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_ styled a "Camp", but which is really a collection of huts or buildings, per- manently >rected, and more resem- bling a hotel holiday resort or a Why- side motorists overnight "Camp", than anything that the Chief Scout ever had in mind when he originated the Boy Scout Movement in that original Scout Camp at Brownsea Island In England, The permanent camp business seems to have had its origin with our friends on the south of the Interna- tional Line, and from the point of view of saving work and handling the largest number of boys with the . least possible adult assistance, it per- ¢/ haps has its advantages, but it is a The lovely weather which we have bee experiencing of late causes us to think of that fascinating subject, or at least it should be fascinating to every Lone Scout--Camp. The tendency of recent years has been, unfortunately, as far as boys' camps are concerned, ~to get away from the original pioneering spirit of camp and to mass boys in a large ready-made habitation which has-been very poor substitute for the joys of camping as known by those who have roughed it out in the open with only a 'small tent, and who have had to carry their own water and cook their own breakfast! I don't think that any real scout could delude himself into thinking that he was really "Camping" if he stayed at one of these mass camps which are in reality a "Home from Home." We who are Lone Scouts have prob- ably already experienced the joy of going oft into the wilds to make our own camp with the materials which have been to hand, and if you have not tried this you should not pass up the opportunitiés which this summer, will bring to you. Lone Patrols will no doubt this sea- son find lots of fun camping together, either making their own sleeping shel- ters or taking along those jolly little "Pup-tents" which are so easily car- ried and are to be obtained so cheaply. Those individual Lone Scouts who do not care to go alone should en- deavor to link up with their nearest Lone Scout Neighbor; and -plan expe- ditions with him, and they will be amply repaid by the fun and experi ence which they will gain. For the past two years the Lone Ccout Department in Ontario has or- ganized a special Lone Scout Camp at a place near Brantford, and a number of Lonies from all over the province have each wear attended this camp and happy times were spent together over a period of about two weeks. Owing, however, to the very extra. ordinary growth of the Lone Scout Movement during the past year, it has been decided not to attempt to hold a large camp this year, as it would be too unwieldy, but rather to r age the ploneering spirit in the Lonies and get them to organize camps by patrols, or as individual Scouts, From a training point of view this will be invaluable, as only by experl- ence can many things be learned, and the mistakes you make at your first camp will not he repeated when you go again, So, Lonies, do not wait for a Lone Scout Department Camp this year, but go ahead and organize your own camp, and write to your Scoutmaster for any information you may waat, and let him know just what you are doing. Several Lone Scout Patrols have already received invitations te camp with other regular troops; for In- stance, the Silver Foxes at Pickering have been invited to go with the bth Oshawa Troop, and this is a very nice arrangement indeed. Any Lone Scout who would like to camp with some Regular Troop is ask- ed to let us know, and we will inform him just where the most convenient camp will be held this summer. We have had quite a number of offers from troops to take Lone Scouts along with them. If you are not a Lone Scout yet and would like to share in all the fun which we Lonifes have, write for par- ticulars to The Lone Scout Depart- ment, The Boy Scouts Association, 330 Bay Street, Toronto, 2. "LONE BE." tn British Insect Troubles Canada is not the only country wor- The British Minister of Agriculture has recently made an order with the object of pre- into that country of the Cherry Fruit fly. This importation * of cherries into England and Wales dur- ried with fruit pests. venting the introduction order regulates the ing the 1931 season. Cherries grown in France will be admitted without restriction until June 2nd, after which date importation will except of cherries grows within a small district around Similar regulations are ap- plicable to other European countries. be prohibited, onfleur, rma The Tourist Trade Saint John Times-Globe (Ind.):-- Tourist trade is Canada's great Invis- It is largely imponder- Its magnitude and importance It is almost impossible to gauge the full value of the tourist trade in all its im- plications. All profit by the coming of tourists; how much and how directly But while all are participants in what is brought in by tourists, hotel-keepers and retail mer- chants are unquestionably those who reap the most direct and visible bene- ible export. able. are admitted but little understood. it is hard to assess. fit, io meee Snow in Mid-West | Pacific Swelters .| Chicago--Snow rain, wind and sand | storms were reported in various sec- . tlons of North America during the | past week at the same, time that a blistering heat wave was driving tem- peratures along the Pacific coast to the highest goring marks in 20 years. Examples of - the contrasting ex- tremes were: California -- Temperatures as high as 92. Chicago--2.08 inches of rainfall. Missourl--Floods. Southern California--Sand storms. Winnipeg--Snow. Trinidad, Colo.--Snow. Reggy: Y'know my uncle is just + llke ms; making 'itty remarks half the time. Tegev: Sort of «ax witted, Is ha? i Ancient Psalter Brings $10,000 Vienna,--The Polish Government , has acquired the Saint Florian Psalter trom the monastery of that name in Upper Austria for 500,000 schillings, approximately $70,000, it 1s authenti- cally reported here. The psalter is a parchment manuscript from the four- teenth century, consisting of 296 pages, in excellent condition, and writ- ten In Latin, Polish and German. Polish scholars maintain this psal- ter Is the oldest monument in Polish literature. It came to Saint Florian during one of the many visits of the Polish Queen Catherine in the six- teenth century. Exile Will you remember that when next you write me, It is of little things I long to hear. All the small happenings that you held so lightly, I hold so dear. Are you still busy In your garden daily? What are you reading now? - What do you sew? And do you hum your little songs as gAily As long ago? Are the larks singing now at dawn's awaking, In the green meadows where wild pansies grow {In clusters, free for any traveller's taking? . Tell me such things as these, my heart | is breaking Dear, just to know. --Maud Stewart, in The Canadian Bookman. Apa Declares Western Farmers Optimistic as to Future Stratford. --"Wheat growing is a large and important business in the Dominion of Canada and will con- tinue so," declared the Hon, Duncan Marshall, former Minister of Agrl- culture for Alberta, in a recent ad- dress before .the Stratford Rotary Club. "Wheat was the foundatiom by means of which this province was transformed from a wilderness into its present fertile state. The farm- er, like almost everyone else, makes one mistake and that is buying every- thing in sight when things are good, and trying to pay for them when , things ara bad. The Western farm- er is not discouraged; he is mot go- ing out of the wheat-growing busi: ness because prices are low, and I | would have no hesitancy in prophesy. ing that 20 years from now Canada will be producing and exporting more wheat than she is today." = ae Set CLOCKS BAKED AND FROZENS Ships' clocks intended for use fn the tropics are baked in electrio ovens, while those which are going to Arctlo reglons are frozen, to ensure them standing extreme weather conditions. Rudi de Czikann of Estergow, huu.ac,, whose beautiful flaxen tresses won gold medal at recent exhibition in Budapest, Hungary. ¥ Censorship in Australia Australia has a film censorship board which derives its importation of goods. sued bannt and related ertising matter ex- cept under certain things, that no flim shall be register- ed which in the opinion of the el sor Is blasphemous, indecent or ob-} scene; 18 likely to be injurious to mor- ality or to encourage or incite to' crime; Is likely to be offensive to the! people of any friendly nation; is likely to be offensive to the people of the British Empire, or depicts any matter of which the exhibition is undesirable in the public interest. ! Importers have the right of appeal. | Regulations governing the exporta- | tion of Australian-made films are similar, with the addition that no film may-be exported if, in the opinion | of the censor, it Is likely to prove detrimental or prejudicial to tha Commonwealth of Australi se. Help to Relativity ..! Oxford, Eng.--Dr. Albert Einstein expressed 'his sorrow at the recent passing of Dr. Albert Michelson, whom he once characterized as the man who inspired in him the concept of the theory of relativity. "Dr. Michelson was one of tifie experimentation," he said Dr. Hinstein {is here to deliver a series of Rhodes memorial lectures. ---- pe ee Printers Ink Ottawa.--Thera were 22 establish- ments in Canada in 1929 engaged in the manufacture of ink, according to the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. Sixteen of the plants were chiefly engaged in making printing inks or rollers; the other six making writing inks as their main product. The year saw a new high level at-! tained by the whole industry, the out- put being valued at $3,038,049. ---- ay An Old Maxim authority summer, after an absence of some from a section of the customs act years, of Canadian live cattle ship- which gives authority to prohibit the ments to the British market, 3,681 nder this cattle reached the port of Manches- section proclamations have®been Is- ter from the Dominion between the the importation of films initial shipment made In August and conditions and Scott, with the consent of the Minister,' er, at Liverpool, in the Commercial The conditions provide, among other Intelligence Journal. : methods can only have a temporary {shown that in the Old Land any of them are in lea; comes the campaign season in China, signs of bursting into flames, No one, | this is inevitable in a country which the pas now experienced some fourteen greatest artists in the world of scien- years of clvil war, If most of the big His military adventurers have been crush- investigations were of decided slgnifi- 4 {phair followers are by no means cance to fhe theory of relativity." |. } There is an old maxim which says that one hero makes a.thousand, and it is an undeniable fact that the vast-] est number ever counted begins at the very beginning with ONE. --pee HAPPINESS i A commonwealth ought to he but | as one huge Christian personage, one | mighty growth and stature of an honest man, as big and compact in! to become popular again. | cially attractive with evening clothes | of sheer materials. virtue as in body; for look, what the grounds and causes are of single happiness to one man, the same ye shall find them to a whole State.-- John Milton. i Hope that some vague, unseen to-mor- The love for common things grew daily, things that cost nothing, and life was full of them. That is what the study of art will do. , .. I had no time for actual study, my hours were too broken up, but I stored up im- pressions at every turn. Impressions are like capital in the bank, bearing hourly interest. On the train twice every day, between Alexandria and Washington, an hour to look out of the window--a lot of landscape can be photographed upon the mental retina in an hour every day. Eyes tired with the black-and-white of char- coal drawings could rest on expanses of blue and green of swamp or Snowy hill, an endless panorama. The Love of Common Things Many Canadians : PlacedonF. In the winter, the anatomy of the 3 trees, thelr naked limbs thrown In ge silhouette 'against the sky; the dell 1500 Families and 7,000 Single Men For Present ear 7 Ottawa--More than 1,500 Canadian tracery of last year's weeds, golden- rod and aster whose seeds were long since sown by friendly winds; the long families have been placed in perma nent farm, settlements and more than 7,000 single men, likewise Canadians, sweeping lines of drifted snow, poems in themselves; and across the wintry have been placed in farm employment during the present year. landscape how full of meaning, as the. darkness fell and the train sped om, was the yellow lamplight shining from This result of co-ordinated effort by the Dominion Government and the colonization departments of the Cana- the window of some poor man's home, taking the loneliness out of the whole dian railways is announced following a conference of the interests involved world and the coldness out of the win- ter night. And the people's faces and called by Hon. W. A. Gordon, Minister of Immigration, Wilkins Confident Submarine Trip will Succeed "Nautilus" Not An Ordinary Submarine -- Has 38 New Devices New York--Capt. Sir Hubert Wil- kins, recently expressed confidence that his submarine expedition un- der the ice cap at the morth pole would be successful and declared that it might lead to important dis- coveries concerning the Gulf Stream and other marine conditions. Sir Hubert sald that if the Nautilus WSs reaches Spitsbergen safely, he was Cattle Shipments Ottawa.--Following the revival last the end of 1930, writes *ey A. Canadian Trade Co...nisslon- No Place for Gangsters sure the expedition would be success- Toronto Telegram (Ind. Cons.):-- | ful. (Gangsters are using American meth-| "I think we can omit reference to ods in England). But gangs and gang | danger," he sald. "Every one of us experiences danger at one time or another. In exploration we esti: mate the hazards and prepare In ad- vance to meet them, In preparing this 'expedition we went to men who had had years of experience and the greatest fund of knowledge to sup- port us in the situation we shall face. It we are 50 per cent, successful, the will have existence in England. Crooked poll- ticians and politically controlted law courts and police systems are neces- sary to successful gangs. And while politicians even in England are not al- ways above reproach it has yet to be o with criminals. | | | worth | | e---------- expedition been R fW while. If you ask what good the, \umors o ar trip can accomplish, I can only point Hong Kong Press: With spring to the various scientific societies that have lent their names and their active assistance to-us." The Nautilus is equipped and the embers of the old wars show with 38 except the soothsayer, predicts the future in China, but it is good to know that the merchants of Peiping are act- ing on the assumption that there will be no war this summer. Elsewhere many rumors of strife are current, and sible for It to travel under the polar ice cap, while an ordinary submar- ine would be inadequate, he said. The party expects to travel no further than 50 miles at a time under the extirpated. China swarms with sol- diers-of-fortune of all ranks, ready for any warlike enterprise, from a rald upon a Kwangtung village to a new movement for the overthrow of the "Nanking tyranny" and the "true in- terpreting" of the "three principles," or any other political slogan adopted by an adventurer who can guarantee pay, food and loot. This is the after- math of war. make it possible to navigate with- out any insurmountable he added. A special diving compartment will perature of the water thou- sands of miles of the may serve to clear up the mystery of where the Gulf Stream ends, con- firming or exploding theories that it sank or rose out of great holes in along érmemritd gop the ocean bed, he said. ser Sir Hubert," sald his ambition to Vanities study the weather in order to be These he three vanities To which the mind of man 13 prey-- Church steeples pointing mutely sky- ward At nothingness -- tombstones crum- bling to dust away-- able to predict it as much as two | months in advance had made fit necessariy for him to become an ex- plorer, so that he could study regions where meteorological conditions originated. TOW | "'ill ease the bitter sorrow of to-day. obert Turner Ford, in Opportunity | ene Ape "Next best to seeing the ocean or the hills or the woods is enjoying a Ay barker painting of them."--Maxfield Parrish, Fashion Gleanings . Paris--The feather boa is scheduled It is spe- Though ambition itself be a vice, it Is often the cause of great. virtue. Give me that with whom praise excites, glory puts on, or disgrace grieves; The boa is worn | he is to be nourished with a bition, in the shape of a leis, and is very flattering. To be correct, it should blend in color with the accessories. ed with reprehension, and never to | | sects although the germs can got but | little ice, he said, with stops at intervals | peljeve, that this long winter sleep to renew the air supply, recharge waakens the germs somewhat so that | batteries, and conduct scientific work. | Magnetic and gyroscopic compasses, | first emerge In the spring than they | also, perhaps from their insect hosts, new devices which will make it pos- | hands portraits all painted b; masters. --Marletta Minnigerode Andrews, in This is the first time that the colon- ization activities of the rallways and "Memoirs of a Poor Relation." the Government have taken the form = wo Fever Germs Sleep of a co-ordinated effort in the placing In Insect Bodies hi What becotiieg of the germa of the of Canadians in productive work om the land. This colonization work Is disease called Mediterranean fever in th inte th fI4lia Wintel 80 Sut they on v8 | boing accomplished without additional spring was described recently to the expenditure of public money. French Academy of Sciences, in Action along this line was agreed Parls, by MM. Ch. Joyeux and J, | upon at a conference of the Minister Plorl. This fover Navally breaks | °f Immigration and Colonization, the out in the summer, the Investigators Bresdont ot fe Cansdied Pacitie report, although occasional cases are allway and the president o . met with fn winter also, The germ Canadian National Railways in Janu- of the. disease. is believed to be|™T last, when it was decided to con- spread by the bites of bloodsucking centrate for the present upon finding places on farms for persons already in Canada who were willing and able ticks and perhaps of other insects. h During the warm weather of summer to undertake farm operation or farm labor. these ticks are plentiful and many pooply 210 Bitten, this causing Maen It was the experience of those en- the ticks apparently vanish but by gaged in this work that under present digging Into cracks in the walls of conditions there are considerable houses, underneath wall paper and numbers of persons in Canada, both {nsimflar places M. Joyeux and M. families and individuals, who wel- comed an opportunity to earn a sub- gistence on the land, and steps are Plerl were able to find over two hun- . en in February. Thes dred ticks, even in February. Thesp | being taken to co-ordinate the efforts of the colonization departments of the insects were hibernating, much as bears and a few other animals do. railways and the department of immi- gration and colonization in promoting The fever germs, it was found, were this type of settlement. Every effort hibernating. too. The insects found f igati and then were killed by fumigation an A will be made to satisfactorily locate within the province in which they are ground in water, but in such fash- now living, families at present resi- jon that living germs inside the in- sects' bodies would not perish, Small * dent in cities who would welcome an opportunity to ensure their own main. amounts of this germ mixture then were Injected into human beings, | tenanes on the land. causing cases of typical fever. It "ovens, Ti IVESiEVINS ie | Bankers Discuss : World Problems learned the secret of hibernation Experts at Basle Conduct Business in Strict Secrecy Basle, Switzerland--Central Bankers and that they. manage to stay alive all winter in the bodies of the fn- fod or oxygen while the in- sects are In their winter sleep, It {s probable, MM. Joyeux and Perl for 24 nations, with their assistants and experts, met here last Thursday they are less virulent when they | tor the first time in history, under the | auspices of the World Bank for | International Settlements, dividing a theodolite, and other apparatus will {| pacome later on in the summer. obstacles, ' make it possible to record the tem- | failure to understand that voyage and! gtand pricked forward with honour, check- | themselves in two groups, one to con- sider eurrency and exchange and the other world credits OPPOSITION Be eager to meet opposition face to face. Invite it to combat. Give you are What transpired at the discussions ot afraid of it Give It to under. | W283 kept in the closest secrecy, but that you are master of the the universal opinion seemed to be that the mere fact that so many bank- situation, ! | ers, from so large a part of the world, "The English wre riot an inventive | Wore meeting and talking together, people; they don't eat enough ple." was i itself a fact of considerable 2 importance, Thomas A. Edison. - : J . | Through the instrumentality of the World Bank, it wag felt that the na- | tional central bankers had suddenly become an organized group, and there was a feeling of joint responsibility for the operating of the world eco- nomic system. Tiers was also a general agree- ment, it was learned, that the Central Banks should increase their volume of reserve holdings, as well as their gold deposits, with the World Bank. Technical Questions Newspapermen were assured that nothing but technical questions were | considered quesdons such as what the | Central Banks can do with their cur- | rency reserve, how national moneys | can be converted and what the World Bank can do in the way of facilitating | international payments. | Political angles, it was stated, were | not injected. President Gates W. Mo- "Bring your glasses, Tom?" "Nope, just use the bottle." Saluts to British throne, May 6, 1910. x of twenty-one guns is fired at Tower of London, he suspected of sloth.--Ben Jquson. King George's A cension Commemorated commemo rating the twenty-first' anniversary of ascension 'of King George V. --_-------- ---- | Garrah of the World Bank declared he was "entirely satisfied" with the meet. ing. TT = Regarding the much-discussed finan- cial aid for Austria, it was learned authoritatively that the World Bank has agreed to help the Austrian Na~ tional Bank meet its demands. The Austrian Bank is to be given a credit of approximately $15,000,000, of which the World Bank will supply one- third, While two-thirds will be di- vided among several large financial institutions. The World Bauk will also accept bills indorsed by the Austrian Nae tional Bank and issue foreign currency against them. eel Smart The business man paid a surprise visit to a branch office and discovered a junior slacking. "You're fired!" he shouted. this note to the cashier." He scribbled a note in the hand which everybody in the company knew but nobody could read. After looking at it upside down and from the northern and eastern aspects, the junior clerk tsok it to the cashier. "What's all this about?" asked the latter, after a severe mental struggle, and hoping that he held the slip the right way up. "Take the boss said he wanted me to have $5 rise." : "The path to self-purification lg hard and steep."--Mahavna Gandhi "I can't read it," said the lad, "bué AN