Evening Star Newspaper, January 18, 1925, Page 20

[ BOY SCOUTS Scout in com- Scouts of the for the big ebruary outing in America Wil be vs 0ld, and that week will wits muny birthday parties. Anntversary day falis on Sunday, and, In keeping with the twelfth Scout law, which declares that “Scout is reverent,” arrangements are being made for every troop to attend divine service, either in the church where each meets or in a combined rally With other troops. Many pas preach special sermons for the that day and provide for participation in other ways in service. P One day of thd week will be “goed | turn” day, when every troop will seek to find some community service to| render. A big anniversary rally will held, probably on Wednesday eve- ning, February 11, one feature of nich will be an iture service | who have advanced [ to second class or first class during the ber 1 to the day there are 29 Washington troops, with &l otaer preparing tion in countrs anniversary On Februhry 8 are their the be | 1 tenderfoot from second period from of the rally. Alread first-class Scouts and 87 _second-class le for that honor. 1o badges \will also be awarded that night to a number of Scouts. Many Scouts have thrills during the time enow has been with us by their ex periences in providing food for th Winter birds. Dr. Paul Bartsch of the Smithsonian Institution, Boy Scout merit badge examiner for bird Study, is largely responsible. Through his efforts hundreds of Scouts have been instructed how to proceed and have been able to attract unusual bird visitors to their hol l One report announces three pairs| of cardinals, five blue jays, one mock- fng bird, several starlings and flocks of juncos and sparrows at feeding {able In the back yard, all on one worning. While the s that cov- et up their food continues Scouts Will be found furnishing sunflower | peed and bread crumbs to their bird | friends, During the last week charters were granted by Natlonal Scout headquar- fers to six Washington troops which have been in continuous existence for | 10 years or more, and so are classed as “10-year veterans’: and to one “five-vear" troop. Those receiving the ar” eharters were Troop 1 Thomas' Episcopal Church, G. Wilson, scoytmaster: T{oOD the Western Church, Maj. William scoutmaster; Troop 3 of the Transfiguration, Mun- son, scoutmaster; Troop ot the| Towell School, Dr. C. W. Cooke, scout- | master; Troop 42, All Souls’ rian Church, Odell Whipple, scout- master. and Troop 52, All Saints'| urch, Alva G. Ny outmaster. | *'The “five-year” veteran troop was| Troop 10 of the Ninth Street Chri tian Church, T. J. Kelly, scoutmas-| ter. A list is being compiled by the local Scout headquarters of all troops that | are of veteran rank Diviston 1 held well attended round table at the Eckington Presb terian Church last Monday evening, | \with Field Executive J. P. Hovey and | Deputy Commissioner C. G. Schlaefli in charge. Matters considered in- cluded the coming annual Mount Ver- non Scout pilgrimage, Camp Roose- velt, divisional advancement and the y-owide contests now being held ‘Assistant Executive H. B. Holbrook Tepresented Scout headquarters at the meeting Division 3 met also ning at the Church of t Deputy Commissioner Charles M arsh presided and Scout Executive ward D, Shaw presented plans for dvancement that are the gram for the mext few months. arly every troop In the division was rapresented by a scoutmaster or member of the troop committee. Di- vision 3 now has three courts of review each month and more advance . scouting !s being made than for ny months previous The 21 troops of Division 1, includes Northeast Washington and the nearby Maryland towns, ha planned a scout rally for Friday ev ning, January 30, to be held in t gymnasium of the Sherwood Presb terian Church. A prize cup or que will be the award to the win- ning troop, and events will include Morse and semaphors signaling, knot tying, bandaging, marksmanship, a troop yell contest, fire by Indian bow drill and by flint and steel and pyra- mid building. Three Scouts were awarded life and star badge at the court honor session last Tuesday evening. They were Wilson Taylor. Jroop 2 mes Van Horn, Troop 8% and H nderlip, Troop 100. Merit badges were granted to the following, as indicated: Wilson Tay lor, Troop 2, ploneering: Robert Kl worth, 6, civics; B. Postelthwalte, 11, camping, cooking and cycling; H Hester, 15, civics and swimmin Mockabee, 16, firemanship and swim ing: Donald Moore, 17, automobiling, printing and signaling: S. Nordlinger, 44, conservation; B. Morgan, 42, con- servation; Willlam Dukes, 44, con- servation and foundry; R. Sargeant 44, electricity and pathfinding; R Brown, 63, firemanship; W. Kimball, 67, architecture; R. B. Wall, marksmanship; H. Bacalman, handicraft; S. Rosenthal, hand craft; Joe Rosenthal, 73, swimming J1. Dunnington, 99, pathfinding; James Van Horn, 99, public health: Jack Boerbower, 100, craftsmanship and public health; Fred Marshall, 100 conservation, pathfinding and safety first; R. Marquis, 100, camping and handicraft: T. Sawtelle, 100, carpe try and handicraft; E. Vanderlip, 10 automoblling and swimming; H. Va derlip, 100, automoblling, ploneering and physical development, and F Wayland, 100, carpentry and ploneer- ing. A scout funeral was h Wednesday by the members $5 of the Washington Boys' Club for thelr fellow , scout, Edwin Shaffer when he wis buried at Cedar Hi Cemetery. Six Scouts of the troop wore pallbearers and six others guards of honor. At the grave, under leadership of their scoutmaster, Levin M. Pace, each of 12 Scouts In turn r peated one of the Scout laws, with it explanation, as he deposited flowers on the casket, and then the whole troop renewed the Scout oath before “taps” was blown by another Scout brother. The troop flag, with the national colors, draped the casket, and a wreath from his brother Scouts had place of honor as he was borne 10 his last resting plac Troop 50 of the Church the Brethren, Fred P. Myers scoutmaster, has been conducting a membership campalgn, which has been progres ing very favorably. This troop one of the more fortunate troops in Washington, having a troop camp near Great Falls, where scouting stunts are practical nearly all the year around. Troop 67, Trinity M. E. Church Kenneth Craglow scoutmaster, ha plans for an old-fashioned taffy-pull et the next meeting, and there will probably be some tenderfoot Scouts demonstrating knot tying. Troop 63, Calvary Baptist Church, is being instructively entertained with a serfes of historical naval events, presented by Scoutmaster J W. Tally. A compass was awarded at the last meeting to the winner of the compass contest and a yardstick suggested for the loser. Troop 82, St. Aloystus Church, Lieut. Sharpe, scoutmaster, has just made Qo ecord of advancing 4 tender- ot Scouts of two months’ service to wecond class. Lieut. Sharpe will soon Dec been getting the present Unita- | Monday eve- Covenant on pro- which the d last Troop | acted | Wom the city, and his efficient work will be carried on by Lieut. Kennedy. Swimming in Division 11 s becom- Ing & matter of considerable Interest to the Scouts. Field Executive H. L. Webster h ured a prize of one week free at Camp Roosevelt for the put who wins first place In the in- tertroop swimming eontest to be held at the Boy ” on Friday, March 27, st one boy from every troop ision is expecting to win. troop hold a separate {mming contest, with & minimum of five Scouts, entered, and the good swimmers are busily perfecting them- selves in an effort to stay shead of the rapidly advancing younger Scouts. A busy week of public.service was rendered by Troop 13, starting with Sunday, January 4. A detail of Scouts s ushers at the Jewish Com- Center entertainment at the Y At the Sixth Street Synagogue night, January 9, Scouts per- . and on Sunday night, a detail acted as ushers for the Jewish Community Center meet- ing at the Eighth Street Temple. An- other group assisted at the soclety cir- cus by the Council of Jewish ieties in the Arcade Audi- torfum on Thursday night. Troop 100 announces the standing of the Interpatrol contest as follows: Pine Tree Patrol, 276 point Fox Patrol, 235 points: points, and Beaver Patrol, 215 points. In . individual standing, Loren Adams leads, with 336 points: Robert MeMil- len se with points; Donald Pitts third, with 299 points, and Frank Anderson, 294 points. Scoutmaster Archie W Troop 2, now meeting in McKendree M. P. Church, holds the record among scoutmasters of Washington for continu- ous service with a single troop. He firet registered as scoutmaster of Troop 2 on February 1, 1914, and has con- tinuously led the trpop since. This is a vecord surpassed by very few scout- masters in the country. February 1 will mark the bgeinning of his eleventh year with Troop munity M. H. A on Fri formed Janu; Davis of celebrate the versary of sc g in liy at Dunbar High birthday, February 12. Dr. Paul B: n of the executive ommittee of the Washington Council will preside. Badges to colored Scouts who have won first class will be pre- sented by Dr. J. Emmett Scott, ‘secre- tary-treasurer of Howard University, and Dr. A. B. Jackson, director of the school of public health and hyglene of Howard, will deliver the address of the evening. . i At the meeting of the tral for colored scoutmasters held Colored Scouts will fifteenth a America with a School on Lincoln ing class at the | Twelfth Street Branch of the Y. M. C. A. last Wednesday evening, H. B. Hol- brook, in charge of the class, gave in- struction in the tenderfoot tests. The | patrol led by Scoutmaster Leo Wilson of Troop 508 was reported 100 per cent perfect in attendance. An exhibition of knot boards and pictures from the Pub- tic Health Service closed the program. Now a Woman’s Game. From the Progressive Grocer Magazine I've sworn oft smoking! “Why “It's getting to be too effeminate!” “Murco,” the durability. 710 12th St. N. W. Syrups, prepared for Infants It has been in use for more Constipation Flatulence relinquish the reins of Troop 92. ow-. iug to his meeessary removal from T irections on eac] oven directions on each package. [iflren [l;g for Wind Colic Diarrhea Aids in the assimilation of Food, promoting Cheerfulness, Rest and Natural Sleep without Opiates To avoid imitations always look for the signature of THE SUNDAY HE was such a fresh widow that her weeds were in full bloom. topped by an austere turban with a crape sash at the back, a brussels net chin veil, and two dull jet javelins that plerced the neart of its only bow—a blg one. And she was buy- ng a fillet for the nair The young clerk having sized up the mourning as to newness and cost, produced a band of jet that gave out flickera >f diamond sparks —or maybe it was rhinestones, just as good, real but the bereaved one sighed refus- al. She knew It would become her, but what she the latest moan in halr omething to that effect. clerk knew what she was bands—o The little there for “But this is so elegantly sad-like Again _the customer halted the merits of the band with a statement that implied that it might be too consplcuous for a grief like hers. The little clerk was Gibraltar: “Why, you couldnt ask for any- thing more grieving-like than dia- monds_that look like tears—and you | couldn't find anything more dignified | for first mourning. “But {t isn't my first. My original husband died when I wasn't more than 18." 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And as a human swarm fringed around her on the asphalt, she quavered out: “Is there a Boy Scout here?” Three youngsters stepped forward and touched caps The woman lifted her purse and tried to hand it over. Then she fainted dead away The tallest boy took command by ordering the next in size to cali an ambulances Before he could get out- side the fringe, however, a man off ed his own car, and the woman was carefully lifted and whizzed Emer- gency Hospltal way, with the two taller scouts aboard. The third and lttlest boy recognized his oblivion by walking manfully out of the inei- dent The eme: D, O JARY 18 in your voung.” It was 2 ten-strike. The bereaved one, who will never again be a per- fect 38 in this world. either as to years or figure, wilted under the Compliment—and on the strength of it handed over a 50 yellow back and got the band and some change “I suppose you know best, with all the experience you have. he ad- mitted it with a complaceiice that was Intended to have the appearance of a child-widow's trust. “Though 1 don't feel, myself, that 1 ought to wear anything so becoming: in grief as new as mine, especially to a ball. If 1 had the say, I wouldn't go at all, only my friend is so masterful. You know how men are with girls." The clerk played up her role of ad viser, knowing that no other hair ornament In stock would have suited her customer's notions. Business haa taught her the scriptural advantage of being as wise as a serpent and as gentle as a dove * oK ok K woman an cradle. You look awfully rgency request for a Ma- son made a llke story, once on a | time, and you doubtless know the | other one about a green Irish lad who was beguiled into an awfully bad | place in the old-time Bowery, and | having been floored by a body-break- | ing blow aned o “Is there a praste he! to be answered by an infuriated bully: “How dare ye think a be in & place like this?' and kicked him for good mensur, | Which shows how history repeats itself—with variati The Poy Scout is merely the la t fashion in Samaritans—and, In this case, was called on by a woman whose own grandson is 8 Scout of high degree priest would oldish down by knocked that was automobliie | certain 1925—PART 1 And that she was tenderly cared for gives proof that the Scouts are liv- ing up to their reputation. * ok ok % of a one-time cabinet HE minister refused to give news- wife paper reporters Information concern- Ing the marriage of her second daughter for the reason that on the oceasion of her elder daughter's mar- riage she had seen, a day later. a newspaper page showing the daugh- ter's photograph, lying on the street to be trampled by passers-hy. This is a second and humbler a continua- tion of that same sort of tale A youngish man and his maiden wunt were strolling through the Smithsonian Park on a Sunday after- noon before the big snow. Some onhe had been reading a Sunday paper and {eft fts pages scattered over the bench 1d on the graveled walk alongside The woman paused grin over a something on o sheet that bore the dust of heels “To see myself dragged through the mire like this makes a sad tale | mate, The younglsh man grinned chummy appreciation over “a good thing thrown away,” but all the same, he picked up the sheet, flicked off the dust, folded it, and stuck it in his pocket—after kissing it with a serio-comic fmitation of & mother | black loneliness of »unds after midnight Th “Snakes things on earth came through be | way than going want to 4 pre moon when you | view's worth breezed on her w t of an caressing: her baby's hurt to make it well That was all there was to it cept that a callow girl and her ing “company”, snickered at si little xolo lady ex- | a g on a bench ht of the voungish comedy, n of And the girl— very young li whys and wherefore nearby man's el honest fun., always trudt size up the lite T dike enough tu The youn can to nis taste be his mothe gish man and his maiden aunt stopped short, looked dt each other and laughed outright. 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