Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 294, 27 September 1919 — Page 13

THE JUNIOR PALLADIUM WEEKLY SECTION OF RICHMOND PALLADIUM

Write a Story for the Junior Write a Story for the Junior RICHMOND, INDIANA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1919

Misses Bullerdick and Griffiths Get Letters in French The following letters were received a v, ek af;o by Helm Pullerdick ami Ruth Griffiths, from Fivik ii orphans adopted by the luiitl ruis'd by the Palladium Hag two year:; ago. They art- written in answer to French letters written by Garfield students. The tranblation of the letter written to Miss Helen lUillnnliek, of South Tweltth street follows: Rives, June 2, 1919. My dear Friend Helen: I have been Blow indeed in writing to you but I did not wish to be. 1 have received, in fact, many letters from my friends in America, and I have not been able to answer all of them. I do not know, now, just to whom 1 have written. I will also ask you, my dear Helen, to show my letter to your little friends, since, I'm sorry to say, I have not been able to write to all of them. Thanks for the money which you sent me, and which helps mama to buy what I need, because everything here is so very expensive, that one can hardly live. Resides mama has been sick ever since the death of my dear papa.

She also joins me in thanking you for all the good things you do for me. In return, I ask the good Father to bless you and your families. I do not know the American language. My uncle who knows it has translated your letter. Yes, he likes the Americans very much and thinks he will go to your country as soon as he is demobilized. I am going regularly to school. I am eight and one-half years old, and not much of a scholar, so pardon my mistakes. In closing, take, my dear little friend, the fondest wishes from a litle French girl who will never forget you. CHARLOTTE M01JN1ER. The following letter was received by Miss Ruth Griffiths, 218 youth Eighth street; Dear Friend: Many thanks for your pretty card. I go to the school of Madame Sainie-Marie, which is a little free boarding school. There are only four classes with about two hundred pupils. I have a brother who is thirteen years old, but I am only ten. We are alone with my dear mother. My father died a prisoner of war in Germany. I am going to make my first communion next year. I hope to have my certificate the year following. We now live in vry, a little town in the outskirts of Paris. I am very happy for you that this great war has not proved you to the limit. As for us, we have suffered greatly. I hope you will wish to write to me often. Give, I pray you, my best wishes to your parents, and your friends, and as to yourself, my best affection. Your little friend, CLAIRE MOUY. Rattlesnake Tribe Loiie Scouts Busy The boys of the Rattlesnake Tribe of Lone Scouts of Richmond, are fixing up their new club rooms on South Ninth street. The captain of the tribe is Charles Popp, and the Lieutenant is Wilbur Benning. Meetings are being held every Friday evening at the home of Norman Johanning at 42 South Twelfth street. The boys are working to extend the tribe to a Wigwam, and are planning many activities for tho winter. Committees of Council Formed The standing committees of the Council of the Junior High school have been elected. They are: Norman Johanning, Chairman Physical Education Committee; Richard Ziegler, Chairman Decoration Committee; Florence Falck, Chairman Social Education Committee, and Janet HarriB, Chairman of: the General Exercise Committee. The 'financial committee is made up of the chairmen of the four other committees.

How Rabbits Are Coming Back To War-Stricken Northern France

This is the story of how the rabbits disappeared from Northern France and how they cauie back again. Rabbit stew! Ttie anticipation of its steamy goodness hastened Jacques's homeward steps in the quiet days before the invasion, j when one tilled the fields without; j danger of hitting an explosive! shell, and a good dish of meat was I on the table two or three times j a week. Even in those fat times a rabbit dinner was a mild celebrai tion. Perhaps tho little ones cried j a bit when a favorite bunny disi apoared into the pot, but on the whole they took the loss philosophI ically and there were always new i m f ore hiinphnc; rf hrnu'n fluff f r hit' tended with dandelion leaves and i petted into sleek and placid round ness. In all the fertile stretch of the Department du Nord there was hardly a farm without Its hutch i stocked with round-eyed, roundj haunched French bunnies or long, I rangy Relgian hares, j During the German occupation, I tiie stubborn women and old men who stayed on in their towns and villages found that rabbit had beI come their staple. The invaders had no stomach for the native delicacy, so, as they had to allow something to their starved, unwilling hosts, they left them this. The rabbits continued to prosper on the ! tiny ration allowed to beasts, even eatable beasts, when humans were hungry, and the French regarded v ith grateful surprise the cherished such small encouragement. Under the last terrible bombardments, however, all the French were evacuated without their rabbits. And in that withering fire the breed disappeared as completely as did every growing thing, even to the weeds between the stones. Returned to Ruined Homes But the desire to go home always is in the hearts of folks. So these poor people returned to the place I where their homes once were, and i live among the old broken walls without furniture, coal, stoves, tools, or cooking utensils. There is another reason why the planting of gardens must be done very slowly. The fields and the country all around northern France, where the hardest fighting was, are sown thick with unexploded shells. Children dare not pound the dirt with stick or stone. They have learned not to do this by seeing the sad misfortune that has come to some of their little friends, who forgot to bo careful and began to play in old time happy way, when all of a sudden an explosion took place and their little playmate lost an eye, or an arm. They sit aimlessly between meal and meal, and though meals are by all odds the vital events of New Football Team Gives Challenge Garfield boys are organizing football teams to play this fall with Roland Erbse and Donovan Waking as captains. Mr. Eckel will be coach and Mr. Lyhoolt will be referee. Pennants Ul?be awarded to the ones Judged-ttie beat players. The pigskin aspirants will practice on Rield Field of Earlbam every Tuoa-

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the day, they do not bulk large in size. The government gives a small allowance to the unemployed refugee, not much more than enough to pay for the small ration be is allowed each week a pound of meat, a little bread, and some cer

eals. That is all, for food is scarce in that region, and many must be fed. This is the north of Franco where 2,500 villages and towns stand in ruins, where 500,000 buildings were damaged, 200,000 of them being totally destroyed; where 2,000,000 people, one-twentieth of the best earning power in France, were dispossessed, in that U.UUU, ooo, 95 percent, of those still living want to come back, and they are coming back as fast as the reviving life of the region can absorb them and faster. The government is doing what it can for them, sending up food, portable houses, turning over empty barracks, getting together seed and materials and tools. But the work is vast and tragically slow. And the people seem to be getting nothing. Their minds and their hands are empty. So it is that any gift to this region, no matter how small, is welcomed. From the nine Red Cross warehouses, too, supplies are being distributed through private French societies. American Woman Has $5,000 to Spend Mrs. ISrinck Thornc went to France last year with some hun-. dreds of other Red Cross canteeners. She differed from them only in this, that she had 5,000 spare dollars in her purse to invest in some personal venture for Fiance. And during the three months' work at Is-Sur-Tille she was alert to find tho particular niche her little fund could fill. At the end of her canteen scrv-i ice she secured a Red Cross per-1 mit and turned north toward Lille,' "to see what she could see?' She saw it under the guidance of Miss Harris, the Red Cross director of that region. She had known the facts before, but there are some things you have to see for yourself. She went into the regions about Verdun, Soissons, Rheims, and Amiens. Distribution committees had been organized among the women in many villages, and Mrs. Thorne grew to know those of the Nord Department intimately. When she stopped seeing them as refugees and saw them as people, she began, too, to see life among the ruins as they saw it; not as a waste of desolation, but as a reality, a hard one, but endurable. She began to see the tiny things on which they rested, their hopes, and to recognize what things in the makeshift of their living were permanent, and could be built upon. It was like finding the foundation walls under the rubble of a ruined house. One d.iy Mrs. Thorne began 1o think rabbits. Rabbits would eke out the meat ration, so perilously! day and Friday nights. They expect to play outdoor teams of other towns. Although the boys are not completely organized, one team has been formed of which the menbers are: Charles Popp, James Good, Roland Fansher, Walter Eversman, Thomas Beeson, Kenneth Poinier, Philip Graffis, Carl Graham, Albert Evans, John Fanfiber, Roland Erbse and Donovan

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slim; rabbits would also occupy idle hands and blank minds. Moreover, rabbit raising was economical. They could live on odds and ends and waste, they were good foragers, and they multiplied by geometrical progression. Most of all, she thought of the children, the little boys and girls sitting wearily on their doorsteps, with lax hands and dull faces. The more she thought of them the more she wanted to give them live things to play with and to take care of, soft brown things, bunnies. Rabbits Bring Joy So after a short delay caused by their scarceness in France, the rabbits were bought not the big, greedy Belgian hares, but the thrifty little French rabbits that give so much and demand so little. On June 10, 1918, a letter came from Lille, "The first rabbits have really come," wrote Miss Harris; "Arras received 237 and Douai 140. They caused much excitement and joy. It is wonderful to find them at all, and at an average price of 12 francs. They sold in the market at Iouai last week for 28 francs apiece without the fur." Four rabbits are given into the care of one woman, who holds them in trust for nine families. There are three mother rabbits and one

male rabbit for every nine families It is a sacred charge. It is hard for us to imagine the place these rabbits have in the estimation of the villages. They more than rival the two incubators the Red Cross loaned to Arieux, near Douai, the incubators that harbored 50 eggs, the precious contribution of ten families, and that were watched night and day for the cracking of the first shell. Recently the man who has been buying the rabbits for Mrs. Thorne sent the following cable from Paris: "Supplied 2,600 rabbits, average cost 12 francs. Shipped Arras, Douai, Lille, Valenciennes, Cambrai, Roubaix. Unable to supply 200 Denain. No funds left." More funds were soon supplied. Twenty-six hundred rabbits will repopulate the warrens of 5,850 families. That is something. Especially if you think in terms of individuals. It is something to give one child a playmate; it is something to give a family a dish of meat once a week. Waking. The first game will be played in about three weeks, the exact date to be announced later. The captains want to announco through the Junior Palladipm tho player3 are asked to come with their helmets and suits prepared to play. Spectacles were in 1285. first invented

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New Orchestra at Junior High The orchestra at the Junior High school is now completely organized, and Its members are eagerly looking forward to their year's work. The members are: First violins Robert Hough, Concert Master; George Krueger, Hilbert Woodhurst, Mary Minnick, Pauline Arnold, Naomi Dietz, lieslie Hart, Robert Ryan, Thelma Shellenberger, Frederick Thistlethwaite, Donald Tice, Garr Davis, Elgar Hopkins, Janet Harris, Rhea Wilbaum, Byron Bond, Mildred Kenworthy, William Hornaday, Edwin Sieweke. Second violins Margaret Downier, Elizabeth Mote, Kenneth Schattell, Kenneth Poinier, Marian Ilandley, Bernice Richards, Alma Williams, Mabel Harris, Margaret Nungesser, Lucile Moorman, Eliza beth Estel, Maurice Mentendick, Thomas Beeson, Rayburn Finley, Loring McFail, Herbert New.irk, Thelma Sullivan, Janice Smith, Vierl Cutler. Viola Martha Reeves. 'Cello Richard Crawford. Bass Paul Martzell, Roland Fansher. Flute Edward Nusbaum. First Clarinet Norma Shellenberger, Walter Reinhard. Second Clarinet Roland Kemper, William Penery, Horace Sippie. First Cornets Raymond Conolly, George Beam. Second Cornets Marion Russell. First Horn Donald Chenoweth. Second Horn Albert Foster. Trombone Jerome Bentley. Drums Warren Cottingham, James Quigley, Ernest Arnold. Piano Ruth Hutchins, Helen Eichorn. Juniors Begin Music Classes Splendid is the opportunity being offered to Juniors all over the city, by Mr. Sloane and Miss Marlatt. directors of the Richmond Public School music, to Btudy instrumental music. The Qost is low, the talent of the teachers in these classes is unusually high, and the chances for learning and becoming a musician or at least a music lover are unlimited for the Junior who is eager to learn and unafraid of practise. The first real session of these classes was held this morning at the High school building. The method ia the same in general that Professor Hicks used with his ensemble classes in violin last year. Those classes are continued as Second Year students of which there are thirty members. Then there is a first year , violin class of sixty members which will probably be divided into two sections; piano classes with one hundred members which classes have been divided into six sections with Miss Mildred Schalk and Miss Marjorie Beck as instructors; Clarinet class of eight members and coronet class of eight members taught by Mr. Henry Rnuge, and a class also of eight members in drums taught by Mr. John Robinson who plays the drums at the Washington theatre. The violin and piano classes are ten cents for each pupil a lesson, and the other classes cost each pupil fifteen cents. Big Campfire Held by Garfield Girls Under a deep blue afternoon sky, the Garfield girls sat around a big campfire and popped corn and toasted marsh mallows last Tuesday evening. They hiked out to Morton lake as soon as school was out and built their camp-fires. Every girl brought her own lunch, and marsmallows, and wienners were toasted over the fire. Mrs. Graves, Miss Henley, Miss Williams, Miss Hiegerand and Miss Schultz chaperoned party. About two hundred girls, enjoyed the 'jollification, which is the annual school campfire for the girls. Mother "Where do ytm feel sick?" Son "On my way to Bch'"