The San Francisco call., 1908-09-13
THE JUNIOR CALL
HAILED WITH JOY
Boys and Girls Lose No Time in
Beginning TO Work Out
Suggestions
Lads Labor on AirsEip, While
Their Sisters Also Get
Busy at Once

The Saturday salutation of boy TO
boy underwent a change in San Fran
cisco yesterday. When snoopy" John
son met "PinRy" Freeman early in the
day ne did not inquire, as usual, Are
you game for one OF cat at the park!
or THE tomcod are running; VIII you
come along to hshermen's wharf!
No. indeed.
Have YOU seen it?" yelled Snoopy"
tic instant he saw "Pinkeys" head COM
ing over the back fence
-Aw. what you giVin us?' retorted
"Pinky" with a superior air. Didn L
see il before you were out of the
Bv way Of making good his claim
.Pinixy" pulled out something which
looked like a newspaper. 1t was The
Junior Call. which made its first appear
ance yesterday morning.
Did YOU read about the airship that
snV kid can maks2' asked Snoopy.
Did I? Well. I've got mine half
done and came over to see if you
could dig up a piece of wire for me 10
fasten the rudder with"
.'Of course" answered SNOOPY" "rve
got plenty OF wire and we'll have that
airship making this fellow Wright look
sick before lunch. Say, how does II
feel to see Z real newspaper that's all
just for kids Of California"
JUST As sIgCH FOR GIRLS
Wei 7 like that" cried 'Snoopy's"
sister as she came down the back steps
"Nou'll just notice that The Junior Call
is as much for girls as for boys"
Sure, 2rinned "Pinky' but the
airship ainL But YOU can watch us
make ID ny. Get that wire and come
on. both Of YOU. and the young airship
builder startef for the back fence and
his own workshop
II the success Of The Junior Call. 10
be published every Saturday morning
fer the boys and Girls under high school
age, and delivered with this paper. was
ever in question, the question mark
was obliterated by the time the school
bells would have been ringing IL the
DAY had not been Saturday. The
ls-nior Gail at once and with no touch
Of uncertainty struck responsive
chord iu every boy and girl into whose
hands the first issue fell A line on
the first page declared that the paper
was purely FOR boys and girls. and as
soon a. tlc younEster dug into The con-
fonts he discovered that the statement
ntted the facts The stories. stunts.
rhymes. games ana contests We're just
tae sort that appeal powerfully TO
bright boys and girls everywhere.
sIoNs GEr Busy
The boys with a mechanical turn got
busy Instantly 10 build the airship
which was guaranteed 10 ny without
any appropriation from congress. The
more studtols ones and girls were
c&uSht bg the announcement that six
handsome watches would be given each
week as prizes for the best stories by
boys and girls OF now they spent the
summer vacation. A good many pencils
got busy on the vacation stories be-
fore the Gay was half done and hun
dreds Of youngsters began TO fOndle
those watches In anticipation That
contest viii be a mighty lively one and
The Junior Cali is preparing to order a
barrel Of watches. for they'll be needed.
Out at the bail grounds in the park
excited knots OF boys gathered. For
once the interruption Of the game was
not for the purpose of licking the UNI
pire. a carrier had come along with
plenty Of copies Of the new paper ex-
ciusively Tor young Californians. and
baseball was never so utterly forgotten
on the bali grounds before. One
sprightly fellow removed a catcher's
mask from his face and read The Prov
ing of Jerry" aloud to an attentive
audience on the grass. 'Rah for Jerryr
yelled dozen boys when the story
was finished, and one added Gee" I'd
like the same chance TO be a real hero
that Jerry had
CHANCE FOR THE HEROES
Wen. here's your chance" replied
the young catcher, Jump in and write
The story Of how you climbed Mount
DiablO in vacation and win the first one
of those watches. The first kid that
comes TO school with one of those fine
tickers can be a hero all he wants to-"
Down on the wharves, where some OF
the schOolboys exercise the American
privilege OF going fishing on Saturday.
nearly every boy had q CODY of The
Junior call, and the tomcod and smelt
never got off so easy on any SATURDAY.
morning within the fnny memory.
And II the boys took to il. they GER
lalniy found the girls there ahead of
them. In thousands of homes in this
part Of California yesterday girls Of
the grammar school and girls OF the
primary school forgot for once to wish
when Saturday came, that they were
boys. In The Junior Call they found
a new and huge delight and the prom
1ses IL gave Of what is to come. es-
pecially for girls, made future Sstur-'
days loom rosy indeed.
great many letters and pbone
messages came TO The Call office be-
fore the day was over.
i dunno" said a youthful voice over
the wire. how we got along before
The Junior Can happened. Saturday
won't be half long enough now"
CartoOnist Yardley was abroad early
and he discovered that something m
usual had happened to the youth of the
city. He got out his pad ana pencil
and the sketches of some of the things
he saw are publfshed todav