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AL LA a 38 WINNETKA TALK August 25, 1928 BOY SCOUT NEWS vo sore rooms A regular feature page prepared each week by members of the Boy Scout Press club, North Shore Area Council of the Urge All Scouts to Attend Area Re-Union Sept. 28 Every Scout will plan ahead to be at Camp Reunion (whether or not he at- tended a camp this summer), to be held at the New Trier High school lunch room, Friday evening, Septem- ber 28, at 6 P. M. The program will be full of reminis- cences of Camp Checaugua and the Veteran Camp and of looking forward to our Own Camp in Northern Wis- consin next year. The program will include reports from Scouts and Scout leaders who have attended various camps this sum- mer, among them, Bob Anspach, E. IL. Stanton, F. J. Kreusch, Mark An- drews, Bob Townley, Adam Bauer, Brainerd Chapman, Dorlund Davis, Robert King, Prescott Lothrop, George Bersch, Ernest West, Paul Gilbert, John Brenner. Make your reservation now with your Scoutmaster. Awards of Star, Life, Eagle and Palms, together with any Feathers which may have been earned in the Boy Scout Press club, will be awarded that night at 8 o'clock in the audi- toium of the New Trier High school. All parents and friends are invited. All Scouts expecting to receive awards at this session, must have their applications in the area office, not later than September 20. A splendid program is being ar- ranged, including several numbers from the North Shore Line band. The auditorium seats a thousand people. Help fill it up! Junior Leaders to Hold Parley on September 21 Friday, September 21, all the junior leaders in Wilmette, will meet at the Club House of St. Augustines' church to have a conference. The program in brief is as follows: 4:00 P. M. All members of all troups assemble for photograph. 4:15 P. M. Conference called to order. 4:45 P. M. "What I expect of my junior leaders this year", Bob Townley. 5:15 P. M. Practice in handicraft. 5:45 P. M. Discussion by junior lead- ers (discussing the duties of the various junior leaders). 6:30 P. M. Dinner (Scoutmasters as guests). 7:15 P. M. The program of the year ahead, by D. C. Leach, com- missioner. 7:30 Story-telling by various scout leaders. 8:00 P. M. Adjournment. Scouts, your troop is counting on you to do your best this year.--George Bersch. COMING EVENTS September 21--Wilmette Junior Leaders' conference. September 28--Area-wide Court of Award with a camp Reunion dinner at 6:30 p. m. (court at 8:00) at New Trier High school. September 24 -- Scoutmasters monthly roundtables will be held on the last Monday evening of Rack mouth, at the Cabin-in-the- s. Up North in the Land o' Lakes MARNE ARES; wis Signe. AVC I Lo 8 LIVRELE Rate NER Cases Scene near new North Shore Scout Camp Site in Wisconsin wilds WANTED: CAMP NAME Suggestions for Wisconsin Camp Are Coming in and Every Scout Is Urged to Add to List Without Delay By Scout Egroeg Hscreb Boy, won't it be fun to go down the Wolf River for a canoe trip of twenty miles or more, and wouldn't have a lot of fun at the campfire joining in with your brother scouts in singing songs and playing games and listen- ing to a "spook" story that would make the chills run all the way up your back, and the eats, boy, oh, the eats, can't you just see the golden brown flap-jacks smeared with real maple syrup, mmmmmm. Well, just to take you out of suspense I'll tell you that that is what you are going to get and even more up at our new camp at Spring Lake, Wisconsin. The whole lake has been bought by the council and the territory covers 360 acres of thick virgin forest. Think of the hikes through the woods and the trips on the lake and river. There will be handicraft of every description, inter-tribe games, hikes, nature study, and boy, don't forget the swimming in the cool waters of Spring Lake. The lake has a hard sand bot- tom which is ideal for swimming. But there is still one thing that has not been decided upon. I wonder if any of you readers could guess what it is? Yeh, that's right, whoever said it, I didn't think you could guess it but you're right, it's the name. One friend of Scouting has suggested "Camp No-sho-bo-sco," sound Indian alright, doesn't it? Well it isn't, it's an abbreviation for "North Shore Boy Scouts." If you have a good sugges- tion send it into the office and it may help a great deal in selecting a good name for our long sought for camp. Don't forget the big camp reunion at New Trier High school mess hall on Friday evening, September 28 at 6 o'clock. Plans for the season at camp will be discussed and reports will be made by boys who have been to vari- ous camps during the summer. Eats will be served! A Tree a Week The American Elm is a common tree on the north shore. It is well adapted for a shade tree and has a graceful beauty. The leaves are lop- sided. The wood is hard and tough. It is used for barrels, baskets and boats. Invite Scouts to Join Press Club Right Now! A new club has recently been formed for the Scouts of Wilmette, Winnetka and Glencoe. It is the Boy Scout Press club. For membership in this club one must have had ten or more articles printed. When a Scout is in the club he will be expected to cover certain assign- ments given him. When one has qualified he will be presented with an attractive guild at the Area-Wide Court of Award. Send your articles to George Bersch, 1715 Walnut avenue, Wilmette not later than Friday preceding the date which article is to be published on this Scout page. Articles concerning troop news, patrol news and stuff of general interest is the kind that is wanted. Plan School for Scribes to Be Convened This Fall The scribe, or secretary, of a Scout troop is one who is selected from the membership of the troop because of his skill and ability to serve as the record and account keeper of the troop. He is a scout with those traits of accuracy, carefullness and neatness that make for a good business man, perhaps a banker. These picked Scouts, the scribes of the various troops, will be brought to- gether this fall in a "Scribes' School" once a month for instruction and ex- change of idea and method. The school will be carried on by the Scout leaders of the North Shore Area council. Scouting Circles Globe; Troops in Over 50 Countries Wherever you go in the United States--whether in Maine or Texas, Washington or Florida, you find Scouts everywhere, in city, town, or open country. Scout towns dot every cor- ner of the nation. Clean-cut, alert, spick and span in their uniforms and honored because of their service. As Theodore Roosevelt said: "The Boy Scout movement is dis- tinctly an asset to our country for the development of efficiency, virility, and good citizenship." In the first sixteen years of scout-- ing (beginning in 1910), over 3,000,000 boys became members. : In our colleges today we find that nearly half the college men have been and are scouts. In 1926, these scouts were in Harvard Yale -............... Michigan ... Jayfayette "............... ei... 50% Northwestern University ............ 42% Washington and Jefferson .......... 64% U. 8. Naval Academy .............. 50% U.S. Military Academy ............ 48% Scouts are met in fifty-seven civi- lized countries, which countries repre- sent 91% of the world's population. Scouting is a great world brother- hood of boys and men, and, as the President of the United States has said, is one of the biggest forces mak- ing for world peace. Optimist Club Troop to Attend Checaugua Camp Seven boys of Troop 10, sponsored by the Wilmette Optimist club, left last Monday morning for Camp Che- cauqua in Michigan. They are Rich- ard Haugsness Lawrence Haugsness, Henry Hoffmeier, Edmund Foslund, Walter Hawkinson, Robert Golden, and Richard Steen. Scoutmaster Ryan plans to visit the troop while they are in camp. --Scout Richard Haugsness. Offer New Suggestions for That "Good Turn" A Scout does at least one "good turn" to someone every day. The fol- lowing list, ring true to boy life per- haps, but are, nevertheless, rather un- usual. "Opened a door in a grocery store for a lady that was stuck." "Loaned another kid a thumb tack to put in the teacher's chair." "Put a dime in my little brother's bank by mistake and didn't make him give it back." "Stopped a fight between a boy whose arm just got well from being busted." THE INQUIRING REPORTER If you could have just the sort of a job you want ten years from to- day, what would it be? Cameron Brown, Troop 22, Glen- coe: I would be a civil engineer. Ray Bartleman, Troop 22, Glencoe: A lawyer. Robert Johnson, Troop 55, Glenview : Either an airplane pilot or forest ranger, David Canmann, Troop 35, Ravinia: A lawyer. Dorlund David, Troop 2, Wilmette: I would be a doctor. #