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- a Have you ever thought how Interest-| many signs and pictures, each with! Ang it would be to keep a "Log Book" a special meaning, commemorating | of your Lone Scout activities, for your-| some special event concerning the! self or for your Patrol? Every ship that puts out to sea carries a Log, and the officer of each , or recording the history of the I .dian people. {If you are handy with a chisel, there watch must enter into it any occur- IS & lot of fun ahead of you in the _tences of importance during his term of duty, and frequently at the end of the voyage this Log proves interesting reading indeed. "So you, too, can keep a Log Book of your Stouting experiences, noting all the details of your Scout Career, the Tests you have passed, the Badges earned, the special Good Turns you do and the Hikes and Camps that you enjoy. Mayhas some other Lonie, pass- ing by, will see your Lone Scout sign outside your gate, and drop in for a visit. How interesting it would be to show him your Log, and to enter the details of his visit, obtaining his auto- graph and perhaps his picture to illus- trate the book. And don't forget the pictures, as they make the Log more interesting and you should try to make the whole book read as much like a story as possible. Later, when you have grown up, you will cherish your Log amongst your most precious possessions. Ths Chief Scout, Lord Baden-Powell, possesses Log Books which he has kept for many years, which are full of the adventures of his marvellous career, and which no money would buy him, These are the books which the Chief himself takes special care to place behind safe doors before he goes abroad, and he reckons them amongst his. most treasured posses- sions. So, Lone Scout, what about a Log Book? And some Scouts also like to keep a gecord of another sort. Did you ever see an Indian Totem Pole? On it, carved into the wood, are Creosote Bush May Aid Man Pcientists Discover How It _ Fights Drought and Con- trols the Spread of Offspring Plants An undistinguished member of the plant family, the common creosote bush, has been found recently by botanists of the Carnegie Institution " to be one of nature's gifts to man and perhaps provides him with the inspiration to utilize science 'in put- ting the desert to use. The chief yalue of this plant to sclence lies in the fact that it has thoroughly learn- &d to combat the worst droughts of he desert through a heretofore un- nown mechanism which controls the spread of creosote bushes In any particular locality, In the hope of finding a way to put the dry lands to productive use, the Carnegie Institution some years ago established a branca laboratory in the desert. In thls section, it was ascertained, two varieties plants flourish, the cactus and the creosote bush. "Phe cactus defeats the death-dealing aims of the drought by absorbing water supply rapidly * in wet seasons and storing it for future use. The creosote bush has a system which differs radically from that of the cactus plant. It gets its wa'er supply by spreading out and by send- ing its roots penetrating ten or fif- ten feet under the surface to find moisture. It is resourceful in still @nother way. vival it works to control the popula- tion of other plants in its immediate vicinity. The bush sows plenty of seeds, as most plants do, but few of them ever germinate. Development of the seeds is retarded by a poison which is put on them by the parent plant. Fall- ing leaves from the bush also have of To insure an ade- quate supply of water for its own sur- ! making of a Totem Pole to record your history as a Lone Scout. Your pole should be about seven and half feet long, with about eighteen inches of this sunk into the ground. It you can do so, tar the end before sinking it, to prevent rot. The Pole should be about eight inches square, rand a square pole is preferable to a round one, as it becomes more decor- ative if the corners are rounded off in some places. And on this pole is re- corded all your Scout history, carved into the wood, using pictures in prefer- ence to letters and numbers. For 1a stance, Wigwams reprezent a camp you have attended, Footprints indicate a Hike, your Patrol emblem should be prominent and each of your badges should be reproduced. The use of a little color, Black, Red, Blue, Green, ete, greatly adds to the decorative value of the Totem Pole, and before very long you will*find that you have not only a record of your career but also a very handsome garden orna- ment, 1 read by a boy who is not a Scout, anl who would like to be one. If you are living in a place where there is no Scout Troop near enough for you to attend, why not become a Lone Scout, and have lets of fun as the hundreds of other "Lonies" throughout Ontario are doing? If you are interested, just write a not: to The Boy. Scouts Association, Lone Scout Department, 330 Bay St. Toronto, telling them why you are not able to join an ordinary Troop, and they will send you full particulars as ito how you can become a Lone Scout. ers appear in the early Spring, and are followed by white globose seed- vessels. The bush grows abundant. ly in.the Mojave, Colorado and Gila deserts. mmm se nn How to Avoid Danger In Taking a Bath Eight rules for taking baths, to help stop the rapidly increasing num- ber of bathroom accidents, are pre- sented by Warwick Holmes in a re- cent statement of the New Health Society, in England. Dr. E. E. Free's Week's Bcience of New York gives the following summary: The first two rules are never to take a hot bath after a heavy meal, I and never to take a cold oue if you have a weak heart. , The third rulé is always to keep the bathroom window open a little to prevent danger of poisoning from carbon-monoxide gas from a defec- tive gas heater of similar device. Fourth is to have all hot water heaters and similar appliances equip- ped with safety attachments so that steam-filled pipes can not burst. The other four rules deal with the electric fittings of the bathroom, it being agreed by safety experts that electric shocks are both common, and especially likely to be fatal when the skin is wet, or when a bather is in a metal bathtub electrically con- nected to the ground by the vater pipes. The first electric rule is never to touch any kind of electric fitting, not even a light switch, while one is actually in the bathtub. The second is that light fixtures should be fastened tightly to walls or ceiling and inclosed as completely as possible; loose, hanging cords, flexible connections and similar in- stallations being banished from the bathroom. The third is that switch knobs and other electric devices which must Ibe touched be of insulating materials. Finally, the last rule Is that no portable electric heaters, lamps, curl- ing irons, or other portable devices supply of the poison, and when be permitted in the bathroom. hey drop on the seedlings put a de- nite end to whatever life there may have been feft., In this way, the| Jricsete bush seems to practice birth ntrol, permitting only a sufficient number of plant inhabitants of a These have devel dped unusual hardiness against des- ert hardships and the Carnegie In- report finding _ some bushes more than 100 years particular area. stitution scientists oud. ; . " Dr. Forrest Shreve, head of the laboratory, believes that the amazing / crepsote mechanism used by « the bush "may help to understand bet- ter how to put the desert to man's use." Nearly one-third of the world's land surface is desert, of no produc- tive use to man. The cregsdte bush is abundant in all the deserts of the world and its 150 varieties include In the erbs, chrubs and trees. United States this plant is common from Texas to California. The creosote bush, also called ~ greasewood, is an evergreen, rank- smelling, diffusely branched shrub, two to five feet high, with brittle stems and leafy branches. The small and resinous leaves emi a strong tarry odors Its bright ¥/) ow flow- Darrow. -- Woman Invents "Fool-Proof" Plane London.--What is claimed to be a "fool-proof" airplane has been invent. ed here by Mrs. Mary Navarro, with the help of her husband. She asserts that her plane can neither spin, side- slip, dive, nor stall, and that it will revolutionize the design of modera alr- craft, It has a slow flying speed of from 18 to 25 miiles an hour, as com- pared with the minimum speed of 45 to 60 of an orthodox plane, It uses three two-cylinder 40<orse-power mo- tors, as compared with the 120-horse- power units in use at present, and can take off and land with any one or two of them going. A special lever in the cockpit enables two sections of the rudder to be spread out like a fan when landing so that the plane can be landed in a very small space. It righteousness should perish it would not be worth while for me nto live on the earth.--Immanuel Kant. mmm A ne "A great part of the danger in sex lies in lack of knowledge "--Clarence It may be that this article has been ' interpretation of new vogue. The little frock, black and white calico print, features white broadcloth collar and green, black and white trimmings. Bands pro- vide an effective contrasting note, -- Rainfall Recorded By "Rings" on Trees Yakima, Wash.--The record of rain precipitation in the Pacific Northwest for 173 years has been written with Smart the Cascade Mountains. This fact, brought out in an examination of cross sections of native trees, has raised the hopes of farmers in the irrigated re- gions east of the mountains that years of abundant rainfall again will be en- joyed. C. P. Wickersham had cross sections made of Douglas fir trees. Com-paring these with the precipitation records of the United States Weather Bureau for 53 years there is perfect correspond- ence, years of light rainfall showing narrow rings and years of abundant rainfall showing wide rings. The tree records obtained go back | 173 years or to 1758. They indicate that from 1768 to 1881 more pro- nounced periods of heavy precipitation and also of dry spells occurred than world combined. Our exports of news: | experienced since. The series of years of abundant precipitation recurred at intervals of 14 to 42 years, the two longest cycles being 1758 to 1788 and 1823 to 1865.--The Christian-Science Monitor. his make all + How did money" "Oh, just by raking and scraping. He's a barber, you know." a Spring Thunder [ Past buildings I can see a squares of sky 5 Like a sheet of pewter, palpitant with lighting And heavy thunder crowds upon my ears-- Spring thunder! awakes From its long quiet pantomime of clouds, Snow fleeces and impenetrable mists, Now fire rends it and the thunder he Now the sky at last remarkable clearness in the trees of, New Governor-General 1 .- Made Chief Boy Scout Ottawa, Ont.--Boy Scouts through-' out Canada and the many supporters ! of this movement will be pleased to know that one of the first acts of the | mew Governor-General, the Earl of, : Besshorough, has been his acceptance | | of the office of Chief Scout for Canada, ' ' which was recently tendered to him by the executive officers of the Cana- dian general council of the Boy Scouts i , Association. In his acceptance of this " appointment, his Excellency is follow-| «ing the precedémt which was set by subject the thres greatest English! five former Governors-General, Earl poets, Thesa were Chaucer, Milton Grey, the Duke of Connaught, the and Shakespeare and the speaker] mM UVe Duke of Connaught, the Duke of Dev- described them and thelr works in onshire, Lord Byng, and Viscount Willingdon, who served successively as chief scout for Canada, and en- | tered most heartily into the work of \ the Boy Scouts Assoclation in all parts of the country. commie -- 'Flies to Australia | Sets New Record Port Darwin, over the trail of Wing Commander Charles Kingsford-Smith, Charles W. A. Scott, formér R.A.F. flier, recently set a new record for the air lanes between England and Australia, his time being 9 days 3 hours and 20 minutes. In all kinds of weather, the aviator sped across the mountains and plains of Europe, Asia and the Malay Archi- pelago, ending his adventure with a daylight flight over the Timor Sea. En route, he touched at Belgrade, Aleppo, Bushire, Karachi, Rangoon, Surabaya and Bima. "I would not make the attempt again for a million pounds," he said, "though I was glad to beat the record." Scott is more than six feet tall, and is a former heavyweight boxing cham- pion of the R.A.F. He has been flying commercial planes in Australia since leaving the service. His record-break- ing ship was equipped with a 120-h.p. hotor, and maintained a cruising speed of 92 miles an hour, with a top speed of 108 miles an hour. tf siti Canada's Progress In the Pulp and Paper Industry According to a recent report sued | by the Forest Products Branch of the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, it is shown that Canada now manufactures 37 per cent, of the world's supply of newsprint paper, exceeding in 1929 the production of the United States, our nearest competitor, by over 1,300,- 000 tons. Preliminary figures for 1930 | show a lead of over 1,200,000 tons. Canada's exports of this commadity are almost ten times as great as those of Germany, next in importance, and exceed the exports of the rest of the 1 ! ' | | print are only exceeded in value by New Parachute Mansfield Pleases Turkish Audiences Series of Lectures In Various Cities Australia--Flashing i Sir John Masefield, tha British poet laureate, created great interest in Turkish literary circles. Sir John lectured at Angora picturesque and The Minister of Education many prominent Turks and foreign. ers attended tha lecture which followed by a reception, moving language. | | i i i was Sir John the Turkish schools Istanbul and visited college at Bebek All who met him his simplicity vigits have Anglo-Saxon Turks. Latterly the Turklsh Government has shown an ever increa to encourage the teaching of lish to Turkish youth French has hitherto been the language readily understood by Turks largely because many French religious lay schools have existed in this coun- try. French was also taught tn all Turkish schools but the government has now ordered that English be taught. Unfortunately there is a lack of capable teachers t Angora and the American and wore charmed of manner and done much to culture his among the % a ---- Bert White, holder of the world's parachute jumping record of 25, 500 feet, made over Mojave Des- ert, invents new type of parachute which opens immediately after German Typist Proves Spanish Is Easy Guayquil.--An illustration of the phonetic accuracy and clearness of the Spanish language is afforded in the experience of a German stenographer cation in Turkish schools thus deal- scholastic establishments Stitl Is felt that the government [3 ing well within {ts rights as Turkish and typist, Senorita Wilhelmine Katz-| Parents may, If they choose, ler, who has begn in this country | thelr child nto secondary and only three months, says El-Telegrafo.| finishing foreign: schools | A good stenographer in German, the | | commercial depression In her own Conceited People British Poet Laureate Gives | tho earth o» in the air or water? Istanbul. --The visit to Turkey of; taking as his; and | also spoke to the English classes in! Arnadkeoy. | further | sing desire | Eng- | most | and | must | but this | difficulty will gradually be overcome. | Ontario Girl Will Attempt Foreign schools in Turkey have al- | jumper has abandoned plane. ways been allowed many privileges | e---------- S-- a but recently the government has de cided that all Turkish boys and act- | | Laughter What is this murmurous notse of many laughters in my heart? Is.it la It Is in the earth. For the little grass roots rouse from winter rest; stir In new strength, laughing 'low in joy, thinking of the light and sky above. It is in the air. For tie wind--a frolic jester among the beauties of a merry court--laughs as he hurries | them down the marble sky---steps in | their billowing cloud dresses, pink and and grey. And he laughs as he { shakes out powdery gold-dust of the fringed elm buds; laughs and tweaks the mist veil from the sunny face of | Cay | But, loveliest of laughter--Ilaughter that is singing--warbles in the swell ing throats of the sweet spring waters, i. the many voices of the clean March waters. How they hurry down the Oh, spring is a happy youth, in love with ali he looks on, laughing to easa | his heart of too much joy. | Oh, spring is a kind nurse, chuck lin talking, to herself. "They will itka tris==my children. They will shout and dance---my little girls and | "oye." So she pins yellow star-flowers oan the stone-bare branches, hides slippery hail balls in a soft blue cloud, ties it loose with chining threads of sun shine--chuckling, laughing, softly, This is the sweet laughter I hear tn my heart.--Clara Morris, in Christian Science Monitor, | ren To Fly Atlantic in July | Galt, Ont, Announcement was made here recently that Miss Edith girls must obtain their primary edu-| McColl of Galt will attempt to fly the Atlantic early in July. She will use ing a severe blow to many foreign | a large cabin plane and will hop oft It] from Harbor Gr 'a, N.F.,, with Croy- it is likely that | she will he accompanied by a naviga- fon as her goa send ! toy Miss McColl, who Is 21 and am { wdopted daughter of Mr. and Mrs. | Duncan McColl, was formerly a { stenographer and latterly an Insues country deprived her of employment, | . | ance saleswoman. She is said to be and relatives in Ecuador invited her D D v fully competent pilot and to have | to visit them until business conditions | angerous rivers made flights from. Kitchener and | improved b Coteatiod ae il ke had wulos sovra!l other local points. { In a few weeks, though the givl had bile drives ; I it P a te fin lo ye: Be ira the Atlantic hop a fare | previously known nothing of Spanish, | Paul Sohroed Cr neigh at € ' r + well air meet is to ha held' at { she picked up a few conversational 4 der, state criminologist of | Kitchener Illinois, in an address efore the recent phrases, | her uncle, employment in the steam- ! ship offices of Don Jaime Puig Arose- and finally secured, through | | Midwest Cot Safety . Spon ei i | Chi 0. Appreciatic f the right { mena, a position as a typist and of i caLan 0 the rights i i "hi i f others or tighway 4 | phonetic-writer, While it was ver-| rant Ha : ighway. is more im : : . orta in avoiding itomohile fectly easy for Senorita Katzler to I ; ng antomohile ace! : 4 a dents, Dr, Schroeder type from Spanish copy, the wonderful > ie : normal intelligence | part of her ability was demonstrated | linds, than even A moron may he ur exports of wheat, | a safer driver thar self-cent Gur SXPOris when she made shorthand notes of" : rT i1an a seil-con d in trea Y * : S dividual who goes hls own way in Spanish letters and other dictation, abtime it lot st Clouds Sweep i and was able to reproduce, perfect in zonce il, 8 everyone Down Over Prairies Regina, Sask.--Dust clouds covered half the Saskatchewan prairies, while | red-eyed Regina citizens groped their | way along city streets. The provincial | capital experienced one of the most severe storms in a history of queer tempests. Southern Saskatchewan was blanketed in dust. Traffic and The storm came out of the unorth- west, blowing 35 miles an hour, and sent dust clouds through windows. Farming operations are at a stand- still, mmc stl}. Large Steel Orders Secured by Britain London--The British steel Indus- try has beaten the world, and won "I am able," he said, "to make p lic for the first time that orders have been placed in this country dur- ing the past 10 days for over two of St. Louls, ducing cylinders. Newly-invented device: which automatically answers telephones in 'absence of person intended has been invented by William Schergens The machine operates by means of phonograph repro- Ringing of telephone bell automatically starts operation, setting machine in motion. speaks, and a half million pounds' worth of Rain falls and hail, in torrents to the jron and steel by South African firms, ground, ' [in the face of the fiercest competi- And thelr significance is warmth and tion. That shows that the old coun- spring. | try is not yet down and out." : Answers In Your Absence | his extensive cooking career at the | commandant ot Pearson Field, drop look out for himself i Students of fac syllabication and orthography, all the ) y tory accidents long sentences repeated to her. This] with. work h ive been familiar : i ' toy y orkmen class: J achievement attests the simplicity and | A cla 3 uniformity of Spanish vocalizations, "repeaters," | which means workmen who keep hurt f 3 : ing themselves or othegs over and ove words being spelled in every case pre- | i! q i i ig over hich again, Sometimes this is due to care cisely as they are pronounced, without | ie 2 oa v essness, buf it is mora likely to be any confusion or difficult exceptions, ! oS | caused, safe enginesrs believe, by University of Air | poor muscular co-ordination, so that | will be opened shortly at Hamble, near | drivers; that is, individuals who have one accident after another while nor mal drivers have none or few, Southampton. Aviators from other | countries will be allowed to take the | | course. | treme instances these individuals land Four types of land planes and three | in jail on manslaughter charges, and of are included in school's air fleet. There will be in- | cal study of such persons convicted struction in pilotage and navigation| and confined in the |linois State Penl- | as well as study of airmanship engines, | teutiary at Joliet. | rigging, ! jects. seaplanes | : : 3 | mentally by low inteiligence or physi: commandant | the chief cause of their fatal accident . Barton, | records, | tha Air Council. The | will be Group Captain R. J. | who has a distinguished record in the! REI, | Royal Air I'orce. Instructors will he' 5 | former members of the Royal air, Newspapers Value | Force. i An Southern Schools | * Atlanta, Ga.--Newspapers bring. to i tha Atlan'an schools much necessary Cooks, Says Chef | irormation in tha school program, Cleveland.--Women? Well, they | according to Miss Mary Postell, sup- aren't so much as cooks when you: erintendent of elementary schools, Men Make Best : compare them wite some men, ac- "Wa usa tha bulletin boards apd * cording to Henrl Rigo, chef of the | newspaper clipings to {illustrate the Cleveland Club here, Henri began} latest woint In social sclence, and even the three R's" stated Miss Pos- tender age of 13. Henrl was born | tell. in Vienna, but his cooking siaried as. an apprentice at the Hotel Con- tinental in Paris. Then he got a job concocting luscious tit-bits at the Restaurant Riche a place where the price isn't even mentioned on the bill of fare. In the United he has cooked for Former President and Chief Justice Taft, and many other distinguished characters. Henrl's hobby is the egg. He can mix up 300 different dishes with the hen fruit. dy Plane Drops Supplies . To Snowed-In Geologists Kelso, Wash.--Two high school geo- logists Isolated in the deep snow on Mount Adams were bombarded from the alr--but with food instead of ex- plosives. Lieutenant Carl PF. Bond, Hubby--"Marie, were you over April-fooled : Witey--"You know very well I was." Hubby--"I don't recall it at all" Wits, --"Why, have you forgot- ped 100 pounds of food near their | ten that we were marcied April 1?" camp, The words, "Help, food gone," were outlined In the frozen svowdrlfts with cedar boughs, follow.--Chinese Proverb. | the hand or foot does not do.exaetly communication were impeded and Opens In England | ths right thing at the right instant, | electric lights Were in general use. London.--A "University of the Air" | Study of traffic accidents has dis Air mail ships were forced into Idle to teach civilian fliers the system of | closed, Dr. Schroeder reports, simi ness, training used by the Royal Air Force, | lar "repeaters" among automobile In ex the | Dr. Schroeder has made a psychologi-| These men were' meteorology aud other sub-| found not to be handi apped either] ub | Higgins, until recently a member of | acteristic he believes to have been some of the things { | Clapp bas designate d are wed | qo. > To [by the National Safety Council of Picturesque Ricksha Now Displays "Ads" China.--The advertising conquest of 'China is just about He has taken even tha , hoods of rickshas for his posters and But few of the ricksha in English, Most of them ar: in Chinese characters and these, | to tha eye of the foreigner, are quaint and symbolic of the atmosphere he ax- { pects to find in the Orient, tn fair weather, when ricksha hooda we tops are down, only a narrow strip of advertising material is to be seen "But in rainy weather the rickshas are revealed in all their glory, their topa gayly decorated in black, red, white, yetlow and green signs and slogans ad » consumer whers gnd what Shanghal man's complete, painted signs "ads" are vising t » purcha Stomach of Codiith Reveals Gulls, Clams Portland, Maine¢--In the stomach of t+ codfish caught at sea were found tha hod of two seagulls--a had- docks ir nes were mmed vith spawn of dep sea cla and a 42- inch goose-fish contained a 32-inch cod Professor William ¥. Clapp of tha Massachusetts Institute of Technol. ogy returned recently on the trawler Princeton from the Western Bank, 3 fr South Africa. . ; : eat i ig aah Mu oi The institution will ba conducied : cally by being crippled. Their pre- tar . oe i announcement at | by Air Service Training, Lid, a com- vailing defect, he found, was to be Stoke-onTreut entry | pany headed by Air Marshal Sir John conceited and sel'centred, which char-| off Sable Island, and said those were found in 10.000 fish he slit open during the trip. The Journey, ol Professor nds, ng what one several made to fishing was for the purfose of learni denizens of the deep eat "Master-Farmers" (It has in the western provinces to successful mixed farmer armer.") A great num- people in the West have dis- tinguished riculture Winnipeg Liberte: propose heen "master her of themselves in a by their success in some particulae sphere of farming. We have oue wheat kings and our champion pro. ducers of different kinds of grain, and breeders of different species of cat tle. But wa have never thought of honouring the cultivs why com- bines all the qualitiss of his profs. sion and realizes the ideal of the farmer. Fis. i aman Flies 1,725 Miles in 16 Hours Denver, -- Seventeen hundred and twenty-five air miles were covered by R. N. Tremble In, sixteen hours when he flew from here to New York City, via Transcontinental and West. ern Air, to reach the sickbed of his wife. ------ nit Saskatoon, Sask.--The consumption of condensed milk in the three Prairig Provinces in 1930 reached. the large total of 279,000 cases, as shown In stirrer tbe Not the ery, hut the flight of the Trade. , wild duck, leads tha flock to fly and Saskatchewan, 64,000, and Alberta, . 150,000, sig | roport of the Saskatoon Board Manitoba used 656,000 casesf hills and race across the prairies and * i bys freshen the glad earth.