The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-07-05
Dear Aunt Polly:

way we have read 1t Will De, ana
perhaps everyone would be run
ming around trying to find a safe
place. Each person would prob
ably give a last look and make a
last attempt to save the thing he
has spent most of his time on earth
carieg for and thinking about
Probably the old miser-or as we
call him now gold king-would
rush into his safe and find the pap
ers which stand for most of his
money, and start away with them,
wishing to travel First Glass where
ever he goes.
The old circus clown would prob
ably take one last swing on his
trapeze, the artist would hurriedly
finish one more masterpiece, and
you and | would go on with our
work until we were swallowed up
lby something so that we could not
work any more. Would we? Well,
we might! But we might also be
one of those who run about, not
knowing where to go but certain
that they want to get somewhere
mighty quick.
Anyway, If this universe comes
to an end as some have said it
would, as if it had been in a big
explosion, we would all probably
be very much frightened. wouldn't
we? We might be so frightened
that we would be really scared to
death, and then we wouldn't have
anything more to worry about.
Aunt Polly.
Dear Aunt Polly:
Who was the first German ruler?
Pinky.
Dear Pinky:
The first ruler of the German EN-
pire was William 1, who was
elected emperor in 1871. Before
that time Germany has existed as
a country of ever changing form
and nature, but not as an empire.
1t Is hard to say just when the
real Germany as a country began, |
because for ages, there were tribes
called later the Germani, who lived
in the territory later given the
name of Germany. julius Caesar
went as a ruler in that territory
centuries ago. The name of Ger
many just gradually became asso-
ciated with that country and those |
PEOPLES, but often the rulers over
these early tribes are known as
German rulers. In Oil, Conrad
was chosen as the German king !
and call by that name. Otto the !
Great has often been called one of |
the greatest of the early German
kings. So you see. it is rather I'M
certain just which one of these |
early kings can be called the first |
ruler of Germany because Germany
is a country that slowly grew into
a nation, instead of one, that was
declared a nation at one set time, as
our own splendid country was.
Aunt Polly.
Dear Aunt Polly:
Which should we love the most,
God or our country?
]. r.
Dear ]. R.:
Why didn't you ask me which
we should love most, home or our
parents? 1t would have been about
the same thing, because you know
home wouldn't be anything with
out our parents, Just some wooden
rooms with some wooden chairs
put here and there. It's the love
of our parents, and the happy life!
and close friendship of our family
that makes those wooden rooms,
something different. something
worth while, something that we al
ways want to come back to, and
not just shelter of plain brick
walls. 1t is they, who fill a house
be it ever SO humble" with this
living spirit of home. We love our
home because our parents are in it.
That is the way it is with our
All of its beauty. its laws
and order, its power and all the