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The iiine scout leaders of the North Shore Area council who' attended the national camp leaders training school, near East St.* Louis, on 'April 6, 7, a 1nd.8, have returned prepared to put on for this local counicil :a similar trainingý school for Ma-Ka-Ja-Wan leaders. The tentative daté. for this scbool is April 29 andi 30; the place, the cabin-in-the-woods, west:>of Glen- Gunnar Hl. Berg, national director of volunteer training, Boy- Scouts of Ainerica, headed the course given at East St. Louis and. passed on to the local meni a vast, knowledge. of ca mp- ing technique, new,'carùp kinks, new program mnethods, and, ncw scout- craf t projects and camps, suitable for camping. The ' course was organized as à scout troop withi Mr. Berg as scoutniaster and ail the men as scouts. The local course wiIl be set up similarly, the local leaders cach * participating in the varions' positions. of leadership ini the course. The north shore mien attcnding the school werc Fenton Hopkins of Deerfield, Ed. Koebe,1in of Decrfield, * Milton Merner of Deerfield, Cal Gartle~v ofI zLaeForest. lan McPher-. %-Bloioc130y "I. gives me pleasure to again earnestly endorse the Boy Scout move- Ail extension' and broa'dening of ment, which is the safest kind of in- the work of the Catholic church in surance against unlawfulad anti- relation to the further devclopmnent social avocations that resuit in tre- of flic .program of the -Boy ýScouts of me ndous financial burdenis to, the tax-> America for Cathol1ic 'boys bas just payer., bee anoncd y Bsbp raci "couting develops character An C. Kclley, D.D., of Oklahomia City, cliairman ofth Committee of boys.tmorensurely than another activity, Dishops, under wbose auspices the and the almost complete absence o01 new plan of expansionbsbe e former, scout members in SingSung ývIeloed, and in 'consultation with:a during recent years is proof sufficient. representative group. of bishops. hatese bosaentasltepd IihopKeleys, announcemnent bas ltounrhtous paths. Boy Scot been received by the local Boy Scout and other similar boys' club member- authorities and wvas made puli ship means protection. against delin- April 8. quency, a reasonable guarantee of hon-, As n otgowi'o th lng x-orable maiihobd, and every parent istig Ctboic onîitte o scut-owes'ii to bis childrenl,,if, possible, to ing, an ienlarged cominittee of fifteen permiit themi to takë the scout oath, archibishops and' bishops haos been which is seldom b)roken."-Commehda- establishcd under whose general1 tion of scouting by Wardcn Lewis E. Sprvisionv 'a cormittee tof prtiests Lwes Si M Sgprison, New York. and a layman's 'cominittee will bc formed to include representatives FrtAdTa ie from each of the cooperating dioces- irtAdT a ie es. This developmnent of scouting un-, Instruction to Troop 20 der Catholic auspices is in line with Th enticigofTop2wa recent similar developinents thr 'ough'Tercn etn fTop2 a the Protestant and Jewish comnmit- called to order 'by Scoutniaster Bob tees on scouting, al designcd to pro- Martin. Thie roll was taken and dues mote interest and a broader co- collectcd. The first aid tcam of our operation ini the Boy Scout move- troop for the World's fair instructed ment among the cooperating religious the rest of the troop in first aid. Be- groups. ,fonre'the nceins - sveai %xnr-e * '.athnoc parisnes in ail parts of the Sea Scouting- Enjoys- United States; there is today a total Banner Year in 1932 ol 1,533 Catholic troops in 103 of the 105 doee fte ntdSae.In The records indicate that 1932 was miany of the dioceses the program of a banner year for Sea Scoutung, The scoutung'lbas gone forward over a, month of December was à phienomen- long period of tîme. aI month, ini which registrations ex- iulH eslChiam ceeded by 100 percent those of any HsEnne Cardinal Hayes ara previous ycar; 2,127 boys' joined the D 0hn fMu rw, ~ I- %vi, u -t Luiiiiiiiite i '-L-IUioic iay- nien wbo are members of the local councils of the Boy Scouts of Amer- ica. The chairman of each Diocesan Laymien's committee will re present his diocese on the National Catholic' Laymcn's committee. Two national counselors of the Catholic committee have already been designated. They are the Rev. .1-d- The public is being invited to at- tend the North Shore Area council's. First Aid Elimination contest at Jo- sephi Searsschool in -Kenilworth next Î onday eve ning, Aprtil 17,ý at 7 :30 o 'clock. Betweenl tell and fifteen rep- resentative troops' from the- council wiil conîipete ini a series of first aid proiblins to decide thé counicil win- This Nwinning tcam w'ill then travel to Chicago. on April 21 to, engage'in' the Chicago arca finlais. Troop- 46 of Lake Forest, Which represented the ïNortli Shore 'Area, council .ini thé finals last year,1 again is côritending for first- place,.withi practica1lly the same teamn. '1'hese coltests always prove to be- very init1resting to ýwatch and ,the publié cati be assuried of an enter- tainling cveinlg by attending this af- fair and scci»g the boys in action, the. leaders dIeclare. This contest is one of the matny feattures uised ini scouting to hielp stimulate boys on bow "to bc preparedl." The mneet Nvill last aboutt an hour to an bour and on)e-haîf. Adii Ion will bc free. David Whitelaw, direc- tor of first aid and safety for the Northî Shore lunes, ivill be ini charge of. the nîcet. from i roop il's table at the hobby show.%'[lie knife is 11¼ ùfiches long, the blade being 6 inches long. Any information of the knife may be broughit to St. Francis -schiool some Thursday' evening. Weldon Cody, scoutînaster, was iii East St.. Lo'uis at a scout leaders' trainin 'g camp, so M r. Flood, treasurer, took charge. We had a few drills and then played gaies, which took 'the greater 'part e ui the au4 of starnps miv ,on covering en.closed." m to all scout boys in the - ... &--ulç.%Illqul Jc i A oir I ciwas c3..aU m authorities concernung. the Ed Goelz, T d uties of Catbolic boys. ' timist club. oath and la Wilmette