Evening Star Newspaper, December 14, 1924, Page 55

BOY SCOUTS ‘Washingten Scouts - are steadily climbing toward the goal adopted about & year ago, when it was deter- rilned that not more than 50 per cent of the Scouts enrolled should be ten- derfoot, and that at least 30 per cent should be second class and 20 per eent first class. Standing on December 1 16 the highest attained during the pres- ent year, but has not yet reached the mark set. It shows 65 per cent ten- derfoot, 22.7 per cent second class and 12.3 per cent first class. Heavy in- croases in membership by the or- zanization of many new troops, whose Scouts, of course, are all of tenderfoot rank, has been responsible for kesping the proportion of tenderfoot Scouts s0 high. Many of these troops are now making rapld progress, and prospects are bright for reaching the goal early in the new year. A special effort will be made to attain the standard adopt- ed by anniversary week in February, when scouting will celebrate its fif- teenth birthday with a big mass meet- ing at Central High School. The entire crew of the round-the- world flrers has recefved honorary tenderfoot membership in the Boy Scouts of America. The aviators jotned the ranks in St. Louis, Mo., on the occasion of the recent community chest drive. In respouse to an Invita. tion to be present at the opening cere- monies they made a. special filght to that c A selected group of merit badge Scouts, who, on the opening day of the campaign, held all the important of- fices in the municipal government, marched in a body to Bridgeton Field, where they officlally welcomed the dis- tinguished guests and assisted at their sinduction into the St. Louls Scout Council. When askod just previous to their arrival in St. Louls what incident in their entire journey stood out most vividly in thelr minds, Lieut. Smith, speaking for the w, sald: “The welcome given us by the Boy Scouts of Pasadena was the most impressive incident.” At that city, it was re- called, the Scouts’ first act of greet- ing was the strewing of flowers over tho landing fleld The airmen expressed- thelr ad- miration of the Boy Scout spirit of sarvice as exhibited at various stops on_the great flight. ! Members of the Boy Scouts of America, it was recalled, were among the group to bid the last farewell efore the historic hop from the United es mainland, and were on hand to perform service at the first landing In this country on the flyers® return, as well as at the other stops en route to the home goal. A broken finger on one hand of cout Tom Miller of Waverly, Md. stands for more than an accldent. It represents the saving of & tiny Zirl from injury that might have nrovad fatal,” states a Baltimore account. “The boy, riding on his racing bicycle at good good speed along a fet street. was suddenly, without onfronted by a little girl who darted from a yard into the path of the oncoming wheel. The Scout’s alternative to running into the child was to run into a mail box post. Miller steered clear of the ter- rified voungster, crashed into the pest, battered h's bdicycle, broke a finger, but saved the little girl. The child, frightened by the nar- rowness of her escape~fled before her name could be learned.” Washington has for the third time been chosen as the place for the big intercity Boy Scout fleld meet that is held each £pring by councils in the eastern section of the third re- glon. At a meeting of Scout execu- tives held in Baltimore last week. preliminary plans we outlined. The program th's year will make the patrol organization the basis of all competition. All councils participating will be represented by two patrols of eight boys each, under the direction of pa- trol leaders. One patrol will special- iz¢ In camping and will compete in the erection of a typical 24-hour tem- porary Scout camp. The second pa- trol will participate in a serles of eight events, and it will be necessary for each Scout In the patrol to be trained and prepared in all eight, as the actual contestants will be picked by lot from the patrols competing, immediately preceding the contest. These eight events will be finally de- termined at a meeting to be held in Washington on January 12, and wiil include such things as first aid, fire butlding, signaling, handicraft, roping end possibly swimming and wall scaling. This new form of contest is modeled somewhat after the events in the in- ternational jamboree, held in Copen- hagen last Summer, and won by American Scouts. About 15 councils are expected to participate, including Thiladelphia, Reading, Delaware and Montgomery Counties, Wilmington, Baltimore, Norfolk, Richmond, Wash- ington and possibly Lynchburg and Toanoke. At a recent meeting of the deputy commissioners it was unanimously voted that Scout neckerchiefs shall be considered a part of the official uni- form for Washington Scouts, to be worn either with or without the coat. Divisional colors have now been adopted by all the divisions, and the proper combination of necl.erchiefs and +lide may be obtained ecither at Scout headquarters or of any of the officlal outfitters. Arrangements have been made for the annual C. M. O. banquet to be held at the Lafayette Hotel on Mon- day evenin December 29, at 6 o'clock. The committee on programs is preparing an unusual array of tal- ent for this big Scout affair. A meet- ing of the newly elected officers and the Council of Sachems will be held t the Thomson School tomorrow eve- ning, December 15, at 8§ o'clock. Troop 29 of Eckington Presbyterian Church won_ the swimming meet of Division I, held in the pool of the Boys' " last week. It scored 39 points, as against 37 points made by Troop 20 of Epworth M. E. Church and 22 points made by Troop 9 of the Douglas M. E. Church. Winners, of the different events were as follows: Class A, under 95 pounds—Fift: foot dash, W, Rittenhouse, Troop 20; 500-foot swim, James Freeman, Troop 20; dive for form, W. Rittenhouse, Troop 20; plunge for distance, James Freeman, Troop 2 Class B, 95 to 110 pounds—Fifty- foot dash, Scout Van Horn, Troop 2! 300-foot swim, Van Horn, Troop 2! dive for form, Van Horn, Troop 29: plungg for distance, Donald Craig, Troop 20. Class C, over 110 Ibs—Fifty-foot ~lash, Jacob Hengstler, Troop 9; 300- foot swim, Hengstler, Troop 9; dive or form, Hengstler, Troop 9; plunge :oz distance, Paul Castinett, Troop «20. “The team from Troop 29 won the unlimited relay, with Scouts Edwin Shuffle, George Thompson, Van Horn and James Bates. 3 Field Executive J. P. Hovey acted as starter, and the judges were E. C. Hartung and B. B. Caviston. Scout- master W, E. Shoults was timer and TIeputy Commissioner C. G. Schlaefil, scorekeeper. < e . Loren Adams of Troop 100 be- came eagle eout last ning, and Rusk Lincoln and Le Lyon of Troop 42 reached life and star, and Wnilam Augusterfer of Troop 99 life Scout. Thirty-five scouts qualified for 55_badges at the court. ‘There are now 382 merit badge Scouts .on the rolls, others being added at every count; 2,398 merit badges have been granted to date this year, and there have bee: ~agle badges granted, 60 and 63 life badges, far surpassing the record of any ious .year. Merit badges. ':&jy?flu > last Tyesday Oienlll!’ re: ~“Wilson' Caton, 126, public health. mour Kritt, 73, and Roger Marquis, 100. Clark, Troop 20, pioneering; Jesse Stimson, Troop 35, civics; Rush Lin- coln, 42, athletics, ploneering; Le Grand Lyon, 42, athletics; Thomas Baxter, 44, surveying; William Dukes, 44, handicraft and pathfinding; Wil- liam Gallther, 44, athletics, personal heaith; Leslle Robertson, 44, personal health; Richard Schmidtman, 44, ma- chinery, surveying; Morton Silverberg, 49, carpentry, handicraft: James E. Douglass, jr., 51, scholarship; Harry Bacalman, Troop 79, firemanship; Harry Kritt, 73, firemanship; Sol Rosenthal, 73, firemanship; Reese Lukei, 82, civics, cooking, pathfinding; Frank Saltzman, 82, civics, pathfinding; Willlam August- erfer, 99, first aid to animals, pioneering, swimming; James Chaney, 99, electric- ity, firemanship, public health; Joseph Crowley, 99, electricity, firemanship Joseph Daly, 99, firemanship, electricity Joseph Dondero, 99, electricity; Howard Dunnington, 99, electriclt Elmar Gladman, 99, electricity; Francis Jahn, 99, firemanship, electricity, public health; Eugene King, 99, electricity; Francis McCarron, 99, electricity; James Van Horn, 99, ploneering: J. Loren Adams, 100, civics; Donald Dow, 100, foundry practice; Roger Marquls, 100, firema: ship, personal health, public health; Ed ward Vanderlip, 100, foundry practice; Harmon Vanderilp, 100, foundry prac- tice, painting, safety first; H. Burdge ARR R R RN NR IR IR Courts of review for the week ad- vanced scouts as follows: To first class: John Kerkam, Troop 15; Herbert Sparrow, Troop 44: Sey- To second class: Robert Weintraub, 2; Wade Brinley, 30; Robert Hall, 30; Richard Mattoon, 33; Harold Appleby, i3; Henry Auth, 90; Albert Hahn, 90 Edward Hahn, 90; Walter Martin, 90 Danfel Broughton, 96; Joseph Bogan, Daniel Connors, 99; Frank Likens, 57; Jacob Shapiro, 73; Francls Pepper, 135; Everett Gordy, 13; Olin Lanham, 185, and John Gordy, 135. Iraiah Carter has donated a tract of several acres of land near Chain Bridge to Troop 73 of the Y. M. H. A., and the troop has made “Camp Carter” its hik- ing headquarters for several weeks. At the meeting last week, Activities Officer Abbey J. Mintz presented spectal gold medals to Scouts Harry Kritt and Solomon Rosenthal for advancement. Scout Harry Bacalman was also award- ed a gold pin for work accomplished. Both Scout Bacalman and Scout Kritt recelved also the present of a book from Assistant Scoutmaster Benjamin Tarshes, while Scout Solomon Rosen- thal was given a year's subscription to Boys' Life. Scoutmaster Paul Robbin made the following promotions: Samuel Dick, to Officers’ Training Patrol; Israet Gordon, to Buffalo Patrol; Joseph Rosenthal, to assistant patrol leader of Silver Fox Patrol; Harry Bacalman, patrol leader of Buffalo Patrol; Seymore Kritt, as- sistant patrol leader of Buffalo Patrol. Troop 108 of Brentwood, Frank S. Taylor, scoutmaster, was not organized in time for the Thanksgiving good turn performed by so many troops, but since then has found & destitute family and suppiled it in true scout spirit with a layge basket of provistons. 135, Landover, is making rapid progress under the guldance of Scout- master J.-J. Hurley. At a recent court of review four ecouts were advanced to second-class standing. Raiph Bartley, assistant scoutmaster in charge pf Troop 40, has been made a merit badge examiner in cooking, elec- tricity, safety figgt and swimming. TRAVELERS TROUBLED. Turkish Officials Cannot Read Own Passports. Correspondence of the Associated Press. BUCHAREST, Rumania, November 8.-—Turkish Nationalists have gone to extreme measures, according to in- formation current in this city, in thelr endeavors to bar all foreign languages out of the country. In preparing new passports for the A: gora government, Turkish officlals insist that not a word of any forelgn language be used, and print all the documents in Turkish script. When the bcarers of these pass- ports tried to leave Turkish terri- tory, their troubles began. No offi- cial could read the Turkish scrip! they could not tell whether the paper was a legitimate passport or a bill for groceries, and the bearers were refused permission to cross the border. £ oab o - ». " . 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