in France, And see what you can do. When you 'are there, Fly-up in the air, Then catch the kaiser By the hair. Eddlson Ottenfeld, Starr School.

What The Kaiser Thinks js Of Food Pledge Wesk The E&ftr t&isto H i wwg for Ammfi to axn food.... vf:A,.VV--'.. He wactta us to ue lata oi it, epeilly whtat, meaj, fata and fag&r. One of e deartjt wishes of hi newt m to hare us traste as mack of tiAfes as possible ia our tkree meals a day and throw the rwt to. the garbage oan.

He knows that if every Anaericfs will waste an oraoje j of meat, a slice of bread, a third of tk opee of meat Mi and an ounce of gggar a day, Aarica's European Apes the women sd a&vlR the;ir olC at ' tie war. .Vv Swi mum :SVAMi 000,000 housewife to P u $Uig Week. ."f.V nsfwr So oppoaed ft Ftoel Pi-v b ; txh potk of iWbsat Ui2l ft &eW IrftiUd mustache tkat fca bs tyX bands doBaw and hired tsa&tq ef agents to (fr S . feW in the United CtAUng t 0i anyone sarinr tftsst wrytb53 .ff If he succeeds in m be a great jokeo. mM& jifjT' rlt

10; 1917.

THE STORY OF SAVING We Americans must save our food and Biigar more. We waste trr food more 1 than - any other Stales. The Allies need the sugar more than we do. ABd the poor little Flench children are starving for want of food. If you would go where the French are, you would see the little children sitting in the gutters. And you would go the next morning and find that they were dead for want of food. Wednesday evening I was looking at the paper and I saw that Germany thought she was better and the war was going to stop the first of November. The French may get something to eat and they would be strong again. The war is an awful thing, it makes the food higher. Now if there are six people in one of the families, a half-pound of sugar would not go around to them all. Not only if they take a little pinch and maybe not then. But if there are but three in the families it may go around once and that is all. So you see that hard times especially when this war ia going on. The United States is not starvinpnot even the poor people are. We must save our food more and I want all the boys and girls to save too. Gladys Johnson, 4A garde, Hibberd School. Age 11 years. HISTORIC PUZZLE 1. Ignk Reogge. 2. Irredtsen Ilnosw. 3. Nestirder Donmayf. 4. Ebdaun. 5. Inner. 6. Orehn. Roland Fansher, Starr school. (Answers next week.) The Fairy Queen's Party Once upon a time there was a little girl whose name was Helen. Helen had blue eyes, yellow hair and was as fair as a lily. One day Helen was walking along when all at once she heard a little voice say, "Don't step on my house." So Helen walked around the road and turned around to see who had spoken to her. There stood a fairy in gold. She asked Helen to stop and play with her. So Helen stopped to play. They played a long time and then they started to go in the house but Helen could not get in because she was too large. The fairy made Helen as small as herself, so they both went in and found that the queen was having a party. , Helen stayed until the party was over and Helen and the Fairy Queen were great friends ever after. Lucile Leonard, Warner school.

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MABEL AND THE LIZARD One day little Mabel went to thewoods. As she was walking along; she heard a little noise wider a; stone. At first she did not know what it was or where it came from; Then all at once uhe heard it say; "Look out, you're almost stepping i on me. I'm just in front of your ! right Joot." I Mabel lifted the atone and under it she saw a lizard. , The lizard said, "Now little girl, you have saved my life and I'm go Ing to do something for you if you can learn this call." The lizard told Mabel If she met any wild animals to whistle tiie call and they would be her best friends. Mabel turned to thank the lizard but it had crawled up a tree and gone in a hole. On her way home, Mabel met a wolf and he was just going to eat her when she whistled th- call. The wolf came and liched her hand and

lie Weill all Wits wnj vriiu y so no one would hurt her. One day Mabel went to visit her uncle on the farm. He had bought a new 6addle horse but could not get the bit in its mouth. Mabel's uncle said that any one who could get the bit in the horse's mouth could have him. Mabel said, "Let me try." Her uncle did not want her to try but she begged ana begged till at last her uncle said she might try. iVlabel took the harness and went out in the field and whistled the call. Then she put the bit in the horse's mouth and rode back to the place where her uncle was standing. So MabKlKat the horse, and she had many Tina rides and nothing ever hurt her so she lived happily ever after. Clair Longbrake, 4B Grade, Warner School. CAT HUNTS RABBITS ; This fall my father, mother, and two sisters and I went down in the country. One day we were getting ready to Bit down to the dinner table and mamma looked out the door. She said, "What has that cat got?" And my cousin came to the door and said, "It is a rabbit." She went to the cat and got the rabbit. She called her brother and he came out and killed it and we had rabbit the next morning for breakfast. Mary Bell, 5B grade, Warner School. EXCHANGE COLUMN Open to All Boys and Girls. These Ade Coat You Nothing; Send (n Your "Wants" to The Palladium Junior. . LOST A pair of brown scout gloves. If found, please return to 215 North Eighth street. LOST An Indian hat. If found, between 15th and 16th on Main please return to Dudley Cartright, 325 South West First street, or call 4822. LOST A Beginner's Latin Book street. If found, please return to Garleld school or 211 North 20th '.street.'-' WANTED All boys of Troop 3 of the Boy Scouts, to be at the meeting next Tuesday night at 7:30, at the City Hall. TXJST A rrey kid glove, Saturday. If found please return to 324 , North 22 street Everett Savage. LOST A pair of roller skates. Return to Maxine McCune, 50 South 12th St FOR SALE A good air rifle; when new it cost $2.00. Will sell for half price. Call William White, 808 North 8th Street. FOR SALE A Pair of Henley Roller skates. Will sell cheap. See Tom Noland, 116 North 16th St FOUND A purse, near the alley, on North C street by Aiken's grocery. Owner may call at 100 N. - 16th street, or phone 1574. LOST A grey and white kitten. Finder please return to 601 North 18th street. FOR BALE A practically, new $13 camera, size 3 by 4. For quick sale, will sell for $6.00 Inquire at 616 North 17th street. WANTED A boy's bicycle cheap. Harold Gregg, Jackson Hill. Greensfork, Ind., 4 A.