Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 101, 9 March 1918 — Page 12

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THE JUNIOR

The Junior Talladium Is (he children's section or the Richmond Palladium, founded May C, 1016, and issued each Saturday afternoon. AH boys and girls are invited to be reporters nd contributors. News Items, social events, "want" advertisements, stories, local jokes and original poems are acceptable and will be published. Articles should be written plainly and on one sido of the paper, with the author's name and ago signed. Aunt Molly is always glad to meet the children perserially ad they bring their articles to the Palladium office, or to receive letters addrcsscu to the Junior Kditor. This Is your little newspaper and we hopo each boy and girl will use it thoroughly.

Dear Junior Folks: How many of you are buying thrift stamps? If you are patriotic boys and girls (and I think you are) all of you are saving your pennies for thrift stamps. Junior Folks, this is a war that you can -help win, not by fighting as. your olderbrothers are doing, but by loaning your money to the government. How many of you have little banks in which you put your money? I suspect a good many of you have. So Junior Folks, instead of letting this money lie idle why not loan ii to the government, thereby you are not only helping your country but you are saving for yourself because they pay 4 percent Intercut on Thrift and War Saving stamps. Juniors it is as much your duty to buy these stamps as It is the duty of every able bodied man to fight for this country. Many of you have said that there is no way for folks of your age to earn money. Juniors there are just lots of ways. For instance I know a little boy that pumps an organ in a church near his home, with the money he gets for doing this work he buys War Saving S,tampsT"Air of you can not do this but then there are other ways to earn money. Sell newspapers, run errands, sell old magazines and paper, clean off the nidcwalks, carry up coal, etc. So Junior Folks let us not have any more complaints about that. There is a big drive for the sale of Thrift Stamps on now in Wayne County and so Juniors, let us show the adults of the county that we too can buy Thrift Stamps, and. buy them with the money that we have earned ourselves. AUNT MOLLY.

PATRIOTISM Patriotism that Is true, is a pure !ove of the country in which we live nnd to which we owe bo much. Patriot ism leads us to make many personal sacrifices for our own welfare and that of our country. We fhould also offer our lives In its service, and consider ourselves but mere units compared with our great, illustrious country. Next to God, whom we must love, we should love our country. There have been many patriotic men among them were George Washington, who is the Father of our Country and showed his bravery In the Revolutionary War; Abraham Lincoln, sacrificed his life to keep the Union from separating and from ruin. General Grant showed his firmness in the capture of Fort Donelson and Admiral Farragut ticked his life when he captured the Mississippi and New Orleans. Benjamin Franklin was an unflinching patriot. He invested $15,000 in the continental loan, a practical proof of his patriotism, since its payment was extremely improbable. At present the love for our own country is so universal that we may say with the poet Scott: "Breathes there a roan with soul so dead, "Who never to himself hath said. This Is ray own, my native land!" There are also patriotic women, such as Molly Uitcher, who after seeing her husband thad fallen in a battle, took his pla'cc at the cannon. Joan of Arc saved France from destruction and ruin. Also the great Red Cross nurses who talte care or the men who have fallen wounded. President Wilson is doing all in his power to win this war. Hoover, and Barnard are doing their best to conserve the food of the nation. Everyone can save their money and buy Thrift Stamps. When you have sixteen of these stamps, a War Savings Certificate can be obtained at any iank or postoffice by adding a few more cents. Another good thing to do is to buy liberty Honds, and safe and be economical. Carl ilulh, St. Andrew's School. A KIDDLE A man was taking to town a fox, a goose and a bag of beans. While . he was with them there was no trouble. At last he came to a river which he had to cross, there was a boat there but it was so small that besides the man it would hold only one of the three the fox, the goose or the bag of beans. How was the man to get the three across safe? The fox would eat the goose, were there no one to prevent her doing so. So what was to be done? Why, that is easy, said I; first he could take over the goose; uext he could take over the fox and bring back the goose then he could lake over the beans. And on the last trip he could take the goose over for the second time. Dorothy Schlangen. 3rd grade, St. Andrew's School. A workman is known by his work.

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The Haunted Spit it of IJevelvade First a leap, and then a bark, Comes the sound like a meadow lark. Down in the earth where it looks so cold Comes that old, old storv that's told. Where the fathers saw a flame. The children hailed it iu his name; Caught the "drift" and sent it on. Talked about from night til dawn. 'Tis a story that never grows old, Makes no difference how much it's told; You cau smel lit in the air. And then you jump with a trembly scare; First the man of all the land Sent the scare to an enemy band. Kept them out of sight of the cave Right then he saw that they were not brave. Down in a cave so dark and cold Lived a creature and its ancestors old. Cave a bark and spft out flame, All people watched and 'twas just the same. Roamed about at day and night. Disappearing out of sight Switching its tail and breathing perfume, You'd thing 'twas a real for-sure loon. It lived in the cave and ato.the people. Ran in the church; climbed up the steeple. Harked, roared, climbed and leaped You'd dream it ate you when you'd sleep. Now this was a land of spirits true; The people were real ghost like, too. And this inhabitant of the cave Was the haunted spirit of Bevelvade. Miss Emma Miller. Sophmorc. Abington High School. A lOOK WOODCUTTER Once. there was a man and a little girl. Iler mother was dead and they were very poor. The little girl had to go out and pick berries to make their living. One day the man told the little girl to go out to pick some berries and while she was out there, a witch came out of the house and said. "Why arc you picking by berries?" but the little girl said "I did not know they were your's." The wicked witch then took her to a high lower and kept her there The little girl prayed and her father prayed too. as he felt so lonesome without his little girl. Their prayers were heard and shortly arter an angel appeared and told the little girl just to follow him. She did so and that same evening she could be seen kissing away her father's tears of glad ness. Elisabeth Alaurer, 3rd grade. St. Andrew's School-

Studies Finger Prints

Though she is only twenty two years old. Miss Marie Dahm is one of the navy's leading finger-print, experts and she is the second of her set to eater this branch of the government's service. Miss Dahm had studied two years prior to taking the civil service exams, planning to secure a situation in the New York police department. Her work at Washington is of an unusually intricate character. The Value of Prayer One day a poor lady went to a rich butcher and asked for some meat. The butcher seeing that the lady was so poor, asked her, "How can you pay me?' The poor old lady said, "I will pay you with prayers." She told him she would write her prayers on paper and see if the prayers weighed as much as the meat. The butcher then put the paper with prayers on one side of the scale and a piece of meat on the other side! To his surprise be found that the little piece of paper weighed more than (ho meat. He let the poor old lady keep the meat and told her if she needed more she should be sure to call again, as he uow believed prayers were worth something anyway. Edith Metzger, 3rd grade, St. Andrew's School. Nearing the End of School I have to write a book review Entitled "A Girl of the Limberlost," Which to me is something new, And the teacher likes to boss. Because it's nearing the end of school. My Algebra is very hard And I do like to fool. And now I'll have to study hard Because it is Nearing the end of school. My English is the best of alt, With this I do not fool, It was really hard for me last fall, But now it is Nearing the end of school. And History is the worst of all, Although the weather is cool, In this I do not wish to fall Because it's Nearing the end of school. And paper wads, I throw no more, Because the teacher finds them on the floor, And now you see I can not fool. Because it's Nearing the end of school. One little girl wrote a little nole And teacher made her apologize, Although the note had been wrote It wasn't of very large size, And now her time she cannot fool. Because it's Nearing the end of school. Miss Hilda Weiss, Freshman of Abington High School. I MY PET DOG. I had a pet dog whose name was Ted. He had a chum whose name was Spot. They loved each other just like brothers. One was a collie dog and the other was a full blooded hound. These dogs would hrve lots of fun racing. Every night when I came front school they would jump on me. Leoline. Klus, Warner School. Kvil to him who thinks evil.

RIDDLES When does a tailor serve his customers both well and ill? Ans. When lie gives them fits. What is it tflat never ur.es its teeth for eating purposes? Ans. A comb Why is the letter "IV like death? Ans. Because it is the end of life. Why is the school boy being flogged I'ke an eye? Ans. Because he Is the pupil under the lash. When i3 a window like a star? Ans. When it is a skylight. What is the worst weather for rats and mice? Ans. When it rains cats and dogs. Why is a sheet of postage stamps

like distant relatives? - Ans. lie i cause they are but slightly connected. Where did Noah strike the first nail on the ark?- Ans. On the head. j What was Joan of Are made of? i Ans. She was Maid of Orleans. The Tunny Letter A True Story. One day my sister and 1 put a cat in the mail box just before the mail man came. We put the flag up and waited for him. lie thought it was a letter and raised the lid up and the cat jumped up in his face. he just stood there and laughed. He told us thai he would have a package for us some day but he never did. When we went to town he would always ask us how his cat was, and if we had brought it to town with us Bery and Zella Lamb, 6tn grade, Beech Grove School, Winchester, Ind. SOME BEAN As I was going along the street one day, two men were talking about a bean. The first man said, "I went traveling in all parts of the world and in Asia 1 saw a large white bean, larger than a two story house.' The second man replied. "Oh! is that true? Why when 1 came to Asia 1 saw two thousand men making a kettle larger than a two-story house. They had gathered an Immense amount of copper and were trying to have it finished before I left for home." The first man was anxious to know why these men were making such a large kettle, and said. "What in the world were they going to do with thaat large kettle?" The second man replied, "Why to cook that large bean you saw in Asia." Elsie Morgenroth, 7tfh grade, St. Andrew's Catholic School. "FOR DUSTWEIGHT Si - ;- a-: : H A 5

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Albie Sends Left to Mead. Out at Camp Lewis, American Lake, Wash., these two "dustweighf battlers fought a spirited six rounds recently at a Red Cross benefit performance. They are Albie, six, and Jumbo, four, ions of W. H. Davis, superintendent of the Vancouver Island Athletic association. Tbey have netted the Red Cross J4.000 by their fistic exhibitions.

KAISER HILL Kaiser Bill went up the hill, To view the royal Prussia; While viewing with his naked eye He spied far distant Russia. Said he to himself in a voice low and gruff. We will capture that place, that' the stuff. On a day dark and cool, (The Kaiser being a fool) Deliberately declared war on Russia ; But old man in your castle, j on will soon find out. That you will not very long stay in Prussia, For the Sammies are coming k across the sea And landing themselves in France. They are marching themselves toward Prussia; They are on a royal prance. They will capture that palace in no lime. They arc the biggest in the world. They arc almost now to your old Rhine With their flag above all unfurled. Bv Liza Jane.

George Washington the Seeond I have a little hatchet All red, white and blue. And I went into the garden And cut a tree in two. 1 told my father what I did. And this is what he said. "Why George, I am surprised at you!" And jerked me off to bed. I did just like George Washington, Now why do you suppose Before he put me into bed He should have whipped me so? Fay Hollopeter, Garfield. THE POLL PARROT. One time there was a man who had a poll parrot. He invited a man for dinner and the poll parrot flew upon the table and took a pickle from his plate. The man threw a butcher knife at him and cut off the top of the parrott's head. Another time he invited a preacher for dinner who was baldheaded. The parrott asked, "Have you been stealing pickles, too?" Martha Selin, 5th grade, St. Andrew's School. If you want to save Uncle Sam's boys by the bushel; If you want to save Uncle Sam's boys by the peck; Save up your nickels and dimes; Buy Thrift Stamps, and you'll save them all by heck. Agnes Reis, St. Andrew's School, CHAMPIONSHIP"

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