Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 333, 7 December 1918 — Page 11

RICHMOND, INDIANA SATURDAY, DEC. 7. 191

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THE JUNIOR

The Junior Palladium la the children's section of the Richmond Palladium, founded Mar . 1816, and issued each Saturday afternoon. All boys and girts are Invited to be reporters end contributors. News Items, social crents, "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. Annt Holly is always glad to meet the children per sonally as they bring their articles to. the Palladium office, or to receive letters addressee to the Junior Editor. This Is your little newspaper and we hope each soy and gtrl will use It thoroughly.

0 m m 0 m 3 C Dear Dad: What do you do for a horse when he's got the snorts. I wish you'd tell me pretty soon because that's what Edith's got all right, and ehe heaves and puffs worse all the time, and It's kind of hard for us fellows when we half to get home for dinner on time. Tou know, dad, mother and all the people up there at the Rod Cross have been selling flowers an Saturday afternoons, so Bill and us fellows took Edith and went out there in the country after some. It was pretty hot so we let her go real slow going out, and besides we all were getting flowers all the time, until we had the cart pretty full. We were having a pretty good time so we didn't notice about things very much until after while we came to a post that paid five miles back to town. Then Bill looked at his wrist watch that he just got lor his birthday, and oad, we just had half an hour to get home in time for dinner. I said come on fellows we've got to get there quick, so they all piled " In and we started, 2ut dad, that pony wouldn't do a thing but wheeze. When we were going up hill she'd take about two steps and then stop to heave a while, and when we were coming down hill ehe just sat down on the back part of the shaves and slid. She's all right when things are level, but there wasn't any level part to that road. It was the Stright Line Pike, you know, dad, and Bill Baid he guessed they named it that because it went straight up and down all right I slapped the lines around and hollowed at her, and rattled the whip and did everything, first, because you know dad how a fellow would hate to hit anybody with a whip that was named Edith Cavell. But after while 1 just had to some, but it didn't do any good, and we thought we never were going to get home, until all at once a load of hay came out on the road just in front of us, and as soon as she saw that she let out one ions whinny and started to trot after it- But just as we were about up to it and making real good speed, the wagon turned off into a barn, and then Edith wouldn't do a thing. We didn't know what to do, and it fas getting later all the time. Then finally Bill had a new idea and he said, I'll tell you fellows, we'll make that woman travel yet. So he got some long grass and clover and held it in front of her nose, and then when she'd Btart to GETTING LOST. I am going to tell about the time I got lost. It was two years ago, but I got so scared that I have never forgotten it. I started out to walk around the square, but I went farther than that. Soon, I looked around and didn't see any house or building I knew. Then I sat down on the stone step and began to cry. After awhile, a woman came up to me and said, "What's the matter, little ,?1rl why, Ruth," paid a voice that sounded very kind to me. I stopped crying and looked up and taw Aunt Anna. Starr looking at me. She wasn't really my aunt. I Just called her that. I told her I was lo3t and that I was so far away from home. But she laughed, then, "You Are only five squares from home," she said. "Come along with me and we will soon find it." So she went home with me stopring in a little grocery store and buying a big bag of candy. When wo were in front of my house, she handed me the bag, and said, "Now, take this, and don't worry. And don't wander so far away from home again till you got to be a big grown up girl." I liked the candy, but I didn't like getting lost, one bit. Ruth E.

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m 011 HI take a bite, he'd pull it a little farther away until she got to walking after it, and then he went faster Btni until she'd even trot But it was kind of hard on Bill so after he got tired he let Edith eat his grass, and then the other fellows would take tarns doing it, so we got home a little bite, but we got there and that was more than I thought we do part of the time, only if you know of anything that will stop those snorts of Edith's, we would be glad to try it Well, so long, dad. x ,Youra truly, Jimmie G. P. S. Bill said. I didn't mean "the snorts," because it's "heaves," but that's about the same, isn't it dad, that's what I told Bill. There is no difference except In the name. Jim. Query Corner The editor will try to answer questions readers of tho 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 bo printed in the name week in which you Bend It in. Dear Aunt Polly: What are the six leading states in wheat production in 1910? Ruth B. Dear Ruth B.: The six states that produced tjje most wheat in 1910 are: Minnesota, Kansas. Indiana. Nebraska, North Dakota and Illinois. The number.! of bushels produced ranged from 94,0S0,000 in Minnesota, to 31,500,000 in Illinois. Indiana produced 40,500,000 bushels. Aunt Polly Dear Aunt Polly: When jwas the Kaiser born? What should be done with him? K. M. H. Dear R. M. II.: Friedrich Wilhelm Victor Albert, in other words, the famous (or In famous) Kaiser, was born January i 27, 1859, at Berlin. v If we acted on the same principles that Citizen Wilhelm has acted upon for many years and started out to give him all he deserves and all we have wanted to give him a thousand times, (if we could just have laid our hands on him) there is scarcely anything horrible that wouldn't happen to him. All kinds of things have been suggested from putting him in a cage on a desert island to making him sleep in one of the graves that his soldiers have intentionally bombed. But our ideas and ideals have not gone through the same development that has produced his fiendish thoughts, plans and ambitions; so we will have to contain all our feelings of terrible revenge behind the law of love and forgiveness which we kntw is more powerful than all the laws of force and hate. Anyway, we want it arranged most decidedly that he Is put where he can never, never have power enough again to put in practice his barbarous thoughts and principles. Isn't that so? Aunt Polly. Dear Aunt Polly: Can you tell us anything about the boyhood of ouh presiden, Woodrow Wilson? Yours truly, L. M. T. Dear I M. T.: When President Wilson was a little boy, he was just called "Tommy" and was a "regular boy," playing with the other boys. He did not know his A. B. C.'s until he was nine years old, and did not go to school until he was twelve years old. The reason for his going to

school so late was because his father, a distinguished clergyman and teacher wanted hira to do that way. Be went to private school in Augusta, Georgia, where he had lived ever since he was two years oM. Before thai he had lived at Staunton, Vs. At this school he was said to be polite and weDbehaved and as studious as an ordinary boy. His home life In Augusta, where he lived la an old southern manse (which means a big beautiful house), was all that one could desire, in comfort, refinement and education. When he was fifteen, his family moved to Columbia, South Carolina, and he was sent to a Presbyterian seminary for two years. He was a great dreamer as wen as a good student About 1873 he went to a small Presbyterian college in North Carolina. Here he was interested in athletics, especially baseball. Meanwhile his name had changed. First he was "Tom," then "Tommy" and "Thomas W. Soon he began signing his name T. Woodrow Wilson," which finally changed to the form that he now uses "Woodrow row Wilson." The only reason suggested for this change Is that he didn't like the nickname of "Tommy." He became a lawyer and went to Atlanta, Ga; but he soon gave it up and took more University work at Johns Hopkins, after which he became a teacher and later, a professor, at Princeton. Of course by this time he was more than a boy, and his career as "Tommy" had closed. Aunt Polly. A STRANGE METHOD There was once a little boy walking along the road. His hat blew off over a high fence, into an adjoining field. He did not feel tempted to climb the fence: so he knelt In one corner of the Held and began to say his ABC's. A gentleman slipped quietly up behind him and stood there listening to the boy for a moment. Then he asked the boy why he was saying his ABC's. The boy replied, "The wind blew my hat over the fence into an adjoining field, and the fence was too high for me to climb." But the man said, "But why did you say your ABC's instead of saying a real prayer?" Then the boy said, "I didn't know any prayers, so I Just said my ABC's and knew that the Lord will know how to put them together and make a prayer. The gentleman laughed and climbed over the fence and got the hat and gave it to the boy. "I knew the Lord would answer my prayer?" said the boy. A Reader, ago 11 years.

ONE WAY PARIS Peace To say that the French people I went wild with Joy when the news that the armistice had been signed that Germany had bowed to defeatreached them is putting it mildly. In Paris the entire popu-

Background

Let's pretend we are still artists daubing in one dark stroke after another in Europe's clear blue sides.' Already, we have darkened some of the background of our picture of the war with Earepeaa happenings, quarrels and "almost" quarrels, that were slow lag changing Europe from a rich land of peace to a poor land. Buffering with all the agony and cruelty of war. Now we will put in another black cloud which we may call the cloud I of the "Middle Europe" plan, which is, as anyone will say, a queer name foi a cloud. But we are painting, the background of the war and painting in as clouds or dark, distant mountain peaks, those events that started to disturb the peace of Europe and later, of almost all the world. This plan of a strong "Middle Europe" was one of those peace-disturbing things. This was the plan. There was to be a union of the states of Central Europe Germany, AustriaHungary, Turkey and several of those long-named, little countries that lie close to these larger countries. Ttig group of countries was dominated by Germany and formed a broad band of Prussianism clear across and right in the center of the big continent of Europe. The smaller countries were brought into this union by many deeply-laid plans. Many came under the power of it by marriages between their rulerB with the powerful families of Germany. Some were drawn into it because they were caught in some financial net laid for them by Germany and Austria. Others came in just from fear of the German soldiers that were seen everywhere and whose very presence seemed a threat to them. Then a railroad was built by Germany between Bagdad and Constantinople which joined Bagdad to the Central Europe countries, and almost completed the wedge of Germanism in the center of Europe, The very presence of this wedgo wa3 an unfriendly challenge, to the other nations of Europe. The last dark cloud that wo will paint in the now grey and dreary skies of our picture is that cloud which stands for the result of Bome little wars that took place in the years, 1912-1913. In 1912, after a short war, Italy took Tripoli from Turkey. This was very unfavorable to Germany and Austria, as Turkey was also an ally of theirs, and this tended to weaken the union. During the next year, the Balkan States fought Turkey, trying to free themselves from the rule of that country which has always

FOLK CELEBRATED COMING OF PEACE

celebration around Statue of Straasburg in Paris.

lace swarmed the streets within a few. minutes after the news was nasnco. to me city, ine picture shows just a small part of tho celebrating crowd grouped around the Statue of Straasburg, decoxated in honor of victory. Until

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ruled so poorly. These wars greatly weakened the power of the Central European countries, especially of .Germany and Austria, who had been on the Bide of the losing countries, Turkey and Bulgaria. Russia and Serbia, as a result of these wars, had increased power, which didn't please Germany and the other Central Ed ropean countries at all and they were soon to try to weaken this power. We hare now painted the background, and the mountain peaks stand oat grim and stern against a threatening sky. It is the middle of the year,-1913, and the European stage is set for war, although many of the countries stfll do not. recognize it, because they are thinking and dreaming of peace. However, the Central European countries whose head was Germany, and who dreamed of war and of power gained by war, recognized it and saw, with Joy, the coming storm. - LONE SCOUTS. Lone Scouts are making good progress, stated William J. Gilmore, captain of the scouts, who is doing his best to increase its membership. Luther Dines, of HagersSwn, Ind., has sent in his applilain, Nov. 27. This makes six members, and any boys who would like to become members of the organisation will caU at 229 South Second' street, Richmond, Ind. Meetings are held every Friday night and we trust the boys will place their names soon. Let us make the Richmond Lone Scouts one of the largest in the state. For information, address Capt Wm. J. Gilmore, 229 S. Second street A REASSURANCE. "Dear me! What's the matter, sonny?" "Boo-hoo! Here Pve bin a-fishin' all day an ain't caught nothin'." "Well, never mind; you're bound to catch something when you get home." BOYS DO SPLENDID WORK. Four of Richmond's boys have assisted during this vacation in the collection of waste paper on South Eighteenth street. They have worked so well that they have netted the Day Nursery the sum of about four dollars. Their names are Richard Summers, Byron Painter, Joseph and Glendow Kenny. the end of the war the " statu stood as a memorial to the loss oi Strassburg in 1871, when the Gcs mans took it. Mourning wreaths were covered by gay decorations when it was known that the alliei had won the war.

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