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With the Lone Scouts This week we have received another very interesting letter from Lone Scout Walter Wraight, who is con- nected with the Hudson's Bay Com- pany and lives at one of their isolated posts in Northern Ontario. The winters are long and dreary in that part of the country, and there are only two or three mails delivered by dog team throughout the winter months. Walter says that they were looking for the commencement of the "break-up" of wintry conditions ahout the 10th or 15th of May, and he will regeive no more mail until then. Walter says "one fllock of geese hag already passed over head on their non- stop flight to the Bay. few ducks around, plenty of crows. The windigoes (Ghosts) have al- ready started thei rannual trips. Every Spring, without fail, the Indians bring in all kinds of weird tales of being at- tacked by Ghosts. Last year one load of freight was lost. The Indians told a story of having been shot at by ghosts. 'The canoe was found with bullet holes in it all right, and as the crew were not carrying rifles it must have been someone else. Rather substantial ghosts that can use 30-30 rifles, don't you think? The literal translation of the word is, I think, "Wild Indians." Walter is living quite a hard but very Interesting life up there In the north, and he says that he is looking forward to the summer months, so that he can go our exploring fn his canoe, as he wants to pass his Path- finder's Badge. He also says that he wants to go and see a dentist, before he goes crazy, so you see there are disadvantages too. There are a and of course Last week we discussed Camping and the way to select a suitable camp site, and this week we will go a little further and think about the necessary equipment to be taken on these trips. Let us plan a short week end camp for a Patrol of Lone Scouts. We have already decided upon the place where we intend to make our camp head- quarters, and we have decided whether the trip is to be made on foot, or by wheel. If we are going on our wheels we shall be able to carry "a little more equipment than if it all has to be car- ried on our shoulders, but first of all let us think about the matter of shel- ter. On this class of camp, of short duration, it is better to either take slong small, Na Dupteuis or else His Majesty Gronks Anniversary Honors London--King George, in his an- nual list of birthday honors, on June 3rd, announced, among other distinctions, the establishment of four baronetcies, 25 knighthoods and two privy councilorships, Sir Edward Elgar, "Master of the King's -Musick," is one of the new barons. He is the composer, o "Pomp and Circumstance" and sev- eral oratorlos. He was 'made a knight of the British Empire in 1904 and decorated with the Order of Merit in 1911. The other barons are Sir Thomas Jaffrey, consulting actuary ot the Aberdeen Savings Bank; Philip Henry Devitt, founder of the Nautl- cal College at Pangborne, and Sir Herbert Gibson, an organizer of the Empire Trade Exposition in Buenos Aires. Miss Sybil England's leading made of Dame Commander British Empire. Thorndike, known as tragedienne, was of the | Sir William Henry Bragg, eminent | physicist, was the only individual to receive the Order of Merit, regard- ed by many as the most coveted de- coration of all. Ben Turner, M.P., veteran trade unionist and former Secretary of Mines, is among the new knights. Others are Prof. Horace Lamb, Cam- bridge mathematician; James Black Baillie, vice-chancellor of Leeda University, and Charles Reed Peers, president of the Reyal Society of Antiquarians. The Earl of Athlone, former Gov- ernor-General of South Africa, and Sir Willlam Jowitt, eral, were made privy councilors. Half a dozen women received minor distinctions. No new peerages were established. isd es momen Shamrock V. Wins British Yacht Race Southend-on-Sea, Eng.--Sir Thomas Lipton's America Cup challenger, Shamrock V, won the first race for big yachts in English waters this year, defeating Astra and Candida in a 40- mile run off Southend. Shamrock was away last, but quick- 1y overhauled her competitors and was three minutes ahead at the 20-mile mark. She increased this advantage to almost six minutes af the finish, the other two yachts finishing almost to- gether. x The Times: Shamrock V., 8 $3 minutes, 46 Seconda; Astra, 3:39.81 'Candida, 3:39:3 Attorney-Gen- | re cous was to Noro Lighsip| _ andwretyyn, twice aro to Improve some sort of shelter on arrival, Page 177 of your "Handbook for Canada" tells you how temporary shelters can be made, and if you are camping in very wooded country, and the weather is settled and fine, it is sometimes more advantageous to eract such shelters than to carry tent- age on your backs. However, if you have had no experience in erecting these shelters it is as well to practice a little at home, before starting out. Good waterproof sheets can also he improvised as shelters, and provide very good cover. Ko having decided just what shelter we shall depend up- on, we next come to the question of what each boy shal Itake along. The following items are essential, what- ever kind of camp you propose to have: two warm blankets, a ground sheet (in addition to any to be used for shelters), a sweater or jersey, sleeping suit, spare shirt and shorts, towel, soap, toothbrush, comb, eating utensils, needle and thread. Scout uniform to be worn, of course. All this can be packed into a pack sack or Rucksack," to be carried on the back. The Stores Department at Headquarters, Ottawa, stock a very comfortable Rucksack. Care should be taken to have good wide shoulder straps, and to see that the sack fits snugly to your shoulders, otherwise you will soon be tired and have sore shoulders. Divided amongst the Patrol the fol: lowing equipment should be carried: A good hand axe, large frying pan, three or four large kettles or contain- ers for boiling purposes, and a large tablespoon. Food should be thought of, and your daily menus planned before you go. Often it is possible to obtain such things as eggs, milk, butter and vege- tables from farms near your camping place, and then you can save yourself the trouble of carrying them. The other food should be provided by the Patrol, each member bringing certain articles, and care being taken that items are not duplicated by several Scouts. Next week we will discuss the food problem in more detail, and also con- sider the activities of a Patrol when in camp. Boys who are not Scouts and cannot join a regular Troop can obtain par- ticulars as to how they can become Lone Scouts by writing to The Lone Scout Department, Boy Scouts As- sociation, 330 Bay Street, Toronto, 2, Ont.--"Lone E." Fax avor x English Language Berlin. -- The German language teachers, meeting at Hamburg, have demanded that only English shall rank as a dominant foreign language in the graded schools, taking issue with the Prussian Minister of Education, who had made French the chief non-classi- cal language in the upper school currl- culum. He based hig action on the belief that French was of greater cul- tural significance, representing the essential Creco-Roman culture upon which European intellectual develop- ment is founded. The language teachers, however, as- sert that the citizens' choice should decide, and fifty per cent. of the Prus- sian schools affected already have gone over to English. The teachers agree ~ with the view that unity is necessary, but they say it is impos- sible to make the study of French a unitersal major language requirement, even if it were desirable, in the face | of popular opposition. PRC CR, Livestock Figures Calgary, Alberta.--Values of live- stock in the Western Provinces are given in the latest estimates as fol- lows: Manitoba, $53,741,000; Saskat- chewan, $112,846,000; Alberta, $94.- 065,000, and British Columbia, $27, 355,000. --ifly Panama to Buy Planes Panama City.--The Government, of Panama announced recently that it Planes Facilitate Survey System Geodetic Engineers | of Depart- ment of the Interior Make Amazing Record in Northern Ontario Quite an amazing record, when com- pared with the possibilities a few years ago, was made by Messrs, J. L. Rannie and F, P. Steers of the Geodetic Survey of Canada, Depart- ment of the Interior, during January and February, 1931. In a period of four weeks they laid out by aero- plane a system of triangulation in northern Ontario, which would have taken several years to accomplish by older methods of transport.by canoe and back-packing. In two Royal Canadian Air Force planes these Geodetic Survey of- ficers selected the sites for triangula- tion stations in a strip of country about 800 miles long (including branches) and from 15 to 30 miles mins and Nakina on the north and towards Sault Ste. Marie and Port Arthur on the south. To divide up the area into suit- ably sized sections three bases were chosen from which to operate. In the selection of these bases three important considerations had to be borne in mind, viz, the base must be on a lake large enough for aircraft to land and take off, it should be on the railway to facilitate transporta- tion of oil and gasolene for refuel ling, and it must be possible to secure board and lodging for the personnel of the party, seven in number. The first two qualifications were not difficult to find, but the third was not so easy. The aircraft used on the operation were very speedy cabin monoplanes, fitted with skis and carrying equip- ment to enable them to operate from bases remote from regular aerodromes, By means of bell shaped nose tents and collapsible wood-burning stoves the "engines could be thoroughly warmed before starting, even when extremely low below zero were experienced. Em- ergency equipment, consisting of ra- tions, sleeping robes, tent, rifle, snowshoes, axes, etc, was continu- ously carried in each aircraft. The performance of the planes through- out the whole operation was most satisfactory, thanks largely to the very efficient pilots and crews, who kept the engines and aeroplanes ! functioning under somewhat unfav- orable conditions. 2 During the past two years exper! Survey officers to test the economy of aeroplane transport on this class methods by which this faster means of transportation is best adapted to geodetic surveying, The operation, ' plans to buy four airplanes which will constitute the first national air force. and speed, marks just completed with great economy the commence- wide from Sudbury to the mnorth- west end of lake Nipigon. The branches extended towards TIm-; temperatures such as forty degrees; ments have been made by Geodetic of work and to perfect the technical Two missionaries who took part in Presbyterian exposition in basement of Syria mosque, Pittsburg. Toronto, who spent 41 years in Japan and is noted for work in that field, and Rev. Albert G. Edwards, Hillah, Iraq, modern town near ruins of ancient Babylon, who spent eleven years in Near East. Rev. Dr. James B. Ayres, ments on a larger scale of a program of extension of triangulation opera- tions to the huge northern areas of Canada in which development is pro- ceeding so quickly. It may be mentioned in passing that large areas of Canada abound in lakes and that this type of country is particularly suitable to geodetic opera- tions with present types of aeroplane. With improved types of planes the extension of the method to other areas at present avoided because of the absence of lakes will probably become possible. Apart from the economy, the use of aeroplanes as a means of trans- port for laying out a system of tra- angulation over large areas of Can- ada years in advance of final opera- tions has other advantages. In parts of the country, such as north- ern Ontario where a program of building steel lookout towers for fire detection is in progress, the triang- ulation stations offer the best choice of hills as sites for these towers, The towers when built and trails and telephone lines installed are of great | assistance when the triangulation is being completed. It is therefore mutually advantageous to forestry and geodetic officials to have the triangulation lald out well in ad- vance of subsequent operations. When the preliminary work of the' triang- ulation has been laid out well ahead of subsequent operations, as is pos- sible when it is done by aeroplane, there need be no delay in complet- ing the final work in any area In which development takes place or where maps are required, and data can he made available on an astron- omicl dtum in plenty of time to be mde use of," When the preliminary work has to be done by ground travel in rough country two years or more before results are available to those requiring the information. With aeroplanes as a means of transport in laying out the triangulation a year or more is saved in delivering results. An- other advantage is that, the triang- ulation having been lald out with its different grades of accuracy as need- ed, operations which are required in isolated sections can be completed with the grade of accuracy which | wit make them fit in w'th the final | net as laid out for the whole coun- try. ------ip ee ee The Prince in South America Spectator (London) :The Prince of | Wales showed himself far more aware of the situation of British industry than some of its leaders. We should | like to emphasize two of the points of h's speech. One is the importance of sending out for the study of mar- i kets, not underlings, but principals of firms. , . . The other is the import- ance of advertising, and as an aid to | this the need for a proper British news service for South America. At present all British news goes to South | Americe via the agencies of the Un- ited States, and the natural result is that where Great Briiain is mentioned only casually the name of the United , States is shouted from the house-tops. it is semetimes | ir Te Montreal--Canada ~holds a wealth of raw material for." the novelist. So much so, in fact, that it makes him "rather wistful". : This was the opinion of J. B. Priestley, British author, on his return / to England. Mr, Priestley had been;in the south- ern Pacific to gather material for an-| "The Good Companions" and "Angel Pavement." The grandeur and wildness of Canadian scenery, particularly on the railway journey through the Rocky Mountains, impressed Mr. Priestley very deeply. He found the people, too, likeable and more interested In good reading than those"south of the boundary. Mr. Priestley names Willa Cather as the best American novelist, de- claring definitely that he believed her to be superior to Sinclair Lewis, recent winner of the Nobel Prize, He spoke highly of the works of Mazo de la Roche, Canadian writer, great deal of desultory writing was being done in Canada, The maga: zines and other literary publications he described as "creditable." emer free. Complete 12,000-Mile Trip Through African Wastes Completing a trip of 12,427 miles across Africa, through trackless wastes of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan and the. Belgian Congo, Prince de Ligne and Baron Terschuren, of "Bel- glum, have accomplished what is des- cribed as one of the most arduous jour- neys ever made in an automobile. The trip, they reported, took nine weeks, averaging 210 miles a day, "We have broken all speed recards and traveled 20,000 kilometers with- out the slightest mechanical trouble," they wrote. "On several occasions we wére stuck in the sand and in or- der to get out we had to race the motor, throwing the clutch in with a jerk to make the car jump up vertical ly. Much of our travel was through rock country, and in order to keep up with our schedule we had to go very fast, Sometimes, as the wheels 'hit the rocks, the whole car was thrown into the air to land at a different level, the difference being sometimes as much as one meter." emit, FR other book. He has already written | and sald that it appeared that a | Norwood; Kingston, June 4th.--Prizes and dip- | lomas were presented HL A. of Kingston General Hospital School. The gold medal for the highest standing in the senlor year waa won by Miss Priscilla Dodd, Orillia, who!' also won the Board of Governors' senior year. of Finch, was the winner of the silver | medal for second highest standing in the senior year and Miss Edith Bailey won the intermediate class prize. The junior class prize was won by Miss Ethel Rutledge. raduating class for 1931 fol- lows: ris Margaret Allen, Kingston; Florence zabeth Beatty, Thomas- burg; Margaget Christine Blair, Fall brook; Elizabeth Botting, Westport; Lillian Maude Buck, Milton; Mosalens Evelyn Butt, Westbrooke; Hazel Cain, Pérth; Laura Nancy Cuthbertson, Dorothy Isobel Dawson, Britantifa Bay; Mary Marjorie De- Long, Zekleys Bay; Mabel Genevieve 'Dietz, Renfrew; Josephine Margaret Dobb eterboro; Emma Jane Dodds, Gananoque; Ellen Priscilla Dodd, Orillia; Anna Bessie Ewing, Westport; Hilda Idilian Friendship, Kingston; Helen Jean Gordon, Kingston; Flor- ence' Muriel Harkness, Kingston; Migiam Edith Hatrick, Portsmouth; Olive, Kathleen Hartshorn, Peterboro; Audrey JAunie Holbert, Thomasburg; Golda Hele! Hughes, Cornwall; Vera Jane Humph¥ey, Lansdowne; Nettle Leona Lawrenee, Harrowsmith; Mary Madeline Lockhart, Almonte; Lenora Amelia Loyst, Napanee; Vonnie Mar- guerite MacMartin, Finch; Annie Myrtle MacMillan, Madoc; Mabel Eli- mina Mason, Belleville; Helen Eliza- beth Miller, Consecon; Sarah Maude Mills, Egansville; Margaret Ruth Mun- ro, Applé Hill; Mildred Clarke Murphy, Kingston; Mary Isabel Murray, West Huntingdon; Annie Margaret Putten- ham, Kingston; Wilhelmina Myrtle Raymond, Perth Road; Ella Grace Scott, Sharpes Corners; Inez Eliza- beth Sly, Gananoque; Doris Gertrude Smith, Kingston; Margaret Christena Stewart, Balderson; Helen Ruth Wal- lace, Kingston; Myra Belle Woodruff, Sydenham. Cholly: have a pair of lips that were just made for sweets. Er--Miss Peach, you Miss Peach: All the other fel- lows seem to think they are made of sweets. wm -- Tha Wolf Rayet Stars At the Dominfon Astrophysical Observatory of the Department of teresting discovery was made re- cently concerning a very peculiar class of stars known as the Wolf Rayet stars. Conditions on these stars are such that streams of atoms are continually being thrown off from all parts of their surface. These atoms are shot off from the stars in enormous numbers and with speeds often as great as 1,000 miles per second. They are continually streaming off into space so that the stars are probably losing material at the rate of millions of tons per day. So massive are thesa stars, however, that it would take millions of years for any very appreciable fraction of their mass to he lost by this process. HY Advertising The respective merits of newspaper and radio publicity are concisely sum- med up by a contemporary as follows: An "ad" in the eye is worth ten in the ear--Woodstock Sentinel Review. One of Canada's New Destroyers The ships the Interior at Victoria, B.C., an In re pf "Age of Youth" Says Lord Montreal--"This is the ago of youth," the Ear. of Bessborough, Gov- ernor-General of Canada, smilingly told graduating students of MeGill University recently, "That is not merely a well-worn rhetorical generalization--it is also a hard fact that can be supported by statistics compiied, as they say in the world of insurance, on an actuarial basis," Lord Bessborough continued. "One of the most remarkable changes in my own lifetime--and my genera- tion has seen a great many changes --is the marked decrease in the aver- age age of those holding positions of trus' in every walk of life. In tha services, in law, in politics, science and industry, young men and young women can now be found in posts of responsibility that 30 years ago, 'vere held exclusively by greybeards. "Your fathers have given you a finer heritage than was ever be- queathed by any individual emperor to his son; they have labored to build up for you, in the face of immense difficulties, a country that excites the admiration of the world, whose future is s0 ricl. in possibilities that it taxes the imagination of the world to esti- mate them. But if the Canada of today is the handiwork of your fath- ers, the Canada of tcmorrow must be yours. Where they wrestled with the forces of nature, you will be face to | face with forces less obvious, but no | less formidable; your problems will not be those of time, space and cli- mate, but problems of citizenship, of social adjustment to rapidly changing social conditions and of the sane ap- plication of scientific discoveries to daily life." ee le Spain To Be Represented At Regina Exhibition Regina, Saskatchewan. -- Though Spain is busy just now reorganizing its national administration, the import- ance of the World's Grain Exhibition and Conference to be held at Regina, July 25 to August 26, 1932, has mot been lost sight of. A few days ago the headquarters' office of the Exhibition and Conference was advised by the General Director of Agriculture of the Spanish Ministry of National Economy that a special committee of cereal ag- _riculture had been appointed devote "itself to the definite or | participation by Spain in the wonity Grain Exhibition and Conference. : } Canada's Historic Sites During 1930 nineteen historic sites, in Canada were suitably marked either by cairns or tablets and a num- ber of other sites acquired according to a recert statement of the Dept. of the Interior. The work of commemor- ing ational historic events and the i mportant is carried out by the ua a of prize for the highest standing in the Silver Birch carefully laid Miss Vonnle MacMartin, | centre of the pile of wood? - How many times 'have Leaders of . the ' Cook patrols gone to sleep, comforted by the thought they have a precious plece of Silver Birch ark to 'help light the fire next morning? How many camp fires owe thelr first beginnings to the little punk of in the Again, how many words of welcome and of thanks have been written of scrolls made of this same bark? o Besides her many.uses, she has characteristics we shall do well to study. : No tree is daintier: her garb and general appearance is always a de light. One might think by her slender | build that she is delicate and can only grow in sheltered places. On the contrary, she is very hardy and grows far away in the north, where many ruggier looking trees Would soon be killed if exposed, as | 3he is, to the icy winds from the Arc tic. The Silver Birch grows very rapidly, and soon bécomes a tree some feet high. Every season of the year gives her a feast of beauty. Spring gives her a dress of gold, provided by her catkins; this is mingled by one of tenderest green. Autumn clads her in his own rich hues, Whilst even dreary winter wraps her in a robe of silver. In spring, the female ¢ "tkins appear first, soon to be followed by the male. It is quite easy to distinguish between them, as the latter are the long ones. The wood resists the damp splendidly, so is used sometimes for boats. We have already mentioned the bark burns well; to this must be add- od the wood itself, which is due to the oil it contains. Sometimes one is afraid that people anxiety, to light their fires quickly, may thoughtlessly strip 'any Silver than is necessary, and so harm the tree. It is well to remember trees, as well as people and animals, live, and it is just as important to be kind to them as to the others. The Legend One day a shepherdess was sitting in the woods, spinning." Presently, the Lady of the Forest appeared and invited her to dance. Eagerly the girl accepted, and soon they were gaily dancing c1 a carpet of Silver Birch leaves, to the sound of forest music. They trod so lightly that when they ceased not a single leaf was moved. The shepherdess "ad so enjoyed herself. She had not .2alized how long she had been amusing herself, and was dismayed to find the sun had already nearly set. "Oh dear!" she cried, "my spinning is unfinished and will not be ready for market to-morrow." The Lady of the Forest picked up a handful of Silver Birch leaves and put them into the girl's pocket. Then disappeared. When the maiden reached home she found all the leaves had been changed into gold. ti Children and Actors Enter Cooking Contests Housewives, children and actors took part in the cooking contests for the Golden Ladle at the Berlin Hotel- men's Fair, according to the tourist information office of the National Railroads of Germany. There were 250 kitchen ranges for the contestants in one of the great exposition halls in the western part of Berlin. The first prize in the children's competition was won by a girl, but the second prize went to a boy. Otto Gebuehr, noted for his character acting as Frederick the Great, entered the arema to the strains of the "Hohenfriedberger March" and prepared a dish of "chicken a la Otto," which was found of the day. ------ Geologists Find Victoria, B.C.--A chain of hug: and fantastic tracks has led to the dis- covery in the Peace River country of a veritable "valley of the giants" where centuries ago prehistoric beasts made their habitat. Geologists carrying out a suzeey in connection with the proposed exten- sion of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway found a continuous chain of giant tracks, set in the rock when it was still 'molten, 34 separate spoors of | in one place and many isolated foot- marks at- other places. The tracks were 12 inches in diam- eter and the geologists estimate the beast to have been approximately 100 feet long and weighing many tons. ----l Flying Record Set : Jacksonville Beach, Fla. -- Walter Lees and Frederic Brosy, Detroit filers, landed their plane here last week, with a waslds non-refueling re cord of 84 hours 33 minutes. The new record is 9 hours and 10 minutes het Canads. Branch of a Be a ihe Do. ot tori "Sites and Monuments Board. _ by two Frenchmen. 35 mates, made tn March ths you in their keenness, or it may be their Birches near of far more of the bark ~ to be one of the prinzipal achievements "Valley of Giants" |