Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 179, 8 June 1918 — Page 9

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WEEKLY SECTION OF RICHMOND PALLADIUM

RICHMOND. INDIANA. JUNE 8. 1918.

PENRODOFTHE U. S. S. G. ARMY By BOOTH TARKINGTON Hon. Franklin K.Lane, the Secretary of the Interior, Washington: Dear Mr. Secretary A kind

friend of mine told me you wrote!

to him to tell me 10 wiite a letter about raising vegaetaules to' eat and all. His name i3 Mr. Tarkington or sumptting like that and he said that he wold adress the letter and all and write what is at the top of this letter to start with. Well, I do not know much about raising vegetaebles yet but I will tell all I know. ' Miss Spence said our class better join the U. S. School Garden Army and when she says we better why we usulay we got to. Besides she said the U. S. Government says so too and it is the School Garden Army Is an Army of the vegetables myself and all. belong to it we are just as much in the army as if we had guns, and will get a bade.e and all and besides can get some money by selling the vegbles. Well, 1 wold like to have some money and so wold any other boy and girl. Besides this I wold do it auyway because if I am in the U. S. S. G., I am in the Army and have a badge. And I can eat some of the vegbles mmyaelf and all. Well, anybody wants to be In the army of course, so I am now a going to be a member of the army. Anybody what says I am not going to be ask whoever they like; tuey will tell them quick uough I am going to be in the Army because 1 am going to be in the U. S. S. G. Armv. It has the U. S. before it

and I guess that is emugh for me I guess. Well so we thought we better eet some practice raising some vegetables, so we went to Sam Williams yard and got two colored boys so as to have them to do a good deal of the work, as they -have got to work almost all the time anyway at their

own house. Tuese two coiorea Doys

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TAKE NOTICE !

YE Sons of Freedom ! all true lovers of the Liberty of your Country! fttp forth, and give your afliftance in building the frigate, to oppofe French infolence and piracy. Let every man in poileflion of a White Oak Tree, be ambitious to be foremoft in hurrying down the timber to Salem.

V and fill the complement wanting, where the noble "A ftrudure U to be fabricated, toniaintain your rights l upon the Seas, and make the name of America rt- ) fpeeled among the nations of the world. Your

Urgett and longelt trees are wanted, and the arms of them for Knees and Rifing Timber. Four trees axe wanted for the Keel, which all together will meafure 146 feet in length,and hew 16 inches fquare. Pleafe to call on the Subfcriber, who wants to make contracts for large or imall ouant itiesi as may fuit bed, and will par the READY

CASH.

ENOS BRIGGS.

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NEW ORLEANS, La. Faded with age, a curiotts old advertisement of singular interest today,

they used to live in the country out printed more than 100 years ago about five and one-half miles and ! in the Salem, Mass.. Gazette, has they know how to raise cabaj and 'just been brought to light to reall. . I mind us that one of our great war

Well.' Sara said we could dig up

his back yard and he wold h.Mp some. . We also got some seeds that we got by trading some old iron to the rag man, and we had onion seed and we had some potatoes eyes and

some corn. Well, it did ot lookj

Hke much use. You can dig up a yard and put these things in and cover them, up, and maybe put some rich dirt on top, and it does not look like much use, I tell you. WeL we sat around there after

problems of the present time is almost identical with that confronting the country in 1798. America needed wooden ships a century past as she does now. At

Salem, "the witch town," there was building a frigate, or war vessel, "a noble structure to maintain our rights upon the seas" Enos Briggs, . the contractor, found the work lagging because a sufficiency of timbers was not promptly forthcoming. So he inserted an advertisement in the Gazette, pictorial enlargement of which, framed, has Just been hung on the wall in the office of John H. Kirby, Lumber

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Administrator of the . South, New Orleans.

History records that in response

to this patriotic appeal the urn

bers needed were promptly obtained

and the Salem frigate was success fully completed, afterward perform

ing valiant service on the high seas. ' So, too, is our wooden fleet

of today rapidly materializing defi

nite and important results. While only a few wooden ships were needed in 1798, hundreds are today being, built for the Emergency Fleet Corporation. . : , v

BUY THRIFT STAMPS

AND BONDS Everybody ought to have Thrift

Stamps if he can not buy Liberty

bonds. Liberty Bonds and Thrift Stamps are helping Uncle Sam

every day. Ana u you conserve

you will have that much saved tor Uncle Sam. We need so much money to carry on this war. Every

bond and Thrift Stamp you buy. will hit the Kaiser in the eye. So please everybody remember and help to win this war. Florence Harris, Sevastopol School.

deal of our plant -and Sam said he one farm and we would not take never did like any plant as much ' anything for hom we felt when as he did that one and so did I; we saw our own plant coming up

While we are giving three cheers for the Kraki let's give as many

for the Gingham. Canning and dry

because when you have raised a plant it is different from any -other

school for several days; when we, plant. And Sam said they were

had put all

these things in the

ground we felt like we wished tbey would come up so we cold look at them. This is not the first time Sam and have planted seed because I expect in our time we have planted more cherry stones and peach 6tones and orange seeds and iemond seeds aud apple seed3 and

coming up so fast now we wold

probaly have 100 . by tomorrow morning.

before school next morning and cause our army is ettin8 to Sam said look what happened and begin to help win the war and see

and getting ready to eat. That u; wb

tional War Garden Commission, Washington. D. C. Instruction book free for. 2 cents to pay postage.

a kina oi a leiung noooay Knows how much excitement there is in it till you see your own plant coming up like that. Well and so that is about all be-

he was almost crying because this

is what had gone on. Well some old chickens had been there and they had scratched up our whole

once we must have planted anyway I farm up the vile old chickens and

1.000,000 watermelon seeds in our eaten up all our seeds Lhat had not yard but you cold go to the place sprouted and there was not any

1,000.000 times and look at It for a couple of hours if you wanted to,

but you wold never see any diference. But that was when we were little and now we are going to be in the U. S. S. G. Army of course we wold know better. When we were little we wold just as leaf do our planting in October as any other time. . Well so one morning before school Sam Williams called me to come over there and he was all hopping when I got to our farm be-, cause there was a little plant sticking up out of the ground and signs of some more coming with little leaves and all. I tell you we never did feel better than when we say that because it was our own little plant on our own little farm and it made us feel hungry like we wanted to eat It ourselves right away, but we did not because of course It wold be too young and if we went and eaten it we cold not sell it. Well, we were pretty glad all day and after school we sat and looked at our farm and pulled some weeds out and we cold see this plant wb already somo bigger. Sam Bald it was going to be potatoes and I thoght onions. Vernon said corn but he probably said that because he Is tonguetled and It was the easiest for blin oay. . Well anyway we thought a great

farm left.

Well we called the two colored boys an they were as mad as any thing but thoy said if they cold find those chickens they knew what they would do with them and so we wold begin all over again and make a new farm, because the spring was early yet and it those chickens cam back well just let them try it that's all. Well in school Miss Spence told us more about the U. S. S. G. the Army. She said there wold be directors to tell us what to do to make our little farms, and wold come back where the farm was like Sam's back yard for instance sometimes, and wold tell us all how to get the farm going so we can see our own vegetableas coming up pretty as anything and sell thorn and moke money and be in the Army. On the badge a captain will have three stars and it Sam la a first lieutenant he will get two stars and if Herman is a second lieutenant he will get one star and Verman will get a badge loo. So we are going to start our farm again and It Is going to be a mighty good farm. She said this army was going to hare 6,000.000 boys and

girls, just as many aajhere will be

soldiers in tho army, and our farm

is going to be the best because we

have already got the experience of

their own plant coming up. Well, we have got some pretty good spades and hos and rakes and trowls and we found where those vile hens cam.? from. They belong to old Mr. Tronket lives three doors up the street from Sam so we thought we better warn this old Tronket and we wrote him a note. It said if any more vile hens found on our farm .hey will then be the property of a poor colored family that is in need. So we expect there will probably be no more trouble and pretty soon some morning we will fee our own plants coming up again and will all be looking 'at our own good old plants and wearing our badge of the U. S. S. G. Army. Yours sincerely. PENROD SCHOFIELD.

MY BIRD HOUSE I MADE AT SCHOOL. Every Thursday afternoon at Sevastopol school we ' have manual training. One day we made a bird house for a Jenny Wren. After it was made, I brought ten cents to school and paid for it I then took it home and painted it brown. Then I put it up in a cherry tree. Two days later I saw. two Wrens flying around the house. Then 1 watched them for a little while and

then they flew away. I went into the house and got some string and put on the limbs close to the house. I waited till the Wrens came back. When they came I saw that they had something in their mouths. - Then I saw one or them go into the house and when it came out it saw the strings and pulled one in and left the others.

Then I went in and told my mother that the Wrens ! were building in my house. And now. the nest is about finished. Harold Jordan, Sevastopbl school. NATURES TOKENS We go today with solemn tread, . In May-time's fairest hours, To deck each brave, true soldier! . '-grave -. With i.urest, sweetest flower. And the laurel wreath tenderly- . Its glory shall never fade, But ever more shall brightly tell, ' Where our heroes all -are laid.-

Our hands shall gather blossom sweet, For brave men lying low; -Our hearts shall to the soldiers ,' dead, ...-.;.. . All love and honor show. , We'll love the flag they loved so well, The dear old banner bright, Well love the land for which they ' fell . ' , . With soul and strength and . - might. ;' Contributed by Vincent Mercuric St. Mary's School.

THE HEN'S MISTAKE. My dears, whatever are you at? You ought to be at home I told you not to wet your feet I told you not to roam. Oh, dear, I'm sure you will be drowned, I never saw such tricks. Come home at once and go to bed You naughty, naughty chicks. Now most of them were five days old But one whose age was six Tlease ma, he said, I think we're ducks, I don't believe we're chicks. Contributed by John Chartnan, St. Mary's School.

KEEP THE HOME-FIRES BURNING ; By request of the teachers in the grade schools we publish the following:

They were summoned from the hill-side, t ' They were called in from the glen, And the country found them ready i At the stirring call for men. ,.: J Let no tears add to their hardship ; - As the Soldiers pass along, And altho your heart is breaking Make it sing this cheery song. - "' Keep the Home-Fires burning While your hearts are yearning Though your lads are far away . 4 They dream of Home. There's a silver lining , Thru the dark clouds shining Turn the dark clouds inside out Till the boys come Home. - Refrain ' . Over seas there came a pleading "Help a nation in distress !" , " And we gave our glorious laddies Honor made us do no less ' For no gallant son of Freedom To a tyrants' yoke should bend, y . ' And a noble heart must answer . To the sacred call of "Frieud.' Refrain -