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x end of 1930, which is an increase of a the name and address of every retall n Headquarters at Ottawa indi 'that Scouting is steadily growing in Canada, and especially in this Pro- vince. According to the census thers were 62,672 Scouts in the Dominion at the 2,404 over 1929. It is interesting to note that Ontario Increased its mem- bership in 1930 by 2,158 Scouts, and of course quite a few of these were Lone Scouts who enrolled during that year, At the present time there are con- siderably over 300 Lone Scouts in this Province, and applications for mem- bership are received daily at Lone Scout Headquarters, Othér interesting figures revealed by the report show that, during 1930, 14,658 Proficiency Badges were award- od to Canadian Scouts, showing that much keenness prevails amongst the boys to maintain an efficient standard... Also one bronze, eighteen silver and six gilt crosses for bravery were awarded to Scouts in this country, as well as nine medals for meritious ser- vice in the Scout movement. Thus it will be seen that of the popu- lation of Canada about one person in every two hundred is a Scout, and this is a very wonderful fact, for if every- one was imbued with the Scout Spirit, what a 'wonderful place Canada would be to live in, wouldn't it? * We publish below two messages which are of interest to every Lone Scout. The first is from His Excel- lency the Right Hon, the Earl of Bess- borough, Chief Scout of Canada, and is as follows: "On assuming the .position of Chief Scout for the Dominion, I am delight: ed to have the opportunity of sending my greetings to all the officers and members 'of the Boy Scouts Associa- tion of Canada. "l am eagerly looking forward to having many occasions, during my term of office, of becoming acquainted both with Canadian Scouts and Cana- dian: Scouting and of observing their progress. It is most gratifying to me, a8 Chief Scout, to know that E. W. Beatty has consented to undertake the important duties of President of the Association, * f-------------- ------ / . \ - Universe 'Expanding Declares Einstein Berlin--Dr. Albert Einstein, in a treatise submitted to the Prus- sian Academy of Sciences, offers fur- ther proof of the theory of an ex- panding universe which holds that cosmic masses are constantly mov- ing outward. The theory received confirmation by Dr. Edwin Hubbell's observations of the spiral nebulae and star clus- ters from Mt. Wilson Observatory at Pasadena. Dr. Einstein's treatise works It out further and adds to his earlier writ- ings on the uniform field theory in which electrical and gravitational phenomena are considered together from uniform viewpoints, The new treatise occupies itself especially with the so-called Riemann spaces and teleparallelism--the non- Euclidean conception that space Is not limited to three dimensions and that the Euclidean postulate, that parallel lines never meet 18 errone- ous, In Dr. Einstein's conception, space is "the only theory representing reality." In his view space is truly non-Euclidean and .Riemann {8 right. The treatise deals also with com- patible field equations as applied to the Riemann spaces. On a rigidly mathetmatical basis which requires most concentrated abstract thoyght, Dr. Einstein draws certain conclu- gions regarding the structure and movement of the cosmos consonant with Dr. Hubbell's observations, which indicate that cosmic masses are moving away from our solar sys- tem at a rate of hundreds of miles per second. Fm ent ee Preliminary Steps Census of Retail and Wholesale Trade Now Being Taken The fifteen thousand enumerators who have been engaged since June 1st in taking the Population Census have also been making a record of and wholesale establishment In the 'Dominion. These names are to be the basis for the Postal Census of Merchandising and Service Bestab- ~ lishments. It will be some weeks before all the lists are in the hands of the of- ficlals in the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, When they have been carefully scrutinized and certain "other preliminary work done, ache- * dules will be mailed to each retail or wholesale establishment. It is cted that somewhere between © 150,000 and 200,000 names will be re- cefved and, though, a very great ymount of preparatory work 1s neces- re schedules can he mailed, it te expected that they will be sent "With all my heart I wish the new President and the Boy Scouts of Can- ada every possible success." The second message is from Mr. E. W. Beatty, K.C., who is President of the Canadian Pacific Rallway, and also President of the Boy Scouts Assocla- tion. He says: "It 1s gratifying to think that so fine a movement as that of the Boy Scouts has captured the imaginaion of the youth of the world and become so truly international. For Canada it is peculiarly fitted, as the campecraft which it teaches is so well suited to our geographical conditions." Nothing could be better than its gospel of self- reliance, self-respect, unselfishness, and the pledge to help others whatever it may cost; moreover, it appeals to the boy, as he gets a lot of fun out of this* process of developing the spirit of true sportsmanship. The qualities inculcated are the qualities of the good citizen and one is not surprised that another name for a good citizen Is 'a good Scout" Space will not permit us this week to continue our "Camp Hints" very fully, but we will content ourselves with reminding all Lone Scout Camp- ers that "A Scout's duty is to be use- ful and to help others." Hore are a fow of the things which last year's Boy Scout Campers did as their "Good Turns": Cut and burned all weeds on camp property, repaired nearby road, cleaned refuse from near- by field, put up signs at dangerous places on road, built protecting fence around plot of young trees, huilt a stairway leading to beach, built a fire- place for neighboring campers, helped newly errived cottagers to get settled, took neighbors' mail to and from post office, erected.small bridge for farmer, made rustic seats for a farmer, helped farmer dip sheep, assisted short- handed farmer with chores and crops, found lost cattle, made winter wood- pile for farmer who loaned camp site, helped at country church garden party, cut weeds and tidied up around coun- try church, made rustic seats for country churchyard, made seats near a bus stop, put out bush fires, guarded timber limits against fire, gathered firewood for future campers. Lonies, when in camp don't forget your good turns. --'"Lone H." The Need of Sanity We tend to swing too swiftly from optimism to pessimism declared Sir Arthur Salter, formerly director of the League of Nations' Economic and Financp Section, speaking at the luncheon of Columbia Alumni. We swing from complacency to panic. It 18 just those who, in 1929, sald that we were in a new economic era, that there would be no more depres- slons, who are now in the blackeat of pessimism, In 1929 there were needed people to say, "Steady! Things are not al- ways going to be so good." And now people are needed who will say, "Steady! Things will not always be so bad as they are now." This tendency is also true of the world political situation. It is those who In times of calm go about say- ing, "War is unthinkable," that say in times of danger that war is inevi- table, support policies that bring it nearer and press their countries to precipitate action. Only recently there has been-much mischievous "talk of the possibility of immediate and Imminent war. This is not true, but such talk cre- ates situations and exaggerates un- important ones. There will be no war 'this year or this decade. Estate of Germany's Pre-War Chancellor Shows Few Assets Berlin--Appraisal of the estate of Prince Bernhard von Buelow, pre- war Chancellor of Germany, has shown that he was practically im- poverished at the time of his death. After liquidation of all claims only a few thousand marks will remain for distribution among his heirs, It 1s announced. It is learned that the Prince, who never had a large private fortune, had to borrow money frequently dur- ing his long career as diplomat and leading statesman of the Reich, in order to meet the costs of adequate representation. The only assets of the estate are the proceeds of the sole of his home in Rome and the royalties for his memoirs which were published recently and created a sensation, -- eg ee Flight To Be Made By Glider Over Alps Frankfurt Am Main, Germany.--In an effort to conquer the Alps by sallplane the Rhoen-Rossitteen Glid- ing Plane Society of nearby Was- serkuppen has organized an expedi- tion to the Bernese Oberland, head- ed by Gunter Groenhoff, record hold- or for flights without motor, ; Herr. Groenhoft will use the sail- plane in which he flew 165 miles into Czechoslovakia in May. He will take off from Jungfrau Joch, 11,600 foot in the alr. Swiss aviation out In August, Field, Rantoul, Ill strapped on his back. Photo shows Harold L. Osborne dangling from his entangled parachute 2,000 feet over Chanute For forty-five minutes Osborne was caught in mid-air before his rescue by means of knife lowered by fier in pursuit ship. Osborne gently glided to earth with an extra chute he had ' Calgary Exhibition Calgary, Alberta.--Entry forms to prospective exhibitors in the poultry classes at the Calgary Exhibition and Stampede, to be held July 6 to 11, are being sent out by the exhibi- tion board. Entries close on June 20, A covering letter from Dr. D. 8. Macnab, president of the Calgary Poultry Association, urged that some entries be made hy all breeders, even though only one or two birds. "Shows and exhibitions are neces- sary if we are to continue to breed birds true to type," he says. "The value of the opportunity of placing your birds alongside those of other breeders of the variety and compar- ing them far outweighs the value of any money prizes you may be award- ed--welcome as those undoubtedly are." sm------------ Volcanoes Scatter Ashes 150 Miles Over Alaska Dutch Harbor, Alaska.--Newly ar- rived fur sealmen on the Pribilof Is- lands, puzzled at the white ashes sil- vering their golden brown coats, sniff- ed sulphur filled air. ) Volcanoes in the vicinity of Chig- nik are in violent eruption. Ashes have fallex: a distance of 150 miles in every direction. Mushroom-like clouds of dense smoke hang over Katmat, and several other craters in the Alaska peninsula, Visitors to western Alas- ka will witness the marvelous scenes, say steamship officials, who expect the eruptions to continue for several months. tei ee Explorations Link Arabian Period to Christian Past CGairo.--Sclence is poking an ex- plorative finger into the history of the Upper Nile valley, and the first season's work of the archaeological survey of Nubia has produced much new material. Th .ce large cemeteries also were discovered with the tombs surrounded by small domes on pillars. This last feature Is very important, from the standpoint of history, as this type of architecture shows the transition from the first centuries of the Chris- tian era to the Arab period. . re "Aren't we fools?" "Speak In the singular.' "Certainly, Aren't you a fool?" fdid for poetry and letters. The Three Languages » of Old England Grom 1100 English more rapidly took on the form in which we know it. By 1200 every educated man was expected to know three languages --English, French and Latin. Eng- lish was the common speech, French the language of polite life and litera- ture, Latin the scholar"s tongue, In the thirteenth century, Robert of Gloucester wrote in English a Rhym- ed Chronicle on Britain, Professor Lounsbury gives us some lines of It, in modern English: "For unless a man knows French, he is little thought of, But low men keep to English and to their own speech." From 1272, when Edward I was crowned, to the close of the fifteenth century, French was used in public acts, . .. In the fourteenth century, for a scholar to write in English 4ook a | degree of courage which may easily be underrated now. But this cour- age on the part of two great writ- ers did much to shape the first liter- ary English, In spite of the scorn of scholars who lacked insight into the vast pos- sibilities of English and still used French and Latin, Wyclif and Chau- cer came forward as the fathers of English literature. Wyelif finished his English translation of the Scrip- tures in 1380, and it is to him that we owe much of the simplicity and force and peculiar beauty of later translations of the Bible. What Wyclif did for the language and literature of religion, Chaucer Before this, no one dreamed of the power and beauty latent in the English language. . . . Even in 1623, two cen- turies and a quarter after . .. Lord Bacon turned his English works into Latin, that they might be "preserv- ed"! He thought of Latin as the universal and permanent language of learning, while English was a hum- ble speech for the less learned, and might die out altogether!--From "A New Study of English Words," by Jessle Macmillian Anderson. "We need beauty in everything and culture should be a thing of practice, not something apart."--Henry Ford. A "Hconomic prosperity rests -ulti- mately on ability to defend {t,"--Ad- miral Bradley Fiske. | peace. Warless World Is Impossible British Scientist Declares War is Nature's 'Pruning, .- Hook" London--Man's dream of a world without war can neyer come true, Sir Arthur Keith, the British scien- tist, said recently in an address at Aberdeen University, where he is the rector. "Nature keeps her human orchard healthy by. pruning," he sald, "and war is her pruning hook. We can- not dispense with her services." That "harsh and repugnant" asser- tion wag wrung from him, he sald, even though the future of his own dreams is a time of everlasting Even race prejudice hgs its place in the development of mankind, he said, and sooner or later the nations will have to consider whether it is a good thing not only to overcome such prejudices but to eliminate themi altogether. "I am convinced," he said, "that these inborn dislikes must be given an assigned place. The human race is like a British football league with divisions of white and yellow, black and brown, between which no trans- fers are possible. "Nature endowed her tribal teams with a spirit of antagonism for her own purposes. In us it wereeps out as national rivalries and jealousies. The modern name for that spirit of antagonism is race prejudice." Earth Yields Building Outlines of Paestum, Ancient Greek City Naples.--The excavations of the Forum at Paestum, the ancient ¢ of Greek origin, are nearing compl tion. The Forum, which was added to the city in Roman times, measures about sixty-five yards by 160, and numerous remains of temples, law courts, stores and houses have ap- peared. Paestum posesses the two finest Greek temples out of Greece, and with the new excavations the old city is revealing its topography clearly. tr "People 'are taught to be impudent or greedy; they are not naturally 0." --@G. K. Chesterton, "Rack to Earth" 'Workmen ' dismantling huge balloon that carried Prof. Auguste Piccard s above eafth to stratosphere, in an elghteen-hour exploration of upper reaches of sky. = Hoene of. dis- mantling 1s huge glacier near Ober Gurgl in the & 5, \ % Tyrolean Alps, on which sclentists landed. 5 and his assistant ten miles J chine. ot lights of Out-door who 'read these words, I am glad to be able to send greetings, which at this time of year must certainly include a wish for success at examinations. As 'examinations seem like a mountain to be climbed, perhaps a few words about what may be found on the other side of the mountain might be enco . For some of you there is a summer va- cation in the northland; for others, perhaps, a job at home; and for others, camp, It Is of this last that I would speak. "Who hath smelt wood smoke at twl- light, Who hath heard the birch logs burn- ing ng, Who is swift to read the voices of the night? Let him follow with the other, For the youthful feet are turning To camps of proved desire and known delight." --Kipling. There will be in this province alone nearly thirty camps for Canadian Girls In Training and other girls in the Sunday schools. There will be two leaders' Camps at Beau Rivage, July 17-27; and Beausoleil, August 11-21. There will be six provincial girls' camps for senior girls, 15-18 (19th birthday) at Normandale, July 21-31, and August 11-21; Beau Rivage, July 17-27, and July 29 - August 8; Beauso- leil, August 22 - September 1; Vail's Point, July 6-16. And there will be nineteen or twenty city and district camps; some for seniors, others for intermediates. Information about all camps can be obtained by writing to Miss Jessie. Macpherson, Room 416, 299 Queen St. W., Toronto, Ont. What camp may mean to the girls who attend, to the groups and Sunday school classes from which they go, and to their associates at home, only campers or those who have known campers can tell. They do cost money. But the returns in fun, in health, in friendship, in new ideas, in new enthusiasm, in new purposes, are such that the cost is relatively small, And even in this year of scarcity of money, wonders can be worked with a little sacrifice of other things for something greater. Camp is more en- riching than almost any other experl- ence, and therefore worth more sacri- fice. It {8 my hope that many of you will be able to say with W. B. Yeats: "I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made; Nine bean rows will I haye there, a hive for the honey bee, And live alone in the bee-loud glade. And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morn- ing to where the cricket sings; There midnight"s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet's wings, I*will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore; While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray, I hear it in the deep heart's core. --W--Y. Yeats. --Jessie Macpherson. ------p een Autogiro Foreseen As Fighting Craft Washington.--After several flights in the navy's new autogiro, David 8. Ingalls, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics, {8 convinced the windmill plane ultimately will be endowed with double its present speed and take its place as a formi- dable fighting craft. By 'comparison with his Curtiss plane, with its cruising speed of 150 to 160 miles an hour, the 756 to 85- mile gait of the autogiro, in which he piloted Charles Francis Adams, Secretary of the Navy, seemed "pretty slow," Mr. Ingalls said. "But," he adddd, "there are a dozen ways in which the speed of the autogiro can be increased by ap- plication of stream lining and other well-known principles of aircraft con- struction." Mr. Ingalls predicted eventual Im- provements in design would give the autogiro a speed almost if mot quife equal to that of a navy plane of similar size and power. Even if some slight discrepancy in speed might remain, he sald, this would be outweighed by the advan- tages of being able to take off and land in a small space and to descend vertically .at less than the speed. of a parachute, if disabled. rere gf eee. But Shave Ingenious , Dayton, Ky.--Life s a simple mat- ter for Henry Fahrcnholtz. He has devised a robot which consists of a clockwork installed in a talking ma- 'When the alarm sounds the talking on. -At the end of the record the radio is turned on, the furnace connected, and the coffee percolator started. "To all Canadian Girls in Tratning| Hardworking Clock Does All Inventor mochine starts and the lights are' turned aste Matter Consumed by Microscopic found in abundance in their natural | feeding grounds, or where buzzards are seen circling low, ft fs known that they are attracted by the pres- ence of food. In somewhat similar fashion certain microscopic animals aro attracted by the presence of or ganic matter found in sewage, which serves as their food. Where these organisms are found, it is known that the water: is polluted, for they will disappear, like buzzards, when their food supply is exhausted. These minute organisms, which to- gether with certain other microscopic forms of life both animal and plant, are collectively; called plankton, and they play a very important role in the process of natural, purification of streams, the minute animals feed- ing upon the polluting organio wastes, and the microscopic 'plants giving off oxygen. The much-discussed Illinois River, heavily polluted by the sewage and stockyard waste from Chicago, was used by the Public Health Service for a study of the effect of these microscopie organisms on nature's methods of purification of streams and a report (Public Health Bulletin No. 198) dealing with this particu- ed. Approximately 1,000 weekly sam- ples, collected at every season, and including all sections of the river (which is nearly 300 miles leng), were analyzed and studied. Partl cular information was sought rela tive to the abundance of such or- ganisms as thrive in sewage-pollut- ed water, and their gradual replace- ment downstream by organisms known to require water of a better grade. The gradual purificat'on of the stream was thus expressed in terms of the prevalent kinds of microscopic organisms, both plants and animals, and collectively known' as Plankton. The relative abund- ance of microscopic green plants was a matter of interest, inasmuch as these plants help to purify the water by the oxygen they give off, similar to the action of the common "fish moss" in goldfish bowls. Very briefly summarized, the re- sults of this study indicate the fol- gresses: 1. The swift upper portion of the river, heavily polluted but thorough- ly mixed, is well seeded at the start with microscopic organisms from the tributary Des Plaines River and from Lake Michigan. 9. Gradually decreasing velocity distributes the suspended matter over a very large total area of bot- tom downstream, facilitating biologi cal action. 3. The grayish water becomes clear, and loses its odor of sewage 70 or 80 miles downstream from the Chicago Drainage Canal outlet. 4, Correlated changes in the plank- ton content are: (a) Decrease of pol lutional organisms formerly predom- inant, (b) increase of organisms of the cleaner-water kinds, these becom- ing predominant, and maintaining this status thereafter, and (e) in- crease in relative abundance of microscopic green plants. 5. In all sections of the river, and at all seasons, the microscopic green plants were decidedly more abund- ant, volume for volume, than were the microscopic animals. 6. Malodorous bottom sediments from the polluted upper Illinois con- talned. very large numbers of "sludge worms", and no gill-bearing insect larvae, whereas sediments from the lower portions of thig stream were free of odor, contained very few worms, and showed a variety of gill- breathing Insect larvae. Hawaii Plans Campaign Against Destructive Animals Honolulu.--Eradication of destruc. tive wild animals on the various is- lands is assuming greater propor- tions each year. Under the direc- tion of the Board of Agriculture and Forestry hunters scour the mountain ranges and the forest reserves in dbarch of goats, pigs, sheep, donkeys and cattle. Periodical goat drives are organized in which scores of vol- unteers take part, the most recent, in the area east of Kilauea Volcano, netting 2,600 head. Figures for the las' biennium, ap- pearing in the report of the Board of Agriculture and Forestry, show eradication as follows: Goats, 25,978; pigs, 6,610; sheep, 7,672; cattle, 376; donkeys, 45, ~ duce the number of wild goats, es- timated at 75,000 still at large om eral thousand wild sheep on the plopes of the extinct volcano of | Mauna Kea. The crier cried in the street . "New hearts for old!" So I took out my shabby one, The battered, the cold. ' And got one in barter, ! Shining and new: But it does not give me my wishes { As the old ome used to do. ! ¢-of Illinois River Shows 'Where reedbirds and ducks are lar study has recently been publish- lowing changes as the water pro-. Efforts are being continued to re- the Island of Hawalil as well as sev-