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Free Trees For the Asking!
The Lone Scouts of Ontario have
recently co-operated with the Ontario
Forestry Branch of the Provincial
Government in posting signs in pro-
minent places throughout the province
announcihig. to farmers and other in-
terested person how they may secure
a large number of trees free of charge,
for reforestation work, from the For-
estry Branch.
The boys arranged hikes, armed
with the cards, a hammer and tacks,
and posted these announcements in
prominent places.
Every year, around May 24th, some
200 Boy Scouts attend a special For-
estry Camp at Angus, Ontario, where
they are taught the rudiments of For-
estry by Government Officials, and
where they help to lay out plantations
which will be the foundation of a large
Boy Scout Forest Already some of
the trees, planted several years ago,
are growing into large proportions.
This camp is -very popular, and only
costs the boy his transportation to
Angus and it may be that some Lollies
would like to attend this year, If so,
let Headquarters know as soon as pos-
sible, so that arrangements can be
made to include you.
English Scouts May Visit Canada
A. project is afoot among Birming-
ham Scouts and Rovers to organize a
special troop and visit Canada this
summer. If the plan materializes the
troop will leave Liverpool in July and
spend some fifteen days in Canada.
Lone Scout Summer Camp
There has been quite a lot of in-
terest shown in the proposed Lone
Scout Camp, and this opportunity for
Lonies to get together and work and
play under the supervision of experi-
enced Scout leaders should not be
missed. Similar camps were organ-
ized very successfully in 1929 and
1930, and if there is sufficient encour-
agement to carry the matter through,
the camp will probably be held at Ebor
Park, near Brantford, Ont., during the
first two weeks of July. The cost for
the two weeks will probably be ten
dollars, and the Scout will have to pro-
vide his own transportation to and
from the camp.
Any Lone Scout' interested should
communicate at once with Headquart-
ers, and start saving his nickels now!
Boys Aid Firemen in Dominion
Contest
Hamilton, Ont., Scouts are credited
by Fire Chief James with helping his
department win the 1930-31 Dominion
Fire Prevention contest, Class 1, and
the Canadian Chamber of Commerce
Shield. The Scouts systematically in-
spected alleys and back streets and re-
ported fire hazards.
World Courts and Boy Scouts
That Scouting offered a great lesson
in neighborliness, and that he would
rather fasten his hopes for world
peace on the Scout Movement than on
world courts, was the declaration of
the Hon. W. G. Martin, Provincial
Minister of Public Welfare, at the an-
nual meeting of the Boy Scouts A.s-
sociation of Ontario.
This Week'sScout Law—No. 2
A Scout is loyal to the Ring, his
country, his officers, his parents, his
employers and to those under him.
Loyalty is one of the foundations of
good citizenship. No organization of
any sort, from a Government down-
wards, can be successfully operated
unless it's members are loyal. To be
loyal means to adopt certain principles
and to stick to them when you know
they are right. Loyalty is a bulwark
thrown up against Life's temptations.
Therefore a Scout is Loyal to his
country, that he may help to make it
a better place to live in; to the Scout
Prince George. Attends Hunter Show
Organization that he may get the best Prince George recently attended the hunter show at London and
out of it; to his Parents, who have presented the King's cup for thoroughbred stallions. .loseph Staiens
worked and sacrificed for him, thus is shown receiving the award for his horse, Ballynahinch.
obeying the 5th commandment, which.
says "Honor Thy Father and Mother";
to his employer, that he may obtain
the best results from his labor; and to
those over whom he has control, that
they in turn may honor and be loyal
to him.
Lone Scout Dog Show
In a recent issue of "On Lone Scout
Trails" particulars were given of a
Lone Scout Dog Show." This, in fact,
is theoretical, as the boys cannot bring
their dogs to any central spot for judg-
ing, but they are required to write an
essay and send pictures of their dogs,
from which the judging was done. The
winning essays will be published in
this columa at a later date.
Membership in the Lone Scouts is
open to boys from 12 to 18 years of
Age, inclusive, who are not able to
join a Regular 'Boy Scout Troop. It
is particularly designed fei give boys
who live on Rural Routes, or in small
villages, an opportunity to take ad-
vantage of the Scout Programme.
For full particulars, write to The
Lone Scout Department, Boy Scouts
Association, 330 Bay Street, Toronto 2.
—Lone E.
Athletes Keep Trim
For the Olympics
Busy Season Assures Entrants
Will Be In Good Form
The sports world s in the throes
of a busy season this year.
The winter Olympics are over.
The indoor track season has been
illumined by the brilliant perform-
ances of Venzke, Spitz, Lermond, Sex-
ton, McCluskey, and their fleet, agile
comrades.
But more is to come. Outdoor track
meets in plenty will thrill the fans;
and ahead, as a climax, is the prospect
of the Olympic games in Los Angeles
in August.
But before this, tho world's big
sports show, there are the numerous
tryouts.
These, in general, will follow the
eollege track season and will be so
distributed aver the country as to give
alrnost all sections a chance to witness
Olympic competition.
Perhaps the dates of some of these
events will be of interest. So here
are some of them, as listed by Law-
rence Perry in a Consolidated Press
dispatch:
On June 24-29 the track and field
athletes of the East will hold a tryout
in Harvard Stadium at Cambridge.
Rowing tests for all but eight -oared
crews will be held on the SchuylkiH
River at Philadelphia, July 1-4.
Chicago will be the scene of the
semi-final Eastern track and field
trials on July 8-9, On the same dates
the Western semi-final tryouts will be
held at Long Beach, California.
Cincinnati will see the final swim-
ming test for men on July 14-17.
Gymnasts who are to represent the
United States at Los Angeles will be
selected in a final meet in New York
Oily on July 15,
On July 15 the final track and field
tryouts will be staged at Palo Alto.
July 15-16 will see the holding of
the final boxing trials at Chicago,
Pacific Coast yachts will sail trial
races at Los Angeles Zuly 16-20. And.
there, also, on July 23 the finals in
tumbling, rope -climbing, and Indian
clubs will be held.
Diving finals and final events in
water -polo go to Pasadena, July 18-
28.
Final yachting tryout will be tread
on the Los Angeles course July 23-27,
and at this time the final road -cycling
tests will be held on the Olympic
courae.
"People don't exist for government.
The government exists for the benefit
of the people." ---Alfalfa Bill" Murray:
'Has George ever hinted mar
riage to you?"
"Only once, coming home from
the theatre the other night, he
laughed and said that anyway two
could ride in a taxi as cheap as
one."
Might Hear Some Soup
In a, fashionable restaurant, a new
multi -millionaire with no knowledge
of French and no desire to expose his
ignorance, pointed to a line on the
menu and said to the waiter: "I'll have
some of that."
"I'm sorry, sir," replied the waiter,
"but the band is playing that new."
Forecasts End
Of Niagara Falls
McGill Scientist Believes Land
Tilting May Turn Great
Lakes Flow Back To-
ward Mississippi
Montreal.—The eventual disappear-
ance of Niagara Falls was predicted by
Professor T. H. Clark, professor of
paleontology at McGill University, in a
recent address here.
Professor Clarke's discussion of the
Niagara River came in the course of a
general survey of the history of the
Great Lakes, whose discovery he term-
ed one of the most absorbing subjects
to the student of North American. his-
tory" _A. few of the geologic keys to
the secret of time were displayed for
the benefit of his audience.
Changeless as the Great Lakes seem,
when looked at through the eyes of
the layman, they all show constant
change to him, for his theories are
framed in an unlimited time, and with
the yardstick of thousands of years
the lecturer measured off the line of
the rivers and lakes of eastern Can-
adTb.a. e ancestry of the present St. Law-
rence was traced to a main stream
which started in the present bed of
Lake Michigan, moving thence via
Georgian Bay to Lake Simcoe and
Lake Ontario, whence it followed
much the same course as it does to-
day. The river was, however, much
longer then, for soundings show the
presence of a submerged channel cut-
ting through the banks and falling off
into deep water south of Newfound-
land, said the lecturer. Near its mouth.
it received a tributary from the north,
whose only modern evidence is the
Strait of Belle Isle.
There was no Niagara Falls then,
but at the extreme end of Lake On-
tario, through a gap in the Niagara es-
carpment a tributary stream draining
the present region of Lake Erie flowed
into the Laurentian River. The types
of auimals which we know to -day in a
wild state probably saw this work of
nature, but it was prior to any human
life on this continent, the lecturer as-
serted. Then came the Glacial age,
when this country resembled modern
Greenland, which is still in the throes
of an ice period.
Accompanying the closing stages of
ice occupancy of the lake region, Pro-
fessor Clark said, there came a strange
occurrence—the invasion of the St.
Lawrence lowlands, the Ottawa Valley,
Lake Champlain- and Lake Ontario by
the sea, due to the depression of the
crust of the earth. At Montreal the
sea was 625 feet above its present
level. Belting of this crust brought
a draining off, leaving, however, abund-
ant trace of the presence of the sea
there. At that time, he said, the lakes
asumed their present form and posi-
tion.
The possibility of a reverse tilting
being now in progress was suggested.
This would teud to spill the waters
of the lakes once more into the Mis-
sissippi, where they once found an out-
let. •
American Air Lines
Carry 457,753 Fares
New York.—American air transport
lines experienced the busiest year in
their history during 1931, with marked
gains in passenger, mail and express
traffic, according to a report made pub-
lic recently by the Aeronautical Cham-
ber of Commerce of America..
"With 720 airplanes in service, the
major American lines reporting to the
Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce
carrier 457,753 passengers, 9,351,195
pounds of mail, and 885,164 pounds of
express in 1931," the report said. "This
volume of traffic can he compared with
385,910 passengers, . 113,75 pounds of
mill and 286,798 pounds of express in
1930, the previous peak. year."
Stream Flow in the
Maritime Provinces
The Dominion 'Vater Power and
Hydrometric Bureau of the Depart-
ment of the Interior reports that the
month of January was unusually mild
in the Maritime Provinces and that,
as most of the precipitation occurred
in the form of rain, the run-off was
above the long terna. average. In Nova
Scotia the run-off was about 30 per
cent. above the January mean and was
heaviest following rains and thaws
during the middle of the month. In
New Brunswick the run-off was about
15 per cent. above the January mean
with low flow during the first four or
Ave days of the month followed by
high flows as the weather turned mild
and rainy. The Leprean river in south-
ern New Brunswick was swept clear of
ice on January 7 and remained free for
ten days—an unusual circumstance at
this season,
Dominions Secretary Enjoys Motor Show
Fix -Imam -sive engineer, J. H. Thomas, now Dominions Seeretary in the National government, for
a element forgot his duties and amused himself with the miniature models at Crystal Palece In Lon.
d en, veep ni ly.
Current Events • -
As Viewed By The Press
cAN ALM
Toronto's Bond Triumph
Canada, as Well as Toronto, has
reason for congratulation over the
absorption of the city's new $15,299,-
000 loan in less than two hours. The
success of the dotation indicates a
healthy state of Toronto lineage, and
it also suggests a degree of returning
confidence which should be beneficial
to the business eommunity.
Since it became impracticable last
autumn to enter the New York mar-
ket for money, Canada has witnessed
the disposal of several important bond
issues at home, and, while it has been
feared the saturation point might
soon ha reached, there seems no dan-
ger on that score as yeti -The Globe
(Toronto).
Forest Preservation
Havirg returned from a three
months' tour of the chief European
countries Mr. Frank J. D. Barnjum
is more than ever convinced of the
serious world shortage of wood. H
thinks that the British Empire, not.
withstanding its immense natural re
sources of other kinds, is weak ii
this respect, and he makes the fol
lowing suggestion:
"Our governments could not make a
wiser or more necessary move than to
purchase and conserve as a reserve,
every acre of forest within the Em-
pire than can be obtained at a reas,.n
eekeee-e-e-e-e-e.
The Western Viewpoint •
Saskatoon Star -Phoenix (Lib.);
The prairie provinces have a vital in-
terest in the Empire Economic sons
Terence this year at Ottawa. The
Lulk of Canadian exports to Br tale
have . always 'aeon from the west;
wheat, livestock and farrn precincts,
It is on the shipments abroad of these
commodities that Canada's prosperity
largely rests andthe prosperity of
Western Canada depends on them al -
newt exclusively.
THE EMPIRE
True Nobility
Ttecently, Salvation Army . and
played beneath the windows of Buck-
ingham Palace, and subsequent nie'•
dents revealed the kindly and inteneee
ly human character of the Royal
ily. The Queen sent out a request
that the musicians play her favorite
hymn, "Jesus, Lover of My Soul,'"
while his Majescy requested "Ring of
ings" and "Silver Threads Among
e the Gold." Then the leader of the
bind was invited into the palace and
I introdnc,ed to members of the t'amily
_! circle.
Nothing wonderful about this, may
be the comment of the supercilious
critic of all such human inside
But there is. Here ere the hereditary
rulers cf a vast Empire, asking, not
able figure. The present time is the
best and last opportunity that will
occur to purchase forest lands et a
moderate price. Owing to the depres-
sion, land containing mature timber
can be purchased in Canada today for
a trifling advance over the cos:, of
planting young seedlings. Gentle] of a
majority of the remaining available
wooded areas, with the enormously
advancing values which are hound
very shortly to occur, would give the
Empire greater prestige than control
of the gold supply, for no amount of
gold can replace forests within the life-
time of two generatems, nor tee few
thousands of acres of- our remaining
big trees in 15 generations."—The
Mail & Empire (Toronto).
The Industrialization of Canada
Le Devoir, Montreal (Ind.) : Recent
official statistics show that the indus-
trialization of our provinces is con-
tinuing. Throughout the country
more than 53 perecert. of our popula-
tion Ayes in the tuuns. In Ontario
61 per cent. of the population lives
in the urban centres. In our province
the proportion is 63 per cent., as
against 56 per cent. in 1921. This
means that practically two-thirds of
our pet.ple live in towns like Montreal
—where more than a third of ,the
population of the pro-vince resides—
Quebec; Verdun, Three Rivers, Hell,
Saint Hyacine, etc. Practically a
third of the population remains on the
land. Such a state of affairs from
all points of view is unsatisfactory;
the movement toward the towns, if
it has declined since the beginning of
the economic crisis, is still far from
being stopped. Undoubtedly with
modern methods of agricultural pro-
duction and with the evolution of
crops, there is not the same need for
laborers on the land as there used to
be, but 'here is still a complete world
to develop and populate, that of the
new territories and colonization re-
gion's.
Back to the Land
Le Droit, Ottawa (Ind.) : If the
back to the land movement has been
many times proposed as a remedy for
unemployment, it goes without say-
ing that the opening of new lands
and the clearing of them, with the
establishment of farmers or the sons
of farmers in new countries, would be
no less efficacious. This is the work
that follows on colonization.
Joint Effort
Windsor Border Cities Star (Ind.) :
Mr. Charles Forester, division super-
intendent of the Canadian National
Railays, addressing & meeting of the
Ontario Onion Growers' Co -Operative
Society at Leamington, says that the
outstanding success which has attend-
ed the sale of the Western Ontario
onion crop through co-operative effort
should induce growers to apply the
same meth-od to the disposal of corn,
tomatoes, fruits, vegetables 'and other
products of the farm. Mr. Forester
is right, of course. The agricultural
industry is never coming into its own,
it will never extract the full and le-
gitimate benefit of its labor and in-
vestment, until such time as the men
on the land learn the lesson that there
is much more to Tattling than the
actual growing of the goods. One
may produce the best rotatoes or to-
bacco in the world, but if he lacks ade-.
(mete marketing facilities he can
never hope to make any money.
The Imperial Conference
Toronto Star (Ind. tib.) : It is to be
hoped that some workable plan of
closer trade co-operation between
Canada and Great Britain play em-
erge front the conference itt Ottawa
during the comfit rummer, but no
matter What the conference may de-
cide upon one may feel' assured Can-
ada will eentinue to exercise control
ti her own fiscal policy and will eon -
thine to advance as she can as an in-
dustrial nation—utilizing her own
raw materials as lunch as possible,
for the latest in popular music, bat
for the old hymns and a song that has
been familiar for more than a geneea-
tion.—The Globe CToronto).
Ireland and the Empire
London Morning Post (Cons.): It
tre Irish are to be driven out of their
Imperial heritage by their country-
men in Southern Ireland it will be
their great loss and misfortune. They
cannot well have it both ways. If
they are citizens of a Republic, they
cannot at the same tune be British
subjects. Their loss, we fear, in these
hard times will be looked upon as gain
by many of our native British now rut
of employment. It is altogether a
very complicated and regrettable posi-
tion. If the severance comes, both
countries will suffer heavily thereby:
but it seems to us that the Irish will
suffer !nuch more heavily on balance
even than the British, since they will
thencefcrth be aliens in a country
and Empire which they have long re-
garded as their home froin home.
The "Defence" of Paris
Manchester Guardian (Lib.) : The
t.uthorities of Paris are preparing
elaborate plans for the defence of the
city against aerial bombardment. The
French public is never left for ling
without some reminder of the "immin-
ent" danger of attack from Russia, or
Italy, or Germany, The real clanger,
unless provoked by France herself,
must, in the present state of he
world, be extremely slight. It may
perhaps still be the duty of the War
Department, or the new Ministry for
National Defence, to envisage it and
to guard against it. But this con-
stant harping in public on the likeli-
hood of France's being attacked is not
calculated to increase that feeling of
security which the French Govern-
ment professes so earnestly to desire.
OTHER OPINIONS
The Prince's Popularity
Brooklyn Eagle: But what the
Prince of Wales calls his "debt" to
the press is due to the press of the
whole world. Does his horse throw
him, as any man's horse might? Or:a-
pathy is stilled by newspaper stories
from Melbourne to Paris. Does he
plan to teach his nephews the manly
art of self-defence? South Africa and
Canada and the United States get all
the details. Does he issue a ferveul
appeal to British patriotism? The am
peal, textually prinSed, reaches all
readers of the English language.
Commonly he shows rare commee
sense in what he says and what he
does. Publicity never hurts him,
The Silver Lining
Boston Christian Science Monitor:
The ten-year deflation of agriculture
has resulted in losses running into tbe
billions. Some estimates run as high
as $40,000,000,000. On the face of it,
one would assume that recovery must
be painfully slow. That does not nec-
essarily follow. A great industrial
concern which had its capital depleted
to that extent would have to face the
task of replacing a large part of that
depleted capital out of future earn-
ings. Agriculture, although a great
industry, is an industry of small own-
ers, and to a considerable extent of
changing owners. The greater part
of the billions lost in the agricultural
deflation has been charged off. It is
the loss of the savings of the older
generation and of holders of farm
mortgagee. Those losses will not have
to be recouped .before agriculture can
recover. Most of them are gone and
never will be replaced. Agriculture is
more completely liquidated than any
other industry, and, with the coining
of better times, its recovery will be
corresprndingly rapid,
"It is as easy for the mind to thinit
in stars as in eobblestones."—Helen
Keller.
"The basis of oar European-Amera
eau civilization is critically eltaiten."--.
Albert Einstein.
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