Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 309, 9 November 1918 — Page 11
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THE JUNIOR PALLADIUM WEEKLY SECTION OF RICHMOND PALLADIUM RICHMOND, INDIANA, NOVEMBER 9, 1918.
Notice to All American Boys and Girls Every boy and girl In this country is again asked by the United States government to help save American soldiers from the horrors of German gas. The Chemical Warfare Division of the Army has urged them to gather every walnut, hickory nut and butter nut in the woods about their home this fall to help make gas masks for the American troops in France. It la from the sheila of these nuts that the charcoal for gas masks must come for the next six months or more. There is said to be a ready and profitable market for the nut meats, mailing it practicable to turn the shells into the government immediately. Whole nuts can v also be used. For collection purposes the Red Cross has arranged 160 collection centers through the country for the concentration of shells. They will be shipped from these points in carload lots to the government carbon plants at New York and San Francisco. The Boy Scouts have enlisted the aid of their 442,000 young members in this work, as have the Camp Fire Girls. Through the Department of Agriculture all county agents of that department will organize nutting parties. In addition, every school is urged to arouse the Interest of its pupils and to encourage nut gathering in every spare moment of the pupils' time. The aid of the young people will be absolutely necessary to supply the 1,000,000 pounds of shells and fruit stones that the government production schedule calls for. In fact, they declare, that the shells of all the cocoanuts grown in the West Indies and Central America, if they could be obtained, would not fill the needs. They are making arrangements to get the shells from the East Indies, but it will be months before this plan can be put into co-operation. In the meanwhile they must mix the available shell charcoal with wood charcoal. This is not to the best interest of the men because the wood charcoal settles, making breathing difficult, and it has not the absorptive qualities of shell charcoal. The people, because of the smallness of the task asked of them,
failed to realize its importance and did not respond well to the appeal made during the fruit season. What the help of each person means is shown by the fact s that two peach stones or two large ! nuts turned in each day by each y "son in the nation would supply th eeds. It is hoped, however. that rtvsone will hold to this sched ule as Ore will be many an unthinking pvNon's quota to fill. Gas barragv'Mor some time have been one of the.JTincipal factors in German warfare. ,xTheir mustard gas, with its horribi after effects, is one of the worst' atrocities of the war. Even now, in their retreat, the Germans are using a nonexploding, perforated gas shell, which they fire into marsh lands and which makes the entire district into which they are thrown a "section of death" for days afterward. This can all be successfully com batted if Americans will turnn their hickory, Brazil, walnutnd butter but shells and peach apricot, prune, plum, olive, '..to and cherry stones, for gas aiasks for American soldiers. Associated Press. The Puppet , Play Cinderella The date for the Puppet play, Cinderella, that is to be given at 218 North Eleventh street, Is set for November 14 to 17, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Plays will be given In the afternoon only. The time will be from 3:45 to 6:00. Tickets on sale by Northrop R. Elmer, David Marvel, Jean Shively, Maxine Jones and Betty Price. Prices Children under twelve years of age, ive cents; adults, ten cents. No persons with colds admitted. . Ticket 'sale begins Monday. Don't forget to ccme. i
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The Boy Who Wanted a Cricket Once on the first day of April;- a little boy went out into the streets of a large city to see if he could find such a thing as a cricket, a real, lave cricket. . He looked by the sides of all the trees, and in every place where grass was to be seen, but he could not find any. At last he stopped a man and said, "Please, sir, have you a cricket you could give me?" The man took him by , the ear and said, "You little rogue! You think to make an April fool of me, do you?-What is your name, sir?" "Frank White," said the boy, "and I'll thank you to let go of my ear." "Well, Frank, you must not play tricks on travelers," and he went on. Then Frank saw a boy of his own age and went up to him and saia, uo you roiKs nave sucn a thing as a cricket in the house? "That means you want to fight, don't It? replied the boy. "Well I am ready for you. You will be the third boy I have fought today." The boy took off his jacket and hat and rolled up the sleeves of his shirt. Frank said he didn't want to fight, but that he must find a cricket. "But if you can't get along without a fight," he added, showing two small fists, "Come on quick." "Oh! Go and find your cricket," said the boy. So Frank walked on until he came to a baker shop. In the shop he saw three women, three kittens and a cat Frank went in and said to one of the women, "Please ma'am, can you let me have a cricket?" ' i "We sell bread here, not crickets, my young man. But what do you want 'with a cricket?" "Don't crickets on the hearth bring good luck?" asked Frank. "Well, f have heard folks say so, but I think that they were half in Jest when they said it The best way to get luck is to work."
"My mother has worked till she is sick," said Frank, "and last night I woke up and found her crying." "Have you a father?" "My father was lost at, sea." "And how many children has your mother?" "She has three in all; I am the oldest." "And how old are you?" "I was six years old last June." "Well," said the woman, "now
take these three loaves of bread to your mother and come back." Frank too.k the bread and came back. The woman said, "I know you are a good boy. I will give you a place as an errand boy." Frank did so well he never found his mother crying any more in the night. Dorothy . Johnson, Whitewater School. Scouts Again to Help. It is the earnest desire of the National Council of thJtoy Scouts of America that every troop of scouts in the country, through its local leadership, arrange promptly to actively co-operate in promoting the United War Work Campaign for $170,500,000 during the week, November 11 to 18. Every girl can be a Victory girl and make the slogan true of "Every girl pulling for Victory." Ed mere fish they feed themselves O.S.SM4
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Death and Burial of DeSoto The severe winter of 1541-1542 discouraged the hardy French travelers who had now spent nearly three years in a vain search. The natives whom they found made clothing from tie fiber in the bark of mulberry trees and from the hide of buffaloes, and stored beans and corn for food, but such things seemed of little value to the seekers for the Gilded Man. DeSoto returned to the Mississippi and prepared to establish a colony somewhere near the mouth of the Red river. It was his purpose to send to Cuba for supplies and with this settlement as a base, make a further search in the plains of the great west. He did not live to carry out hi3 plans. Long exposure and excitement had weakened him. The malaria of the swamps attacked him and he died within a few days. His body was wrapped in mantles weighted with sand, taken out in a canoe and secretly lowered into the great river he had discovered. His successor tried to conceal DeSoto's death from the Indians. The Spaniards had called their leader The Child of theSun, and now he had died like any other mortal. They were afraid if the Indians found his body they would cease to believe that the strangers were immortal and would massacre all of them. The Indians were told that the great leader had gone to Heaven, as he had often done before, and would return in a few days Ruth B.
THE GAS MASK DRIVE. "What makes you save your olive stones?" the Thoughtless Waster cried. ' "The Government has asked for them," the Patriot replied. i "I don't see what it wants of them," the Thoughtless Waster cried. ' 'It wants the carbon that the; make," the Patriot replied. "So we're gathering up the cherry pits, the peach stones and the shell Of walnuts and Brazil nuts, and of hickory nuts as well, And the youngsters hunt for butternuts in every dale and dell, To furnish the materials for carbon." : "What do they want the carbon for?" the Thoughtless Waster cried. "To monufacture gas-masks," the Patriot replied. "And a carbon respirator in a gasmask over there, Will save our boys from gas attacks. Come on -and do your share! "We dare not waste one single stone let's give them all they ask! It takes two hundred peach pits to equip a single mask. And they've given you and me and everybody else the task Of furnishing materials for carbon." Robert Housum,, "OVER TJJuP" TO French whippet
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A Little French Girl Writes a Letter A 'Y" secretary, who often went to the camp where a famous territorial regiment of France was stationed, and ate with them and had good times with them, received the following letter from the daughter of one of tho men in that regiment The letter Is copied exactly as written: Today my little father Is with us and during his holidays he told us how he was pleased with your very charming friendships. ; I hope you will be very happy to receive our best wishes of good health for. you and your desr family. : I write this letter to you withe all my heart and shall be very pleased if you are so good to excuse me if I have made some mistake. (I am only twelvo years old.) I learn English now, and I am very happy to can write you as well as possible the good remember that my papa has of your common life at the front Where it was so such agreeablo hours and so much noise and pleasure. With heartily Bhake hand of my papa, we remain, him, mama and I, your very truly. The Little Daughter of your Ancient Comrade, ' i M : B : Paris, France.
Soldiers Smiles and Boys end GirlsNo American soldier will be lonely, hdhiesick, or uncpmfortable if the boys and girls of .America can keep them happy. Well, they can. They are being given the chance by the men of the United War Work committee, of backing up our fighters. Every dollar they pledge, earn and give, keeps a broad smile on a soldier's face for a week. Sign the pledge cards next week at the schools an dat the Y. M. C. A.; and get all your friends to do it, too, and then start to make the rnnirv Tiinrf flrP .hundred of ways that boys and girls of "junior" age can make money.. How many u . jou ilnuK ol? - Here are a few that have been suggested; perhaps they will help you to think of many other ways: For the boys Planting bulbs, washing windows, running errands, gathering nuts, cleaning yard", caring for furnaces, sifting and dumping ashes, decorating show windows, sawing and cutting wood, painting and puting away screens, washing automobiles and carriages, selling eggs or vegetables, or things appropriate for Christmas, such as nuts, wreaths and calendars. For girls Cleaning silver, caring for children, knitting, tnending, running errands, blacking shoes, gathering nuts, sale of conservation foods, planting bulbs, tutoring backward children, self denial fund from allowance and Saturday work in the stores or in offices. Aunt Molly will be glad to talk to any ofthjiJroys and girls about the v icu .soys ana victory uiris any .-rnoon in the Junior office. TREAT 'EM ROUGH tank in action.