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This Eagle Scout Just Does Things in His Own Way Two, records are reported, to have been establisbed in Eu]ýrope býy Eagle Scout Paul Gilbert wbho arrived home in Kenilworth Monday, May 30, after spending a year« of trave l and study abroad. In the, first place, he is said to bave gone through. Europe -without a. bat of any -kind, leaving America wltba- ont ýone, and bringing none back. Gilbert not only set a record iii go- ing withollt a bhat, but be also spent three weeks in Munich and drank no beer, it is furtber stated.' T'he witnes to this "woni't" pwe *as Gilbert's Eagle . Scout cousin, Walter M. Forster, Jr., of Philadel- phia, who accompanied him throngh Europe. One of their.,most inteesting tours was that through London which fas- cinated the boys so much that they waflked from filfteen to twenty miles a day and visited every fine musenrn and art. gallery in the city. Then there's the 'incident- of St. Paul's churcb yard.,How a man of mystery suddenly appeared and un- folded many London facts and tradi- tions for the boys. is told in the fol- lowing letter from Paul Gilbert: "We entered St. Pau's church yard, and as we were inspecting the open-air pulpit, called St. John's cross, an elderly man of pleasant ap- pearance spoke to :us and comnienced tçlling us about varions things con- nected with St. Paul's and the bis-. tory of the surrounding portions of the city. Gradnally be started walking and soon he was taking ns around hither and thither, showing us queer, things, some of them mentioned in the guide books. but some omnitted.' Leami of Cathedral Danger' "Hée told us,. for instance, how'the whole cathedral of St.L Pauls is ini grave danger of crnmbling to earth. s ince its foundations rest on sand. .Whose solidity is preserved by the mOisture of an underground stream wbose flow is apt to be hindered if mation, sticEras uuw t r onJlLuflL several English proper nouns. "But from much that hie said 1 rather wondered whether hie was tak- ing us around purely out of friendli- nesa. orwhetber he was a guide and expectéd to be paid for hisservices; at any rate, it wouùld be worth what- ever. he asked. Heli seemed to be a well-known individual, ýa certain Mr. Hayes, and had been at the construc- tion, of the Suez canal (he was an en- .gineer there), in the Boer> war, and in the Boxer rebellion. .,From further remarks I bad a hunich that he was walking us aroundý chiefly ont of motives of friendship, Yet secondaTily had thougbts of being p aid, silice he was in a difficuit finan-, cial position-not poor, but. aff ected by the depression to. an unpleasant degréee which was what I gathered f ront bis ambiguous terminology. It proved to be the case, for at the end lie adniitted'most bumnbly:that be was only a guide, and we gave him a shil- ling apiece. Explore 014 Wi. Houa. ','He took us to one of the queerest old places I've ever seen - Dirty Dick's old wine bouse, and gave us each an interesting pamphlet about the historv of Dirty Dick, and now anid why the cellars camne to be in their present condition. "The. place was thick with stalac*- tites of dust which dangled f rom the celings-the dust, drifted down froi the. streets above, tangled up ini c.1'*- *webs and neyer renioved. And the walls were covered with the .skeletons of cats and dogs., old shoes and bot - tics, and every old thing you ccuild think of. Onlv they weren't really skeletons,. but the mumniified andi de- siccated remains of cats, dogs, 'rats, rabbits, and portions thereof tacked up as. a mural decoration. interspersed with bottles. cnps. swords, revcovcrs keys, spoons and unnamteable and shapeless. tbings out of antiquity. Th e effect was interestin-g rather than re- pulsive. "He got an assistant to take us througli the wi ne vaults-long, ini- Scouts who have been actively in- terested in troop reporting during the school year wiIl have a chance to continue their journàlistic 'practice at Camp Ma-Ka-Ja-WVan this sumn- mer.> A.camp paper will be published weekly and news of camp life will be written by scout reporters from the varionsý troops, at camp. For those troops that are. meeting ail summer-and it is hoped that most of them are-the headquarters at Highland Park ivili receive and type ail news articles that are, sent. them. The pep challenge rings out, "C'mon, scouts, the sco'uting program. is -an allyear-'round thing. and lËts flot let it slide;- and having not slid, let's.hear about it !", .S couts' Reading Hýabits Are Subjeet of Survey Perle L. Whitehead, scout execu- tive of Dayton, Ohio, has recently mnade a survey of the reading habits of scouts in bis council. Out of 574 Boy Scouts who answered the ques- tionnaire,, 386 read ma gazines r e g- ularly; 123 read magazines occasion- alIy; and 65 admit tbey do not read any magazines at al. 0f thèse: lat- ter scouts, sixty are below the ranki of first class and fifty-three. are unii-i der 14 years of age. 0f particular significance is the following table, showing a close cor- relation between scout. advancement and the reading of Boys' ijf e. Bead1ers of1 Scout Rank> Boys' Li te 253 Tenclerfoot Scouts 51%/, 175 Second Class Scouts 5 71% 77 First Class Scouts'6 13 Life Scouts 77%. 55 Star Scouts . 76% 1 Eagie Scout 100% ILongs'-for. Camp Scout jack Williams. a Ma-Ka- la-. in New England Becanse of outstanding proficiencyâ in its duties, and despite the fact tlîat its. headquart ers are located more than sixty miles from 'Long Island sound, the Sea Scout Ship -Frede-. rick Harris" of. Springfield.' Mass., bas been selected as National. Sea Scout flagship, accordîng .to an an- nouncemen.t by 'Thomas J. *Keàneë, national director of Sea Scouting, of the Boy Scouts of A merica.ý The Sea Scout Ship "Alert" of- Santa Barbara, Calif., and >the "Commodore Preble" of Ottumwa, Iowa, were strong con- tenders for the nationalhonors. The new flagship received the flag, which is the mark, of its distinction, at the twenty-second annual l)anqu-t of t he.National counicil, Boy Scouts Of America, on the evening of May1 6, in connection with the meeting of the National council, Boy Scouts - of America, in New York. -Last year the flag was hüld liv the Sea Scout Ship ."I<ansan" of Topeka, Kans., which despite the fact that it was, located near the geographical cenýte r of the'United States, neyer- theless, through the excellence of its* members-in searnanship and in actutal water experience, proved. outstandin g in its -qualifications. Other Sea Scouit national flagships in the past were "Old Irolisides" of Chicago in 1929 and the "Leif Ericssoni," of Birniing- harn, Ala,, in 1930. The selection of the niational flag- ship is made each year from amnong the flagsiîips whîch have beein Chosen to represent the varionis scout re-. gions. Awards: are based upon the advancement in rank of the unit as a whole and also' of its individtial members, the cruising records (f the group and the record of service in uts home community 'and to *teBoyý Scout movement. The "Ranger'! of Kenosha. \Vs, was 'chosen by the' Regional 13ea Scout committee as the leading con- tender rfor the National Flagship *bnnr frnn i zinn Ses'un. crnfis1- PLIES FROM THE OFFICIAL Boy SCOUT DUTFITTERS 117 ORHESSCOUTS AT4flD AT Dry Oedis Store 31ensf~l' Store 1148 Wlmette Av'e. lift WllatteJ slept our ini the openi. - The mosqui- toes surely had a grand feed. "Permit mie to congratulate you as regional camp chairman;, also on yorSilver Beaver decoratÏo',," newspaper men wii hoici a discus- sion, "Results of the Republican Na- tional Convention-A Colloquy.*" These weekly talks«are especially educational and beneficial to those scouts working on: their Ciic neit badge, the leaders declare.