Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 45, Number 203, 3 July 1920 — Page 11

THE JUNIOR PALLADIUM WEEKLY SECTION OF RICHMOND PALLADIUM

RICHMOND INDIANA, SATURDAY, JULY 3, 1920

SCOUT TROOP NO. 5 HIKES ALONG GREEK

Troop Five started at 4 i. in., Thursday on a hike for Clear creek. The hike was in charge of Scoutmaster Wilson. Mr. Ross, one of the Troop committee members, went along. Mr. Wilson left a note at the "Y" telling where we were going, no boys who were late could find us. On the way we left signs no the boys coming later could follow. On a hill in the woods west of Clear creek, we ramped. We were building a fire for supper when Edward Mull and Ralph Harrol arrived. Edward Mull passed his fire building test and Ronald Ross his knifo test. Alter supper we' told stories until time to go home. We got home about 9 o'clock, and everybody agreed it was a fine hike. J. Ronald Ross, Scout Scribe.

Million, Captain Whitewater Team

The most popular playground in Richmond is the one at Whitewater school. Every day, according to Mr. Walter Stcgman, who is in charge of the playground, says there are neventy or eighty children playing. Croquet is proving very popular. Baseball is also being played. Last Friday, June 25, two games were played with the team from Baxter playground. The scores were 14:16 and 11:4, with Baxter coming out ahead both times. The members of the Whitewater team are Million, captain; Clark, pitcher; Hall, short stop; Davis, catch; Burrell, second baso; Webstor, left field; Hamilton, third base; Saunders, right field; Benson, center.

The Song of Patriotism

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How John Got His Thrift Stamps Once there was a boy named John. It was in the summer when it was about time for school to be out for vacation. John studied hard till school let out. After school let out he went to his uncle's farm. He worked hard. He milked the cows and cut corn for the cows, and fed the pigs and helped his uncle all he could, and his uncle gave him a dollar and a half. When he went home to stay a few days, he asked his mother if he could buy himself a pair of roller skates. His mother said, "Why don't you buy some Thrift Stamps with your money?" And John said, "That's what I .will do!" So he went up town to the post office and got his Thrift Stamps. When he got to his uncle's, it was time to milk. He changed his clothes and went to work. The next day he cut corn for the cows and helped his uncle clean the horses' stables. Then he led the

horses and went to dinner. After dinner they went after a load of corn. It was evening when they got back, so they had to do the milking. The next day they were going to thresh. John woke up early that morning. The threshing machine was already there. John was busy carrying water for the threshers. But the next day he had to go home to go to school. Before he

wont, his uncle gave him two dollars. He went to school and studied hard, and in the evening got his Thrift Stamps Earnest Thomas, age 9 years, grade 5B, Joseph Moore school. Honorable, Mention in the Junior Palladium StoryWriting Contest.

A Rainy Afternoon One rainy afternoon it was raining very hard. I didn't know what to do. Mother told me I could call up my friend and invite her to como over and we could go up to the garret to amuse ourselves. I called up my friend Cora and told her to come over as soon as she could. She said she would be there in just a moment. She was soon over and we started upstairs. When we got there we looked around to sco what we could find to amuse ourselves with. Everything was so dusty that we ran downstairs and asked Mother for two of my old aprons so we could explore the garret. She gave them to us and we returned to the garret, j Cora soon spied a trunk which we

opened, and to our surprise, found mother's and father's wedding costume. Wo put them on and went, downstairs. I asked mother if wV could play like we were getting married. Cora finally had to start home and she said she had a very pleasant afternoon. I thanked Mother for planing such a pleasant afternoon for us. Soon after supper I went to bed and slept soundly till morning. Lucile Wickett, grade 6, Richmond, Indiana. ,

Personals

Lester Thurman and his sisler, Esther Thurman, of Knox, Indiana, are visiting their aunt, Mrs. A. J. Korteweg, on West Main street. These children have an uncle that was an aviator in France during the war, and Lester has a French aviator's cap that came from over seas.

CUE ROQUE TOURNAMENT A cue roque tournament will be started in the Boys' division of the "Y" on Tuesday, July 6.

HAROLD GARD PLEASE NOTICE!

Friends and relatives are seeking Harold Card, who has been away from his home for a few weeks. Mrs. Edna Ferguson thought he would see the Junior Palladium, and asked us to print tho following message to him for her: If Harold will write to Mrs. Ferguson at R. R. B, Richmond, Iud., she will be very glad, as she is anxious to correspond with him.

By PAUL COMSTOCK, Attorney-at-Law, and Major In the American Army during the Great War. The war-harried City of Metz, in November of 1918.

The night had just come, and the rain which had been falling since the morning gave little evidence of ceasing. The street lights were few, land ineffective; here and there a shop window sent fjbrth a beam to

break the sombrencss of the hour. In the hearts of mdst of the inhabitants, howevei, in contrast to the gloom of tho night, there glowed a great happiness for a terrible war was ended and it was but a few hours since that the sound of marching feet and the rumbling of wheels marked the evacuation of the German troops. Theirs had been an arrogant occupancy of forty-eight years, but at last they had been driven from the soil of France. I was walking In the Rue Serpentine, when suddenly above the sound of the rain, the scraping of feet, and the noises of the street, I heard a clear boyish voice, pure and sweet In Its tenor quality. The song was the Marsellalse, that wonderful national air of France; the voice came nearer and presently I saw, outlined against the light from a window across the street, a small boy in a cart, which seemed many sizes too large for him; he stood with head erect, unmindful of the rain beating in his face and dripping from his blue tam-o-shanter to his shoulders. He cracked his whip over the broad back of his non-responsive horse as he sang, with might and main. "MarchonsI Marchons!" I shall never forget that boy. As I listened, I was reminded of the fact that for almost 50 years that same soug had not been heard in that same street because a conquering nation had forbidden it It had been kept alive however, in the hearts and memories of this boy's grandfather, his father, and had been taught him in the seclusion of his humble home with many a hope that tho day would come when he or his children or his children's children might sing it after years of sad suppression. It came to me that I had never heard an American boy or girl sing

our national hymn except upon some occasion of ceremony, never alone and with such an outburst of feeling. To this boy it was a spontaneous thank offering. Perhaps he had lived his eleven years or more without

having dared to open his heart and throat with this tune of France. He

was sounding his own freedom and the freedom of his ancestors, and he

did it with an abandon of pure liberty. I wondered if the time would ever come when some fine day a soldier in a strange uniform might step brusquely into our school rooms and tell our children that they could never again sing the "Star Spangled Banner" or "America" or if they should see posted upon the tele-

phone poles and billboards orders signed by a foreign name which prohibited the singing of these songs. Would not that be sad and terrible?

And yet, such a thing had happened to this boy's grandfather, to his father, and to himself, because his nation had been conquered by another nation, and his people had lost their national freedom. ! Tho Fourth of July is the anniversary of our Independence. For i one hundred and forty-four years no king or emperor or the people of ! any other nation have dared to tell us what we could or what we could 1 not do, what songs we could sing or could not sing, and it must always i be this way. So long as we are true and brave Americans living for our country ; and preserving its best traditions and remembering the bravery and the J sufferings of our ancestors who prepared the way for us, we need have ! no fear.

You are living in the greatest and best country of the earth. I won

der if you appreciate this wonderful fact.

THE BIRTH OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC, JULY 4, 1776.

PATROL LEADERS TRY FOR SENIOR OFFICE Mr. Wilson, scoutmaster of the Y. M. C. A. troop of Boy Scouts, received his certificate of commission this week. The official number of the troop has been givenit Is Troop No. 5. Troop equipment is being decided upon and will be purchased in the near future. Some of the boys already have their suits and some are planning to get them soon. Degree work is progressing at a brisk pace. Interest is being centered right now on the boy who passes his second class tests. According to the 1920 ruling, after boys have passed their second class tests, they may qualify for their mtrit badges. Formerly only first class scouts could qualify for merit badges. Mr. Wilson has announced that the boy who first wins Uie Life Scout Merit Badge will be Senior Patrol Leader of the troop. To win this merit badge, tho scout must have successfully passed the following tests: First Aid, Athletics or Physical Develop-, ment, Personal Health, Public? Health, and Life Saving or Pio

neering. The patrol flags have been made. The patrols are the Black Bear patrol, with George Krueger as leader ; the Wood Pigeon patrol, with Edward Mull, and the Silver Fox patrol, led by James Ronald Ross. All the boys except Robert Goodman, Theodore Hickman and Virgil Conolly have passed their Tenderfoot examinations. Three new members were taken into the troop at the last meeting. Their names are Ralph Harrol, Ernest Russell, and Virgil Conolly. Edward Mull, Ronald Ross and George Krueger are completing their second class examinations. Iloward Hosbrook and Claude Bond are also taking second class tests. On Friday, June 25, the scouts helped to clean the walls of the Boys' division. They are planning to help decorate the reading room in this department with pictures and pennants. As this goes to press they are planing a hike for the afternoon of Friday, June 2. under the leadership of Dr. Williams of the Troop comittee, to the Hospital cave and to Thistiethwaite's Falls.

Presenting the Declaration of Independence.

The paintinir

above repro

duced illustrates an event that

shall forever be memorable in American history. It shows the "committee on declaration," headed by Thomas Jefferson, laying the completed draft of the

Declaration of Independence before the continental congress in Philadelphia. It was signed on July 4, 1776. The members of the committee are standing before the table while their leader lays the document before John Han

cock, who is seated facing them. They are, left to right: John Adams, Roger Sherman, Robert R. Livingston, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin' Franklin. The tall man standing at the right u Charles Thompson.

Martha Smelker Writes of Her Pets New Madison, Ohio. June 28, 1920. Dear Aunt Tolly: i. I live in the country. I have a calf, 2 rabbits and 4 kittens. The calf's name is Oxford's Majesty's Tess. The rabbits' names are Billy Bunniken and Peter Silkear. The kittens names are SpUty, stubby, Blackie and Darkie. I milk a cow every night now. We have eight heifers, 11 cows, and 8 or 9 little calves. I keep my rabbits in a wire pen in the day time. At night I keep them in a crate. I saw an airplane go over Saturday afternoon. It was pretty low. I like the story of "A Little Girl, Polly" in The Junior. I like it verv much

We have a Delco light plant and we

line it very well. It runs 27 lights, a piano light, sweener. fin. iron

washing machine and fjepara'tor.

uur scnooi closed April 23. We had 13 pupils. I am 8 years old, will bo nine in September l wilt ha in

the 6th grade next fall. Well I must close. Yours truly,

MARTHA SMELKER. R. R. 2, New Madison, O. Dear Martha: This is one of the best letters I ever received.

Please write to us afcain sometime

soon. Aunt Polly.

Society

The Fourteenth Street M ission children are going on a picnic Mon-: day afternoon at Cedar Springs. Three hay wagons will take the' party.