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SCOUTING ((
Here ' There
Everywhere
A brother to every other Scout, without regard to race or creed
The coast-to-coast chain of beacons
Per which Scouts celebrated the
King's Silver Jubilee on the evening
of May 6th, was a huge success.
Fires stretched from Sydney on the
Atlantic, to Prince Rupert on the
Pacific. The great Mid -Canada bon -
Ore at Winnipeg, was lighted by Lord
Baden-Powell himself, in the presence
of a crowd of many thousand spec-
tators. At Edmonton in the presence
of a similar crowd, a towering bea-
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39 LEE AVENUE
TORONTO, ONT,'
Chinch Bugs
Menace U.S.
Wheat Lands
con was lighted by Lieut, -Governor.
Walsh. In the Old. Land some 2,0;00
Scout beacons burned from Land's
End to John o' Groats.
* * *
A demonstration of first aid by
Scouts of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Bar-
rie Troops, was a feature of a recent
luncheon meeting of the Barrie Lions
Club.
* * *
The thrifty Scouts of Oshawa and
Owen Sound, held Scout Apple Days
on an April Saturday, selling apples
purchased and stored away last fall.
* *.*
n recto Scoi1tS were t al ed ""niton
to supply ushers for OW Toronto
Garrison church parade held in
Maple Leaf Stadium, `Sunday, ` May
5th, and another party. of 200 for the
Silver Jubilee service:: in front of
the Provincial Parliament Buildings,
May 6th.
* * *
The 1st Timmins Scout. Troop will
have fine new headquarters in a
basement being constructed '.:beneath
the Hollinger Recreation tall,
* * *
The experiment of having
.and Seconds take all instructional
classes of the 3rd Guelpn Troop,
proved such a success that it was
repeated. Instruction included Scout's
pace, Kim's game, compass, Second
Class, first aid and signalling.
* * *
The 74th Toronto Rover Crew'
(Chalmer's Presbyterian), w er e
guests of the 3rd Hamilton Crew,
and attended Sunday morning service
with other Hamilton Rovers at
Trinity Baptist Church. Later, nearby
historical points were visited.
* * *
Mayor J. W. Hanna presented test
and proficiency badges at a largely
attended and well-planned Open
Night of the lst Wingham Troop,
Ont. The programme included a
lecture on "Emergencies," by Patrol
Leader Ross Howson.
* * *
.A. "street accident" in front of
Montreal Scout Headquarters, provid-
ed the practical test for. the Hugh
Paton Provincial Ambulance Trophy
competition. The problems included
severed. arteries, fractures of the
skull, collarbone and limbs, and
burns of varying seriousness. The
ambulance team of Rosemount First
United Cj.uu eh on the cup.
* * *
The 3rd Lethbridge, Alta., Troop
operated a very successful refresh-
ment booth at the Lethbridge Ex-
hibition grounds during the Annual
Spring Horse Sale.
The Scout troops of St. Johns, Que.,
were invited to provide an exhibit at
the Annual Scouteraft and Hobby
Exhibition of Region 1, Boy Scouts
of America, 'held in 'Boston.
(New York Vines)'
From man's first appearance on
EF, AND GOLD TOO,
!TIIECARIBOOHILLS
By Bruce Hutchison in the
Vancouver''' Province
thisearththere has been war be- 'If the depression and the general
tween him and the; insects, which madness of these times have got you
were here before .him. Milton must down, what;, you need is 'a trip to
have had them in ,mind as well as i?be Cariboo. There isn't any de -
the wild beasts 'when he, in "Para- pression up there, nor any madness.
dise Lost," cried "shame to men" for 4-;; this late Spring: opens, with soar -
levying cruel wars "wasting the rug' beef prices and more gold mines
earth each other to destroy."
As if (which might induce us to
accord)
Man had not hellish foes enough
beside
That day and night for his d
struction wait.
Word comes from science's beat!, ,
quarters that. an attack by these .an
Gent enemies on a wide front. is
imminent out in the great bread
producing area of this country .This
time it is the army of the malodor-
ous chinch -bugs that i s menacing
what it left by drought and ' dust
sweeping winds. In fact, the sep4
drought has been its ally,
Hereto
'tar
fore chinch -bugs have not been alttlr the fact that it will be a great
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"troublesome" outside of the ansas Swat up there.
Oklahoma-Missouri region. But try `733, and down the Cariboo Road,
favor of the hot, dry Summers fat i# ax,, ofd Ashcroft to Quenon ,from
two or three years the neap of then elr'eei i tae over to the Gang and
infestation shows deep black -: or, up t The Chilcotin plateau,' the
• coof news has gone forth =- `beef
at work, the Cariboo is looking for-
ward to one of the biggest years
since the old placer days.
But having said that, the Carle -
bio will never forgive you if you
�i.'t add a warning to city green -
sic who think that there is gold
"ladle grassroots and jobs forevery-
d�yr As usual this year, hundreds
,'hien will go to the Cariboo look -
ii `fol gold and will come back
l v
in the Autumn, and there
G,ifc ue far more
job seekers than
to Cariboo's advice is to stay
unless you' have a certain job
grubstake, but that doesn't
lighter shadows well ..toward the
Great Lakes and eastward .o ta.
Upper Ohio Valley.'
The United States Depart crer.o
Agriculture is arming!` for tr rain
paign, but it has for the ` s e.so 's
fight" only the price of a' "fey
hours' barrage by modern ,artillery
If the defence is to he " decisive
this year, it is stated by the agr. t
cultural strategists, a favoring
A SAFE .
OINTMENT
Issue No. 22
'35
ahrlhb nig.
ave waited for that news
nod many years now, the big
late eempanies, and, the " settlers
cath half a dozen white-faced steers.
,!.'hey have slaughtered their beef far
'below the cost of producing it. They
,:have driven it all the way in from
kris (eek and Tatla Lake, from
break" from the weather. will be Td.p vii the. read and up to the road
needed. The bugs have Winter -quarto tillains Lake and. seen it sold
tered, concealed in the wild grasses, ynder the hammer at :two cents for
but they are now showing their:top steers,
strength as they begin tinemove into ;• The big "ranches have piled up
the fields of young wheat, oats and: debt, hoping forthe price to swing
other grains. upward. The small settlers have
But the most oniinons ;;phase .is denned up in their cabins and lived
that of the advance of the ' "young on spuds-. and moose meat, some -
of the new generation." They will tines with a few days' work on the
feed in swarms and severely damage roads.
the crops. Later on, when the har- Now the tide has turned. Seven -
vesting of the small grains begins, . Fent beef -is arriving. The cattle
or if a new drought makes their man is getting five cents for top
food scarce, they will "crawl" (being Steers at the railway now and should
not yet fully equipped with wings), be getting' six and a half cents by
toward adjacent fields of corn . and June. T'he:housewife may grumble.
other forage crops. If they are not You may '';dee n'iore pot roasts on
beaded off by wet weather; or by the' your table: and less prime ribs, but
"trench" warfare planned by the it will be:; some satisfaction to know
science strategists, the 'devastation that the 'cattle men are only begin -
that may be expected is; 'described "As. nin5 tact. "get back what they put into
follows: the b :,t, and it will take them sev-
Like a -living carpet, etYely eral, Seasons to catch up with losses
stitch of it a ravenous ''nett n'ed in the lean years.
petite, they cover the gimlet tt"k of the new beef prices,
be ni ,, , , . .
'l seems `to o''r
The very-':�ol� •,: rasesihe,.alacat,.slao
Ing e'en's' . Wave of cliincli i ed States. In the worst ,years
will ruin a cornfield like 1t a Arnerican agriculture millions of
while you watch.
The analogies in bunion of `beef cattle were slaughtered
« faze becK,;lt,e their owners couldn't af-
are too patent to contemplatobrwith keep diem. On top of that,
„
out painful' reflection upon: area niullioii2- more were killed necause
tures rational"—leading as..it does they coicl<ln't be, fed in the drought
evert to "trenches" (liter 'uy), fire
regions: 'of the. Middle West. Now
and chemicals. If men continue the Jizited States needs meat and
"each other to destroy," the insects
will need it for sveral years until it
are liable to be the victors in the coat re dill its herds.
end.
of
rt * *
"Like the rest of the nation, Main Gold.n ining, though it depends on
Street has become sophisticated:'— tate cur ions system of taking a metal
Sinclair Lewis.
"When I come to die I hope
shall be propped up in bed with
newspaper in my hand." — Br
Barton.
out, of the ground in British Colum-
bia and putting it back into the
I ground , in Ottawa, suffers no set-
a backs from climate or prices. They
uce will take more gold out of Cariboo
this year than in any season since
the d '-s of the Argonauts and the
,Cariboo Trail.
1-eidge River has settled
.1v, after its first wild excitement,
People who stand in en open to the steady businesslike camp
hV
field, a golf course or on a Pat li ch mining men had expected. It
beach during a thiuider. storm are nail .not thank you for sending your
much more Iiirely to be stinicle by 'frieniis there to look for work.
lightning than pt.eple who., keel elose
to certain bushes o_• ,clumps of small
FARM .AND
NOME WEEK
AT THE .A..
INFORMATION, 1NSPIRATION
and RECREATION' will feature the
Farm and Hosie Week programme at
the O.A.C. June 17th to 21st, and
the many thousands of farm folks
who, visit the College- at that . time
will be sure, to find the usual hearty
welcome. While probably moat of the
visitors will be able to spend only a
day, those who can should remain for
two or more days so as to absorb as.
much as possible of the three
Mations" mentioned above, and to do
it without hurry or fatigue. The rooms
are comfortable, the meals good and
the cost very low.
In the daily parade of line live
stock, the famous Clydesdale stal-
lion, "Craigie Realization" (recently
arrived from Scotland) will be au
outs:tendiing attraction since he is
eaid to be the best Clydesdale ever
brought to Canada.
There will be much of interest
in..the field crop experiment grounds
and in .the vegetable and flower gar-
dens,
The campus, with its broad
stretches of smooth shaven lawn, its
beautiful trees and many kinds of
flowering shrubs and its many hun-
dreds of varieties of blooming roses,
will be an uplift in itself, especially
to lovers and sweethearts, but to
common people as well.
An excellent programme of demon-
strations is being arranged for the
ladies, and there will be interesting
exhibits in other departments of the
College, relating to plant diseases,
insect and weed pests, fertilizers,
farm machinery, honey and dairy
products, etc.
Provision will be made for playing
soft ball and horseshoes late in the
afternoons, and there will be evening
entertainments of music and drama-
tics.
Refuge From Lightning
down
trees.
The preference of lightning for
persons standing in tj • sine
that which is often sti be �,.cerrrentaating on the developmese.
cause persons are tal 1ie,r i uriolr"t,i�g tb ,.t luaarm' t al chance
surroundings. The prefern ices to lr'eesolie hnines.
because their bodies are h�i�y=.stir This season the Cariboo is rather
especially if they have been run-
ning to escape the storm," swim=
piing rapidly back to a beach or
have been exercising violently in
any other way. Waren ail rising;
from heated bodies attracts the
lighfning, just as warns. air :rising
from a barn filled with fermenting
hay is known to form an easier path "gyp,+
a1,^�
They have already fed thousands
of poor devils who thought there •
!vas" as job for everyone on the far
April Income Tax
Collections Lower
OTTAWA,—Income tax collections
in April started the 1935-36 fiscal
year with a drop, the decline from
the corresponding month of last year
being $439,101. Figures issued by
Hon, R, C. Mathews, minister of
national revenue, showed last
month's collections to Brave been $5,-
788,027, compared with $6,277,128 for
April, a year ago.
"The new theatre audience de-
mands of a dramatist that he no
longer condescends to it in the
s1i keest, degree, but m.eetnit, on .t
oivn intelligent" and''` experienced
emotional level." — George Jean
11E3 AR tS ANO LEGS
IMMOVABLE
Ten Years With Rheumatism
To this woman it must have been
Tike commencing to live a new lire,
when she began to use her am p
and legs again, afte they had been
helpless for ten years.
"I suffered with rheumatism,":
she writes, "and had been bedrid-
den since 1920.. I could not move
arms or Legs, and had to be fed 1i1I
a child. Everybody thought 1 shoal
be an invalid all my life. I force
myself to fight .against it, and trie
A, number of different things.
was Kruschen that eventually sav-
ed lite and to -day I consider it is
saving my life. My condition has
greatly improved, and my limbs are
gradually becoming more supple.
Already I can eat without assistance
and dress myself --which I had not
done for ten years." — MIL
Two of the ingredients- of Krus-
clien salts are the most effectual
solvents of uric acid known to rnedi-
cal science. They swiftly dull the
sharp edges of the painful crystals,
then convert them into a harrnless
solution. Other ingredients of these
Salts have a simulating effect upon
the kidneys, and assist them to expel
the dissolved uratic needles through
he natural channel;
Crepe
Fabric For Spring
The Three little pigs have been wo-
ven into 1935 fabrics and printed on
novelty silks—and not only for thee
tie tot's wardrobe, either!
Marcel has made "Les Trois' Petits
Cochons" in linen, wool, silk and taf-
feta .and Paris dressmaking houses
have found ways of wafting it into
the cleverest little beach ensembles,
cocktail frocks and—hold everything
—even evening gowns for summer
evenings!
Another fabric from this house is
called "Crepe Peanut" probably be-
cause it looks like a splotch of sand
would if you scattered a bag of pea-
nuts over it, pushed them gently in-
to the sand and then removed then,
This makes a particularly novel
crepe that washes admirably and re-
quires no ironing.
Among the new mixtures in mod-
ern fabrics are wool and mohair;
rayon and wool crepe; velvet and
metal, and cotton and taffeta.
We learn something new about
laces and tulles from Dognin who
makes them of woven linen threads
with an elastic quality so that if you
happen to snag your . frock, it pulls
rout as i1 r and,, hen smalls back
into place without even so much as
a bulgy place where it caught,
GIGANTIC FUNNEL 2,000 FEET HIGH
IS LATEST SCHEME TO RING RAIN
Prom the Border Cities Star
Men are still seeking artificial
rains and Mr. Bernard 3. Dubos, of
the Meteorological Society of France,
is the latest to have a scheme. Re
would build a steel and concrete fun-
nel 2,000 feet high, Through this he
would force water vapor into the rip-
per air with the thought that it would
supported by struts and pillars. It
area,
The funnel would be constructed
so that it would be tapered with the
broad end at the top and the whole
suppored by struts and pillars. It
would be about 450 feet in diameter
at the top and resemble a large tel-
escope standing on the smaller end,
The underlying idea is to ,.have a
series of wind va.nes at the top which
will catch whatever breeze there may
be and start a whirl of air` ins,,te
the spout to create a vacuuo,, This
. would give a vacuum core on the
side of `the Mission Mountain.. But
now that most .of the original wild-'
Tats 1rave disappeared, Bridge ]River
mole- excited about the Barkerville
•egion. `Last year, after an earlier
>oobi, this' area seemed to lose favor
with mining men. You heard pes-
ihilistic. talk of it everywhere. The.
people up there began to be wor-
iried.
for lightning. This explains why the ARRAGE TO CREATE
exceptional numbers of hay b ar
,rM,
are struck.
The institute's census of trena
struck shows that oaks are most
NEW GERMAN. CITIES
l3erlin—rhoeni .-like, German cities
cif the •future will rise out of ashes
likely to be lightning victims. Pins, -or rather, ashcans—scientific cir-
pifies, poplars, willows and asks fol •�iev assert:
low in the order given' .,G
arbage :ficin ashcans as to be
processed` to produce a building
In the three years of the record material having the elasticity of felt,
not even one beech, birch, horse- the solidity of wood, the non -con.
chestnut or holly tree has suffered. du:ctiviiy of cork, and the non - in -
My' advice to people in these is- flammability of ; asbestos, it was as -
lands caught in thunder storms is serted by 'German professors charg-
to get in the shelter of -#t holly.bttah ed with research in "Ersatz." Dr.
if one is available, or otherwise to i,ippert, Nazi Commissioner of Bor-
get near any small beeches er other lin,announced the process.
smooth -barked trees so Tong as
there is a clump of these and not s�iGAr
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principle that waterspouts have va-
cuum cores. -
There is one detail curbing Mr.
Dubos from building his core at once.
He requires $10,000,000 to go ahead
with construction. It will take that
much to buy materials and build the
spout. And he is finding it hard to
get anyone to gamble the $10,000,-
000 on the chance that the t�=F1ii�
might work and produce hit:ii It
would take a lot of bushf'ss of wheat,
for instance, to pay OW interest and
principal on that mu ?f money.
Perhaps Mr. Antibes will not get
anyone to. -take him up on his ven-
ture. 13'ttt that will not curb othir
scieni'ists and inventors trying to
find some way to get rain from the
cleseids. And, some day, one of thein
is quite likely to solve the secret,
even though people may laugh at,
his efforts while he is experimenting.
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