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JO . WI ,L ME T 'T E. LIFE June 7, 1929 BOY SCOUT NEws· of . the- NORTH SHORE TROOPS A regular feature page prepared each week by member· of the Boy S cout P ress cl u b , North Shore Area Council Still a Chance to Attend That Scout Jamboree There are still a number of places open to Scouts wishing to go to the World J amhon'r at Birkenhead, England, July 31 to August 13 this fall. accorqing to a report of James E. West, chief Scout executive. The cost of this wonderful trip per scout is $550, including all tr ansportation with ex tra side trip s. It will be the chance of vour life if then· is anv possibilit y to g·o. \Yh cn 50.000 Scout-s from all corners of th e globe camp t ogether, something has got to happen. Think it over, talk it over. sec what your parents have to say. If you wish to consider it, get in touch v.:ith Roy Scout h eadquartrrs. llighlancl Pafk 2431, a~ soon as possible. Who Knows Paul Bunyan? Go to Camp an' Meet 'im I heard a Scout sav the other dav: "Gee I can hardlv \\:ait 'ti ll I g-et -to camp, I want to ~c:;it around tht- ramp fire and li sten to thl' storirs. Paul Bunyan is my favorite." The bov went on to sa,-. "f saw a pictur ~ of Paul the ntlH_: r ,Ja,-. Did you ever sec him: I ,\·as reading the ·North ~horc Hulktin' and thrrc found this rath er good lonkin_g_ picture. ()f course it haci to he reduced a whole lot to grt it nn the page. nut you should hear " ·here the picturr came from . This is what the fetlnw said who got the picture: 'f went up to Paul's logging camp on the 'Rig Onion' to vet the picture, hut Paul said that the only picture ever taken qf him was an old tin-t~·pc and he used that for the tin rnol on his hangar. I had to climb up on to the roof of the hangar and make a skrtrh of Paul's tin -type pirt nrc and here it is.' Look in the N0rth Shorr line bulletin for Mav and vou'll find it." Come t o- Camp Ma-Ka-Ja-"ran and reatly get acquainted with Paul Runyan anrt thf' wonder:' nf hi-. logging camp-Pat Role. BE SURE TO WRITE! All troops in the council should. after the week ending June 15, send all reports of their troop activities to the Boy Scout headquarters, 21 N. Sheridan road. Highland Park. The office and this publication is anxious to ha vc more articles conc.erning your · troop activities. Especially is this so during the sum -· mer months when hiking and camping arc at their height. If yo u go away on trips don't forget to write. Tell of the things that arc of real intcre~t to Your brother Scouts and yo_tt will s e it pul~ished on this Scout News page. · The reason for sending your news to the office is that Mr. ~1c~fanus, who has · been meeting weekly in each of your towns to get · the news from the Scouts, sel l them equipment and to help the scribes, will be busy getting thit}gs ready for sun1mcr camp and will di~continue his weekly visit until next fall. CAMP FEVER l'n· caught the camping ie,·cr- 1 can feel it in my bones, .-\ud it tingles in my blood iron1 head to toe; It 111akes a fcl(o,,- \\"ant tu say good brc to all he O\\'IIS just i>ack the go d old duffel-bag and go. ).f_,. fislllng -tackle\ r~.:; tdy and my tmi fortll is right, And I've put a coat of tallo,,- on my IIIOCS; l'n~ 1Jougl1t a br;)ud nc"· bug-light ju:-t Comtnander Byrd Receives Scout Silver Buffalo INTER-COMPANY RALLY Tue sday, May 28, Troop 13 of Kenilworth held a cotltest between co~n panie_ s. There were fifteen events wtth company A winning nine of the events. The results of the contest were: Company A won fire-builclin~, rope-burning, semaphore, knot-tymg, compa~s. first aid carries, message relay, drtll, O'Grady drill. Company B won water boiling. fire-by-friction, fire-by-flint, Scouts' pace, pup tent pitching, \.vigwag by lights. ~1 a king the total score ior A forty-five points and for B~ thirty points. - Defrees Holmes, reporter, Troop 13. MARCH IN PARADE Sunday, May 26, Kenilworth held its ~lcmorial day services. Troop 13 of Kenilworth marched directly behind the United States Navy band from c;reat Lakes while behind them marched a United. States firing squad and bugle corps. The Junior Hikers, a group of eighteen younger boys, who arc taught such things as fir st aid, etc .. inr us c \\'hen the,· become Scouts, followed. X ext came member s oi schools, dmrches and other organizations, such as Girl Scouts and Camp Fire Girls. \i ter a few brief services at thr park and club the · services adjourned .!)(' fr ees Hol111cs, reporter, Troop 13. Through Capt. H. H. Raily, American representative of the Byrd Expedi tion to the Antarctic, a message was "ent in behalf of the National council, informing Comande"r Byrd of the presentation to him of the Silver Buffalo. The Commander expressed hi s thanks for the honor in the fotlowing message sent through Chief West and received in time to be read at the banquet: "I wish to tell you, at}_ d through you Barron Collie: and other members of the Boy Scout Executive board, that tht>re is no honor I would appreciate more than the ones from the Boy Scout l rganizatiot~, because I have from the first considered it as probably the great est movement of its kind for the making of the right sort of men, manly and yet gentle, decent and yet tolerant, · strong and yet kindly. Therefore. undeserving though I am, you must know how much it means to me that you feel t hat I have been able to do something to forward the movement. This is a _ g-ood chance to tell yo~ that Pau l Siple is everything that I think a young man should he. He lives up to your train ing and he has the respect. admiration and afh·clion of cn.' ry man in th~ camp." Fill First Camp Quota; Register Now for Others .-\ pp!ic at ions i or the fir st period at Camp Ma-Ka-] a- \Van han already reached the 100 mark and the period is closed to further applicants. Then· is, however, room in the second and third sessions. These arc also fi !ling rather iast SCJ- l(EGISTER ~0 \\r . It l~,)oks like a shortage of places might result so ht: prepared and send your signed application to Boy Scout head-· quarters at Highland Park. \\'e can accommodate on ly one hundred a pc·rio(l this year. CHOSEN FOR AWARD .\iter the parade on ~Jay 30. we for hiking out at night , oom and \"\Hl·d And half a dozen pairs of \\'OOicll \\ ent up to mtr troop r_ ior the "\\ " hitnt:~· Energy and Ambisocks. , Stan Shoeman won over -.cl' tilt \\'atcr shining, l L ' all hear t lH· t ion :\\\ani." all ut hl'r eligible First Class Scouts in iello\\'s Yell :\s the\ S\\:im 'the gkamiug lake our t t'lHlJ> . l'llllgrat ulations to Stan.Trl)op li rq;orter, Lee O'Hr~in. \rith shouts of joy; f hear the llll'Ss-ca!J blowing \\·IJerc tJw ~~ aY 23 Troop 12 <;i \\' ilmette \\'Cllt eats arc ahran swctl:\nd my tmop i~ going nut next nn an· O\"l.'rnight 11ikt to our troop cahin nn the Dcsplaines rinr west of Highwcek-Oh Bo,- ! I \e caught the camping fever-! can land Park. \Ye had dinner at about K (}\·lock and aiter dinner we had initifeel it in my bones, :\nd it tingles in 111y blood from ation services .for Scouts Richard Born and _I im Dona·hue. .I ust before retirhead to toe; Scouts Prominent in It makes a fel low \rant to !-.ay good - Ing }.1 r. \\r atts, our Scoutmaster, told 11s a story. The next morning, having hve to all he ow nsMemorial Observances overslept. we played around until 10 Just i>ack the good old duffel-bag In each of the twelve towns in the n'clork when we had breakfast. Scouts and go. North Shore Area council-\Vilmette, Burn and Donahue washed the dishes. Shennan Riplc _ , .. Kenilworth, \Viun etka. Glencoe, HigliDuring the afternoon we built a bridge Jand Park, II ighwood. Lake Forl st. across a creek and then dammed it Glenview, ~orthhrook. D<.'crficld, Lib - Welcome More New Scouts up. \ \ ·e had dinner at about 6 o'clock ertyville and 1\f undelein-Srouts too~~ into North Shore Troops and lcit about H o'c lock.- Troop rean active part in the Memorial day The North Shore Area council wel- porter, Harry Minor. observances. They participated in comes thcsl' new Scouts into their many different wa~·s - hy parading. brotherhood startin g this week. \V e HOSTS TO MOTHERS-FATHERS flag-raising and lowering. chur~h sen-- hope, new Scouts, that Yuu wilt take Troop 12 of \Vilmette hacl a ices, short demon . tr;1tions. decoratin~ full advantagr oi the W(~ndcrful sum- ~!others' and Fathers' banquet at the graves, as color guards, on traff1c duty mer campitH! privikgl'" \"Ott han? at Cluh \"ista del La~o \Vednesday, May and as bug-krs. I 11 each town Scouts Camp Ma-Ka-] a- Wan this summer: 2lJ. First we had inspection and then were on th e job, exhibi ting the train- Troop .12. High land Park- Dexter Calsnml' pictures were taken. Mess was ing in citizenship th r~· receive in their kins: Troop 3(>. 1lighwood - Joseph blown and ~,- c a ll filed in for dinner. Scouting program. PiliornL': Troop 71. Libertyville - Dur4n~ dinner we sang . o'ngs. Aftl·r Jamrs Copa nos, \\ es ley Gratz. Ho\\·- dinner Sc outs Foster Gilgis · and Harry arcl Knox. John G. Snow. \1 in or were awarded second class pins S~tion JJD Broadcasts which were pinned on by their Programs on Scouting PADDOCK A scouT mothers. ~I r. Stee l, chairman of the Through arrangements made with Charles Paddock. known as "The camping committee of the North Shore Raido Station W JJD, \\'hich is oper- fastes-t human" and internationallv Area council. gave a very interesting ated bv th e LoYal Order of Moose at known Olympir champion, wh o a nttn;- talk on Camp Ma-Ka-Ja-Wan. He Moosehart , Jll .." a monthly Scnut prt)- her of ~·cars ago \\·as Scoutmaster of told abo ut how Mr. McPeek, a former ~ram is to be hmadca:t from that sta- Truot> 2(, oi Pasadena. Cal.. is now an Scout rxccutive, and himself journeyed tion. The program-. will he stricti\' active member of the Pasadena Court all over Nort hern Michigan and Scouting. Station \V]JD is a 20.000 nf Honor. The great runner takes a :\"orthern \Visconsin to find a desirable watt station which operates nn a fre- personal interest in boys and, in ad- place for a camp site and of the wonderquency of '25-t 1 meters and 1180 kilo- dition to aiding them in thci_r Scout ful site they finally found and bought. cycles and can be heard throughout work. is always ready to give them Then Mr. Hyatt showed the boys dry the llnited States, Canada and ~fexico . Stlme a<h·icr on running. land sw immin~ · and talked about the I MEN NEEDED "The maximum efficiency of this great Boy Scout movement depends finally upon the worth of your contribution to it. The call still is for men of visi on~ men with it1itiativc, men oi nerve and daring, men who, by every test. are fit to b e called "Good Scouts." -Dean James E. Russell. different stages of swimming, the first of which was the dog-paddle, the next, the back stroke, then the side stroke and the side over arm and the breast stroke, and last, the era vl. Afterwards the Kennedy Ross cup was present.ecl to Scout Robert Link who had made the most points in our troop contest since the first of January, havi~g 232 points. Th e troop was th en dtsmissed with the Scout Benediction. Troop reporters, Harry Minor and David 'v\' einstock. W TROOP 4 HIKES TO CABIN Last week-end Troop 4 of Wilmette went out to the Cabin-in-the -Woods. George Bersch was cook and he sure can cook, in case some of you Scouts don't know it. All the fellows had a fine time. A camp fire was held outside every evening and q1any interesting stories were told.-"Reporter BitJ Lehle, Troop 4, Wilmette. .... .