Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 155, 12 April 1919 — Page 14

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM. SATURDAY. APRIL 12, 1919

Boys Make Furniture

f ; For French Refugees The boy carpenters of the United States are about to help put furniture in the rebuilt homes of the war-devastated part3 of France. Through the American Red Cross, SO.OOO chairs and 10,000 tables will be built by the school boys and shipped to the poverty-stricken French refugees, who otherwise would be unable to put even these barest necessities in their homes. Plans already made contemplate the participation of 100,000 boys of the Junior Red Cross in this demonstration of the eagerness of 'American children to help the unfortunate of France. To each chair and table there will be attached an envelope containing a message of greeting and encouragement from the school in wnich it is manufactured to the refugee who will receive it. This message, written in French, will be accompanied by a card so addressed that the recipient of the article may acknowledge receipt of it. In this way the bonds of fraternity between the people of .., France and this country wll be measurably strengthened, for the furniture will go into at least 15,00 0 homes where it is most urgently needed. Work of manufacturing the tables and chairs will begin in the manual training shops connected w"h schools throughout the United States without delay and first tlii varies will be made May 1. It is planned to have the entire job completed by the end of the school year. The need of this assistance to the French refugees could hardly be over-estimated. Thousands upon thousands of these families are pouring back into the liberated regions before adequate provision can be made for their housing, intent on but one thing returning to the place they, call home even though it be nothing more than a pile of charred timber and broken masonry. All are practically penniless and even though they had money with which to furnish the houses that are being erected as rapidly as possible for them there is not enough furniture to go around because of the scarcity of materials. This condition also, of course, makes it impossible for the refugees to manufacture their own furniture. Accordingly, they must look to the outside world and particularly America, for instance. The re-establishment of homes for the hundreds of thousands of refugees is one of the most serious problems with which France is confronted. Some parts of the country were under the heel of the invader for more than four years and how thoroughly and systematically the Huns carried out a program of wilf ull destruction .of property is only too we'll know to the world. Battle damage, of course, was tremendous but devastation did not end here. With a flendishness cthat was not thought possible in civilized times the baffled Germans laid waste the whole countryside as they were forced toward their own border. Where dwellings were not burned or blown up the furniture was reduced to kindling. Crops and orchards too felt the Teuton rage. And to make replace ment of homes by the victims themselves all but impossible man ufacturing plants were stripped of vital machinery. That is why the resources of France are not sufficient to provide the refugees with even the necessi ties of life and why the American Red Cross is giving its assistance in relieving the refugees' plight. This work is growing in volume and with the spring the tide of refugees flowing back to their old homes will be even greater and the necessity of quick relief corres pondingly larger. The contribution of chairs and tables to the repatriated French families is not the only reason the refugees will have to remember the generosity of the young folks of America. A gift of $100,000 from the Children of America's Army of Relief, now merged with tho Junior Red Cross of this coun try, for the founding of a children's hospital in Paris was recently an nounced and how greatly it is appreciated may be seen from the following letter from Gaston Sevrette, president of the Ligue Ftaternelle des Enfants de France: "Our committee of the great Ligue des Enfants de France begs me to send the children of America all our best thanks for the very

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generous gift which has been lately granted. This increases, if it be really possible, our friendship for America. It is a feeling which I often had the great pleasure of expressing publicly in my articles and which I wished to tell again, apropos of your little workers of the American Red Cross." That the gift of furniture American schoolboys will make will prove a similarly substantial token of their sympathy and desire to help the unfortunate is certain and that it will call forth the heartfeult gratitude of the nation of France as well as the direct beneficiaries cannot be doubted. The chair and tables will be built on a design making for durability as well as attractiveness and will be sent to France "knocked down," but so constructed that unskilled hands can set them up for immediate use. The American Red Cross will be directly in touch with the distribution, insuring the placing of the furniture where most urgently needed. Hike Column It is as if tho pine-trees called me , From the ceiled room and silent books, , To see the dance of woodland shadows, And hear the song of April brooks. John Greenleaf Whittier. GIRL SCOUTS TO HIKE. Next Thursday, the Girl Scouts will go for a hike right after school. The story is that they will probably carry bundles under their arms and that those bundles will be full of weiners and marshmallows. Which sounds interesting to say the least We hope to hear more about it later. The boys of the Junior classes of the "Y," with Mr. Brunson, have been meeting at the "Y" building every Saturday afternoon that the weather is right and going out for a hike. The boys of Troop 2 went for a walk in the woods last Sunday with Scoutmaster Scoble. The Moon The moon has a face like the clock in the halL She shines on thieves on the garden wall. On streets and fields and harbor quays, And birdies asleep in the forks of the trees. The squalling cat and the squeaking mouse. The howling dog by the door of the house. The bad boy that lies in bed at noon, All lore to be out by the light of the moon. Selected by Virginia Brehm. Thursday, the Girl Scouts went for a hike right after school. The story is that they carried bundles under their arms and that those bundles were full of weiners and marshmallows. Which sounds in teresting to say the least

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Garfield Notes Professor Ileironiraus left Tuesday to visit the Junior High schools of Fort Wayne, Indiana and Jackson, Michigan. He was gone the remainder of the week. Owing to the absence of Professor Heironimus, no Council Meeting was held this week. Friday morning, April 11, the program in Chapel will be a musical one and will be given chiefly by the Garfield orchestra. A new Red Cross work has ben begun by the Garfield pupils, and is a part of the general work of the Junior Red Cross. It is called "News Clipping," and means that every Junior should cut out any news story he sees that has the words "Red Cross" in it. The other Junior will secure three other copies of it and the secretary of each room will paste them on a big sheet of card board a certain way. One of these copies will be kept in Garfield as a part of the school scrap book ,one will go every two weks to the Richmond headquart ers of the Red Cross, one will go to the Headquarters of the Lake Division, and the fourth will be sent to Washington, D. C. The idea of this is the bringing together of the Red Cross Juniors of Richmond with the Red Cross "grownups" of Richmond and with the seniors and Juniors interested in Red Cross work all over the country. ""The total number of Thrift Stamps bought by the students of the Richmond Public schools up to March 14, is $4,908.71. which sounds big, but really ought to be much bigger, when one thinks of the hundreds of children in Rich mond that this number stands for. Why doesn't every Junior plan to earn enough money to buy at least one a month? Boys Work for T Members The boys in the boys department of the Y. M. C. A. are working es pecially hard just now for this month a membership drive is on. There are two good reasons why they are working so hard. The first is that they want the other "fellows' 'to know what great fun it is to belong to the Y. M. C. A, and then they want to earn some of the beautiful prizes that the de partment is offering to the boys who secure new members. There are three prizes, and they are so attractive that no one would blame any boy for wanting them. They are: A "Y" stick pin to which will be given to every boy wno gets one new member, a "Y" watchfob for two members and a belt with a "Y" buckle on it for the boy who gets three new members. By Wednesday, Paul Thistlethwait had three new members, and each of the following boys had one new member: Russell Taylor, Tim S pro use (who Is a boy in spirit), Harold Roberts, Raymond Luby, Elmer Fuller and Maurice Hosier. Mrs. Nettle Harrell was tho only woman in the United States with a government contract to leea army men. Upon her rested the responsibility of feeding 8,000 soldiers at Camp Purdue. She has often fried 308 eggs at a time.

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Thank You, Juniors The following Juniors sent in their "letters" and 'tis "sad but true" that some of them were duplicates of letters that other Juniors had sent in before, and some were go very much like other stories that they were almost the same story and so we were not able to publish them. Just write what is in your own head and then it can't be like anyone else's story, can it? Of course not, any more than your head is like some one else's. It's very much like the heads of other Juniors, but it is different, that is what makes, you, you. We are so sorry that we couldn't print all of your letters this time. Don't give up, please, try real soon again, and you will probably succeed much better next time. Thank you for sending these letters, all you Juniors whose names follow, and let us hear from you soon again: Virginia Lonsine, Whitewater, 3B. Osa May Rowley, Whitewater. Rosella Lunis, 5B, Whitewater. Georgia Keesling, 3A, Whitewater. Thelma Kelly, 3 A, Whitewater. Donald Essenmaker, 6A. Elsie Baker,. Russell Green, 5A, Finley. Rudolph Drifmeyer, 5B, Finley. Stella Ebert, 4A, Finley. Rosaire Burtt, Finley. Pansy Wilson, 4A, Finley. Constance Hall, 3A. Mary Scheidler, 3A, Warner. Herbert M. Finley. Vivian Lindsey. Bertha Landrieth. Theresina Porfidio, 5B, Whitewater. Ralph Cunningham. Blanche Cotman. Mary Hodapp, Finley. Lawrence Daily, 4B, Starr. Mary Estelle, 2A, Starr. Mary Ruth Decker, 3A. Martha Titus, 4B, Finley. Mary Wesler. Carl Rogers, S. Eighth street. Ruth Lucile Unthank, 4A, Starr. Wilford H. Nuss, 3A, Warner. Robert Pyle, 3B, Warner. Elizabeth Holt,- Warner. Lilah Van Etten, Warner. Mildred Bromley, Warner. Gertrude Peden, 3B, Warner. Zenobia Linezey, 4A, Finley. Franci3 Drifmeyer, age 11, Finley. Effie Lamtz, 4B. Elizabeth Riggs, 4B, Starr. Yvonne Coates. Marie Landrieth. Martha Yeddlng. Getting Violets with Daddy Last spring Daddy and I went along the river to gather violets. We dug some up and took them home with us. I planted them in our yard and now they are coming up again and soon I will have a lot of violets. Dad says It will Boon be time to go down along the river for flowers again. I like to go to the river with my daddy. Helen Balling. 1st grade, St Andrews School. Tha maple leaf Is the emblem of Canada and stands for freedom. Justice and truth. It Is on the badges of the Canadian soldiers and nukes them easily recongnlz-

The Quarreling

Greyestolkes At breakfast everything was dull until Augusta saw in the paper that the Earl and Countess of Greyestolke were visiting the Duke or Sotheringham in America, at his noted estate, Sotheringham Hall. When she saw the namo in the paper, which was rightfully hers, she paraded up and down tho room, and cried softly out, "The rightful Countess of Greyestolke shall come into her own," For you know she had told her husband of her origin. She then produced a letter which she explained that her mother had written and given it to her. It was signed and sealed in her mother's hand. She ejaculated how she would produce it when the time came; and give it to the Greyestolke family solicitor with it the priceless necklace, which she possessed, for she knew that it was hunted by the pretender to her title. He had agents out even now searching for it. Those intruders were probably some men of his, whom he had hired. Had she known that even at that moment the figure in the hooded, dark coat was gazing upon them from the window, she would have thought differently, and would not have taken the necklace from its silver casket, and showed it proudly to her husband, and would not have kissed reverently the wonderful blue diamond. Now here's a secret, don't tell it. The dark man, who is spying upon them, is the Earl of Greyestolke. You see they thought that Ruth, Augusta's mother had been drowned. So Queen Victoria appointed Ruth's cousin, her nearest relative, the Earl of Greyestolke. Had the queen known that Ruth's daughter, Augusta Hoolbroke, wa3 alive, she would have thought more of the matter. Now the Earl wanted this necklace, and paper of testimony, then Augusta could not prove that she was the rightful head of the house of Greyestolke. The Earl was Augusta's cousin. Albert. Now Albert knew Augusta's husband William and it is not surprising that Albert was delighted when one night, William invited him to a dinner dance, as dinner was over, they soon began dancing. They danced for nearly an hour, Albert made out that he remembered a forgotten engagement. The butler helped him on with his coat and hat, and he pretended to go, but instead pulled from behind a stone the coat with the hooded cape, then he got in an open window and went up the circular staircase, down the hall till he camo to a room, his agents had learned, where Augusta kept the papers and the necklace, lie opened the door. It was a very large room, paneled, hung with draperies, big massive backed chairs. But between two of the largest windows at the end of the room, under a canope, on a small table, lay a large silver box. He strode toward it; he tried to open it, but it was locked. He took a skeleton key made for boxes, especially jewel cases, and soon had it open. He reached in and grasped the necklace and papers. "Now!" he said in a low voice, "I've got them." But do not be too sure that Lady Augusta, the Countess Dowager of Greyestolke cannot claim her own. (To be Continued.) j TRUTHFULNESS. A very important meeting was being held at the capitol in Washington. A caller came in and asked for the President. But President Grant could not be seen then. To get rid of the visitor a man said, "Tell him the President is not in." "No," said the general, who had heard this order. "I do not tell lies and I do not want my servants to lie for me." This teaches us never to tell a lie nor ever teach others to lie. Elizabeth Maurer. 4th grade, St Andrews SchooL . .j Press Agents These are the names of the Press Agents that left their names with their "letters" this week: Vaile. H. Roach; Joseph Moore, Clifford Caine; Whitewater. Marguerite Muckrldge; and Finley, Wilbur Pond.