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Have you ever thought how interest-
jug it would be to keep a "Log Book"
of your Lone Scout activities, for your-
pelf or for your Patrol?
Every ship that puts out to sea
'carries a Log and the officer of each
many signs and pictures; each with
a special meaning, commemorating
Some special event concerning they
tribe, or recording the history of the
I-.dian people,
If you are handy with a chisel, there I
rot of fun ahead of you in the
lrsa
'watch must enter into it any occ rnakiug
ur- of a Totem Pole to record your ,
Fences of roil?ortanae during itis taint i history as a Lone Scout.
ot duty, and frequently at the end of Your pole should be about seven aud�
,the vleading
in this Log Proves interesting r half feet long, with about eighteen
xeacliug indeed. • II, inches of this sunk into the ground.
So you, too, can keep a Log Book of If you can do so, tar the end before
Your Scouting experieuoes, no
all I sinking it, to prevent rot, Tho Pole
'the details of your Scout Career, theIshould be about eight inches square,
Tests you have passed, the Badges and a square Pole is preferable to a
earned, the special Good Turns you do `round one, as it becomes more decor
and the Dikes and Camps that you; ative if the corners are rounded off in
enjoy. Maybe some other Louie, pass- I some places. And on this pole is re-'
ing by will see your Lone Scout sign corded all your Scout •history, carved
outside your gate, and drop is for a
visit. How interesting it. would be to
show him your Log, and to enter the
details of his visit, obtaining his auto-
graph and perhaps his picture to illus-
trate the book, And tdon't forget
thee
pictures, as they a
interesting and you should try to make
the whole book read as much like a
gory as possible.
Later, when you have grown up, you
will cherish your Log amongst your
most precious possessions.
The Chief Scout, Lord Baden-Powell,
possesses Log . Books which he :has
kept for many years, which are full
of the adventures of his marvellous
career, and which no money would
buy him. These are the books which
the Chief himself takes special care
to place behind safe doors before he
amongstgoes bt hiss and most ltrreckons
easu ed posses-
sions.
o sets
dons.
So, Lone Scout, what about a Log
Book?
And some Scouts also like to keep a
record of another sort,
into the wood, using pictures in prefet'-
ence to letters and numbers. For in
stance, "Wigwams represent a came
you have attended, Footprints indicate
a Hike, your Patrol emblem should be
prominent and each of your badges'.
should be reproduced. The use of a
little color, Black, Red, Blue, Green,
etc., greatly adds to the decorative
value of the Totem Pole, and before
very long you will find that you have
not only a record of your career but
also a very handsome garden orna-
ment.
It may be tywhohat i is notis icle has a Scout, teen
au:l
read by a boy
lwould likeu to
livingre
inna place where thereisno
Scott Troop near enough for you to
attend, why not become aLone Scout,
and have lots of fun as the hundreds
of other "Lomas" throughout Ontario
are doing?
If you are interested, just write a
not to The Boy Scouts Association,
Lone Scout Department, 330 Bay St.,
Toronto, telling them why you are not
able to join an ordinary Troop, and grope east of the mon rns that years
rainfall again will be en-� ACc6rding to a recent report issued
u ever see an Indian Totem they will send Ybecome
come particulars as Scout.. the forest Products Branch of the
n it, carved into the wood, are
___.�.._._.. 1 Spring anal C• P t Com -Paring
g tb. supply of
mow... 41� 7:
Chic Mode.
Neew UovernorGenelral
Made Chief Boy Scout
Ottawa, qnt,—Boy Scouts through-
taut Canada And the many supporters
of tlris. movement will be. pleased' to
' Imsvt that One of the first acts of the
,;nein Governor-General; the Earl of
;Ilessborough, lras beau his aceeptenee
' of the office of Chief Scout for Canada,
i which wa's recently' teuclered to hint
by the executive ofifeers of t>he Cana-,
':pian general council of the Boy Scouts
Association. In his. aceePtance of this ;
appointatent, his Excellency is follow -1
ing the preeeclent which was set by
iiya former G.oy'ernors•Geuexal, EElarl
Grey, the Duke .of Connaught, tile{
Duke of Connaught, the Duke of Dev-�
• onshire, Lord Byug, and \Viscount
\•fiillingdon, who served successively'
as chief scout for Canada, and en -I
, tered most heartily into the work of 1
the i3oy Scouts Association in all parts i
of the country.
' Flies to Australia
Sets New Record
Port Darw.iu, Australia_Plashing
over the trail of Wing Commander
' Charles Kingsford -Smith, Charles W.
A. Scott, former R.A.F. flier, recently
set a new record for the air •lanes
' between England and Australia, his'
1 time being 9 days 3 hours and 20
I minutes.
iIu all kinds of weather, the aviator
sped across the mountains and plains
1. of Europe, Asia and the Malay Archi-
pelago, ending his adventure with a
daylight flight over •the Timor Sea.
En route, he touched at Belgrade,
Aleppo, Bushire, Karachi, Rangoon,
Surabaya and Bima.
"I would not make the attempt again
for a million pounds," he said, "though
1 was glad to beat the record."
Scott is more than six feet tall, and
is a former. heavyweight boxing cham
pion of the R.A.F. He has, been tying
commercial planes in Australia since
leaving the service. His record-break-
ing ship was equipped with a 120-h.p.
Motor, and maintained a cruising speed
Smart interpretation of new
vogue. The little frock, black and
Rrhite calico print, features white
broadcloth collar and green, black
and white trimmings. Bands pro-.
vide an effective contrasting note.
Rainfall Recordeds" on `frees
By wing
Yakima, Wash --The record of rain'
precipitation in the Pacific N rittertthww th
for 173 years has been th
1 ass in the trees of of 92 miles an hour, wyrth, a top spa
ins: This fact, l of 108 miles an hour"fir
Canada's Progress In the
Pulp and Paper Industry
remarkable c earn
the Cascade Mounts
brought out in an examination of cross
sections of native trees, has raised the
hopes of farmers in llhe irrigatedre-
t
Did you
pole? 0
to how you can a of abundant >
_�_•_ joyed. Dominion Bureau of Statistics, it is
�-- -- P. Wickersham had cross sections shown that Canada now manufactures
it Is
arappear in the early 37 per cent. a e world's
'��� are followed by white globose seed- •made of Douglas fir gees• records uewvsprint paper, exceeding in 1929
vessels. The bush grows abundant- I theseUt with
ed States Weather the Bureau forf the production of the United States,00 -
May Aid Min 1 in the Mojave Colorado and Gi 3 years there is perfect corresp • our nearest competitor, by over 1,300,-
pole?
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Creosote
Scientists Discover How It
Fights Drought and Conte
trt?IS the •Spread of,
Offspring Plants
�Uer of ba accidents, are 1
An undistinguished member of the !
t t d b \'Varwick Holmes in a re- 1
Y 5
deserts. nCe wears of light rainfall showing OOD toes. Preliminary figures for 1930
Ho
narrow rings and Years of abundant
Flow to
show a lead of over 1,200,000 tons.
Ofd akiner rainfall showing wide rings• Canada'sw l exports of this comms.
In Taking a ]Bath The tree records obtained gaud cat are almost ten times as great as those
a
Mansfield Pleases
Turkish Audiences
New
Parachute.
British Poet Laureate Gives
Series of Lectures In
Various Cities
Istanbul -•—Tire visit to Turkey of
Sir John Masefield, the British poet
laureate, created great interest itt
Turkish literary circles, Sir John.
lectured at Angora taking as his
subject the three greatest English
poets. These were Chaucer, Milton
and Shakespeare ayld the speaker
described them and their works to
picturesque and moving language.
The Minister of Education and
many prominent Turks and foreign-
ers
oreign
ers attended the lecture which was
followed by a reception. Sir John
also spoke to the English classes In
the Turkish schools . at Angora and
:Istanbul and visited the American
college at Bebek and Arnadkeoy
A.11 who inet hila were charmed by
his simplicity of =utter and his
visits have done notch to further
Anglo-Saxon culture among the
Turks.
Latterly the 'Turkish Government
has shown an ever increasing desire
to encourage the teaching of Eng-
lish to Turkish youth. French has
hitherto been the language most
readily understood by Turks largely
because many French religious and
lay schools have existed in this coon•
try. French was also taught in all
Turkish schools but the government
has now ordered that English must
be taught. Unfortunately there is a
lack of'capable teachers but this
difficulty will gradually be overcome.
Foreign schools in Turkey have al -
r i ile o-
ways been allowed many p'v g
but recently the government has de-
cided that all Turkish boys and
girls must obtain their primary edu-
cation in Turkish schools thus deal-
ing
eal
ing a severe blow to many foreign
scholastic establishments. Still it
is felt that the government els act-
ing well within its rights as Turkish
parents may, if they choose, send
their children to secondary and
finishing foreign schools.
Bert White, holder of the world's
parachute jumping record of 25,-
500 feet, made;over Mojave Des-
ert, f5Yents new type of parachute
which opens immediately after
jumper has abandoned plane.
Typist
German Typ
„ Spanish Is Easy
AVsty
Oso
to 1753. They n next. in
Guayquil.—An illustration of the
phonetic accuracy and clearness of the
Spanish language is afforded in the
experience of a German stenographer
and typist, Senorita Wilhe1n ine Katz -
ler, who has been in this country
only three mouths, says El-Telegrafo.
A good stenographer in German, the
commercial depression in her own
country deprived her of employm-ut,
and relatives in Ecuador invited her
to visit them until business conditions
improved.
In a few weeks, though the girl had
previously known few nothing conversational
she picked 'up a through
phrases, and finally secured,
her uncle, employment in the steam -
hip offices of Don Jaime Puig Arose
importance, and mena, a position as a typist an
ei aphonetic-writer. While it p .
173 Years orof G m Y,Senorita., t r. to
t s toore af,... of the eu>ot „.
a h.1881 m prest for S
Uthe easy ekingexports of 1 Y ����'
Dight rules for '�exceed the fest Y
helpstop the rapidly increasing num- that from 1758ods toprecipitationtype from Spanfsl copY� the wQuderfti
pre-, pounced periods of heavy p' or. combined. Our exports of news
throomof dry spells occurred than world •t are only exceeded in value by I part of her ability was detnoTisErate
when she made shorthand notes of
Spanish letters and otherdictation,
and was able to reproduce, perfect
in
syllabication and orthography, all the
sentences repeated to her. This
achievement attests bhe simplicity and
uniformity of Spanish vocalizations,
words being spelled in every case pre-
cisely as they are pronounced, without
any confusion or difficult exceptions.
University of Air
Opens In England
plant family, the _common creosote sencent statement of Health
y
bush, has been found reoently by society, England. the New E. k`nee's
botanists of the Carnegie Institution
Week's Science of New York gives
to be one of nature's gitts to man the following summary:
and perhaps provides him with the The first two rules are never to 1 Monitor.
inspiration to utilize science in put- take a hot bath after a heavy meal, l
ing the desert to use. The chief and never to take a cold one if you
value of this plant to science lies in lhave a weak heart.
the fact that it has thoroughly learn The third rule is always to keep
d to combat the worst droughts of the bathroom window open a little
and a so ears Orin
experienced since. The series of Y our exports of wheat.
of abundant precipitation recurred at
intervals of 14 to 42 years, the two'
longest cycles beiug 1758 to 1788 and Dust Clouds Sweep
1823 to 1.805.—The Christian -Science
u
Mite desert through a heretofore un-
known mechanism which controls the
spread of creosote bushes in any Fourth is to have all hot water
articular locality.
Iu the Hope of fludrng a way to \. heaters and similar appliances equip -
put the dry lands to Productive use, ped with safety attachments so that
the Carnegie Institution some years \sieafl1i1ed. pipes can not burst.
ago etablished a branch laboratory The other four rulesandeal urst the
in the desert. In this rte section, it electric fittings of the bathroom, it
was ascertained, two varieties toee being agreed by safety experts that
plants flourish, the cactus Arid the electric shocks are both common,
creosote bush. The cactus defeats l and especially likely to be fatal when
ath dealing aims of the drought ° the skin is wet, or when a bather is
con -
to prevent danger of poisoning frons
carbon -monoxide gas from a defec-
tive gas heater of similar device.
the ee
by absorbing water supply rapidlyin a Hiatal bathtub.electrically
in wet seasons and storing it for Irrected to the ground by the t,•ater I Past buildings I can see a square of
se es sky t •tlpttant wr
0
e
u
r
s ue
The creosote Ti
touch
any
not even
yDown Over Prairies
Regina, Sask. Dust clouds covered
ies while
half the Saskatchewan Oran ,
red -eyed Regina citizens groped their.
way along city streets. The provincial
capital experienced one of the most
severe storms in a history of queer
tempests. Southern Saskatchewan
1 was blanketed in dust. Traffic and
communication were impeded and
electric lights wasp iu general use. i London,—A "University of the Air
' Airmail ships wvern,,forced into idle to teach civilian fliers the system of
ness.
.. ter ----
Conceited People
Dangerous Drivers
•
Conceited people make bad automo-
bile drivers, it was asserted by Dr.
Paul Schroeder, state criminologist of
Illinois, in an address efore the recent
Midwest Safety Congress, sponsored
by the National Safety Council of
Chicago. Appreciation of the rights
of others on a highway is more fm -
portant. in ,avoiding automobile, acct.
dents, Dr.- Schroeder finds, `titan even
normal intelligence. 'A moron ay be'
a safer driver than a self-centred' in-
dividual who goes his own way in
sublime conceit, letting everyone else
look out for himself. Students of fac-
tory accidents long have been familiar
with workmen dant. as "repeaters,"
which means workmen who keep hurt-
ing themselves or others over and over
again. Sometimes this is due to care-
lessness, but it is more likely to be
caused, safety engineers believe, by
poor muscular co-ordination, so that
the hand or foot does not do exactly
the right thing at the right instant
Study of traffic accidents has dis-
closed, Dr. Schroeder reports, Simi-
lar "repeaters" among automobile
drivers: that is, individuals who have
one accident after another while nor-
mal drivers have none or few. in ex-
treme
x
treme instances these individuals land
in jail on 'manslaughter charges, and
`training used by the Royal Air Force,
le near
The storm caste out of the north- will be opened shortly at gamble,
countries P will be allowed ed s from
takethewest, blowing 35 miles an hour, and
money ". ' sent dust clouds through windows,
"Oh, jest by raking and scraping" Farming operations are at a stand-
three
He's a barber, you know.'
"H
ow did he stake all his
course.
Four types of land plane' andDr. Schroeder has made a psychology
of seaplanes are included in the cal study of suck persons convicted .
school's air fleet. There will be fit' and confined in the '1latois State Peni-
as'strweion iu pilotage and navigation tetrtiary at ',Toilet. These men were
as well as study of airmanship engines, found not to be .handicapped either
rigging, meteorology and other stub mentally by low intelligence or physi-
11N. r. if. TMM
Spring
still.
Thunder Large Steel Orders
Suture use. pip .• th
t b slt has a system fist electric rule is never to Like a sheet of1 has beaten the wot I jeers 1 tel caliy by
11 from that of d g electric fitting,nlighting orders from South A I T1 jots.
fnatrtutto t `wailing detect,
I
Secured by Britain
London --The British steel Indus -
and won
Iew er, p. Id . being crrppled.
try a fx5 t n t will be cont to c
felt differs radfca y rots kin o e e Ltc o a eon - ncrhe found, was to be
Which the Dominions Secre-
the cactus plant. It gets its watere send- a light switch, while one is Aad heavy thunder crowds upon my la gelhomasby Air Service Training, t conceited and sal. centred, which char
-
\ by spreading out and by Sot { actually in the bathtub. eats > Now the ally at last tart', made' the annouueement at I pant' headed by Air iu[arshal Sir Johnt i actertstic he believes to have been
supply Spring thunder/ ,
tug its roots the asurf ten or
The secsud is that light fixtures Stolceoiaeeently,t male pub Higgins, until recently a member o. the chief cause of their fatal accident
"I am able he said, the Au C li The cmember a i records.
tent feet andelof the surface J 1" Berton
moisture. It is resourceful in still
another way. To ;nsure an Ade'
eluate supply of water for its awn sur- Ind s d r the 1 it
vival it works to control the popula-
tion of other plants in its immediate
vicinity, plenty of seeds, as
The bush sows p
xuost plants do, but few of them ever
eriainate Development of the seed
1 tolis or awakes
„ t o ouuc
ce g lic for the first time that orders will be Group Captain It
ur cords, . cloucla, r laced in this country der•.
who has a distinguished record In the
as possible; loose, hanging im Penetrable mists. have been 'p o over two
p fleeces and 1 clays for "la in Snow it Iasi 10
should be fastened tightly walls
flip and inclosed as completely From its long quiet pantomime of
w.
Ro al Air Force. Instructors
will be i Nevrsnapers Valued
flexible connections • I d it and the thud e mg ods' worth of
stailations being basis to speaks,and a h
bathroom.
in the face ot the fiercest �ompsl•
The third is that switch knobs and I Rain falls and hail, in torrents to''the iron and steel by South African firms,
other electric devices which must ground,
be of iusnlating materials. And their significance is warnitit and `{,i9tis That
dow� alat the ud out." old conn -
be touchedlyi
Finally, the last rule is that no; springs
former members ot the 1loyal A
Force.
g a poison which is pu
3s rt em ed by p
gnu them by the parent plant. pall- portable
lions,l oric other heaters,
portable lamps,
de� tees
Ing leaves from the busk also haste
supply of the 'Poison, and When be permitted in the bathroom,
t de -
they drop on the see
finite end a t life there r
have been.
(left. Inthis way, the
,creosote bush seems to practice
tice' birth
ie t
�doutrol, permitting
number of plant inhabitants of a
particular area. These have devel-
ped unusual hardiness against des
art hardships and the Calueg a s11p, i ,
Sit 3i on scientists report finding
revs utfanize'tlte design of modern air
speed r-
Dint
Woman Invents
"Fool -Proof° Plane,
LoudolI..._ inat is claimed to be a
"fool -proof" airplane has been invent-
ed here by MIS. May Navarro, with
the help of her husband. Site asserts
that her plaits can neither spin side-
•d've nor stall, and that it will
tg e bushes more than 100 leers 1 craft It has a slow flying 1of
4)14, from 18 to 25 miles an
hour, as con
Dr, Forrest Shreve,
head of the en i faxed to the miles
speed of 45
laboratory, believes thatthea creosote i
Mechanism used fly
bush "stay help to understand bet-
ter Trow to put the desert to man's
lase." Nearly one-third of The world's
land surface is desert, of ne produe-
the use to man, The creosote bush
1.s .abundant in all the deserts of the
-World and its 150 'Varieties include
herbs, chrubs and 'tees, to the
'rafted States this plant 10 •cotnunort
from Texas t0 California*also called
The creosote bush, r•eetr, rank-.
greasewood, is au everg
snie11hig, diffusely branched shrub,
two to five feet' high, with brittle
stents and leafy branches. The slit
reshietiS leaves emita Strong'
, ties In lack of kuowv c ie tge'"filar
Aird ,
tarry odor" Its Height yel4'1' Oat-i)arrow.
to 50 of an orthodox Diane. It uses
three two -cylinder 40al1orse.power mo-
tors, as compared with tate 1,1Oltorse-
power units in use at Present, and eau
take offand land with any one or two
of them going. A special lever in the
cockpit enables two sections of the
rudder to be spread out like a fan
when landing so that the plane can
be landed in a 'very small space.
If righteousness should perish �
live n the e
aril t 1
would. not be worth while for 150 nto
Kant,
a
""A {.iw.+�•n—•Esus
"A great part of the danger in sex
Answers In Your Absence
,... • it: tuuL,tua„taily uus'vers tetcphotto 10
No .:11 :�l device
nr.,,it4�it 12
been invented by William Schergeu,
abti �ncc+ 01p .r.]c>tt nutended has
Ya -
of St. Louis. 'l'f1e tntchttte operatrs by ntens 01au1honog•aph reI repro -
eluting cylinder's. p,;i1,glag ot telephone b
Operation, setting marl}isle in Meilen.
Men Make Best
Cooks, Says Chef
Cleveland,—Women'; : Well, they
aren't .so touch as cooks when you,
compare theist with some men, ac-
cording to Henri Rigo, chef of the
Cleveland Club here. Henri begat'
Ws extensive cooking career at the
tender age of 13. Henri, was born
in Vienna, but his . eookhug started
as au apprentice at the Hotel Con-
t tinental in Paris. Theo he got a
1 job concocting luscious tit -bits at
1 the Restaurant Riche a place where
ilia price isn't even mentioned on the
Ibill of fare. In the United he has
• cooked for I'ortuei' President and
Chief Justice Taft, : and many other
distinguished characters. Ilei ti'e
hobby is the egg. fie cats mix up 300
different dishes with the hen fruit.
• Plane Drops Supplies •
To Snowed.In Geolagists
Kelso, Wash,—TWO high school geo
logists isolated in the deep snow On
Motet Adanis were bcmtbatded front1
the ''.air but with food instead ot
plosives. Lfeuteuarrt Carl P. Bond,,
cotnmarldaxtt of 1'eareou Field, drop -
'
ped 100 ,poutids of foo.; note their
1 c Itrup.
In Southern Schools
Atlanta, Gn.—News1Sapers bring to
the Atlantan schools much necessary
information in the school program,
according to Miss Mary Postell, sup-
erirrtett+ieut of elementary schools.
"We use the bulletin boards and
newspaper clipiugs to illustrate the
latest 'polttt fit social science, and.
even the three R's" stated Miss Pos-
tal,
„ ,Ire
wse
sod
f b
• 1`► a
Ile a
t
• ids fly
words, to
ww Deets The 1l
T u tl
d ° the frozen snowdrifts with ;wild duels, ,lairds the
Hul>byea"Muria, were you ever
April tooled?" well I
Wffey—"'Kon know very
was."
btubby—"I don't recall it at all."
Wile. —"Why. have you for -lot-
tett that we were married April 1'e"
Not the cry, but the (tight of the
aedare t11 r follow,—Chittese PeoVCI�.,
cedar boughs,