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Sire Much interest has been evidenced in the new Boy Scout Catalogue of Offi- clal Uniforms and Equipment which has just been issued and a copy of which has been mailed to every Lone + Scout in this province. It is certainly an attractive publication, and features a large variety of articles of interest to Scouts of all ages. A notable feature is the remarkable reduction in the prices of uniforms and we also notice that there are quite a number of new books and other items listed. Lone Scouts will not find any men- tion of the special Lone Scout Mauve Neckerchief in the catalogue as this color has been reserved for the exclu- sive use of Lonies in Canada. When ordering uniform, however, Lone Scouts should be careful to specify that they require the "Special Mauve Lone Scout Neckerchief." Sir Ernest Shackleton's Scout The scientific staff of the Antarctic research ship Discoverer II, now in the far South Seas, includes J. W. S. Marr of Aberdeen, a Scout selected to accompany Sir Ernest Shackleton on his last expedition to the South Pole in the Quest. Scout Marr also accom- panied the Algarson expedition to the Antarctic, and has since qualified for several university scientific degrees. He has made good. Many Lone Scouts will envy the op- portunities which have come to Scout Marr, and we would remind them that it was only because he'worked hard to qualify himself as a good All-round Scout that he was selected iu the first place. A Cenotaph Flag For New Zealand A white ensign from the Cenotaph | in Whitehall, London, was presented to the Scouts of New Zagaland by Lord Baden-Powell, and placed for keeping in Christ Church Cathedral, Auckland. A similar flag, presented to Canadian Scouts at the last world Scout Jam- boree, occupies an honoured place at Dominion Scout Headquarters, Ottawa. Dominion Headquarters at Ottawa C { patition. have a number of interesting souvenirs from Overseas, including a beautiful Totem Pole, which Lord Baden Powell presented to the Canadian Contingent which attended the Jamboree in Eng- land in 1929. This totem pole was on exhibit at the Scout Booth at the Cana-. dian National Exhibition last summer. Next World Gathering of Boyhood The dates for the next world gather ing of Boy Scouts have been an- nounced as August 1 to 13, of next year. The jamboree will be held in Hungary. It is expected that Canada will be represented by a contingent, Hobbies During the winter months it is often hard for a Lone Scout to find much to do to amuse himself, during spare time, especially if he is not a member of a Lone Patrol. Patrols can organize Winter Hikes, Ski-ing Parties, Snow Fights and Skat- ing Sports and have a lot of fun, but it isn't so interesting to do these things all alone. - We suggest therefore, that all the Lonies; whether members of Patrols or not, should have a hobby. You will find that almost every successful man has a hobby of some sort or another, with which to relax his mind, during his spare moments, In the winter months it is nice to have an indoor occupation, such as Fretwork, Wood Carving, Collecting Stamps or Autographs, etc, making rugs or. bead work, straw plaiting, etc, some of which hobbjes can be made inth very profitable occupations. A su stion has been already made to you that you enter the Fisher Body tsmen's Guild coach building com- "Lone E"" also has a number of autographs of famous people, and for- eign stamps which we would be glad to send to any Lone Scouts who apply for same, to the Lone Scout Depart- ana ment, The Boy Scouts Associatio Bay Street, Toronto 2, from which dress, also, full particulars n tained of how to become a Lone Scout,' --"Lone E" --- Alrican Farmer Trolns Baboons As Farm Hands Capt Town.--Rivaling the wildest jungle "yarns" in strangeness comes the thoroughly authentic news, as told in the (Christian Science Monitor, of three baboons captured by a farmer fu the Brits district and put to work weeding his land. Baboons abound in hundyeds in the mountain fastnesses along the Maga- lieshberg range, and farmers are some- times obliged to set traps to rid them- selves of the prowlers. Mr. Jan Engle- __hrgeht, of. Bokfon calight three of "the wild creaturzs at various seasons. The first 'of theta he called Japle. By the exercice ol the greatest care and kindness, Japle was soon taught to lead the oxen on the land, and later even was to be seen at the head of his team walking down the village street. Soma time after, Mr. Englebrecht caught two young baboons and these, by the tim: thoy reached the age of 12 months, wv ficient weeders of his farm lard Mr. Pnoglebrecht asserts positively that Hennie and Kaffer, as he has named the two haboons, are each of them equal to three natives for weed- ing. It is a comparatively casy matter to instill knowledge into their small heads, he affirms, provided gentleness and patience are employed. In teach- ing them to weed, they were taken to the fields and a particular weed was pulled up and showed to them. They would sit with solemn faces watching the actions of their teachers. Then the weed would be taken into their two small hands, = It was first carefully examined, then smelled, and immediately the willing weeders set to work to clear the land of that particu- lar plant. Their speed and thoroughness are sald to be marvelous, If perchance they ware set to work to uproot a particu- larly stubborn patch of grass they would pitch in with a will and refuse i: 3 : : 1 Memories of Canada : From a New Year card sent to former pupils in the Dominion by Miss Mary Tweedie, Headmistress of Edinburgh Ladies' College, one of the twelve British Headmistresses who toured Canada last summer, We've wandered--here in Europe, In Norway and in France In Germany, and Italy The lands of old romance; But we never met the vigor Nor the eager spirit found That wrapped up round so gaily On the fair Canadian ground; The snow-peaked hills and prairies, The mighty waters' roar The land of orchard blossom, And far Vancouver's shore, The tall, upstanding forests And the tales of men of yore, Fill our hearts with dreams beauty And our minds with nature's lore; And the people are our kinsmen, Showing us a kinsmen's love Which we render in full measure To that land whera still we'd rove. Edinburgh. --Mary Tweedie. EE, Brazil Hopes to Restore Democratic Rule in Fall Rio Da Jansiro.--After fourteen months of a dictatorial government under Provisional President Getulla of - | Miss Morgan, "they must adapt them- zig-zag curve. der, hip and skuil and Albert Bre! skull. Women's Ability to Meet Change Called "Amazing" New York. -- Women are meeting every economic adjustment demanded of them with a gallantry and under- standing as amazing as it is admirable, Miss Anne Morgan, president of the American Woman's Assaclation, said in a radio talk over Station WJZ of the National Broadcasting Company "Whilethéy are waiting for the new opportunities which must come," said seves to the needs of the moment. So we have an actress and a home econo- mics expert selling books, an art director acting as companion, a concert singer teaching French and Spanish and translating manuscripts for a pub- lishing house. Accountants are serv- ing as hostesses in tea rooms. "Many women who had worked up from stenographers and secretaries to all sorts of executive and responsible positions are returning for the time being to the typewriter, One member has devoted herself with such energy | to her hobby that she has equipped herself {ni the past year to make it her "| primary profession." Women are making these adjust- ments for two reasons, according to Miss Morgan, first, because they need the money, and second, because they know that they must keep themselves ¥ active and interested, so that when the opportunity comes to return to work | for which they are fitted, they will go, back with the same alentness, energy | and self-respect which previously made them capable of carrying respon- sibility. Teachers Seek World Amity Mexico City.--The National League of Schoolmasters has anized an affiliated association called Fraterni- dad Internacional to cultivate closer relations with the schoolmasters of other countries, especially Hispanic nations. One will be to combat teach. ing of history in such a form as to Varzas, Brazilians are hoping to re- turn to a constitutional regime be- | fore the end of 1032. { It appears likely that the new en-| rollment of voters and the constitn-| tional convention will have passed In! time for the country to return to al Democratic government on Ootober, 24, 1932, two years to a day from the overthrow of President Wash- ington Luis Pereira de Souza. The provisional government is credited with being both idealistic and practical. Many economies in administration have been made, Like to stop until the last vestige of a root was removed, Mr. Englebrecht's lonely farm is of- ten visited by nature scientists and other inquiring folk anxious to see and speak for themselves to this strange phenomenon. eae A Sn The Use of Words The proper force of words lles not fn the words themselves, but in their epplication. A word may be a fine- sounding word, of an unusual length, and very imposing form its learning and novelty, and yet in the connec: tion in which it is introduced may Pe quite pointless and irrelevant, fit 1s not pomp or pretension, but the on of the expression fo the that clinches a writer's mean- it fs not the that the » bullding as the size or glossi- but thelr be-| other one-crop countries, Brazil has _ suffered greatly through the drop in ' the world price of coffea, the greater part of which is exported to the United States, This price drop and the fall in the value of the milrels, from nine to sixteen to the dollar, has affected adversely the income i not only of the coftea growers but | also of the federal government, i en Sp Fossilized Apples Unearthed in Alberta Olds, Alta--While fossilifed palm (leaves figs and fig leaves have béen uncovered in southern Alberta, as cultivate international animosity. Germany's hohsledders had their second serious accident on the Olympic slide when the four-man team crashed through a dangerous Captain Grau (at wheel) suffered fractures of shoul- hme (standing) injured spine and Colonization in Quebec Le Progres du Saguenay, Chicoutiml (Ind.): The first phase of the coloniza- tion movement is ended; the embry- onic stage has given place to the stage ot adolescence and full development. We do not think that we are straying far from the truth when we say that next autumn half of our colonists will be able to live comfortably on the re- venue of their own lands. Some of them are going to sow 26 40, and 50 bushels of grain; others as much as 76 or 80. Add to this the precious pro- duce of the garden, the farm-yard, the spinning wheel and the loom, and you will have to admit that these people, suddenly becoming little kings in their own domains, would regard it as an in- sult to accept any of our unemploy- ment relief money. Are they not bet- ter off than the majority of our farm- ers and practically all of our industrial workers? Can one deny that the scheme has been a great success and has proved a very practical way of solving, among other problems, the terrible question of- unemployment? " Barber -- "I'm forty-five years old." Customer--""How old were you when you began to give me this haircut?" Goats! The goat's not my favorite mammal Mr. Gandhi dotes on it I know; It's milk is nutritious And doubtless delicious, But I don't like the critter's B. O. --W. P. in the Boston Transcript. Looks a Winner "proof that around 70,000,000 years ago (this part of the West was a tropical (land where the dinosaurs roamed, yet 'it was mot until last month that petri- fied apples have been unearthed. i This discovery was made by a farm- er digging a well in the Olds district, who unearthed petrified apples on a {petrified branch of the ancient tree. The {ot the discovery and the well has been refilled with earth to await 'ex cavation work by experts 1 branch of research. museum has been notified | i * | wide in its scope. that Te are at least be milked for rubber with some hope of commercial success. Probably ten times that number of plants contain gums of some Soft. Considering the fact that the whole world has been combed for trees, vines and shrubs that will yleld fubber in commercial quantities and of indus. trial quality, it seems highly improb-, able that towsagis 13 a species new to botany. | * * Measuring the Infinitesimal " Before the annual meeting of the American Institute of Electrical En- gineers, C, W. LaPierre described a new application. of the marvelously sensitice photo-electric cell: He has made It the principal element in an instrument so sensitive that it can measure a millionth of an inch. "And yet Mr. La Pierrie's advice is positively coarse compared with the ultra-measurer of Professor R. Whid- dington, an English scientist. Imagine a steel rod one-half an inch in diame- ter and twelve inches long. Imagine this rod held horizontally, with one of its ends in a vise and a fiy on the op-| posite end. The weight of the fly will bend the rod and Whiddington's elec-| tical instrument can meaus amount of the bending, provided that it is as much as one five-hundred mil- lionth of an inch. : In automobile bullding ft is an or- dinary performance to caliper the ten | thousandth part of an inch. In a fow | machine shops, where scientific instru- ments are made, Millionths of an inch are measured. The Bureau of Stand- ards has a balance so delicate that the man who weighs with it must stand at a distance lest the heat of his body | vitiate the readings. The late Profess-| or Rowland's machine for ruling hun- dreds of thousands of lines on a square inch of surface to make what is called a diffraction grating is so delicate that it must be locked up when it starts working. The bolometer invented by, Professor Langley to explore the in- vigible infra-red portion of the' spec trum is able to detect the heat of a candle a mile away, Probably the record for minute mea- surement is held by Professor Arthur H. Compton. He has determined the length of waves in X-rays to the five hundredth part of the diameter of a single atom. This means the hundred thousandth part of the millionth of an inch. A double X-ray spectrometer is te measuring instrument he uses. . * * i ! Again the Cosmic Rays Befors an audience of a hundred sclentists, among whom was Dr, Ein- steln, Dr, Millikan at Pasadena an- nounced his intention of renewing the cosmic ray studies that he began ten years ago. Apparently this investiga- tion is to be conducted independently of Dr. Compton's, which is to be world- Millikan, it will be remembered, be- lieves that the cosmic rays result from the creation of matter in outer space. Planning Safety Week; Has Fewer Accidental Deaths London--Satety Week will be cele- brated in London this year from May 2 to 8. The National Safety Congress will meet here at the same time, During the fist nine months of 1031 there were 438 fewer deaths in the corresponding period of 1930, caused by accidents recorded than the total number reported being 3,631 against 4,069. The reducing in the number of deaths was 10 per cent, while the decrease in the amount of trafic on the road was oy 2% per cent. e King George to Have Dial Phones London--King George has followed the Prince of Wales as a user of the dial telephone, St, James's Palace, where the Prince lives, has already recently been changed over and! from now on Buckingham Palace will also have dial telephones. Dur- A little mass is left over, and all this, according to the relativity theory, must be dissipated as energy. In the cosmic rays Millikan sees the excess energy. - «Probably this question will never be settled until somebody actually trans- forms hydrogen into helium and ob- tains cosmic rays as a by-product. Meanwhile, Millikan proposes to gath- er more evidence to support his views, In 1922 he sent up sounding balloons to nearly ten miles at Kelly Field, Texas--ballons laden with sensitive instruments that noted the little elec- tric shocks experienced when they were exposed to cosmic rays Millikan was able to show that the higher his balloons went the stronger were the rays. Now he wants to go higher than Piccard climbed in his record-break- ing ascent. Just as visible light consists of a gamut. running from violet to red, so there are cosmic rays of different "colors," Some of these cosmic ray "colors" cannot penetrate our atmos- phere. By sending up balloons to heights of fifteen or twenty miles it re the MAY be possible to discover them. They wil Ithrow light on the origin of the rays. As matters gtand, Millikan has made out a case for his theory. It it can be substantiated by still stronger evi- dence, it. will be necessary to rewrite all the books on physics that have been printed in the last twenty years. Should it turn out that matter is in the process of creation as electrons and protons coalesce in outer space, all our beautiful theories of the evolution of the stars and the universe must be cast aside for totally new ones. * . * How Bright Is the Sun? Our notions of the relative bright: ness of sun, moon and stars are quali- tative rather than quantitative. We know that to us the sun is brighter than any other celestial body but not how much brighter. In the new edition of its Meteorological Tables just is- sued by the Smithsonian Institution, Dr, Herbert H. Kimball of the Weath- er Bureau gives the information we want in terms of foot-candles--the amount of illumination received from a standard candle a foot away. It is not very impressive to learn that the noonday sun has an intensity of 9,600 foot-candles at the surface of the earth, that the illumination from -} the full moon at its zenith is only two- hundredths of a foot-candle, and that starlight amounts to only eight hun- dred thousandths of a foot-candle, We are more reconciled to the figures it we express them in a different way. The sun seems to shine more brightly when we say that it gives 465,000 times as much light as the full moon overhead and that {it Is 120,000,000 times brighter than all the stars:.on a fine night. -- W. K, In "The N.Y. Times." Coffee Beans Transformed Into Coke in Brazil Rio De Janiero.--The Brazilian Gov- ernment, after having dumped several million sacks of inferior grade coffee into the Atlantic Ocean, both here and at Santos now believes it has found a medium of use for the bean. Although experiments with coffee pressed into briguettes and used as fuel in locomotives of the national rallways were not successful, it has now been learned that the same bri quettes can be made into fairly com- bustible coke. Tests made so far with the coke have been entirely satisfac- tory, although further experiments will be made before coffee-coke pro- duction on a large scale will be tried. "That picture is one I painted to keep the wolf from the door." "Indeed! Them why don't you hang it on the knob wheres the wolf can see {t?" -------- Russia Leads World In Soviet Russia leads this type of art is an effort' stand others and not merely \ ] serve them from the outside, but to realize them by entering into thelr feelings, 3 : Thus, in the main, realistic is based on the interest of ol and understanding other people, as they are; and of course they cannot 'be understood without sympathy and imagination, In the main, romantis or ideal drama is based on the imagine - tive enjoyment of the highest { ments and most thrilling possibiliti of lite; and these cannot be fully en- joyed--they will only be grossly carl catured--without some real observe- tion and understanding. Consequently neither style can entirely neglect the other. : The average novel readers of to-day have the material for understanding people different from themselves which a century ago lay only in the power of individuals of special im- aginative sympathy. HKven the most popular newspapers occasionally have articles or short stories of which the point is to explain and make sympath- etic the behavior of someone who . seems at first sight remote or absurd ~ or definitely repulsive. The effect Is superficial, of course. It is swept away in a moment by any real personal feel- ing. But it does familiarize the great public with the notion, normally strange to them, that they ought to try to understand people different from' themselves.. And it is an added ad- vantage that the understanding fs jachieved not by analysis and reasom {but by the force of sympathetic emo- tion.--From "The Classical Tradition in Poetry" by Gilbert Murray. rf Fares Fair A woman in a tramcar tendered eight farthings for a twopenny fare The conductor objected, and the wo- man explained that she had nothing but a pound note and these farthings in her bag. Could he change the pound? - The conductor did not have time ta reply before a pompous old man sit- ting behind him jumped to his feet. "I'll stand by the lady," he said: "4t's legal tender. You have no right So setuse it. I insist that you take t.' "All right," said the conductor, * take it." } Then the condutcor asked the man for his fare, and the latter gave him a six-pence for a two-penny fare. With a gleam of triumph in his eyes, the conductor gave him one two- penny ticket, two pennies, and--eight , farthings. --¥ i TRUTH Sainte-Beuve mentions that some- one asked Jansen one day which Divine Attribute most deeply im- pressed his mind He replied "Truth." "He meditated continual. ly on that subject; he sought truth night and and day in his studies; and sometimes, in his rare moments of relaxation, while walking In his garden he was heard crying aloud, with eyes lifted to heaven and a deep sigh escaping from his breast; '0 Truth! O Truth!'" --Jane T, Stoddart. rfp rere Canada's Production of Lath The value of the lath cut in Canada in 1929, according to returns issued . by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics in co-operation with the Forest Ser- vice, Department of the Interior, was $1,680,037. Over one-half of the lath 80 manufactured was made of spruce; white pine was the second species in Polat of quantity; and Douglas fir g ¥ { Tn Admiration Admiration and love-are like being intoxicated with champagne; judg- ment and friendship are like being en livened.--Dr. Johnson. A een 'And where are the pains?" asked | the doctor. "All over my chest and | body--just here, there, and every- where," said the patient. "Well, I can't diagnose your complaint on thas the countries of that