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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1932-06-23, Page 3Lone Scouts Don't Hitch Hike Although the number was not large, there were last summer several press- eeported instances of alleged Scouts 'cadging, their unscautlilte way across ;the country --"hitchhiking." Bona fide Scout hiking is not done On the main highways; and except in an obvious case of emergency, any il?oy or man in Scout kit travelling along a highway and looking for a lift #nay at once be put- down as a fake- ecout tramp; and no assistance should 'be extended. When such pretended Scouts call expon Scoutmasters or Scouts seeking ree entertainment, a service would be done the movement by securing their names and other particulars, and forwarding these to Provincial Head- auarters. Local papers should be ad wised to give no publicity to alleged - Scout hikers claiming to be on a "'world tour" or a "coast to coast trip On a wager," etc. Such wagers usual- ly are as imaginary as the Scout con- nection. Ali bona fide oversea foreign Scouts !travelling in Canada carry credentials from the International Scout Bureau at London; American Scouts carry credentials from National Headquar- ters, New York, Purely local creden- tials have little value. Genuine Scout hiking involves an Incidental example' of manly self-reli- tam. Hitch hiking is a complete 1iegztive of this spirit of Scouting. So matt Scouts don't hitch, hike! A Dua Scramble For Boys A job that any other Scout Troop Would gladly have shared fell to the ;4th (Elks' Own) Calgary Troop when they were called upon by the keeper 'Of the Calgary Zoo to help catch and 'hove the water fowl to new quarters On St. George's Island. 'rhe birds lost is few feathers, and the Scouts gained a few pecks and scratches, but the doh was done. Assistant Sdoutmaster One Spot Edward One' Spot, formerly of the old 13th (Killarney) Calgary Troop, Is an A.S.M. of the now Sarcee Indian Reserve Scout Troop. A..S.M, One Spot is one of the first Indians in the Canadian West to hold an A.S.M. War- rant. Les Debuts d'un Scout A Prenoh version of "Starting to Scout" under the above title has been added to the list .of publications issued by Dominion Headquarters. The book, which is similar in size and in its 11- lustratons to the English verson, was written under the direction of Major A. A. Pinard, Ottawa District Com- missioner for French Canadian Scout Troops. The book may be had from the Stores Department, at 15 cents per copy. is There One in Your District? The new 1st rower Troop, Ont.—ten miles east of Cochrane has demon- strated its public service ideas by tak- ing aking over the care of the neglected local cemetery. The graveyard was cleaned up and wooden crosses placed at the heads of alI unmarked graves. This is a "Good Turn' which can be done by either Lone Patrols or individ- ual Lone Scouts and will be much ap- preciated in your local community. Scouts and July 1st Firecrackers Don't overlook the duly First "re- minder that Scouts do not let off fire- crackers near homes where there is known to be illness, nor near hospit- als, old folks' homes, etc. Scouts have their . firecracker fun only where the noise will disturb no one. The Lone Scout Summer Camp dates are rapidly drawing near. If you have not sent in your reservation, do so at once, or you may be too late! Remember the dates: July 4th to 16th inclusive. The place is Ebor Park, near Brantford. Have you :wade and erected your "Lone Scout Lives Here" signboard. yet?" Information regarding the Lone Scout Movement can be obtained on application to The Lone Scout Dept., The Boy Scouts Association, 330 Bay Street, Toronto 2.—"Lone E." Sunspots London's Underground railways use ftp well over two hundred tons of tickets every year. • ' Among the railway "lost property" last year was a baby which was found in a London waiting -room. Great Britain ;consumes every year about 85,000,000 cwts. of fruit, of which about 10,000,000 cwts. is home- grown, There was not one death sentence passed in Scotland, nor was there one execution in Scottish prisons, during x931. Tortoise eggs take a long time— from eight to thirteen months—to hatch, according to the conditions in rich they are laid. In the wardrobe -rooms at Covent Garden Opera House are stored thous- ands of costumes, sufficient to "dress" about sixty different operas. Mrs. Helen WilIs-Moody, the famous American lawn -tennis champion, re- rently came to Europe, bringing with ler twenty-five tennis rackets. Among the words "banned" on the wireless is the English place -name Cirencester. This is pronounced "Sis- eister," and so is too sibilant for radio use. Baritones should try to feel they are really in love when they have to sing sentimental songs, accordng to Mr. Roy Henderson, the famous singer. Nearly twenty-six million motor -cars are registered in the United States, the owners paying about £ 70,000,000 in registration and license fees last year. It is estimated that there are some three and a half million wireless sets in.use for which no license is paid. The Post Office thus loses £1,700,000. By weekly instalments paid before- hand, the parents of babies born in general hospitals under the London County Council can pay part of the !host of treatment, Although blind from birth, the Rev. T. L. Sowden took a high degree at Cambridge, and is now rector and vicar of Freckenham, Suffolk. He reads his sermon and the lessons with his fingers. The explosion of a firearm is dulled to practically the equivalent of the sound of a book closing by a newly in- vented silencer, "which will no be put on sale to the general public. Among the lectures given in British prisons last year were "A Trip to Kashmir," "With Allenby in Pales- tine," "A Nicht wi' Burns,' "Peeps at Famous Cities,' and " A Trip Through the Highlands." Tomatoes and grapes are grown in England in glass houses covering 3,000 acres. Half of these are in the Lea Valley, a large proportion of the other half being situated round Worthing, on the South Coast. Railway passengers in the Gare St. Lazare, Paris' famous railway station, can buy clothes, hooks, and drinks, receive dental treatment, telephone overseas, have a shave or a hair -wave, or attend a cinema while waiting for their trains. Notices of trains about to depart are shown on the screen be- tween the films. In building a War memorial on Montfaucon, in the Argonne, the work- ers discovered the foundations of an old eastle built in 1076. This fortress was destroyed and reconstructed in the eleventh, thirteenth, fifteenth, six- teenth and seventeenth centuries, It was also the scene of an American at- tack on an enemy position in 1918, A Birth Right Emerson knew that each of us can only receive that for which he has an affinity, and can only give forth ef- fectually what is by birthright, or has become his own. To have accepted this doctrine with perfect contentment is to possess one's soul in peace. --P. G. Hamerton. American "Apartments/ a Thousand Years OXd Pueblo ruins common hz New Mexico and Arizona, Even today, the fast dwindling tribes of the American Indian, still live in such dwellings, carrying on the simple communal life and ceremonials of the past, Sunday Schou, Lesson July 3. Lesson 1 --Childhood and Education of Moses -=Exodus 3 1-10; Acts 7: 20-22, Goiden Text- Train up a child in, the way he should go; and when he is old, he will not depart from It,—Proverbs 22: 6,. ANALYSIS. 1. THE CHILD'S PERIL, VS. 1-3. 11. THE CHILD'S RESCUL, VS. 4-10. 111. THE CHILD'S EDUCATION, Acts 7: 20-22. INTRODUCTION—The book of Gene- sis closes with the Hebrews in great favor in Egypt; the book of Exodus opens with there in slavery. The He- brews were pressed into the Pharaoh's forced labor -gangs. They were em- ployed in the building of two cities (Exodus 1: 11), one of which hus been recently excavated; they were also employed on work on, the land extending and repairing the irrigation system connected with the Nile, and cultivating the soil, Exodus 1: 44. The Pharaoh proceeded to a policy of ex- termination—at first secretly, by hav- ing every Hebrew male child mysteri- ously killed at birth, and then public - 1. , by ordering that every' male child be drowned in the Nile. But God was mindful of his own. In the birth of Moses God was preparing for the day of deliverance. "God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty," 1 Car. 1: 27. 1, THE CHILD'S PERIL, VS. 1-3. Moses was born;at a time wenlens: life was in deadly peril of being for- feit to the frenzy of the Pharaoh. There seemed, on all human reckon- ing, little hope that he would escape the general extermination. At first his mothei hid him, until the growing power of his lungs made concealment no longer possible. A mother's :ovo usually sharpens her wits and makes her resourceful; but Moses' mother was utterly baffled. There was no- thing more she could do—nothing but commit him to the kindly providence of God. To show that the life of her child was beyond her power and solely in the hand of God, she set him out, or exposed him, on that same river in which Pharaoh had decreed the!. the Hebrew baby boys should be i ^owned. She made a small boat of a kind frequently to be seen on the Nile; it was shaped like a little bas• ket, woven of papyrus reeds, and ren- dered watertight by asphalt. Some- times in the inhuman cruelty of an- cient society, children were set out and left to die; but Moses' mother ,,et him out in art act of love and trust. II. TIIE CHILD'S RUCHE, vs. 4-10. Moses' older sister took her stand tc. see what would befall the infant; There was more, however, than the sister watching Moses; God had had his eye on Moses from birth. Unseen in the background, God was shaping t: o most unlikely chain of events in order to preserve the child, and to fit hire for the day of deliverance. The daughter of the Pharaoh, attended by her ladies-in-waiting, came down to the river -bank at just the spot where the little basket -boat lay floating am- ong the rushes. The princess' maids would probably pace the bank back and forth while she was preparing far the bath; but when the great lady bathed, her attendants would bathe with her in order to protect her from all dz tiger. On spying the child, she immediately judged ',hat it was a He- brew, for :zone but a Hebrew child would be thus set out. Her compas- sion on the child was in strong con- trast to the incredible cruelty of her father, But if she,a pagan stranger, felt thus, how did Mosesmother feel? How also did God feel? Now .,ollgw a couple of delightful touches. The princess was induced by Moses' sister to employ a Hebrew nurse; and the nurse procured wasnone other than the child's "mother! In the good provi- dence of God the mother not only had her child restored to her, but she was actually given wages for nursing her own child by the daughter of the Pharaoh who had decreed that the child should perish! Then, too, there is grim humor in the fact that Muses, a Hebre•a child, was brought to live in thepalace', of the Pharaoh. Through the mysteri- ous providence of God, Pharaoh, who had decreed the extermination of the, Hebrews, was really sheltering one who was to be their deliverer under God. The child was obviously given an Egyptian name. The word "Moses" means in the Egyptian language "son"; it occurs frequently in com- pounds names—Thutmoses, Ram - o) ses. It sounded similar, however, to the Hebrew word for "removed" or "drawn," and was thus understood among the Hebrews. M. THE CHILD'S EDUCATION, Acts 7: 20-22, The education of Moses in the lore of the Egyptians became a matter of elaborate speculation among later Jews like Philo of Alexandria. In his address Stephen briefly alludes to it. The Egyptologist, Erman, points out that a good Egyptian education com- prised such things as "moral duties and good manners, reading, writing, composition and arithmetic," but also such undesirable items as "mythology, eonrelogv, ereenersti, tons 'practices en medicine. Doubtles he education Moses received gave him a breadth of view, but much that he had learned in Egypt had to be unlearned before he could become the leader of God's people. Losses From Sinking Logs The sinking of logs while being floated to the sawmill is responsible for a considerable annual loss to Can- ada's lumber and pulp industries. In a recent year theloss of logs in that industry attributable to the cause just mentioned was estimated to amount to 225,000 cords, valued at about 2,- 700,000. Circular 35 issued by the Forest Products Laboratories, Forest Service, Department of the Interior, Ottawa, is a study of one aspect of the situation and suggests means of par- tially overcoming this loss. Tiber Fast Regaining Position As Trade Gate to Rome Rome. --The Tiber is being burden- ed with more tons of traffic each year as Rome seeks to utilize her water highway to the coast. Last year 414 vessels came up to the river and unloaded merchandise that netted the customs office $3,200,000. The previous year ships totaled 273 and the customs receipt $2,700,000. Rome is endeavoring to increase traffic on the Tiber because of the cheapness of this transportation. The railroad deprived the river of its old primacy, but the capital believes it can be restored, Thoughts The universe is change; our life Is what our thoughts make it. The 8.13.0. Moves On The British Broadcasting Corpora- tion has sent out its last program from its historic headquarters at .Sa- vo Hill, London, and has moved into more commodious premises at Port- land Place, about a mile farther west. This is likely to prove an event of cardinal importance in British radio- casting, for work at Savoy Hill was carried on only in the face of great difficulties. Portland Place, however, offers every possible facility for radios casting under ideal :conditions. The B B. G. can look back on its nine years at Savoy Hill with consid- erable satisfaction. In that time Brit- ish radio has acquired a cultural repu- tation second to that of no other radio service' in the world; and viewed znere- ly as an entertainment it stands very high. It introduees millions of listen- ers to the most famous statesmen., actors, thinkers, writers, and scholars of the day, and has perhaps done more than any other single influence to raise the popular taste in music. It radiocasts regularly all the most +.;.portant public functions, from the opening of disarmament conferences to the fighting out of cup finals. And it successfully financed the famous, Promenade concerts when they were in danger of being discontinued from lack of sufficient support. q' All these things are developments of the B. B, C. while it has been at Savoy'Hill. Technically also immense progress has been registered during this period. Seven years ago there were only 1,000,000 licensed receiving sets in Britain; today there are 4,- 473,227, representing roughly 20,- 000,000 listeners. Its record therefore encourages the B. B. C. to enter Port- land Place with every confidence that its achievements there will be a signi- ficant contribution tr the history of radio.—Christian Science Monitor. Volcanic Ash Cause of Colorful Sunsets? Wellington, New Zealand. — Dr. Ernest Eidson, meteorological director of the Dominion, attributes to volcanic ash, blown over the Pacific from the recent Chilean eruptions, responsibil- ity for unusually brilliant sunsets, frequent aurora displays, and lower temperatures in New Zealand this month. The light ash, he said, was carried more than 6,000 miles over the ocean by the prevailing westerly . air cur- rents. Arctic Islands Preserve The area of wild life preserves set aside for the benefit of natives by the ]� ,: e enartmenr:--vracrrewrate.-,the. Northwest Territories, Canada, has been extended by taking in all islands under Canadian jurisdiction north of the districts of Mackenzie and Kee- watin, with the exception of a part of Baffin Island. This large area is now known as the Arctic Islands Preserve. It embraces a land area of 439,106 square miles. Banff Park Set Aside in 1885 Banff National Park in the Province of Alberta is the oldest of the Domin- ion playgrounds, the original reserva- tion having been set aside in 1885. It comprises an area of 2,586 square miles of territory. Reserved tor the enjoyment of all who wish to visit it, it is also a wild life sanctuary, evi- dence of which is manifest in the large number of mountain sheep, deer, and bear to be seen in the areas ad- jacent to the bighways of the park. 3,500 Motor Cars in Bogota Bogota,—This city, the capital of Colombia, had no automobiles ten years ago and no streets over which a car could have been driven in safety. This year 3,500 automotive vehicles have been licensed and there are sixty-three miles of paved streets. Police Dogs Guard Museums Boston --German police dogs, are let loose as watchdogs every night in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and in the Fogg Museum •at Harvard University. Rest of 20 Kinda young to be "in his cups" is Nutria The Second, ten -day-old champion at the El Monte, Cali- fornia, baby lion contest. There were twenty entries. Rome -Buenos Aires Air Service Proposed Rome.—A project to establish week- ly two-way air service between Ronne and Buenos Aires was presented by Gen. Italo Balbo, Italian Air Minister, at the recent convention of trans- oceanic fliers of all nations here. The scheme resulted from studies conducted both before and after Gen- eral Balbo's group flight to Sour America in January, 1931. The War Minister presented cost figures and even a time -table and de- clared that "even commercially speak- ing the line would pay for itself." Under the plan the 7185 miles from Rome to Buenos Aires would be cow- ered in 3% days. Two routes were suggested: Rome to Tripoli by hydroplane; Tri- poli ripoli to Bolama, Portuguese Guinea across the desert by land plane; Bol - ,to ,Parahyba, ol-,to.:,Parahyba, Brasil, by hydrae pian, and Parahyba to Buenos Aires, land plane. Rome to Tunis, hydroplane; Tunis to 'Bolama, landplane; along the coast from Bolama and then to Parahyba, hydroplane, and Parahyba to Buenos Aires, landplane. The ship would fly night and day. Both land and water craft would be three -motored and a total of 11 planes would be necessary, each manned by two pilots, a navigator, a meciiantc and a telegrapher, General Balbo indicated that ha would like to conduct experiments in flying in the stratosphere. He recant - mended that a ship be hired to cruise out from Bolama in less frequented zones and that it have special equip- ment to -study conditions in high alti- tudes. In the projected south Atlantic crossing a plane would be going frons Africa to South America on the same day that another was going from South. America to Africa. Thus each would be able to inform the other about the weather conditions. General Balbo was elected president of the transoceanic fliers. Before the meeting the air men visited the Ring at Quirinal Palace. Fur seal •captures by British Col- umbia Indians in 1931 totalled 1,463, as compared with 2,297 in 1930. Prices were so low that there was much less inducement than usual for hunting fur seals, which, under the Pelagic Sealing Treaty, may be taken by Indians only, so far as British Columbia waters are concerned. MUTT AND JEFF— By BUD FISHER oOKS ltSrc MUTT HAs BeE.N ettiAseD OuT OF Haus!:+ r MAMM A,WtiGT4 I , laAlibl! MUTT? 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