Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 262, 14 September 1918 — Page 11

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18) THE JUNIOR PALLADI UM M WEEKLY SECTION OF RICHMOND PALLADIUM RICHMOND, INDIANA SEPT. 14, 1918

American Soldiers Adopt More'than 400 French War Orphans American soldiers in France, are adopting little war orphan children over there in order to show their great love for France, and to help lessen the suffering in every way they can. By the first of August over four hundred had been adopted and the cause has been growing more popular all the time. The soldiers call the children their mascots, and many of the adopted sons and daughters are writing back to their American ."fathers," through a special department of "The Stars and Stripes," the newspaper which the American soldiers in France are publishing tach week. Here are two letters which were In the August issue of the paper: My dear Parrain: I send you" two words to let you know that I am well and hope you are the same. I thank you very much for your kind gift and your interst in my sister. I also hope that you have received by picture; you will see that I am a good boy. I go to school every day to learn how to read and write, and, when I am grown, to defend my country. I shall eat well so as to glow strong and tall and to become a well-edu

cated boy, polite to everybody and i respectful to old people. We are living in a refuge, the same as soldiers do, and have to go for our soup twice a day. Well, it Is war! I am a total orphan. Mother died five years ago. When war broke out father had to go to da his duty and leave us all four, my sister, who is 18, my brother, who is 16, and is in invaded country, my other brother, who is 13, also in invaded country with an aunt, and myself. My father was very much grieved to leave his motherless children. After a stay of three months at the front he came back to see us and afterwards he died. I am living with my sister, who supports me, but when I am grown I shall give everything back to her. Your loving mascot, Andre Jacquere. . . . Watches Americans Land. My dear Sponsors: It is with a big heart that I write to thank you for your kindness in taking me as your little ward. I am eight years old and go to primary school. I am in the fourth class and I like going to school very much. After school I go on errands for mother or else I play with my doll. I put her to bed and dress her very often. I love going down to watch the Americans land. I try talking with them, but I cannot understand what they say. They remind me of my dear papa, who was a lieutenant of the infantry and was killed at the Dardanelles on May 4, 1915, leaving mother, with my sister Yvenne, who is 15 years old, my brother Charles who i3 13, and myself, and also grandmother, who lives with us and is 86 years old. I leave off, dear sponsers, with a big kiss for you all and with heartfelt thanks. Your little ward will not forget you. Madeleine Pelion. Be a General Pershing Junior Every boy and girl in Wayne county can be a General Pershing, Jr., in helping win the war. How? It is sometttfng like thisr General Pershing could not stand out on the battlefield by himself and win the war. In fact ,he could not do anything, himself. But he does know how to direct other people to be in the right places and do the right thing; and that is the way we are going to win the war. The boy or girl in Richmond may not have enough money of his own to buy a Liberty Bond, but that does not keep him from being a General Pershing, Jr., and getting some one else to do it. In other campaigns some of the largeGt subscriptions were gained through children's patriotic speeches, and boy scouts in this city raised almost $1,000.

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President Poincare at front. President Poincare of France was so delighted at the gallant work of American forces at the start of the great allied offensive that he visited the battle fie'.ds at Chateau-Thierry recently. Ho heard from the old French folk how the U. S. boys had given the Hun3 a terrific drubbing. Then he visited the American troops and talked with many of the soldiers who helpad in the drive at that point.

3,805 Children in the Puhlic Schools on Opening Day Richmond boys and girls are patriotic in carrying out the wishes of President Wilson and all government officials by going to school in war times. Records of the first day in school this year I with last year show an increase In the Richmond schools of 56 children; making a total of 3,805. When war was declared in England in 1914, it was during vacation but such excitement prevailed on the streets that the officials thought it better to have the children in schools, and so schools began earlier than usual. But the attendance in the schools went down lower and lower, and children even were allowed to leave the schools in order to work. For two years this contipued, but j by that time the mistake of not! keeping the children in school was seen, and since then the laws forcing children to go to school wero made more strict than ever. Comparative numbers in the schools on the opening days in 1917 and 1918 are as follows: - School 1917 Finley 232 Starr 488 Whitewater 236 Hibberd 313 Vaile 308 Baxter t 281 Sevastopol 257 Joseph Moore 8!) Garfield 548 High School 703 1918 244 497 275 298 326 300 244 103 558 692 Total 3749 3805 An All Night Hike Taken by Local Scents Boy Scouts of Troop 3 and any Y. M. C. A. boys from 12 to 16 years old who desire, will leave Saturday evening on an all night hike over to Cedar Springs. The boys will be under the charge of V. D. Brammer, former Scout Master and Y. M. C. A. Boys' Secretary, and will take two army tents and their track-cart to carry the provisions. Saturday night after camp has been' pitched the boys will have Scout sports, and the next morning Sunday school will be held in the woods. The boys will return Sunday evening.

OF FRANCE PRAISES AMERICANS

How War History Is Gleaned From BatleHelds Is Told to the Children

LONDON (Correspondence of the Associated Press) A few years hence, school children studying their histories of the great war, may be curious to know just how the minute details of the battles were assembled. Teachers will find the answer in the historical sections of the various armies and the officers who roamed the fields, searching for data, rescuing precious incidents from oblivion, gathering the details of chaos into an intelligent story. It was Canada which first set the example of how to glean history from the rubble of the battlefields. When the United States entered the war, its officers who were selected for historical work and the benefit of the experience of the allies. Photographs, sketching and painting have a big share in the task of recording the war, France having set an example for pictorial efficiency with its mission des beaux arts. Up and down the front among battalions go special officers giving instructions to battalion headquarters how to write their official war Boys Are Once More Making Y. M. C. A. Lively Boys' life at the Y. ha.3 reawakened, and the chairs are receiving the usual numbers of battle marks from the gentle treatment of the young Americans. Although classes in first aid will not be started for several weeks, it is believed the furniture will be able to sustain its casualties at least until Open House is held, Saturday, September 21. Junior Preps will be "has beens" at the Y. M. C. A. this winter, said Secretary Brunaon. "There aint going to be no sech anumal." All boys from ten to fifteen, inclusive, will be classed as Juniors, and their w ork will be the same. TWO OF A KIND. My daughter has three children. Tho oldest of these asked his mother what the minister's son was going to be in the army, and his mother answered, "A chaplain." The youngest, of course being a girl, asked, "Is he going to be Charlie Chaplin?" N. T, Chicago Tribune.

diaries, which are supposed to be accurate chronicles of the doings of the battalion month by month. If a big event occurs, the battalions concerned chronicle their part in it, the narrative being signed by the commanding officer. Then the diaries are sent to headquarters wber they are filed, tabulated and preserved by the historical section. Behind the front line a staff of protographers and moving picture men are constantly at work on incidents which in time will be recorded and shown to the public. There also are the artists with their paint and brushes getting local color, painting the havoc, of war as it is. Reality Is what they strive for. Recently an artist was so anxious to get a glimpse of the actual happenings ot a little raid that he went over the top with tho troops into a German trench. Another working near the front remained too long In an exposed position and an inroad of enemy raider forced him to hurry away from his quarters so quickly that many of hi3 canvases were captured.

Little French Children Will Have Kindergartens American kindergarten teachers have felt so keenly the needs of the French children, especially the very little children who are not quite old enough for school and yet have been so sad that they have forgotten how to laugh, that the teachers have raised a fund of $35,000 to send American girls over to France, and start kindergartens. They hope that it will not be long now, before many of those sad little folks will be laughing and sinking in their kindergarten work and play, just as tho American children do at our schools. STORY HOUR NEXT WEEK. Story hour will be held for children every afternoon during Yearly Meeting next week at four o'clock in the Sunday school room of East Main Street Friends' church. All children of the city who would like to hear the stories are invited to come. Indian stories, fairy stories, and especially stories of foreign lands will be told by several young women of the city, so that a variety of stories is assured.

American Sczta Claas is Planning Christmas for French Boys and Girls The American Santa Clans Is almost scratching his head bald, this year In trying to puzzle out how he is going to reach all of Uncle Sam's nephews who are on foreign soil. It isn't the small chimney problem which Is bothering the good fat saint this year; it is the problem of squeezing his huge overcrowded pack in between cargoes of food and amunition and supplies vital to the welfare of the soldiers and winning the war. , " Boys and girls mayn't be able to send their big brothers or uncles or fathers any Christmas packages, but they can fix up many Interesting types of Christmas letters, or send Christmas cards, or even little joke books which they make themselves, so that the American soldiers can have Christmas presents after all. And since the soldiers know that Christmas boxes from America cannot be shipped to them this year, they are planning even now, to make the Christmas of 1918 stand out in the memory of every French, Italian or Belgian child as the happiest they ever had. . In all the cities the ArSerican Y. M. C. A. men and K. of C. leaders are arranging to have big Christmas trees which will be loaded with presents for every boy and girl and even for the older people of the village, and since Santa Claus himself will be so busy all over the rest of the world, the American soldiers are planning to dress like the good old saint themselves and be his right-hand helpers. All the old churches and cathedrals will be decorated with the American type of Christmas trimmings and everything will be dona to celebrate the day with the greaW est spirit possible. Santa Claus and Christmas trees will seem all very .new and interesting to the French children, for their usual Christmas saint is Noel who comes to their door very quickly in the middle of the night and leaves his presents in their shoes, instead of on a Christmas tree or in their stockings. ' And so, with all the preparations to help poor over-worked Santa Claus, perhaps even though he himself will have to stay in America his spirit will be carried over into France in such great measure that 1918 may prove to be tho happiest Christmas yet, even In war times.

Eight Million Children Now in Junior Red Cross In ten months from the time the Junior Red Cross was organized, it has grown to have 8,376,643 members. That means almost one million members a month, and the jwork which the Junior Red Cross I boys and girls are doing proves burning patriotism. Hospital garments and supplies and comfort kits have been turned into the different Red Cross chapters by the thousands, all made as a part of the regular school sewing course. In school workshops, the boys have mad packing boxes for tho Red Cross, knitting needles, games, articles of furniture for convalescent soldiers, puzzles and dozens of other articles. Cooking classes have sent jam and other delicacies to camps and hospitals. Last January when the Red Cross Commission asked for clothes for the refugees, the Junior Red Cross more than raised its quota of 255,000 garments. In order to earn the money to make each school a Red Cross unit the boys and girls have been giving entertainments, held bazaars, sold papers, peanuts, rags and jung, saved tinfoil, and gone without candy, peanuts and chewing gum, and so have raided the amount equal to twenty-five cents from every pupil. GREAT LUCK. My little son was so 111 when school started that he could hardly, raise his head from the pollow. J Still he looked at me smilingly and' said: "Gee, mother, I call this a piece of good luck ,to keep well al vacation and get sick when school starts." C. M. G, Chicago Tribune.