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THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 19% News of what the Boy Scouts of Oshawa ) are doing contributed by the scout lead- ers. Contributions to this column will be welcomed, and should be sent to the Times office not later than Tuesday morning each week. SCOUT EDITORIAL At this season of the year, the var- ious troops of the locality will be on the eve of going to their summer ps. some cases, parents are loth to _theit sons to attend these ps for reasons best known to selves, 'Many parents are somewhat un- necessarily afraid that some accident -l occur during the camping period, or that their boy might contract some illness during his stay. While the possibilities are always sent, and it would be useless to y the fact, yet they are also pre- sent in just as great a degree in the e. It might be comforting to point out that no accidents of a major kind occurred in any of the scout camps of the Province of Ontario last year, and as yet we have not received any information leading us to believe that any have taken place this year. Rules for scout camps, as drafted by Provincial headquarters are very exacting and preclude any possibility of disaster through carelessness. The camp site is always picked with the idea of safety in mind, and the best location procurable is always chosen. Camp life affords many chances of enjoyment and advancement in scout work to the boys, and on no account should the opportunity be missed if at all possible, Besides this, the boys look for- ward to roughing it in the wilds in true pioneer fashion, and are greatly disappointed if they cannot go. Improvement in health is also a usual thing at these camps, and this means a great deal Think it over Dad, and don't re- fuse unless you still feel morally cer- tain that your scout will not be bene- fitted by the outing. Remember that allowing a boy to exercise his initiative and rough it under good supervision, is a great character builder. A visit to any scout camp will convince you of the truth of these remarks. ANOTHER LEADER LEAVES The hand of fate seems to be fall- ing hard on the scouting fraternity of Oshawa recently. Another of our leaders, in the form of scout master J. Cornish, has left us owing to business reasons. Scoutmaster Cornish was acting as the scoutmaster of the 6th Troop and the assistant scoutmaster of the 8th Troop and both Troops will miss him greatly, A presentation on behalf of the 8th Troop was made to him on the eve of his departure, last Friday, by scoutmaster Bruce Hall and a pres- ent of a pen and pencil set will serve as a reminder to Mr. Cornish of his associations, in Oshawa, NEW SCOUTMASTER It is with pleasure that we report the return of another old scout to the fold, in the person of Mr. A. Fisher, a member of the original scout troop in Oshawa, who will as- sume the command of the 6th Troop. Assistant scoutmaster Twist, will assist Mr. Fisher with his troop, and will bring the advantages of his ex- perience as an assistant scoutmaster in the 4th, and as an assistant re- cently to scoutmaster J. Cornish in his work with the 6th, The scouts of Oshawa wish both of these officers every success, and compliment assistant scoutmaster E. Twist, on his devotion to duty. * * * STH TROOP BUILDS HUT Friday last saw the start of a hut building project, which will give the Sth Troop a hut on their summer camp site. Post holes were dug on Friday af- ternoon and the lumber for the hut delivered to the site. On Saturday morning several mem- bers of the troop rose early, and ac- companied a truck with further sup- plies and three professional carpent- ers to the site. While the carpenters worked, the boys transported the lumber over the Suffered for Two Years "After the birth of my second child, 1 was always feeling tired, nerv- ous and weak and had headaches, backaches and terrible pains every month. I suffered two years before I tried Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. I got four bottles at first and it did me a world of good. I would not be without it in the house now, and have another six bottles in. I recommend it to every woman I know.""--Mrs. T. Barrie, Box 114, Asbestos Mines, Quebec. {114 « Fink creek to the point where the hut was being built, 5 At noon fresh reinforcements in the form 'of the senior officers of the troop, some more boys, Committec- man L. Wood, and Mr. H, Harding, father of one of the boys, arrived to make a frantic endeavour to finish the work and. give the building a coat of paint. The clerk of the weather, however, decided against them and produced a thunderstorm and miniature cloud burst which drove everybody under cover, and although work again pro- ceeded after the storm was over, the hut remained unfinished when the workers started for home. The means of shifting the lumber, was by a game of "sawmill" in which every scout present acted as part of an endless chain moving logs to the sawmill. It is remarkable how much wood cah be transported in a shorf time by this manner. * * HOLDING RUNNING CAMP The 5th. Troop are at present hold- ing a "Running Camp" at their sum- mer camp site and several members of the troop have taken advantage of it. Those members of the troop who have taken advantage of this camp until the present are: Scouts H. Brownlee, J. Kinsman, L. Harding, C. Hughes, E. McDonald, and patrol leader E. Kearney and 2nd patrol leader L. W. Drake. The members of the hut building corps were pleased to take advantage of the campers' canvas during the storm, * * 0% GOOD WISHES All local scouts join in wishing' the jamboree Troop members the best of luck and an enjoyable time when visiting England. We are sorry that we have no rep- resentative from Oshawa in the Troop, but since most of our troops are new, we are satigfied to be rep- 'resented by older and more experi- enced scouts. * * * NEW TROOP LIKELY We have heard some rumors' of the possibility of a new troop being formed in connection with St. Greg- ory's church. . We sincerely hope that this may be the case, and can assure the new troop a hearty welcome into our midst if it comes into being. * * STH TROOP MEETING The 5th Troop met as usual, last Friday night at their summer meet- ing place. The evening was given over to the methods of artificial respiration. Practice in this work was carried on, and after demonstrations as to how to change position in order io relieve the person rendering artifi- cial respiration, the boys practiced the work for some time. The rest of the evening was spent in a game of Flag Raiding, in which a number of boys showed their abili- ties as stalkers, On going home, every bov was pre- sented with a Camp Questionaire which was to be filled in and return- ed by next Friday, * * * SCOUT NOTICES Sth Troop--The 5th Troop will meet at their summer meeting place as usual on Friday next, providing that the weather is good. In fase of wet or threatening weather, the meeting will be held in the Y.M.C.A. in which case, all boys must wear running shoes. This will be the last meeting before camp, and every boy must bring his Questionaire to this meeting. All boys not having an application form and Questionaire may procure the same from 2nd patrol leader D. Miller. * * * THE SEVENTH OSHAWA TROOP The Seventh Oshawa Troop is at present arranging for a week's camp commencing July 27th, at Greenwood, Assistant Scoutmaster Bickle and Troop Leader Knott will be in charge. It is expected about ten boys will attend the camp. Last Wednes- day evening Scoutmaster Boultee and his assistant G. Bickle, was accomp- anied by Scoutmaster Terrett to Greenwood where a camp site was selected. The Troop meets at the home of Mr. Boultbee, 626 Mary street, at 7 o'clock where they con- tinue to the creek just south of Ross's road, CRUDE DENTISTRY OF THE AFRICAN Teeth Are Filed Into Points By Means of a Stone, A Heavy Stick and a Piece of Iron Johannesburg, South Africa, July 17.--Mrs, T. A, Glover, who with her husband is continuing her work of exploration in equatorial Africa writes to the local press of a journey 30 days up the Logone River through a country 'where "people tell us monkey meat is poor substitute for a human fillet nicely grilled and steaming hot." Mrs. Glover mentions some curi- ous customs of the natives. "These people file their teeth into points. We watched a medicine man carry out these rites and visit to a den- tist is heaven in comaprison. 'Having obtained a stone , a 'heavy ' stick and a piece of iron as his only equip- ment, he called five husky natives to hold a small shrieking victim, perhaps nine years of age. Opening his mouth he took the piece of iron and placing it on the tooth and hit it with a stone until a piece was chipped off." The photographs here show top, Mrs. Howard Ferguson, wife of On- tario's premier, receivin a bouquet of flowers from Brig.-Gen. Sir John F. O'Ryan, following the christening (shown in bottom) of one of the Buffalo- Toronto passenger amphibians, Neakah, when she broke a bottle of cham- pagne over its bow. SHOOTS HYPNOTIST BEGAUSE HE FAILY Friend Becomes Annoyed When Amateur Cannot Hypnotise Him Paris, July 17.--Keep vour par- lor tricks for parties is the moral of a trial just ended at the Seine assizes. Louis Duc, a market employe, {| was in company in a cafe one eveén- | ing with two men friends and a | lady.- One of the friends, Bran- | lard by name, offered to hypnotize | Duc, who seems to have agreed. The amateur hypnotist tried hard, but with no sucess. Then Due grew angry. He rushed out of the cafe, ran all the way home, | seized a revolver, returned to the cafe, and bang, bang, bang! They {took the would-be hypnotist, his | lady friend and the other man to | | hospital and Duc to jail. The photograph here shows an aerial view of the funeral held July 13 from the home of sixteen-year-old Jack Armstrong, Canada's youngest flier, who was killed in a plane crash last week. While the service was being held in the home, aeroplanes, piloted by the boy-flier's late comrades, cir- cled above and dropped floral wreaths as a last tribute. U.S. WAR PENSIONS STILL OBTAINABLE Canadians Who Served With American Forces Are Eligible Washington, July 17.--Canadians who served under the American flag during the war and who have neglect- ed to qualify for the regular pen- sion granted to American veterans, still have a chance to do so, accord- ing to a memorandum received from Washington by United States Con- sul-General Wesley Frost. The official statement reads as fol- lows: "Persons who served in the military - or naval forces of the United States in the course of the World War, between the dates of April 6, 1917, and July 2, 1921, and who applied or were entitled to ap- ply for yearly renewable term (war time) insurance or United States Government (converted) insurance, may be interested in knowing that they may still apply for insurance under the terms of the World War Veterans' Act of 1924 as amended May 29, 1928, provided they are at present in good health. "The question of citizenship is not involved. Canadians or citizens of any country who seryed in the mili- tary or naval forces of the United States between the dates mentioned, or American citizens who have later become naturalized abroad, are en- titled to apply for this insurance. "Correspondence respecting appli- cation for United States Government insurance should be addressed to the United States Veterans, Bureau, Washington, D.C." SUNSPOTS BLAMED FOR EARTHQUAKES French Savant Insists on In- fluence of These Solar Phenomena Paris, July 17---In a recent issue of "Le Petit Journal" the Abbe Th. Moreur, directory of the Observatory of Bourgos, discussed the always in- teresting question of earthquakes periodisity on which he is a recog- nized authority, He said: "It seems to be still the style in certain official quarters to deny peri- odicity in earthquakes. In fact, we register, one vear and another about 3,000 shocks, but as far as intensity goes the years do not resemble one another. "As our technique improves we succeed in noting the slightest seis- mic manifestations and as long as a savant studies the phenomena with a magnifying glass the broad laws which regulate them will very prob- ably escape him, "Here is a fact analagous to what the astronomers observe. At present our instruments have attained such precision that we can detect the slightest perturbation in the march of the planets. These are far from fol- lowing orbits absolutely eliptical, so that the general laws of celestial me- chanics would be more difficult to outline now than when Kepler laid them down for the first time with the aid rudimentary observations. "All the same one would have an incredible lack of good sense not to notice in certain years seismic phen- omena of extraordinary amplitude, "That we passed through such a "Canada Dry." shaded brook . . on which you lie OUTSIDE the city where the air is cooler . . . where life seems better . . . and your spirits brighter . . . calm green of trees, fresh smellof meadowsinthe sun . . . you getsome- thing of this feeling, thisthrill, this contrast, when you drink Mellow as the sun- light which falls on a freshing as the grass giving zest to you as 3 'CANADA DRY The (Champagne of Ginger Ales Canada Dry Ginger Ale Limited, Toronto, Edmonton and Montreal Formerly J, J, McLaughlin Limited, and Caledonia Springs Corporation Limited Like the pure air of the forests . . . cool and refreshing over you . ingre and balanced with care, «JC serve day in the country do€§ . + a mild as the breeze which blows quality of this fine old: beverage. Jamaica ginger of the highest quality makes it a real ginger ale. Absolutely pure derful flavor. It just makes friends without half trying. Countless homes in this country such is the dients, blended give it its won- it often, crisis in 1923 cannot be doubted by those who read the newspaper regu- larly. 1 announced that crisis, after November 23, 1922, in these columns and also in my review--'Revue du Ciel'--in the following January is- sue. It was, moreover, not my first venture of this sort, since my first previsions dates from 1902. "If 1 insist on this point it is not at all to grant myself the title of prophet. There are enough Nostra- damuses. My idea goes further. In the thirty years in which I have stud- ied the sun I have asserted in all quarters of the world that all our climatology depends on the sun. My campaign caused smiles at first, and at the beginning they called me, ma- liciouslv, the 'almoner of the sun' But now the matter. is so far ad- vanced that it is a question as to who is entitled to\the honor of hav- ing discovered that the sun's spots engender all calamities, "In fact, those who have followed my work knew very well that the sun spots are only one single mani- festation of the general activity of the great star. "And I claim that this activity not only exercises an influence on our exterior meteorology--rains, seasons, temperatures--but also on what I call endogenous meterology--that which goes on under our feet" BRIGHTENING SKIES (New York Post) Never have international skies so dramatically brightened as this year. Ten years ago the world found for- mal peace in the Treaty of Versailles, but it was peace which did little to appease the rancor of war. 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