Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 93, Number 36, 10 February 1923 — Page 21

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1923.

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THE JUNIOR

The Junior Palladium is the children's section of the Richmond, Palladium, founded May ti, 1916, and issued each Saturday afternoon, All boys and girls are invited to he reporters nnd contributors. News items, social events, "want" advertisements, stories, loeal, jokes and original pnems are acceptahle and will be published. Articles should be written plainly and on one side of the paper, with the author's name and age signed. Cousin Helen is always plad to meet the children personally as they brlngr their articles to The Palladium office, or to receive letters addressed to the Junior Editor. This Is your little newspaper, and wo hope each boy and Rirl will use it thoroughly.

COUSIN HELEN'S LETTER

Dear Juniors: On February 12th we will celebrate the birthday of one of our greatest and one of the best loved presidents. He was born in 1809 just one hundred and fourteen years ago. We always think of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator, the man who freed the slaves; as the man who loved this country so well that he heroically led the Northern etates through a dark time of conflict and struggle in order to cement the rupture between the northern and southern states and bring about a union of states that Is our present country. We owe to this man our prosperity as a nation, for we could not have endured as a nation half free and half slave. He upheld the doctrine that the Fed- - eral government was superior to the rights of the states and overthrew the principle that a state could act independent of the Union. We remember him as the President known as "Father Abraham." It was the soldiers who gave Lin coln the name of "Father Abraham." Many, times statesmen criticised the President for writing pardons for the soldiers. He wa3 always Axious that they receive justice, for he loved them with a father's love. He pardoned their mistakes as readily as he overlooked the faults of his own sons The soldiers felt this fatherly sympathy and so nicknamed him "Father Abraham." They could not have chosen a better name, for he was a wonderful father to his sons. His youngest son, Tad, was Lincoln's gieat joy. Many times Tad came bursting into cabinet meetings of important af fairs of state, to be frowned upon by the cabinet members, but his father would lay, down his state papers and gather the little fellow In his arms and listen to Tad's message. - One day Tad made friends with Bome hungry little boys. He invited them into the kitchen of the White House for a lunch only to be refused by the cook. Tad was very indignant and rushed into the President's office, crying, "Papa-Day, isn't the kitchen ours, and can't I feed some friends? The cook says no, and Mama is out." "How many do you want to feed, Tad?" inquired the patient President. "There are seven of us and two are sons of soldiers, and we are all awfully hungry." The President looked at his impatient cabinet and answered dryly, "This is a case for your diplomacy, Mr. Seward." , Mr. Seward answered the little hoy calmly, "Tad, you must remember that this house belongs to the nation, and the kitchen is loaned for your use. It is very expensive to run a government during this period of war, but we do not wish any of our citizens to starve; so, Willi JUUI tUUflUL, 111. licoiutui, A recommend that an order he issued upon the Conimlesary Department of the President's residence for seven hungry boys." An official order was then written out and signed: "The Commissary Department of the Presidential residence to issue rations to Lieutenant Tad and his associates, two of whom are sons of soldiers In the!

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Army of the Potomac." Tad and his friends enjoyed a real treat. As little Tad cried, "Oh, they have killed my Papa-Day!" through our nation echoed a sob of heartfelt grief. The beloved "Father Abraham," a wise and just ruler, a' sympathetic friend, was lost to our .country at a time when we needed such a man. . If my Papa-Day could have lived," sobbed Tad, "he would have forgiven the man who shot him, for he always forgave everybody." As you talk about Abraham Lin coin, and look at his picture, on his birthday, keep in mind those pre cious words of wisdom that he left us: "With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right." Sincerely, COUSIN HELEN. Of Interest to Juniors THhe Juniot B. Y. P. U. will hold their weekly meeting at the Fi st Baptist church on Sunday, Febiuary ?.lth. We always have a good time and everybody has a good welcome. At the party to be given by Miss Elizabelh Kolp next Saturday for her dancing classes, several little girls will dance so'o and duet dances. Lize.a Campbell will dance the "Sailo- s Hornpipe" and Alice Louise Hal! will dance the "Jockey Dance" at the legular class today. At the party Vivian Cox and Lcille Steais wi'l dance a duet dance called "Pie ot and Pierette." They will be dressed in black and white costumes. Lizetta Campbell will dance "Peekin-Peeks." Jean Grottendick will dance a Gtecian harp dance, and Katherine Myers will dance "Belinda's Caprice," a story of a mask ball caprice. New Way to Make Gasoline A new process has been perfected whereby gasoline is extracted from natural gas.

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Mrs. Clothes-Pin Complete the big" drawing by adding, one by one, the various lines shown in the series of small ke .pictures below.

The Difference

Two statues stand in our school hall. Good men we all hold dear. George Washington is great and grand I look on him with fear For if I ever did see George, I'd stand and hold my breath; I'd almost forget to clap and cheer, He'd just scare me to death. But Abraham's a regular sport; His face so kind and Queer kid, Just seems to say, "Come here, old Until I tweak your ear." And like as not I'd grin at Aba And quite forget to shout; I'd dare him to a game of tag. He's such a good old scout. Stella Humphrey Nida, in Child Life. Radio News This department Is conducted by Roger Lindley. All radio news should be sent to him, in care of the Junior Palladium. Radio Broadcast El Dorado, Kan., call letters, WAIL wavelength, 360, 485; El Monte, Calif., KUY, 360; Emporia, Kan., WAAZ, 360; Erie, Pa., WSX, 360; Eureka, Calif., KNI, 360. New Broadcasters Licensed WTQAK The Appel Higley Electric Co., Dubuque, Iowa.; WOAS Bailey's Radio Shop, Middletown, Connecticut. WR AN Black Hawk Electric Co., Waterloo, Iowa. WPAJ Doolittle Radio Corp., New Haven, Conn. , WOAT Hamp, Boyd Martell, Wilmington, Del. KDFL Knight-Campbell Music Co., Denver, Colo. KFDJ Oregon Agricultural Col lege, Corvallis, Ore. WOAU--Sowder Boiling Tiano Co., Evansville, Ind. WOAX Wolff, Franklin J., Trgn ton, N. J. "Wave Filter" is Devised By Expert Madison, Wis. The Radio problem of separating the signals of one station from those of other stations, has been the subject of a number of mathematical investigations carried out by Prof. Edward Bennett, chairman of the electrical engineering department, Prof. H. M. Crothers, and Leo. J. Peters, research instructor in the University of Wisconsin College of Engineering. The most recent of these investigations carried out by Mr. Peters, has resulted in the devising of an

electric wave filter, built up of coupled circuit elements. An article giving a quantitative mathematical study of the operation of these coupled circuit wave filters in the steady skate, and presenting methods of designing these filters for any specified set of conditions, has been prepared by Mr. Peters, and will be published in the near future. "The whole story of the value of a wave filter when used to eliminate disturbances is not given by its 'steady state' properties alone," said Mr. Peters. -"Of equal or of even greater Importance is the action of these devices in the 'transient state.' "A quantitative mathematical formulation of the action of a wave filter in the transient state is difficult and complicated, but methods of handling the problem are being devised and used which should make it possible to obtain some interesting and valuable results in the near future." The chief importance of these results so far lies in the fact that, although they do not give any new solutions, they do show why bo many attempts fail.

The TURKEY-BUZZARD (This is another Interesting: article written especially fr the Junior Palladium by Prof. Millard S. Markle, of Earlham college). .A few days ago I was driving out In the country ana saw, saniug over the fields, a large, dark-col nrd hird. Round and round it wheeled, never moving its wings. Just now persons who are Inter ested in airplanes, especially in Germany, are trying to see how long they can glide through the air without using any force except that supplied by the wind. Recently a man in an airplane shut off his engine and glided through the air, turning right and left, up and down, without using his engine, for several hours. He must have been watching a buzzard, for it has been doing just such stunts for a long time, and no one has gotten excited about it or put his name in the newspapers. Several years ago I saw a buzzard's nest . near New Paris. It was away back in a hollow sycamore log lying on the ground in the woods. The old buzzards are black, but you may be surprised to know that the eggs and the young birds are pure white. It is so dark in the log where the nest is that the eggs and young birds do not have to be protected by their color. We took a flashlight picture of the young buzzards in the nest In side the log and then took them outside. One of the party held them in his hands while tley were being photographed. He did not know what a brave thing he was doing, for sometimes a young buzzard, when he is being handled, suddenly parts with what he has just had for dinner; and if you know what the buzzard eats, you will realize that he has a good way of protecting himself from meddling bird-students and other supposed enemies. These birds evidently knew that children ought to be on their good behavior when they are having their pictures taken, so they made no disturbance. A friend of mine made photographs every week until the buzzards were old enough to fly. Some birds, such as sandpipers and kildeers, are ready to leave the nest almost as soon as they are hatched. The parents do not have a very good chance to give the young birds a good education before they run away from home and take care of themselves. The buzzard stays at home and minds his father and mother for over two months before he leaves the home nest and tries to fly. During that time he grows a strong beak and sharp talons; the white down falls off and black feathers come in to take their place. Soon he is just like his parents and is ready to 'fly away and sail through the air as we have often seen them. You probably do not care to eat the food of the buzzard, but you would be glad to be able to flv as he does. MILLARD'S. MARKLE. SPECIAL TRAIN ON BRITISH RAILROAD COMES CHEAP For so little as $40 one can hire a special train on any of the English railways, with engine and crew complete, and travel by it in solitary state for about twelve miles. Forty dollars is the lowest figure and twelve miles the least distance for which the company will make the necessary arrangements.

Tad and His Goats

Tad Lincoln was very fond of animals and loved to ride about on his pony and romp with his dog. And he had a team of goats which he hitched to his wagon and drove about everywhere,' ' One day, to the horror of the steward of the White House, Tad harnessed his goats tandem, and, driving them up the steps, lie drove them through the long corridors of the east wing of the White! House. When the indignant steward reported this misdeed to the President, the President roared with laughter and replied, "Well, are they Lll outside again? Is Tad safe? How about the goats?" One time, when Tad went away on a visit with his mother, his father sent him a telegram about his pets: "Tell Tad the goats and his father are well especially the goats." Stories For Music Contest Next Week To a Water Lilly This composition is among a collection written by Edward MacDowell, called "Woodland Sketches". This composer is the greatest of American composers and his music is a national pride as it is purely American. In his name there Is now the beautiful memorial "Peterborough Colony" for the advance of music in America. Air for G String Johann Sebastian Bach was born In Germany In 1685 and died in 1750. He was the greatest of a family of fine musicians. This "Air for G String" is one of his most well known pieces. It is said that Bach glorified the folk dances in his treatment of them in the par tita or suite. William Tell Overture This overture by Rossini is really a small symphony, with its four parts." It is a work of great distinction. Unlike a great many masterpieces It was the ulmlnation of sincere study of the details of Swiss life. The composition is taken from Schiller's poem. Evening Star from Tannhauser Richard Wagner was born in Leipzig in 1813. Wagner received a great deal of inspiration from Franz Liszt. Tannhauser was the first of Wagner's great operas, an 1 it heralded a new era In Operatic History. The Fun Box Tough "That train Dumb: lot." smokes a Bell : "Yes, and choos, too." The Pantograph, Kansas City II. S., Kansas City, Mo. tJ ill w a i. ' w- I "Did you hear about the awful thing the teacher done to Jimmy?" "Naw." "She made him wash his face at school and when he got home his dog didn't know him and bit him." Thoughtful John came, to his mother the other day, crying and complaining that his sister had been teasing him. "Mamma," he said between sobs, "I wish you would punish Elizabeth." "Now, John," his' mother replied, "you wouldn not want to see your little sister punished, would you?" "No, ma'am! But you can take her upstairs where I can't see you." -The Echo, Hume-Fogg U.S., Nashville, Tenn. Can't Please Everyone "Hello, is this the Weather Bureau?" "Yes." "Say, how about a shower tonight?" "Don't ask me; If you need one, go take it." The Hollo, Central II. S., Craud Rapids, Mich.

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