Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 27, 1922, Page 9

_ compose it. -The patrols offer excel- 1 1 e Py ) UL S A VR s S0 T D0 T N S SRR RS N A g MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 27, 1922 (Conducted by National Council of the Boy Scouts of America.) PATROL UNIT IN SCOUTING So frequently it is stated by scout ' executives in reply to the question why more churches in the community do ' not have Boy scout troops, that many of the churches are too smail to have | a troop, writes John M. Gore, Scout | Executive, Knoxville, Tenn. They | haven't enough boys of scout age. Is not such a reply based upon the con- ception of a troop of from 24 to 32 boys? True, there are many of the smaller churches which find it hard to muster that many boys above twelve years of age, and because of this some scout leaders consider such a church as lacking. the opportunity, for troop organization, many suggest- ing that several such churches combine | and form a troop. The latter plan, however, seldom works out satis- | factorlly because the troop lacks the identity 1t should have in the church | of which the boy is a member or with which he is identified. The error in assuming that thel church which cannot supply a suf-| ficient number of boys to make up a full troop cannot organize for scout- | ing is due in part at least to a faiure | to emphasize the patrol as the real | unit of organization. A patrol of eight constitutes a large enough group to provide excellent opportunity for good scouting. In fact, the smaller number las particular advantages. There is more likelihood of success in securing «a lender and more chances of an efti- | cient program. There are men will- ing and competent to lead eight boys[ who are not willing and who are notz competent to handle a larger number. With this poliit -0f view can there not be organized” groups of boys in many-| churches where they are not now or-i ganized and where it has been thought impossible to organize ‘them? This leads us to declare that Inj other ways the patrol has not been. adeuuatelv emphasized. A troop is| no stronger: than the patrols whlch: lent opportunities for grading within the troops. ‘They-afford the maximum op- i portunity for developing. older boy | leadership. The patrol leader Is af very important factor in the manage-. ment of a troop. “We should be more ! concerned with his selection and pro- | vide special opportunities for his train- ing. They are, as a rule, older boys. | The cultivation and utilization of the | patrol leader constitutes one of our ! lnrgest opportunities for holding the | alder boy. The real appeal to the older boy is not along the line of sel- fishness through the proffer of priv- ileges, but through the appeal to serv- ice, . He fs_impressed by being given | responsihilities. He loves to be a lead- er. Patrol leaders’ conferences, patrol leaders’ training courses, organization : of prospective patrol-leaders should re- ceive much greatér = attention than they now receive. Here iz a way, at least In part, to meet the older boy | problem, And further, has enough attention been given to the actual program of the patrols? Here is where we may learn much from our English scout friends. Baden-Powell is always re- ferring to the patrol, its leadership and program. He seeks: constantly to eu- logize its work, to emphasize its pro- gram, to humanize it§‘objectives, to de- clare its importance. The patrol is the real unit of scout- fng. It brings the program of scout- ing close to the boy. As go the pa- trols so goes scouting. May we im- prove the quality of their program. VARIOUS GOODS TURNS | Here are a few good turns reported from different ‘ gources all over the country: “Shovelled snow from the school house three times; took two blind ladies to doctor three times a | week and supplied crippled boy with scout literature;. found lost child; cleaned town of Mexican sandburrs; provided scout uniform for boy who had to give all his own earnings to ' support of mother and little sister; ' cleaned alleys, builg . sidewalks, re- moved dehfi aftér}fl’fe. dugditches ! for draining, gave }wood to poor ' widow.” B ANNIVERSARY PLANS STARTING Plans are going forward among local councils for the observance of the twelfth scout birthday., which will occur the week of February 8 to the 14. Various rallies and mass meetings will take place in the different scout centers throughout the country. i A LEGION TROOP The Bayside ¢E:'L:)*post is organiz ing a troop_of boy scouts to be known as the Legion Troop. David G. Hen- derson will act as scoutmaster and | Otto Holmgren as assistant. HONOR DEAD IN BELLEAU WOOD | Poy scouts - of Chateau Thiel erry b formed a guard of Bonor while school & girls from Belleau placed wreaths an the graves of the American unident!- ; fied dead Christmas day. ey S R i Subscrive rfor The Datly Ploaeer | electricity. A copper raine is a gondl | silver coin. WHILE TW' YIMID MERCHANT ADVERTISIN' 1R-OUR NOTED PURVENOR. OF PUBLICITY Y AMUSING TO WOMEN TODAY ! | What Was Considered Proper in Mid- Victorian Days Seems Some- what Ridiculous Now. ~ { In a book written in mid-Victorian days concerning the proper manners of well-bred women appears the state- ment that a woman with graying hair is “hardly respectable without a cap,” and that the woman of thirty-five who does not don the cap as signal of the fact of her advanced .age. has some- thing of.& “musculine aspect.” Such statements are amusing and sometimes just a little annoying—es- : pecially to the woman of thirty-five. She consoles herself with the fact that times have changed enormously slice those days and that now so long as a woman is slender enough to wear clothes selected by eighteen-year-old girls she is seldom criticized for wearing them. But don’t delude yourself into think- ing that all women of thirty-five in mid- Victorian days donned the cap of old age. Empress Eugenie wasn’t married | untll she was twenty-seven, and she: continued to be “regarded as one of': the most charming and beautiful wom- en In Kurope for many years. ¥ | stairs that led to the attic. -out what had THE BEMIDJi DAILY PIONEER TO CUT AUSTRALIAN ESTATES | Measure Almost’ Soclalistic In Charac- ter I¥ Approved by Most of the Landhofders. Large Australian estates may have to be subdivided, according to the Sydney correspondent of a Londot pa- per.. " *.TH&. new South Wales government 1§-reintroducing a large holding sab- ' divisién’. bill, compelling owners ‘to Subdiyide for closer settlement any '“land exceeding $100,000 in value, °If, | for instance, the owner of land worth §250,000 refuses to subdivide it the government will compulsorily acquire $150,000 worth and make It available | for closer settlement, i The intention is to pay munedlme‘ cash er-current rates of interest:to | ers. The measure, which: Is | by most Australian individ- uat-landholders, but bitterly opposed by big:land companfes with headquar- ters in England, will have the effect of opening for cultivation large ureas now utilized as sheep runs. will atford an opportunity for an in- | creased agricultural population and scope for immigrants. It is designed to mitigate the ex- isting serious unrest arising out of the inability to provide Australian agricul- turists with land. These people are ' being driven to the cities to swell the | rinks of the unemployed, making dan- gerous centers of discontent. Thus it | MICKIE SAYS | WITH NER KIND PERMIGS\ON, | WILL. NOW RECIYE CHAKESPEARE'S FAMOUG PLAN ENTITULLED, " \F MER PIRED, PLEASE RENEW WITHOUY WAITING L “TH! PAPER STOPG COMNGH! " H AND THEY SLEPT “UPSTAIRS” i Ch:ldlnh Prank Not 50 Enjoyable l!‘ Youngsters imagined It Was Going to Be. An Indianapolis woman is fond of telling a story about her girlhood + days. There were several children in the family and they went to school with other ‘children, perhaps a trifle better off as to this world's goods than they were. At any rate, the other children were always talking about their wupstairs. And there was no upstairs to the cottage where the Indianapolis woman's family lived —it was only a cottage. But children- like, they had to be able to say with cool disdain when they went to, school: “Why, upstairs where we sleep—" So when mother went downtownj one day these small children labor- ' ‘ lously took their little bed apart and | carried it up the narrow, steep dnrk‘ Then they | carried up the bedclothes; then their | little chairs. They were indeed, golug to sleep upstairs. When mother came home she found happened. She | It 1s really no new thing for women [‘climhefl the attic stairs, and there ! of ‘thirty-five, forty or over to retain ' their youthful charms and change very . nme their mode of dress or behavior as time goes on. Possibly our present mode of life, our athletics, our style of clothes, tend more to the retaining , of youthful appearance and real ‘ youthfulness than did conditions of the Nineteenth century. - | More Electric Lights. During 1921 the increase in residen- tlal electric lighting customers in the | United States was 1,001,700, according, l to a survey just completed of re-| ports from electric light and pov.er. companies throughout the country. | This brings the total number of resi- | dential lighting customers up to 8,-4 467,600 or more than double the num-| ber in 1915, when only 4,006,300 fam flies had electric lights in their homes. | - Gas Usaed. Not counting debate in congress, | Americans used 319888000000‘cublc feet of artificial gas last year. This is an achievement, comparing it ! with’ a generation ago when mother had to wash the smoked chimneys of ! the kerosene oil lamps and trim their: wicks daily. In about one more generation the; only heating and lighting will be by legacy for grandchildren. iy "I’he Flapper Dollar. Afréady the eritics—cull” them' hy- pers, if yoft like—are knocking our new | One; writer calls it the| “flapper dollar” “and says the ops lipped: girl thereupon looks as though she might be saying “Line's biz: or “Say, lissen!” Just that sort of| girl, you know. If the comment were not so obvious we would say some- thing about money talking—but we re- frain.—Boston Transcsipt. ! off your letter and pasting it on the amid the dust and dirt and whatnots | and cobwebs were the two beds. So just to punish the children for their disobedience mother made them ! sleep up there a few nights in the hot ‘weather, until they were glad they had no “upstairs.” A Lost ‘Art With Him, | Warren G. Sayre of Wabash, an at- | torney and formerly a state repre- | sentative,.sent a letter several weeks ago to the county clerk of Boone coun- ty,.asking for information concerning a divorce sult. The letter was writter. on plain paper in longhand and sent in a plain envelope. Finally the follow- ing letter was received from the clerk: “Dear Sir: I have submitted your letter to every officer of this court- house and we cannot read a word of it. We cannot even read your signa- ture, so I am cutting it and the address envelope carrying this letter, hoping | that the post office employees are suf- ficlently familiar with your way of | writing to assure the delivery of the | tetter.”—Indianapolis News, Aunrallal Water Supply. Australia’s wonderful uuflerxn-‘mml' water supply, her artesian basin sys- | tem, might well rank among her- greatest assets. But like other as- sets, the artesian water supply can be wasted, and Australians are noting with concern that in New South Wales there has been a total diminu- tion in the flow of water from 268 selected water 'bores of something, Tike 21,400,000 gallons @ day, or 2bout ' 988 per cent. It is now being recog- nized that the artesian water must be conserved by the partial closing of the bores, so that only the flow ca- pable of being used will be allowed to issue. The irrigation commission! is taking steps to penallze the care- | less bore owner.—Christian ,Science Monitor. Try Our Service Under- The New Management American and Chinese Dishes | | in the country of the Caliphs of Bu Expert chefs have been secured and the cafe will be first ciass in every respect. - Clean and properly prepared foods well served and courteous reatment, will be features always found here. Your trade is solicited an! witl be appreciated. Mandarin Cafe ——SECCND STREET: W. H. SHORT, Manager Difficulties of Observing Venus. The scieniitie ouslaught on the | planet Venus, to try to determine whether there was life upon it, has resulted in nothing of a sati tory nature. ‘There have been many inter- esting obser nd some.ew the- ories, but no conclusion as to the pres- ence of life. Although it is the neavest planet to the earth, nearer at times than Ma, Venus has thoroughly baf- fled investigation heretofore because it is in darkness, being between the earth and the sun, when it is nearest to the earth. Such markings char- acterize Mars are lacking, This is supposed to be due to an envelope of cloud covering evenly the surface of Venus. Support of Royaity. At the installation ceremon King Feisul of Irak nothing had beet {left undone in producing the atmex phere necessary for such an occastor | dad. The throne—or rather the chait | of state—was a masterpiece in scarle: | rep, tiusel and gilt. After the cere mony, which, it will be rememtered, | was an open-air aftair, the ritual re | quired that the throne should be re moved. A stalwart Ethlopian raised | | it above his head and bore it away ! past the assembled multitude. The | frame beneath the seat was simple ! deal, and across the boarding was the 1 legend In stencil of a firm that ex-| ports Scotch whigky. It ‘shall lm[ | nameless, because the most up-to-date advertisement - manager -could. never have hoped for such a display. Tt was worth a king's rinsom @nd yet it was free and unsolicited.—te" CROATRET relieving benefit. Don’t ['CHANGE ‘CLOTHES’ IN WINTER | ! Animals Satisfies the sweet tooth ard aids appetite and digestion. Cleanses mouth and teeth, A great boon to smokers, Combines pleasure and new WRIGLEY'S P-K—the sugar- coated peppermint tid bit! CURES WROUGHT BY PICTURE Virgin of Pompeii Credited by Devout Catholics in Italy With Miracu- lous Powers. The Virgin of Pompeii, to whose protection Pope Benedict asked to be commended by Cardinal Silli, is the | patron of a modern shrine which has become one of the wost famous in Ialy. About 1875 Bartolo Longo, wealthy Catholic layman lving m the m of the buried city of Pompeil, Naples, found in an anclent cas- long a number of other articles. ique furniture, a painting of the, Mudonna, The painting did not show | uthorship, but its beauty attracted d he placed it on di is home. An Infirm wowun, visiting | the house, knelt before the picture and | ed. for relief and she at once de- | od that she was cured of her sick- ness. "The news of this cure caused others to seek healing, and after more cures were reported, Longo placed the picture in a small chapel. The num- ber of visitors and the reports of cures | Incrensed, and the picture is now dis- played in a large chureh in care of || { the Dominican fathers, about two | wiles from the Pompeii ('x(‘:x\ullunsi usually visited by fourists and Birds Make Seasonal | Shifts, Very Much as Does the Human Family. | Some animals and birds change | their dress in winter just as we do. The ptarmigan, a bird belonging to the same family as the grouse, and, who Ives high up in the Scottish ‘moun- tains, is one of the birds who w a completely diffcvent dress in winter. dn the summer he is a pretty low- fsh-brown all over, with white wings, but in winter he is nlmost all white. ' This is because there is so much snow on the high hills that if he remained brown he woull be easlly seen against the snow, A nelighbor of the ptarmigan in the Scottish mountains is the blue or mountain hare. In summer he Is grayish brown, but when winter comes he sheds his hair and grows a new | cout of pale gray and white fur. Ptar- migan even sleep on the snow when | there is ground free of snow quite | near, and one finds the little hollows ; made in the snow by their warm bodies. Some people say that white ' fur and white feathers arve warmer | than darker colors, So perhaps that | is partly why some animals and birds i in cold places have white winter ' clothes, Far north, in the arctic re- sions, where there is always snow and | ice all the year round, most of the animals are white, Ior instance, the polar bear and the arctle fox.—Chris- tian Science Monitor. A taxicah driver was sentenced to three days in prison and fined $25 for runnfng into a laundry wagon, which proves that you caif‘knock the starch out.of a laundry ‘wagon and still draw & stifl sentence. hot, dry mouth. miss the joy of the |,® 307 Beltrami Ave. Union Overallu e $1.5¢ Horsehide Mitis 8 pair 20c Cotton Gloves for. .. $1.50 Faultless Night Growns . 7 pair Heavy Jei-éey Mitts ... .. 3 pair Boys’ Black Cat Stockings. . 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