Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 303, 4 October 1919 — Page 11

THE JUNIOR PALLADIUM WEEKLY SECTION OF RICHMOND PALLADIUM

Write a Story for the Junior Write a Story for the Junior RICHMOND, INDIANA. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1919

What They Are Talking About at Junior High School Baseball Is arousing groat interest at Junior High. A Room League lias been formed of rooms numbered 2, 6, 14, 3, 1, 5, 25 and 4. At the time this report goes to press, rooms 2 aJid 6 are ahead, each having two games. The tennis tournament is nearing a close. Earl Thomas and Collin P. Powell will play next to decide the other player for the finals. William Brady has already qualified for the finals. Golf remains popular on the 4hole course at the playground. Many boys of Junior High will soon be seen starting out on long walks on clear nights, stopping every now and then and taking long

looks skyward. The reason lor this is, not that they have suddenly gone crazy but that they are members of the new class in Astronomy that is being organized. Council met Wednesday morning for its weekly meeting and voted to ask that school hours change so as to make the noon hour of Junior High the same as that of tho Senior High School. That would moan that the noon closing hour would be changed from 12 o'clock to 11:35. The new time that school would take up at noon will be 12:55. Our old friend the weather man will be tho one who will decide whether Tuesday or Thursday of j next week will be the day that tho gym girls of Garfield go for a long hike with Miss Wickemeyer. MR. COON IS CLEVER 'The raccoon has always enjoy a reputation for cleverness, and the modern science of animal psychology furnishes experimental proof of his intellectual ability," says L. B. Holme3 in Boys' Life for July. "One of the points in which the mind of a boy is superior to the mind of an animal lies in the former's power of calling up the memory of an event some time after it has happened. We do not know to what extent precisely a dog can recall in the evening the happenings of the day, but we do know that dog's power in this respect iB very limited, as compared with a boy's. "Dr. Hunter of the University of Texas recently invented a method of testing the power of memory in men and animals and tried his tests on white rats, dogs, raccoons and children. "A light was shown in one of threo directions. If it appeared in a certain direction the animals got food and the children got candy. If it appeared in cither of the other directions no reward was forthcoming. The subject was not permitted to go for the reward immediately after the light had appeared in the favorable direction, but after an interval of a minute or two it was released. "The children always remembered the proper direction in which to go and the animals did, too, if, they did not have to wait too long. But their way of remembering tho proper direction in which to go showed differences in mental equipment. The rats and the dogs did it by keeping their noses pointed straight at the place where ' the light had appeared throughout the entire interval. If they moved from that position they were lost. "The children could move about as much as they pleased during the interval, because they were capable of recalling after sometime had passed where the light had last appeared. "Now the raccoons, although they often sat still during the interval, were usually able to go in the right direction for food even when they had moved about and were headed quite wrong at the moment of their release. Accordingly, it appears that the raccoons have, to some extent, the power to remember an event that Is in the past." There is a vast army of Junior members now mobilized to carry out the new Junior Red Cross peace program in the Lake Division -which includes tho Btate of Indiana it numbers 795,323 strong. This army has had rapid growth New recruits 147,161 of them flocked to the standard between January I, 1919, and May 1.

Woman Lands Huge Marlin Swordfish

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Tournaments, Chief Interest for Boys at Y. M. C. A. Tournaments are being held in the Boys' Department of the Y. M. C. A. in pool, ping-pong, checkers and cue roquo. Maybe it doesn't sound very exciting, but it is. Ask any of the players! Mr. Hall who is one of the men in charge of the Department, says it is expected that the tournaments will be completed the last of this week. Prizes will be given to the winner of each group, but just what these prizes will be, has not yet been announced. We will hear about these prizes and their winners next week. Camp fire Girls of Exploring Mind The leaders of the Tatohekiya Camp Fire girls for their tramp last Saturday afternoon did not stop at anything, so we hear. They even wished to inspect freight care, etc., so that they could say they had been on a regular "tramp" and of course tho rest of the girls had to follow! They finally landed at Thisllcthwaite's Falls where they built a glorious camp fire and cooked supper. (That Is, the committee cooked tho supper.) Tho members of tho committee were: Louise Bentley, Mary Francs Churchill, Dorothy Churchill, Sarah Seeman3 and Clara Huber. By the time your Junior gets to you next Saturday afternoon the camp will be off on another hike. The leaders for that hike will be: Betty Price, Georgia Heely, Helen Reese and Serena Huber. THERE'S SCIENCE TO PAT Pat "If you should ask me to put your shoes in a box, and Oi wouldn't do it, what would you do?" Mike "Shure, and Oi would put them in myself." Pat "Oi wouldn't. Oi would put them in the box!"

Lasting Over Two Hours

Mrs. Marshall Field of Chicago, unaided recently caught a 225 pound marlin swordfish after two hours and twenty-five minutes of work, during which she was towed from Seal rocks into Avalon bay, Catalina island. She says of her feat: "The really thrilling part of the experience was the magnificent fight the big fish made. He made fifteen distinct runs, each time taking all tho line. The last time it seemed as If he were making a straight dash for home, towing us nearly all the way into Avalon bay. That was a unique ride." Mr. Field and Capt Barney Halstead were with Mrs. Field at tho Crusaders Become Knight Bannerets The Health Crusaders of Junior High School are once again beginning to marshal their forces. Many of the girls are ready to receive their Knight Banneret pins and mr.ny new girls and boys are enrolling all the time. Those girls who are now ready to receive their Knight Banneret pins are: Janet Harris, Ruth Simmons, Elizabeth Mote, Marion l'osthcr, Margaret von Carlezon, Elda Konan, Helen Mikesell Mabel stidhani, Hazel Yost, Helen Wenger, Mildred Jones, Thelm.i Siiellenberger, Rhea Johanning. Carolyn Bartel, Mildred Coins, Ruth Ciitchet, Louise Nieuian, Lorraine Renk, Elizabeth Pettibone. His Foes Fear stood with pointed weapons to keep a soul at bay; Two brave eyes never saw him so. Fear crept, crushed, away! Doubt gathered quite an army of shadows, gloomy, black; A plucky spirit laughed at them So Doubt turned, frowning, back! Despair called all his minions of worry, fret, and care; A soul courageous talked with God nor knew such foemen there! And when Despair and Doubt and Fear saw all their work was vain, They scampered headlong down the hill nor came that way again! Lillian Card. A farmer wrote as follows to a distinguished scientific agriculturist, to whom he felt under obligations for introducing a variety of swine: "Respected Sir: I went yesterday to the cattle show. I found several pigs of your species. There was a great variety of hogs, and I was astonished at not seeing you there."

Ethel Tillman Head of Freshman Class The new officers of the Freshman class have been elected. They axe: Ethel Tillman, president; William Romey, vice-president; John Claig, secretary-treasurer; Ethel Tillman, chairman of tho social committee. The other members of tho Social Committee are: Madge Townsend, Helen Lachman, Francis Robinson and Howard Mills.

A RAT'S DIET An adult brown rat eats two ounces of food a day, and will eat forty-five to fifty pounds of grain in a year. It also devours poultry and eggs, game, vegetables, fruit, coffee, dates, oranges, cocoa; It gnaws vines, clothing, textiles, leathercovered books; it i3 fond of glue, and attacks harness, especially' when worn, and curtains, whether of silk, cotton, or tapestry. The rat attacks anything its teeth can take hold on; it Is, in fact, a terrible spoiler, gnawing incessantly and Indiscriminately any object its teeth can make an impression on. The marked identity of menu in the food of men and of rats Is curions enough between two species whose dental type is so different. But the rat differs from man in the absolute necessity it is Bubjcct to of eating often and enormously. It is this need of abundant nourishment which makes cannibals of rats. Some soldiers experimented with rats, putting eight in a cage together, eight days later only one was there, and it was seriously wounded. However, a precise statement of the alimentary regimen of rats is more difficult than it would appear, since individuals vary in their tastes. Experiments prove that, contrary to accepted opinion, the brown rat has a very restricted diet, being comparitively fastidi. ons. Thus it eats the crumb but not the crust of bread, unless urged by extreme hunger. Some rats have actually died with crusts still in their larder. Both black and brown rats like cooked rice, potatoes, carrots, and fish, as "well as cheese and certain uncooked fruits and salads. They will devour the flesh of a melon, but leave the rind. They like lard, pastry, sugar, and chocolate, as well as meat (principally cooked), though the latter seems scarcely consonant with their dentition. They sometimes eat raw meat, but this is by necessity and not by choice. They neglect turnips, radishes, and dandelion; they will eat oats, but will perish if confined to this food. When tainted meat is given them, they eat only the sound portions. They will not touch barley. A rat fed only on fruit will die of starvation in a few days. If fed only on those stuffs which it eagerly gnaws, cloth, leather, wood, etc., it dies as soon as if entirely deprived of food. Experiment proved, rather to our astonishment,

that the rat is not graminivorous; HE'LL SOON BE OUT OF A JOB the meaning of which is feed- Trussed up in a vestlike jacket ing on grass and grains land stowed away comfortably it eats wheat only in default of) enough on a little shelf just behind other food. Tho trenches abound i the pilot's seat in the airplane, the

with talcs of the rat's greed for soap and candles, but when these were placed in their cages, they were eaten only in default of other food. The rat is known to attack cadavers, but this is by necessity rather than choice. One cause of the rat's addiction to man's diet is that it neither hibernates nor lays up stores for winter, as do other rodents, the marmot and the squirrel, respectively. Rats are not only voracious, but they defile food. If they devour nearly three times their weight of food, then they destroy two or! three times as much more. When-j ever they find a fragment of food not too heavy for them to carry, j they drag it near their holes, cat a part, and soil the rest. This behavior is very remarkable in caged animals. When they are given, by the way of experiment, limited and ; insufficient rations, they spoil half of it, thus dying of starvation with food which they have destroyed beside them. In captivity they always foul even their drinking water. Good Health.

Warner Elects Representatives of G. G. League The bustle and excitement that usually attends an election was noticeable at Warner school Tuesday morning, September 30, when ail election of representatives for tha Good Government League was tak ing place. The following officers were elected: Representatives 6AB: Robert Thomas, Helen Murphy, KenneU Lovin; 6B5A, Jack Clark, Eliza beth Dodd; GB4A, Finley Bond, Ma rle Wackey; 4B3A, June Schramm, Nelson Pyle; 3A3B, Alberta Bell, Mary Morgan; 2A2B, Freemont Al exander, Pauline Ball; 1A1B, Carl Carty, Mary Saner. Alternates 6AB, Robert Morgan, Grace Yost, Elizabeth Estelle; 6B5A, Georgia Thomas, Kenneth, Holtkamp; 5B4 A Robert Surren dorf, Helen Moody; 4B3A, Lucille

Seaney, Albert Dallas; 3A3B, Rich M,7e JTohn w?: 2A2B, Er n Mulc Mervm; lAlu, j nvarvi, iviji&uu iiaiui. Juniors to See Art Exhibits "1 don't know a thing about art, but I like that picture real well," will not have to be said by Rich. mond Juniors after a while. There, are two ways of liking pictures, lik ing them, without having any idea just why you do admire them, anJ liking them because you know their good points, and can tell ex actly why you admire them. After this, boys and girls of tho Senior High School and its younger brother, the Junior High School as well as the pupils of the fifth and sixth grades can be in the seo ond class, which is the better one. For a special committee has been formed of teachers who will see that these students are given a chance to sec the pictures that are shown from time to time during the winter at the Art Gallery on the third floor of the High School Tho exhibits that arc held in the i Art Gallery are on a very high plane and unusual for a town the size of Richmond. Students of High School and Junior High aU tended this week, and tho ones from tho grades will begin coming to the Art Gallery next Monday. KENTUCKY JUNIORS WORK FOR RED CROS3 Knox county (Ky.) Juniors were divided into work groups according to their ability. The oldest school girls fcave twej or three afternoon a week to mato ing garments for French and Belt gian babies and for needy local families. The next in age and dex terity knitted left-over yarns Into convalescent robes for the soldier and afghans for the foreign babies. Third and fourth grade kiddies knitted wash cloths and made comfort bags. Even the first graders, 'and kindergarteners did their bit by pasting picturbooks for hospital patients and the kindergarteners of other lands. homing pigeon was the aviator's only means of sending word back to headquarters. On many occasions tho pigeon carried appeals for help from men whose airplanes had fallen into the sea. The perfecting of wireless, both telegraphic and telephonic, promises soon to end the romance of the pigeon post. Popular Science Monthly. Such excellent results have been obtained among the children of Jerusalem through the feeding and medical attention which have been provided by the American Red Cross and other relief agencies, that the mothers are beginning to boast again in Oriental phrase that their babies aro "fat as lambs with cheeks like pomegranates." Little Miss Virginia Marie M&l? bel, of Brooklyn, New York, is the youngest aerial voyager. She is. four years old and has made her second trip with her mother from, Mineola, Long Island, and wears the regulation aviator's costume, leather Jacket, goggles and helmet.