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ONE^SCOUTS Rovert Lonies all over the Province will b* Interested to hear of a very unique ceremony which was enacted on Sat- urday, May 14th, at Ebor Park, On- tario (where our Lone Scout Camp is to be held this year). Three years ago, on May 2lth, 1929, half a dozen boys who lived at Paris, Ont.. were in camp at Ebor Park over the holiday week end. They were the "Wolf Patrol" of the old 1st Ontario Lone Scout Troop, and Melvin Prine was their Patrol Leader and Clifton Cassidy was his "Second." With these Lonies at their camp was Capt. John Furmiuger, the present As- sistant Provincial Commissioner for Lone Scouts, and Mr. Frank Irwin. the Commissioner at Provincial Head- quarters, Toronto. This was the first occasion on which a Lone Scout Camp had been held in Ontario, and the boys bad a wonder- ful time with their Scoutmaster. Capt. Furminger. On Saturday, May 1th. 1932, three years later, some of these boys again met at Ebor Park, this time to in- augurate their Rover Crew, and Clif- ton Cassidy was invested as Rover Mate, by the Assistant Provincial Commissioner for Rovers, Mr. Lionel Bishop, who was assisted by Captain Ftirminger. Clifton chose Melvin Prine (his old Lone Scout Patrol Leader), as bis Rover Second, and thus through all these years the link between these two lads remains unbroken. Assistant Provincial Commissioner Frank Irwin was also present at this ceremony, and we know that all the Lonies will congratulate the Paris Rover Crew on having successfully parsed through all the .-<teps of Scout- tug, from Lone Scouts to the 1st Paris Troop (which they organized! and now to Rover Scouts. We sincerely hope that many other lioys who are now working as Lonies will, in the years to come, pass Into the rank? of the Rover Scouts, and thus keep up their interest in Scout- ing after they have "grown up." Disarmament in Fiji Once mention of the Fiji Islands called rp pictures of fuzzy-haired can- nibals and poisoned-arrow blowpipes. Now one hears there are 933 Fijian Boy Scouts. Doubtless the blow-pipes have been turned into harmless pea- shooters, and it is no longer consider- ed a good turn to eat your grand- mother. Ontario Scouts Plant 100,000 Trees 100,000 young trees were planted by Scouts last year in the "Boy Scout Forest" started several years ago In waste land near Angus. Ont.. under the auspice* of the Ontario Forestry Branch. Free Trees For Farmers Many hundreds of posters announc- ing the offer of the Ontario Forestry Branch to provide farmers with trees for planting have beeu posted this spring by Ontario Boy Scouts. Our Weekly Scout Law No. 9 "A Scout Is Thrifty." What does this mean? Does it mean 'hat a Scout should be a miser and hoard up money? Not at all! It means that a Scout is wise, and does not waste things, but makes the very best use of them that he possibly can. And this includes a large variety of items which maybe you have not even though of. Of course he does not waste money. He appreciates the fact that it i* very hard to obtain, and to make money one must work hard. So what sense is there in wasting your hard work? A good Scout has a savings account in the bank, and tries to make it grow, and gets into the habit of putting aside a reserve which he may well fall back upon in case of need, or use to good advantage as good opportunities arise. Hut money is not the only tiling on which he practices thrift. A good Scout will not waste food. Nor will he willfully destroy his clothing, but take care of it. and make it last as long as possible. Then. too. he will not waste his op- portunities. He has chances to im- prove his education, his strength and his character, aud these should be very carefully conserved, as they are his best assets in his future manhood. So he goes to school regularly and learns all he can. He exercises his body re- gularly and does not abuse it. He sup- ports his church and Sunday school and their varied activities, and by hia thrift in these directions builds himself up to strong and useful manhood. Yes. Sir! A Scout is Thrifty! Camp Are you planning to be at our Lone Scout Camp in July? Maybe you have not passed your Tenderfoot Test, or perhaps you have no Scout Uniform. Who cares? You will be just as wel- come without a uniform as with one, and we will help you to pass your Ten- derfoot Test, and your Second-Class as well! So come along and have a good time with us. Remember the dates July 4th to Ifith inclusive. Particulars of how to become a Lone Scout may be obtained from The Boy Scouts Association, Lone Scout Dept.. :!30 Bay Street, Toronto. "Lone E." British Radio Fans "Fed Up" With Crooning A widespread rebellion is brewing against the crooning tenor on the wire- less in England. One cannot hear it now. says Robert Lynd in The News Chronicle (London) "without wishing to take up one's wire- less set and throw it at the siuger's liead." Mr. Lynd reports: "They have so pot on the nerves of the public that, at the first sound of a crooning voice on the wireless, many a listener switches the thing off and in desperation goes over to Holland to listen to a talk on the diseases of sheep, of which he does not under- stand a word. "And, Indeed, to listen to this croon- ing is like listening to the complaints ot a sick animal. Possibly the singers themselves dislike the vocal affecta- tion now in vogue, and feel rather like sick animals. And who could eadure such muted caterwauling for long? "[ sometfimes think that, if ogling made a noise, this would be the kind of noise it would make; and, in music as in life, a little ogling goes a long way. If ouly they would cease trying to yearn. I fancy th* music would be quite enjoyable. A^ imitation yearn, however, is one of the most intolerable sounds within the whole range of music. Let the singers practise at 'Hearts of Oak' for a time and acquire a touch of liveliness. This will help to cheer them up. and it will cheer every- body else up. too. "I have sometimes wondered wheth er it would not be better for singers of love-songs to try to keep expression al together out of their singing. There is no more need for vocal and facial agonies In singlug about love than in singing about hunting. Love is, after all. not such a ghastly business as some of the-e far-off singers seem to imagine. "Men have beeu known to be cheer- ful, and even rational. In the presence of the beloved. "A singer, however, can scarcely mention the moon or Jun> to a pretty womanwlthout suggesting that th*com- bined effect of the moon and .lime and love has beeu to turn him into a com- plete idiot. "I am sure, if the singers iu the dance-bands would sing their choruses naturally, and without what seems to them to be expression, the revolt against them would quickly subside, and they would become as popular as ever they have beeu." Up In The Virginia Hills A professor was iu the habit of letting; his dog sit by his side at meals. Olio evening when tie wa.* dining out, a lady next him, wishing to attract his attention, gently touched his sleeve. To the con- sternation of all present, he me- chanically transferred a bone from his plate and said. "Oh. get away. Take this out on the mat and eat it!" -Victoria Colonist. Less than a dozen miles from the president's summer camp in the Blue Ridge mountains of Virginia, exists a community of 49 souls living in unbelieveable squalor. Emaciated, illiterate, speaking a language of their own, here is the Corbin family and their primitive hut. Sunday School Lesson May 29. Lesson IX Joseph the Dreamer Genesis 37: 1-11, Gol- den Text Provide things honest in the sight of all men. Romans 12: 17. ANALYSIS. I. JOSEPH THE TRUTH-TELLER, vs. 1. 2. II. JOSEPH. THE ENVTED, vs. 3. 4. III. JOSEPH, THE DREAMER. VS. 5-11. INTRODLCTIUX Th^ story of Joseph was one of the most priceless heri- t n {~s oi the Hebrew people. The ac- count of his romantic career should bt read through as a whole at one sitting. It tells c-f a young?r member of a family, kept dov:n at first by the C! vy of his brothers, and forced to f..ce many viscLisitui'es and difficul- ties, but triu'iiplrng over them at la^t by dint of a faiihful spirt, ind brought, in the providence of God, though a surprising chain of circum- stjncos, to a position of great oleya- tioti and responsibility. "The ruling idea." says Skin ier, "is expressed in the words, 'Ye r.uendcd evil ogainst me, but God intended it for good!' (.~>0: 20 } : it is he sense of an over- ruling, yet imminent, divine Provi- d"nce, realizing its purpose through th" c'oiiiplex inten'Ciion of human nw- t'ves, working out a result which no ?inEle acto v contemplated." The story of Joseph is thus a study, on the one hana of the nature of God's provi- dence in human affairs, and, on tha o:'ier h;;iid, of a iruly reftal ch-iracter. I. JOSEPH THE TRFTH -TELLER. .'-. t. -'. Lik David. Joseph spent his early yc; r* MS a shepherd. While he was shepherding with his brothers, '3an and Naphtali. Gad and Asher, he saw such evil in their conduct that he wa.-. shocked. No mention is made of the l.recise nature of their evil conduct, but it may have been neglect of theiv duties as shepherds. >r the secret sale i>f the flocks and herds entrusted to them. What was Joseph to do? His bothers may have threatened that if he did not hold Uis tongue tray would make him suffer for it. If his heart was pur? and his conscience rcnsitiv?. however, he couM not keep silent. Without fear of the consequences, ho brouRht a report of his brothers' con- duct to his father. In doing :o was he merely a malicious tale-beare> '.' No. he simply proved himsjlf no cow ard, but one who set value upon truii. above all else. None the less his fid"! ity to truth won fur him the hatrJ of his brothers. II. JOSEPH. THE ENV1EI'. VS. ". 4. In yet another way Joseph became th- object of his brothers' l,:i;rv. Their hatred assumed tho f. mi envy, for hatred and ct.vy an- ! > akin. Joseph was Jacob's f. son, the son of I'ai-li !. .laculi's avur- it" wife, and born in .h'vob's M age. To us it may seem /t range that Jacon should have singl'-'d out one soa from tho twelve and sh'-wri him more love tliau the others. B'.it the Hebrew a'' man of strong feelings; he lived vi'iy '.arjrely in his fractions: and lu: did littl-j to hide them. As a token o his great love, the father gave Josop a costly garmo.it. The garment in itself was of little consequence but in the brothers' eyes it assumed an im mense significance. As a token of fa voritism. they probably regarded i r.s a mark of their *uther's injustic III. JOSEPH, THS DREAMER, VS. 5-11. Then- was a third reason for th hateful envy of the brothers. Josep tireamed dreams which were regardec as a mark of vaulting ambition. T the ancients dreams were of immeru significance. They come unsought an without human initi itive. There i something eerie and mysterious abou them, as though they float in upon 11 from .r.other world. The distincav feature about the Bible view of '.ream is that they were related dirsctly : God. lebrew dream-life, like a other phases of theh life, was place deliberately under the influence o tl '.-ir religion. Joseph remark? (40 8) that the interpretations of -Iream "belong to God." On he whole, dream were regarded as prophetic -\ for* casting of coming evsnts. Some bore their meaning on the surface, whi! others required to be interpreted Joseph's dreams belong to the forme class. The first dream seems to sug gest that ths family were agricultur ists. It was intended, perhaps, t forecast the tima when the brother; on account of famine, would go t Egypt to buy corn, and would b forced to bow before the prime n~.ii ister of Egypt then- own brother Joseph. The second dream was sti more unusual. Th great heavenl bodies seemed to pause on their wa and look down with :'milir.g favor o the poor Hebrew lad. This drcat might be taken as a prophecy of th l.igh position that he would hold i the future. The drca.ns were of sue a singular nature th-.it Joseph coul scarcely be blamed for not k^epin them to himself. His brothers, o hearing them, were all the more bitt.T in their envy. Soon they took active steps to frustrate the fulfilment of the dreams: but the dreams cams true none the le?s! Even the father re- buked Joseph for seeming arrogance, although secretly he seems to have had a presentiment that they were : foreshadowing of brilliant things to come. What effect had the dreams >n J.>seph himself'.' We may be sure that thay wev an Inspiration to wo'-'i ..nl hope- an.l wau. International Finance By Gates W. McGarrah, President, Bank for International Settlement The tidal wave of uncertainty and fear, which endangered several na- tional currencies and some banking institutions, originated in Austria, swept 'quickly through Hungary and Germany, and after devastating these areas flowed onward to Britain and the Scandinavian countries, oack- washing into the United States, and carried unusual demands on the American gold supply and credit sys- tem. No such widespread effects, which extended soon to Japan also, could have occurred except for the already existing essential unity in interna- tional finance which ignores political and geographical frontiers. This in- terdependence is not confined to the field of finance, but penetrates much further into the whole economic structure of various countries. The indices of production, employment, trade and profits show to an astound- ing degree the recurrent tendencies in every country of the world. All the evidence available leads to the conclusion that any hope that a single country may achieve prosper- ity part from the rest of the world indeed he based on an Insecure foundation. Highway Sign Stones In France "Cleaned Up" Paris. Every hundred meters of na- tlonai or departmental road in France is marked by a small stone, and every thousand meters by a larger stone. The distance to, and the name of, the next large town is always printed on the larger stones. Most of these had become old and weather-beaten and the directions painted on them were often very hard to distinguish, either because the plant had faded or be- cause the grass had grown taller than the stone itself. Recently, however, new stones have been put into place; small three-cornered ones for the hun- dred-meter marks and larger square ones for the kilometers. On national roads rhese stones are fitted with a cap of red paint, whereas on depart- mental roads these caps are yellow. This makes them plainly visible from a distance, and In addition small stones are tightly wedged together round them to prevent the grass from growing too close. Aerial Photography Notable progress has been made iu Canada in the employment of oblique and vertical aerial photographs for mapping some of the little known parts of the Dominion. The Topo- graphical Survey Branch of the De- partment of the Interior is the central clearing house for aerial photography in Canada, over 560.000 photographs being on file in that Branch to date. 1*1 rat Suburbanite -"Baiiss hits started his sardeu.^saw him p'am- ing seeds jasterilay." Second Suburbanite -"That re- minds m. it's time to turn the chickon* loos." Naturally A fair motorist whose car had swerved across the wide village street and crashed into a plate-glass shop- window was being questioned by the traffic policeman. "Surely, madam." said t'.ie con- stable. "on such a wide road as this you could have done something to prevent tue accident?" "But I did do something.' she as- sured him. "I was watching, but. I didn ; <> you do anything," be insisted. "Oh. but. officer, surely you heard m. I screamed as loud as t could." she replied Found It was the occasion of the Sunday- school's Easter holiday outiug. After tea. while the young curate tn charge was arranging the sports. a young choir-boy came rushing up to him. 'Please, sir." he said breathlessly. "teacher says will you come st once ' "What has happened'.'' interrupt- ed the curate. \Vhr ili>e= she want me?" "She's a mug short, sir." exclaim- "il t'ae boy. So They Say Presumably no one feels inclined to marry on a cold and frosty morning. \V. Somerset Maugham. The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss tae train before. K. K. Chesterton. No man feels upon quite friendly terms with his fellow-beings when conscious that he needs a shave. James Branch Cabell. You can't have two stars in a home. Ina Claire. If any man or woman corrects your pronunciation of a word iu a public place you have every right to punch him in the nose. No jury in the world will hold you guilty. Heywood Broun. I believe that the typewriter is a curse of modem writing. It makes it too easy and the writing is solidified in type and is hard to change when it might still be kept plastc and worked over and brought nearer to what it should be before it is cast in type. Ernest Hemingway "Age this talk of age! All age* liave been good for me, aud I see no reason why I should not continue to feel this way. Age depends entirely on how a woman accepts it. I have found something amusing ami vita! at all times in my life." GeraldiM Farrar. "Our college students as a whoie ap- pear more mature than a generation ago. not only in scholarship but also in their outside interests and in their sense of proportionate values, which is the flower of maturity." A Law- rence Lowell. "To think of college graduates u men who have beeu through four yeam of intensive intellectual training is laughable." Richard M. Btsselt. Jr. "Our actions have been entirely de- fensive and passive." Admiral Mineo Osumi. Economic conditions in our profes- sion never have been better." Denis O'Brien. "It is a mistake to deride all stupidi- ties in general. Many of them are simply the price that men pay for the possession aud use of rar abilities and the high specializing which is th outstanding achievement of our age." Walter B. Pitkin. "I never talk about my contem poraries. ... I used to say severe things, but the reason that I was a severe critic was I was under the de- lusion that if people were warned in sufficiently cutting terms they would write better. Now I know that was a delusion. Everybody writes as well as he can." George Moore. "The mother who has acquired * taste for child psychology is continual- ly having to nm from her child to her text-book aud back again, to soiv* problems of which more instinctive mothers were not even aware. The in- fant drops his toy, and howls to have it picked up. If it is picked up, he acquires a power-coinplei: if it is left lying on the floor, he acquires a rage- comples. . . . The mother turns the pages frantically ... by the time she has found it. the child ii thinking of something else." Bert- rand Russell. "The bright oues will ei along with out a college education. It is the slow ones who need college." Ruth Nk-h nls. aviatrix. "My father whipped me frequently. He did it iu rhythm and that's how I learned to whip rhythmically with the horse's stride. Senor Uuerra. great Mexican jockey. "American men do not care about money. They care for work for work's sake." Randolph Churchill. "Reality is the most alluring of all courtesans, for she makes herself what you would have her at the moment. But she is no rock on which to anchor your soul, for . . . she has no existence outside your own dreams and is often no more than the reflec- tion of your own thoughts sliiulng up- on the face of nature." -Dr. William Francis Cray Swan. And Our Hot Dog Stands That European critic who says America has produced no distinctive architecture should come over and see the filling station-'. -Toronto Dallv Star How It Closed TV-.v were preparing tlieh- car f.n .1:1 icuii- through tlu- countryside. "By the way." said hubby in a liushed whisper. "I heard Smith and iiis \\ife quarrelling over wha f kind of car they should get. HP wanted an open car and she wanted a saloon." "Yes." returned his wife; "hut the incident is closed now " "Yes. and so is the car.' 1 replied hubby. "i <; nv her <;,, ,,{ j a j( tills morn ing." 1 MUTT AND JEFF- By BUD FISHER One Passenger Plane Mr. Clutts Can't Afford to Miss. DON'T BC SILLV- I I'N\ , GOING TO CALIFORNIA! I i JJL "^+M. *^S23fr; i'{v^ - ^^Vv,/,^ft * -_ ^*^~