Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 87, 21 February 1918 — Page 9

THE PJCHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. THURSDAY, FEB. 21, 1918

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PREBLE COUNTY TEACHERS WILL MEET SATURDAY

Meeting of Teachers at Eaton Will Be "Home Affair." EATON. O., Feb. 12 Addresses and other features of a meeting of the l'roble County Teachers' association, to be held Saturday in West Alexandria, in the high school auditorium, will bo supplied by persona living in the county, the meeting to be strictly'a "home affair." The following pro- ' gram is announced: Morning session, 9:30 Invocation, Rev. J. W. Miller, West Alexandria; piano solo, Byron Young; "The Necessity and Value of High School Athletics," F. O. Grasshoff; "Measuring the Work of the Public Schools," Reuben Koch; "Teaching Children How to Study,"'1, Miss Zetta Huber, director of county normal school; "Elementary Science," C W. Walters, of Eaton; "The Relative Attitude of Teacher and Pupil," Miss Anna Crouse. West Alexandria; "School Life," F. E. Rinehart, president West Alexandria Board of Education; Intermission ; "Qualifications of a Good Member of Board of Education," Alfred Murray, president Jefferson Township Board of Education ; "The Press and the Country Schools," Editor Ralph R. Raney, New J Paris; "Value of School Exhibits," Miss Gertrude McSbane, Camden; "To What Extent Should the School Cencern Itself With the Social Life of the Pupils," Miss Mary Swartzel, West Alexandria; "Mental Arithmetic," Attorney E. S. Dye, Eaton ; domestic science department of West Alexandria schools will serve lunch at noon. Afternooa session, 1:00 o'clock "The, Teaching of History and the War," E. H. Young; "Parent-Teachers' Association " Mrs. Bertha Larsh; "The Challenge of the Crowd," E. C. Eikenberry, president Preble County Board; of Education; "The Medical Examination of School Children," Dr. S. P. Carter, member West Manchester Board of Educatiou; "The War and the Schools," W. S. Pinl.erton, clerk of Israel township Board of Education; "Should Grade Pupils Study at j Home?" Mrs. Blanche Shively; inter-! mission; violin solo, Eugene Derby, West Alexandria; "How Can the Schools be of Greater Service to the Community," G. S. Dennison; "Elementary Civics in the Grades," John O'Leary, superintendent Eaton schools; "Teaching Latin in the High School," Miss Zelma Nunnamaker; "Shall Teachers be Paid When Schools Are Closed on Account of No Fuel," C. W. Mcintosh, West Alexandria; "Army Life at Camp Sherman, E. E. j McClellan; adjournment. i Gives Red Cross Part of Home .it Mrs. Herbe.rt Shipman. Mrs. Herbert Shipman, only heir of Edson Bradley of New York and Washington, has given part of her New York mansion to the American Red Cross for workrooms. She is an active workers herself. CONTRIBUTED VERSE A TOAST Hero's to that flag, that grand old flag, That starry flag of the red, white and blue. Here's to that flag, that proud old flag, 'tis emblematic of all that is true. Hero's to that flag, my flag--your flag, Proclaiming to the world, Democracy l superior to Autocracy! UJlorlous flag, wonderful flag, AVhen this most frightful, bloody war ' is o'er. May you as you wave, mean peace .evermore! Mrs. Russell Wiley. Court Records r. Marriage Licenses. Homer Arthur Bertsch, 30, farmer, Cambridge City., to Mary Daphne nnliaf ! THtri Trill SCOUTS WILL MEET J Scout Master Schaluch will meet all bovs of Scouts or Troop Three Saturday at the high t-chool. The boys will

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FRENCH AIR CRUISER CARRIES LOAD OF WOE TO THE GERMANS

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Adjusting a bomb in a French airplane.. The photo shows how our fighters in theairprepare to carry a bit of sad news to the foe. It gives an unusually accurate idea of the size and power of the weapons that are carried over the enemy lines by the ally airmen. It would appear that we are able to do quite a little "strafing" on our own account.

Home Letters Hold Front-Line . Trenches Says Wounded Officer

This story is a plea to the folks back home to write to their soldiers wherever they may be and to keep on writing. Without the mail from home the Canadian troops could never have endured the horror of the terrible winter of 1914-15, when though cutnumbered and out-armed they held at bay on their sector the Kaiser's trained troops and helped save World Democracy. From practically every man in close touch with the troops comes the appeal to do everything" possible to get the folks back home to write. They urge that the homefolk be asked to write now and to keep on writing, that they do not wait for an answer, but send letters regularly. "WRITE TO THEM!" New York, Feb. 21. "Tell the women of America to write letters to their men at the front, and then more letters. It's home-letters that hold the front-line, trenches." This is the message brought back to America by Captain H. H. Pearson, the first Canadian to go to France after war was declaredt and the first to see service with Kitchener's army. Later he was wounded when a bomb struck the Young Men's Christian Association headquarters at Belgian Poperinghe, of which he was in charge. He lias seen hundreds of men go over the top, and a lesser number come back again. He has been over the top and come back again. Both from experience and from observation he knows what it is that puts heart into soldiers when they stand near the edge of No Man's Land, with the shells bursting around them. For two years, Capt. Pearson, as a commissioner officer of the Canadian Army, has supervised the Young Men's Christian Association work along the entire Canadian front in France. He was wounded twice and "gassed" and has now been sent home by the Canadian Army to tell the folks back home of the conditions "over there." So Captain Pearson, a big. modest man, with as untroubled a smile as if he had never heard of a world-war, but with remembering eyes that all men have when they come back from it. has a good deal to say of .woman's plain duty in war time. Write to Him and Do It Often. "Write to them!" he urges. "If you have a relative or friend at the front write to him, and do it often. Letters from strangers don't count, of course, but the others no one can say how much they matter. Why do you suppose that the. .Young Men's Christian Association spends thousands of dollars every month for paper and ink? It isn't so much because we are thinking of the home-folk; they must look out for themselves in time of war. We want those letters written so that the mothers and the sisters and the wives and the sweethearts back home may answer them as soon as possible. It's the answers we are interested in, because we know how those letters in the familiar hand-writing are going to help win

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, the battle." Americans will never see the most ' terrible part of the war, Captain Pearson declared. , "The most terrible part of the war I was that first winter of it the end ; of 1914, the beginning of 1915," he said. "During that first winter of the j war, when the enemy marched against . us with machine guns and all the mod- ! ern instruments of war-fare, and we ! had no guns, no ammunition, nothing but sheer strength of will to go on, it was really the letters from home that held the lines for us. We did it because the home-folk expected us to do it, and said so in their letters. "You may say that this is all sentiment. Well, this is a war of sentiment. It's sentiment that took us over there to fight, and it is sentiment that is taking you Americans. "Anyhow, soldiers are like that. I've known some of them that haven't gotten a word from home in all the time they have been gone, more than three years now. It may have been because their women were slackers, and it nny have been because their letters had gone astray. They were a very different lot, as a rule, from the chaps who got letters from home regularly, and they went into the fight with a different spirit. Sometimes a boy who hadn't heard from -home for two years or more would get his letters at last, a lot of them in a bunch. You ought to have seen his face when he saw his name on the envelope, and knew that those letters were for him! You ought to have seen how many times he got j those letter out and re-read them. when he thought no one was looking! You ought to have seen the vim with which he went into the next battle!" Tell Him The News. What kind of letters should the home-folk write to the soldier at the front? Literary quality isn't the thing most needful in them, of course. Perhaps the best of them all are the ones packed full of little homely details r accounts of the new neighbors across the street, ai.d of the words the baby has learned to say, and of how Jimmy is growing out of all his clothes, and getting to look more like his daddy every day and if he just grows up to be half so good a man It will be all right. These are the letters that are oftenest re-read by the soldier before he goes over the top, just commonplace letters that teil of everyday happenings back home ,and of the love and the trust that are in keeping for him there. Don't Blur Letters With Tears Certain other types of letter ought ; never to be sent to the men at the front. One is that written by the self- i ish or thoughtless woman whose closely written pages are blurred with her tears, and taken up with her own sorrow in having her soldier so far from home, and her plea for him to come back at once, since everything is "going wrong without him. One of the Young Men's Christian Association secretaries in France tells of a promising young chap who came back from leave with every appearance of having been drinking heavily. "You see," the young soldier told the Young Men's Christian Associa 3 Rolls Toilet Paper at 10c 15c 15c 17c Sweet Oranges, dozen at Two 10c Sacks Salt at 5 lbs. Cooking Apples at or money.refujided..

tion man, "I got a letter from my mother, and she was so worried about my going wrong over, here, and so sure that I bad inherited alcoholic tendencies from my father,, that I got desperately blue, and went on a spree to forget all about it." - Moral Conditions Are Good. Moral conditions in the army are a great deal better than -is commonly reported, Captain Pearson said. No mother, he thought, needed to worry more about her soldier-son on this score than she would if he were anywhere else. The army is as safe a Place for a boy as can be found. But the home-town across the seas seems a long way from the 8hell-ecarred field In France, and there is little to remind a man of the home-standards and home-traditions in the strange new .life within range of the bursting shells. He needs letters from his family to do It. In maintaining high moral conditions, as well as in keeping the morale of the army what it should be. Captain Pearson believes that letters from home play a larger part than any other thing. "Men don't talk much about homesickness, and. perhaps women don't understand just how lonesome life is for them over there," he said. "I've seen big, rough soldiers, the most hardened ones in camp, turn all woman when it came to cuddling some French youngster who happened to be about the place, some baby that looked like one of their own at home, or that they imagined looked like one of their own., It's the unusual soldier Men's Christian Association worker snapshots of his girl back home, or a picture of his mother, or of his children;" All women' want to help "in " war time. The trouble is that most of them would like to go over to France, or in some way to give personal service to the soldiers. But the real way to be of aid is to do ordinary, unspectacular things over here, to send their men off cheerfully, and to write the kind of letters that keep them of good courage. Get Ready to do Men's Work. "There is very little that women can do for our soldiers over there," Captain Pearson declared. "What the American women ought to be doing now, in my opinion, is to be getting ready to do men's work, in case of war lasting a long time. In France you will see them busied with almost every task that men formerly did, hitched to the plow in the fields, driving the motor cars in the cities, doing almost everything you can mention, brave, devoted women who are every whit as good soldiers as their men at front. In Canada and in England it is almost the same; there are few men left at home, and the women must do the work. "When it comes to sending homeboxes to the soldiers over-Seas, women should be sure that they send gifts that are needed ,and that won't spoil en route. A lot of junk merely clutters things up for the soldiers there. But a letter is a gift that is always timely, and never in the way. War just - shows how wonderful women can be. But sometimes they don't understand how lonesome soldiers get, and how far from everything they feel over there on the border of No Man's Land. They wait for answers to their letters, and don't stop to figure out that they are neglecting one of their wartime jobs. "Write to them!"

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Kent Morse will have charge of the French classes and Miss Grace Woodyard will have charge of the beginners and advances classes in Spanish. Persons may register at any time for work in any department of the night school. Those who register early, however, will receive more credit in the work than others. The following corps of teachers will have charge of the classes; Benjamin Null, public speaking; Miss Margaret O'Neil, typewriting; L. B. Campbell, stenography; L.A. Newgard, bookkeeping; G. C. """Sfpple, commercial arithmetic; Miss Margaret Wi'ckemeyer, gymnastics; Kent Morse, French; Grace Wbodyard, Spanish; C. O. - Mays, drafting; Mrs. Theodore Roberts, sewing; Miss Mable . Reller, sewing; Mrs. Clifford Bevington and Miss Ruth Bartel. millinery; J. H. Williams and William Saunders, - automobile; Miss Agnes Osborn, practical nursing; E. F. Murphy, gardening. . f" The Richmond Art Association will give a reception Wednesday evening at the Art Gallery in connection with the Arts and Travels class. Gardner E. F. Murphy will start his course in gardening some time in DR. E. A. WYSONG Dentist Murray Theatre Bldg. Phone 2909 Evenings by Appointment

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April. Persons - may register with Principal Carman at any time.. An art teacher will be secured for the Art department. The appointment will be made Friday. The automobile class meets Monday evening in the lunch room.

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