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WITH THE LON]] SCOUTS .. Scout meeting in bed! There are
Recently a number of Lone Scouts
Who were spending their Easter vaca-
gon in Toronto met together at the
home of the Assistant Provincial
Commissioner for Ontario, Mr. F. C.
Irwin, where they met also their
Scoutmaster, Mr. Vic Sheppard and
the Loue Scout Commissioner.
Mr. Irwin showed them a number
Of films depicting emit activities and
kindly provided refreshments, and
a,11 the boys voted it to be a "Great
Time". These Lorries are members
of the "Lion" and "Bear" Patrols
which have 'their headquarters at
Lakefieid School.
We are very pleased to hear re-
ports concerning the proposed joint
geld day to be held in the near fu-
ture by the "Bulldog" Patrol of
Portsmouth and the "Hound" Patrol
of Milford. Th.1s is excelleut .work
and an example which could be well
followed by some of the other Lone
Patrols in the Province. We sug-
gest that any other Lone Swats who in hospital a
may be located in Hastings, Lennox,
Prontenac or Prince Edward Coun- so eaeet to become S
ties should get into touch with Pa-
trol Leader John Meers of 71 King
et., Portsmouth, Ont., and obtain
full particulars of this Field Day,
about 15 Scouts iu the Troop at pres-
ent and It is called the "Robert Louis
Stevenson Troop". There is also a
Cub Pack for the smaller boys who
are not old enough to be Scouts, and
there are about the same number of
Cubs.
After the boys become well and
leave the hospital, they, of course,
leave the Robert Louis Stevenson
Troop and are at liberty to link up
with any other Troop near to the
district in which they live, but Mr.
Wilienegger also has a special Troop
in the city to absorb these "Ex -hos-
pital" Scouts if they are living near
enough to attend the meetings.
There is one little Cub now in the
hospital who has some trouble with
his Mug. He lives permanently on
his stomach, with his feet cocked
away tip in the air, so as to drain the
lung,—in fact he is practically stand-
ing on his stead, and in this position
he was invested as a Wolf Cub, dress-
ed in full uniform, a short time ago!
e
When sick boys
Scouts,
how much
wmore bl eon should 20.11 DossessionO11 of OUT
who are in
health and able to get out and about
d enjoy all the interesting things
d al a point of atteudin°' if pox- that Nature and Scouting have con
an make
a for us?
Bible. bined together to plan
The Lone Patrol at Hensel' is work-
ing together in a very fine way.
They recently sent in application's
for five Second Class badges, which
shows that every member of the
Patrol is keen to he up to the level
of the others. We shall expect to
hear big things of this Patrol,
All Lone Scouts will be interested
to hear about the unique Troop which
is being operated in Toronto by Mr.
Willenegger, in connection with the
Hospital for Sick Children. There
are always a number of boys in this
Hospital who are laid up for a con-
siderable length o2 time, and when
their period of convalescence comes
around they find time to hang heavily
on their hands.
So Mr. Willenegger has organized
a Troop of Scouts to help the sick
boys to amuse themselves and a
very keen bunch they are, although
most of them have to attend their
Now that the warm weather is com-
ing again and Summer is just around
the corner, the Lone Scout Commis-
sioner and the various Scoutmasters
will continence to roam around the
countryside in their cars and on their
wheels. Have you fixed your Lone
Scout Sign outside your home an-
nouncing that "A LONE SCOUT
LIVES HERE", so that when they
go by they will see it and stop in
to say "Hello!" to you, and to give
you the Left Hand Shake of the
Boy Scout Brotherhood?
There is still lets of room in Lone
Scouting for new members and if
you are not already a Scout and
would like to be, and if there is no
Troop near your home, write to the
Lone Scout Department, Boy Scouts
Association, 330 Bay Street, Toronto
2, and ask for particulars of member-
ship. They will be glad to hear from
you.
iRadium—field
Seas°. of Forest
Princes In Louth
Prince
,4iz:iY;g3r':
Prince of Wales, r ._ be 1'riece George, steps down gang-
plank as his ship arrives at a Paulo on his tour of Brazil before
returning to his native England.
i Elegant ,:« orders of Old China
Noir Pol ce en .md PeddlerE
Peiping, China,—About 20 years the common man's job may be seen as
have passed "since the last emperor of professional beggars in front of their
the Ching dynasty 'abdicated. Bach old palaces and homes.
year the .'courtiers, • offiaials and rein,- The women among them have felt
tives of the royal .family, known as the change a$ the men, they having
the "ohs -men," are finding it harder drifted into various ways of earning
to find a living in the ever-moderuiz- a living, Among the poorer groups ou
ing China. And since the removal of they can be seen shoveling coal t-
tlie nation's capital to Nanking in 1928, side Chihua Gate for 50 cents a day,
these people, who formerly lived in while others act as junk dealere and
wealth and pomp, are gradually disap• peddlers with the men, Some may
peering into the lower classes of be seen sitting before lamps doing
(
society, embroidery work, at which the fast
Men who dined sumptuously and workers cau earn 80 cents a day.
dressed elaborately in the Forbidden Others have found work as actresses
City and whose courtly salutations and waitresses, the letter being a
were heard in. every part of the royal novelty,. to Chiuese life. The less
community have had to adapt them- happily placed of them are even to
selves to their reduced circumstances. be seen waiting their turn at the mat
Th" tall, strong men have become shed soup kitchens,
Policemen and even jinricksha puller,, The near relatives of the Emperor
ivltile others are serving as waiters in eel the more wealthy officials are now
restaurants and ushers in picture the- living in seclusion in the foreign con-
cessions in Tientsin and Shanghai,
Veteran. "chi -men" men adopt less hoping that some day Pu Y1, the "boy
s'renuous employment by running {mperor," will ascend the Imperial
small exchange stands and small throne again.
shops- The more educated ones have Th "chi -mon" have a strong group
become private tutors. The poorer consciousness, and having established
ones are junk dealeis and peddlers. their fame in the north, they have
Others who have tried to preserve refused to scatter into the various
their royal dignity by refusing to do sections of the country,
Australian Press
Praised By Dean
"Human friendships are the great ,
Women Flyers lead Men 17,505 Persons
Airway Official Asserts Carried In 1930
Detroit. The day when mien could
side-step an invitation for a ride in an
airplane with the • excuse that "My
wife wouldn't want me to" has passed.
To -day, according to Colonel Helsey
Dunwoody, head of the universal di-
vision of American Airways, there are
100,000 women and girls actively en -
By US. Air lines
Washington.—Scheduled American
air lines carried 417,505 passengers
during 1930.
The aeronautics branch of the De-
partment of Commerce in making this
announcement added that 36,945,203
miles were flown during the year, an
gaged in the aviation industry, while increase of more than 10,000,000 over
't% many additional thousands travel by 1988 Mail carried amounted to 8,324, -
Canadian Hospitality
v�a - a� -.. -.. ,-,-.. ..,a.12tt,._.....�.. 399,255.
o � .... ' j$`�.`oD.. ��n-.sme _ n >laauude enol eam'ess2 ,_,_
Colonel Dunwoody said that women pounds.
hold the Secret of success for au For the last half of 1930 the 55
Northwest Territories Con- Careless Disposal of Cigaret- transportation in 1931. transport companies operating 137
"Women have a true, keen apprecia- routes reported 20,042,475 miles fiowa;
tion that commercial aviation is an in- moil and 1,623,773 pounds of express.
spiration to American achievement Passengers miles fiown totalled 51,-
tain World's Greatest tes Chief Source of
Deposit, Claims Forest Destruction
Geologist Beware of setting forest firest One
Edmonton.—CIaimed to be the
greatest and richest deposit in the
world, radium has been discovered
alt Great Bear Lake, 1,200 miles
north of Edmonton in the North-west
territories.
This was disclosed here recently
when Dr. J. A. Allan, head of the other forms
s of tobacco, is is due to the fact he that
thie
hat of geology at the Univer-
city of Alberta, revealed results of a cigarette when thrown away con -
analysis of pitchblende ore samples tinues to burn until entirely consumed.
taken from the area just completed Many serious forest fires are set by
by provincial and university officials. thoughtless persons who throw cigar -
Dr. Allan estimated the value of the ettes and other forms of lighted to -
ore at $8,600 a ton. bacco and burning matches from rail -
The radium ore found. at Echo road trains and automobiles.
Bay, on Great Bear Lake, also in- The fishing season is luring into the
dicated that it might be locatel la woods many smokers, who should use
the pre -Cambrian shield that covers extraordinary care in disposing of
12,500 square miles of Alberta. The their "smokes" and in building and
ore samples, sent to the university extinguishing camp fires,
by A. L. Cummings, supervisory en- Every forest fire takes money out
gineer for the Dominion government of the taxpayer's pocket. Fires de -
at Fort Smith, are practically pure stroy recreational areas and material
pitchblende. Tliey yun richer in that would have furnished employment
pitchblende and with less residue in many lines of industry. Forests are
than the ores taken from the mines not insured; every forest fire repre-
in the Belgian Congo, now the only sents a total loss which always falls
large-scale radium producing mines in upon the public purse. When forests
the world. are destroyed everybody suffers be -
Since radium is worth approxi- cause not only are fish, game, birds aha
mately $70 per milligram, a ton of and recreation adversely affected but
the Echo lake pitchblende would be agriculture and the metropolitan cen-
worth about $12,700 per ton. On tres also suffer through the effect that
forest destruction has upon the water
supply. If every citizen would con-
sider himself as a private fire warden
this wanton waste of our forests would
to a surprising extent be overcome.
of the most dangerous seasons of the
year is here.
Statistics kept many years on the
causes of forest fires show that the
largest cumber of fires from any one WomenColonel Dunwoody said, can companies with 108 routes flew 17,-
cause are set by smokers and that do anything in the air that m011.1:..c.an, 396,719 miles in the last six months of
the cigarette, which is used more than and in proof of his statement "� Ie30, carrying 188,970 passengers,
to the achievements of Elinor Spiith, 4,223,634 pounds of mail and 1,517,749
Bobby Trout, Amy ' Joh ;Loa, -a
pounds of express.
Nichols, Amelia Earhart Putnam, 'L dna On scheduled air transport lines
May Cooper and Dorothy Hester. operated by American companies into
---a, Canada, Central and South America,
Field of Waterloo Yields . and including three routes in Alaska,
Bones of 7 Frenchmen three compauies operated 20 routes
clueing the last half of the year. These
Brussels.—After a lapse of more planes flew 2,645,756 miles and carried
than a century, the historic field of 20,169 passengers, 339,245 pounds of
Waterloo has yielded the remains of mail and 106,029 pounds of express.
another group of victims in that mem-
orable engagement. Workers digging
at La Hays Sainte on the site of the
battle found tete skeletons of seven
Nevem' forget that the free use and
French soldiers, who were identified play of the faculties is the Source of
as members of the Corps of right the noblest power and the purest joy
wing of the French army in its in life; the pelf which they can win is
struggle against the English. but as dust or dirt in comparison,
"Freedom is of worth having if i while the range and the force of cul -
it does not connote freedom to err I tivated and developed faculty .consti-
and freedom to sit."—Mahatma Gan-
tute the true wealth which is alone
Worth reckoning in time and eternity.
joy of human life. As we grow older,
life becomes richer because the world
is so full of people who brighten if �yclney, Australia.—"Great Britain
they meet you and say, 'Don't you
remember?' " says Dr. Baillie, Dean of lh again acted
magndeclaranimously
yS to -
Windsor, in a discourse printed in the ward
Aney Morning Herald," commenting on.
the revision of the Australian war debt
funding agreement to postpone pay -
and we in the industry loop to them
to lead the way for 1,000,000 persons
to fly an average of 250 miles each
this year on established air transport
routes."
Praises Actio
of Great * ritai
209,148 passengers, 4,562,879 pounds of
4'3,663 during the six months period,
a passenger mile being equivalent to
one passenger flown one mile.
In operation of domestic lines 47
Cambridge Review.
"I took a wonderful tour in Canada
and America, In the course of many mentis of capital for two Years.
months I have never stayed in an hotel i "It was the best token of good -will
and sympathy that Britain could have
given," the newspaper continued.
"That the Prime. Minister found him-
self compelled to ask for postponement
of instalments on. the principal of the
loan. is a matter of regret. But Aus-
tralia's appreciation of Great Britain's
action is all the deeper that she has
helped us when she was so embarrass-
ed herself."
"The Melbourne Angus said that
Australian self-esteem would not be
increased by the announcement of the
new debt arrangements. "The grace-
fulness of Great Britain's action is
and every meal was a party. The
kindness, the hospitality, the interest
was marvellous. but the thing that
etands out as the crowning joy was
that I never went to a single place
where someone did not ring me up or
come and see me, to say 'Don't you
remember?'
"The very first day a man carne who
had been a member of a boys' Bible
class i used to hold in a cellar in a
slum in London 30 years before, We
had never met between, but he had
to come and say, 'Don't you remem-
ber?'
"But, glorious as human ties are, heartily conceded, but there is an
there issadness inthem. .There is I uneasy feeling that without the come
always the though
t of separation;
rennetimes of the supreme separation
of death. There are disappointments;
a sense of incompleteness in them all.
"Which recalls Clough's lines out-
lining
utlining this pathos of human friend-
ships:
riendships:
NOBLEST POWER
this basis the ore, containing 68 per.
Cent. pitchblende, would be worth
about $8,600 per ton.
"The analyses show that one grain
of radium is contained in every tons
of pitchblende," Dr. Allan stated.
He—"Do you know it was the
sappiest moment of my life when
fou promised to be mine?"
She—"I can't bear to refuse any
Stan that asks Me to marry him."
Canadian Silica Sand
The materials produced in the silica
ynitting indttstry are silica sated for
the manufacture of glass, carborunn
duns, and for use lit steal foundries;
eitex, the finely pulverized 'silica sand
which is important as a grinding and
polishing substance quartz and quartz-
ite for smelter flax, ferro-silicon, and
silica brick. (.claimed 13.37 per cent,
Finds Sports Mishaps Exceed
Those on Rail and Ship Lines
Accidents in sporting events and
recreational amusements are nearly
five times as numerous as the com-
bined total of railroad, street car,
elevated, subway "and steamship ac-
cidents, in the experience of a Life
Insurance Company, which has com-
pleted a survey of the personal aoct-
dents on its records from 1922 to
1930 inclusive.
More persons were injured playing
golf, the survey shows, than while
travelling on railroads. More than
twice as many claims were paid to
times: injured 'while playing baseball
than to those hurt its street-aar as
cidents: More persons were injured 1
dancing than in subway accidents.1
The greatest number of accidents, 28'
per cent. of the total, oceurred in
buildings other than the home, while ;
occupants of automobiles in, accidents ,
accounted for 22.05 per cent,
Accidents occurring in the home
amounted to 18.53 per cent, of the
total, while sports and recreation
Sets New Record
1.11111r 4inith, girl pilot, set world's record for women when she
clic;-:;'d 32,300 feet lit to air over Long Wined. This tops record of
28,743 feet set by Ruth Nicholls, She is seen hotuiittg barittraplt to
Walter 1), Ward, at Roosevelt Field, Long lolaud.4
plaint of politicians of a more raucous
school, relief would not have been
considered," "The Argus" added.
"Admirers of the virtue of self-re-
liaace will regret if the concession
adds in the smallest degree to the
embarrassments of the British goy-
" 'Some future day'when what is now ernment."
is not,
When all old faults and follies are
forgot,
And thoughts of difference passed, like
dreams away;
We'll meet again, upon
day.
some future
"'When all that hindered,
vexed our love,
As tall, rank weeds will climb the
blade above,
When all but it has yielded to decay;
We'll meet again, upon some future
day.
all that
"'When we have proved, each on our
course alone,
The wider world, and learnt what's
now unknown,
Have made life clear, and worked out
each a way,
We'll meet again; we shall have much
to say.
"'Some day which oft our hearts shall
yearn to see,
In some far year, though distant yet
to be,
Shall we indeed—ye winds and waters
say— -
Meet yet again upon some future clay.'
"So it is with human loves." j are being considered for the compul-
Canadian Grown Wood
Preferred by British Buyers
Ottawa—Certain British Govern-
ment departments and public bodies
are now giving preference in their
Purchasing, where conditions ren-
der it practicable, to Canadian -
grown wood, writes Harrison Wat-
son, Canadian Trade Commisioner at
London, in the forthcoming issue of
the Commercial Intelligence Journal.
"Buyers continue to be offered par-
cels of Douglas. Fir and other Can-
adian timber which are stated to be
of Canadian growth, but which bear
no marks or other visible proofs of
the assertion," he declared. "This
is an unsatisfactory state of affairs,
and while adjustments will prob-
ably have to be made in the process,
it is not unreasonable that buyers in
Great Britain who are giving prefer-
ence to Empire -grown woods, frequ-
ently at ome inconvenience and ex-
tra
xtra expendittre to themselves, should
be supplied with visible means of
identifying Canadian woods, and thus
secure the guarantee for which they
ask.
"It should be emphasized that the
arrangements which it is understood
a;
Prairie Provinces Favor
Tractor
Winnipeg, Mau.—Titere are 75,211
tractors in operation in the three
Prairie Provinces of Canada—Mani-
toba, Saskatchewan and Alberta; 39,-
433 in Saskatchewan; 21,891 in Al-
berta, and 13,887 in Manitoba, accord-
ing to an estimate made by "Canadian
Farm Implements," a Winnipeg pttbli-
cation, Last year 8,991 tractors were
sold in Western Canada. Sales of
.harvester•combines in three provinces
in the last five years totalled 9,543,
according to the "Nor' West Farmer,"
which estimates the number of thresh-
ers in the Prairie Provinces at 66,000.
Meanwhile the horse continues to
retain a place of popularity among
the farm stock.
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WRONG DOING
No one is more injured by Wrong .article, to the excellent condition of
doing thee the tivrthidoer. It is net I the rose beds at the College as well
itt the power Of a thef to impoverish es lit gas visited fel several On -
anyone. so much as he impoverish him t.ario cities.rden
self b3thieving. The man who uses
vulgar or profane language offends
polite and reverent eters, and pollutes
the social atmosphere, but he is him-
self, the worst sufferer. Jesus said,
"Not that which entereth into .the
mouth deflieth the man; bot that
witielt proceedeth out of the mouth,
this defileth the man." 4
sory branding with a national mask
of British Columbia timber, should
equally include timber grown in the
East, and moreover that the system
be put into effect with the least pos-
sible loss of time."
Ontario "Rose Conscious"
Guelph, Ont.—According to Dr. J. H.
McFarland, president of the Ameri-
can Rose Society1 "there exists in
Ontario an admirable condition of
rose -mindedness which is not ordin-
ary, and which, indeed, I have not
met elsewhere in America." The
quotation is from the introduction of
a two-page description of rose condi-
tions in Ontario, as published in the
1931 edition of tete American Rose
annual. Dr. McFarland was for three
days last June the guest of the Rose
Society of Ontario on a tour of Ontario
rose gardens under the direction of
Paul B. Sanders, of the horticulture
-department of the Outerio Agricultural
College, and reference is made, in an
Floating Bridge Battered
i'etierboro.—According to a recent
report the Chewing floating bridge
has been so battered by wind and
.waves that traille is impossible and
it will probably be months before 11
is in condition again to carry vehicles,