The Exeter Times, 1923-8-16, Page 7to
SCOUTING NOT MILITARY
A .Universal Disarmament hi ScoutsCom
tee which recently 'staged a"No M
War" demonstration in Tors
charged the Boy Scouts Associat
with fostering war and militarismmilitarismthe minds of the boys ill its memb
ship.. A detailed reply to this char
was. made in. the Toronto press
,Assistant Provincial Coniiiiission
Frank C. Irwin. The 'Scout ,unifoa
he wrote, is ne, more militaristic t
Ls a fireman's, and Is,in fact, one
the democaatic features of the 13
Scout movement, It was further poi
ed out that military manoeuvers
rifle drills have no place in the Sc
scheme of training,' the whole obj
of which Is to train boys to use tv
full their mental and physical endo
/Dents
There are several other, things wlii
Mr. Irwin night have pointed out,
this connection. If Scouting were
military organization, we would natl.
'ally expect to find its, "higher comic
filled with 'military officers,. This
by no means the •case.. Take the Pr
vincia1 Council for Ontario for i
stance., This, body has full control,
t1lP,,,Mptions of the 'i3oy Scout Mo
m,elri throughout t1i ,province
.exercises its functions through
•' executive c�ommtittee of twenty-ni
Members. Of the twenty-nine fo-
have
titles
ch
would �
d su� est th
suggest
they a: e military people. But the one
"Captain" is a retired merchant" ship
commander. One of the "LtColonels
holds his titre as as honor an•d
is far better known as one of th
leaders in the Canadian Red. Cros
blian for his militia work. The othe
' two are, active leaders in local mint
Work. Two out of twenty-nine!.
• Nor are the members, of the execu
Live staffs of the Dominion, provincial
, .and local councils in. their positio
becaiis�e of their military attainments
Most of them were overseas or serve
invarious patriotic 'capacities,durin
the Great War'as did members of th
staffs of all other organizations an
institutions, but only one of them ha
at any time been a professional nail
tary man. Prior to their entry into
Scouting one w.as a professor of en_
gineering in the University of Toronto
and later of the University ' of New
Brunswick. Another was and still is
a prominent writer of books and
stories for boys. Aro�ther . was en-
gaged in boys' work under the Sal-
vation Army banner. At Ieast three
are former Y.M.C.A.',boys' work men
One" provincial .secretary retired.:from
the Presbyterian - ministry to enter
Scout work. ,Others, were engaged in
various professional a,nd -mercantile
D:1Irwritsr _-..,.._.. ..
Were Scouting tailitery there Is no
douirt but that the organization' would
be subsidized by the Militia Depart -
meat and grants made to local troops
for uniforms, officers,' pay, camp, etc.,
In the seine manner.as they are made
to the Cadets. But this Is: far from
the case. Every local troop not only
pays its own, way, but most of them
do a' whole lot to raise'" even more
funds to help to maintain the service's
if Provincial Headquarterti, With the
exception of two salaried men: at Pro-
vincial Headquarters and four others
who act as Local Secretaries in 'four
of the largest centres of population,
the nearly 1;000 Scoutrnasters� Assist
ant'Scoutnrastere and" other adult` of-
ficers in the movement in Ontario are
volunteers their only'"Pay" being the
-aatisfaction which comes from know -
Ing they are doing a work" which Iso
helping to makee better Canada's boy-"
hood. The only flnancial assistance
which Scouting In Ontario receives
from Government sources is not a
military grant at all, but a small grant
from the Department of Education
e
whih covers "'roughly about one-sixth
-.,of the annual budget of the Provincial
G�ounie11.
Scouting' is not military. Scouts are
not trained to 'kill anything except
their" own wrong impulses. The only
rn
ams ulition which
use are the
brain., the body and soul, furnished to
them in unstinted"" measure 'by- God,
the' Great Commissary,, These they
are taught to use methodically and
gloriously for their own welfare and
that of their fellow -citizens,
'TAs a I-Huntsrnan.
ie metier bird on downy nest
May safely, there In .quiet rest,
Nor fear my stealthy hunting-quest—
My gun is but a camera.
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II ALT' DU ATION
'BY DR. J. J. MIDDLETON
Provincial Board of Health, Oa:;tarlo
Dr. Middleton will be glad to answer questions on Public Health mat.
tern through this column. Address him at Savanna iHouse, Spadinat
Crescent, Toronto.
ns
In the hope of bringing home to
d people in outlying','distric
is a knowl-
g edge.. of the devastating effects of
e venereal disease and the need for a
d more sane and healthy life; Mrs. Em-
s. meline Pankhurst, the noted English
1 suffragette and propagandist for
"Votes for Women," is starting on a
month's lecture tour in the northern
part .of the Province under the aus-
pices of the Ontario Social Hygiene
Council. Accompanying Mrs. Pank-
hurst will be Mrs. R. A. Kennedy,
President of the Ottawa Women's
Club, and Miss Estelle Hewson, Pro-
vincial Secretary of the Ontario So-
.
No startled beast need be afraid
Of. trap I set in :forest glade;
The catch, I seek<Is only made
By nye'unerring camera.
And sail range afar, arrear, •
And hunt my game with"zeal sincere,
Content with shots that cause no fear,
tdade by my trusted camera,
,My; eager quest's as deeply thrill
My, heart, as t'ho'ugh 1 sought to kill,
For each approach must be 'with titin,
When I hunt with my camera.
—14'n'ed. Scott Shepard
y
"One is assured et.hat there ''is a
Power that .fights with us against the
confusion and evil of the World."
"To do our best ite
ua part, but to
wash
our hands .smilingly of the ,con-
seun
Is the
sequences ces next 'part of .,'any
Virtue:" :
Hygiene Council. Mrs. Pank-
hurst is now a resident of. Toronto and
is throwing her .whole activities into
the cause of social betterment and the
raising of the moral star dard,amang.
both" -men-- a-n'd"' women:7'The North
Country is due fora loud awakening
regarding matters of public health.
Over fifteen hundred milesof territory
between Toronto and Sault Ste. Marie
will be covered, Manitoulin Island will
be visited and the three missionaries
will hold meetings in thirty towns be-
sides distributing much literature on
Social Hygiene and Public Health,
along the way. The party will leave
Toronto on the 16th of July and their
itinerary includes Aurora, New-
market Barrie, Orillia,Washago,
Severn • Bridge, Gravenhurst, BaIa,,
Bracebridge, Rosseau, Parry Sound,
Huntsville, Elmvale, Burk's Falls,.
Magnetawan, Sundridge, Powassan,
Callender, Sturgeon Falls, Sudbury,
Copper Cliff, Whitefish, Little Cur-
rent, Espanola, Blind River, Minde
moya, 'TIIessalon, " Bruce Mines, Mc-
Lenn`an and Sault Ste. Marie.
EASY TRICKS
No. 30
Pick Them Up:_,
Put three coins in a row on the
table.
Pick up the first one, counting
"one," ;, Pick up the second, count-
ing "two." . Pick up the third .one
counting "three."Put down one,
counting "four" Put down another,
counting "five" Put down the last,
counting "sir' Pick up one, count-
ing "seven, and another, counting
"eight." Push the one which re-
mains on the table to one side,
cob "nine," counting nine, put down one,
counting "ten" and the last, count-
ing "eleven."
Apparently you have miscounted
so than, four times three appear to
make eleven. The persons who'aro
watching you will, of course, ob-
serve tho-_miscount and some ono
will at once declare:
"That's easy 1, can do that."
Scoop up the coins and put them
in his hand. Full of confidence he
will go ahead with the trick. When
he reaches "nine" in his count, lhow-
ever, he will discover that the trick
is not so easy as it seemed. Whether
he gets any fun out, of it or not,
you are sure of some amusement
out of his unsuccessful efforts to
miscount.
Tho trick is very simple. All that
you need to remember Is that the
coins must be on the table at' the
beginning of the trick. By placing
the coins in his hand, you influ-
enced him tostart the count incor-
rectly:and so made his failure ai-
most inevitable.
(Clip this out and paste it, with.
other 01 the series, to a scrapbook.)
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Safety First.
"pardon me, sir," said Mists Forty-
s,nith, who was, rusticating hi the
wilds of Slie11bacic County, "but Is not
this the wimpling water into which a
beautiful girl fell last summer, to be
rescued by a hancleenie stranger just
as she was rinki.ng•for the last time?"
' Yes'ni," replied the hired m,ao, "but
you'll have to wait till,some other fel-
ler cornea along, 1 ee.nrt awlm a
Stroke.'" `
Move Yuba. River Bed tai 'Get
Drowned Boy's Body,
A river's course in California has
been changed so that a mother might
see once more the body of her son,
12 -year-old Clyde Patno.r.
Clyde fell into the Yuba River and
was. swept over the falls,. 'His body
never''came up; hut englneers of .the
Pacific and Electric Corporation of-
fered to get , Id. The company auth-
orized their task and all work of
harnessing the falls, en which the men
had been engaged was. stopped.
It coat -them days and nights '-ittf-
ceaseless toil and cost the ,company
$20,000 before with., dynamite and
steam shovel the thousands of. tots
of earth could be 'removed and' the
Yuba's course diverted. Tiien wedged
between • jagged rocks at the foot of
the falits,.the engineers found the boy's
crushed body.
GUARD BABY'S HEALTH
IN THE SUiIIIER
The summer months are the most
dangerous, g roue to children: The complaints
of that season, which are cholera fn
fantum, oolic, diarrhoea and dysentery
come
on so
quickly that often a little
one is beyond aid before the mother
realises he Is ill. The mother must be
on her guardto prevent these troub_
les, or if they do come on sud enly to
banish them: No other medicine is of
such, aid to mothers during hot wea-
ther as Baby's Own Tablets. They
regulate the stomach and bowels and
are absolutely safe. Sold by medicine
dealers or by mail at 25 cents a box
from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co;
Brockvible, Ont.
Spanish King CLife.
Comes to g;Fe
in Ancestral ` Tmnub.
King Altoaaso of Spain • went up in a
balloon; was knocked but by lack .o,f
oxygen, and when he came, down again
found ;himself in the 'tonib of his an,
testers. "It was premature," he says,
in describing his experience 1n ani'
article for L'Auto.
The balloon went up faster than was
expected, but the pilot retained con-
sciousness and brought the sporting
monarch back to earth. They landed
near Escurial, the burial place of the
Icings of Spain, and here Alfonso was
taken to be revived.,
Most bees lead a solitaryand not
not
a social communal life like that of
the honeybee and bumblebee.:
Don'tver
o prove that politeness
costs nothing by
refraining from say-
ing "Thank you."
Hudson Bay Sturgeon Caught 'at Edmonton
..: - ., ax.:...u,G o'.o o.:r; ,.,fir � a .,q:�' a,. .^• .:?::.
A seventy-ilvo pound fish traveled 1000 miles from Hudson Bay to meet fate in
Canadian Interior.
PHIS seventy-five poundsturgeon traveled one thousand miles from
Hudson Bay through rivers and lakes in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and
Alberta, Canada, and was caughtrecently in the Saskatchewan River near
Edmonton, by Edward Stevenson. The gigantic shark -like fish was 53 feet
in length, and had a tail spread of 9 inches.
The fish was caught by using part of a sucker as bait and was landed
after much careful .playing on a line which ordinarily would not support
more than 50 pounds of dead weight. When Mr. Stevenson had tired thea
fish out, he dashed into the water, seized it by the tail, and dragged it ashore.
SYllIPTUmS OF DEBILITY
ILITY
How to Tell Whether Your Blood
Needs Revitalizing.
The symptoms of general debility'
vary according to the cause, but weak-
ness is always present, a tendency to
perspire and fatigue easily, ringing in
the ears, sometimes black spots pass-
ing beforethe •eyes, weak back, vertigo,
wakefulness caused by inability to
atop thinking and unrefreshing sleep.
The. cause of the trouble may be some
drain on the 'system, or it may be
mental or '.physical overwork, some-
times insufficient nutrition ' due to
digestive disturbance.
If you have any or all of these
symptoms try ,building up the blood
with Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and as
the new blood courses through your.
veins there should be an increase in
your appetite, a, better digestion and,
scan a renewal of strength and vigor.
You can get these pills through any
dealer in medicine or by marl, post-
paid, at 50c a box from The Dr. Wil
Hams' Medicine. Co., Brookville, Ont.
How Old is the Ocean?
This is not a 1923 variation on
How old is Ann? but a problem in
geology which attacks speculative
scientists.
The very brininess of the briny deep
is the feature that is used in .the corn
puta.tion. Common salt—such as gives
the sea its bad taste -as everyone
knows, is composed of two chemical
elements, sodium and chlorine. Now,
sodium conveniently differs from most
other things which get dissolved in.
the sea, water in that little or none of
it is precipitated or dropped to , the
bottom.
Hence, if we know how much sodium
the rivers of the world ;annually dist
charge and how much sodium there
is now in the ocean, it is a simple cal-
culation to determine how long it has
taken for the rivers - to have brought
down all this sodium—and:
Sodium in Ocean ,
—Age
of Ocean
Annual Sodium In 'Rivers
Now, there are something aver four-
teen million million metric tons of
sodium at present in the ocean, and
the rivers' are dumping it in at the
rate of over 153;000,000 tons annually,
If we do the arithemtic we find that
the age comes out about 89,000,000
years. •
A number of corrections, such as
those worked out by Dr. F. W. Clarke,
of the United States Geological Survey,
should be applied to this figure, but
when all are made the total remains
between 70,000,000 And 100,000,000
years.
MONEY' ORDE=RS.:
The safe way to send money by mall
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A Gloomy Outlook.
Bugs Why so gloomy, Amon•?:
Amos Skeeto: The girls are going
ta, wear heavy sport hose 'all sum:Mei';
Ask for Manard's and take no other.
Fishing.
Fishing's fun most any time,
But I've never found It quite
So complete with jingling rhyme,
Rest, and comfort and delight,
As it was those lazy days
When we trod the dusty ways
Of our boyhood with a pole
To our favorite fishing hole.
I have fished with fancy bait,
Fished with rods, of Bristol steel,
I have heard with soul Plata
That sweet music of the reel.
But I've never caught the joy,
That was chine when as ` a boy
Fishing in the humbler terms
Meant a pole and hook and warms.
I have tried it year by year,
•Tried to see above my head
Skies as blue and bright an.d clear
And the robin's breast as red
As they were, but all in vain,
Boyhood never comes again,
Then a day was filled with dreams,
Now I dumbly wade the streams,:
Take a boy and let him lie
Underneath a 'willow tree,
And above him in the sky
Countless, pictures he will see.
Youth will sing its, song .to hint,
By the river's silver brim,
But an old man, fishing there,
Struggles to forget his care,
Trousers were first issued to British
infantry just a century ago; before
that soldiers wore breeches.
Keep Minard's liniment In the house,.
The ancients knew androbabl
P Y
made use of the magnifying power
of glass globules..
Song of tete Exile.
I li vo fcTgatton ibe wandiog is the
that lad down to the ae,a,
And' the Wktite gu21's nest 11000 the
cliffs is now a .dreamt to me
Familiar things a; childhood, but 1
,cannot quite, forget
The scent on April morninps of black_
thorn in the ,vet.
I have forgotten the meadows 1 roamed
in former yearn,
And the mountain tops are 111dden by a
biinding mist -of tears';
But 1 hear the -silence broken bythe
lone lark on the moor,•.
And I sea '1e brown hens strolling be -
aide my' mother's door.
it
I have forgotten tie flowers p';cked in
earlier days.
The violets I disco, -rad 'iu hichdon
Inossy ways
And the bluebells in the forest, but I
remember still
The splashing sound of water on the
old wheel of the mill.
The pools .reflect the sunset on the
broad moors after rain,
And the moon upon''the ocean is, shin-
ing once again;
I she'll never moa e behold thresh, they
• are ever lost to me,
But the west wind through my window
le blowing from the sea.
Phyllis Howell
The real secret of keeping a healthy
interest in this great business of- liv-
ing, is in constantly getting a mental
grip on new aspect& and relations of
life.
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The Natural Science Girl.
The lowest of God's creatures
Has .being • 11ot in vain,
But .fU s the niche ass ig.ned it
According to His plan;
We may not know the reason
Why life to it was given,
But He who it created
May have for itits h,eaven.
The health of iniad and body,
The wealth of soul ,aud song
Are found in field and forest,
•The living, things amoxig;
Not in the maze of fashdon-_
Society's gay`-whirl—
Taut out with Nature's: goddess
The Natural Science Girl.
—Jared Barhlte(
The only known copy of the first
Protestant Bible printed in Latin was
given to the public library of Cam-
bridge, Mass., recently by an anony-
mous friend,
It is not by bemoaning one's fate,
or being discontented withone's s la
t
that evil is overcome or a wrong set
right. --Sir, Berkeley Sheffield,
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a
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WOMEN
So Says Mrs. MacPherson of
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound,
Brantford, Ontario.—"I was ahvays
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pressing pant on the top of my head,
pain in the nape of my neck, and when
stooped over 1 could not get up with-
out help, because of pain in my back.
I did not sleep; well and was nervous
at the 'least noire. • I keep house, but I
was suck awreck that ,1 could not sweep
the floor nor wash the dishes without ly
Ing clown afterwards. A friend living
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