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42 WILMETTE LIFE December 20, 1929 BOY SCO.UT .NEWS of the NORTH SHORE TROOPS A regular featur~ page prepared each week by member~ of the Bog Scout Pteu club, North Shore Area Council The Xorth Shore Area council has many "Old Timers" in its list of fiftyone troop s that are now under its organization. One of the oldest troops in the country is Troop 1 of the Congregational church, Wilmette. Karl D. King, ] r. Scoutmaster, has had continuou s regi st ration since December, 1910, the first year of the Boy Scouts of America. There .are six troops in the council over ten vears old ten others that have passed the five'-vear mark, and several that are nearlv fiveyear veterans. The five -ye ar ·troops and older are listed here, giving their town and date of fir st registration: Troop 1-\Vilmette, first registration December. 1910; Troop !~Winnetka, first r_egistration August, 1912; Troop 31 - Htghland Park, fir st registration April, 1916; Troop 21-Glencoe, first registration ] uly, 1916; Troop 13Kenilworth, first registration March, 1919; Troop 17-W innetka, first registration :\ovember, 1919; Troop 2-Wilmette, first registration October, 1921 · Troop 3-\Yilmette, first regi s tratiot~ April. 1922 ; Troop 4-Wilmette first re g i~_tra tion, Decem be:, 19~2; Tr'oop 5 - \\ J!mette, first regtstratton December. 1922; Troop 7- Wilmette first registration October, 1924; Troo;) 18\Vinnetka, fir st regi stration October 1924: Troop 32-Highland Park, De~ cemher, 1924; Troop 33- Highland Park, first regi stration December 1924 · Troop 33- Ravinia. first re g- i s tratio~ ~ecen~bcr, 19.24: Troop 71- Libertyvtlle, ftrst reg istration December, 1924. Congratulations "Old Timers," keep up y(.)ur fine rec ords l Many Veteran Units Here's Story of a Hike They'll .Not Easily Forget in North Shore Area; Troop 17 of the Winnetka ComWilmette Sets Pace munity House went on a real overnight hike in November. Some of the boys hiked out to the Cabin-in-the-Woods. The ones who hiked out to the woods were the first to arrive. Some boys took short cuts, and whet} they got there they spent most of their time taking stickers off of their stockings. Most of the boys stayed up nearly all night and came down by the fire. \Vher1 early everybody was downstairs it was pretty IJOisy, hut not noisy enou£h to wake the lucky sleepers. The Scoutmaster, John West, slept upstairs where it \·vas cold. He had plenty of blankets to keep him warm. \Ve'lt all know better next time. Everybody that had been asleep was awake by 6 o'clock. Some of the boys got some wood for the fire so it would not burn out. \Ve had games and tests in the morning, and went home in the afternoon.-Charles Dunlap, reporter, Troop 17. CHRISTMAS GREETINGS At no time has Christmas held for us in Scouting the significance that it does this year. At no time has the message "Peace on Earth, Good \Vill to Men" offered such happy promise of fulfillment. This year has witnessed an epoch-making event, when fifty thousand boys from more than seventy different lands lived happily together in one great encampment. It has witnessed the birth of mutual understanding and good fellowship among the youth of the world, a fellowship based on the principles of the Scout Oath and Law. This is indeed a joyful Christmas season for all of us. May we rededicate ourselves to the ideals of Scouting. May each of us, in accordance with our ability, do our part to strengthen the character values of the Scout program in the lives of those boys under our leadership. In this ·way me may all of us feel that we are taking our share, as members of this great Scout brotherhood, in the up -build.ing of the Boyhood of the World into God ·erving men of character trained for citizenship.-James E. West, Chief Scout Executive. Offer Fine Award to Scout W riling Best Story of Year Boys' Life will make an annual award to that member of the National Boy Scout Press association who, in the opinion of the editors of Boys' Life is the author of the feature story, article, essay, short story, play or poem which shows the greatest literary merit. All contributions to newspapers and periodicals, amateur or professional. published during the calendar year 1929 will be considered for the award. The award will be a watch engraved with the name of the winner. The executive board of the National Boy Scout Press association will be requested to name a sub-committee of two or three of its members to ~ubmit. all such material as it deems wnr~hy of consideration to the editors of Bovs' Life during the month of January .. of each year. Announcemeut of the winner and presentation of the award will be made at the annual me·..!ting of the National Boy Scout Press association in early spring. The North Shore Area council now has several Scouts nearly through their Journali sm Merit Badge and by early spring the council will organize a chartered branch of the N~tional Boy Scout · Press Club association. Kenilworth Sea Scouts Have "Ship" at Meeting Sea Scout Ship 29 of the Holy Comforter church Kenilworth has a deck plan of a sloop painted on the floor of the meeting place. W _ e also have a mast whicll we can put away after the meeting is over. We have port and starboard lights, a mast head light. and a ship's bell. From the mast we ha\·e a set of flags strung up. We hold our meetings every vVednesday night. Mr. Sanders, skipper; and Mr. Williams and Mr. Burns, ship committeemen all from our ship, attended the Regional Scout conference at the Edgewater Beach hotel where they discussed Sea Scout plans in a group meeting. Regional Commodore Thorne Donnelley, :-.lational Sea Scout Commodore Howard F. Gillette, and Regional Sea Scout Director Bruno G. Andrews were the n~tional leaders of the Sea Scouting at tlus conference. - Frank Williams. Troop 29. Scouts of Troop 19 Will Send Gifts to the Needy ~fr. Aldrich, ex-scoutmaster of Troop 19. \\'innetka Community House, came to ou r la st meeting and talked to us on first aid. He also helped us plan a Christmas Good Turn of taking baskets o f food to the Chicago poor familie .. \V e hacl our exhibition of home -made first aiel kits. The winner of the fir.~ t prize was Bob W ersted, who had the most complete and userul kit. The v.·inners of the otha three prizes were Albert Clayton, Philip Hoza, and Bill Cassell. The prizes were a Scout hatchet, Scout knife, waterproof match case, and 1930 Scout Diary. The prizes were given by Mr. Stixrud, our Scoutmaster, who is sure doing a lot for our troop. I think that our troop is getting along fine and I hope we keep it up.-Harry Bengston Jr., Troop 19, reporter. Budget System Helps This Troop Defray Its Expenses The Troop committee of the newly organized Troop 27 of the ~ orth Shore ~1ethodist Episcopal church, Glencoe, at a recent meeting adopted the budget system for financing the troop. To i>Ut this business-like plan into effect the committee. raised the necessary dollar and a half per· boy as a revolving fund to insure continual registration of the troop. Under this plan the Scouts each pay ten cents a week dues and in th;s way pay for the Boys' Life magazine, the Scout Handbook, and registration fee as well as contribute toward troop ~xpenses. The committee is organized with ]. A. Scribbins as chairman, M. P. Below as Outdoor Member, A. G. Humphrey as Educational Member, the Rev. H. C. Case as Advisor, and T. V. Lorenz as Thrift Manager. Richard de Berard is Scoutmaster. Name Donald Andrews Best All-Round Scout of Troop At the last meeting of Troop 23, Glencoe, we selected the best all around Scout of the month. First the patruls went to their corners and had a vote of the best all amund Scout in their patrol. After that the whole troup assembled and voted for the best all around Scout in the troop. Donald Andrews wa s chosen. I think he de served it . He is the patrol leader of the Racoons. It is the newest patrol Winnetka Legionnaires to in the troop and Don has ,,·orked hard Provide All Scout Badges with hi fellows to help them pass their Winnetka American Legion Post, No. tests. I think the troop did right in st lrcting him.-Bob Johnson, Troop 10, expressed its sincere desire to cooperatt" wiith the Boy Scouts by stand23, scribe. ing the expense of all metal badges awarded to Winnetka Scouts. This plan HAVE NEW PATROL Troop 22 has a new patrol made up will go into effect beginnin~ January of candidate". It's called the Silver Fox. I. 1930, according to W. Lincoln The candidates of the Patrol are: Bob Rogers, commander of the Post. The Skinble, Bob \Vatt, Chuck Sincere, badges included are the metal tenderWinfild Ackerstrom, Thornton Elliot, foot, second class, first class, star, life, and Dick Johnston. The patrol leader eagle atui eagle palm.s. This post is is Dick ] ohnston. Most of the candi- also sponsoring a \Vinnetkb Scout dates have their tests ready to pass Drum and Bugle corps that the and then become real Scouts.-Troop Scouts are very interested in. 22. Reporter Ralph Stoezel. AN INTERESTING VISITOR NICE NEIGHBORS Last Wednesday night, Sea Scout ·Tenderfoot: \Vhat sort of neighbors Ship 29 of the Kenilworth Episcopal have you? church heard a very interesting talk Second Tenderfoot: \Veil, there's the by Lieut. A. R. Pieper of the United. blacksmith who's engaged in forging. States Naval Reserve. Some of the a carpenter who has done a lot of points he covered were: Sea history, counter fittin~. and a couple of fel- Marlin-spike s:Camanship, piping an lows who sell iron and steel for a li\'- official overboard, and some very interesting tales of the sea. A very fine ing.-Boys' Life. knot-board and jackstay were brought Have you explained Scouting to the down from the Great Lakes by Mr. other boys in your school? Do it as Danforth. a member of our Troop coma Christmas Good Turn! mittee.-Bob Burns, Troop 2!J. Troop Reporters to Get Make Several Awards at Special Badge of Office Troop 22 Honor Court The Bov Scout Press club of the North Shore Area council has adopted a new badge for its members, to be issued after the first of ] anuary. The badge represents a quill and is sewed in red on felt background and will be worn on the left sleeve. Sometime soon the members of the club plan to invite one candidate from each troop on the north shore to a meeting at which they will make plans for the coming year and discuss the job of troop reporter. Each town is organizing with. a reporter from each troop, a town edttor to follow up on the publicity for his town. The club's aim is · a news article from every troop every week. At the December 13 meeting of Troop 22, Glencoe Union church, we had a Court of Honor for our troop. Mr. Kneebone, the troop committee chairman, with the aid of the troop committee and Scoutmaster Hedgecock, made the following award_s: Tenderfoot-John Williams, Lewts Lepman, Jack Enright, James Cal~~un, 'rom Enright. David Roberts, Wtlham Ruhloff. Roger Clarke. Second clas~ Richard Samway. First Class-Jumor Schnur, Robert Sheets. Star Scf' ·t' Robert McGuire. Merit Bad.ges-kobert McGuire, woodwork, cookinQ', first ;l.id: Junior Schnur. cooking; Robet;t ShePts, reptile study. Scoutmaster s rertificate. Sloan Hedgcock.-Ralph Stoetzel, Troop 22, reporter. ' THE WINDY CITY VENTILATION Mr. Rybolt: The weeks in Kansas City are shorter than in any other city. First-class Scout: Who invented the Tenderfoot : Why? hole in the doughnut? Mr. Rybolt: The wind blows four Tenderfoot: Oh. some fresh-air fiend, days out of the week. .(suppose.-Boys" Life: . ·, · '