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30 WILMETTE LIFE August 24, 1928 BOY .SCOUT NEWS Urge All Scouts to Attend Area Re-Union Sept. 28 Every Scout will plan ahead to be at Camp Reunion · (whether or not he attended a camp this summer), to be held at the New Trier High school lunch room, Friday evening, September 28, at 6 P. M. The program will be fuji of reminiscences of Camp Checaugua and the Veteran Camp and of lookinB' forward to our Own Camp in Nordiern Wisconsin next year. The program wilt include reports from Scouts and Scout leaders who have attended various camps this summer, among them, Bob Anspach, E. L. Stanton, F. ]. Kreusch, Mark Andrews, Bob Townley, Adam Bauer, Brainerd Chapman, Dorlund Davis Robert King, Prescott Lothrop, Georg~ Bersch, Ernest West, Paul Gilbert, John Brenner. . Make vour reservation now with your Scoutmaster. Awards of Star, Life~ Eagle and Palms, together with any Feathers which ma:t h?ve been earned in the Boy Scout Press club, will be awarded that night at 8 o'<. lock in the auditoium of the New 1 rier High school. All parents and friends are invited. All Scouts expecting to receive awards at this session, must have their applications in the area office, not later than September 20. A splendid program is being arranged, including several numbers from the North Shore ·Line band. The auditorium seats a thousand people. Help fill it up I of the North Shore Tr. o ops A regula,r feature page prepared , each week bg membttl of the Bog Scout Prell club, North Shore Area Council Up North in the Land o' Lakes Scouting Circles Globe; Troops in Over 50 Countries vVherever you go in the United States-whether in Maine or Texas, Washington or Florida, you find Scouts everywhere, in city, town, or open country. Scout towns dot every corner of the nation. Clean-cut, aler t, spick and span in their uniforms and honored because of their service. As Theodore Roosevelt said: "The Boy Scout movement is distinctly an asset to our country "for the development of efficiency, virility, and f!OOd citizenship." - In the first sixteen years of scout-ing (beginning in 1910), over 3,000,~ boys became members. In our cotleges today we find that nearly half the college men have been and are scouts. In 1926, these scouts were in " Scene near new North Shore Scout Camp Site in Wisconsin wilda Harvard . ... : . ....................... 49% Yale .................... ... ... ....... 38% Michigan .. . . ............ . ......... . . 44% La_yfayette .. ............. .. ......... 50% Northwestern University . . .......... 42% Washington and Jefferson ..... . .... 64% U. S. NaYal Academy ...... . ...... . 50% U. S. Military Academy ............ 48% WANTED: CAMP NAME Suggeationa for Wisconsin Camp Are Coming in and Every Scout Ia Urged to Add to List Without Delay Junior Leaders to Hold Parley on September 21 Friday, September 21, all the junior leaders in Wilmette, will meet at the Club House of ~t. Augustines' church to have a conference. The program in brief is as follows: ·4:00 P. M. AU members of aU troups · assemble for photograph. 4:15 P. M. Conference called to order. 4:45 P. M. "What I expect of my junior leaders this year", Bob Townley. 5:15 P. M. Practice in handicraft. 5:45 P. M. Discussion by junior leaders (discussing the duties of the various junior· leaders). 6:30 P. M. Dinner (Scoutmasters as guests). 7:15 P. M. The program of the year ahead, by D. C. Leach, commissioner. 7:30 Story-telling by various scout leaders. 8:00 P. M. Adjournment. Scouts, your troop is counting on you to do your best this year.-George Bersch. COMING EVENTS September 21-Witmette Junior Leaders' conference. September 28-Area-wide Court of Award with a camp Reunion dinner at 6:30 p. m. (court at 8 :00) at New Trier High school. September 24 - Scoutmasters monthly roundtables . will be held on the last Monday evening · of each month, at the Cabin-in-theWoods. By Scout Egroeg Hscreb Boy, won't it be fun to go down the Wolf River for a canoe trip of twenty miles or more, and wouldn't have a lot of fun at the campfire joining in with your brother scouts in singing songs and playing games · and listening to a "spook" story that would make the chills run all the way up your back, and the eats, boy, oh, the eats, can't you just see the golden brown flap-jacks smeared with real maple syrup, mmmmmm. Well, just to take you out of suspen,se I'll tell you that that is what you are going to get and even more up at our new camp at Spring Lake, Wisconsin. The whole lake has been bought by the council and the territory covers 360 acres of thick virgin forest. Think f the hikes through the woods and the trips on the lake and river. There will be handicraft of every description, inter-tribe games, hikes, nature study, and boy, don't forget the swimming in the cool waters of Spring Lake. The lake has a hard sand bottom which is ideal for swimming. But there is stilt one thing that has not been decided upon. I wonder if any of you readers could guess what it is? Y eh, that's right, whoever said it, I didn't think you could guess it but you're right, it's the name. One The scribe, or secretary, of a Scout THE INQUIRING REPORTER friend of Scouting· has suggested troop is one who is selected from the If you could have just the sort of "Camp No-sho-bo-sco," sound Indian membership of the troop because of alright, doesn't it? Well it isn't, it's his skill and ability to serve as the a job you want ten years from toan abbreviation for "North Shore Boy record and account keeper of the day, what would it be? Scouts." If you have a good sugges- troop. He is a scout with those traits ·Cameron Brown, Troop 22, Glencoe: I would be a civil engineer. tion send it into the office and it may of accuracy, carefullness and neatness help a great deal in selectin~ a good that make for a good business man, Ray Bartleman, Troop 22, Glencoe : A lawyer. name for our long sought for camp. perhaps a banker. Don't forget the big camp reunion at These picked Scouts, the scribes of ·Robert Johnson, Troop 55, Glenview: Either an airplane pilot or forest New Trier High school mess hall on the variQus troops, witt be brought toranger. Friday evening, September 28 at 6 gether this fatt in a "Scribes' School" o'clock. Plans for the season at camp once a month for instruction and ex- David Canmann, Troop 35, Ravinia : will be discussed and reports will be .. change of idea and method. The A lawyer. · · made by boys who have been to vari- school witt be carried on by the Scout Dorlund Dav'id, Troop 2, Wilmette : ous camp!! during the summer. Eats leaders of the North Shore Area I would be a doctor. council. will be s~ned I Scouts are met in fifty-seven civilized countries, which countries represent 91% of the world's population. Scouting is a great world brotherhood of boys and men, and, as the The AmericaD Elm is a common President of the United States has tree on the north shore. It is well said, is one of the biggest forces makadapted for a shade tree and has a ing for world peace. graceful beauty. The leaves are lopOptimist Club Troop to sided. The wood is hard and tough. It is Attend Checaugua Camp used · for barrels, baskets and boats. Seven boys of Troop 10, sponsored by the Wilmette Optimist club, left Invite Scouts to Join last Monday morning for Camp Checauqua in Michigan. They are RichPress Club Right Now! ard Haugsness Lawrence Haugsness, A new club has recently been formed Henry Hoffmeier, Edmund Foslund, for the Scouts of Wilmette, Winnetka Walter Hawkinson, Robert Golden, and Glencoe. It is the Boy Scout and Richard Steen. Scoutmaster Ryan plans to visit the Pres~ club. For membership in this club· one troop while they are irt camp. -Scout Richard Haugsness. must have had ten or more articles printed. When a Scout is in the club he will Offer New Suggestions be expected to cover certain assignfor That "Good Tum" ments given him. . When one has A Scout does at least one "good qualified he wilt be presented with an attractive guild at the Area-Wide turn" to someone every day. The following list, ring true to boy life perCourt of Award. haps, but are, nevertheless, rather unSend your articles to George Bersch, 1715 Walnut avenue, Wilmette not usual. "Opened a door in a grocery store later than Friday preceding the date for a lady that was stuck." which article is to be published on "Loaned another kid a thumb tack this Scout page. Articles concerning to put in the teacher's chair." troop news, patrol news and stuff of "Put a dime in my little brother's general interest is the kind that is bank by mistake and didn't make him wanted. give it back." "Stopped a fight between a boy arm just got well from being whose Plan School for Scri·bes busted." . to Be Convened This Fall A Tree a Week