Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 77, 9 February 1918 — Page 10

PACK TWO

THE JUNIOR

. The Junior Palladium Is the children's, section of the Richmond ' Palladium, founded May 6, 1916, and issued each Saturday afternoon. All boys and girls are invited to be reporters nd contributors. News Hems. social Qrenjts, "want"..advertisements. etorles, local Jokes and original poems are acceptable and will bo published. Articles Bhould be written plainly and on one side of the paper, with the author's name nd age" signed. ' Aunt Molly is always glad to meet the children per r.onally.aj they bring their articles to the Palladium office, or to receive letters addresseu to toe Junior Editor. This is your littlo newspaper and we hope eaco ooy and girl will use It thoroughly.

, Start the new term with a smile, .Junior Folks. Just think a minute, here yon have another clean sheet so lets make up our minds to keep it clean. Of course, Juniors, I know that Boms of you don't like to go to school, but if you start with a smile on your face everything will be lots easier. . Feople will be more pleasant, the teacher more willing to explain, and even the lessons will come easier. . Junior Folks, those of you who don't like to go, just keep in mind Abraham Lincoln. Just think he didn't so to school more than a year in all his life. He couldn't go, he didn't have the advantages that you folks have and yet he rose from a rail splitter to the greatest president the United States has ever had. He was ambitious. The secret of his success was determination. Now Juniors if you start to school determined that you'll take an interest in it why then you'll come out at the top. Just try this !ittle plan won't you and please rour old Aunt Molly. , RIDDLES ' What is it that has a foot and a head and cannot walk? " Answer. A bed- . What is it that goes around and around, but you cannot see it go around ? Answer. The earth. .What animal is it that has four feet in the morning, two at noon, and three at night? Answer. A man; because he crawls in the morning of life; he goes on two feet at noon, or middle life, and in the evening of life he walks with a cane. What is it that the more you take oft the longer it gets? Answer. A ditch. From Zola Lamb, Sixth Grade, Lynn School. MY LAD I've a lad that's going tomorrow He's going to cross the sea He's crossing for his country, He's crossing for you and-me. His mother's dead yon know, Dead bo long ago. He's crossing for the flag And crossing for you and me. I've; pressed his glorious hand And Bald to him good-bye. He's leaving for another land, ' And crossing for you and me. He' going to fight for his country And the flag of red, white and ' - blue. He'B going to fight for his country To which he will always be true. Hasel Whiteleather, Columbia City. Ind. ; STORY During a campaign in which Lincoln did much work, some of the whogs made up a purse of two hundred dollars to pay his expenses. After the election he returned $199.25 with the request hat it be returned to the contributors. "I did not need the money," he explained. "I made the canvass on my own horse; my entertainment being at the homes of friends cost me nothing, and my only outlay was seventy-five cents for a barrel of cider which some farm lands Insisted I Bhould reat them to.M Russel Burke, Saint Mary's SAVING FOOD We are saving food at our house. We are saving sugar and wheat bread the most. Some of the people do no( think of the poor French people who are itarving for want of food, and the toldiers need sweaters this winter. Our teacher has knitted a brown iweater and is beginning to knit a jray sweater. This morning I put one-fourth of i teaspoon of sugar in my coffee. xnd I ate a slice of rye bread with ny coffee. It tastes better with ess sugar. Sugar is an important "ood for the ' body. Vera Ziegler, HIbberd School. 4 A grade.

THE

PALLADIUM Y. M. C. A. HUTS I think the Y. M. C. A. huts are the best for the soldiers because whenever they get homesick they can go there and listen to the phonograph and play baseball and many other athletic things to make them forget. I think everybody ought to help this war by saving food and by using more rye. corn and graham flour and by using less wheat and meat. I think it is right for us to have a meatless and wheatless day and that way we can save a lot of food; and also we ought not to waste so much because lot of things we waste lots of children and poor people would be glad to have. Here is how the American boys can help, by every boy that can go out and work and have ten dollars by next April the first, nineteeneighteen, and even if the boys can not get ten dollars, if fittv cents is all you can give, that would help as much as a rich man that could give one hundred dollars. Elgar Hopkins, TBI Class. STORY When Lincoln was nineteen, he made a second voyage down the river. Along the lower Mississippi he, for the first time, saw slaves working on plantations under the lash, and coming up the river there were on board the boat slaves who had been taken from their families never to return. . And Lincoln sympathized with them. While in New Orleans it is said that he and Dennis Hanks passed a slave auction one morning. After observing for a little time he left in disgust, saying "Boys, let's get away , from here. If ever I get a chance to hit that thing (meaning slavery) I'll hit it hard." Vincent Mercurio, Saint Mary's School. ALL ARMIES FIND When men fail and wireless or telephone are impractical the men of all armies fall back on nature's own children to bear messages in the pinches.

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THE BOYS AT CAMP Let us think for a niomen of the poor soldiers at camp, of the many thousands who are working for you ... iui uul L.afa. w jui Ciy0"J ?" do t0 a about them and say to yourseir. I ' Or "What are they' doing now supper they sit down at the table and eat their humble meal of beans and bread without butter, and they ! choke it down with a heavy heart as they think of home. When night comes they lay aw.ike on their cot without pillows under heads. .They lay cold and heartsick i with one small blanket over them ana tninK wnat iney couia tuve ir they were home. When we jump in our beas between the blankets let us think of them and hope and pray that it won't be long when they will be home again with us. ' Let us try and help them and let! us be with God and He will he with ! them. Gertrude Schneider, Gar-1 field school. Work For the Soldiers Everybody should help save food and work for the soldiers. Even the little boys and girls are helping the Red Cross, by gathering tinfoil and giving to the Red Cross women. The women take the money they get for selling the tinfoil, and buy yarn. The Red Cross wornI pn knit wristlets Rwpntnra hoi. mets and socks for the soldiers. I think everyone should knit these things for the soldiers Alice Brannon.

DOGS AND PIGEONS SURE MESSENGERS WHEN OTHERS FAIL

The top photo is a remarkable action picture of a German dispatch dog leaping over a shellhole to bear a message for his masters. The other photograph is a typical

1918.

SELFISH OLD WOMAN Once upon a time there lived an old woman in a cabin, in the depts of a forest. In front of her house was a huge elephant. This woman was, very rich, for she had many, many bags of gold and silver but she was very selfish. The elephant in front of her house was very kind. The old woman tried to teach her elephant to keep the dangerous animals away. The elephant tried to do all sho told htm to Co. One day the elephant did not receive his food. All day Ions he w ent hungry. He thought he would let some little animal in that could not hurt the old woman. Now this old woman was afraid of any little animal. The next day a little ft'rw rnma hnnnincr Viv It Knid i ..M j gQ in thlg m hou8e and see wnat -g m there?" "Whv rc?" said the think& S little frog elephant, ""ill l I nnfr hurt th6 Ud woraan .-But when ! r-Tvi r nut nill vaii foil ma whett is in there?" "Yes, I will tell you," said the little frog going on into the house. The little frog went on into the kitchen and there sat the old woman. The little frog jumped up by her side. .The old woman gave a scream and ran out of the house. "Help, help!" cried the old woman as she went out of the door. The elephant t tt-w 1 1- .1 r 8 . J 1 , take 'ou lrom anSerSo the old woman jumped on his back and he took her from danger. But before te left her he told her ne would take her home. Then he hurried back to the little frog. The little frog said, "This old woman is very rich." The elephant said nothing and the little frog passed on. The elephant thought if the old woman was rich she could feed him daily. He went back after her, but before he took her he made her promise that she would feed him daily. So she fed him regularly ever af ter. Florence Cooper, Fountain City, Ind., age 10. The higher the style we demand of friendship, the less easy to establish it. one of an English army courier with his feathered messengers in a basket on his back. Dogs are used extensively by the Germans and have been used with great success by the Red Cross on the battlefields. Carrier pigeons are exceptionally valuable carrying messages from bombarded towns. AU armies use them extensively. Aviators on coast patrol along the English channel usually take pigeons up with them. They have saved aviators In trouble time and again as they are his only means of communication should he be forced down over the water.

OLD MAIDS' CORNER

Aunt Matilda's Experiences at High School. (By Aunt Matilda; Freshman). . You know Aunt Matilda is a very noted personage when it conies to doing things she hadn't ought to, ind, well, she's been having a dread, ful time at High school. Her locker is on the second floor, but the first day she was so excited that she forgot and chased clear up to the fourth floor in search of her locker. She knew that it was in a little room with a w hole lot of other lockers just like hers. Well, she declared that she was never going to ask where any thing was when she got to High school, but she couldn't afford to go around in her hat and coat all day so she asked some ono (evidently not a freshie) w ho explained to her that the girls' locker room was in the basement. So, down from the fourth floor to the basement went Aunt Matilda. She searched but her locker she could not find. Presently (after a ten minute search, she came across one of her kind (not an old maid, but a freshman) who directed her to her locker, which proved to be on the second floor. Then, as if she hadn't already had bad luck enough, she couldn't find her first class room until Aunt Mahitable came along and helped her out. Then she' got called down in the library and was asked, if she wasn't from Garfield. But she hasn't lost heart for she finds some consolation in the thought that people who are not now Freshmen will be some day, and that people who are past that embarrassing point, were such things once upon a time. (Wonder if this is a fairy tale?) The End. Betty Jones was somewhat embarrased when Cutie Meyers displayed his awkwardness by sitting down in the middle of the street instead of crossing it properly. What's happened to Beachy Eggemeyer since she's come to High school? She doesn't laugh or giggle any more! We hope that her spirits will soon revive. Just watch Lucile Thurnian if you want a good example of a Freshman. How many of you remember Lucy Eastman? Well, she's back and we all supposed that she would go in as a Freshie like the rest of us but no, she's second term Freshie! Well you'll hear about her later for she's always doing something she shouldn't do and we'll be sure to record it. Have you noticed the littlo blue enamel pin that Roland Poly) Hockett has been wearing on his coat lapel? Well, I'll tell you about it There are four letters and one number on it, which are: G. T. C. B. and 1. That means "Go To Church. B, and I." He went to churcll four months without missing a Sunday and as a reward received his pin. He isn't the only proud one. People are continually calling Aunt Mahitable, Matilda and Aunt Matilda, aunt Mahitable. So we'll try to correct it. The three noted Old Maids and their two names are as follows: Edna Mae Rubey Eliza Jane Comma; Neva Showalter Aunt Ma hitable; Madge Whitesell Aunt Matilda. The Old Maids received quite a compliment one evening when they were in the Palladium office talking to Aunt Molly. A little girl came in and they fell to talking about the Junior. The little girl said (right before the Old Maids, too): "I like everything in the Junior, except the 'Old Maid's Corner.'" Ha! Ha! Some Joke on the Old Maids, hey? RIDDLES 1. To what islands should hungry people go? Ans. The Sandwich Isles. 2. What tree Is nearest to tho see? Ans. The beech. 3. Why are hay and straw like spectacles? " Ans. Because they are forage (for age). 4. Why are pen, ink and paper like 8ts-rs? Ans. Because they, are stationery. Jean Trembler, 7B grade, Columbia City. Ind.