Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 36, 11 February 1922 — Page 15

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY, 11, 191 ,

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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. All boys and girls are invited to be reporters and contributors. News items, social events, "want" advertisements, storie3, local, jokes nnd original poems aro acceptable and will be published. Articles should be written plainly and on one side of the paper, with the author's name and age signed. Aunt Polly is alwavs glad to meet the children personally as they bring- thei articles to The Palladium office, or to receive letters addressed to the Junior Kditor. This is your little newspaper, and we hope each boy and eiri will use It thoroughly.

AUNT POLLY'S LETTER

Howdy, Junior Folks: Have you ever watched someone painting a picture? If you have you have seen him get up close to the canvas on its standard and paint quickly for a while and then stand away and look at It closely. Then probably he will decide it needs a little more color here and a little shading there, and so he paints. Let us "play like", there was someone a long while ago painting a picture of the months, and that when he finished painting February and stood off to look at it, he thought it looked gray too gray for a nice picture. Then he added" some color by putting in several of the nicest holidays we have all year. There is the charming St. Valentine's day and the birthdays of two splendid men. Then, too, in this month the birds begin to come out of their hiding places and to come back from the south and to sing. Now is a good time to see birds for the trees are bare and our little bird friends can be easily seen. So instead of a gray picture in February we have a month which we all are glad to welcome. We are always so glad to say "Thank You" and mean it so very

much, to Lincoln for taking away slavery from the country where we are proud and so glad to live. He had his eyes wide open to see the wrong in slavery, and he decided to stop it and he held to his purpqse till he saw it win out. Besides he was kindly and true, and people like to honor him. When Lincoln lived in our own state of Indiana, he was about eight years old and the story tells us that his bed was a pile of dry leaves in a loft. The way he climbed up into this loft was by pegs in the wall. It would be rather fun if we could do that nowadays, wouldn't it? But probably Lincoln didn't think about how simply his home was furnished. Many of the early settlers lived like that. I believe though we like him a little more because his life was so simple, don't you think so?

The postman is probably the most important man on St. Valentine's day, because he brings most of our Valentines to us. Wouldn't you like to play letter carrier next Tuesday. I would. I think it

MOORE IS MAKING MAPS, VALENTINES

Dear Juniors: ? Aunt Polly said the reporters could write letters to the boys and girls. I like it better because it is more like talking to you. x Joseph Moore school has such nice chapel exercises every week, and I hope you like to hear about them. This was the program last week: Trumpeter's March Orchestra. Song By the school. Piano Solo Miriam Jones A Current Event Edith Wilson. Piano Solo Frances Gaar. Song by some pupils of Miss Stafford's room. Songs: " Giants" and 'See-Saw" by Miss Dunlap's room. Song By the school. Auld Lang Syne Orchestra.

The Geography class in the Fifth grade has just finished a product map of the United States. Frances Gaar furnished the pattern for the map and the children brought tiny pieces of wood, lead, coal, marble, zinc, corn, wheat, sugar, salt, rice, cotton, borax. These were pasted on the states that produced tham. It was lost of fun and it will be easier now to remember them. Are the rest of you Juniors making Valentines, in Drawing class? We are making some very pretty ones. Your loving friend, Mary Hayward, from Joseph Moore.

NEWS OF THE WEEK

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The Archbishop of Milan, Italy,

was elected to be pope by the car

dinals. He will be crowned

Pope Pius XI on February 12.

President Michael Hainisch of the Austrian republic has sent a message of thanks to America for its help to the needy children of his country. . Under the direction of Professor Breasted of the University of Chicago, a group of men will go to Palestine to begin digging or excavating for the old city of Megiddo, or Armageddon. They will , start as soon as the money for the Journey Is raised. Six treaties were ratified by the delegates from the different countries in the last session of the conference for the limitation of arma

ments, which was held. Tuesday, ;

Feb. 7. Groups of men representing the following countries signed it in the order given: United States, England, Belgium, France, China, Japan, Italy, Netherlands

Portugal. In general the delegates were pleased with the work of the conference.

B URB A NCK RECEIVES

Austrian mm

ST. JOHN'S HOLDS WRITING CONTEST

DENNIS HIGH PLANS NEW ORGANIZATION

would be heaps of fun. Three cheers for February! AUNT POLLY. '

MR. JOHNSON (Continued from Vage One) gence that Abraham Lincoln was shot last night about ten and onehalf o'clock. He died this morning. All business was closed today and the streets were draped in mourning. A large meeting (of the people in the town) was held at Starr Hall (which was the Coliseum of those days and located where the Hoosler Store is now, on sixth and Main streets). Many men all talking of the death of the president shed tears." The tuneral tram passed through Richmond the diary says, on April 30 at 3 0,'clock in the morning an1 a large crowd of people were at the

station. So, as we honor Lincoln in our school programs, we "can think about how Richmond people paid honor to him, over 50 years ago.

RADIO NEWS

Roland Wickett has installed a Chi-Rad, regenerative set, using a standard Marconi circuit. He obtains good results, hearing 5 F. V. of El Paso, Texas, and W. J. Z., of New Jersey. Joseph Cox has been hearing K. D. K. A., the Westinghouse Mfg. Co., at Pittsburg, regularly. Joseph Hall has installed a "Quality" one step amplifier, which he reports, works satisfactorily. Fred Luring is installing a Tusca regenerative and two step

outfit, which is .expected to bring in many D-X stations. George Toler is going to install a new receiver of two tubes. Neighbors on Fourteenth street report hearing Fred Luring and George Toler talking from roof to roof without being equipped even with a receiving apparatus.

Bryce Hays has been doing good work with his large Westinghouse set, but we all wonder what has become of his squeak box. William Huber li going to install an A. P. tube, but. there is some doubt as to when Dick Hodgin has had slight trouble with honeycomb coils. If there is any amateur who wants any information in regard to hook-ups, call at the Junior Palladium office. We' will do our best to give it to you. Gerard Harrington, Junior aod licensed radio reporter.

NEW BOOKS COME (Continued from Page One) twins Mrs. Lucy Fitch-Perkins has told us about. Searching for the lucky sixpence which belonged to the family for a long time and which Be, the French cousin, believes will make Ihe fortunes of the family, makes a lively story of "The Luck of Denewood," by Emilie Benson Knipe and Alden Arthur Knipe. Be and Peg have all sorts of adventures hunting for this charm, which has been lost for 100 years. "Kit, Pat and a Few Boys," a

story by Ruth B. Gilchrist, which pleased many St. Nicholas readers has now appeared in book form.

When Chief Scout Librarian Mathiews collects boys' stories, we feel sure they are going to be good ones. He is the editor of "The Boy Scouts Book of Camp-Fire Stories," in which are stories by Jack London. Ralph Connor. Rex

Beach and Ellis Parker Butler, i

This means a wide variety of stories from the moose story by Lon don. to "Dey Ain't No Ghosts," by Butler.

"Dianthe's Quest" is another

story by Emilie and Alden Knipe

In this story, Di and her' mother

and old Uncle' Tobey go from St

Jo, Missouri, to Californnia, in

search of DI's father.

"Children's Garland of Verse" gathered by Grace Rhys, is an at

tractive book of poems. Little talks between Uncle Faul and his nieces and nephews about insects and birds make up the book "Animal Life in Field and Garden," by the French author, Henri Fabre. Birds and Thornton W. Burgess and boys and girls a good combination! Several more copies of the attractive "Burgess Bird Book for Children" have come and will live in the children's department. What fun it is to give plays! Here is a whole bookful of them, including some of our favorite stories in play form. It is "A Treasury of Plays for Children," by Jonas Montrose Moses, with

such merry drawings by Tony Sarg. the interesting Dane who draws pictures for stories and manages puppet plays. Some of the plays in this collection are Pinkie and the Fairies, The Silver Thread, Six Who Pass While the Kentils Boil, Punch and Judy, Master Skylark, Alice in Wonderland, and The Toymaker of Nuremberg.

A constitutional assembly of pupils of the Dennis Junior high

school was formed Friday, Feb. 3. Officers of this assembly were Handley Frame, president; Floyd Gardner," vice-president; Mablc Bortner; secretary. From this body, five committees were formed to plan for the following departments: police force, school council, publicity, athletics, honor roll. Each committee meets with a faculty advisor and considers the best way to carry on that department. The committees and their membership follow: Police, Mr. Cox, Lennie Cook, chairman; Jacob Worleyi Catherine Weimer, George Whitesell.

Council Miss Hieger, James Sharp, chairman; Floyd Gardner,

iMlis Uevington, Elizabeth Stevens, Myrtle DeBeck, Harriett Scott. Publicity Mr. Beck, Edward Lovin chairman; Lucile Harris, Paul McKay.

Honor Roll Mr. Heironimus, Margaret Kemper, chairman; Charline Foreman, Rudolph Maule, and Roger Lindley. Athletics Mr. Lyboult, Taylor Holliday, chairman; Joe Stillman, Helen Murphy, Goldie Martzell, Mary Bell. They Say! 1 "Why do Freshmen resemble real estate?" "Because they're such a vacant lot."

The pupils of St. John's school will soon have to give up their old school. By the last of March, we will have to take our books and things into St. John's church basement. We are going to get a new school next to the church. The pupils are in hopes that their new school will be ready for them, to

go into by the time school Degins

in September.

The school is going to be large. There is going to be a hall above

the school rooms. We are going to have a large playroom. All of the

children liked their old school. It was recently sold to a Chicago

firm. The St. John's children liked

their old school because their

parents attended it when they were children. The upstairs was a church in those days. Although the children were well pleased

i when they heard they were going

to get a new school. The children of St. John's school wrote compositions on the two presidents, Abraham Lincoln and George Washington. The compositions were read before the Luther League. The prizes were awarded

to two boys and two girls. The names of the girls who received prizes are: Dorothea Bode, receiving the first prize, and Helen Nordsieck, receiving second prize. The names of the boys are: Roland Fulle, who received first prize, and Harold Wibker, the second prize. There were judges Appointed. Itj

was nara to aecide who would receive the prize. It was agreed to give it to the ones who used their own words as much as possible. Dorothea Bode, reporter from St. John's school. v

Girls Marry Early More than half of all the women in the United States marry before reaching the age of 25.

Rebuilding the Old Village of Salem, Former Home of Abraham Lincoln

A stray deer swam into Seattle harbor, was lassoed, and is now in the city zoo.

We like to build houses and parks and villages of blocks and sand, do we not? Grown-ups do, too. Right now, people in the state of Illinois are building a village. There will be 23 stores and bouses In this village when It Is completed and yet no one will live in them. No, not even ghosts, for it isn't to be a haunted village. It will be the little town of Old Salem, just where it used to be, (though when it was built, it was called "New Salem") and it will appear very much as it did when Abraham Lincoln lived there. ' This town lived to be only 10 or 12 years old, because it was located on a high bluff and was not in a

good place for trade. When people

saw it was not well located, they decided to move, and so they packed their furniture and bedding and clothes and went to live in Petersburg, not very far away. Sometimes they even took their houses with them. But though the little town of Old Salem did not live to be very old; it will always be important, because Lincoln lived there when he was a young man. . Probably as you have been taking automobile rides, you have seen

old log houses. Now, they are used

for chicken houses or sheds or per haps, spring houses. We do not find people living in them. Old log houses in Illinois, like these we see around here, were bought and the lumber used in building the village. This makes the buildings look much more real that is, like thereaf old village, than if shiny, new wood had been used. The village and the ground all around it, which will be made a park, belongs to the State, a most interesting monument to a great man. There will be the tavern, the Offutt store, where Lincoln once clerked; the Lincoln- and Berry store, in which he' was part owner; and other stores and houses, as well as a nice museum. The village isn't finished yet, but the streets are laid out and some of the stores and houses are built. The new museum was dedicated last May, 1921. Sometimes, s visitors, many of you may go to see this little village which may look so real that it would seem as if people who lived about 100 years ago were still liv-j ing there.

Many letters- havcbeen'trcteivefl during the past week by boys and girls In the city rchools from people in Austria who received the Red Cross Christmas boxes sent to them through the Junior Red Cross by Richmond juniors. The letters show that the people who received the boxes were very glad to get them. They also show that they have been suffering because they were in need of clothing, and perhaps food. The following letter that i3, a translation of the first letter, written in German was received last week by William Burbanck, in the fourth grade of Vaile school. In answer to his Christmas box:

"Highly Honored 'anwy: "It is with deep feeling I write these few lines with my heartfelt thanks, indeed, for the-gift of . love

for my children. I cannot desenbo how greatly my children appreciated them. My only wish was that the children of my family could have thanked you personally. The gifts were received by a poor but worthy family. Our greatest need is for shoes for children seven and 11 years old who are unable to buy because of our low wages. "At the school quite a lot of shoes were distributed, but, like everything else, they rarely get to the poorest. They are given to Union protected children, which la the saddest part of it. Now I ask you sincerely, if any of your dear children have any clothes that have not been worn, that your children do not need, I would thank you for them forever. "HoDine you will answer this, as

I will watch and wait without fail for an answer to these few lines. "Gratefully, "FRAU FISCHER KATHA." Heiligenstadtterstrasse . N. 162 Austria, Wien. Can You Guess This? HOLLANSBURG, Darke County, O., Feb. 5, 1922. Dear Aunt Polly: I will send you a riddle for the Junior Palladium. Thanking you ever so much for printing our letters

finds the answer to this riddle, do please publish it in The Junior. The oldest riddle on record 1b In the Bible (see Judges XIV: 14th and 15th verses. The following riddle is attributed to Cleobolus. one of the seven Wise Men of Greece, who lived about 570 years before Christ. The Riddle .There is a father with twice six sons; these sons have thirty daughters apiece, parti-colored, having one cheek white and the other black, who nver seee each other's

faces, nor live more than twentyfour hours. Can you guess this riddle? - I write with my left hand. This is written with my left hand. My grandmother gave me this riddle one she knew long ago. Flossie Marie Lowdenslager, age 13, Pleasant View school. Dear Flossie: I'm still guessing your riddle, too. Hope some one guesses It and sends it to the Junior office for us to print it. You certainly write well with your left hand. You ought to see the way my name looks when I try writing with my left hand. Aunt Polly.

SCHOOL REPORTERS Leneta Rose Cox, Finley; Helen Thomas, Hibberd; - Edith Webb, Vaile; Angela Crabb, Warner, William Crump, Starr Platoon; Elizabeth Kring, Whitewater; Mary Louise Moss, Baxter; Mary Hayward. Joseph Moore; Ada VanVoorhis, Sevastopol; Herschel Ohler, St. Andrew's; Dorothea Bode, St. John's; Gerard Harrington, St. Mary's, The Life of the Ant A boy living in a city not so very far from Richmond was told to write a composition on "The Life of the Ant" This is what he wrote: The Ant. The life of the Ant. The life of the Ant crawl. The life of the Ant die. By Jakie. Pale Face Too. "What a sick looking watch you have." "Yes. lt hours are numbered."