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A oT WI Hl SS 1 ' . \ = VINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1919 a & -- Se , 4 hn SU . 1 v # { m : : 2 EIT evn in honor of their son John, | given »t the home of Mr. and Mrs.! The North Shore Catholic Wonp~. ! Land daughter Eleanor. {J- O. Ely, 392 Cherry street, on New |an's league gave a Children's party { J BOY S( Ol J' ] 'S ---- | Year's eve in honor of their son,|in the Winnetka Woman's club yes- | An informal dancing party will be Robert Ely. "| terday afternoon. 1] BD ILLINOIS TO TRAIN 40,000 BOYS FOR COMMUNITY WORK Forty thousand Illinois boys are to be trained for community service. This is the program of the Boy Scouts of 'America, as presented to Tr the Better Community Conference at the University of Illinois by J. P. Freeman, the national field Scout commissioner of the Boy Scouts of America. Mr. Freeman is the repre- sentative of the National Council in the Central States. "The war furnished the big oppor- tunity to'demonstrate to the country what the Scouts were capable of do- ing on a national scale. Time after time the war and the treasury de- partments called upon the Boy Scouts for important services and in every case secured satisfactory re- sults in all parts of the country. This has caused a nation-wide interest in the Scout work, and Scout troops are being organized from one end of the country to the other," said Mr. Freeman. "Scouting is promoted through the various agencies of the community, such as schools, churches, clubs, playgrounds, etc, and is of such a nature as to appeal to all who are interested in the welfare of boys. "Rhe work is outlined by the na- tional organization, but actual con- trol of the different troops is left in the hands of the local institutions. Scouting is largely a volunteer work, nd no community is too small to have at least one troop. "On the other hand, Scouting pre- sents a program comprehensive enough to handle the boy problem in large cities. It is a program which can be adapted to meet the peculiar needs of each community, and each community will be better because of having its boys trained along Scout lines," he concluded. STATISTICAL REPORT OF THE BOY SCOUTS On Feb. 8, 1919, the Ninth anniver- sary. : There were 340,519 scouts regis- tered. - There were 6,692,180 boys in the United States between the ages of 12 and 17 years. Five per cent of the boys in the United States were scouts. Seventy-eight per cent of the scouts were between the ages of 12 and 14 years. Twenty-two per cent of scouts were between the ages of 15 and 17. There were 15563 troops under 13.- 892 scoutmasters and 15,097 assistant scoutmasters, with 46,689 troop com- mitteemen. There were 1,081 scout commission- ers and 12,298 local council members, including scout executives. There was a total of 89,639 men leaders for the 340,519 scouts, a to- tal of 430,158. On 'Nov. 8 1919, three-quarters of a year later-- There were 16,189 troops under 14,- 597 scoutmasters and 16957 assis- tant scoutmasters, with 48,567 troop tommitteemen. Fie) There were 1,383 scout commission- ers and 16930 local council members, including scout executives. There was a total of 198434 men leaders for the 364,225 scouts, a to- tal of 462,659. THE CHALLENGE OF THE CHILDREN TO THE CHURCHES "I became well acquainted in the White mountains this summer with a layman from a large eastern parish, AMERICAN "PREP" SCHOOLS 2 YEARS BEHIND ENGLISH M. J. Randall, headmaster of Win- chester college, London, a "prep" school, has returned from the United States not much impressed with American preparatory schools for youths, declaring the students are two years behind the English. But Gordon Selfridge, London's American merchant prince, who was schooled in Michigan, doesn't fully agree. He says: English preparatory schools are excellent, but I am not so enamored of the English elementary school. In the small towns of America there is only one school for everybody, and a lad rubs shoulders with all types| of boys and gets an outlook and knowledge of life British common schools never give (because only the oorest attend them). : " Pablie Servica C ; -- P "Taking an American and English Station ic parvice empany of Nerthern ae RW JER WL mr FL PUBLIC SERVICE through their universities, I should EVANSTON 1 would like to receive further information about say that the American would have learned more of value to him in after life." TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY LOST---LAST SATURDAY; PAIR OF eye glasses with initial "EK" on the reel; between postoffice and C. & N. . statiom; reward. 502 Provident re T4l-1te LL Ls LL eld Ted dd Ed Ld dL Li a Bear 7, 'the extent of American forests, both writes Dr. George Parkin Atwater, | in The Witness. As we climbed Mt. | Willard together, he asked, "What do we need most? Could this church capture the child life?" "It might," I replied, "if it would begin to train laymen for work among chilaren, if it understood the meaning of the Boy Scout move- ment, if it poured its money into training men and women rather than into bricks and mortar; in other words, if it accepted the challenge of the children, as Dr. Gardner so fine- ly puts it, and brought the training of children OUT OF THE BASE- MENT into the chief place in the life of the church. "Moreover, never forget this: the surest way to the heart and life of the parent is through an interest in the child." : SCOUTS AND TREE CENSUS. A tree census in every state at the same time the 1920 population count is made is advocated by officials of the American Forestry association. The census of trees to determine in the country and in towns and cit- ies, may be begun. "Block-by-block" listing, including the size and variety of the tree, may be done by Boy Scouts and children, under supervision of civic leaders. Planting of memorial trees, it is be- lieved, will swell the figures by many thousands. Planters will register new trees with the association, which will also keep the "census" records taken by children and scouts. A group of thirty-five couples will give 2 New Years Eve dance at the Winnetka Woman's club next Wed- nesday evening. Those in charge of the affair include Messrs. and Mes- dames Charles W. Popper, R. Portus, The Season's Greetings 0 FROM Hubbard Woods Cash Grocery { 901 LINDEN AVENUE, HUBBARD WOODS TELEPHONE WINNETKA 400 Maurice S. Hirsch, E. D. Sax and C. H. Barnard. nif vr Miss Carolinfe Sanborn, who is spending the winter in Wilmington, Del,, arrived Wednesday to be with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Victor C. Sanborn in Kenilworth, until Sun- day. AUR LHe Mrs. Harry E. 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