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January 24, 1930 WI·LMETTE LIFE 23 N 'orth Shore Scout N ·ews Add Two More Rul~s to Troop ·14 Constitution Thursday, January 16, Troop 14 of the Winnetka Episcopal church added two more rules to its troop constitutiCln. One was about regulations of patrol ·organization. \ \' e got two more new members. One -,is Jack Griffith, who came from Troop 832, which is in Chicago and the other is Bill Barnum, who has just reached the age of twelve, permitting him to become a scout. \Ve also planned on some of the things we are going to have on our parents day during anniversary week. Troop 14 has nineteen members now~ \Ve had twenty-one but two members dropped. -Scribe Milton Dethloff, Troop 14, \Vinnetka. TO SCOUT MOTHERS The Scout Mothers of Troop 33, Highland Park, are asking the cooperation of all Scout Mothers in the North Shore area in helping to outfit scouts who cannot afford to purchase uniforms. If you have, or if you know of anyone who has, discarded or outgrown uniforms or equipment in good condition, won·t you do a good turn for a scout and send it to or notify Mrs. George J. Hinn, 919 Ridgewood drive, Highland Park. Telephone Highland Park 11. RUGS, CARP TS LINOLEUM Everything for the Floor Continuing Our ·January Clearance Sale Compare our prices with any Evanston or Chicago Rug House and you will appreciate as an actual fact that we are selling the same quality at lower priceal Estimate, Cutting, La J In g, Sewing Stair Pads .t Llalags Cleaning and BepalriDI Rugs and Carpets · THUS WE BUILD Every day we add a tittle to what we had the day before. It is like a masqn laying bricks. A single brick goes only a little way in the makingof a walt, yet it helps to make the work complete. So we build day by day : a good deed here, an honest bit of service there, a smile and a cheery word throw'n in for good measure. No Blind Man's Buddy Race one can say just when one's reputaDelights Troop 3 Scouts tion is acquired, but one day we will The Blind Man's Buddy race was find others saying of us, "\Vell done." -Adapted from "Boys World." played by Troop 3, \Vilmette Methodist church. last Thursday, January 11. It proved so much fun that it seemed worth passing on to other scouts. The troop counts off by twos. Number twos step two paces to the front, then number twos are blindfolded and number ones have to direct number twos by commands only in a race around chairs, benches or any prearranged obstacles to the end of the room and return. In this game you are not to touc'h the man you are commanding but vou must follow and· stay two or three paces behind him. If your man humps into a bench or chair he must circle it three times before gc.·ing ahead. -Scout Ernest Schaper, Trono 3, '.Yilmette. The Largest Exclwive Carpet, Rug and Linoleum Store North of the "Loop" DAVm G. BARRY Established i>l 19~0 806-810 GROVE ST., EVANSTON · · Private Parking Space . J University Phone a· l Greenleaf 5712 SEMI-ANNUAL SALE of SHOES Offering Established Fashions at SALE . PRICES GAMES IN THE DARK Where Ia My ' Shoe? _ Every boy takes off his right shoe. All the shoes are then placed in a pile in the center of the meeting room. At signal the scouts start finding their shoes. Every half minute th_ e lights are thrown on for a second. First patrol to announce that is is fully dressed is drclared the winner. Blind Harry One scout is "Blind Harry." He tries to catch the others. When he succeeds he is entitled to ask three questions which must be answered so that he may discover who his prey is. !f he guesses correctly, the other becomes "Blind Harry." If wrong, he gets another try. practically unlimited choice of shoes for present wear and for the · comtng season. A RETURNS POCKETBOOK \Vheu 13 year old James Pruitt, a negro scout of Forth Worth, Texas, found a ladies' pocketbook containing $375 recently, he hastened to return it to the owner and refused a rather liberal reward on the basis that he was a boy scout. Stanley A. Harris, r.ational director of inter-racial activi, ties of the Boy Scouts of America, in reporting the incident to Chief Scout Executive James E. West, said, "This boy had no uniform, no outward sign of being a scout, but he had the scout spirit in his heart." EVERY PAIR OF SHOES REDUCED WHICH ARE YOU There are three kinds of scouts. There are the rowboat-scouts, the sailboat-scouts and the steamboat-scouts. The rowboat-scouts always need to be pushed or pulled together. The sailboaters move only when a favorable wind is behind them. But the steamboat-scouts are always moving along . continuously through calm and storm -they are the masters of themselves and their surroundings.-Scoutcraft. The Shoes with a Snug Fitting Heel 634 CHURCH STREET, EvANSTON UNIVERSITY 0971