Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 45, Number 203, 3 July 1920 — Page 13

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM. SATURDAY. JULY 5. 1320

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THE JUNIOR PALLADIUM The Junior Palladium is the children's section of the Richmond Palladium, founded May 6, 1916. and issued each Saturday afternoon. HI t)oys and girls are invited to be reporters and contributors. News Items, social events, "want" advertisements, stories, local jokes and original poems are acceptable and wiU be published. Articles should be written plainly and on one side of the paper, with the author's name mil age signed. Aunt Polly is always glad to moet the children personally as they bring their articles to The Palladium office, or to receive letters addressed to the Junior EdHor. This is your little newspaper and we hope each boy and girl will use it thoroughly.

AUNT POLLY'S LETTER,

Dear Juniors: A really great person has been In our little city. That person is Jane Addauis that is what nearly every one calls her who speaks of her. One very seldom hears "Miss Jane Addams". She talked for a little while over at Earlham last Thursday evening. It was interesting, of course. She asked that people show more kindness and interest in the people who come to our cherished country from other countries we call them immigrants. But what I liked to do best of all was to watch her face. It was so strong; but most of all, it was "kindly. Some people say that faces tell stories. Perhaps they do. They may not tell just what you've done, or in what country or part of a country you've lived; but, perhaps, they can tell yon what you've thought. Jane Addams has thought so long about helping other people who need help, that her face tells the story before you read it or hear parts of It from her. Her face seems to say to anyone who needs help, "I understand, and I not only understand, but I care about you and your need Now, let's see what we can do about it." You have all heard about some of the things she has done, I suppose -hi.w sue built the magnificent Hull House in one of the poorest and most crowded parts of Chicago; and how she made it so big and useful If you haven't, some day you will want to read about it and visit It Did she think anything about this when she was a child living in the large homestead of her father in Cedarville, Illinois? In a way, she did Before she was seven years old she visited one of her father's mills which was located in the worst part of the little town. She said that d-iy that when she grew up she would have a large house, but it was not going to be built among other large houses, but right in the midst of "horrid little houses like these". And that is what she did. Here in Richmond we have no district anything like the one in which s.he built her great house but we have read of tenement districts and can imagine what they are like. ' Yes Jane Addams is a great person. And, just think , she came right to our own little Richmond ! AUNT POLLY.

Saved From a Bear One day there were two little girls They hadn't seen their aunt lor a Ions time. And they wanted to go and see her, so their mother told them they could go if they didn't stay long, because they had to go through the jungles. So. when they got there, they had such a Kood time that they forgot what their mother said, and it was getting very late, so they started home. On their way home they played bfwr. They kept going on and finally thev saw a real bear. And they asked each other what they would do. The largest girl said, "Our mother always taught us to pray when we were in trouble." So, they both knelt down and prayed. When they arose mey sang a song that their mother had taught them, so they kept walking in the path where the bear was. Their mother was worried about them, so she came to meet them. On her way she heard some one singing. And she saw that it was her daughters. When she was real close to them, she asked them who that other girl was, with them. The girls said, "We did not see any other girl with us." It was a guardian angel and the girls got home safely. Dorothy Chew, age 8 years. Seventh Day Adventist School. Honorable Men tion in the Junior Palladium StoryWriting Contest. GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN "Are caterpillars good to eat?" oaiPil little Willie at the dinner table. "No." said the father; "what makes you ask a question like that while we are eating?" "You had one on your lettuce, but it's gone now," replied Willie, The first ambulance for wounded soldiers was introduced on the battlefield by Larret, a French surgeon, in 1782. The British army did not use them until 1857, after the Crimean war, and congress did not establish a uniform system of ambulance in the United States until March 11, 18G4, when the Civil war was nearly three-quarters over. A ship built entirely of mahogany still exists. Her name is "Matchless" and she is now useu by the Coast Survey. She was built by pirates near Key West in 1859, who stole the mahogany from a stranded vessel. All the timbers and frame are of solid Santo Domingo mahogany.

My Trip Up To The Old Garret One day it was raining very hard so I did not know what to do. Mother said I might explore the garret. I called up my friend, Lucile, who promised to come right over. When she arrived we made our way straight to the garret. After reaching the top of the stairs and opening the door, we fourl the garret very dusty. Finding nothing to amuse ourse'.es, we started

downstairs. Just then Lucile said, i "Where does this door lead to?" We opened the door and it was a closet. In the closet there was a large trunk. We tried to open the trunk, but in vain. Giving up all hopes of having any fun, we left the closet. Just then I saw a small key. With this key I opened the trunk. A.'U what do you think we saw? Hoop skirt dresses and poke bonnets that I thought my great grandmother must have worn. There were also trinkets of jewelry. We put on the poke bonnets, hoop skirts and jewels. Just then I heard Mother calling. We ran downstairs and when she saw us, she cried, "You look like your great grandmother when she wore those dresses." After trying on the styles of '62, I think I like the styles of 1920 better, as therti are not so many lace frills. -Rosemary Sharkey, grade 7. Before him three rockets in a row; Behind him the stripes and the field of stars; Then Charles and a match and a piece of punk The rockets have gone, to visit Mars !

Wonders of Bird Migration A great deal of information about birds has been gathered by the Biological Survey of the U. S. Department of Agriculture in the past quarter of a century. Some highly interesting data have been gleaned in relation to the migration of birds, the routes traversed, the times and speeds of their journeys, and published in one of the many bulletins. A few birds, notably the grouse, the quail, the cardinal, and the Carolina wren are non-migratory, while the arctic tern which nests in frigid regions only a lew degrees from U:o north pole and migrates to the borders of the antarctic continent, is a wonderful traveler. The 22,ouO mile journey from one place to the other requires barely twenty weeks. This means that the bird must cover 150 miles a day. Undoubtedly it averages considerably more than this, for its side flights in quest of Tood must be taken into consideration. It would seem that the arctic tern is a lover of the light. At any rate it manages to secure more hours of daylight and sunlight every year than any other living creature, for during at least eight months of the year it lives in a region of perpetual daylight and during the other four months it lives where the daylight period is much longer than the period of darkness. The average weather, rather than the weather which appears to prevail in a migration period of any particular year, determines the dates of migratory movements. That is to say, migration is more a question of climate than of weather. When the travels once begin, however, the weather encountered has some effect in retarding or accelerating the advance more or less. The time of flight appears to be little affected by winds. The different species do not follow the same route in migrating. The favorite course extends directly across the Gulf of Mexico. It has generally been believed that after such long-continued flights as this most birds are exhausted and are obliged to seek the ground as soon as possible, but evidence submitted to the biological survey tends to disprove this suggestion. As knowledge concerning the

flight of birds increases, their marvelous efficiency as flying machines becomes more and more apparent. The golden plover which in favorable weather is able to cover the 2,400 miles over the ocean botwen Nova Scotia and South America without stop, remaining some for-ty-eight hours on the wine, is spoken of as "an aerial machine that is more economical of fuel (energy) than the best aeroplane yet invented." The application of power in the to-and fro motion of the birds appears theoretically to be uneconomical, since the power required in bringing the wing forward is wasted and at the same time it increases the friction against the air and retards motion forward. The screw propeller of the aeroplane, with no lost motion, would seem a far more efficient form of mechanism, yet in covering the 2,400 miles of its migratory flight the golden plover, uses only about two ounces of fuel in the form of body fat. If a 1,000 pound aeroplane could be made as economical of fuel as this bird, it could make a 20-mile flight on a single pint of gasoline instead of a gallon as it actually requires. The question of how migrating1 birds find their way has always been a puzzling one. Hi ids pm1 known to return unerringly year after year to old nesting places alter spending the winter thousands of miles away, flying a large part of the distance by night and crossing; large bodies of water which are devoid of guiding marks. Various i theories have been advanced to ac-' count for this wonderful faculty, i One of the latest is that the birds' are a sort of natural comiass and : are peculiarly susceptible to the' earth's magnetic lines of force. It i is suggested in the department of J agriculture bulletin that they find : their way by means of a peculiar j sense, a senso of direction whirh ' is more or less noticeable in human beings.-Our Dumb Animals. Never mind if you happen to be small, boys. It is being said that the small boys and men, it active,! are wanted more on ball teams than the big fellows. Some of, these small baseball players are,! Schalk, Ruel, O'Neil, Walters, and ; Perkins. i

When Schools Oat One day while there was school on at "Hart's Glory." ono evening a couple of boys were a little lato getting out of school. Their names were Marvin and John. A man came up the road with a litle white dog lolowing him. So Marvin and John went into the school building and shut the door and hid themselves. The man went to the pump and got a drink of water. Then he came to the door and tried to get in, but found the door locked. Then he tried the windows, but did not succeed in getting in at all. So he went to the little stable in the back of the school yard and then made a bed of dry grass to sleep on that night. Marvin and John came out of their hiding place. John went on one side of the school building and Marvin on the other side, to see if he was still in sight. But they could not see him at all. Then they went back to the cloak room to get their wraps and ran down the road as last as they could towards their j homes to tell their mother and j father what had happened that eve- ! ning at school. They said that they ! would never stay as late as that any more. The boy, John, is the writer of this true story. -John K. Bunch, age 11, Lynn, Ind. WIND STEALS FLOWERS Dear Aunt Polly: I am a little girl ten years old. I am going to make a story. Once ( there were some girls. Their names j were Helen, Thelrua and Ruth. They asked their mother if they I could go and pick some flowers. , Their mother said, yes. They went I to the woods and picked their flowers. Mildred said, "Let us j play hideand-go-seek." The rest said, "All right." They laid their flowers down and were ready to play their game when the wind began to blow right hard. Helen said let us go home. All right said Thelma. Ruth said she could not find her flowers. The wind had blown them away. The girls went home. They went and picked some the next day but they did not lay them down. They took them home and put them in water. This is the end of my story. Ollif Canaday, age 10 years, grade f, Dalton township. IS THE GREAT EAGLE GOING AS THE PASSENGER PIGEON? The famous bald eagle of America is threatened with extinction. The only region at present where it thrives in any considerable numbers is the coastal region and large valleys of Alaska. It breeds here in surprising numbers and grows to groat size. Unfortunately, the Alaskan bounty law oilers a reward of fifty cents for each eagle destroyed. Although this absurd law went into effect only two years ago, it has already resulted in the killing of 5,600 eagles. To gain more bounty, the eagle hunters have even gone into the British provinces adjoining Alaska. It is estimated that onehalf or perhaps three-fourths of the entire species lias thus been sacrificed. Francis Arnold Collins, In Boys' Life.

ONE FLAG. ONE COUNTRY. ONE PEOPLE "Our country, generous Fatherland, Within whose far-extended boundaries. Our native gifts of tal ent, our hopes, our inspirations. Have full play, to Thee we owe a dobt of gratitude So great that wo can ne'er repay."

My Bahy Brother I am 8 years old. April 1. I have just got over the measles and can not go to school yet, but I can play with my dolls and I like my dolls. I have a sweet baby brother and I play like he is my little doll sometimes. I love to play with my baby brother, for he can laugh and coo at us. Effie B. Smith, Grade 2A, Whitewater School. This was written for Ihe Junior Palladium story-writing contest in April and received honorable mention. My Pet Rabbits I have three pet rabbits. They jump up on my arm when I feed them. They will hold their heads for me to rub their ears and heads. I feed them twice a day. They are brown with little while paws. They jump and play like little kittens. They seem to know us and they know my mama better than anyone, for she talks to them. When she is there they are nice pets. Joseph R. Smith, grade 4A, Whitewater school. I Honorable Mention j in the Story-Writing Coutest. THE LIGHTNING SISTERS And the Memory-Man said: In Eskimo land they tell how the Great Spirit came to Sky, who lived on earth with his three sisters. "You must come up with me," he said. "Sun and Stars must have some place to live, and you cannot come to earth again." "But what shall we do," said the sisters, "if our brother goes, who will hunt for us? We shall have nothing to eat." "That is true," said the Great Spirit. ' ter into I will make the eldest sisLightning, and she can get you food by striking the reindeer. The second sister can make fire by hitting two stones together and shall be called Thunder. The youngest shall bo Rain and will give you water for the cooking pot." That is why Lightning, Thunder and Rain come to earth, sometimes, but Sky never does. And the harm 'hat Lightning and Thunder do, is more than made up by the blessing of Rain. In all wise decisions, the good overbalances the evil. R. W. JIMMY JONES' CAKE One day Jimmy Jones' mother baked a cake and put H away in the pantry. When she was not looking, Jimmy went in and took a piece. In the evening, his mother saw the hole in it. So, she asked Jimmy if he ate it. At first he said "No," but his mother told him if he would tell the truth she would bake him a cake on his birthday. So he owned up. As soon as he was three years old, his mother baked him a cake and put three candles on it. He invited some boys down and after they had played some games, his mother called them out to the table. When Jimmy saw the cake it looked so good that he said, "No. boys, you can't have it! Mama baked it for me!" So, he ate the top that had icing on It himself, and gave them what was left. When Jimmy's mother heard this she said, "Jimmy, I'll never bake you another birthday cake." Rebi Harris, grade 3B, Finley SchooL