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Thursday, Feb. 26, 1931 I Scout Executive‘s Column < The scouts of the lake shore towns council are especially fortunate in unusuaily interesting hiking facilfties fer to the beach along the lake shore BB y m eP s The shore line is free from the traffic hazards of our busy highways. It abounds in things to challenge the observation and investigation of the socuts, e rallny EM emeCoplneal We would like to ‘print some ndport- of troop and patrol hikes of this kind, or of individual scouts who use this route for the 14â€"mile hike requirement for the rank of first class scout. Who will be the fl:!t -.'.D WILME TTE BRAESIDE 1 KENILWORTH RAVINIA INDIAN HILL _ HIGHLANDPARK WINNE TKA HIGHWOOD HUBBARDWOODS _ EVERETT GLENCOE LAKEFOREST turn in territory TROOP TAKES PART IN P. T. A. MEET â€" Wednesday, Feb. 18, Troop in the meeting of the Lake | ‘Teacher‘s mssociation. . Dr. G of the Presbyterian church gay the Boy Scouts. The scouts set. The background was m and in the foreâ€"ground there PM d m on V Wednesday, Feb. 18, Troop 48 took part in the meeting of the Lake Forest Parent« Teacher‘s association. . Dr. George Roberts of the Presbyterian church gave a speech on the Boy Scouts. The scouts had the: stage set. ‘The background was made of balsam and in the foreâ€"ground there was a camp fire. _ This made & realistic appearance of a mecting held in the woods. They acted out a regular campfire program. As the cur tain opened we were singing the Dogie song. Mr. Gartley asked the boys what they had made for the Hobby show. . After this we sung a few more songs and had the scout benediction as . elosing . ceremony. . â€"â€" Waino Newman, Troop 48, Lake Forest. Study First Aid ‘Theâ€" last meeting_ of Troop 86 of High« wood was held at St. James parish hall on ‘Thursday, Feb. 19. The meeting had been changed from Friday to Thursday on account of the Lenten season. . After the regular business had been taken care of Mr, Muzic, our first aid instructor, . then took over the meeting. ‘The first aid lasted . about ahalf an hour and the meeting adjourned at 8 o‘clock.â€"Patrol Leader Ambrose Cuntagallo, Troop 36, St. James parish, Highwood. HOBBY SHOW TO BE HELD APRIL 8 Liee uis cce Pusit viled The Boy Scouts of Lake Forest are busy at this time with their hobbies, which they will proudly exhibit to the public . April 8. This year as before the show takes place at the Lake Forest Winter club at 7:80 p.m. _ ETT Emm Amim ooo o o mc ns Many Boy Scouts are busy at individual hobbies such as they can make at home and wehool, â€" Many are busy on patrol hobbies. such as knot boards, plaster casts of footâ€" prints, bead work, leather work, pottery and nature collections, Each troop will arrange its own stunts and the public can look for, ward to some mighty good ones. Even now the leaders are busy planning their stunts. ‘There will also be a Court of Honor held at which many scouts will receive their well« earned badges of rank. By the looks of the ways the boys are working, there . will be plenty of entertainment, both in hobbies and in stunts and nlnfi. This is to be one of the high spots in Lake Forest‘s scouting proâ€" gram for 1931, so "Come oneâ€"come wll 1".â€" Allen Hokenson, district editor,‘ Lake Forest. TROOP 30 GETS pOWN TO BUSINESS ECC e mWt Members of. Troop 30 are all required to come in full uniform with gym shoes, beâ€" cause we want to preserve the new Eim Place gym. _ If ‘anyone comes without uniâ€" form, dues and gym shoes they are to go home for them. Several boys are working on their swimming and life saving merit badges at the Deerfeldâ€"Shields high school swimming tank. Mr. John Udell, who is our scoutmaster, is going to reorganize Troop 30 and make & real troop out of it with the help of the junior mssistant scoutmaster, Fred Reichardt and the boys. â€"= Fred Hodgdon, ‘Troop 30, Eim Place school. TEACHES_8COUTS FIRST AID . 2 EMTC BW3 Mr. Whitelaw, first aid Instructor for. the Chicago North ~Shore and Milwaukee railâ€" road, lectured to an audience of Boy Scouts last Friday evening at Troop 45‘s meeting. He talked of what to do for shocks, bruises, sprains, | fractures, drowning, fainting and electrocution. His lecture dealt very carefully with all of these subjects and he soon had the boys demonstrating artificial respiration. . After a talk and review of three quarters of an hour, Mr. Whitelaw said in closing, ‘"Remember ulways be calm and met quickly with some definite purpose in mind, â€"â€" Troop 4, Lake Forest, Episocal church. HOLD _ JUNIOR OFPICERS MEETING ‘The troop officers of Troop 32 met at Scoutmaster A. D. Brush‘s house at 7:30 on Tuesday, Feb. 17. Those present were assistâ€" ant scoutmaster, Ernest West, patrol leaders y Neeb BR NC D. Brush Jr., and Bob Laure; assistant 1B 04c t90Bd S nc n e ty en id‘ m story of an exploration of this in this having BOY SGOHUIT NEWS NORTH SHORE patrol leaders, ‘Donald Hurd and Fred Golden ; quarter master, Dexter Caulkins; troop treas> urer, Newman Fell, and troop reporter David Jenkins, â€" We talked over the troops business and discussed several very interesting probâ€" lems. We then played ping pong. We had refreshments and were dismissed.â€"Troop Reâ€" porter David J. Jenkins, Elm Place school. Troop 32 Meeting We assembled at 7 o‘clock and played games until about 7:45. Then we had a few minâ€" utes of drill and an O‘Grady drill. There were nine scouts present. We also had two visitors, _We then studied first aid and tying knots. _ We had the Indian sign language benediction and were adjourned. _ Some of the scouts stayed until 9 playing in the wym. â€"~Troop Reporter David Jenkins, Elm Place sehool. TROOP 38 RECEIVES FLAG At our _ last meeting, Thursday, Feb. 19, Mr. Teberg, our scoutmaster, gave both paâ€" trols their putrol flag. ‘Two patrols are the Calling Crows and the Bob White patrol. The members of the former are Henry Schesâ€" kie, Jr., Carl Bonn and Barrett Wilson and Daniel ‘Teberg. ‘The members of the iatter ure as follows: . Raymond Rectenwald, Lesâ€" lie Scheskie, John Jackson, Leo Tahtinen and George McKillip. _ ie _ We also welcomed a new scout, William Rectenwald Jr. He‘shall be a member of the Calling Crow patrol. l ants red ane 4n mmh mt ib doals ‘Two of the committeemen, Mr. Scheskie and Mr. Wilson were present. Mr. Teberg, asked us if we would all try to subscribe for the Boy‘s Life mugazine, because we would like to have a 100 per cent troop, . oo 7 1. & "'W’Z' also talked about going to the annual banquet and council meeting which will be held at the New Trier high achool. & ul a t uP c dP oi tfi a Acliiiins s To es We played some games before we closed the meeting. ‘They were a balloon busting game and a game of tag.â€"Reporter Raymond I'}ect:nw-ld. Troop 38, Ridge school, Highland ark. Saturday, Feb. 21 marked the registration of m new scout Troop 67 mt the Fort Sheri« dan post. Lieut, Leon C. Scott has been selâ€" ected as scoutmaster and William R. Hazel« rigg usâ€"assistant scoutmaster. _ The troop subâ€" seribed 100 per cent to the Boy‘s Life mag» uzine. â€"This means that every scout in the Highwood district is taking this fine reading material. deie i o s § NEW SCoUT TROOP AT FORT SHERIDAN After | twos | to "Aire." hit some it, he p Huncke‘s put . some drill, the une was Following is the list of troop committee and scouts: Scouts: Boyd Branson, Edward Daniels, John Dibble, John L. Gibson, Allen D. Hulse, Alexander Jones, Richard Knoâ€" block, _ Louis â€" Moffatt, Rudolph Peschman. Committee: Major A. V. Simoni, Captain Wal« ter D. McCord, Capt. Harry 1. Branson, Wilâ€" liam Knoblock and R. J. Peschman, TROOP 33 HAS SNAPPY MEETING The Saturday meeting of Troop 33 was very snappy. _ The opening ceremony of pledge to the flag, scout outh was given with better than usual order. Following this a new gume called O‘Grady was played. The object was to see who could stay in ranks the longest, The troop dwindled down to three, Jud Wells, Allan Benson, â€"and Robt. Anderson, who gave such good attention that they could not be knocked down. ‘The troop then went to patrol corners to muke plans for the special objective of adâ€" vancement for every scout in the troop for March, very appropriate for this month,. Mr. Klaber examined each patrol for past adâ€" vancement and gave them some good mvice. Mr. Anderson of troop committee was also present. . Next month troop meetings will return to Friday nights. Plans were made for hikes, projects for Hobbx show, the troop good turn was reported and agreed on. The Stags reported a patrol meeting. ‘The Scribe read a letter from Commissioner St. Peter. ‘The senior staff consulted mbout their "Bib Show" for next Tuesday at New Trier high xehool, After this we lined up and counted off in twos to make two sides for the game of "fire." One side fires m ball at the other to hit some one to put him out. If he catches it, he puts the thrower out instead, Carl Huncke‘s side won. While the senior staff put some scouts through some awkward squad drill, the others played basketball until every one was a wet mop. All circled in a new formation for the scout benediction.â€"Kerwyn ; Smith, reporter Troop 38, Lincoln school. sCOUT MILO WINTER LEADS MEETING ‘The meeting of Troop 46, Lake Forest, ‘as‘ P"rldll. Feb. 20, was called to order at 7 o‘clock with Scout Milo Winter in charge as the scoutmaster was unable to be present. ‘The meeting began . with several scout songs. There was than an O‘Grady . drill BOY SCO coumeit HEADQUART 21 N.SMERIDAM RD. HHGHLAND PaR M , ILLINOUS. TLLEPHONE â€"H4.R 24 34 46, Lake Forest, last THE PRESS given by Robert Dobbins. Scout Donald Maul« tenhoff was the winner. Four new scouts, Menry Duncan, Andrew Four new scouts, Henry Duncan, Andrew MacMillan, Robert Heiny, and Harry Dunn passed their knots and expected to finish :.hch tenderfoot requirements by next meetâ€" mg. Scouts Haltenhoff and Anderson will the board of review next Wednesduy hope to pass satisfactorily their second requirements. j * C â€" Instruction was given in cooking, mup ing, and first mid, by Milo Winter. A culled ‘‘Baste the Beetle" was then p _ ‘The meeting was adjourned at Robert Anderson, Troop . 46, Presbyterian church. Correction On Jast week‘s report of the Mighiand Park Mobilization there is one correction. Troop 38 was missâ€"numbered as Troop 37. They had 15 out of 22 boys present, SURPRISE AWARD WON BY HANSEN ‘The troop meeting of Troop 48 sturted ut 7:30 in charge of Mr. Roeber, our scoutmasâ€" ter. Most of the scouts were present at the meeting. _ Also some new scouts who were Edward Burgess, Bud Dunn, Skinny Bremâ€" mer, Johnny Allan, and George Scott. First Mr. Roeber called for the colors after which we collected dues mand had inspection of the uniform. ‘Then Mr. Boeber gave time for putrol meetings. Each patrol talked nbout what they were going to have at the Hobby whow. After the patrol meetings, Mr. Rocber had a surprise for us, He had each scout given a number written on m card which he swhuffied in a box. ‘The third number drawn was five which was Henry Hansen‘s number and he received a harmonica. _ We then played a few games und were dismissed which meant the end of a wonderful meeting. ~Jack Neale, Troop 48, Liake Forest. TROOP 46 HELPS BEAUTIFY CITY An example of civie pride was shown by members of scout ‘Troop 46 of the Presbyter iun church when they cleaned up a vacant lot just east of the new Public library buildâ€" ing on Decrpath. A picture of the lot ms it was, compared with its present appenrance testifies to the work entailed in its trans» formation. This kind of work is only anâ€" other example of the many worthâ€"while duties taught to wll Boy Scouts. Credit for the work referred to mbove goes to Scout Milo Winter who led the "Invading army‘ on the vacant Jotâ€"Scout George Baillie, Troop 10, Lake Forest TROOP 50 TO STUDY: FIRST AID ‘The weekly meeting of Troop 50 was held Friday evening at 7:30 in the Wilmot school. Assistant _ scoutmaster, Fenton Hopkins . led the scouts in the scout onth followed by mn Hudices V eli wed eaelimnnenl mrmies sticra d i RERUTCCC A short instruction in first aid and bandâ€" uges was held and we sang "One finger, one thumb." ‘The scouts then went outside where they ’lem nm D.-. lt hn Thcconit ESEA NDASRROTDC DCR dL ‘The meeting closed mt 9 o‘clock with the seout oath.â€"Robert Ginter, Troop 60, Wil _‘The boys then returned to the building where they had m patrol meeting followed by instruction in first aid treatment . .__ _ mot school ROTARIANS _ VI8IT TROOP 51 MEETING Troup 51 opened its meeting in ury manner with the oath and preceded a short meeting l’l :M _ Each patrol then gave a Piepenbrok‘s patrol winning meeting closed after these few drills were run through for who were from the Rotary club. F AMERICA OVNCILâ€"â€" NO.714 200â€"CAR GARAG Onyoui' way homeafter the Theatre _amâ€"â€" DANCE Marine Dining Room EDGEWATER BEACH HOTEL Troop 46, Lake Forest #* _ Monday Nights â€" _ Celeb Stars of Btage and Screen will entertain you nve a stunt, Helmuth inning first place. The these events with the §300 Block Sheridan Road ill 2 in the morning. Other week nights dancing till 12. FRIDAYSâ€"FRATERNITY NITEâ€"TILL 1:00 BATURDAYBâ€"FORMALâ€"TILL 2:00 A. M. SUNDAYBâ€"CONCERTâ€"5 TO # PM. then played. 9 :05.â€"Seout PHIL SPITALNY‘s MUSIC the custom» law. | This putrols, . A the visitors muke» game and cluss GLEnMmMEw MUNDELEIN GOLF LUBERTYVILLE NORTHBROOK _ DIAMONDLAKE NORTHFEIELD HALF DAÂ¥ DEERFIELO ROmDOUT BANNOCKBURN INANKOE scout . benediction.â€"Dan 61, Deerfield. Rotary club TROOP 52 HOLDS ‘The weekly meeting _ of held at the usual place, Pre Friday evening, 7:30 p.m. T changed from T:15 to 7:30 members might be mble to b changed from 7:16 to 7:30 hoping that members might be wble to be there on { As there was not m great number of se present, each boy was allowed to work what he wanted (in his line of scout we There were scouts studying tenderfool pussing tests, studying signaling and In sirn lunguage, and cleaning up the 100 ‘The meeting closed with the sulute to fing und the scout benediction, ‘The Stag trol will have a meeting next Wodne moeting at the home of Kenneth Vetter David Stryker, Troop 52, Deerfield. RAVINIA CUB PACK ORGANIZED A new Cub pack No. 65 for boys . ages of 9, 10 and 11 is now rewister active at the Ravinia school. The Cub is R. D. Wilder, On the sponsoring nnhomL‘h Gourley, chninman, B. ers and William C. Pohrte, There a eight of these Cub groups in the North Arem couneil. .. _ . _ C The boys of this Ravinia pack wre: Bede, John Benson, Wallace Carr, Joy Billy Fischer, Ire Frunk, Robin G James Hart, Bruce Holmgren, Marshull son, John Laurie, Ilobtzh.landln. Joh Intosh, Bflz Mellinger, rles Mobbs, Nichols, Norvick, Juck O‘Brien O‘Conner, Charles Reits, Walter Roette Rogers, ‘Thomas Simpson, Morry Spitz Strauss, _ Dick _ Thorach, _ Lionel Ub David Wilder, Peter Wolff, and Kent Check your troop mgainst these ‘The national nverage is 58.0% and 20.1% first class. _If you have 50.3% Tenderfoot first cluss If you have 47.2% Tenderfos first class you mre rated as ‘‘Ver are among the "Top 25%°" of 4 in the country. NEW WRINKLES ON SECONDâ€"CLAS8 COOKING Beout hikes, long enough to requinc eooked in the open, mre successful joyable to the scout only as he is ook. Poor cook spolls many a hike. _ Before trying this test the Tenderfc be well trained in making cooking that he gets m hot bed of red comls. Mere are two stunts that have worked fairly well in our troop, und both mre better if the materials ure prepared at home, The best menat to cook is steak. It should be preâ€" pared at home by rolling in flour, and pound» ing in with some blunt instruments, until the flour is worked into the mont. Roast wlowly on m split or forked stick till done. ‘The second is to mee tatoes. Wash, but do uu...nuiv.rr wlice of bacon, m slice of earrot. Place the two halves together with the material between. Bind together with three or four tooth picks. .‘Wrap in wax puper. » At camp the ‘Tenderfoot builds m fairly large fire, and wets m good bed of comls, wraps each potato, paper and all in an inch or o of good wet sticky mud. ‘This mud ball he places on top of his fire, and builds wnother fire on top. Cook for mt least an hour If his mud is real damp the steam from it wil} stay inside the hard outer cont of mud, cooking the potato through. The bacon, onton wnd earrot add m flavor, â€"â€" Vernon Werts, seoutmaster ‘Troop 41, Washington, D. C. on the Lake â€"â€" CHICAGO ive 50.8% Tenderfoot the nutional office r Advancement Celebrity Night Presbyterian church ‘I"l:,:m- had beer ire two fair mized poâ€" not peel, and cut in the halves, lny on a of onion, und m slice Iterd ing r boys of the registered and The Cubmaster loctter, Be Spite, Job and Good frures : Penderfoot and x, Joht himann t should fives, #o tests Indiat scouts a sgood Allar Eyler Shore trook 81 Rog AR lay the slice with with