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WILMETTE LIFE ' February 14. 1930 = BO Keith Roberts of Glencoe Named to . C om·missionership Oscar :A{ueller, district commissioner for Northbrook, has just struck a ".g old n,ine" in a find of Frank 'M. Harms cl!' the new Scoutmaster for Troop 61. Mr. Harms, now 25 vears old, was a scout himself not so long ago. He has just returned from a three year enlistr.lent in ·he arnn· with the Third En ~ineers ?.~ Hon olulu. H e was a Sergeant there and. brings back many mteresting tales to the Scouts. All the Scout s are happy with the leader and look forward to real progress this year. Talking of "gold mines," another was si:ruck in Glencoe when Keith Rohe !'ts. v:ho has fnr a long time heen interested in Scouti:1g. accepted the position as di strict commissioner for Glencoe. Mr. Robert has a twelve vcar old second class Scout of his O\\;n in Troop 22. Glencol' ~111d another hoy well on the ,·:ay to Scouting. It was Mr. Roberts \\-'ho voluntarilv surv ved the site of camp ~h - Ka -Ja- \Van : He ha s made ~everal trips tn the Korthwoods at his 0\\ n exp~nse tn complete the accurate . ur vc,· of !he wooded lan<L The council is mighty glad to welcome him to this cc.mm i ssiL .n. Another lead er who is rendcrin~ a nne service to Scouting is Robert M eleney who is now regi stered a-5 a special deputy commissioner in charge of Winn et ka district drum and bugle corps an·i as a merit badg"e counsellor in bugling. The corps which played at the annual banquet on January 24 was under hi s leader ship. This is a new organization but is progressing rapidly . of the NORTH SHORE TROOPS Named Officers of N. S. Scout Cou~cil SCOUT NEWS ltv membm ol tbt Boy Scout Pttll club, North Sbote ArH Council A r,W. INtan ,.., pttl*ftl tub w.l Scout Leaders' · Training ·course ·Starts Feb. 24 The "Elements of Scoutmastership" will be the name given to the training course in Boy Scout leadership offered hv the North Shore Area council startitig February 24,25 and 26. In ord.er to l·J wer the traveling d_istance to th~ se c0urses, the plans are to hold the course in three different centers of tf.te area. One group will meet in \Vinuetka each Monday starting February · 24. The second group will meet in Highland Park on Tuesday nights, starting February 25, and the th!rd !!roup will meet in Libertyville ~ Wednesday nights, starting Februa~· 26. These groups will all follmv t~e same program , in fact for the three hike meetings to be held on Saturday ::; <·1 1 three groups will meet together. The course is open to all Scout 1..·1.dt.rs a·nd Scout fathers, scoutmaster~. ;l Ssistant scoutmasters, and commi ssi oners and troop committeemen are puticularly urged to take advantage oi the cou:se. The Kational com11:il <1.wards l certificate to each lt'ader completing the course . The purpose of the course is t o gi\'e the student s taking it a general knowledge of ·he aims and content of t 11e Hoy Scout program, with stress on th e tnethods which can be used to tea~h thi s program to boys. The whole course " ·i!l contain many so ngs, stn 11ts. poems, 63mes, and contests that r1n he taken back to the lead er' tll\·n t roop. Dan G. Stiles r eac hed ·tar beyond hi s office as treasu r er. ~fr. Goetz is a ten year veteran in Scouting, having been scoutmaster during all of that period with the exception of th e short time he served as deputy commi ssioner for troops at the EpiscQPal church in \Vinnetka. In camp this past summer, his troop di s-, tinguished itself a s one of the most proficient in Scouting work and both Mr. Goetz and his son, a Scout in the troop, were elected to the honor fraternity of the camp, Order of the Arrow. Mr. Goetz plans to give largely of his time during the year to the arl vancement of the efficiency and quality of the work in the council, especially where it has to do with the commissioned leadership. (Gibfo;on Photo) James R. Goetz Dan G. Stiles, Yice-pr esident and cashier of the First National bank of \Yilmette, was reelected treasurer and James R. Goetz of \Vinnetka was elected as Scout commissioner of the North Shore Ar ea council for the present year at the annual council meeting, held recently at New Trier High sc hool. Mr. Stiles has been very interested in Scouting and has giv-en a large amount of his time in recent years to the council work and to the establishment of the new council .camp in \Vi scon sin. Hi 5 interest and effort ha s Community House Scouts Are Given Merit Awards Scout :1r!vancement awards were pre sented to the ~7 innetka Scouts in Troops 16, 17. 18, 19 and 20 at a rectnt ~.ssemhh· held at the Communitv House. · The Scout s all passed the Board oi Review held hY the Court of Honor committee of wh(ch E. A. RuP1 mler is chairman, on January 30 at the \1 illage hall. The awards were as follow s: Tmop 16-First cla ss, Bob Greenhalgh, \\'il liam Rapp. Troop 17-Tenderfoot, Robert Fax on. H obart Ogden . Kenneth Ral'n: sc·cond class-Charles Dunlap, Rtymond Osten. \\T ebb Ranney ; merit hadges- James Barnard, handier<~ ft; George ~iel\'in, woodworking and public health; Richard Olson, public health and masonry; Donald Rahn. handicralt; Star Scout, Richard Ol s() n. Troop 18-Tendcrfoot-W. ]. !\ 1.:ilson; second class-Buddy Adler, Frank Horovika . Perr\' Crawford. Robi!rt [.hrlcr, Harry He in, Mitchell Hutchinson, Lester Kornblith, Frank Re1ch , and Henry Wilder; fir st class-H. Tur\ ey; merit badges- Bill Pavey, swimJiling and conservation. Troop 19-Merit . Badges- Knight .'\ldrich, ~nimal induc;try; Star ScoutJ, night Aldrich. Troop 20- econd cla s. -ArH,ur Henning ; merit badge"- Roger Hallr.rd. pers'mal health; ~fartin Bridgrs. carpentry, handicraft. per~onal hcalih; Franklin Taber, handicraft, per sonal health. cJrpentry. Troop 17- M trit Badge- George M eJvin, carpentry, reading. Kenilworth Scouts Receive Awards at Court of Honor Troop 13 of Kenilworth had quit e a lc..rge Court of Honor at our meeting l<..s t Tue sday night. As Mr. Kygaard. tLe chairman of the Court of H onor, could not be there until late, ~I r. Berger and Mr. Williams made the l,resentations. The fir st thing wa.; a drill contest between the Beaver pat':"ol o f A company and the Eagle patrol of B company in which the Beavers w ::>n. After th~ awards had been given out t nere was an inter-patrol fire-by-flint contest in which Tom Hildebrandt of the Stag patrol got first place and also :-t tting a new troop record of six and t \\·o-fifths seconds. The . awards were as follows: Secnnd class-Russell Cook, David Elmg:-en, Tom Hildebrandt; first class-Rill Hiad.es, Laury Botthof; Star-Peter Gilbert, Cy MacKinnon, Stan I e v Knight; merit badges-·George Benson, woodworking; Robert Berger, pottery; ~1aurice Bosley, scholarship; Laurv Botthof, woodworking; Merritt c.);, pottery; Roger Crowe. printing, !r·athercraft; Bob Fulton, music· Paul Gilbert, reptile study, chemistry~ Peter Gilbert, ·mgling, music; Stante;, HiUlllan, W')odwork; Stanley Knight, leathercraft, music; Shope Kriete, pottery; John K .. Mathison, music; Carleton Ross, mustc; Jack Sinding, leathl:'rcraft, scholarship; Jack Stebbins ~cholarship, pioneering; George vVovd~ land~ pion~ering; Tom Hildebrandt, mustc.-Reporter Jack Stebbins Tro0p iJ, Kenilworth. ' · North Shore Radio Troop Will Hold Organization Meeting on February 18 The Radio troop of older Scouts which ha-; caused so much talk in the last few ,-.·eeks, is holding its fir st meeting Hext Tuesday. February 18, at the home of the scoutmaster, L. S. I·ttcher, E22 Bryant street, Winnetka. Mr. Fetcher is the licensed operator of Station W9AP and is also the Radio merit badge counsetlor for Winnetka. He has his station in his home and also ras practice and instruction equipment which will aid much in the troop activities. The troop plans to build. a complete set for Camp Ma-Ka-Ja-\Van as well as personal sets of their own. The troop wilt be composed of Scouts representing all the towns in the Norb Shore Area council. Any Scout interested in building a short "ave set of his own at the expense of $35 to $50 is urged to attend the meeting. Troop 4 of Wilmette Has Third Inter-Patrol Tilt TELLING HIM "Gosh, how did you get that bump -:Jn vour head?" · "Appendicitis operation." "There is .no limit to the amount of "How ~orne?" good a man can do if he does not care "Thev ran out of ether and hit me over the head with a hammer." \\ho gets the credit." Thur sday. February 6, Troop 4 of \Vilmett e held it s third inter-patrol contest which was in first aid. Each patrol entered a team of three Scouts. The first aid problems were written on :l paper and passed between the capt rl ins of the teams. Each team " ·as c.llowed. iour minutes to carry out the work. These were the two problems : 1. Broken forearm: 2. Cut about head and hand5 .by flying glass. After the bandaging was done, Mr. Leach, our sroutma3ter, examined them. The flying Eagle patrol took first place in Pne problem while the Beaver patrol came out first in the second proble'll. The efficiencv contest winners were announced. ·The Bear patrol, first ; Silver Fox, second; Flying Eagle, third; Stag patrol, fourth. After the patrols had taken their new places in rank George Bersch said he had reserved the Cabin -in-the-Woods for us the first week end of March. Hurrah for a hike! The game for the evening was a message relay in which the Flying Eagles took first plact. The meetOH-YES? mg was closed with the Scout benediction.-Reporter Bill Lehle, Troop 4, . Profess_?r ~ssig of Berkeley, writing 111 the Sctenttfic Monthly predicts that \Vilmette. the world will be ruled b~ insects. J.tst To do the right ts the best way to the same. everybody ought to vote. dodge the wrong. (Continued on Page 41)