Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 83, 15 February 1919 — Page 17

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Palladium, founded May S, 1116, and issued each Saturday afternoon. Allboys and girl are invited to be reporters and contributor. -' New Items, social events, "want" advertisementa, stories, local Jokes and original poems are acceptable and will be published. : Articles should be written plainly and on one side ot the paper, with the author's name and age signed. Aont Polly la always glad to meet the children personally as they bring their articles to The Palladium office, or to receive letters addressed to the Junior Editor. This Is your little newspaper and we hope each boy and girl will nse it thoroughly. '

UNITED STATES AT WAR

Did you ever get started in anything that you wanted to stop, after you found out it wasn't going the way you wanted it to go? From the last part of December In 1916, the Germans began to make peace offers. But the offers were not very much like real peace offers. They usually agred to quit fighting if the allies would arrange Europe the way they wanted it to be. The only answer of the allies was "Reparation, Restoration, Security." "Goodness gracious, what an, answer!" you probably say. "As if that meant anything!" Well, it does mean something, but it was said by someone who thought that big words sounded much better than small ones. "Reparation" means "mending" vhich is to make something that is worn look as much like it did before as possible. That's what the Allies wanted in northern France, in Belgium, in Poland, in Armenia, in Roumania, and in London and Paris where the air raids were. "Restoration" means giving back something to some one that owned that same "something" before. Part nr t?innri wns eroiiA. and almost all of Belgium and a great deal of other land that Germany had won by force. The Allies wanted this restord to the ones who had had it before. "Security" just means "safe. The French and the English and the Italians wanted to feel free from fear and danger. They have the right to that. Otherwise they are not free. .They do not have freedom. ' . In the first part of February, 1917, a note fell into the hands of the United States. It is called the "Zimmerman note" and was dated January 19, 1917. ; In this note the Herman Secretary of Foreign Af- . fairs writes to the German Minister of Mexico, and tells him that Germany does not mean to stand by her promise to the United States in which she told the United States, that she would treat neutral ships in accordance with principles laid down, at the Hague Conference. The German Secretary also told the Minister in Mexico that he was to offer the Mexican government, New Mexico, Texas and Arizona (of course, Germany assumed that it was hers to offer), if Mexico would join with Japan in attacking the United States. Did you ever imagine you had a big turkey? And did you pretend that you and your best friend were having the best time, eating all the white meat off that turkey, and yet you really didn't have any turkey at all? Well that was what Germany was playing when she wrote that "Zimmerman note." United States. It was the disloyThat wasn't the part of the note that aroused the people all over the alty of Germany, a nation which had promised friendship and which was even then protesting that it was loyal to the United States, and which, in this note was shown to be clearly unfaithful to its promise, plotting, "little" hearted, and absolutely' unworthy of tmst. The people of the United States, you and I, were waking up to find that a nation In which we had trusted implicitly was faithless. It's an old story; it's happened many, many times before, that a person whom someone trusts, either through weakness- or evil intention, turns out to be unworthy of that trust. That's the kind of people that retard tub progress of the world.. It Is only the people that have faith In others, and who are worthy of faith, themselves that roll th's splendid world of ours, a notch or two farther on Its journey. " Anyway we were realizing lots of things. We were realizing that autocracy makes trouble, that Germany with its highly developed, Trussianized autocracy was endangering the Joy and freedom and 'right 'to live, of millions of people. It soon came to be a struggle be

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tween free nations, and nations whose people were almost entirely under the rule of strong willed leaders, or autocratic governments. It was the problem that Lincoln had realized when he said in Civil War times, that our nation could not exist "half slave and half free." We saw that we as a nation are in terdependent with the other nations and could not nor cared not to consider ourselves apart from them, simply because an ocean was be tween us. . And we saw that our own borders and coasts and the Panama Canal which would eventually mean our people, our commerce and our in dustries would be endangered if Germany were left free to pursue her own desires. On January 31, 1917, the German ; government officially notified the United States that from February-1, 1917, "sea traffic will be stopped with every available weapon and without further notice."It was a scornful insult to our United States, the final one after many others that were almost as open insults as this, and the German Ambassador to the United States was dismissed. It is a disgrace to think that even after this insult and this action that war was not declared until two months afterward.. War was. however, finally de clared between Germany and the United States on April 6, 1917. On the 7th of December of that same year, we declared war against Austria-Hungary. And with hearts made serious, but firm we began to direct all our energies toward the cause in which we believed. Washington-Month February February How your moods and actions vary ! Or to seek or shun! Now a smile of sunlight lifting, Now in chilly snow flakes drifting; Now with icy shuttles creeping, Silver webs are spun. Now with leaden torrents leaping, Oceanward you run; Now with bells you blithely sing 'Neath the stars or sun; Now a blade of burdock bring . To the suffering one February you are very Dear when all is done: Many blessingsrest above you, You one day (and so we love you) Gave us Washington. Selected. Come Claim Them! "There were three little kittens, that lost their mittens," and one that lest a glove. - There may have been more, but that's all that have ben brought to the Junior Palladium office. The glove Is brown kid, and probably for a girl. The mittens are a pair. The other Dingle mitten is a grey knitted one. Come and see them, Juniors, if you have lost anything like this, because thty may be yours and there may be quite a little Jack FroBt weather yet, so that yu could wear them a great deal

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Scouts magazine, I wish to send this message, not only to the Boy Scouts, but to all the boys of America.' The prime lesson that the Boy Scout movement is teaching is the lesson that manliness in its most vigorous form can be and ought to be accompanied by unselfish consid-, eration for the rights and interests of others. ! Indeed I can go a little further. I wish that I could make the especial appeal to the American boy to remember that unless he thinks ot others he cannot fit himself to do the best work in any, great emergency. - The . names in our history to which we now look back with pride are the names who have rendered great service. This service may j have been rendered at the same time that they themselves gained! glory or reputation. But neither the glory nor the reputation would have been gained save as an incident to the service. In our history there is now pracally no mention of any great financier, of any great business man, who merely made money for himself. If at some crisis in the nation's . history that financier rendered a great national service, or if he identified himself in useful fashion with some great movement for good, whether in art or philanthropy or otherwise, then his name remains. But even under these conditions it remains as of secondary value. . America's contribution to permanent world history has been made by the statesmen and soldiers whose devotion to . the country equaled their efficiency, by men of science, men of art,' men of letters, by sane and honest reformers and social workers, who did great work and treated that work as in itself a great reward. The two greatest men in our history are Washington and Lincoln. They possessed great ability, great intellect, and especially great stnity of mind; but it was the fact that they each possessed the highest character, a character both very strong and very unselfish, which gave them their pre-eminence over their fellows. There have been very able and very unscrupulous statesmen in our history. But not one of them has ever come within even measrable ! distance of the achievements of 1 Washington and Lincoln, or of the reputation of Washington and Lincoln;. and this . precisely because they were unscrupulous and lacked character. Let me illustrate what I mean by a small example taken from my own experience; When fifteen years ago I was helping to raise the regiment of Rough Riders, I did my best to get both as officers and enlisted men those men and those men only, who I believe would make formidable fighters in a battle, rugged men' in. a. campaign, and men of indomitable purpose to see the war through. I would not take any man who was not strong, hardy, brave, able to live in the open, able to handle both horse and rifle. But even if the man had all these qualities, if he were quarrelsome or egotistical, or bent on hia own selfish advancement, and if I knew that this was the case, I would not take him. If he cared only for himself I was sure that he wouli be apt to be a bad instead of a good element, in the regiment. There were some men from the plains whom I refused, although I knew that they were formidable fighting men, because I also knew that they were quarrelsome bullies and would wish to exalt themselves at the expense of thefr comrades; and I did not wish any man with me unless he, was prepared to put the honor 6f the regiment and the nrmy and the flag first of all. If a man of the wrong type got into the regiment and I found that though brave he was thinking only of his own . advancement and shirked doing work that might help others, or Intrigued against them, cr failed to support them I got rid of him or discriminated against him or else took the first chance to minish him as roughly as I could. The best work could bo done only by the men who, in addition to possessing formidable fighting qualities, had tho desire to help others and the willingness to sink his own advantage in the common advantage. What was true on a very small scale In my regiment Is true on a

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very big scale of American citizenship as a whole. The boy is not worth anything if he is not efficient I have no use for timid boys, for the "sissy" type ot boy. I want to see a boy able to hold his own and ashamed to flinch. But as one element of this ability to hold his own, I wish to see him contemptuously Indifferent to the mean or brutal boy who cells him "sissy" or a mollycoddle because he is clean and decent ' and considerate to others. If a boy is not tearess and energetic, he is a poor creature; but he is even poorer creature if he is a bully of emaller boys or girls, it he is guilty of cruel mis- ! chief, and if in his own home, and especialy in his relations with us own mother and sisters, he is selfish r.nd unfeeling, I believe in play with all my heart; but I believe in work even 'more. While boy or man plays. j I want to see him play hard; and when he works I don't want to see him play at all. Boys' Life The Goblin and the Tide An ugly old Goblin Bat down by the sea, Sing Heigh-ho! All the sands are bare. He thought the tide feared him when it ran low, And laughed when the ripples sang, "Back we will flow!" . .''''.'. . , He built him a wall of the sea sand so whiteSing Heigh-ho! Soft is the sand. He strewed it with kelp and with shells banked it high. Then climbed to the top to look at the sky, Crying, "Now we'll have nothing but land!" Just then a shy ripple came tiptoeing In Sing Heigh-ho! "Here are we all!" Another ran laughing and then the great sea Came heels over head tumbling gay as could be. And the Goblin was swept from his wall! Selected. INTERRUPTION. Doth Interrupt your father, When he's telling funny Jokes; Don't interrupt your mother, When ehe's entertaining folks; Don't interrupt a visitor. When he has come to callin fact, it's wiser, Not to interrupt at all. , -Oellett Burgess.

GerHeU IhUs The New Council met Wednesday morning for its first meeting. The order of business was explained by Mr. Heironlmus to the. new. Council members. Mr. Cot tingham was elected to the office of School Treasurer, and Alice Dmt . lcr, to that of Recording Secretary. The Financial Secretary has nol yet been elected. The New Shop on North Twelfth street is now arranged so that hall , the classes meet there. The Metal shop, the Forge, the Electrical shop and the Printing press are completely installed: It is hoped, Mr. Heironlmus said, that the Drawing Room, ' the Gym, and the Wood Work shop will be ready for work next Monday. The new Garfield orchestra, since it has been reorganized for tho second semester, will probably have about seventy pieces, according to Miss Edna Marlatt, the director. Forty-three ' of these are violins. The partition that was made several years ago, cutting off the old stage and making a room of It, I being taken down, and tho old stage will again assume some ot its former dignity. It will be used as the place where the orchestra will play. "We might call it a gal lery," said Mr. Heironlmus, "for the old time 'Pit' is scarcely suitable since it is so elevated now." GOING SOME. Dr. John H. Finley, New York commissioner of education and colonel with the Red Cross, is with Allenby and the allied armies in Palestine. Believing that walkinj keeps a man healthy, he spend, much of his free time, taking this exercise. The distance of sixtyfive miles from Jaffa to Jericho has been travelled by Dr. Finley in eighteen hours. V He writes to relatives in the States that he has walked over fivt hundrcd miles In Palestine; and has walked most of this by night ae the days are too hot "It is ccol by night and so beautiful," he writes, "and the sky is so clear that tho stars almost cast a shadow." Dr. Samuel Johnson, one of the moat interesting characters in English literature, liked tea so well he would sometimes drink sixteen cups. He wrote the following rhyme to express his gref.t liking for tea: "Oh, hear, it then, my Renny dear, Nor hear it with, a frown You cannot make the tea so fast. As I can sulp it down." ;