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ADA a eg SAR ------ © WINNETKA TALK September 29, 1928 i" -- rr ------------ _t i -- BOY SCOUT NEWS wo shore trons A regular feature page prepared each week by members of the Boy Scout Press club, North Shore Area Council of the Fall Season Finds All Scout Troops Set for Big Year Autumn hikes prove popular--Troop 33 of the Lincoln school of Highland Park held an enthusiastic hike last Saturday, under the leadership of H. R. Smith. A good many tests were passed and everybody had a fine time. enilworth Scouts camp at the Cab- . in-in-the-Woods -- Troop 13, Kenil- worth, which is already filled to capac- ity and is under full swing, held a hike last Friday and Saturday to the Cabin- in-the-Woods. Scoutmaster Townley was in charge. Deerfield troop has Fathers' night-- Troop 52 of the Deerfield Presbyter- ian church, under the leadership of the Rev. Mr. Andrews and John Huhn held a Fathers' night meeting Friday, September 21. The troop is starting out on a big program for the year. Olds elected to head Northbrook Scout committee--At a meeting of the Northbrook Scout committee held Thursday evening, September 20, Le- land Olds was elected chairman of the Northbrook Scout committee for the coming year. Committeeman manages troop--Dur- ing the absence of Scoutmaster Frank B. Reynolds in Europe, Troop Com- mitteeman Chairman H. O. Vonder- Hoff is serving as troop leader for Troop 5 of the Wilmette Presbyterian church. The troop is already operating under full sail and making good pro- gress. Scouts to be guests at University of Chicago football game, September 29-- North Shore Scout leaders have been invited to attend the Chicago-South Carolina football game this Saturday bringing with them the Scouts in their troops. A number of north shore Scout leaders plan to attend. They are also looking forward to a similar invitation to attend a Northwestern game later in the season. Winnetka Scout suggests camp name --1 went to Wisconsin a few weeks ago to see the camp site. On mv way home we drove through the Menonii- nee Indian Reservation. We stopped an old Indian and asked him to tell us in the Menominee Indian language what Spring Lake would be. He told us "Mo-ka-jawon." This is very easy to say and sounds good. I thought that this name would be good because the Menominee Indians inhabited that part of the country.--Scout James R. Goetz, Jr., 460 Locust road, Winnetka, Troop 18, Winnetka. Troop 2 under full swing again-- Troop 2 of the Wilmette Congregation- al church held its opening fall meeting last Tuesday under the leadership of Scoutmaster Ewart Cook. Troo Committeemen K. D. King and W. E. McCormack were present. Junior As- sistant Scoutmasters James Baker and Robert King, Senior Patrol Leader Robert Crawford, and Scribe Cecil Cox wer present. Twwtyne-otf srhdlu uu were present. Twenty-two Scouts at- tended the opening meeting and en- joyed the games, stories obstacles race and peanut scramble. . Winnetka troop under way--Troop 15 of Christ church, Winnetka, held a meeting last Friday night under the leadership of Scoutmaster J. R. Goetz. The Rev. Mr. Ward, one of the com- mitteemen, was also present. We had some drills, reviewed Tenderfoot tests and played games. -- Scribe Kenneth Seyfried. Glencoe trooo full of pep--Troop 23 of St. Elizabeth's church. held a meet- ing last Friday night with an attend- Scout-O-Gram TIME Time is one of the great riddles of the ages. Every one of us has the same amount of it--twenty-four hours each day. We are all alike, too, in having to- day. Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow may never come--so that every living per- son has today, this hour, this minute at his disposal. We do, however, differ greatly in the ways we use this little measure of time; we differ in what we put into it and therefore of course we differ in what we take out of it. Some idle away their chances, others use them to move onward and upward in life. The Scout realizes that lost time, like the water that has passed beneath the bridge, is gone forever; he recog- nizes that with time he cannot (fox- like' "Back-track"--he passes this way once and then that day's chance for "Good turns," for cordiality, for cheerfulness, for self-improvement, for learning, for thrift--that day's chance is GONE--it never returns. So Scouts value time and use it thriftily and with purpose! : --From Scout Handbook. Scouts Win Awards at Court of Honor in Highland Park A fine Court of Honor was held Wednesday night, September 19, at the Lincoln school, Highland park. The purpose of this Court was to award Scouts merit badges earned this sum- mer at camp and elsewhere, enabling them to receive their higher rank at the Big Court of Award scheduled for Fri- day evening, September 28, at New Trier High school and "which is for Star, Life, Eagle and Palms only. Dr. George B. Lake, chairman of the Court of Honor committee, presided, assisted by W. W. Reichardt, N. H. Anspach and Carl McManus, assistant Scout executive. The following scouts were awarded: Herbert Stevens, Troop 32, first class, award, and the following merit badges: swimming, life saving, athletics, wood carving, craftwork in leather, personal health, public health, camping and canoeing. Scoutmaster Robert G. Anspach, Troon 31, athletics. Sidley Chapman, Troop 33, camping, wood carving, reptile study, pioneering, leathercraft, bird study, athletics. Denton Smith, Troop 33, weather, astronomy, camping. Roderic Smith, Troop 33, astronomy, agriculture, camping, bird study. Frank Wichman, Troop 33, conser- vation, cooking, reptile study. John Kraft, Troop 35, architecture, plumbing, handicraft, carpentry, civics, pioneering, cycling, pathfinding, bird study, athletics, reptile study, camping, seamanship, forestry, conservation, canoeing. Peter White, Troop 35, cycling, first aid to animals, painting, ~ camping, nathfinding. ee ance of twenty-eight scouts. In addi- tion to our Scoutmaster, and assistant scoutmaster, © troop committeemen Coolidee and Simpson were present. We had a troop hike last week with ten boys attending. --John Curtis. Scouts Welcome Return of Their Scoutmaster YEA! We've got a new Scout- master! Such were the cries that went up from the basement of the Wilmette Congregational church on Tuesday, September 11. This new Scoutmaster is William Ewart Cook of Troop 2, Wilmette. He was formerly the Scoutmaster of the same troop before 1926. For the past three years "Ewie" has been Scoutmaster of a troop in Ravenswood. Troop 2 should now come to the front in Inter-troop ac- tivities in the North Shore Area be- cause of his widespread experience both as a Scoutmaster and as a Scout in old Troop is the first Boy Scout troop organized west of the Alleghe- nies. When Mr. Cook was the Scout- master in the past, Troop 2 was the foremost troop in Wilmette. The old scouts in the troop tell of the days when "Ewie" was Scoutmaster and we ran away with all the rallies and con- tests. Troop 2 expects to have a bang- up year--Let's Go!--Jim Baker and Dave Davis, Troop 2. Good Turn Brings Him : Seat in U. S. Congress Hon. James Davis, for years repre- senting Missouri in Washington-- where he has been active in Scout work, told this story last year at a Washington Scout celebration. He said; "One morning when I was about 20 years old, I was riding my horse into "town" when by the road side, I came upon a boy, a mule, and a fallen sack of corn. The boy was helpless to reload. I got off my horse--removed my coat--loaded him and the corn on the mule and went on my way for- getting the incident. A score of years had passed and I was a candidate for Congress, in the primaries. I had heard that in one corner of the "enemy's country" there was a fellow who was getting votes for me but I did not know him. I was nominated by 47 votes. At the country seat speechmaking which followed, a big, sturdy, young man elbowed his way through the crowd to the stand and extended his hand, saying: "I don't suppose you remember me," and I said, "No, I do not." "Well, he said. "do you remember a boy, a mule, and a sack of corn in the road some twenty years ago--and you the fourth man to pass, stopped to help me on my horse?" "Well," he said "I'm that boy, and I vowed that day that I'd re- pay you some day and I've done it. We gave you a majority of 68 votes in our township." --Scout Executives' Manual. Invite Indiana Scouts to University Grid Game Every troop of Boy Scouts in the state of Indiana has been invited to witness the intersectional fooball game October 6, between the University of Indiana and the University of Okla- homa at Bloomington, the home of the Hoosier university. The Scouts will be guests of the University. Overnight quarters preceding the game will be provided for Scouts and there will be a Scout parade just before the game. HOME WITH TROPHIES After a wonderful five weeks with the Martin Johnsons in Africa, the three Scouts who went on the excursion as guests of G. P. Putman, D. T. Law and the Johnsons are returning to their homes bringing many trophies. Junior Leaders in First Conference of Current Season About fifty boy leaders of the vari- ous Wilmette and Kenilworth troops, gathered last Friday afternoon at St. Augustine's Club house for the first Junior Leaders conference of the new Scout year. The program was in charge of George Bersch of Troop 4 and the eats were handled by Edward Kunz, Jr., of Troop 8. Projects and program for the coming year were discussed and particular thought was given to projects that might be carried on in Patrol meetings. Carl McManus, as- sociate scout executive of the North Shore Area council led the discussion. Scoutmasters were invited to at- tend the session as the guests of the junior leaders, among those present were E. Palmer, Scoutmaster of Troop 8, D. C. Leach Scoutmaster of Troop 4, and R. W. Townley, Scout- master of Troop 13. Mr. Townley spoke to the Junior Leaders on "What a Scoutmaster expects of his Boy Leaders" and Mr. Leach spoke on "Doing a Better Job." : The next junior leaders gathering will be held at the Glencoe Union church Friday evening, October 5, at 4 P. M. at which time, junior leaders from all over the area will assemble. Hiking Scouts Extinguish Forest Fire in Far West A group of Boy Scouts out for a day's hike near their camp in the vicin- ity of Piper's Canyon, Seattle, Wash., found that fire, starting near the high- way and probably caused by the cig- arette of a careless motorist, running through brush and grass, threatened a heavy stand of timber nearby. Without waiting to summon aid the hoys, five in number, attempted to extinguish the flames. With brooms, wet sacks and canvas and such camp equipment as was suitable for Scouts, fought the fire, winning out finally after a quarter of a mile had been traversed by the flames. ' Scout Employs Training to Save Life of a Chum When a long knife with which they were playing mumbly peg severed an artery in the leg of Henry Jones, 14 of East Orange, N. J.. recently, his playmate, Andrew Miller, 14, Boy Scout, applied a tourniquet which stopped the flow of blood and pre- vented serious injury. The ambulance surgeon who was called to the scene of the accident commended the Scout for his very efficient work. The tourni- quet was made out of a handkerchief which the Scout put around his com- panion's leg and twisted with a pencil until the flow of blood stopped. FIND YOUR URGE! There is a great urge in the heart of every human being. It leads those who listen, on to Success and Happi- ness. Into every life there must come this great ambition or wish at some time or other. When it is heeded, a new leader has been made. Another Lincoln, another Washington, has found himself. Listen to that cry within your heart that keeps urging you on to higher works of service. It is your way to Greatness. Don't stifle it. Answer it with supreme ef- fort. Find the urge that will make your life Immortal. Then Follow it! --FEverybody's Scrapbook.