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This week bringte us news from
Our most northerly Lone Scout, who
ilvee at the Hudson Bay Post at
Landsdowne House, in Northern, On-
tario. His name is Walter Wraight,
and Walter is quite an outstanding
Scout in other respecte besides his
should qualify for the Garaener's
Badge, and now is the time to com-
mence operations to earn this badge.
Like quite a few of the other Scout
Badges the Gardeners requires quite
a little patience, and cannot be earn-
ed overnight,
northerly location. It is necessary to have some knowl-
edge of soils, and to actually grow
a number of Rowers and plants from
seed, but all this is very interesting
work which would be enjoyed by
every Lonie. ,
Get busy and ask your Scoutmas-
ter to send you partioulars of the
Gardener's Badge, so that you too
eau qualify for it
And talking of Gardening reminds
us of a very good turn that was per-
formed last year by the Lone "Wolf
Patrol" of Paris, the founders of the.
Present Paris Troop,
These Lonies looks about them and
discovered some old folks who were
too feeble to dig and plant their own
gardens, so they armed themselves
with spades and rakes and all the
necessary tools and set to work to
plant these old peoples' garelens for
them, and then later on they also
tended them, when necessary.
Ween't that a real good turn?
Maybe you can do the same thing
this year.
And still talking cf good turns in
the Springtime, have you noticed
how the bright sunshine shows up
that dirty rubbish heap and untidy
scrap laying all around the house
and which was previously buried un-
derneath the snow?
How about making this week a
Lone Scout "Clean Up" week, and
so put everything ship-shape for
the bright weather which is ahead of
us?
Go to it, Lone Scouts, and then
write to your Scoutmaster and tell
him what you are doing.
LONE E.
Coming from the 'Ohl Country"
last year, he brought a very fine re-
cord with him, and he is the posses-
sor of the coveted "Silver Cross for
Bravery" which was bestowed upon
him for saving the life of a dog.
The Lane Scout Commissioner has a
• picture of Walter with the dog, a
cocker spaniel, that he saved.
On arrival in Canada, he was sent
to one of the Hudson Bay Com-
pany's Northern Ontario Posts, and
he has been in that part of the eouu-
try ever since, and tells us that he
quite enjoys the life, although it is
ea little lonely at times, especially in
the winter time when travelling is
difficult and he has to wait for a long
time for his malt
Walter has learned to drive a dog
team, but he says that if you talk
kindly to the dogs they think that
you are a weakling and just lie down
on the track and won't budge. It
is necessary to use quite strong lang-
uage to them, before they will take
any notice of you. The last mail
which the Post received was brought
in by dog team, driven by an Italian
Priest, and he was quite embarras-
sed by the fact that the dogs would
take no notice of ordinary language,
so he compromised by swearing at
:khem in Spanish:
Walter is a Lone Scout indeed:
Lately we have noticed several
people busily engaged in their gar-
dens, and this reminds us that every
Lone Scout will of course have a
garden of his very own, which he
will lay out and plant to hie own.
liking.
And therefore every Lone Scout
Man's Sight Extended
By Ten Basic Devices
New York—Ten basic devices per -
tilting man to project. his feeble „sense
of sight into hidden scientific won-
ders have been gathered together for
the first time in a display at the 'Ex-
hibition of the Science and Art of
Color at the Museum of. Science and
anthistry,
The Stroboscope, which slows up
the motion of objects moving too
swiftly for the eye to see; the oscil-
loscope which catches the movement
of objects too vibrant; the micro -
Scope which reveals the infinitely
small; the telescope to see distant
objects; the radiometer, which de-
tects the invisible infra -red, or heat,
waves; the photo -cell, whin ensnares
the unseen ultra -violet =diadem; the
X-ray, which reveals things through
Paque materials; the spectroscope,
which sorts out the mixed radiation
of white light; the pyrometer, which
wecords things too radiant for the
eye to gaze upon, and the spectro-
photometer, whieh performs feats of
aolor analysis beyond the power of
the human eye, are the ten machines.
Captain Discovers
Land In Arctic
Oslo, Norw.—Captain Daehli, Nor -
went= Government whaling inspec-
tor, who returned recently from visit- in the sad spectacle of abandoned
ins the herding grounds ot the north graves. The upkeep of cemeteries
Atlantic, claimed to have discover- is a sacred trust not only for fain-
ted a hitherto unknown land with lofty thee,but for public authorities when
peaks in the aretio regions. families die out, or for other reasons
The land, he said, lay between the deserted tombs have become the
longitudes 27 and 72 west, an area prey of time and disordered vegeta-
Which includes most of Greenland,' tion.
Baffin Bay and the east coast of
Baffin Land already. • London -Australia
Captain Daehli told Mem; Tegu,
Airway Is Planned
Byrd Now Positive -
He Flew Over Pole
Washington—He probably already
knew it, but the National .Geographic
Society has told Rear Admiral Rich-
ard E. Boyd wheu he flew over the
south pole.
Nautilus lamed
Bucketful of cracked lee -was usid,for christening at New York of
submarine Nautilus for • Sir. Hubert Waltins' trip to North Pole this
summer. Jean Jules Verne, grandsaFof famous writer, aided Lady
Wilkins in officiating. -
Britain's Oldest Store 4i' A • Sevier Went Forth
Now Closes Doors; 'frierthe fteClind arrows of the sun
London,—Britaints ()Meet b1 store,P('A farmer.),Ilants his furrow patient-
Jamee Shoolbred & Co., which has clue
vied on business in Tottenham'0,015k went the Ocieut sower of the seed
Road since 1817, has passed into„atiloa . Before the,dawu of Karnales ay
-
hands of Harrods Ltd., the largeat • nastsa
"shop" in the Mattel' Empire. Thaa
change, entailing removal of the Shoone0 loos religion of the fruitful sun:
bred stock to Knightsbridge, is mean.- 0 living legend of the quickened
sitated by the westward movement of field!
London's shopping area,
Ere Egypt was—the cycle of the corn:
The locality was se/Mr-nal The seed'. , . the sun. . . . the fall
James Shoolbred, a Scotsman, opened and &enea
his small ehop as "Dealer in 'British
Lace." In 20 years the business had ,Elaa Natanarear the raytion of the
aborbed 2000 employees. It was the Waeat:
first store to be lighted by electricity Tha seed . .. the shower and worm-
Therstweekly half -holiday. 'Pharaohs, priests and peoples change
th . . the winnowe. grain.
reporting on its study of the explor-
ia Britain. and also introdneed the
society's -research committee.
a —not these:
searxet. and the seed, the sun
er's record, agreed that at 114 p.m.,
Greenwich eivll time, Nov. 29, 1929„
Rear Admiral Byrd was "at the south
pole, in so far as an observer in an.
airplane,' using the most accurate iu.•
etruments and. methods available for
determining his position, could ascer-
tain.
"We, therefore, feel sure that at
some point tu the course the plane
flew within four nautical miles or the
south pole, with the probability that
it passed moli nearer than this,"
Neglect of Cemeteries
Montreal Presse: (A bill has been
introduced in the Ontario Parliainent
providing for the creation of local
commissions for the maintenance of
graveyards.) This example set by
the Government or Ontario deserves
to be followed in other provinces, for
there are many 01d cemeteries
throughout the country where the de-
solation of forgetfulness is manifest
Oslo daily, that he had noted the ex-
act position of the territory on maps
and had taken photographs, but he
London — Two experhuental air
flights under the Air Ministry's aus-
nausea to divulge its exact position. pices, in each direction betweeu Lou -
All details and documents have been don and Australia, were recently an -
banded to the Norwegian Govern- nounced by Hon. F. Montague, ander-
merit.
Grain Transplanted
Gives Finer Yield
Secretary for Air, in the lienee of
Commons,
The first flight from London start-
ed on Saturday, .April 4th, and is
scheduled to reach Port Darwin, Aus-
Bieminghane Eng, — Transplanted tralia, on April 19. The second
grain yields a considerably better crop flight from London will start April
than crops allowed their normal
growth, according to experiments that
Schoolboys in the Staffordshire village
25, and will be due in Port Darwin
on May 10.
The present Englend-toandia air
of Kinver have been carrying out. 1± or mail route will be followed as far as
three seasons in succession the boys Karachi and Delhi. The route will
have sown wheat in October, and In then be to Allahabad, Calcutta, Ran -
the following February have trans- goon, Victoria Point, Singapore,
planted part of it in another plot. They Batavia, Pourabaya and Port Darwin.
leave treated the twa plots of wheat
..,---. ....--
100,000 Germans Expected
To Visit Paris This Summer
Paris. ---One hundred thomeand (tee -
exactly alike, but the transplanted
(born has always been much finer.
Course In Leadership
The Canning Industry • aud ram!
Montreal, Quebec.—Vegetable
'—a.gnes Kendrick Gray, in the New
can-
ning iu Canada had an active year s
york adara.
1930. increasing 64.8 per cent. ovet
1929. The pack of tomatoes enemas. ,
ed by nearly 104 per cent., and peae,,
.,,
has :Poen well saki that no man
by almost 165 per eent.
seeekao
pack for the Dominion practeceey eee mider the burden f the, day.
..i.V.,,when tomorrow's burden
proximated one can per head enteala
illation. It totalled 10,066,6)4 lians atida;e4o the burden of today that
Outlined For Women mans are expected to visit Paris
Syracuse, NeY,—What is aid to be this Summer for the Frew% Colonial
the first course of its kind in the Exposition, and the greater part of
'United States, combining practice and; them will come, by bus,
theory in. leadership for WOMOTI. stu-i The sane 'tinsel; will run all Sem-
dents, will be started at Syracuse Unie mer from Warsaw to Berlin and from
itersity next fall. The Objective Is to Berlin to Paris. These big cars,
prepare women for entrance into per- containing thirty seats and eqeipped
Sonnet work and for positions as ad- in every way to Remo iho comfort
"leers and deans or women in high the paseengers, till make the trip
Scheele, normatschools and colleges. , from weeenw to Berlin al taloa
Ten outstanding women in aduca- hours and in twenty-four front Berlin
Venal *work will revolve gradtlate ata' to 'Perie. The price from Paris to
441$tants.bips equivalent to nearly $1000 warmest will be $12 and from Berlin
each YeaSIY, • no Paris $12.
in 190O. vompared with 6,186.1S2,$1' can,: .rat is more than a man can
in 1929.
hear.–aatorge MacDonald.
To Your :Laurels
• ,
llfi vn, 1.1-yeirrold lit. Louis high school gir , whoso
Ocelot:veal target shaking' has earned her title of Otto of bast marks-
men in eountry, Slie hag shot hair way. to tatiriloin almost over night,
DAVIT having fired a gun until two years ago.
"Laughter—A Boon to Mankind"
Declares English Professor
Laughter is a peculiarly human But when, thanks to the pet:Severance
phenomouon, declares Abraham Wolf, of the pioneers, the uoyelties succeed
Professor of Logic and Scientific Meth- In establishing themselves as nevi
oft at the 'University of Loudon, in an nabits, -then theolder habits of the
article in the N,Y. Times Magazine. old-fashioned may be laughed to scorn
Some monkeys may grin, but Man is because of their contrast witb. the
the laughing animal par excellence. newer and more widespread habits,.
Ile is also the most laughed at animal,. Here also it Is to be noted that usually
the chief butt of the laughter of bis it Is only fashions of no very serious
fellows. Hence the general human in- moment (long or snort dresses, short
teeest of the subject. Indeed, it has or long hair, for example) that are
been said with some justice that laugh- matters of laughter; the reaction IS
ter is one of three great gifts given to different in more serious matters, nu.
men to enable them to counter the less some genius of a humorist BUS -
miseries of existence. Forgetfulness seeds itt showing vividly that they
is our protection agaiust the haunting have a funny side.
stings of the past; hope enables us to This brings us to the special exits -
face the future with all that it may Sion of the greatest humorists. It is
have in store for us; laughter helps us probably the special gift of a genius
to get over the trials of the immediate like Mr. Shaw that he can deal with
present And the greatest of these is serious problems in a laughable way.
laughter, for present evils always He usually scores his laughs in the
seem to be the worst; but "a merry ways already indicated, especially bY
heart goes all the way." showing the incongruity either be -
Over and above its general human tweet), professed theory and aetual
interest, laughter also appeals to a practice, or by disclosing the disguises
number of specific interests. As a. by which ugly .ducks masquerade la
highly complex group of human ex- fine feathers. Of course, no problem,
perienees it is a subject of scientific social or otherwise, is solved iu that
interest, and as such appeals at once way. But it is a great accomplishment
to the biologist. It has also an artistic forcibly to direct people's attention to
interest, for it is intimately connected the existence of certain promises and
with certain types of literature, music to prod, them to face the problems M-
end the pictorial arts. Lastly, it has Etead of pretending that they don't
even a commercial interest, for the exist—rather like the man who used
production of laughter is one of the to burn all his bills and so made light
great industries of the world of enter-
tainment.
The first and most obvious thing
about laughter is that it is a physical
or physiological activity which is gen-
erally found to be very pleasant and
refreshing. The belief that laughter
serves as a tonic is very widespread.
Popular philosophy has testified to
this belief in the proverb: Laugh and
grow fat. This, of course, was intend- ! Selling Bait -Latest
ea to express the common faith in the Industry In Georgia
Tifton, Ga.—Down in South Georgia
where the crops were not good and
where folks have had to work out new
plans to earn a living through the
Summer, a new industry is being built
up. The following advertisement has
appeared in The Tifton. Gazette:
"Fish bait—The latest thing just out
of 1119 ground. The very best 1931
model—fat, juicy and tough—the kiud
you have been looking for. Just call
muscles, an extra intake of oxygen in J•Ice at The Gazette office and have
the lungs, stimulation to the circus him pet you a cup fun when you
latory system and to the nerves. More- are ready to go fishing.—dtf."
over, hearty laughter is generally ac-
companied by a diffuse activity of the
arms and body, conducted perhaps
with the play impulse.
Taken in moderate doses, then,
laughter is joy -giving. One curious.
of his troubles.
Such laughter cannot, from the na-
ture of the case, be purely joyous and
g Mal laughter. Tears are ape to.
Mingle with it. There are malty forms
of laughter which are closely allied to
tears. And some of the greatest
humorists have mingled them freely,
health -giving” properties of laughter.
In an age iu which slim figures are the
rage, the proverb might prove a dan-
ger to laughter. Perhaps we ought to
substitute it for the motto: A laugh
a day keeps the doctor away. Ti
reason why people enjoy laughter as
such, the reason why it really does
them good; is physiologically quite
clear and well established. It involves
certain processes of the respiratory
Now that country folks have begun
:•elling angle worms that used to be
free for the digging, it would not be
s irprising if some farmer charges a
neighbor for a "mess o' greens" or a
half-dozen "roastin' ears" for dinner
but jetteseating result. at this is that before the: Summer is gone. The whole
since we feelaglaa "whelk we tangle, aeei world .seetne.,:to be getting ctonmerelal!,
tend to laugh when we are glad. And ized. " • •
••
so laughter has become an expression _en
as well as a source of joy, The kind
.associatiou, or mental alchemy, by Earthquake Precautions
which this sort of thing happens is Auckland Weekly News; No amount
familiar to psychologistswho have.lof argument about New Zealand's com%
studied the expression of the emo-
tions.
For various reasons laughter has
been largely displaced by the mere
smile, which serves as a kind of gen-
teel and refined substitute for it. One
-of the chief causes of this fact is the
general tendency for cultured people
to become. quieter in their manners
and habits of life. Professional peo-
ple inevitably pass much of their time
in lonely occupations, and so acquire
e habit or quietness. Habit some-
times becomes a cult. ro "loudness"
of every kind is regarded as rather vul-
gar. Ile are consequently not sur-
-prised to find that the. genteel Lord
Chesterfield claimed it as a merit that
parative freedom from serious earth-
quakes can dispose at the necessity
of taking .the risk of them into ac-
count. As the details etttlte Hawke's
Bay disaster become more fully known
it is pitifully evident that the terrible
loss of life would not have occurred,
had the principles of earthquakeproof
construction been observed in build-
ings of comparatively recent erection.
'With eyes upon the future at Napier
and adjacent towns in the region so
sadly overtaken by disaster. it must
be said that the promised body of
building regulations is -absolutely es-
sential, not for application there only,
-but throughout the Dominion. Lie
-
Witty to earthquake varies locally, no
since he had come to the full use of doubt, when the whole Dominion le
his reason. Ile had never been. heard considered. but the simplest and sur -
to laugh. He does not say when he est way to safety should be taken by
came to the full use of his reason.! making the regulations compulsory
Sooner or later we all reach au age everywhere. If action of the sort he
when we drop physical exercises and not taken now, the outstanding lesson
, 07 this calamity will be lost.
loud -laughter is one of them. .
Although laughter is a physical ac-,
tivity, it is more than that. It is usual- Report Shows Wages Drop
ly associated with mental experiouces.
Nine Billions in States
This may be at a minimum in merely
boisterous laughter, such as often a0•• Washington --The In
ih
tellt.e di ue eStatesies are
Ntemegtio
.
companies sheer Tagging And rough oti.te
horseplay. But with the grewth ec mated as having been $9,000,000 lower
i -t 1930 than in 1929, in a report Ire-
matutity and culture the langhter that
is mainly physical tends to be re- pared by it e Gelieva Research Commit-
Placea by what is mainly a. laughter 1 e, the League of Nations Association
y . anuounced here recently,
of the mind. What is meant b
This estimate was $1,000,000,000 un,
"laughter of tbe mind" is perhaps
der that of the American Federatiou
most obvious when, .exhatisted with
of Labor, made public, but both me
physical laughter, we go an listening
ganizations figure(' the decline at 20
to funny stories and see their want,
but cannot laugh at them. Merely
boisterous laughter, of course, has -a
c -rang, hold on most. people. And so
sheer fooling, smacking, beating and
'per cent.
Moose Jaw, Sask.-L-A new industry
is to, be added to Moose Jaw in the
ragging generally, constitaite a larform of a grist and flour Mill, to he
ge ,
part nt the stock in trade of the circus erected early this summer at a cost
: ed the pantomime, But such laugh- of about $25,000.,
ter in at beet short-lived among Intern- .
gent people. It soon palls on them. Moose Jaw, Seek—The first factory
And even those who Ann anything in the Province of Saskatchewan for
"high brow" in the way of entertain- the manufacture of neokties, was
ment still look for something more opened in Moose Jaw recently by the
intellectual than the fun of the old Intlestructable Ne OR W ear Manufac- 0'
typo of efrous clown er pantomime but, tuners lad. 'Phe factory is turning
Toon.• . out around 100 dozen ties per week,
,
but is iehind in filling its Orders,
There can be no doubt that laugh-
liwhich have been larger then expeen
ter is an iMportant 800151 weapon, It
ie employed to discourge both the new. eti.
fangled and the old-fashioned, end so ...!,..
helps 'Le, promote steady progress in ' Saskatoon, Sask.- The- Saskatch-
accordance with the old adage, "Hest- owan Power Commission is consider -
en slowly." Now fashions in dress,!Ing tin addition of machinery to the
bearing, mode of speech, or manners ' Sasautoon plant, to cost in the neigh.
'are nearly always langhed at to.bogin hothood of .$400,000. No additional
, with. And the laughter often has the bitildings, 'however, :will be required.
1 effect or kilns mere affeet ado u s a ml Cons tru ellen of addition al trEliismis-
i mannerisms, 811011 laughter is mostly colon linos throughout the SaeltalCin,1
provoked by Incongruity or coat1:1st Istria necessitated the enlargement
with established mistoms and habits, of the plant.
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