HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1931-04-02, Page 7.WITH'THE
N£SCOUK
"A Lone Scout" --What a wealth
o • romance is conjured up by those
three words! Down through the ages
Ink come the echo of that dextra to
DO, which stirred the heart of that
Stone Age boy, ' making his first
spear—of the Grecian Youth, train-
' ing for his first great race in the
Arena—of the Roman Boy, watching
his father's preparations for one of
Caesar's •expeditions—of the Norse
Boy, setting forth on the first voy
age of adventure—of the Page,
buokling on the armour of alio Knight
he served --of the young; Colonist,
:for the first time }eating foot on the
soil of his now Homeland—And now
the LONE SCOUT!
And what IS a Lone Scout? We
all know what a Boy Scout is! We
know that Boy Scouts belong to the
finest Boys' Organization in the
world, that they are bound together
as brothers in one fraternity, irres-
pective of class, tongue, creed or na-
tionality. We know that they meet
together frequently in Troops under
Scoutmasters, learn 'many useful
things, have lots of fun and endeavor
to help other people whenever pos-
sible. We know that in their Scout-
ing they' find the outlet for that de-
li/re to D01
And many yeas ago, in hisfar
seeing wisdom, the Chief Scout or: all
the world ordained that, where it .le
impossible for a boy to become a
member of an organized Troop -of
Scouts, because of the locality in
which he lives, or because of some
physical handicap, that boy shall not
be denied all the privileges, the
training and the fun of Scoatiug, but
that he shall be permitted to work
out the Scout programme through his
own initiative, as a Lone Scout.
What a golden opportunity is, this
for the boys who live on farms, and
in.amakt.villages .where there are not
sulflctent boys to .form a Troop, or
where the nearest ,organized• Troop
Is many miles away! •These boys
can stili become .Scouts, .and in
equally good standing as a member
of the. finest Troop in Canada.
In Canada at the present time.
there is a large number of -boys who
are taking advantage of this Lone
Scout opportuaity, and in .the Pro-
vine of Ontario alone there are now
about 250 Lone` Scouts, In this
province' they have been organized
as nearly as is possible to corms:,
pond to Regular Troops, and every
poasible assistance is given' to them
to enable them to obtain the, maxi-
mum benefit -from their Scout Pro-
gramme,
Four Lone Scout Troopsare in
existence in .Ontario, covering . the
whole province, mob. . with it's own
Scoutmaster, who is in constant
touch with the, "Lodes" under his
charge, and In many_ centers a small
group of boys have formed a Patrol,
and appohited one of their number as
Patrol Leader, and they work to-
gether and help each other along
and up the Scout Ladder of Profici-
ency.
Of, course everybody knows that
The Boy Scouts Association is non-
military and interdenominational, so
there is room for every red-blooded
boy between the ages of 12 and 15
years in it's ranks, and if you would.
like to know more 'about the move-
, meet, just drop a line to The Lone
Scout Department, • Boy Scouts As -
sedation, 330, Bay Street, Toronto,
2, telling them why you cannot join
a regular Troop of Scouts, and they
Iwill send you full particulars of how
you can become a Lone Scout.
The Editor of this paper has very
kindly placed this space at the dis
! posal of the Lone Scouts, and -week
I by week you will :and here informa-
tion, helpful hints and news of what
the other "Lonies" in Canada are -do-
ing, so we hope that you will look
forit regularly and that it will help
you: Next week ,information :will• be
published concekningahe activities ,of
the already .established ,Lone ;Scout
.groups scattered all over Ontario.
"LONE E."
Britain's Princes
Are Kept 1:,usy
Like the Prince of Wales,
His Brothers Also Have a
Host of Formal Duties
to Keep Them Well
Employed
London.—The visit of the Prince of
Wales to South'America in company
with his youngest brother, Prince
George, calls attention to the fact
that there are four brother's in the
royal family, comments Clair Price in
the N.Y. Times Magazine. The King's
younger sons, the Duke of York, the
Duke of Gloucester and Prince George,
are in the somewhat anomalous pod -
tion of all'younger sons of royalty, but
nevertheless they briug dietinct and
clearcut personalities to the various
formal duties that devolve upon them,
she declares.
The Duke of York, who is now 35,
is the only married man among them
and the most serious of them all.. The
Duke of Gloucester, who is 30, i; the
tallest, the most athletic, and the most
reserved—the only one of the four
who looks as old as he is, remarks
Miss Price. Prince George, who is 28,
looks most like the ging. Excepting
for his height, his resemblance to his
father is almost startling.
Prince George went to the battle-
ship Iron Duke in 1921. as a midship-
man, with the intention of becoming
a sailor prince: He got ou well in the
navy, taking his navigation, gunnery
and torpedo certificates and acquiring
enough French to become an interpre-
ter in the Atlantic fleet. His progrese
was not due to his royal status, for
princes practically cease to be princes
when they enter the navy. The navy
nicknamed him "P. G." and apparent
ly •liked him,
But his trouble was seasickness, and
eventually it proved to be due to a
constitutional weakness which still
obliges him to limit himself to the
simplest and plainest of foods eaten
`bparingly. Seasickness is by no moans
exclusively a landlubber's ailment;
Admirals as well as Generals suffer
-from it, and the ging himself in this
respect has never been a good sailor.
Prince George was on the China stn
doe when be was compelled by medi-
cal advice .to give upthe navy and
come home. He was then posted to
the foreign. Office to begin a new car-
eer, but his weakness has played
havoc with that also.
Ever sipce Prince 'George returned'
from China the Prince of Wales has
taken an especial interest in him. The
two brothers went to Spann in 1927,.
and they. -are now in South America
together, •T heir companionship,
prompt ,d by the natural tenderness of
au elder brother for a younger wlto
has had n stroke of bad luck, has prop -
ably been eurthered by the fact that
the -Duke of York has 0 family of his
own to look after and the Duke - of
Gloucester hal always boett selfcon-
tainetl.
The Vince of Wales has crowded a
meter variety of experience into his
thirty -etc yea: s than most men ac -
quire in a lifetime and Prince George's
outlook has been largely restricted .to 1
the navy and its set. Yet the two have.'
muck in. common. They fly together,
they hunt together, they are seea at
house parties together, they have sum-
mered together on -the Prince of
Wales's Canadian ranch. The Duke
of Gloucester likes horses better than
airplanes; and the Duke of York, al-
thongh he earned his wings before he
married; does not care much for fly-
ing note that he has - a wife and two
small daughters. But the Prince of
Wales and Prince George aro both
pilots who can handle their own ma-
chines, who in fact learned flying in
the same Blue Moth bus. They are
boot motorists who can talk engines
and speeds and coachwork to their
hearts' content,
Both dance, although the Prince of
Wales lei perhaps the fonder of danc-
ing. Prince George is taller, more
slender and not so restlessly on. the
move, but he is easily the best dancer
in the royal family when he wants to
be. Incognito, he won a dance com-
petition at Cannes a year or two ago,
Prince George's musical tastes are
perhaps a little more serious than his
brother's. The Prince of Wales per-
forms on the drum and ukelele in pre-
ference to any other instrument, but
Prince George is a good Pianist pro-
vided he is at a house party where he
knows everybody well, He need tobe
very fond of the Russian ballet and
could be found in a ffontrow stall
night after night whenever the Rus -
dans visited London,
As his rooms in Buckingham Palace
attest, he has a good eye for color and
is fond' of pictures, both movie and
water -color. Ila has 'a wide acquatut-
ance among theatre people in London,
and he can make a fair speech when
he has to, although at the age of 28
he obviously lees not enjoy speech-
making. No, .only is he modest but
he has hardly yet emerged from the
shyness which teed to afflict all the
brothers,
He is the only one of the four who-
has
ritehas ever been robbed. His car was
stolett iu the street one night, but was
returned undamaged a few days later.
It probabl • was stolen in ignorance of
its owner's identity, for - it le an tin=
written law in England that members_
of the royal family are exempt from
robbery: •
The. Prince of Wale's sties much of
South America on a previous visit,
but. until the present tour everything
below. Panama 'was new to Prince
George,
The Duke of .Gloucester, theSEhtg's
third son, who #s a cavalry officerin
the Tenth Masers and ie making the
army his career, has recently, returned
from Abyssinia, where lie represented
the ging at the Emperor's coronation:
He also represented the King at the
wedding of Princess Astrid. of Sweden
to Prince Leopold of Belgium, and has
therefore begun to assume his share
in the State eventsabroad in which
the Ring's sons customarily deputize
for him. He is a member of the Privy
Council, which enjoys nowadays an
extremely august but purely formal
existence. Hens a Knight of, the Gar-
i. ter, the oldest and most illuetrous or-
cler of knighthood' anywhere existing,
AtlanticIn Storm Mood
1.
IToavy seas pounding shores. along New England coastlin leer! we see Revere Beach, -.Lise
and has his tall oaken stall in its fine
chapel at Windsor. Ile is a member
of the Jockey Club, which shares with
the Royal Yacht Squadron at Cowes
the distinction of being the most ex-
elusive club in the world. He is one.
of the few men living who combine the
freedom of Edinburgh and Glasgow.
Also, he is High Steward of King's
Lynn.
The Duke is the complete product
of Eton, the hussars and polo, the best
horseman -among. the King's sons, one
of the most popular dinner guestsof
the London season, and a sportsman
who has not. only shot his oven lions
but has also eaten: them. It was in
Tanganyika ,in November, 1928, .that
he watched hist llon.cagved and put
over the. grill.. - He sampled -one of its
chops, at :flt:st- .somewhat, uneasily
but eventually. pronouncing it .better
than the best veai.he had' ever tasted.
He is also the best cricketer in the
royal family, although the Duke of
York is not far behind him.
It. is hardly less typical of the Duke
of Gloucester that he goes' with the
Prince of Wales to the =fuel dinner
of the Farmers Union in the old Corn
Exchange at Melton Mowbray. 'These.
are the fainters whose devotion to the
sport nukes the Melton Mowbray
country the best hunting country in
the world. The rtentt at their dinners
to always a sound English menu—
roast mutton, reit currant jelly, mesh-
ed potatoes and Brussels sprouts. The
dress is always varied—dinner clothes,
rough tweeds, pullovers, whipcords,
leather leggings, ready-made ties. The
Prince of Wales, unless he happens to
be abroad, is always in the old oak
armchair ! the head of the table. And
despite the "No Smoking" notices on
the walls, the port is always followed
by "Gentlemen, yon may smoke."
Having entirely shaken off his ner-
vousness before an audience, the Duke
of Gloucester is now a very good
speaker. The toast of the royal family
at the Rcyal Academy's annual din-
ners sometimes falls to him, and so
do presidencies of agricultural shows,
openings of charitable institutions is
the East End of London and attend-
ances atlevees and hunt balls. His
duties involve him in a great number
of dinners at.which he displays royal-
ty's owu gift for appearing to be in-
tensely interested in the conversation
of dowagers, Generals and statesmen,
He is h good dancer, he likes the
movies, he smiles upon autograph -
hunters, but never under any circum-
stances obliges them.
The Duke of York, who has not fig-
ured mush in the news since the- birth.
of bis emend daughter last year, is
not only the most serious of the King's
sons but also is the only married one.
He married. Lady Elizabeth Bowes- I
Lyon to 19:3 and their two daughters,I
the little Princesses Elizabeth, and
Margaret, are among the meet popu-
lar of Billisl. royalties. Tlie
present
line of succession Passes through the'
Prince of Wales and the Duke of York
and thence through the Duke of York's
daughters; the Ring's second son
stands therefore no considerable dis-
tance from the throne. As a result,
he has carried out more royal duties
than any other of the brothers except-
ing the Prince of Wales himself. At-
tendance at the Rumanian coronation
in 1922, the Serbian royal wedding in
1823 and the more recent Italian and
Norwegian . royal weddings have all.
fallen to him,and at one time there!
was talk oe sending him to South!
Africa as Governor-General.
He went through the Battle of Jut-
land in the Collingwood; like Prince
George, he was intended for. a sailor
Prince. His navy career, however,
was cut short by a serious illnees, and
he went from the navy into the air
force to earn hts wings as a pilot. He
is not the beat of horsemen, although
'lie used to hunt a good deal, but he is
a rood shot and he brought home an
Impressive bag of lion pelts and buf-
falo heads ft'oin Kenya in 1025. He
has not as good an eye as his father,
but the Icing Is one of the half-dozen
best amateur shots in the country,
The Duke of York plays tennis left-
handed, swims well and plays better
than average cricket.
But lie Is best known by reason of
his interest in civics, housing, work -
ors' welfare and the relations between
capital and labor, subjects which lie
studied at Trinity, Cambridge, where
he lived with the Duke of Gloucester.
Canada Takes
Fourth Place
In British Trade
Dominion Advances One
Place For 1930, Accord-
ing to Statement
Issued Recently
Ottawa: -Canada was Great Bri-
tain's fourth best customer in. 1930,
having advanced one place from the
previous year, it was announced re-
cently by the department of trade and
'commerce after a report had been re-
ceived from the British Board of
Trade. • - The Irish Free State, Aus-
tralia and.Franee took the first three
Places as Great Britain's best cus-
tomers. In 1929,, order was Australia,
United States, Germany, the Irish Free
State and. Canada.
Despite the fact that Canada pur-
chased less goods from Great Britain
in 1930 than in 1929, the volume was
considerable enough to permit her to
displace other countries in the trade
standing, The Board of Trade report
showed that Canada bought 5.39 per
cent. of Great Britain's total exports
in 1930 and 5.05 per cent. in 1929.
Purchase of British goods by United
States fell from 6.75 per cent. in 1929
to 5.35 per cent. last year.
Included in the Board of Trade re-
port were figures for Soviet Russia.
They showed that in 1929, Great Bri
twin imported from Russia goods
valued at approximately $171,000,000,
which represented 3.42 per cent. of the
country's total foreign purchases. The
corresponding per tentage in 1929 was
2.25. On tate other hand, Russia's per
1 ceutage of Great Britain's total ex
ports increased from 0.54. to 1.27 or
from approximately 313,700,000 to $34,
940,000.
The Board of Trade report gives
figures indicating the value of the ex
port of Great Britain's produce and
-
maaufactured goods per head of popu-
lation of the importing country. Upon
this baste, Canada was iu sixth Rosi
tion, preceded by Now Zealand, the
Irish Free State, Australia, Norway
and Denmark.
I '
Dear Old Lady: "Captain, would
you please help me find niy state
room:" Captain: "Have you for
gotteu what number it is, madam?'
D. 0. L.: "Yes, but'I'll know tt If I
see it again; there was a light -house
lust outside the w'inctow,"
Mounted Police of France
To Wear Tail Lights at Night
Pants:—French mounted police ,vho
ride the highways at night, and is
all probability cavalrymen, will in
the future be equipped with reflect
ors to be worn on their backs in
order . to "Protect them from motor-
ists,
The reflectors will be inserted in a
row across the back of the Sam
Brown belt or else inserted in a tri-
angle
ri
angle piece of leather attached to
the back of the overcoat collar. These
will catch the light from automobiles'
Iheadlights and enable the horsemen
to be seen at a distante.
Giant Biplane Tests Geologists #*° eport
Prove;Successful On Mineral Sources
Try -out Showil Economy and
a LOW Landing . Speed
Testflights of the new Handley
Page type 42 airplane for Imperial
Airways conduoted at. Radlet airport,'
Hertfordshire, England, are reported
to the Department of .Conimeroe as,
suecessfnl:. The biplane is built to
be fitted with accommodations for
thirty-eight passengers in two large'
cabins and with holds for mail and
freight. According to the tests, it
is said, these planes, eight of which
have been -ordered by Imperial Air- i
ways tor .the operation of European'.
lines and of trunk airways to India
and South Africa, will prove min;
ordeal in operation, Tentative cal-
culations show cost of maintenance
at a few pence per mile for each pas-
senger.-
The
as-
senger.The plane measures 25 feet from
the ground to the highest point of
the upper plane. The length from
nose to tail is 861 feet, while the
span of the upper plane is equal to
the aggregate span of five light air-
planes.
The weight of the pian, fully
laden, is 28,500 pounds in the West-
ern type, which has space for thirty-
eight passengers and is intended for
use on the European routes, and 27,-
250 pounds in the Eastern type,
which has the passenger accommo-
dations cut to make room for addi-
tional mail and baggage.
Performance varies with the differ-
ent weights of the two types and ac-
cording to the kind of power units
employed. With four air-cooled
radial Jupiter 490 -horsepower engines ash has recently come to the front
the plane cruises at 95 miles an hour as a substitute for powdered pumice,
and attains a top speed of 116 miles while bentonite has special value as
an hour, it is said. Rate of climb an absorbent of dye and other mate
at' sea level is 677 feet a minute rials. These qualities of bentonite
and the service ceiling is 12,450', feet. give it a place, not only in the cent -
The replacement of these engines eat -and ceramic industry, but in the
by four 555 -horsepower Jupiter en manufacture of explosives and ferti-
gines equipped with superchargers lizers as well.
is said to increase the cruising speed• Potential Fields
by ten miles an hour, raising the
Dealing with oil and gas possibili-
maximum speed to 129.5 miles, and
the rate of climb at sea level to ties the geologists state that, as the
828 feet .a minute. gas fields ,are already well etablish-
The--plane is- designed. to fly level el, -the areas nearby with similar
at 6,000 feet on the_ power ofany structure and geological conditions
titres engines. The landing speed may be looked upon as potential gas
of 50 miles per hour is: advanced as fields with oil possibilities on the
a safety factor of the huge aircraft. flanks :of the structures. Untested
fields of suitable -fracture have pee-
sibiiities 'n both oil and gas. The
success in the search for oil in the
Kevin -Sunburst field of Montana is
regarded by tite geologists as shed -
Flagstaff, Ariz.—The new planet, ding much light on oil possibilities
Pluto,rhad its first birthday on March 4n .Alberta "The Kevin -Sunburst ,
13th. arch," they state, "extends Into Al -
of
March 13, one year ago, discov- berta at Coutts, but no dome occurs
ery of -"Planet 1i." was announced at in this vicinity. The immediate prole
the Lowell Observatory here. leu Is, therore, hat of finding suit
With this anniversary one' of the able structuefre, fortin Alberta nearly
amazing stories of sclence comes to all the wells that have reached th
light. It is the record of a cruel lower formations have obtaine
"break" which fate handed to Dr. -Per- shows of oil or gas.'nithough is nos ,'
clval Lowell, the astronomer who cal- cases they have been drilled on to
dilated Pluto's existence and foretold structures. Should r structure an
its position in the heavens. preaching lite lievin•Sttuburst item
Lowell died In 1916, a prophet with be found in Alberta, there is no rea
dream unfulfilled. Yet even then the sou to thinit that vii #a commerc#a
proof of Pluto's existence, photos quantities would tint bo obtained:'
taken in Lowell's own obser'v'atory, lay; The coal nteaanre.a of Alberta an
unrecognized during the last year of Saskatchewan aro better Imam the
his life and for 14 years thereafter. either their nil or gas resources. 1
These dusty photos were identified a the southern plaids of Alberta an
short time ago. j South-west Saskatchewan, Gaal occur
Pluto is now established 'as the in nine different geological form
earth, its year 250 earthly years long,
ninth plant, its size about that of the tions. coal is being worked a
Lethbridge in the south and at Drum -
its mass and weight anywhere from Drum-
heller in the northern. part of the
15 per cent less than earth's. region surveyed,
Canada's Resources Rich and
Varied Statistics
Show -
The steady growth of knowledge
as to the richness of Canada's . re-
sources is illustrated' by a report
which has just been leaned by the
Geological Survey of the Dominion -
Department of Mines This report
deals with an area of about 45,000
square miles in southern Alberta and
south-west Saskatchewan, and tt
consists of a survey -of themineral
resources of that area, Among the
comment made is that no oil fields
have been developed within that
area, The Turner Valley oil field
lies just on its western edge, Then
there is a footnote to the statement
that no oil Olds have been develop-
ed which reports' the discovery of oil
in tho lied Coulee field west of
Coutts, near the United States bor-
der. The discovery was made bow-
ever between the time the field work
was done mid the time the report
! was published.
• The area included In the survey
!lies roughly between Maple Creek on
the east and -Lethbridge and -Calgary
on the west. The southern border
is the international boundary and
!the northern i$ situated in the vitt -
nity of Drumheller. The main
t minerals described in the survey are
gas, oil and coal. In addition, there
are comments upon sodium sulphate,
shale and clay, building stone,.ball
mill pebbles. artesian water, vol.
conic ash and bentonite. Volcanic
A ge-neral view showing C! tius bumping' Trinity Hall daring recent Lettt races at Cambridge
versity, England. -
New Planet Celebrates
It's First Birthday
—V1
School Traffic Lights
Suggested at Ottawa Lethbridge district coal has bee
Ottawa, -A traffic light operated by, mined since 1582. The known re -
school teachers to 'bring vehicles to a sources of coal in Saskatchewan,
halt while children, their classes fin- calculated from actual observation,
fished, troop across streets in safety are over two billion tons, while those
is a suggestion laid before the Ottawa of Alberta are over 350 billion tone.
re-
el= traffic committee. The estimated probable reserves of
The eleCtric tratut signal would be. calculated
provinces are 67 billion and 670
operated from within the school by a' billion. The Saskatchewan reserves
teacher, Classes out, the light would are lignite v only, but those of Alberta
flash a halting signal to vehicular include anthracite as web as bitumin-
ous and lignite,
ren had scurried across the busy thor-
oughfare,
The geologists in
their report review the evidence et
the existence of workable seams at
many pekoe throughout the area. In
British Army Officers' Pay
To Be Reduced 8 Per Cent. 1857 lasting 12 menthe.
London.—Reduction in pay for army There was a business depression in
odlcers is aunouneed by 'the Ministry 18fi9 lasting 8 mons,
of War, effective July 1 and amounting There n'as a business depression in
to 8 per cent, The reduction is to be 1873 lasting 30 mouths,
in force for two years. Under the new There was a Madness depression iu
scale second lieutenants will receive 1354 lasting 22 months,$2,46 daily, captains 35.25 and majors There was a business depression in
$7.10. 1887 lasting 10 months,
.Similar reductions will be put into There was a business depression iu.
force for those on half and retired pay 1893 lasting 26 months,
as well as militia and territorial Citi There was a business depression iu
190e lasting 25 months.
There was a business depression in
1907 lasting nearly 12 months.
There wax a business depression in.
1914 lasting 8 months.
There was a business depression in
ate e taller and heavier than the 1921-1922 lasting 14 months.
youngsters of 'thirty years ago, Ayer- All of them came to en end except
age figures from the Tokio Municipal this cue. It will, too,
Education Bureau show that more _..
than an inch has been gained in height' Forst -Aid Stations for nitoists
bud nearly six pounds in weight , Paris—First-aid posts for auLomo-
Uoth boys and girls twelve years old.
bilists have been established on the
72 Years Potter to Kin• g highways of fifteen countries and,
g plans are briug •prepared in seven
Weston-Super-Mare, England—Wit- others, it was reported by Colonel
Rant Scott, the royal potter, has Ernest P. Bicknell, Secretary. Gene
just retired' after seventy-two years oral of the League of Red Cross sec-
at hie trade. 'Starting- at the age of ieties to the Permanent International
thirteen, he made thousands of flow- Committee for First Alt on Roads,
er pots and bowls for the royal gar- - - -
dens of Queen Victoria, King Edward Progress depends.on breaking away
and King'George. • - from what has been done before.
All Came to an End
There was a business depression in
cers.
Japanese School Children
Larger Than 30 Years Ago
Tokio.—Japanese school children of