Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 291, 19 October 1918 — Page 11

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Richmond Palladium. October 19. 191s 'AGE THREB

THE JUNIOR

' The Junior Palladium Is the children's section of the Richmond Palladium, founded May 6, 1916, and issued each Saturday afternoon. All boys and girls are invited to be reporters end 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 side of the paper, with the author's nates and ago signed. Aunt Molly is always glad to meet the children personally &a they bring their articles to the Palladium office, or to receive letters addresseu to the Junior Editor. This Is your little newspaper and we hope each coy and girl will use It thoroughly. .

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JIMMEE G.

!C Inspite of the upsand downs of boy-life, the weeks had slipped by n a silent, vacant sort of way for liose three home folks after the father had gone, and in the strange unrealness of their daily life they had not felt how alone they vere, until one day a little incident occurred which had rather important effects on the Gray home circle. And so it was that Jiramie G. wrote the following letter to his "Sr. I'ardner." Dear Dad: It is.sEmM khd etaoishrdlu It sure is a good thing that I'm here to take care of mother and Jean because dad, I'll bet they'd have bin about scared to pieces tonight if it hadn't bin for me. Well, 1 was a little scared, too, but it came out all right. You see, we had been over to Harlow's, and " Mrs. Harlow kept tellllng about all the burglers and desprit men there are, and about that night when she saw a man looking in her window. And then she said just last week when some of her friends went home from being over to the neighbors they found that all their linnen and silver and most everything was gone; and that if her husband was away she'd want somebody bigger than Tommy to take care of her. So finally I just said, "Come on mother, let's go home. I'm getting sleepy and so is Jean." And dad, I believe mother was glad I said it. But anyhow, when we were going home we saw the house was all dark, and you know dad, we always leave the liberry lamp burning no matter what. Jean wanted to go back, but mother said you would be ashamed to have any cowards in your family, so she opened the door ind we went in. The light at the loor wouldn't work, so when I was ?oing on over to the table to try Aiming on the light there, I stumbled over something, and dad, it was a big open satchel. Mother asked me what was the matter, but I just said, "Oh nothing." And then I tried the lights in the dining room and they wouldn't work either. I said I knew where the flash light was, out there in the kitchen closet by the cellar way, where you had it ready when you wanted to look at the water gauge in the fur nace, you know dad, but I couldn't find it anywhere, and while I was hunting we heard somebody coming down the attic steps, and shut the attic door. I went back to mother and Jean pretty fast and we thought we better go over to get Mr. Harlow, but when we were going hack to the door, we saw somebody coming down stairs with a flash light and then Jean stumbled over the satchel, so he said, "Stop, hands up." We were there by the" doorway into the den, and I felt mother reaching her hand around to try to turn on the switch in there, but her ring struck something and that made a little clicking sound, and the man on the stairs was Vbout down' so he heard it too and said, "Hands up there, or I'll shoot." And then he did shoot. Honestly, dad, I couldn't think of anything, but mother just said, "Is there something you want?" as common as if she always talked to burglars. And then the man turned the squirt light on ua real full, and said, "Why for goodness sake, Helen, is that you?" And dad, guess who it was. Uncle Dud. He had come in to surprise us, and we were over to Harlow's you know, so he had tried to put on the electrlck toaster, but he got it on wrong so that made the fuzes blow out, and he was up in the attic with the flash light trying to find the fuse box. And when we came In so quiet he thought we were bur

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3 C D C 31! 1 glers too, and then when mother's ring struck against the wall, he thought we were trying to shoot, so he shot up in the air first. Uncle Dud's going to stay a whole week, dad, isn't that grand, and we're planning out lots of things to do because it's vacation now,, and anyhow he wants us to get somebody to stay here with us, so I'll tell you all about it later. Jimmie. WELL! ! The other phone rang, day when the teleHarold went to ah3wer it. The party evidently had . the wrong number, and after a while rlarold asked him what he wanted, rhen the party told him, Harold said, "Well, this isn't that." G. V. 2. Chicago Tribune. A BIG SMILE. Maurice, after having been to the hospital to see her new baby sister, said to her grandmother: "Grandma, it make me grin all the time when I think of the baby, and when I get through grinning I just have to begin all over again." M. S.'K., Chicago Tribune. Dr. Mott Chosen $1 70,000, 000 ,s. .... a- .. ... wvriv'4t'h-.'W-:-: Photo copyright by Underwood &

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DR. JOHN R. MOTT Dr. John R. Mott, chief executive of the Y. M. C. A., who has been elected Director General of the United War Work Campaign to raise $170,000,000 for the seven war service organizations which are working to sustain and Increase the morale of the American and other Allied soldiers. Dr. Mott was chosen to take charge of the big November drive for funds at a meeting of representatives of the Y. M. C. A., the Y. W. C. A., the National Catholic War Council, the Jewish Welfare Board, the Salvation Army, the American Library Association and the War Camp Community Service.

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GERMANY'S SCIENTIFIC ARGUMENT FOR WAR. Through a slight difference in translating Darwin's great scientific book which traces the growth and development of all plants and animals and then shows what the great laws are back of all history, the Germans have grown to believe that power and might are the greatest things in the world, instead of co-operation and helpfulness as we believe. And so they believe that the nation or race of people that can prove themselves ;he strongest and mightiest, Is the lation which should conquer the world and have everything as they say. While we believe that every nation has some particular quality which is needed in it3 place, and that the best system -in the world will be for all nations to join together in a world league and then give the best that they have to each other. America caa give al her new Inventions, England can give Mans took up the idea and printed her great commerce, France and Italy can give their art, Germany can give her efficient science, Japan can give her oriental beauty, and so on with all the countries. But to show how Germany has come to have that belief we must explain about Darwin's book. Darwin was an Englishman and since the Germans had to translate his ideas, this is what they did: When he said there is a "struggle for existence," the Germans took up the idea tnd printed in vivid words how two little maple trees spring up side by .side and have a life and death struggle to gain more nourishment or sunshine, and then one finally proves stronger, gains the advantage and lives while the other dies; the same with, two rival business houses and with two rival nations, until they believe and teach their Director of Var Fund Dmt ... Underwood

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children that the stronger should live and the weaker should die. They think that the way the world grows better is for mighty people to push ahead, and starve out the weaker people, so that only the strong ones are left. And they believe that it is the duty of a strong nation to conquer all the other nations and make the weaker ones do as they think best Goethe, one of the greatest German authors, says, "War is an element in the life of mankind which cannot be dispensed with. The law of the stronger holds good everywhere. The weaker succumb." Another author, (Bernhardi, in his book "Germany and the Next War." which was written in 1911) says, "Might gives the right to occupy and conquer." . But that is not all that Darwin means, for he says that after there is the struggle to live, the ones succeed who are the most fit, not necessarily the strongest. A huge burly robber may be much stronger than the old whitehaired judge who tries the case, but the judge goes out of the court room free to live and be with his ramily, while the robber is put behind iron bars because he is not fit to be free. A powerful lion - might break loose from a circus in the midst of a city, and the beast would be far stronger than any human being in the throng, but the animal is not as fit to live as men and so lions must stay behind iron bars, while civilized people build comfortable homes, and beautiful cities, and live , together in peace and harmony. The oak tree is said to be the strongest of the forest, and yet In nature itself, oak trees take their place beside maples and pines, elms and ash trees in quiet harmony. And although Germany may wish to be considered the strongest nation in the world, the German people must learn that they merely must take their place beside other nations, that they must lay aside their guns, and live beside the other great nations of the world as helpful neighbors, not as lordly conquerors. BUY A LIBERTY BOND AND ' " BACK OUR BOYS

American Indians Go Abroad As Workers For Red Triangle

TWO American Indians have been sent abroad by ftie National War Work Council of the Y. M. C. A., one for service with the British troops in Egypt and one to Franco for work witli the Indians with the American Expeditionary Force. Leander Newton Gansworth, of Davenport, Iowa, volunteered for work with the Indian troops in the American army and is now in France. He was born in Lewiston, N. Y., where his father, two brothers and a sister live. He is a graduate of Carlisle College and is said to be a relative of the famous Red Cloud. Before entering upon Red Triangle work he was financial secretary of the Allied Printing Trades council of Davenport, Rock Island and Moline, and secretary and treasurer of the Review Publishing company of Davenport. He received military,- athletic and gymnastic training at Carlisle and after leaving college was a high, school football coach for a time. S. Ralph Walklngstick, of 21S East Colvin street, Syracuse, N. Y who was sent to Egypt, Is a Cherokee Indian. He was born in Tablequah, Oklahoma where he served M Y. 1L C A. secret ury.

DRESS U. S. BOYS ' WARM IN SIBERIA

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Uniform of American soldier In Siberia. . Our troops in Siberia are well fitted out for the snow and icy winds of the Siberian winter. The clothing pictured above . will be worn by each soldier in addition to the heavy winter equipment furnished the troops of the American expeditionary forces in Siberia. An average of 2,000 letters constitutes the daily correspondence received by Miss C. May Ileeman, the organizer of various movements in England which have resulted in raising over $15,000,000 for war charities. tCAHKft WWTON GANSWOCX.

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