Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-04-26
Letter From far
Away Washington
GContinued from last week |

We are all Hooverizing these
days in wbeatless and meatless
ways, but as long as the silver and
Chinook salmon run, one need not
worry over the meatless days. The
fresh salmon caught here is fit food
for the gods. We also get ha!ibut
in some streams here; it, too, is a
verg fine food fish, and the little
Columbia River smelts, when they
are freshly caught, are wonderfully
good eating, too. (
We recently had the pleasure of
listening to one of the finest ad-
dresses we have ever heard deliver
ed by Burns of the Mountains, now
the head of Ancida College, Ky,
formerly one Of the Howard feud-
lists of Kentucky. l think | have
never met with such perfect faith
and confidence in God and his full
filling his promises in any one, it
breathes from his every utterance.
in truth, it is the atmosphere of his
daily life; one cannot be with him
for the smallest interval of time
without becoming conscious of it.
I have never felt that faith was the
habitual attitude of life except but
with two persons, one lis Burns,
the other is DR.. f. B. Myers, D..
D., of London, Eng.
Mr.. Burns speaks again here at
Jour summer chatauqua, the Ellison
White Chatauqua. l would not miss
his address for any thing 1t is
worth the price of the chatauqua
ticket.
I attended most beautiful and
gorgeous play called cleopatra"
at the Temple Theatre yesterday
evening One can enjoy Shakes
pears Julius Caesar" as never
before after seeing this wonderfully
portrayed drama.
Our present school session is
drawing to a close, commencement
exercises being the last week in
May. We have had a large attend
a4ce, altho' many of our high
school boys have enlisted or been
drafted. We have had somewhere
n fifty to leave this year. This af-
ternoon we are dedicating a service
flag in their honor.
We had dedicating flag exercises
in the high school auditorium last
Friday night. Two of the stars
are Of gold, showing that two of
our boys from the school have
given up their lives for their coun-
try.
In my grade, VII B, the children
take great interest in the war,
and by their efforts, have raised
$500 for the orphan children of
Europe. They also have distribute
ed food cards, acted as Red Cross
solicitors, reported enemy aliens,
have bought Liberty Bonds and
Thrift Stamps, and will start out
this week selling Thrift Stamps.
They also have acted as solicitors
for books for the soldiers and book
collectors.
We have our school organized
Into a Junior Red Cross, and in my
room we are knitting. As soon
as all learn to knit we'll enough we
will begin on knitted wooden af-
CHAN; SORE of the children now knit
we'll enough to do this work, and
are knitting on their bright colored
wooden squares:
We intend soliciting worn out
knitted or woven sweaters, socks,
stockings, caps, and use the yarn
for these squares, keeping the new
yarn for the sweaters, helmets, and
wristlets. We are starting a patch
work quilt of wooden pieces contrib
uted by the children. Our boys
are making articles in their manual
training work to sell for the Junior
Red Cross. They. will raise things
in their gardens for this purpose
too, also poultry, hogs, sheep, etc.
We have flag salute twice a week
giving the pledge of loyal Ameri-
can citizenship, we have patriotic
parades, flag drills, patriotic pro-
grams, and thenemorizing of patri-
otic selections. I am going to en-
close selection that my children
are especially fond of, called
"America for Me" by Henry Van
Dyke. 1t may not be familiar to
all your readers and may be help
full to some of Highlands mothers
and teachers in helping to instil pa
triotism in the rising generation.
Oul music teacher, Miss Mack,
has put the words to music at my
request, and I have no doubt would
gladly enclosed the music to any
one sending self-addressed stamped
envelope.
| AMERICA FOR ME
IT'S fine to see the Old World, and
travel up and down
Among the famous palaces and cities
of renown.
To admire the crumbly castles and the
statues of the kings
But now I think I've had enough OF
antiquated things.