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soon be available tron Alfred Allen, secretary of the Hadley Correspond- ece School for thie Blind, or from W. Russell Button of 511 Hawthorue lane, Winnetka. Thie names -of. others on the, ticket" committee will be ah- nounced .Rater. Lewis Bernays, Briti sh consul gen- as be en invited by the club to attend the.-recital and to present Mr. anston Drama club and at the W. G. Brooks home in -Winnetka, among other engagements. He is now on bis twenty-fourth American tour. An audience of 3,000 beard Mr. Spcaight recently in his thirty-s.ixth recital --at -the .Brooklyn institute. Columbia university bas engaged him, eigbteen times, and University of Chicago students have beard bina upon tbirty- two occasions. The Neighbors of Ken- ilworth -and the. Evanston Country club are a mo ng' the nortb shore groups whicb bave beard Mr. Speaight. His re-engagemerits by most organizations for which be bas ptesented recitals attcst to tbis actor's rare talent and powcrs, of entertain- ment. 0f bim a it bas been said, "Unlike many actors, he is possessed of that rare gift of being able, single-handed, to entertain an audience, to make it Iaugh, to bold it spellbound, to carry * it to the depths of pathos and to tben swing it back rollicking witb inirth. His characters, wbetber they be old me.n, young girls, or romantic beroes, * or even a gaunt horse, as in 'Pick- 1Kwick,' are there before you, alive, î real, actual beings." Geworge William Cooke Succumbs at Hospital, George William Cooke, 910 Thir- teenth street, a landscape gardener, died last Saturday at tbe Evanston bos- pital. Mr._ Cooke was 62 years old. The Gil S( reflects of course ail aima and anubi- tions of.thie organization. In the last several numbers,.Ione notices that the emphbasis bas been directed tmrid yout-toward the later teens and thae very' beginning of scduting,'tRie Brown- îies. Heretofore the einphuais in thie workc seemed to be directcd particularly for tbe eanrly-teen-age girl. -. This change 0 e"paisba vi- dently been brougbt about by thie de- mand of thie older bigh-scool-age girl for a programi suited to ber needa. The youtb of today s eeins more civic -minded thaft ever . before and isa demandipg f ull knowlIedge of facts. We like to think these youug people bave caught thie inspiration from thc earlier program which bas always cm- pbasized friendly international coopera- tion, but wbatever tbe cause, thie resuit is most gratifying. Troop 2 Launches Campaign -for Badge At the meeting of Troop 2 we lied a joyans time. We played games. Then we went to patrol corners. Each petrol wes given a pencil and piece of paper. We were asked to write on thc paper al the good habits we. could tbink of per- taining to health. The troop learned a new song, "The -Donkey." We al en- joyed the song. After a while Mrs. H,. J. Dernebl cameto thie meeting and toRd us ail about thie bealth winner badge and how it is to be earned. Our' wholc troop is out on the campaign to get thie badge. One girl in the troop-Nancy Drake-already bas thie badge. W. end- cd 'thc Meeting by singing "Taps."- Vivian ýSmith, scribe. Girls of Troo> il Devote Meeting to Games, Work Troop Il started'its meeting by go- A solid growth iun meabership, in popularity and national prestige is reported by the Girl 'Scouts for 1934. The increase, in membership is more than 12 per cent for the year.ending. Decenaber 1, nearly double the figure for.1933. This brings the total mcm- bership. to - 347,717. The year'just ended was bigh- spotted with significant events., The nationial,,convenition beld in BostoW last October attracted 1,500. delegateï representing every state in the Union, who came. to transact the, business of the national ýcouncal and to hear one present and one former First Lady explain how essenhtial, was. Girl Scout- ing in thé, social, scheme of today. How 'the Girl Scouts belp to build up the morale of a depression Ven- eration,' frequenitly ,called, "bat, Ws evidenced by the prominence now given tô the prograna by such an important body as the Association of £wommunity Chest. .andl Counci1s.~. 10MorMe.CamSuis The, method, by wbich the Girl Scouts attack the problem of char- acter-building, though twentytwo0 years old, is still new. It appeals te, the youthful spirit of adventure which must get an* outiet or run amuck. It' is exemplified in 'the camp record for 1934.* Though lakes dried up and campers waded in dust; though the heat was such that nurses could flot take tenaperatures; tbough ramn pour- cd on camps that had none for thirty years, the Girl, Scouts played their game in the spirit of the pioneei's, wbo took what heaven sent thexu and tried to be thankful. And the number of campers increased by 10,000. A new departure in camping was also made in 1934, wben the Girl Scouts officially took to the sea in. ships. Puîrsu H>oe-Makins Meantirne, they pursued steadily their favoi-ite occupation of home- makinag. In 1934, some new 4little The purpoues of thie new associa- tion are conceived to b. the promo- tion.of friendsbip, the'encouragement of scbolarsbip in bigh sebools and colleges, of continued interest ininl-' tellectual, life, and of the exercise. of the propeF responsibility of the mcm- bers of tbe association- for so- cial conditions and tendencies. At: tbe meeting lait week, the foli- =oin officers were elected: *Shailer atbws, president; Elmer T. Stev-- ,ens, vice-president;- Eston V. Tubbs, of Minmette, secretary-treasurer. Among the members- of Pi Betq Kappa are- founid some of tbe ont- standing, leaders in Cbicago's sociatL initellectual, and business .ife. The list. would include sucb names, a% Lorado Tgft,'Cyrus, H. McCornaîck, . Dr. Walter D. Scott, 5r. Robert. M. Hutcbins, Charles.G. Dawes, Roy 0. West, Rabbi Louis L. Mann, Dr. Horace G. Smith, Dr. Martiar H. BieItRII, Rufus Dawes, Benjamin F. BiUs, Drý James A. James, Walter Lichitenstin"u Dr. Charles W. Gilkey, Aûbrey, S.* Moore, Allan J. Carter, and a kost of otber well-known persous. There are scores of members of Phi Bete Kappa members scattered all along tbe north shore. John H. Puelicher Is Taken by Death Mondaty John H. Puelièher, Milwapkec fin- ancier and a brot1her of Mrs. Monroe R~. Venables and Alex Puelichçr <of Wilm~ette, died Monday night at hli$ home in Milwaukee. Mr. Puelicher, who was 65 years old, had been i11 but a few .days. For more than a décade Mr. Puelicher had been the executive head of the Marshall and Ilsley bank in the Wisconsin city. He bad been indentified with the in- stitution since 1893, startang as. an assistant discount clerk. > Mr. Puelicher was borninw Mil- waukee, and was a son of John PueI- icher, a tanner. He stmrted ouat iu thé business wonld as clerk in a carnet to.*SubseantIiév hiehp.. Týursday of last week frorn day visit in Kansas City, Mo., she visited lier mother, and in inson, Kas., where she visitedf whreo the piano. We closed ouf fine meet- gpmes with pictures Of brs ehd Ms onBoltnwI trti Hutch- îgwitb "Peace."-Mary Jane McCue, a good-night cirele.-BlnchèKes hler bridge club at lhmcheu ob'Uoday friends. scribe. scribe.I at ber home, 1302 Ctaestnot avenue. 'l$AVE .YOUR BUCK$I.S oe Pove thi.sw.WIsteLt