Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 45, Number 313, 13 November 1920 — Page 15

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13,

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THE JUNIOR

The Junior Palladium Is the children' section of the Richmond Palladium, founded May G, 1 D 16, and Issued each Saturday afternoon. All boys and girls are invited to be reporter and contributors. News items, social 'events, "want" advertisements, stories, local jokes and original poems are acceptable and will be published. Arilch's should be written plainly and on one stde of the paper, with the author's name and age signed. Aunt Polly is always glad to meet the children personally as they bring their articles to Tho Palladium office, or to receive letters addressed to the Junior Editor. This is your little newspaper, and we hope each boy and girl will use it thoroughly.

AUNT POLLY'S LETTER

Dear Little Friends: Almost everyone in our great country is talking of "Peace" this week, many are thinking it and Home are successful in living it. What is peace? Well, like some other great things, it is hard to say just what it is, but I can tell you what it is like, when I tell you what happened to me just now as I sat down to write this letter to you. I was sitting at a table and the room seemed dark and dull, although it was morning but the day was gray, almost blue-gray. Then all of a sudden came the sun, not slowly, but all at once, showering so much sunlight and such bright sunlight into the room that it dazzled nie. I felt that Apdllo, the old Roman god of music and beauty, had just been playing peek-a-boo with me, and was laughing because I nearly thought the day was really cloudy. Peace is like that. It peeks into this old world trying to paint itself black with hate and war and brightens it all up. When I was about your age I thought that peace must be something that people, especially older people thought about, when they did not have anything more exciting to think about and that it had nothing to give to boys and girls. But really, it is not that way at all. You boys who have wireless apparatus at your homes know that when the air is clear the messages are more easily sent and received. Peace is like that. In peaceful times, people of the same nation and of different nations can do more business by working together; can develop more art and music and science; become better friends and understand one another better than in unsettled times, when they are fussing with each other and making lots of noise and trouble. I, for one, and I know I am only one of millions of people who feel the same way, am as glad as glad can be and as proud a3 proud can be that I am an American. America is such a big country, so openhearted, so alive, has such big ideals and is oh, so much that we can love! But what do you young Americans think of this (I read it in a junior magazine the other day): "Our country! In her intercourse with foreign .nations may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong." An American thrills at the sound of "Our Country!" and wants her to be in the right and will love her always and be ready to forgive her as her leaders in directing her make mistakes, knowing it is impossible not to make mistakes; but to thrill with admiration for hr when she is in the wrong is more than any human being who tri"s to be fair in his thinking, can honestly do. At least that is the way it seems to me. Soon we expect the Peace Treaty of the Great War will be signed by our country, and perhaps peace treaties with other countries with which we have not been friendly but with which we wor not openly at war. We hope these treaties as far as America is concerned with them will uphold our country's ideal of "jus-'Uce toward all" and showthat America can act again, as she has acted before, from feelings of great trust in and friendship for all other peoples. Peace treaties like that will bring sunshine to many people who think the tims are cloudy. AUNT POLLY.

Tire Plot Spirits Flat at the End Of Holiday at Fair One Thursday in October mother father, brother, sister and I all went to the Eaton fair. We Vent in our machine. It was very, very cold but we wrapped up so that we didn't get cold. We saw some cows and lots of sheep and watch dogs and horses looked like they were almost irozen and we saw a big forest with large trees and lots of rabbits in them and we saw two elevated railroads, one between here and Eaton and the other just before you get into Eaton. , When we got to Eaton we saw lots and lots of machines. Then we went over to where the races were to be. At first there were six horses and carts. No. 4 won. Next there were eight horses and carts. No. 4 won. Last there were 16 horses and carts and on coming around the curve one cart hit another and one of the wheels came off. The driver pulled hard on the lines to get the horse to stop "but the horse did not like to have the other horses get ahead of him Qn,i ho fiifin't want to ston. so he went half way around the circle without stopping. Alter the races were over they had a free exhibtion. In it were while horses and a man and woman dressed in white. After the free exhibition we saw the nice things that they had to sell, the pumpkins, apples, peaches, pears, and lots of other nice things. After we saw the things we went to the cur and started for home, we had to stop and pull a man out of the ditch. After we had started again, the tire blew out and the pump would not work right, so we had to come into town on the rim. No! a Arnold, 5A, Sevastopol, Most men think indistinctly and therefore can not speak or write with exactness.

PALLADIUM

Thought for Today Wherever tliere is a human being there is an opportunity for kindness. Seneca. MR. JORDAN SPEAKS AT VAILE SCHOOL Boys and girls of Vaile school met in the upper hall of the building on Thursday morning and took part in a program which had been planned for that hour in celebration of Armistice Day. The program is as follows: Tableau, "Pilgrim's Day" Pupils of the 3B and 2A grades. Address, "Armistice Day" William Hornaday, a student. Address, "Armistice Day" Mr. Charles Jordan. Patriotic songs were sung. Bring 'Em In! Good magazines, t ho kind boys like to read, in current or recent issues, will be most acceptable to the Boys' department of the Y. M. C. A., Social Secretary Cox has announced. As you finish your favorite paper or magazine, the American Boy, Boys' Life. The Youth's Companion, St. Nicholas, Outing. Hunting or any other good, lively magazine, take it to the "Y" and be sure It will get many more happy perusals. WHO IS HE? "We will fight It out on this line if it takes all summer." Last week: Harriet B e e c h e r S t o w e, who wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin."

Study Problems

Solved HOW TO READ By John Merrill Francis W. Parker School You have se?n a moving picture show, and doubtless you know how the pictures aro taken and how they are made to appear on the screen. Suppose you have a moving picture machine of your own, and that you have a reel entitled "A Lion Hunt." If the photographer took his pictures of the lion hunt at the rate of 16 views a second, and if ou send them through tho machine at the same rate, the hunt will seem to be actually taking place blVoro your eyes. But it' you send them through at too slow a tare, you will not see a moving picture merely a series of separate, stationary views, like those of the old-fashion-ed stereoptiron. If you run your pictures faster than 16 a second, the result will be no picture at all only a blur. Reading, In some respects, is like a moving picture. The words on the printed page correspond somewhat to the separate views. If you have a copy of the "Jungle Book" by Rudyard Kipling, and wish to see the moving picture that Mr.

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NINE-YEAR-OLD CHESS PRODIGY ARRIVES IN U. S. TO MEET ADULT EXPERTS HERE

Samuel RzeschewskL This nine-year-old Polish boy, Samuel Rzcschewski, hns come to America to prove to U. S. chess enthusiasts that accounts of his marvelous playing against fifteen or twenty adults at one time in European dties has not bean exaggerated. As the photo shows, he is a normal appearing boy.

Kipling had In his mind when lie wrote about the fight of the mongoose with the great snake, you must read neither too slowly nor too rapidly. You must not omit any of the pictures; that is, you must not fail to get in your mind the correct image for each word. If you are a careless render and do not get the correct mental picture of practically all the words on the page, you will fail to see the exciting lif'ht that the writer saw. If you are oer-slow the separate views suggested by the Individual words w ill not combine in one continuous movement or picture. If you recognize words readily, but are overhasty and rush down tho page without taking time to see every picture distinctly, you will get a meaningless blur. If, then, you wish to be admitted to the thrilling moving picture show of any interesting book, you must bo able and willing to pay the price and observe all the rules. No skipping, no loitering, no hurrying, but every picture clear and diM inct.

The Happy Prince . Many years ago there was a happy prince. He was not a real man but a statue. He had a pearl in his sword. There was a swallow passing by. The statue said, stay with me toniRht. It was cold and rainy. The statue said take the pearl and give it to the poor skinner. The swallow flew and Hew till he came to a little hut. He laid it by the spinner's hand. When she woke up she was surprised. The next night the prince said take the gold from my body and give it to the widow yonder. The swallow obeyed. The next night the happy prince said fan the sick boy with your wings. Just then the swallow fell dead and the prince's heart cracked. The the Lord said pick out the most precious thing on the earth and he picked up the dead swallow, and the heart of the prince. Nila Williams, 5B grade, age 9 years, Star school. Wrapped Up in Itself. Teacher Who can tell me what a cow's skin is used for? Sammy I kin, teacher! It's used to keep the cow's meat in. Boys' Life.

Puzzles for Juniors

1. Change "date" to "hero" in not more than five jumps, changing only one letter each timo. Thus "Greek" can be changed to 'bread" in four jumps: Creek, greed, breed, bread. 2. A president is hidden in each A sailor was drifting fore on a raft, When his captain shouted "Hi, there, push It aft." The dog ran toward his loving mas ter. When he was scared he ran much faster. 3. Transpose part of our flag into spirits. Transpose an animal into a vegetable. Transpose a part of day into a stick. (Answers will be published next week). ANSWERS TO LAST WEEK'S PUZZLES 1. Beech tree, pine, fig, spruce, sycamore, palm, ashes, slipperyelm. 2. A bell. 3. 80 fore legs. 4. Rhyming word puzzle snow. Riddles for Juniors RIDDLES 1. If 32 is freezing point, what is squeezing point? 2. What is it that makes everyone sick but those who swallow it? 3. What is the difference between a mouse and a young lady? 4. What Instrument of war does the earth resemble? (Answers will be published next week.) ANSWERS TO LAST WEEK'S RIDDLES 1. A bushel of oats. 2. On the shortest day. 3. The more you lick it the faster it goes. 4. The blind man can not see to go, and a sailor in prison cannot go to sea. 5. Kite. SCHOOL YELL What if they grunt What if they groan What if they ball What if they moan NOTHING! Let 'em grunt let 'em groan! Let 'em ball let 'em moan! WE LIKE IT! (Boys' and Girls' Newspaper Service) JOKES "I was motoring the other day and I came to a river, but couhl find no means of getting my machine across." "Well, what did you do?" "Oh, I just sat down and thought it over." Mr. S. Seems to me Bob Berlin stayed rather late last night, didn't he. Ruth? Ruth S. Yes, papa, I was showing him some of my picture postcards. Mr. S. Well, the next time he wants to stay late just show him some of my electric light bills. Seeing an Irish laborer pick up a nelectric cable, an electrician cautioned him not to handle wires because they might carry a .high voltage and kill him. The Irishman replied, "Sure, 01 thought of that, but Oi felt it all over before I picked it up!" Lone Smut. Jean was kneading a bit of bread dough given her from the Wednesday baking. "I love to make bread, Mother," said Jean. "That's nice, darling," said her mother, encouragingly, pleased at her small daughter's interest in household affairs. "Yes," replied Jean, "it cleans my hands so nicely." Little Mark, aged five, was imparting to the minister the information that his father had a new ( set of teeth. "Indeed!" said the good man, patronizingly, "and what is he goin? to do with the old one" "Oh, replied Mark, "I suppose Mamma will cut them down and make me wear . them." Breckinridge II. S., San Antonio, Texas.