SATURDAY DECEMBER
Girl Guides' Grotto
Guides were made for campa;
Camps were made for Guides;
Guldes were made for hikes and
tracks besides.
If you want to do
Knots and first aid too
Come and join our merry band of
comrades true.
There's joy to come
For both you and your chum
If you belong to the Girl Guides. You'll find your life
Filled with care and strife Unless you belong to the Girl
Guldes.
It's no delight watching every one Enjoying themselves in camp Having all the fun.
You're sure to like
Going on a hike
THE CHINA MAIL,
ROUND THE CAMP FIRE
Here, There And Everywhere
AUSTRALIAN SCOUTS IN
LONDON
Thousands of persona in White- hall watched the Australian Scouts
Council has arranged a competition for designs for a suitable emblem.
A Good Scout
The Cubs' Corner
Some Riddles Which bird should be fond of playing tricks? -A lark.
Why is it difficult to keep quiet in cold weather?-Because it makes the teeth chatter.
When do we find the wind most biting?-When we are in the teeth of the gale.
What holds the moon in its place? The beams."'
bolic of Japanese royalty, and is à replica of the only statue in front of the Imperial Palace at Tokyo. When Prince Chichiba of Japan was in England a few years ago he took a great interest in the i
Why are stars likely to make Scout movement, going so far as to good astronomers?-Because they attend the International Scout Con-have studded (studied) the skies ference at Kanderstag in 1926. It for ages. was while the prince was there that Lord Baden-Powell explained to Movement he had borrowed some of his ideas from the "Bushido" or "Knights" or Japan.
in the impressive ceremony of lay-initiative from Ottawa to Saskat-him that in evolving the Scout ing a wreath on the Cenotaph, to which they marched, headed by the Union Jack and Australian far.
You and your pals in the Girl Chief Scout Hoadley carried a
Guides.
Ten Commandments There are ten commandments for guides out on a hike. They are
1. Thou shalt not follow the high roada, but the footpaths. 2 Thou shalt not beg a lift of the first motorist who rolls by. 3. Thou shalt respect all property, of private or public ownership, and never cause its misplacement, its damage, or its vanishing. 4. Thou shalt never pass where passing is forbidden,
llow a Scotch boy who went to Canada in 1924, when only 14 years old, has made good, is told by the Oversea Settlement Department. The boy was a Boy Scout, and be- fore he was 16 years he took a 2,000 miles journey on his own chewan and secured farm work at £10 a month, with all found. Two years later farmers who employed him offered to buy him a farm, but wreath of golden and green flowers, for this. Last year the boy saved the lad felt that he was too young simply inscribed "A tribute from £85 from his wages in eight months, 50,000 Australian Scouts," The' and he expects to have his own contingent surrounded the Ceno-farm by the time he is 21. His taph, lowered banners, and saluted, father adds: "My boy has failed as Chief Scout Hoadley placed the at two separate examinations for wreath.
secondary school entrance. On the other hand, he was a Patrol Leader, in the local Scouts, and he has his fair share of grit and self-rellance, thanks largely to the Scout Move
Later, the party witness the changing of the guard in Horse Guards Parade, and afterwards Inspected Parliament and West- minster Abbey.
London Scouts' Emblem
of the districts that has no such emblem. This need, however, is to be remedied, and the London Scout
for overy trespass leaveth behind it a grudge against |
It seems strange that, although thy fellow-camper who followeth. moat British Boy Scouts wear an 5. After, as before thy passing, emblem distinctive of the county the gates and the stiles, the badges to which they belong, London is one and the signboards, the trees and the crops shall remain undisturbed. 6. Thou shalt not pluck the wild flowers of the field, but allow all men to delight in them. 7. Thy fire shall be lighted on the humid earth. 8. The site thou leavest shall be neat and clean; thou shalt replenish the store of good wood thou hast found, for thou art not a tripper in luck's way, but the honoured guest of an absent host. 9. Silence of the whispered word betoken the craft of the camp and the trail; none but the ass and the Jalot goeth forth into the wood to hray. 10. Wheresoever thou shalt camp thy generous and thy alert soul shall love and respect the beauty permeating all things.
A Novel Test With $1
SHANGHAI SCOUTS' HARD TASK
BULLY BEEF SCORES
Finest in The World
"The
Boy
1
ment."
A Japanese Gift
the Boy Scouts of Japan, presented The Shonendan Nippon Renmel, Lord
Scout, with a magnificent coloured Baden-Powell, the Chief statue when they visited England for the World Jamboree. The gift, depicting a mounted knight, is sym-
The
Old Scout's # Column.
your
hands.
Scout reputation is in movement is one of You will build or destroy many
things which they now cherish."
The youth of a nation are its
ment by its endeavours to train greatest asset, and the Scout Move-
boys as good citizens of the future is increasing the value of that asset. If the youth of a nation are neglected they became its greatest liability. And it is for this work of training the future citizens of the world that Scoutmasters are needed. Surely a work well worth while.
the finest in the whole world, and I think it will have an offect in the world, during the next 20 or 30 years, that very few people realise, I have observed the working of the movement in England, on the Con- tinent, in America, in India, and in Australia, and everywhere I have been impressed the guma by Its influence for good." That is what the State Chief Scout (his Excellency Sir John Goodwin) said at the annual meeting of the Boy tion) in the Brisbane City Hall last Scout Association (Queensland sec- week. So live up to it, boys.
You are the per
Your Future son who are going Responsibilities to carry out what the last genera-
In the Scout Movement A Great an international under- Promise standing have been ar- rived at; a spirit of understanding and friendship be tween the boys of most nations have been instilled, and that spirit ia in the Boy Scouts and in that equally great Movement, the Girl Guides-and it does look as if we have an opportunity of breeding the right spirit in the coming
The Catholic Trcop enjoyed rather a novel competition at their meeting last week at the Catholic Circle. The Scouts were divided Inte groups of four and the leader of each group was given one dollar. They were told to assume that a state of emergency existed and that it was necessary for them to buy rations for themselves with the tion have started; you will sit dollar. Of they went, not very where they are sitting and attend clear in their own minds as to to those things they think so im whether candies or bully beef would partant, when they have gone. They be the better investment. It proved may adopt all the policies and pacts
There is a great promise for the not an easy task to find out how they please, but how they will be that dollar could be spent to the carried out depends on you. You Movement. Though we are only at best advantage. Some there were will have to manage or break them. the beginning of things we have who knew the value of a dollar and You will assume control of the just arrived at manhood we are that it would not take four healthy civic and national government, and stepping out and are extending Scouts very far, a few cents saved of the whole nation. You are going that feeling to the heart of the here and a few cents knocked off to take over the churches and nations instead of only touching there would help matters consider prisons, the schools and universi- the fringe as we have done in the ably. They bargained. They ties, and the great popular move- past brought back everything from ments in which they are now in- canned goods to fresh meat. Patrol torested.
Leader "Paddy" Mackellar's group carried off the honours, the prin
cipal item on, their menu bolug
The Greatest Asset
bully beef. The fun came in after the competition when the Scouts where told to "tuck in." They did! ed
BERLIN STAGE
"The Second Mrs. Frazer 物
to
generation.
Our Dumb Friends
Birds and animals are our best friends, All their work is
so we should do our going to be judg-
utmost to be kind ed, and then prais-and protect them. We are some ed or condemn times cruel to animals just because by you: their future we are thoughtless. If boys only
and, which, in the case of "Jour One wonders what the original ney's End," endeavoured to turn "Mrs. Frazer" company in London, the Impression of a very good pro- as well as the author, would say to duction into a bona-fide, popular the Berlin production of this "per triumph for the play In Germany-fect" comedy of manners. A strenu which it is not. But "The First ous effort has been made to make Mra. Frazer" is going not only to it as English as possible. The draw Vienna with Massary, in the name ing-room setting is beautiful, part, to Warsaw and Stockholm, but real English furniture, chiotzes and all over Germany as the sensation of all, the actors are reserved. In man this season.
ner as beats the inhabitants of
Quick-eyed Scouts
native scouts was given in a recent An example of the keenness of
ie in charge of the 1st Papuan letter from Scout Chatterton, who Native scouts: "We had been play ing a game which involved draw ing some chalk lines on the floor at measured points. The room in which we meet is one of the school buildings, and in the following days many little bare feet had passed backward and forward over these chalk lines and had completely obliterated them (or, at least, one we wanted to play the same game would have said so). A week later
remeasuring the position of the again, and I was on the point of lines when the boys stopped me and, pointing to the floor said, "There are the old lines." I ac
Why is a crow the bravast bird never shows the white feather. in the whole world? Because it
Blinking Your Eyes:-Every time we blink our eyes our eyeballs | are just having a little wash to
little muscle makes the eyelids clear away the bits of dust that collect there from the air. A funny. spring up and down, and this sets free a drop of moisture from the same place as our tears.come from. in this way our eyeballs get con- to see things clearly. stant little baths, and we are able;
cepted their verdict, though I could see nothing for myself. Later returned privately to the room, and for my own satisfaction measured up the positions again. I found that the boys had been quite cor- rect."
"For Fortitude"
The Girl Guides' Association has bestowed Its most bonourable award, the medal "for fortitude," think what they are doing when on a little girl called Betty Finch, they rob birds' nests I am sure they who la now lying in Queen would never do it again. What Mary's Hospital for the East End, fun is there in robbing little birds at Stratford, England. The child's of their eggs, homes, and lives?, clothing caught fire one night as Some people would, perhaps, reply, she was going to bed, and every "They eat our crops, and so they part of her body but her face was are pests and must be killed." But torribly burned. It was thought at do they pause to consider the great first that she would not live. She amount of good the birda de? They has been for some months in hos eat millions of insects, mice, and pital, enduring the torture of hor
any bird could. reptiles that do more harm than wounds with a courage that is If birds and, truly heroic, and most touching in animals are treated very kindly such a little child. The Guides of they become quite tame. Those England, and particularly those of who have pets should never bo Betty's company, are proud of her. cruel to them and leave them un- Queen Mary one day paid her a forgotten without food or water, special visit. It is very cruel to keep pets in. cages, as they fret for their liberty, and are never really happy again.
Prayer for Animala
Hardy Scouts
At the Northampton Polytechnic Institute, Clerkenwell, for the Police National First Aid Chaf A beautiful prayer lenge Cup, the real heroes were the for animals is con- boy scouts, who acted as patients. tained in the "Gir! In a supposed hanging case, for Galdes' Prayers and instance, one boy had to submit to Hymns." "We beseech Thee, O vigorous artificial respiration ap- Lord, to hear our supplications on plied by a lively sergeant. Others behalf of the dumb creation, who
Chief Scout's Tour
after their kind, bless, praise, and took part in all sorts of accident cases, performing in one day magnify Thee for ever. Grant that enough good turns to last a month. all cruelty may cease out of our Nine times these acouts appeared land, and deepen our thankfulness for duty as patients or assistants. to Thea for the faithful companion- It was a triumph of skill for the ship of those whom we delight to police officers, and a masterly dis- whether prayers should be offered play of fortitude by the scouts. call our frienda." Tha question of
been discussed by some of the on behalf of animals has recently
accular papers in London, and quite a literature of prayers for animals drawn upon. Here is one from the from ancient liturgies has been
Liturgy of the Russian Church- "For these also, O Lord, the humble beasts, who with us bear the bur den and heat of the day, and offer their geileless lives for the well- being of the countries, we sup plicate Thy great tenderness of heart, for Thou hast promised to save both man and beast, and great is Thy loving kindness, O Master Saviour of the world, Lord, have mercy.”
and has taken pains to dress in the most elderly manner compatible with the middle age of to-day. The fact that Frazz Molnar was seen in the audience rapt in her performance points to a new era of Mario Tom- pest parts likely to come from the Continent.
MEMORIAL TO WAGNER
verein
His medical advisers have ad- vised Lord Baden-Powell not to start on his Australian tour until Africa next year and it is fear- 1931. He is booked to go to
ed that the Itinerary would be too strenuous if he went to Australia immediately. from Africa. The outline of the Australian tour ap pears, to be more strenuous than the African, and Chlef Scout Hoadley, from the Australian end, is conferring with London head-quarters with the object of endeavouring to alter the itinerary and reducing the number of off- cial appointments,
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December 5, 1929.
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