Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 315, 16 November 1918 — Page 11

THE JUNIOR

Th Jnntor Palladium Is the children's, section of the Richmond Palladium, founded May 6, 1916, and issued each Saturday afternoon. AH boys and girls are invited to be reporters nd contributors. News items, social erents, "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 name and age signed. Aunt Molly is always glad to meet the children per sonally ad they bring their articles to the Palladium office, or to receive Jetters addressed to tne Junior Editor; This is your little newspaper ' and we hope each coy and girl will use it thoroughly.

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m IE OH Dear Dad: We just got home and found the letter from you, and that paper about London News, too, and dad they sure got us exscited. I can just see how you looked marching down the ile, isle (Oh, well, you know what I mean) of that big church when they were playing O Say can you See, but didn't it make you feel funny to think about old kings and. queens that used to be there too it would me because we don't have any around here and dad, I'm glad of it because I don't think I'd like to see anybody else being a king if I didn't have a chance to be one too. Bill Hadley and I were looking at the paper most all of the morning after Uncle D.ud left, and dad those pictures got 113 wanting to do something so bad that well, I guess we did do things a little wrong, but mother explained about i it to me so that's what I wanted to tell you about. You know Mrs. Harlow has one of those long haired yellow cats that's a Turk or some kind of a iipathpn. and Rill said vesterdav while we were gone it got one of! those little robins out in our back yard and killed it. So that was the name as the Huns making a raid on us and we'd half to pay them back. It was kind of hot and that cat

usually is lying under some of the i struction. So keep it up. Editor, bushes out there in the tangle be-1 I can eat cornbread and save tween our yards, so Bill and I flour, and drink coffee without susneaked around until pretty soon ' Bar- I have quit drinking cocoa wfi Raw him all right onlv he was ! and tea to save sugar. I can run

lying way over on the Harlow's side. So we had to wiggle along on our stomacks under the hidran jas and things until we got out the close, and then we got out the rocks we had for hand grenades, and Bill said "Fire," so we fired, and dad you ought to of sen that

cat run. We ran too, just giving him a good dose, but he got in the seller windows, so we were going back home again when Mrs. Harlow came running out of the house and dad, she was Just awful. She said what did we mean by throwing rocks at her angorry cat, didn't we know it had a pettygreej and she surely would tell our mothers she never wanted her Thomas to play with us any more. Mother was having a Red Cross m meeting so we waited until tonight to talk things over in the council chair after Jean was in bed. She said she didn't blame us for throwing a few rocks at that cat when he killed, robins because she'd like to do it herself, but that wasn't the way Americans would help win the war. It's Germans that think they half to teach boys how to throw hand grenades and kill people to be patreotic, but in America we just teach boys how to

EARLY AMERICAN MONEY. In the early days the colonists had ver little of what we call money. They traded by exchanging and bartering goods and produce. In Virginia, tobacco took the place of money; in South Carolina, rice was used in the same way, and along the frontier, furs and skins of wild animals were used. In the Indian trade, leaden bullets, beads and trinkets strung together, called wampum, was used. When it beduce as money, certificates came inconvenient to use the produce as money, certificates were used to show ownership. As the need for money increased, foreign coins, particularly those of Spain, came into use. An attempt by Virginia to establish a mint in 1645 failed. Massachusetts, in 1651, was more successful, and among its earliest coins were shillings and sixpences, stamped with a figure of a pine tree. Lord Baltimore established a mint in Maryland in 1659. Massachusetts was issuing paper" money in 1690, and he example was Boon followed by ether colonies. j

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c c 0 11 DiD make inventions and learn the Decclerashun of Independants and do some good for everybody. And so, dad, I guess I'll be a better Jr. Pardner if I work in the garden more, and maybe even do things for the Red Cross instead of throwing stones at Mrs. Harlow's cat. And dad, Mother said Bill and I can have all the money for thrift stamps of things we sell out of the garden, so we're going to start out early tomorrow morning, Land I guess I better go to bed now. W . i ours iruiy, Jimmie G. P. S. I guess the pony's coming all right tomorrow because Uncle Dud had it shipped from Louistown yesterday. I wanted to bring it with us because I could of held him in the back' seat with me while Jean and mother were in front with Uncle Dud, but he said Claribel wasn't built for moving ponies bo we'd half to wait, but all the fellows are pretty anxshus to see him so I'm glad it's almost tomorrow. Jim. HOW CAN I HELP WIN THE WAR. Dear Dorothy: This splendid patriotic program of yours, while not necessary to "win the war," is still very necessary in the reconI errands for people and buy War saving Biampa ana inrin siamps. I wash dishes for 4 Grandma, and ; she gives me nickels and dimes, i Then I save them up till I get a I quarter and buy a Thrift Stamp. I j have sixteen Thrift Stamps which is a War Saving Stamp and I am buying more. Dorothea. White School, R. R. A, Richmond. A HYMN. I. Now I lay me down to sleep, Father in Heaven take care of me. May my sleep be sound and sweet, And my waking happy be! II. Forgive me, if I have this day, Done any wrong in work or play. Oh! help me always to do right, And bles3 me every day and night. Cortesia Johnson. 5th Grade, White school. WANTS KATE. Billy was fond of his neighbor, Mrs. Smith, with whom he spent a good deal of his time. Because he was too little to know better he called her by her given name, Kate, as he heard his mother and Mr. Mr. Smith. One day the latter's told him he could not see Mrs, Smith again because she had died. He was heartbroken about this, but went over almost every day to see Mr. Smith. Oned ay the latter's sister came to live with him and Billy saw her on the porch. Running over to the yard he called excitedly, "O, Mr. Smith, has you buyed a new Kate?" II. M. Oldest Timber in the World What is described as the oldest timber in the world which has been used by man is found in an ancient temple in Egypt. This timber is used in connection with stone work which is known to bo .more than four thousand years old. This wood and the only wood employed in the construction of the temple is in the form of ties which hold the end of one stone to another. The ties appear to be tamarisk, of which the ark was constructed.

RICHMOND PALLADIUM, NOV. 16, 1918

Query Cornerl The editor will try to answer questions readers of the Junior submit to her. She will not promise to answer all of them.! The questions will be answered in rotation, so do not expect the answer to be printed In the same week In which you send It In. about the year 5411 B. C Bnt a great many writers of different countries, say that the date should be much earlier, but don't suggest any date, themselves. Per haps the exact date was written thousands of years ago, in the sliding sands of the Sahara, but the great sand storms that have since swept that very tidy desert have, as chance would have it, destroyed the message. At any rate we know that Eve was a very obedient wife and probably followed right after her husband. Aunt Molly. Dear Aunt Molly: How old is Jimmie G.? Ruth B. Dear Ruth B.: " Our "Sunny Jim" has safely passed through ten "rambunktious" years. Aunt Molly. Dear Aunt Molly: Which room in our house is minus an electric light? Grace Sieweke. Dear Grace: That room in your house has no electric light that is bounded by four walls, a ceiling, a floor and has little or no light coming in from windows. It has a table and chairs therein, or, let me see, perhaps a bed and wash stand; and is a stone's throw from the large room to the south of your house, straight in the direction a bird flies. Aunt Molly. Dear Aunt Molly: What is the exact date that Adam came to earth? When did Eve appear on earth? W. B. F., Jr. Dear W. B. F., Jr.: According to the way the Hebrews fix the dates tf things that happened ages ago, Adam appeared about the year 5,411 B. C. peared 4004 B. C. The Greeks have it figured out that he appeared

CAUSES OF THE WAR

A Group of Source of Conflict Between the Nations. There are several questions which for years hare been the causes ot disagreement between the different European nations and which hare played a very important part in the bringing on of the great war. One is the little territory of Alsace-Lorraine, the two little provinces which are inhabited by French people and are entirely French in appearance and customs. After the war of 1870-1871, Germany took the provinces as a part of the price of peace, and attempted to stamp out everything that was French; in other words, to Germanize the people and the customs. It was only another crude mistake in trying to accomplish things by force; for Alsace and Lorraine remained wholly French. Many stories are told about these loyal people of Alsace-Lorraine, how they would softly sing the "Marseillaise" or honor the French flag when they were sure no German officer was around to arrest them for doing it. The greatest reason that Germany wanted these provinces, is because of their great deposits of iron ore; three-fourths of the iron mined by Germany in 1913 came from these two little provinces. Now that the great war is nearing an end, perhaps the people of Alsace-Lorraine will soon ho restored to the government of the "beloved France. To the southeast of these two countries lie two other countries which have about the same relationship to Italy that Alsace and Lorraine have to France. They are How to Solve the Code Message cf Lone Scout . Write out the Alphabet, and then above those letters write another alphabet by placing the letter "A" over the letter "B," and "B" over the letter "C," and continue until the second alphabet is placed over the first. In the finish the letter "Z" will have to be placed over the letter "A." In Bolving the code that "Uif" spells "The"; and so on until the words are all spelled out W. H. M.

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the territories of Trieste and the Trentino, under the government of Austria, but settled mostly by Italians. This territory 1 often called "Italia Irredenta," which la the beautiful Italian language means "Unredeemed Italy," The Italians believe that this territory In reality belongs to them and should be under the control of the Italian government. There has always been great rivalry,too, over colonial possessions and commercial power among the European countries. Differences over the ownership and government of the colonies In Africa and Asia, as well as trade rivalry, has caused great hostility among the German people toward the English. One German writer, Treltschke, wrote, "We have settled our account with France and Russia, The last settlement, the settlement with England, will probably bo the lengthiest and the most difficult.'' So we see that for forty years, great forces have been struggling in Europe, forces bringing hatred and war, and forces bringing peace, la 1914 the ugly, black forces of war won out in Germany and Austria and the great world war began. But, Juniors, we must say too, because we are so full of Joy and thankfulness that the fighting is ended, that, after four years of unequaled cruelty and suffering, the war is almost over; and that we all stand ready, in a spirit of greater realization of the worth of service, and love toward all around us, to help our great United States in the splendid years of "building up" which ara upon us. Had No Chance An inexperienced speaker was prefacing his address with apologies to his audience for the crudeness of his prospective remarks. "To be a good speaker," said he; "a man should be in constant practice. He should appear before audiences frequently. He should learn - to talk with perfect freedom. I don't have a chance to do this. I spend my evenings at home," Everybody In the audience looked around at his wife, who, unfortunately for him, had come to hear the address,.