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LES RIIT 'ity doubled the excitement. Brown's Boy 'to himself. oA Boy Scout Activities 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 Tueeday each week. moming SCOUT NOTES Opportunities .for being use- ful and rendering first aid are presenting themselves quite fre- quently to local Scouts just now. Several bad bathing accidents have occurred where small boys have received some very bad cuts around the feet from broken glass in the various creeks. A Scout was recently able to assist in one of these cases, and stopped the flow of blood from a toe which was almost cut off from a young boy's foot. His knowledge of the pressure points enabled him to render the service which saved' the boy a great deal of blood. While we are mentioning these accidents we would like to re- mark on the lack of thought 'evinced by some people, and some of them are old enough to know better, who break bottles indis- criminately and leave the broken glass lying around in creeks and fields, thereby causing serious accidents. At least two boys under twelve years of age have had painful operations to fix up-the damage done by such people during the past few weeks, and it is only by luck that they have not been erip- pled for life. Scouts will pick up and, re- move broken glass to a safe place every time they see it, and they will also remember that the pleasure of breaking bottles often brings pain and suffering to somebody else at a later date. 2.--Ahoy there! Avast ye land- lubbers. The Sea Scouts have a boat. Through the generosity of President C. M. Mundy of the Local Association, a sixteen foot rowing boat has been put at the disposal of the 8th Troop. There is much excitement in the Camp and the boat is to be brought from Gull Lake tombor- Crow. Meanwhile the Sea Scouts are busy making a Rocket and Line Life Saving apparatus for dem- onstration purposes, 'and what with shaping masts and making tripods there is a great deal of work going on. Hp 3.---~We are sorry to note the departure of Scoutmaster W. G. Sutton who has been transferred by the Post Office authorities to another locality. . We wish him every success in his new position and hope that he will be happy in his new sur- roundings. 4.--S-M A. Ingham is taking over the boys from the 2nd Troop until another leader can be found for them. 5.--Tomorrow will see the start of the Motor hike of the Senior Troop of the 6th Troop. Twelve boys and three leaders will be with the Caravan which will explore the country around Muskoka. Motion pictures will be taken of the trip, which will be shown at a later date with the aid of the motion picture projector so generously donated to the Local Association by the Ladies' Auxili- ary of the Y.M.C.A. 6.--Plans for Camp Fifosh are once again under way and it will be held from July 25th to Aug. 2nd. It is expected that some Lone Scouts will attend the Camp this year and it is hoped that once again the Government Forestry representative will be present. The 7th Wolf Cub Pack are forward to roughing it for a few days. TROOP NOTICE 5th and 7th Troops The 5th and 7th Troops will meet as usual at their outdoor meeting place .behind Centre St. School. Wolf Cubs 6.30 p.m. to 7.30 p.m. Junjor Troop 7.30 p.m. to 9.00 p.m. Senior Troop 7.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m. Boys going on the Motor Hike will meet at S-M. Terrett's house, 630 Mary St., on Friday night at 7.00 p.m, They will not attend the Troop meeting. xcitement you will often find To danger doth its victims blind --0ld Mother Nature, ® Prairie-dog Town was used to excitement. There wag more or less of it every day, for Prairie- dogs are excitable little people, and hardly a day passed that there was not an alarm of some sort. But never since the town was started had there been such ex- citement as was quite upsetting just watch the funny people. "If this keeps up you will all have such sore. throats from so much barking that you won't be able to bark at all, and your tails will be so lame that you won't be able to move them," said he. "I wonder what will happen if I stand up. I believe I'll try it." the whole town now. A strange | creature, a giant unlike anything | any one ever had seen before had | crawled right into the heart of | the town, What it was noboby | knew, and because of this, curios- Farmer Brown's Boy had craw- led past Yap Yap's home, towards the next one, and there the same thing had happened. The owner became so excited that he could- n't keep still'an instant. He had barked until Farmer Brown's Boy wondered that he didn't lose his voice, and. all the time he had jerked his funny little tail. He al Farmer Brown's Boy to get within a few feet before div- ing in his house, and then he had chattered and scolded as fast as § tongue could go. By this time 'Yap was out again, just as much excited as ever, so surious that he hadn't been able to stay inside another minute. Had it been an enemy whom he recognized he wouldn't have come out for an r. From house to house Farmer 'Brown's 's Boy crept, and the result 'was. always the same. Always he Could get very near before the sought safety, and always when he had passed, the owner popped out again. - 'ou silly things," said Farmer "1.1 yere a real enemy you would let your curiosity put you in real dan- with no need for it at all, You 'afraid, yet you are so curious you haven't any sense left, I en't had so much fun for a time, and I guess I never ve received so much attention, curiosity might be expected : young and inexperienced, ut I notice that the old ones are r#€ than the young ones, if any- . I wonder what they think nyway.' 'trouble was that no one oing any 'thinking, The ile town was too much excited D0 curious for any one to do ting. So Farmer Brown's The whole town was too much ex- cited and too curious for any ~ one to do any thinking Farmer Brown's Boy stood us and laughed aloud. The instant he was on his feet he was recognized as one of those two-legged crea- tures whom they feared, and in a jiffy not a Prairie-dog was to be seen. They could be heard. Yes, indeed, they could be heard, for there was a great deal of indig- nant chattering going on in every house, but not so much as a single head was to be seen anywhere, Bil ly Owl and Mrs. Billy were the only people in sight. They still sat on their doorstep, dnd looked as if they were disgusted with such foolish excitement, They were not excited, nor were they afraid. A for curiosity, they apparently n't any. For a long time Farmer Brown's Boy waited. But for the' muffled sound of indignant. chatters and the two little owls on the door- step, the town might have been de- serted. You see, there wasg.no cur- iogity mow to bring those little people out. They knew a man when they saw him, and regarded him as an enemy to be feared. also planning a short Camp early | in July, and the boys are looking | i placed curious. . : ed to crawl orto le still and } gove up and started back for Boy At last Farmer Brown's | the They were no longer the least bit " x, UNE 26, 1931 * ranch. "I guess I've upset that town enough for one morning," said he. "Anyway, I've learned a lot. Yes, I've learned a lot, One thing is, what foolish things ¢/r- iosity will lead people to do when they should know better." . {Copyright, 1931, by T.'W, Bur- ess). , The next story, "Peekaboo and Popup." MOMENTUM IN STEEL ORDERS Trade Publication Gives List of New Orders Cleveland, June 26.--Improved sentiment manifest last week in the steel markets not only has acquired additional momentum, prineipally from developmeats in the world of international. rela- tions and finance, but also lias re- ceived more tangible backing in the form'of a noteworthy acti- vity in structural steel and pipe, "Steel" said recently. Structural steel ordered for 1531 to date now totals 1,004, 477 tons, compared with 901,098 tons, a year ago, according io "Steel." Including 20.585 tons for a Louisville and Nashville railroad bridge at Henderson, Ky., booked by the 'American bridge Co.; structural steel or- ders this week total 39,690 tons, Fresh structural steel inquiry this week exceeds 53,500 tons, according to "Steel," and this Is exclusive of 72,000 tons of struc- "tural steel, 28,000 tons of cable and 10,000 tons of miscellaneous steel for the Golden Gate bridge at San Francisco. The most substantial line pipa awards in several months made their appearance, "Steel" said, including 41,000 tons of 26-inch for an Illinois gas utility booked hy Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., 17.000 tons of 103% inch pipe by the Sheel Union Oil Corp., and 5,500 tons of 14-inch by the Phoenix Utility Co. with the National Tube Co. The Irak Peroleum Co., comprising Ameri- can, French and British interests, has placed contracts for a $13,- 500,000 pipe line from the Tigris to the Mediterranean Sea requir- ing 160,000 to 180,000 tons. "In lesser degree railroad re- auirements have expanded," "Steel" sald. 'The fruit growers express has placed 800 and the North Western Refrigerator Line 200 refrigerator cars. Northern Pacific is expected to place 500 underframes. Norfolk & Waest- ern will buy 20,000 tons of rails. The Pennsylvania Railroad has made commitments for the mech- anical construction of 90 electric locomotives, "With actual mill rates not yet affected by improved structural and pipe bookings the steel mak- ing rate this week has declined almost two points to 36 to 37 per cent, 'Steel's' composite this week 19 off 4 cents to $30.99 ow- ing to further weakness in gal- vanized sheets." Interesting News of Youthful Oshawa Pr -- ce met ---- > "Recti Cultus Pectors Reborant: June 26.--~A few days ago the Mail and Empire published a short editorial reference - to "Country Life" issued in Lon. don, England--to the extraordin. arily fine character of the illus. trations and descriptive matter which it contains, Reference was made to a series of photographs of Lord Willingdon's palace in New Delhi, The effect upon the sale of the publication was im. mediate. Two days later it was impossible to secure a copy in To. ronto. The whole Canadian al- lotment had been sold out in a few hours. Aside from the spec. ial interest in the issue because it referred to our former Gov- ernor-General"s present home, there is a very large market in this country .for .the .British weeklies and monthlies if that market is properly developed. The placing of an almost pro- hibitive tax on the avelanche of United States magazines coming into this country will greatly en- large the field for Old Country publications, as well as for our own magazines and periodicals. It remains for the British publish- ers to get after the business without delay. There are no weeklies in the world to compare with the best British weeklies, and no monthlies in the world to equal the magazines issued in London and Fdinburgh. The Old Boys' and Girls' As- sociation (of Room 8, Centre School) held their second re- union banquet at Knox Presby- terlan Church, Friday, June 19th, The Ladies' Aid served supper at 6 p.m. Tables were set for forty and while several who planned to be present were unable to attend, a number of others who were not sure that they could be present, came. Letters were read from W. Tomlinson, Windsor, Miss D. Reynolds. Stratford. and J. Lecky, London. Books are needful not only to push back horizons, to impart in- formation, and to increase un- derstanding; one of their chief offices is to give pleasure. There is no other such enthusiast as the book enthusiast; he is termed a bibliomaniac. He thinks of books as he would of friends and com- panions. His grandfather may not have heen born before the gentle Elia finished his life, but Elia is an intimate friend who is closer than a brother. The Roman Hor. ace and the Norwegan Bjornson are his friends; so are George Borrow and Walt Whitman and Montaigne and Omar Khayyam and Robert Louis Stevenson. In the flesh Thomas Carlyle or Hen- rik Ibsen may have repulsed him, but in the spirit they reveal to him their profoundest secrets. Edmund Gosse speaks in one of his essays of the inaccessibility of the English - poetess Christina Rossetti even in a London draw- ing room, but her deepest self is disclosed to us in this exquisite stanza: My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is In a watered shoot ; My heart is like an apple-tree Whosé boughs are bent with thick-set fruit; - My heart is like a rainbow shell That paddles in a halcyon sea; My heart is gladder than all these Because my love is come to me. As the years pass, the friends of the reader of literature form a great company: the nonne, the prioresse, is there, and Eugenie Grandet, and Andromache, and Beatrix Esmond; there are Jos- eph the dreamer, and Olaf Try- gvesson, and Hamlet the Dane, and my Uncle Toby, and Mr. Worldly Wiseman, and Dr. John- son and Bozzy-----and a host of others. Wordsworth was right, then, when he spoke of books as "a substantial world': "Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow". Seventh Wolf Cub Pack The Seventh Cub Pack will meet at St. George's Parish Hall, Centre street, on Friday, June 26 at 6.30 p.m., weather per- mitting, the meeting will be held outside. The Sixer"s Council will meet immediately after the general pack meeting. A camp will be held for the pack from Friday, July 11th to July 14th, both dates inclusive. Fighth Oshawa Sea Scout Section We have a big job on hand, and its up to every boy in the troop to help out. The Skipper is going to help as much as 10s- sible but he doesn't want to do it by himself. Don't forget to sell lots of tick- ets for our social on July 4. Don't forget to mention that there is a tennis tournament on all the afternoon. One patrol decided to run a slde show. How abcut it? A mothers' committee is going to, be called to help us out if they will be so kind. The donkey work is to he done hy the boys, Next meeting:---June 30. Court of Honour: 7 p.m. Flag Break: 7.30 p.m. Constance: "Our in-laws like to make ug feel small don't they? A visit to them is like he- ing put through a sieve." Dora: "Sort of étrained rela- tions."" : Pull information from your agent or J. BLACK MACKAY General Agent Canadian Pacific Bldg., do | TRAIL RANGERS THE TUXIS COLMN TUXIS BOYS Dismissal: 9 p.m. Some Groups Are Already Mak- ing Plans For Next Fall's Work The "Semper Fidelis" Trail | Ranger Group of Knox Presby- terian Churel, Victoria, are plan- ning to furnish a new set of Hymn Books for the Sunday School as their fall project. Re- cently they purchased a lantern for the church and took charge of an evening service where the hoys themselves participated. The last indoor session of the group took the form of a Father and Son supper, followed by a public meeting for church mem- bers, when badges and other group awards were distributed. This group holds the Trail Rang- er Athletic Championship of Vic- toria. Six boys received certifi- cates for their Bible Study Tests and four won their Bible Study Badges. Other members are com- pleting their tests for swimming, life saving and other badges. Three Music and one First Aid Badge have also been won by the group recently. : Edible Wild Things Learn what may be eaten In emergencies. A porcupine is one of the few animals that may be killeq without a fire-arm. Never kill one needlessly. Some day a lost man may be spared from starvation, for the meat though coarser and greasier than bear's meat, is edible. Frogs' legs and turtles, roasted acorns, roots of jack-in-the-pulpit (Indian ture nip) Indian cucumber, flags, dandelion, milkweed, may-ap- ples (mandrake) wild onion, ar- row-leaf (the root) and most fungi are edible, Bane-berries (both white and the purple) are poisonous. This is a large sub- ject, but in a camp you may Start the study. Play It At Camp Or At Your Out-Door Meeting 'Human Hurdle -- Formation: Divide the boys into a number of 'equal teams and have them lie down like spokes on a wheel, face down and head toward the hub. The distance hetween the heads should be six or ten feet. The 'spokes in each wheel are num- bered 1, 2, 3, etc, and represent hurdles. Race: At the starting signal number 1 in each.team jumps to his feet and starts around the Awheel to the right, hardling. No, 2, then No. 3, and so on until he has hurdled all and returns to his own place, and lies down in his original position. Mean- while, as soon as No. 1, hurdled No. 2, No. 2, jumps up and fol- lows No, 1, hurding each man. Each player does likewise, going entirely around and returning to his own place. The race is won by the .team whose last man is first back on the ground in posi- tion. Roy A. Young, governor of the Boston Federal Reserve Bank, said at a bankers' luncheon: "It is charged against the So- viets that they have set their Am- erican agents to telephoning around to- bank depositors that all the banks are going up. In this vile way the Soviets hope tc bring about bank runs, failures, panic and the overthrow of cap- italism. "The Soviets have a pretty bad press nowadays. The foreign writers, whom they pay to visit them, praise them, it is true, but it's such faint praise that it re- minds mo of Mrs. O'Hoolahan. '""Me-; second ain't no saint,' said Mrs. O'Hallahan, 'but I'll say this for him--he's better'n me first by a lgng shot. He's ia jail so much, ye see, that practi- cally all I earn I have for my cwn use." --Springfield Union, Disgusted Professor: 'What did you come to college for, any- way? You are not studying." Bobby Rahrah: "Well, mother gays it's to fit me for the presi- dency; Uncle Jim, to sow my wild oats; sister Helen, to get a chum for her. to marry, and dad, to bankrupt the family." . Bven Texas has it's divorce cases, despite the near-monopoly now achieved in Reno. In this perticular case, it was the man who wanted his freedom, and it developed that the main ground for his plea was that his wife wouldn't let him play poker on ¥riday nights. "But, outside of that, she's made you a pretty good wife, hasn't she?" asked the court, with concilliatory intentions. "I don't know about that, replied the plaintiff, "but she's ,certainly made me a good hus- 'band Here and There Feeding tobacco to sheep is the latest . device to check mternal BE ol with salt in the on isis nisl i pg tobacco leaf. ten Latest available estimates place Canada's forest resources at 224, 304 million cubic feet of stahiing timber, capable of yielding 424,63 million feet board measure of sawn lumber and 1,121,983 thou- sand cords of pulpwbod, ties, poles and other smaller materials. Western Canadians are showing resolution coupled with a hig degree of industry, was the com- ment made by Grant Hall, vice- president, Canadian Pacific Rail- way, on his return from a recent tour of the company's western lines. Trail riding in the Canadian Rockies has made a strong appeal to Lord Duncannon, son of His Excellency the Governor-General, who with the Hon. Arthur Pon- sonby and Major Dollam bave heen staying at the Banff Springs Hotel. against eampaigns wheat wireworms, cutworm, potato beetle, cabbage butterfly, root maggots are being conducted throughout the west this summer and fall with a epecial organiza- tion in the field. "Buyers' Week," which has been a great success in the past, will be held for the fourth time in Montreal commencing August 10 next. At the last one in February upwards of 1,100 buyers came to Montreal and purchased in round figures $950,000 worth of Cana- dian-made goods. Intensive grasshoppers, stem sawfly, A man catching a fish is not news unless the fish is an outsize, but a fish catching a man rates a big type head. This hap at Lake Minnewanka, near Banff, recently when an angler was pulled off the pier into the lake by the sudden strike of a monster trout. Constable James of Cal- gary put off in a boat and landed both fish and fisherman. Six days, nine hours and eleven minutes was the time of the record run of the "Empress of Japan," 26,000-ton flagship of the na- dian Pacific fleet, on her last trip from Yokohama to Honolulu, while a double record was made when the same ship completed the voy- age from Honolulu to Victoria in four days, nine hours and 16 minutes. For the second time in the past three years, Canadian Pacific Railway police are all-Canada re- volver champions. The railway's Ontario team defeated Royal Canadian Mounted Police, of Leth- bridge, in the finals for the trophy recently. The railway police scored 1410 out of a possible 1500 against the Mounties 1352 thus becoming Dominion Open Revolver Police Champions. Hon. Gordon S. Harrington, Premier of Nova Scotia, and two hundred of the province's leadin, citizens, gathered at Yarmo June 16 for the opening of the lakeside . Inn, Canadian Pacific hotel. This hostelry is the third of a chain across Nova Scotia I 4 rs Yesterday afternoon the ten Guides who are going to Clear Lake Camp, had their medical ex- amination. This was arranged, under the Public Health Depart- ment by Dr. McKay. Swabs were taken of all the throats and ex- amined. Heart, lungs and skin were carefully checked. Every girl who goes into a Guide Camp enters it in fit physical condition, because she bas a test before she goes, and those in charge KNOW she is in perfect health. The Guides leave on Saturday. They will go up via Peterboro, Lakefield, Young's Point and Ka- wartha Park, where a launch will meet then at the government wharf and take 'them across Clear Lake to the beautiful camp owned by the Rotary Club of Peterboro. There will be over 50 in camp. Guldes from all the Peterbore companies, and from Havelock and from Oshawa will comprise the party, which will be in charge of Mr. and Mrs. Loomis. An in- firmary under the supervision of a trained nurse is maintained for the camp, but during the week the Guides have it, they are plan- ning to have it EMPTY. . Next week we hope to hear from some of the Guides, who are up at Clear Lake to find out what they are doing. Niagara-on-the-Lake An inspection of the Niagara Camp site last week showed it to be an ideal spot. It is located four miles from on-the-Lake, in the hes most historic country. TI 8 site is on the farm of ¥ 5 nard, who has been kind 8 to loan it to the Oshawa for two weeks. In the big gate, under opy of spruces and past t house the' Guides will g0. Then: down throug peach orchard and past etable garden. until they =~ the gate into the 'field t= be "home" for two weekgs " Oaks and beeches will i them, and Lake On for expanse will hold put ing vistas of big boats comi from Toronto to either housgie or Port Weller. from the tents may he lights of the docks an house, and also the light == as they plough their way se The campers held a . cn Wednesday, when the rangements were made J grams discussed. Hold haversacks are going to +8 by the pioneers in read' the joyful time. On Wednesday a Guides met at Ross' Corned into the woods, gathered um of wild flowers, and ? spent a lovely evening. Ia anxious to become 2nd cles tests were 'given on Stalking and Fire Lighting Information about th nicnic for the Brownies in a day or, two, opened Dy the railway In the past few years, t to the faith in the tourist possibilities of the province held by the Canadian acifie. (748) A POPULAR SERVICE There could be no better indi- cation of the rapidly growing popularity of the Beef Grading Service of the Dominion Depart- nient of Agriculture than the in- crease of over 70 per cent in the volume of beef graded for sale throughout Canada between April and May of this year. Only a little over a year in operation the Beef Grading Service graded and branded a total ' of 1,199,357 pounds of "red" and 'blue' brand beef in April last. In May this total raised to 1,983,022 pounds. Of the May total 1,333,- 247 pounds graded "good" for branding "blue,"and 649,775 rounds "choice" for the 'red" brand. Figures by provinces show a rapidly increasing de- mand for government graded beef particularly in Ontario and Quebec. "So you cured your wife of using her powder puff and lip- stick, at the restaurant table, How?" "I took along my shaving outfit and produced it as soon as I saw her reach for her bag." Thomas A. Dunn, pref 8% the Pittshurgh Chamber gp & merce, tells the one ag™ couple who were bei ia of their home for not pags rent. Under the stern constable the husband 4 a chair, the wife salvage™ and they started downs put their belongings in {128 At the bottom of the (= wife suddenly broke int terical laugh. fi "What's the matter? a= ded her husband, righf her. "This is a fine ti¥ laughing! Have you gon "No, I was just think returned. "this is the fi 19 years that we've gos gether." #1 A certain old lady wai cerned about one of th who was unable to writds persuaded the village ter to give some lessoBk Some time later she mt lager and said to him' "Well, George, 1 su are now able to read fairly easily?" "Lor' bless you mumg plied, "I was out of the into the football ned week ago!" ee At the Holiday Special For Saturday Only Dominion Clothing ot $25.00. Setwday 99-00 12 ONLY BOYS' SUITS. Regular $7.95, Saturday «oui BOYS' COTTON BATHING Regular 59¢. Saturday, Extra Pants. $4.19 MEN'S WORK SHIRTS. Reg. 95c. Saturday ......ccoenn Children's All Wool BATHING SC Regular $1.49, : - 49c Regular $1.25. Saturday, BOYS' RUNNING SHOES. Sizes 1 to 5. Men's and Young Men's POLO S Saturday, 19c Reg. 95c. CHILDREN'S WASH SUITS. Saturday .......ooinenni 49c MEN'S BALBRIGGAN CO TIONS. Sizes 34-48. .- Reg. 95 Saturday ........coeennnniie FE Reg. 25c. BOYS' COTTON JERSEY. Saturday, each ........ 10c BOYS' BROADCLOTH BLOUSES, ular 50c. Staurday, t a NOTICE We do not carry "seconds". All our merchandise g : _ anteed first quality. Our customers are always satisfied]. COMPANY Dominion Clothi PHONI 68 KING ST. W.