Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 108, 6 May 1922 — Page 21

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM, SATURDAY, MAY 6, 1922

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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 HaiurJay afternoon. All boys and girls are invited to bo reporters and contributors. News Items, social events, "want" advertisements, 8torle3, local, jokes and original poems are acceptable and will bo published. Articles should be written plainly arid on one side of the paper, with the author's name and ape signed. Aunt Polly Is alwavs Rlad to meet the children personally as they bring (heir articles to The PalUuium office, or to receive letters addressed to the Junior Kdltor. This Is your little newspaper, and we hope each boy and girl will uso It thoroughly.

AUNT POLLY'S LETTER

Glad greetings to you, Junior friends! Of course we like most kinds of days, plain ones and gala ones, circus days and holidays and celebration days and today, May 6, is a celebration day, a birthday celebration, for today the Junior Palladium is Just exactly six years old. Every Saturday night for six years this little paper friend has been going (o your homes to see you, to carry to you the things he learns othtr boys and girls are doing and planning and thinking about, stories they are writing and reading and riddles they are guessing (or trying to!) and all sorts of things which he thought you would like very much to hear about. He hopes you have liked to read and learn about the . things he has brought you, and he nods very mischievously and knowingly as if he expects to have many more and still more interesting messages and stories to bring to you in the future, and he hopes he has become to you what he would mostike to be, your little newspaper friend. Do you know that a newspaper Is one of the most interesting and one of the very most worth while things we have? All thinga that tell us what other people are doing and seeking to be and to do, are valuable for by them we understand each other better. Ships, horses and camels, steamships, engines, airships, telephones, telegraphs, ocean cables, wireless telephones and telegraphs, have been and will continue to be for a long time, very important in bringing people closer together in their interest and their understanding. A newspaper is no less, and really probably much more able to help in this because it reaches so many people. Have von tlinneht how manv hundreds of neorjle see and read the

came newsnaDer every nieht and by their reading acquire a common ! Six-year-old

interest in the things which are happening in their city, in their country and the whole wide world (although, no one really knows. I guess, Just how big the whole wide world is for we are always discovering some new country or planet that we did not know existed before.) It used to take a long time to hear a piece of news, when a runner, as in earliest times, or a rider carried it. Then, too, news traveled elow in laler times when the town crier went around and called out all the bits of news which, he thought would interest the people of

his village. He would ring his bell, and then call, "Hear, on, near:

and then call outrhis news.

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Mother's Day Off FROLOGUE: A girl , dressed up as an older woman, wearing a gingham house dress and a dust cap comes out on the stage sweeping busily. As she does so, voices are heard off-stage. FIRST GIRL: Mother! Mother! Come here quick! Peter hit me with a stick. FIRST BOY: Where's my tie and Where's my hat? Anybody seen my bat? SECOND GIRL: Baby's crying. She won't quit. FIRST GIRL: Kitty's going to

have a fit! FIRST BOY: I'm Wonder when we are

again? MOTHER: Children! Children! Goodness, me ! What a noisy family !

so hungry, gonna eat

Roger Cooks boots.

and his

Roger Stanton Cook, C, of Chicago, is alive today and a new pair

of rubber boots are the only reason. With new boots and no mud puddles, the lad was in a hapless predicament until he found a hole in the street near his home. As

this all over again.

he inmned in bp came in contact

Every few squares he would stop ana do with a uigh tension cable being re-

Now. though, news travels much faster and it is our newspapers!

which keep the news continually on its way so that people may learn

at once what is happening and what peopje who live near them and who live far away are thinking and trying to do and accomplishing. We hear of explorers, and inventors, of councils and leaders, of governments and rulers. We read what other people are thinking about, how they regard the things which are taking place, and we think about them too (because every bit of real thought when expressed challenges the thoughtful reader to think, too) and this helps us to understand what we are reading. We wouldn't know nearly as much about how interesting the world is all the time if we didn't have newspapers; and Junior newspapers, although a very recent thing, have their place with Juniors and children as much as the big newspapers with the grownups, and they will have more of a place as they grow and develop, which we feel sure is going to happen. Now you may say we are dreaming (that's fun, to do anyway) but we believe that the number Of Junior newspapers will grow

and grow until almost every paper will have its little newspaper lor the Juniors as naturally as it has its own news section. We think too, there will be much closer relations between children of the United States and children of foreign countries by Junior newspapers (for we look forward to there being such papers in other countries too) and so children will get t.i understand each other better and to find each other interesting and worth while. And so Junior newspapers, we believe, will have their place, with schools and telegraphs, telephones and letters in getting the children and grownups of the world out to work and play in the freedom of mutual trust and understanding and amid hundreds of common interests.

So Junior Pal is glad he's a Junior newspaper and he wants to say

he is glad he knows every one or you, ana I am sure each one ot us wishes the Junior Pal the happiest birthday he has ever had and many more of them! r

Your junior friend who likes celebration days and especially Junior

Palladium anniversary days very much, AUNT POLLY.

i paired. He Just left the hospital.

Columbus' Ships Modeled Models of the adventurous fleet of Columbus, the three little fifteenth century Spanish ships, the Santa Maria, the Pinta, and the Nina, have been made in exact scale to the real ships for which they have been named. Every line, rope, gun, sail and mast have been built with the most careful attention to accuracy.

But there's something sweet about them. Wonder what I'd do without them. Though, sometimes, I'd like to quit This mother business for a bit. FIRST GIRL: Mother! Mother! Come here quick! Something's made the baby sick. MOTHER: Yes, I'm coming. Goodness me! What a noisy family ! (The curtain falls. When it goes up again we see the living room of the Randolph house. It is morning of Mother's Day. Millie Randolph is wearing a gingham apron and is busily dusting. Her sister Flo is perched on a chair studying a cook book. Mrs. Randolph enters, all dressed for church.) MRS. RANDOLPH: I really shouldn't go, girls, with company coming MILLIE: Now, you said you'd play the game with us all day. FLO: I think I'll make sherbet for dessert. MILLIE: You run right along or you'll be late for church. And. when you get back everything will be cleaned up Just beautifully. MRS. RANDOLPH: Well, I certainly think this is the best game I ever heard of. But, you said, Mil

lie, that we'd play all day today that I'm the daughter and you are the mother. Then, what is Flo? FLO: Oli, I'm the new maid. I

just came to work today.1 Of course I 'epect I'll seem pretty green at first, but I'll soon catch on. ' MRS. RANDOLPH: Oh, I'm sure you will. . MILLIE: Now, don't stand talking to the maid, my dear. Just run along to church. The maid must start getting the dinner, so we can have it all ready when you bring your playmate home. We're going to have all your favorite things to eat, especially the things you dem't have very often because one of us kicks about it. FLO: You should see how I'm going to decorate the table, too. MRS. RANDOLPH: I can hardly wait to see.

FIX): And this afternoon, cousin Phil is going to take you out for a ride to the woods to get some wild flowers. MRS. RANDOLPH: But I had thought he was going to takeMillie. FLO: Well, you're Millie, today, aren't you? You can go out and stay as long as you want to, for Mrs. Randolph and the maid will do the dinner dishes and then you will have a nice lunch ready for you when you come back. . MRS. RANDOLPH: You're the dearest girls. MILLIE: Now, you're forgetting! MRS. RANDOLPH (laughing): You're the nicest mother and the finest maid in the . country, I'm sure. MILLIE: Have you a clean handkerchief? Did you get some money for the collection? MRS. RANDOLPH: Indeed, I did. This Is a wonderful Mother's Day, my dears. MILLIE: And we're going to have them oftener, than once a year, aren't we, Flo? FLO: You bet we are. Every Sunday has been "Daughter's Day" around here. Listen! There's the church bell ringing for the special Mother's Day service. Goodbye. MRS. RANDOLPH: . Goodbye.' mother and maid. (She goes out and two girls stand quietly l'st"lng to the distant ringing of the bell) Boys' and Girls' Newspaper. (Ed. Note: We are publishing'

this play in an early Issue, as we think some of you would like to present it In a school program next week.)

The Kiddies Seem to Enjoy the Radio Just as Well as the Grown- Ups'

When I Am Grown When l am grown, I am going 'o be a school teacher. When school lets out for summer vacation, I am going to California and Oklahoma and lots of other places. When school takes up again in the fall, 1 will tell the children ail about my visit. Then some other time I will go some more places and visit tne Passion Play. I will tell the children about the Passion Play. I hope they will enjoy hearing it ps I did

when my teacher, Miss Edmunds,

told us about it. Bernice Koosa,

grade 5A, Baxter school.

THE ORlfcl NfU , ,m I tues fi

How Speech Grew "The Island-Sprinkled Sea" In the Mediteranean sea there are a great many islands. Among them is one called Crete. On this island, refined civilization was first developed. The people then went from this island to the southern end of Greece. These people were dark complectioned.

Then the people came from the land side who were light complexioned. When the two peoples mixed, they made a very brilliant race, for they wanted to make everything beautiful and excellent.

Cadmus gave them his alphabet. They changed it to suit themselves Into a lovely, soft language, sounding like the sea as it murmurs on the quiet shores, and today even, the Greeks speak in a soft and musical tone. Wilma Morgan, 7A grade, Garfield school.

ANSWERS to RIDDLES

Sun. Star. Planet.

4. Cloud. G. Moon.

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missing." x Florence : "Oh. well, mind, it doesn't show."

Top, left Master Ralph W. Arlin, of Wilkinsburg, Pa., son of Announcer Ifc W. Arlin at KDKA, gets a lot of enjoyment hearing his daddy's voice over the radiophone. Top, center Miss Marie Maxfleld, of Guilford, Me., listens each nigh1, to KDKA. Top, right Miss Harriet Wetzig, of Turtle Creek, Pa., is seen engrossed in KDKA's bedtime story.

' She doesn't seem a bit sleepy, engine's Bottom, right Master Duane Mallory, of Memphis, Tenn., was lulled to sleep by I this photograph was taken, never j ' Bottom, left The Misses Merrihew, of Chicago, III., take a keen interest in radio. I the bedtime stories are the most important things In their young lives.

KDKA just before Their daddy claim