Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 96, 22 April 1922 — Page 21

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM, SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 1922

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THE JUNIOR PALLADIUM

The Junior Palladium la 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, stories, loral,' Jokes and original poems are acceptable and will be published. Articles should be written plainly and on one side of the paper, with the author's name and ape Mgned. Aunt Polly is always glad to meet the children personally as they bring their 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 girl will use It thoroughly.

AUNT POLLY'S LETTER

How Do You Do, Junior Friends:

We are packing several weeks Into one, these days, had you thought

of that? For instance this week is "Safety Week," and next week is "Library Week" in the slate and "Clean-Up Week" in the city and all these ideas which will be brought especially to our minds this week are very worth while. And next week is "Circus Week" too and that is very important too. The first three ideas learning to be careful for the other person's and our own sakes, the subject of reading and city libraries and of getting our yards and streets just as clean as they can be for Lady May to come tripping in to dwell in them, as well as we ourselves who live with them and enjoy their being clean more than anyone else are very seriously worth while and the last is worthwhile for the merry interest and fun it brings to us. As Mr. Handley has written to you bo well about two of these ideas, I will write to you a little about some things I have been learning about the library, especially our library in Richmond which perhaps you may not have known or at least, thought of, much before. We all like to read about and hear of someone suddenly discovering rich treasure which has been hidden away In the ground or in an attic or an old tree stump for months and months or perhaps for years and years, don't we?, Sometimes the key or way to this treasure has been closed for a long time to the person seeking it as in one story a junior was telling me the other day where the key that opened the treasure box was found in a little trap door in an old arm chair which had been in the living room for years, and yet he has not found it.

Libraries are like that, they are full of treasures of books, interesting and rare and old, and of opportunities and suggestions which we may not have imagined. "If these 'King's Treasuries' were scant and rare, How wouldst thou yearn for all that they contain? But they are spread before thee free as air." Any one may enroll in the library. Usually parents enroll for the children but if parents are not able to come, cards are always on hand in the library which the library folks mail to some older person to fill out in the name of the child. Each person enrolled may take out one story and one student's book from the library and keep it two weeks. There is no charge whatever when the rules of the library are carried out. Any one whether he is enrolled or not may drop in the children s reading mom on the third floor or the grownups' reading room on iho srrnnil floor and read any of the papers, magazines or books they

wish. The magazines now coming regularly for the children s reading room of which Miss Harriet Foulke is in charge are: St. Nicholas (3 copies each month), American Hoy, Little Folks' and Youths' Companion. Child Life too has been ordered for this department. Besides these there are many bound copies of St. Nicholas and Little Folks' magazines which are full of interesting things to read. In the children's department there are from 4000 to f000 books for circulation, that is they may be taken to the homes to b') read. Back of the jrownups' reading room are two quiet rooms with long tables and comfortable chairs in them. These are for reference work that is, for people who have to look up or refer to things in many books, taking a little here and a little there for 'what they want. In

this work they are helped in their selection or material uy mis. vua. L. Bernhardt, librarian and Miss Emma Jean Smith. Grownup books for circulation to grownups (and many juniors too) are in charge of Miss Irene Watt and Miss Elise Fox. Piano rolls are also circulated in this department. Every Saturday afternoon from 2:30 to 3:30 o'clock in the children's department stories are told. All children of the city are invited to these story hours which are always attended by a good sized group of children. Mrs. Brandon Griffis is leader in this activity though many people who like to tell stories assist her. Many, many pictures of all sorts of people and places and things arc also a part of the library and are especially for the use of all schools, but we have spoken of these in another place in the junior.

Excuse such a long letter, I'll do better next weelc But be sure and visit the library and seek to learn more and more about the books it holds and the possibilities it offers to you.

AUNT POLLY,

HIBBERD ORCHESTRA TO PLAY IN WHITEWATER

The Hibberd school orchestra, under the leadership of Miss Hazel Hinshaw, will play the accompaniments for readings which Miss Bille Miller, member of the Art Institute in Indianapolis, and Instructor of art in Earlham college, will give at Whitewater, Ind., on the evening of Friday, April 28. The program will begin at 7:30. The affair will be held in the Methodist church, and everyone is invited. After the entertainment, the Ladies 'Aid society will serve a luncheon.

GREENVILLE CHILDREN SEND BACK MESSAGE I will write to you so you can let the Richmond school mates know we still think of them.

We are doing fine at Greenville

schools. We like the schools over

here. We aro learning sewing, and our teachers are: Mrs. Clarke, Mrs. Light and Mr. Kersler. Karl is in High school. He got all A's in his studies last six weeks. -Tell the Richmond Starr school we are sending our best regards and friendship to them, and Garfield for Karl. Oblige the King children that moved to Greenville in September,

Karl King, Myrtle King, Jessie

King, Margaret King.

FLASHES FROM J. H. S.

Competition for the citizenship pennants among the Garfield aasemply rooms started Friday. Plays, dialogues and speeches are being planned and written on the subject of clean-up week by Garfield pupils. . Both junior high BChoola will take part in the field meet which will be held at the end of the school year. Four-minute speeches on some point of politeness and behavior were given in Garfield assembly rooms last week during general ex

ercise period by five or six juniora I second teams

selected by the Courtesy and Con

How Speech Grew

The Phoenician Alphabet Cadmus was a great trader in Phoenicia. He found that he could not make the slrange people understand that he wanted to sell his wares. So he took some of the Egyptians' characters and made them correspond to the sounds of the human voice, and said they meant a certain sound, so he could trade his cinnabar and honey for gold and silver, and have the people understand. He took the oxhead and horns and made a character like A and called it Aleph. He

took a house with two stories and made B, and called it Beth. C was made from the camel's head and j

neck. D came from the shape of the tent flap, called Delta. He found there were just 22 different sounds to the human voice. This was the first real alphabet. Wilma' Morgan, grade 7A, Garfield Junior High school.

RADIO NEWS

One morning, a leading firm producing radio equipment, received 600 telegrams ordering radio sets. A ' vessel at Buenos Aires received a mesage from a sister ship in the harbor of Honolulu, a distance of 7,000 miles. British navy reports that one of its ships picked up a message off the coast of Australia which had been sent from Los Angeles and destined for Catalina Island. It has been suggested that if the doings and debates of congress were broadcasted, more interest would be aroused among people all over the country in the work of

that body. -

The first public " broadcasting station will soon be established in New York city. Here tests will be made in the attempt to see how far it is reasonable to use the radio phone in business. The following unique (because it is the first of the kind we have

seen) advertisement appeared in a Boston, Mass., paper, recently: "You are invited to listen in at our. concert salon. Copley Radio Corp., Boston."

Harold J. Tower, a radio expert, stated in a public talk recently made in Boston, . that not many years from now, it will be possible to call up a friend in London, or Paris, by trans-Atlantic radio. A great many people interested in radio, have felt this, certainly must be the result in time.

duct committee of the school council. All Dennis pupils who during the past six weeks had not been absent nor tardy and who had not received any misconduct slips enjoyed a half holiday Thursday. During general exercise period Thursday, - Garfield pupils, each group in its own assembly room, discussed various problems in connection with Safety Week. Friday afternoon, April 28 (Circus Day!) Dennis first and second

teams will play Garfield first and

in baseball on the

Dennis iielu. Other games announced for next week are: Monday, teams 4 and 5; Wednesday, teams 6 and 7. Mrs. B. Willis Beede talked interestingly on the manner of life in Africa before pupils in the 7B geography class, Tuesday afternoon. She showed many things she and Mr. Beede had brought home, from their sojourn in that country about a year ago. Pupils in the assembly rooms of Dennis spent one-half hour Tuesday discussing different subjects in connection with safety week. Boys who are members of the Dennis police corps, acted as police outside the building at dismissal times during the past week. " Next Friday members of the Garfield radio club which meets with Mr. Pohlkotle will study electrical machines and measurements.

Ohm's law, Inductance and reactance. Later they will make a close study of receiving and sending sets and methods of connection. Within the next two or three weeks Principal Heironimus an nounced ell juniors of Dennis should choose the course they wish to take next fall. All 7A's are to make their choice and any more

advanced juniors who wish in any way to change their course should do so at this time, . The chapel program for Garfield, Friday, April 21 follows: Bible , reading, Principal Manning; Salutemus, school; reading, Esther Crum; Trio number, Reddington trio; songs, Girls' Glee club; presentation of painting won by Garfield in Famous Picture contest, Mrs. M. F. Johnston,; speech of acceptance, Charles Rogers.

JUST KIDS

By Ad Carter

SCHOOL REPORTERS

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Photo by Bundy Loretta Kittle No matter whether or not the ;lo news stories of Starr school j hiding like the Easter eggs ich many children hunted last iday morning, Loretta goes .ting for them, and thinks it is resting, too! Loretta is in the grade of Starr school and is 10 rs old. She is the daughter of . and Mrs. Albert Kittle, 22 rth Twenty-first street.

Garfield 7A's Give Music Program Pupils in the 7A-1 grade of Garfield Junior High school gave an enjoyable program in their music class Tuesday, April 8, and, according to their teacher, Miss Longman, gave it very well. This is the program they gave: Rlble Rending Winema Ilrown Piano Solo Delna Fielder "The Gay Butterfly" (Hy Hatch) Easter Poem Wilma "An Easter Flower Gift" . . .Morgan

I'iano Solo . .; Louise Heet r "J' pense " Song "O. No, John" Jeannette Dunlap, Barney Ruldington, Gladys Noss, Richard Plumnicr, Alice Esteli, and Robert Chestnut. Piano lniet .."Toreador's Sons" from Carmen Klizabeth Jenkins and Alice i

Ellen Page. ' Piano Solo William Reld "Twilight Idyle" Scheneker Song- Eloise Hhockley "Waster Voices" Song. ..Lewis Wiley, Charles Holden "Juanita" Story of the Rhein-Gold, from Wagner Opera Stories Miss Longman

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ANDREWS' KIDDIES

THIRD GRADE MAKE POSTERS

The third grade of St. Andrews are making posters. On these posters are shown a boy and girl walking along with an umbrella for protection. These are very interesting, and are cleverly made. Herschel Oler, reporter for St. Andrews' school.

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