Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 279, 5 October 1918 — Page 12

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RICHMOND PALLADIUM. OCTOBER 5. 1913

"Every Bond Helps Win the War," Says Floyd Gardener The following Four Minute Speech, by Floyd Gardner, was given honorable mention In the Junior Four Minute Men Speakers contest held in the fifth room of Baxter school last Friday: " America Is in war with Germany. At present our country has one million and a half soldiers over there to help the allies put down German kultur and to make the "world safe for democracy." Only last month thirteen million men were registered in the United States and of this number about three million will be selected for service. To keep this vast number of men requires an enormous amount of money. The government has already bad three loans and is now asking for the fourth. The National Loan amotmts to $6,000,000,000 of which Wayne county must raise $2,400,000. Wayne county has always gone over the top with flying colors so let us all help in the Fourth Liberty Loan and show that we are back of. Uncle Sam and the boys "over there." : We need this money for the sol- . diers, to buy guns, fcod, and war ships. Every bond helps the soldiers win this great war.

New Girls Ask to Join Girl Scoats At the Girl Scout meeting which was held at the Girl Scout's headquarters at 8 N. 10th street, Tuesday evening, October 1, the following girls signified their intention of joining the organization: Velma Leighton, Helen Miksell, Bertha Folkner, Merle Edwards, Esther Coppack, Mildred Gardner, Helen Hancock and Ruth Brady. These girls will not however, become full fledged members until "' they pass certain tests which are designated in the rules of the organization. 1 FOUR-MINUTE TALKS Almost every school in the city ,' has started having the boys and . girls give 4-minute talks in the different rooms, and some of the chilrlrnn worn wnnHarinir whttt t n tallr about or why these talks were given. Do any of you know anyone who .has gone away to be a soldier? Where did ' he go? Why has- he , gone? Why are we fighting the Germans? What did they do to our ships? Suppose a German airplane . should fly over our city. What would happen to us? That is why father or brother has gone to show them that they must not sink ships, to drive them out of the countries where they have been burning and killing. JUST ONE DETAIL. First Officer: "You attack in the morning. Is everything ready well in advance?" Second Officer: "Practically. We haven't decided yet what to do With the German prisoners."Life. I EXCHANGE COLUMN Open to All Boys and Girls. These Ads Cost You Nothing; Send in Your "Wants" to The Palladium Junior. FOR SALE Airplanes for 20, 25 and 30 cents. Inquire of Leoline Klus and Andrew Spaulding at 915 N. G. street. FOR SALE Foui Belgian Hares. Three does and one buck nine months old. Phone 3672. FOR SALE Irish Mail. $1.00. Books, "The Tin Box," and "Caricature, the Wit and Humor of a ; Nation , in Picture, Song and Story." See Charles Walsh, 308 South Fourth street. WANTED At once, to buy Greon ' Trading Stamps. Charles Walsh, 308 South Fourth street. FOR SALE Ladles' wheel. $5.00. Call at 200 North Twenty-first St., FOUND A red sweater belt in the 8outn Tenth Street park. Owner may have same by calling Elsie Baker, 207 South Tenth street

LONE FLIER FIGHTS EIGHT HUN PLANES BRINGS DOWN THREE AND ESCAPES DEATH

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"Climbed to the left hand bottom side of the plane:" Drawn by Bernhard Hugh. Lieut. A. W. Hammond, Royal flying force, has been awarded a bar to his military cross for his daring work in fighting eight German airplanes and escaping death. While out with his pilot harassing enemy troops from a height of 500 feet the eight German fliers attacked him. By skillfully directed fire he succeeded in shooting three of them down out of control. He was wounded in six places by the enemy's fire while disposing of the three, but battled on against the remaining five planes

until his machine caught fire. Then ing the pending disaster. Climbing

the plane the pilot controled the machine from the 6ide of the fuselage and a landing was made in No Man's and. The two men sought shelter in a shell hole and remained hidden there until rescued by British infantry.

Boy Scouts Will Help in Liberty Loan as "Gleaners After the Reapers"

Now comes the Fourth Liberty Loan campaign. Not a new experiment, like the first one in June last year, but an established system, tried and proven Kocd for all con- ' cerned. The Boy Scouts of America will do their share as before, beginning this time with the opening day on September 28, and hustling until the lights are out on October 19. It is expected that they will again act in taking subscriptions as "gleaners after the reapers." Mobilization plans have been practiced until they move like clockwork. Every Scout knows his place, and his work. The veteran campaigner has instructed the tenderfoot. The Boy Scouts of America have notably succeeded in three Liberty Loan campaigns. They have secured one out of every twenty-three Liberty Bond subscriptions received by our Government received by our Government. Scouts Pledge 100 Service. In the fourth campaign the scouts will be under the direct supervision of the local Liberty Loan Committees. Sevretary McAdoo has recommended it in letters to the chairmen of the- local Liberty Loan Committees. President Livingston of the Boy Scouts of America has pledged the organization to 100 per cent, unqualified and energetic support of the Government. The President of the United States of America says: "The active service of every scout and scout official enrolled as a member of the Boy Scouts of America is depended upon to help make the Fourth Liberty Loan a success." To Aid Local Committees. In view of the great work done by the Boy Scouts of America in previous loan campaigns the Unit

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out on the bottom left hand side of ed States Treasury Department, through L. B. Franklin of the National Liberty Loan Committee, has out'ined a more comprehensive plan than 'any of the previous ones which the Treasury Department wishes the great army of Boy Scouts of America to follow. After consultation with James E. West, Chief Scout Executive, and following a conference in New York at the Boy Scouts' National Headquarters, 200 Fifth Avenue, it was decided to make it optional with the different local councils of the Boy Scouts of America, with the approval of local Liberty Loan Committees, whether or not the scouts in a locality shall work as canvassers throughout the entire three weeks of the Liberty Loan work to the last week only as "gleaners after the reapers." Prints 600,000 Manuals. Tte Government has printed 600,000 copies of a sales maunal for the scouts. It says in part: "You are the messenger of the United States Government. Yes, you are more, you are a member of Uncle Sam's team of trusted selling agents. Look "the part. You are the President's messenger. Act the part. A pleasant good morning may help to sell a Liberty Bond. If you fail at the first interview, a pleasant goodby may help you get another chance. Never urge anyone to give you an application for a Liberty Loan Bond merely because it will help your record; always for the country's sake and as a good business investment. Don't forget you are working for the Government. Live up to your Scout reputation for cheerful and co-operative service." BUY A LIBERTY BOND AND BACK OUR BOYS

Little Folk's Corner

Little folks, I am going to :was very patriotic. This little

and her name is Norene. Little Norene has a brother seven years old who goes to school. One day Norene's brother Melvin came home from school and told his mother about thrift stamps. His mother told him if he would clean up the yard every Saturday she would give him two thrift stamps per week. Melvin did as his mother suggested and he ndw has a War Saving Stamp. Norene wanted thrift stamps and so her mother told her that if she would be good, she too, would receive two thrift stamps per week. One day Norene's mother gave her a pocket book and her thrift stamp book and told her to go to the store. When Norene reached the store she gave the man her purse and thrift stamp book. The man opened the purse and found some money and a note. The note read: "Please give my little girl a War Savings Stamp. The money is the extra money to pay for it." The storekeeper gave Norene the W. S. S. On the way home Norene met a soldier and said to him, "How-do-you-do, Mister Soldier? I'se got a present for 'ou." She then put the W. S. S. into the soldier's pocket and said, "Now don't 'ou look at that until 'ou get home." The soldier gave her a dime and said, "All right little girl." When Norene got home her mother said, "Norene, where is that book I gave you?" I gave it to a nice soldier, muvver," answered Norene. "He gave me ten cents." That night at the supper table Norene's mother said to her husband: "Well, Norene surely has done her bit today and I'm sure that when she gets old enough to know that she gave a soldier a War Savings Stamp she will not regret it." And she explaided what Norene had done. JULIA VR. BURR, 206 N. 9th St.

Query Corner

The editor will try to answer question) readers of the Junior submit fo her. She will not promise to answer t;ll of them The questions will be answered in rotation, so do not expect the! answer to be printed in the1 same week in which you send It In. Dear Aunt Molly: What question can't you answer? Betty Price. Dear Betty: The one question which to me is the most mysterious and only absolutely unanswerable question in the whole world is the question of Nothing. Have you ever thought much about Nothing? I have and I can't seem to find out anything about Nothing at all. I've tried to picture what Nothing would look like, but. all I can think of is a big black . ..... .. ; I. u : .. I. J n.itu I cifaiuit? wiiu ins utrctu turi'icu niiu a deep dark hood, and after all that is Something instead of Nothing. In mathematics at college, we used to try to figure out what Nothing was, but even then we called it something, (Zero,) and when we worked our problems, instead of putting nothing down, we would put down a big round O. Besides we couldn't make it behave. If two is divided by two the answer is one; four goes into four, once; nine goes into nine once; and so Nohing must go into Nothing once, or Nothing divided by Nothing one. Queer business to start out with Nothing and end up with Something, isn't it? But I am by no means Jlhe only one who has puzzled over the wonderful mysteries of Nothing. One day each year is given over to celebrating the great spirit of Nothing, and every red blooded boy and girl has more fun that night than at any other time on' Hallowe'en. For the true spirit of Hallowe'en one should hear creaking footsteps overhead, and when going to investigate, find Nothing there. Or one should see glaring eyes staring in at the window, but, when turning on the light, find Nothing there. Or best of all, one should feel cold .damp fingers on the back of one's neck, and a chilling human, breath silently exhaled against one's flesh, but, when wheeling about, find Nothing standing behind you, noiselessly awaiting his time to clutch you. Nothing what . is it? No one knows. And where does Nothing live? None can tell. Men used to say Nothing lived in a hole, but now we know that every empty hole is filled with air (and microbes.) And then they said, "But

tell you about a little girl who

girl in about three years old suppose we draw all the air from a hole and make a vacuum, then surely we can find Nothing there." But scientists tell us that even a vacuum is filled with ether, so that Something is there, also, instead of Nothing. In all the world Nothing seems to be homeless, and indeed some ! people have begun to doubt wheth er Nothing ever has made itself known to us; and so, Betty, I'm sorry to have to admit It, but being very limited in brain capacity, . I fear that one question I' cannot answer is about Nothing Aunt Molly. Dear Aunt Molly Why do stories always end "lived happily ever after?" Madeline Branson, age 9. Dear Madeline Because everybody naturally wants to te happy so much, that when they have a chance to make the story book folks do as they like, of course they have them living happily on forever. If they did not have the story book people living all right, it would worry the readers so much they couldn't .est easily, and so, when the. good pilot of the story leaves the command of the ship, he has to assure everyone that there will be good sailing and a safe voyage all the rest of the way through life. Editor. Dear Bad Aunt Molly Since you didn't answer my other questions like I wanted you to, please answer this one right. Why is it that midgets don't grow? What was the midget's name in Neil O'Brien's Minstrels? Julia R. Burr. Dear Julia Rebecca Midgets do not grow for two reasons, first because if they did grow they no longer would be midgets, and second because something happened to stop them from growing. But if you want to know what stops them from growing, there may be several answers. There might be a very weakened condition of the body tissues or of the flesh cells, which would keep tho body from developing as large as normal men and women. Or there might have been an accident when the child was a baby whereby the baby was fed a mild poison in some way, which would stunt its growth. Sometimes dropping a baby will make it a hunch back dwarf, or sometimes a disease will leave a baby's legs and arms so weak that they never grow. But sometimes a child la naturally born a midget. The name of the midget in the minstrels was Major C. Nowak. Editor. P. S. There, Julia, does that suit your fastideous taste? Aunt M.

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