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3 i ® 1 #1 - fy i Wed - 3 ec . there may he a great number of trees WITH THE NE SEO This week I want to talk to you about a subject which every Lone Scout probably knows a great deal about--Trees, In the district lu which you live of various sorts to make the land- scape beautiful and to delight the eye of all who pass by. » Unfortunately, however, in years gone by, when men had greater hard- ships to face than we have today, the trees were frequently sacrificed by the old )ioneers with a total dis- regard to the damige that they were doing to their property and to the scenic beauty of the countryside, All that they cared about was the fact that they required lumbe. to build their houses and barns, that the (and must be cleared for cultivation and that fences must be erected. The consequence is that now, as we journey through our province, we frequently coma across places which are practically devold of trees, and which consequently are most de- pressing to look upon. For, after all, 're not trees one of man's best friends? : They provide lumber, which we cannot do without, and if the mat- ter is taken seriously they are a very profitable investment, they Provide shade for man and beas. on & hot day. They protect from the cold winds in winter, and they de- light the eye with their jeauty. Also trees can turn otherwise bar- ren land into beautiful and profit- able country, In quite a few parts of this coun- try, the soll is very sandy and quite useless for ordinary cultivation, This sand, too has a bad habit of drift ing over other good land and mak- ing that too worthless, A small plantation of trees will stop this drift of sand, will prevent the ruination of good property, and will put to good use this sandy soil which otherwise i8 worthless, If the right trees are planted in a wise manner, in a very few years the trees themselyes are large enough to turn into lumber, and so prove a profitable investment on land that otherwise would be a dead loss, Have you many trees around your home. If not, do you know that the Ontario Government will give you trees for nothing or for a very little cost, so that you can easily siart your own plantation? Write to Headquarters for details of this. Do you know that every year at the week end of the 24th May a camp is held at the Government Forestry Station at Angus, Ontario, where about 200 Boy Scouts are the guests of the Government, and are shown all about the research work in For estry which the Government is do-, ing? These boys help to plant a few trees, and are given some to take home with them and they learn a great deal about this subject. The camp costs them nothing at all, excepting the cost of their transportation to and from Angus, and you too can he one of that num- ber if you wish. If you would like to attend this camp, write to your Scoutmaster and obtain fuller parti- culars. . Last year a number of Lone Scouts, members,.qt the Buffalo Pa- trol at Vandorf, aftended this camp and reported a wonderful time, At Ebor Park, near Brantford, On- tario, is one of the finest collections of trees, growing naturally, in On- tario, This is where the Lone Scouts have held their Summer Camp for two years, and it 13 a very beautf- ful place. There is one Black Wal- nut tree which requires three Lone Scouts to stretch their arms around it's trunk, in order to touch hands all round. Applications to join the [Lone Scouts of Ontario, should be made to The Lone Scout Department, Boy Scouts Assoclaflon. 330 Bay Street, Toronto 2, Ontario. Only boys who cannot join a re- gular Troop are eligible to join the Lone Scouts. "LONE E." - Mahatma Gandhi India's Leader Toronto Weekly Gives Interesting Outline of India's Prophet "Mahatma Gandhi is the most In- fluential person in India today." writes Trevor H, Davies, D.D., in this article in the New Outlook, To- ronto. To millions of its people he is the greatest man in the world. And it is the man himself, who counts. There are few among his contemporaries in whom the power of spirit has come to such single- ness of expression. - He i8 poor, having renounced all material pos- sessions. His uniqueness has made us anxious to present him to our readers. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, to] give him his full name (Mahatma is | a title bestowed upon his meaning | "Great Soul"), was born in 1869 in | 'Western India. His father bequeath: | ed his family little save a passion for truth; his mother has been call- ed a Hindu Monica. At the age of nineteen he sailed for England to study law and was declared a barris- ter in June, 1891, It was after his return to India | that the call came to defend some of his fellow countrymen domiciled in South Africa. Gandhi remained in that country for twenty years. Too much stress cannot be laid in trac- ing .his development to the years, spent in South Africa. He found himself and the ruling principles of his work there. When he return- od to India it was only to apply and - develop the laws of life which be- came luminous to him during the years he spent as the champion of outcast classes in that southern land. It was Gandhi who organized op- position to despotism among his fel- low countrymen in South Africa, and at the same time prevented violence and bloodshed in their determina- tion to be free. Three principles he proclaimed which were afterwards destined, in the larger life of India, to make him the storm centre of that nd. Men should take no part in e life of a society which denied em freedom, that is '"non-co-opera- tion." = They should do no violence upon their oppressors: if suffering eo to them it must be borne, but ury to those who cause that suf- ring should not be i, rl plated: it is the principle "¥. "non- ¥iolence," They ought further to 8erve their oppressors, belping them in any need: that is "Soul-Force." 'When Gandhi returned to India he was already a national hero, and fhousands flocked to his leadership. He established what is called "Ash- fam," some three hundred miles north of Bombay; it was a social and re- Qligious group upon which he impos- od certain rules of life. The work of Gandhi may be understood by a careful study of these basic laws of life and doctorine, * (a) The vow of Truth. Men must follow Truth at all costs. (b) The doctrine of Ahinisa. This is more than =onvin'ance The fol- | ple in India whose touch means pol- lowers of Gandhi must not harbor an uncharitable. thought, even towards one considered an enemy, (¢) The vow of Self-Control. Ap- petites and passions are to be held in icy restraint. The exaggera- tion of this principle in the teaching of Gandhi has left him open to the criticism that so greatly does he dread the sex-instinct, raclal suicide would be desirable to him. (d) The vow of Sivadeshi. All should buy in the nearest market. This application of his ideals led to the boycotting of foreign goods, which might have occurred had there been no political unrest. It would certainly make a general commercial intercourse impossible. (e) The vow of Fearlessness. Fear prevents us from following truth, and is opposed to faith in God, (tf) The vow regarding Untouch- ables. There are sixty million peo- lution, whose shadow is a defilement. Against this hideous result of the caste system this high-caste Brah- man has struggled for years. Gandhi himself lives from time to time with these depressed people and en- tertains their representatives in his home, He has not declared himself against the caste system but he has inspired his followers to oppose this social crime of the Untouchables with all their power. (8) The vow of Khaddar. Every one should work with his own hands, Gandhi would have the, old spinning- wheel introduced to the homes of India. He is afraid of the modern machine, and of factories with their high-powered looms, He would stem the economic tide which is slowly flooding and enriching India. This vow of Khaddar is the utter- ance of an impractical mystic and has not merely brought him into un- necessary conflict with the govern- ment of India; but threatens also to retard the progress of his owa peo- ple towards economic and industrial freedom. It should be added that as a tem- porary palliative it is good to have the spinning-wheel in the. home dur- ing the days of poverty which be- shadow the families of India. - (h) Lastly, he taught the religious use of politics. Men should first realize their communion with God through prayer and then allow the sanctuary-light to be thrown upon every interest of human life, from which, of course, politics cannot he excluded. Considering these principles of life one sees at once the vulnerable points in his system of thought, but surely we may also see how noble are the ideals Gandhi cherishes and how deeply he has been influenced by New Testament teaching. From this Ashram a revolution has heen precipitated, which however inept and mistaken in some of its applica tions, has had as its guiding motive the spirit of gentleness and goodness. "Through love," writes Gandhi, "we seek to conquer. We must love the administrators of the Government and thelr supporters, We must love them and pray to God that they might have wisdom to see what ap- pears to us to be their errors. It is our duty to let ourselves be slain, but not ourselves to slay." The idealist frequently fails be- cause he does not see clearly In what manner and degree his ideals can be applied to some immediate situation. Gandhi has, at times, found himself confronted by a grim and dreadful Frankenstein of his own creation, whose operations he had no power to control and from whose outrages his whole being rose up in protest. But ideas once uttered are not defeated even by their mistaken devotees. The work of a good man accomplishes itself in many ways. The Soul-Power liberated wins its greatest victories beyond legisla- tures, battlefields and law-courts. In this fateful year of India's his- tory it is well to recall that Gandhi has so profound a respect for the British character. "The English- man," he writes, "never respects you unless you stand up to him, He is afraid of nothing except his own conscience. He does not like to be rebuked for wrongdoing, at first, bat) 1 he will think over it and it will get hold of him and hurt him till he does something to put it right." One wonders whether Gandhi has yet discovered that' the principle of non-violence is too idealistic for the! masses of India. In his very pres. | ence his own devoted followers have ! risen up to massacre and destroy. | Following the horrors at Chaurl Chaura Gandhi {ssued a proclamation | acknowledging that this was the third warning he had received from | God that the time had not yet come for his ideals to be put into practice. In penance he imposed upon himself a five-day fast, i The Government of India has also learned many lessons. 'Wea cannot fmposa our will upon a reluctant peo- ple. NE Auto Salesmen Attend School Extensive Course in Selling and Car Mechanics on Curriculum London.--A school, with an exten- sive curriculum, covering all phases of automobile mechanics and the art of selling is attracting crowds who aspire to the life of fhe men who sell motor cars. | The idea behind the auto college is that a good salesman is one who possess a wide and thorough knowl: edge about automobiles. According- ly, the program of studies includes lectures on all makes and models of cars, used cars, motor car regula- tions and insurance, publicity and advertising, sales procedure, sales- room practise, showroom displays' and technical * features of automo- biles, Elaborate equipment has been in- stalled, including a motion picture' projector and screen and an epidl- | scope, which enables the class to see clearly images of opaque objects, such as portions of the car that text book illustrations cannot repre- sent adequately. | anda | 4,000 French-Canadians | Repatriated Last Year, Montreal--The movement of na- tive French-Canadians back to the! Province of Quebec has brought 4,000, back to settle in Quebec during the past year, and additional inquirles | for particulars fo the repatriation scheme are overwhelming his staff. Hon. Hector Laferts, provincial Minister of Colonization and Pish- eries, stated here recently. i There is no cinema or Detroit. -- A trans-Atlantic dirigible line giving twice-a-week service from the Chesapeake Bay district to the vicinity of Frankfort, Germany, was forecast by J. C. Hunsaker, vice-pre- sident of the Goodyear-Zeppelin Cor- poration, In an address before the society of automotive engineers, aero- nautic division here. Such a line could carry a bulk of the regular first class trans-Atlantic mail, Hunsaker said, and could cater to the 25,000 passengers a year who are now |Twice Weekly Trans-Atlantic Dirigible Service Foretold a AN --_--=T=. 'Land of the Bamboo use of the bamboo 'to be found as {a the island of Java. There it is the chief building material of thirty-five million people. It it were possible to take away from the Javanese every thing they have that is made of bame paying high fares for extreme speed In trans-ocean travel, The plan outlinéd by Dr. Hunsaker calls for construction of two American dirigibles and two by the German Zep- pelin interests. Each side then would build a terminal in the most favorable natural air harbor--in America the re- glon around Baltimore, Washington and Richmond, in Germany, the Frank- port district in the Rhine valley, The four ships could maintain re- gular twice-a-week schedules, standing, no fences, few bridges save those put in by the Dutch, no chairs or benches to sit on, no baskets to carry anything with, no poles on which to carry the bundles of paddy, no hats to wear, no water buckets, no way of preventing erosion in the torrential streams, no bird cages, no scarecrows, Schneider Race Course Changed Channel Left Open. to Ship- ping--Planes Will Be Visible For 15 Miles Southampton, Eng.--The famous afr race for the Schneider trophy will be flown this year over a new course, Instead of four-sided as it was for the race in 1929, the new course will be triangular and a little to the east of the old route, in order to leave the Solent channel open to Southampton shipping. The distance flown will ba the same as before, The machines will start jand finish at Ryde Pfer and a turn | will be made near Wittering to the east of Chichester harbor. At this west and then stretches straight past Hayling Island, Souheas, Gilkicker Point and Stokes Bay, and so to the | next turn off the Isle of Wight at a ! point to the north-east of East Cowes. | The first leg of the triangle is i and three-quarters miles, the | second leg eight and - quarter miles, {and tho third, fourteen and a half miles, saven The turns will be fewer but sharp- | er this year, Cornering will be | dificult and of great importance while the control of the seaplanes in the air will have a still greater signi- ficance than in past races. A splen- did and better opportunity is offered in this year's race for high speed le ong the third leg of the triangle | whie for fourteen Knowlden, as Indian queen at impressive ~~ annual pageant, one of most heautiful ceremonies of its kind ever held at Ogden, Utah, Dorothy "Deadest" Village Residents Complain Perliaps the idea may appeal to the residents of Horsmonden, a beau- tiful' village in the Kentish Weald, 38 miles from London, claimed to be the "deadest" village in England! dance hall, | and there is not even a doctor. The sole amusement is a visiting cinema | once a week at the village hall, seat- and a half miles. The new course, from a org' point of view, is better than the old. The progress 'o* the machines in the 1929 race could only be view- led, for the most part, through field ! glasses unless peopla were fortunate enough to obtain a point of vantage in one of the warships. or yachts in the harbor. spectat- and said: "Say 'engine,' mister." gd dia . "Dont he a fool." - Honest labor bears a lovely face. "Then how could I associate with --Thomas Dekker. . you?" Broken In Half! Two halves of 10,000-ton steamer Nurtureton, 1argest single decker in world, which ran aground in fog off Dungeness, recently, and broke in half, about to be joined Ship gives 'appearance of having been cut as break is so to the Tyme, ether again and sent back point the course turns sharply to the h runs parallel to the mainland | no baskets to protect the fruit, no cages under which to grow young seed- lings where the birds cannot get them, no covering for the carts, no ladders, and no beds to sleep on. , .. Unless one has tried to use hamboo | Zeppelin May Fly 4 | to Arctic Regions Doctor Eckener Eager to one does not realize how many tricks Test Diri ible : the bamboo carpenter has, The ma- E 1 8! . in terial splits so readily that he could Xploration not safely drive a nail in it even it he Berlin--Negotiations been carried on here recently be- had one, so he ties his framework together. I once saw in Middle Java tween Dr. Hugo Eckener and varl-|/a theatre in process of construction. ous interested persons on a possible | It was to hold nine hundred spectators Zeppelin North Pole flight make the !and the floor on which they were to flight seem more llkely than at any|sit was to ba four feet above the time heretofore, the Graf's veteran | ground. Not a single nail was in evi commander intimated. dence' and 1 do not believe one was "Our great and only difficulty | used in the structure. . Strips of the throughout," he said, "has been the | bamboo tall used as twine, took the question of financing the polar flight, | place of nails and {t was interesting but T am quite hopeful that this dit-| to see the ways in which the Igrger ficulty will be overcome. One rea- | bimboo "beams" were framed together son why I am very eager to fly this by the use of short bracket pieces of year {8 because I would like to meet hamhboo tied with strips of the tall my friend Wilkins somewhere in the bamboo, so named because. of the Arctle wastes, | strength of its fibres and their fitness "There is a deep scientific purpose | for tying material. behind my desire to discover Wilkins | and his submarine Nautilus Zeppelin, ag an. instrument of Arctle exploration, will prove most which have The charming hand-made buildings seem to blend so completely with their backgrounds that. you re hardly effec- aware, as you tour through the ¢oun- tive If it can c 7 an expedition to | try that there are any houses to be Whatever Arctic region fit 13 desired | sen on the lant cape; to mar the | to explore, deposit the members of |jandscape; I had almost said. Even | the expedition there, and later call|(}q4 yoofs, thatched, or of brown tile, for them again. Looking for and { discovering Wilking's expedition will | serve as a practical test of are half hidden by the plumes of the hanging branches | bamboos or the ov which stands in"the the affic-| op me frait tree acy of the Graf Zeppelin in the polar! co. regions. | 1 never tired of wandering 1 the So far as the Zeppelin'y scientific | yy unose knmpongs and watching the personnel i3 concerned, we do not In-{ ioc or the people; the dooryards tend to land anybody, but, by re- | cwoept clean every day, the bamboo maining in the air six days after fences separating each household, the leaving a Northernmost mooring | pi capa with its cooing doves hung point, such as Haparanda or Len- | high above one's head, the old people ingrad, we hope to have ample op-| winnowing vice, or weaving baskets, portunity for scientific observations | making batik, or grinding cayenne and extensive photography of the pepper pods in stone mortars or sim region over which we fly" ply sitting in the cool shade or sleep | ing, and everywhere littla naked chil Father's Golden Harvest [dren playing--David Fairchild, in Tha school inspector was testing "Exploring for Plants." : | little Tommy's general knowledge | i A rm powers, . | Slowing Up Grandpa | "Now, then, my lad," he ell Grandpa was slowly walking along the pavement, and little Ernie, aged me which is the harvest se ing 150, and the only public music| This year there will be a clear "From November to March," Tom- four, was about thirty paces behind, \ is provided by the organist at the vil. view visible from the mainland for | my promptly. replied. : | "Why don't you wait for me? lage church. The one link with the about fifteen miles of the course, It "Come, come," said the inspector, called oul the child, after a Wwhils outside world is an omnibus to Tun- is thought that part of the new | "I'm surprised that 'you should nama "I am vy wovou, sonny," bridge Wells, eight miles away, | course will be dangerous in the Svelit] sun barren months, Who told YOU [oii the old nan, slowing up which has no late service. Only | of a forced landing, since the ma-| they were the harvest season?" rT re and Kita Toand. for a few weeks--at hop-picking time | chines will fly over eight or ten| "My dad" said the hoy. "He's a "well" cane from the panting --is there any life in this "back-' miles of unsheltered water. In any | plumber." child, "youre nol waiting very. (ast water" with a population of 1,500, |event, the race which will he town | oo - are: you X on September 12 offers mora thrills) | --------ar TRE Sie) i | More Haste. Less Speed | : " | The young man rushed excitedly | Self-Protection The Magic Word -_ a into the office of tha manag firee-! yj ouk here, dear" sald the angry ia > Pts it tor of the huge motor works father, vou insist that Ber n Briggs went to the garage to see if, "Look here, sir" he exclaimed | RR eT lr a they had succeeded in getting his car breathlessly, "is It true that your| Wears ne - ! ng J) os or to work, firm has built a car in seven min-| him 28 TA Jax nF " sah "harblexed "Look here," he said to a garage | ates thiriy-ive: seconds? | Mi wh aske tha perplex hand, "this is my car. I want it, cia | The manager threw ont hiv chestt pi hari steeds I aE what I say goes--see? triumphantly. ars Honelss lv fttues Just then a dirty-faced mechanic | "Yes, young man," he replied, "that | PA a0 . rods tn soho wath crawled out from under the vehicle 18 correct, and 1 can tell you we'rel IS oh oo Bry very proud of it." "Well, I'm not," the young man re-| eorted bitterly. *I've got that car." A New Mount | "Give me the name of an animal," After the Wait The very fussy housewife had kept the butcher-a long time before she decided on her purchase. said the schoolmistress. ji - i, ane: 3 ; "An average," volunteered little But, she said, after a vein Bertie. ute Inspection ot a plece of meat, "I "An average!" echoed the teacher. don't think this Is lamb. It looks "That's not an animal." {to te like mutton." : "Well, teacher," said the boy, "my | I'm sorry, ma lam," tle biteh or sister says that her voung man lived | replied, 'but it was lamb When I ten miles away, and he rode ovar to first showed ft to you. ses het twice a week on an ave age." | - | tr ale E%pensive Lessons Footing the Bill says she thinks she could learn to love me," said Potter. "Well, you don't look very happy charge you | about it," put in Clark. "It's going to be jolly expensive," sald Potter unhappily. "I took her out to the theatre last night and a little supper afterwards. The first lesson cost me ten dollars." The lawyer's client stormed angri- ly into his office, "Sir," he said, "the make {3 outrageous." | "Sir," said the lawyer calmly; | "but so was the charge against which I defended you." "Joan at es AY Need For Sympathy Bates met Cates at tha club. "I'm really sorry for*you, old man," he said. "Sorry!" exclaimed Cates. "Why?" Bates shook his head sadly. "My wife has a new hat, and she went to your place to-night to show it to your wife." | - -- { i -- British women claim to live longer than thelr American sisters, whose death rate between the ages of 28 iand 64 1s more than 30 par cent, higher than that in Britain. T---------- While a farmer on the Vet River | was felling a tree, he saw a large | puff adder crawling over his foot. He than one-half of the world's popu- lation is feminine." "I don't believe it. If it were so how do you account for the fact that one-half of the world doesn't know how the other half lives?" reptile with a blow of the axe. The next moment the grass was teeming with young ones. The farmer soon accounted for the whole litter, and when he counted the 'Wt he found that he had destroyed $0 snakes. Nowhere is there such a universal boo, there would be scarcely a house "1 see by this paper toat more | jumped back In time and killed the %: Co are