Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 317, 17 November 1917 — Page 11

THE JUNIOR PALLADIUM WEEKLY SECTION OF THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM

VAILE SCHOOL EDITION NEXT WEEK BAXTER EDITION SAVE TINFOIL RICHMOND, IND., NOVEMBER 17, 1917. DO YOUR BIT

MANY CHILDREN BRING TINFOIL TO RED CROSS So many boys and girls have brought large balls of tinfoil to the Red Crpss oronis already that the ladies in charge have not been able to keep a list of their names, but the work of gathering the tinfoil is greatly appreciated, and if the Richmond boys and girls continue to bring it in as they have in the past week, there soon will be enough io sell for quite a little profit. Several of the balls of tinfoil which have been brought in already were as large as a turkey egg, and that large a roll of solid tinfoil weighs quite heavy, so that if the boys and girls from different schools will bring in big balls like that every week, they will be proving that Richmond children are in earnest about doing "their bit."

EVERY LITTLE HELPS It had been a wet day, and Sam, who had earned his living by sweeping a crossing, found that he had more money than ho expected. At first he thought he must have made a mistake, and he added up the money again to make sure There were fix pennies more than usual, and Sam felt quite a rich man and began to think how he should spend the extra amount to the beet advantage. "I will go home and think it over," he said to himself, and, taking up his broom, he began to walk down the read. As he walked getting supper there came a tap along he came to a large building, outside of which he noticed "Donations for the Red Cross," and beneath this was a box. Sam read tlie-otice once or twice, and then said, "Well, I don't quite know what 'Donations' means, but I guess it means every little helps," and he counted cut 'three of the six extra pennies 'he had earned and put them into the box. "There, that's fair halves," he taid. "It isn't much hut every little helps." Margaret Campbell, Starr School. NANCY'S THANKSGIVING Nancy was a little girl about right years old. She lived in the country. Thanksgiving day came. Her grandmother and her little cousin were coming to visit her. Nancy could hardly wait until it was time for her to come. She hurried to get ready for them. After a while they came. Nancy and her cousin played in the barn, rode horses and had a good time. After a while they were called in the house for dinner. On the table was a big turkey, potatoes, cranbeiries, salad and many other good things Next came dessert. They had pumpkin' pie, pink ice' cream and a big cake. After dinner, they played games, made candy, popped corn and then went calling. And they were Ikiv for 'a long time aftcr.--tfanet Harris, 5A grade, Vaile school. BOY SCOUTS TAKE HIKE Last Sunday the Boy Scouts of Troop 3 started out from Twentyfourth and E streets fit half past cloven, went through Glen -Miller to the first cross road past the Wa ter Works and out the New Paris pike to Cedar Springs. We cooked our dinner there and played' scout games until four o'clock. Then we started back by way of Westville and the National pike. We reached town at six. On the way home we sang songs. There was not a scout tint took the car or rode. Troop 3 is practicing up to play out of town Scout teams. The first practice was held Monday rvening in Earlhnm gymnasium William Kindt. THE TURTLE NEST One day my father was plowing and he baw something. He went to it and it was a turtle nest. There wcie nine eggs. Each of them was as Mj; as a quarter. lie brought it home to show me. When he put them in the sun they hatched. The turtles were very umall. When 1 get home the cat had ralemihe little turtles. Florence Webster, Chev.ter School, age nine.

12-YEAR-OLD MISS IS "MOTHER" OF THE NEW JUNIOR RED CROSS

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:;' J W ; ;l i 7 i-. .' - r v it J GIRL VISITS COOKING CAR OR WRECK CREW Last Wednesday evening about 5 o'clock 1 went to Boston which is the headquarters for the wreck crew. My father was there to meet me. We walked down the track about one-half mile to the car. Father lives in the car and when they are called to a wreck the enI gine hooks this cooking car and the derrick on. That evening he had only one man to cook for, beside himself. When we 'got. there 1 set the table and an he had already cooked the supper we ate. After we had eaten I washed the dishes!. I was anxious to examine the car so as soon as jl had finished the dishes I began j to examine it. In one end of the car were five bunks and a stove, in the middle the car was partitioned off. That was the kitchen. In it was a utove, a table, ice chest, shelves unc clor.et or cupboard built into the wall. The other end of the car had three bunks and a long table. This was where the wreck crew ata After I had examined the car it' was time to go to the. station .to catrh the trainMargaret Muth. THE FAIRY AND LOST GIRL Once upon a time there was a little girl and her mother sent her out in the woods to pick flowers. She went a long ways out in the woods and got lost. And all at once she saw a fairy standing right, in front of hpr. The fairy askrd her what was the matter with her and she, told her that she was lost. The fairy at-ked her what her name was .and said her name was Polly Ann. Then the fairy gave her three wi.-the. She wished that she was home, and she wished that she was with her dear mother, and the next thing, she wished that she had a new dul. And all her wishes eame true. IV at) Bryant, 5A grade, Fmley School.

NEW YORK Ethel Weed Mick, twelve years old, is the "mother" of the new Junior Red Cross organization. Ethel's father is Capt. William H. Mick of the medical reserve corps, U. S. A., and is studying special Roettgen ray work at the Cornell medical school in this city. Miss Mick's home is in Omaha, Neb., where her father practiced before enlisting at the outbreak of the war, but she is living at present with her parents here in New York. She explained recently how she first came upon the idea of a Junior Red Cross. "You see," said Ethel, "when they started the Red Cross campaign'' in Omaha last June and wanted to raise money for the care of our soldiers in France, I was one of the little girls that was asked to go out on the streets and solicit money. I didn't have very good success there, bo I went into the big office buildings and talked with the men until they gave me money. I raised the most money of any child in Omaha, they said. "Then it occurred to me that there ought to he a Junior Red Cross with all the children in it from the kindergarten up. The kindergarten children, who cut out bits of paper might just as well cut cloth to. make pillows for broken legs and arms. Children sewing in school might just as well sew things for our soldier boys and

not waste time. "I told State Superintendent of Public Instruction W. II. Commons about it and he sent Lawyer Bigclow of Omaha to Washington to make the suggestion to congress and to officials there. Now a new class of membership for the Red Cross has been started, to which the 22,000,000 school children in America are eligible. Dr. II. N. MacCracken, president of Vassal college, has volunteered his services as director of the bureau of junior membership." Ethel's father and mother first met when they were students at a medical college in Omaha.

THANKSGIVING DINNER OUT IN THE COUNTRY On Thanksgiving day there were four children, mother and father, came out to their grandpa and grandma's on the farm. They came out Thanksgiving morning, and went hack to the city the next evening. There were two girls, and, two boys, their names were Josephine, Elizabeth, Frank and Samuel. They had a large roasted turkey for dinner and many other delicious things. Rut the best 'of. all was in the afternoon. Their grandparents had planned a surprise on them. There were many of their little friends in; they had a very nice time. They had ice cream, candy, nuts and popcorn. And after their friend." had gone, the children told their grandparents that they never, never had as nice a time in their lives. Esther Wcist, age 10 years. SCHOOL CHILDREN DECORATE ROOM I want to tell you a story about our school room. We have our room decorated up. We had a Hallowe'en party at the school. We had a big pumpkin and put fruit in it, and then someone passed it around. We had some fun too. On the flag we had a great big cat and a witch, and we all dressed up. I wished some one would come. We had a paper in the back of the room and it had boys and witches and all sorts of things on it. And we had leaves strung around the blackboard. The number ones sang a song. We had little Jack-o-lantorns filled with candy and we had pictures all around Martha Edna McLear, School No. 9, fourth grade. Scouts Also Plan Shoveling Snow The Lone Scouts are trying to do their bit and this winter are going to shovel snow from people's r.idewalks. They will meet, at 913 N. (J street By Leoline Kins, Ixane Scout Brother, Warner School.

THANKSGIVING We learnt it all in history; You didn't think I knew? Why don't you 'spose I study my lessons? 'Coarse I do. The Pilgrim Fathers did it, They made Thanksgiving Day; Why? Oh, I don't remember, My hiBfry didn't say; Or p'raps I wasn't listening When she was telling why; But if the Fllgrim mothers were busy making pie, I 'spose they couldn't bother And so that was the way It happened that the FatherB Made our Thanksgiving Day. Selected. Vaile SchooL

LONE SCOUTS DO PATRIOTIC SERVICES The Lone Scouts are doing their bit. They have entered into the spirit of all the conservation work which is being done by the government. They know what meatless and wheatless days mean, and while It is hard to do without these good things, they do it without grumbling because they are trying to help win the war. If Mr. Hoover would ask the Lone Scouts to do without candy and stay away from the picture shows, I know they would do that too. The Lone Scouts have been running errands for the Red Cross workers and gathering papers for the Day Nursery. And they are now going to gather all the tinfoil they can find so it can be sold and the proceeds go to the Red Cross. Gerard Harrington, SL Mary's School, THE WHITE SHIP (Continued from last week.) "She has stuck on a rock!" cried the helmsman, "and Bhe is sinking.'' A wail of despair arose from the royal company, so thoughtless and gay, but a few moment before: Cheeks became blanched and eyes wet with tears. The captain lowered a boat into which the prince and a few nobles were placed. "Push off," he whispered, "and row to the shore. It is not far and the sea is smooth. The rest of us must die. ' . . :'.:'. But as the boat sailed away from the wrecked vessel, the unhappy passengers leaped into it in such large numbers that the boat went down. Just at that moment, "The White Ship" went down never to rise. "What has become of the prince?" asked the captain. "He is drowned," was the reply, "his half-sister and all who were with him." "Woe is me," groaned tho captain, tossing his arms in the air, and then he disappeared into the briny deep. For two days no one ventured to break the sad news to the king. Then a little child was dressed in suitable apparel, went in and stood before the king to tell him of his son's fate. , How long it takes the world to learn the leseon taught us in the Bible, "Wine is a mocker." Selected by Bertha Folkner, 6A Grade, Stiirr School. Dog:-; Scare at Rats One night I went to my neighbor's and he gave me two dogs, one is black and the other is brown with a star in her head and one white foot. I named the black one Bobby and the othr Fanny. I kept them in the haw at night and in the day I let them out when I tame home from school. One day I had tho dogs out and a rat ran across tho yard and the dogs ran for tho barn. I gave, the black one away and my cousin took the other one up to Kpartensburg. Harlan Brown, Vaile School. PEOPLE WERE SPRINKLED AT FIRE ON TUESDAY Tuesday evening about nine o'clock a barn burned down on South 17lh and A streets. Electric wires were ail about the yard. There wa:; a big crowd around and lots of people got sprinkled Willard Hoover, Vaile Schoe-I.

NEARLY ONE HUNDRED COMFORT KITS GIVEN BY CHILDREN No one can say that the Richmond boys and girls are not doing their part to make the soldier ' boys have a merry Christmas, because more than eighty complete comfort kits, many separate gifts both in money and articles such as soap, wash cloths, etc., were also sent to the Red Cross rooms, so that in all almost one hundred comfor kits were given by the boys and girls. One of the most Interesting sights at the Red Cross rooms was when all the little kinder garten children froni Fin ley school came marching up the street two and two, and into the headquarters, each carrying their little gift for some brave soldier boy's Christmas present Altogether they had enough to fill two comfort kits, with the exception of a few minor articles, bo all the children gathered around the table and watched their gifts being packed into the kits. And in the meantime two or three of the children went rushing back uptown to get the missing articles, bo that they were back again to make tho kits complete. . And when those little Finlcy school folks went marching back to school again, they were the proudest and happiest boys and girls in this part, of Indiana, because they not only had done their bit, but they had done every part of it, and even seen their gifts packed into- the great big box ready to be sent off. Warner school is giving a large donation also to the Y. M. C. A. fund, and Sevastopol is Bonding special Christmas presents to every one of our Richmond soldiers who used to go to that school.

Finley School Helps SoMiers At Finley School we have brought money to buy comfort kits and Bend them to the Boldiers for Christmas. In our room the boys and girls collected two dollars and seventy-five cents. With this money we are going to buy a tooth brush, tooth paste, handkerchief, wash rag, soap, brush, steel looking glass, corah, bag with pins and needles, writing paper, buttons, pencil, envelopes, a little Testament of the Bible and shoe ntrings. ' We brought the money and the tecichers did the shopping. We aro going to put a Christmas card in it so that the soldier can send it to his mother on Christmas. We hope that the soldiers who get our comfort kits will have a very happy Christmas. James Banore and Howard Hosbrook, 4 th Grade, Finley School. Starr School Children Day Soldiers Presents At Starr School, Instead of bringing the money to school so that the teachers could buy the articles to fill the soldier's Christmas comfort kits, each boy and girl brought tho presents themselves, bo that they felt they were having more a part in giving than simply to bring some money. Then the teachers sorted out the articles and filled the kits from the piles of presents which were brought. ' THE KIND WITCH Once upbn a time there lived a little girl. Her name was Mary. She lived with her father in the wood. Her mother died when she was six years old. Her father was a wood cutter. One day Mary's father told her that all of his gold was gone and he had to leave fop about two days. That night when Mary was alone she heard a knock at tho door. "Come in," said Mary. In stepped tho good witch. This made Mary afraid and she ran behind the cupboard. Soon the witch called out, "Mary, dear, come here. I will grant you two' wishes." Mary wished she had a nice home . to live in and her father would come home to her. At that moment tho witch was gone. In the morning Mary got up she was in a big house and her father was thero. Mary and her father lived happy ever after in their now homo.