SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 1930.
The Cubs' Corner
ROUND THE CAMP
Scouts in Kilt
One day when you are playing with some of your little friends, and you don't quite know what to do, make this suggestion: Seo who can draw the best with the eyes shut. Oh, dear, it is so funny, and so difficult, too. The best thing to Aay is, "Now we will all draw a cat." The players all take up their pencils, shut their eyes, and they
It is understood that a Scottish try to draw a cat on their paper. be formed in Kowloon. Mr. R.. M. troop of Boy Scouts is shortly to Afterwards, at a given signal, ali, Dyer is actively interested in the open their eyes and show their project and those who are interest- drawings to each other. The pic-ed in the project and those who are interested should get in touch with
tures are bound to cause lots of laughs.
Another day try drawing an animal by figures. You know what I mean: Six for a nose, and nought for the head, and so on. Make up your own designs, and use Agures you like.
what It's wonderful what quaint pictures you can make in this way.
an
PROPOSED FORMATION OF SCOTTISH TROOP
OLD PATHS IN AFRICA
WHY THEY ARE ALWAYS WINDING
THE SLAVE ROAD
Mr. W. C. R. Mackie, of the Kow-came and built roads (says a In Africa, long before the British
loon Ducks.
the kilt
The "Old Scout's" Column.
British writer), small paths wound in and out of the bush, from village to village. These paths remain to- day and are still used. They are always winding because they were
If the new troop is established, it should be a striking addition to the local Scout Movement, as, it is understood,
will be worn by the laddies as part of their uniforma. It is also hoped to form a Pipe Band in connection there-made by the feet of the natives who with.
trod them, and a native cannot make a straight line.
These paths, when you see them jin open grasa country, wind in and out like a corkscrew. They are very narrow because they were worn by men walking in single file, as the natives always walk. Nowadays they are very often trodden by white men because there are still comparatively few roads for cars. The District Commissioner goes along these winding paths from The scouts
and village to village to hold his courts. guides of Canada The paths run through the bush, co-operate each year and one wonders about the first al good turn. They have evolved an must have cut a way between the In a gigantic nation-peeple who trod them, because they excellently organised scheme for cactus thorn and wild sisal and distributing toys to the children of other thick-growing things which, needy familias, who would other even when they are cut, leave sharp wise have to face the tragedy of stumps that make walking danger- an empty stocking at
of the bush through which only the Christmas.ous and painful. There are parts
rhino can force his way.
and telegraphed the Russian's message to his mother, and threw a note back into the enemy fort to tell him that he had done so.
"Kindness Old Spanish gentleness
are Proverbs great virtues," saya Spealeh old proverb; and another anys, "Obliga without regarding whom you oblige," which means be kind to every one, great and small, rich or
poor..
The great point about these knights was that they were always doing kindnesses or good turns to people. Their idea was that every one must die, but we should make up our mind that before our time comes we shall do something worth while. Therefore do it at once, for we never know when we may be going off.
A flood Turn A Day
good turn.
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A National Good Deed
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Last year 88 toy depots were estal lished throughout Canada. At these depots the scouts and guides restored broken and discarded toys. The scouts collected the toys from the townsfolk. In that depot dolls were equipped with fresh limbs, wrecked toys were mended and painted until they were as smart as ever. The guides had control of the doll section. They laundered the clothes, and also repaired the soft toys. It was a gigantic piece of work, and over 50,000 children benefited.
Native Ploneers
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Girl Guides' Grotto.
There is not a single girl, I be llave, who does not enjoy camping out, but half the art of camping! consists in being able to make something out of nothing. The true. gulde la justifiably proud of the ingenious and useful "gadgets"
An Expansion Plan.she can make out of wood and bits
GIRL
GUIDES IN
NEW YORK
of string. Gadgets made by the novices are often iriadequate and shaky, usually because the wood is not strong enough for the purpose, off or the string is insufficient, or the lashing too loose. But frequently fallure is experienced because one of the most primitive and import- ant, principles of construction is unknown-the
New York. Appointment four New York women as commit- tee chairman in the five-year ex- pansion plan recently adopted by the Girl Scout convention In New Orleans, which seeks to: mcrease
500,000 by 1935, has just been an- the membership from 200,000 to
nounced here.
Mrs. Arthur O. Choate will be committee chairman of the pro- gramme division; Mrs. Nathan L. Miller, chairman of the personnel division; Mrs. Frederick Eday, chairman of the field division; and Mrs. Giles Whiting, chairman of the business division. All four are officers of the national Girl Scout organisation.
that somehow he will be guided to the place where a road ran.
One of the oldest roads in Africa is the slave road, and parts of this still exist. Down this long road, all the way from Unganda to the Coast, the unfortunate slaves were marched in chains. In those days there were great slave markets in Zanzibar. One feels that something of pain and suffering must be left on that road, if our lives mark the road we tread as countries and our homeɛ..
we mark our
Paths Made by Animals paths. Animals follow each other It is not only man who makes until a path is worn, goats and sheep and wild beasts, each tread- trod before, ing where another living thing has There is always wonder and fascination in thinking about those feet that found the path first for others to troad, first natives were pioneers, like the coarse elephant grass as high as The little paths tell us that those These African patha run through white men who followed them with corn, which very often meets over road building. Both cut their way a man's head, through mealie through penetrable bush, and one of these one mud village to another. They seemingly im-plantations and banana trees, from days the ronds will intersect each were long before the White Man other across Africa as the paths came to Afrien, long before the do now. will be forgotten and will presently before one into the bush, fascinat And the paths, perhaps, first road was made. They wind disappear.
ing and mysterious.
this
now
way.
triangle.
principle of the
That principle is worth explana- tion. If four pieces of wood are lashed together to form a square, it is very easy to press it into an- other shape, unless the lashings are remarkably good. But lash three pieces together to form a triangle. and you will find it impossible to press the triangle into any other shape, and amateurish lashings will not matter 80 much. For instance, if you make an ordinary boot rack with a front and back (forming triangles) across any two! frame work, and put several struts
the boot rack to collapse sideways of the corners, it is impossible for if the lashings are fairly firm and the wood is strong.
camping should take square lashing Any company which hopes to go as one of the seven knots for the second class test. more difficult than the others, but It is slightly it is immensely useful. The point is to make the flapping turns really tight. An inexhaustible supply of string is needed for gadget making.
before going to camp. It is worth while to set the whole company collecting it some months
to flad on the camp site. Permis- Gadget wood le sometimes hard slon to cut wood often has to be obtained, and the cutting is done under the supervision of a gulder who knows what pieces to cut and how to cut them. If wood can only be gathered, the guides are shown how to select suitable pieces for their gadgets,
GUESSING TIME
So with Scouts, it has been made one of our laws that we do a good turn to Home one every day. It does not
Time and distance are two things matter how small that good turn may be, if it be only guide a
about which there is always great Hittle child across a street or to put a halfpenny in the poor box. Some-
difference of opinion, and nearly. Sometimes this happens thing good ought to be done each
everyone falls into error when About a year ago,
Who has not been thrilled by a judging time, even when they try day of your life, and you should
when a village or a banana planta- white road or path circling a hill. Good Work the Rover Scouts-tion is moved and there are no Who has not longed to follow it to people who try to count a minute! start to-day to carry out this rule
to count the seconds, Rewarded
Usually, the young men of longer feet to keep the path, and the end? A road-maybe company, make it from 40 to 45 seconds. If with renewed vigour, and never forget it, even after you cease to at Freshwater.
- the Scout Muvement the coarse grasa maybe grows over which explains perhaps how paths you have not a watch you can mark be Scouts. Remember the knot informed themselves into a volunteer path ever quite disappear? Do we man followed primitive man as and a lend plunimet or small weight Isle of Wight. It from either side. But does first came to be made when primitive time exactly with a piece of string your scarf the reminder to do Fire Brigade. They collected such not feel that a man many years beast followed beast. A road leads of any kind. It is used like the
odds and ends of apparatus as they later might find the path beneath to a could, and when a local picture his feet, guiding him along its open country a man moves naturalis 40 inches long, it will swing home at evening, where in pendulum of a clock. If the string When the Russians theatre was destroyed by fire, these windings as it was made by run-ly a circle, and may never find his three-quarter seconde, and a string Even were 'besieged in Port Rovers, despite their poor equip-nings, naked feet to the village, or Between Arthur by the Japan- ment, did valuable work in prevent to where a village once was? Enemies ese who got close up to ing the fire spreading before the
10 Inches long will swing half- their fort by digging arrival of
The Old Garden Path
seconds. the Newport Fire long, deep trencher, into which the Brigade. In appreciation of their
Once in an English garden we Russians were not able to shoot. efforts,
Men making roads now in Africa knew paths that had long been the Chief Scout, Lord
or elsewhere And traces of roads grown over On
occasion, one
they were Baden-Powell, granted the Rover made or begun many years ago. So through the 'grass and moss. The but kept coming up so close that a Russian soldier was Crew a Certificate of Merit, which men set their mark on a country garden had been moved to the other able to throw a letter into the was recently presented by the Scout as though they made it their own,side of the big house to catch more enemy trench. In this letter, he Commissioner for the Isle of Wight, leaving something of themselves sun. The original garden was left said that he wanted to send a Lt. Col. A. O. L. Kindersley. Since that shall last for ever. Lately en-free to go back in time to meadow. message to his mother in Russia, the presentation the general, public gineers building 3 road at Kenya as she was very anxious about him; of the district have shown their ap
But in many years it did not go but as Port Arthur was cut off from preciation in a practical way, hav- abandoned a good many years ago. beds wore there, and between the came across a strip of an old road back. Always the marks of the all communication he begged that ing subscribed £190 with which to the Japanese would send the mes equlp the Rovers with more up-to-side to swallow it, but these men showed under the moss, straight The bush had crept up on either fruit trees that were left the paths sage for him; and one enclosed date fire-fighting apparatus. As a found on the
gold coin
stones the wheel and regular pathe, not like the to pay the result the Rovers will be in a post-marke
She herself attributes her health of the old caravans that winding paths of Africa. They and youthfulness to her lifelong Japanese soldier tion to deal with fres in the disused to go up and down from the showed at night under the moon, passion for camping-out. who found the note, Instead of tear-trict, which has been without a fire- Coast. In time the bush will quite the paths on which no one walked, Baden-Powell spent a fortnight go- Miss ing it up and keeping the gold coin, fighting organisation since the cover these stones and the marks the flower beds where no one sowing from camp to camp throughout did what every Scout would do, withdrawal of the military just of the wheels until the road-makered. The old garden was there still, took it to his officer, and the officer after the war.
comes that way again, and one feels like the old paths.
が
cost. The
PIRACIES AND WRECKS
effect that whilst the Yuen Lee was swinging, she was struck on the port side by the Japanese str. Taian Maru and that a large hole below the water iino was made by the bow of the latter vassel. The Yuon Leo Bank, within an hour and the wreck was a menace to shipping until the funnel and masts were removed by explosives: The huil, loaded with .3,000 tons of coal, still remains on the bed of the river, but at a depth which causes no Inconvenience to ships negotiating the Bend.
November
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crashed into the French gunbeat Morne and then struck the French cruiser Waldeck Rousseau causing some damage and also damaging the buoy.
Pitiful Recollection
January 13. The Chinese m.v. Chingchangil struck a submerged rock off the Talchow Isiands in a fog. The vessel sank in deep water off Nau Chia Islands. Many were drowned.
The last day of the year was not without an accident although not serious.
January 30, The German m.v. The Dollar liner Fres. Hsinng Chi struck a rock in the Jackson whilst swinging at the Upper Yangtaze with much damage Dollar Wharf fouled a Chinese and was beached. Government patrol vessel inflicting carried out at Ichang
Repairs were some slight damage. The American January 30. The British str. vessel then drifted and eventually Klating suffered extensive damage became fast aground where she reto holl and starboard engine after mained for 12 hours. She was tow ed off by tugs owned by the Shang hal Tug & Lighter Co.
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THE CHIEF SCOUT'S SISTER
Despite her seventy-one years, Miss Baden-Powell, sister of the and undeterred by the recent rain, Chief Scout, was recently under canvas in Sussex with detachments
writer. With her upright figure of girl guides, states a London
easily pass for a woman of fifty. and alert manner B.P.'s sister could
the South of Britain, and staying A night or two nt each,
saltpetro. at sea.
suffocated.
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November 19. The Chinese str. Yungkla struck a submerged rock near Dayungsilan and became a total loss. Casualties. unknown. STANDARD TIMES Sunrise And Sunset In Colony
Kong for January (Standard time Sunrise and Sunset in Hong of the 120th Meridian, East of Greenwich), are as follow
Sunrise Sunset.
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and kerosene. The burning junk engers and crew were robbed of She was towed to Hong Kong for senger junk in tow of the Chinese anxiety amongst the shipping. It cargo was stolen and some
drifted to sea and caused great money and clothing. Part of the repairs by H.M.S. Tarantula. steam launch Tinchin foundered. was flood tide and the junk even- thrown overboard.
February 8. The British str.near the Whampoa barrier. The tually brought up at Pan Tia Bay Kochow grounded on the Dosing junk was overturned in Bar (Samshul district), She was squall and over 150 lives were lost natives were burnt to death.
a heavy well clear of shipping. Four refloated and towed to Hong Kong April 12. American str. Chinan struck a rock
January 17. Near Ichang the with a broken propeller.
Near Ningpo, the
July C.M.S. Hsin Klangteen was on fire and sustained considerable damage. bollers of the Chinese str. Biling February 27. Near Amoy the
July 16. The N.D.L. Derfinger Fire found to be in bulk was stranded near Tsingtao after The vessel was beached and tem-word fractured and the subsequent
One passenger was striking the Hsiau Kung Tao Rock porary repairs carried out. Later escape of steam scolded 10 passen-
on this date. It was not until she came to Shanghal for repairs?
May gers to death."
August 25 that the vessel was made May 1. In the Kiachow area, the seaworthy by the Shanghai Tug & crnment str. Chinking foundered collision with the Japanese atr.
February 17. The Chinesa Gov- French gunboat Regulus was in Lighter Co. and the Old Dock Co. near Yanglingchi. Casualties un-Taishan Maru. The Regulus was on fire at Chefoo in the Foochow July 16. Chinese m.v. Kongan) known.
badly damaged and the merchant district. near Hankow the Chinese, str. necessitated dry docking.
February. 20. In the Yangtaze vessel sustained damage which loss.
Vessel became a total
Yochow foundered. All lives saved by British tug Shunko.
May 13. The Chinese m.b. Man- August 18.
Map August
The Chinese str. striking a rock in the Iehang area.
sang was bombarded at the junc- Bhengles struck a rock off the south She underwent repairs at Ichang
tion of the north and west rivers. coast of Sand Island in the Haites March 25 U.9.8. Tutuila struck The vessel was carrying Kwangai Straits. She becario a total loss and Shanghai. Gay
a rock near Hankow and sustained soldiers. After they had landed, after pirates had boarded her and February 17. Chinese str. Pingfu considerable damage. She was the boat was again bombarded by the captain and officers were taken atruck a
reef in the Upper benched in a sinking condition. a Kwangtung gunboat and burnt to off by the pirates for ransom.... Yangteze. The boiler room was Temporary repairs were cffceted the water's edge. flooded and extensive damage was and the vessel proceeded to Shang-
August 22. The Chinese str. dona to starboard side.
May 8. The N.D.L str. Trave Kumsing was sunk in a typhoon in The hat for complete repairs. ship settled on the reef and later March 30. The British str Huquay Rock channel, Holed in were rescued by the British ptr. struck a rock at Sochiachik the Samshul district and the crew was bearded by robbers. Some Tungting struck a rock in the port side in fore peak Temporary Tailing. On the same day a large cargo was stolen and the ship was middle Yangtze, The damage was repairs were carried out and the motor launch called the Cheong- burned to the water's edge. became a total loss and finally was total loss
She extensive and the vessel became a vessal entered drydock in Shang kong was sunk but no lives were blown up on March 15. MAT
hal. She came out some three lost Similar accidents occurred to the weeks later and within five hours August 23
Gannet was February 12 HM.S. Moth struck str. Xubang, and the American str in the Whangpoo which is referred near Nanking. The gunboat's bow
February
Japanese str. Wanpu, the Chinese was involved in a serious collision in collision with thON.B. Poyang The British Naval Buoys and bliding, docking, a rock about five miles below Fung. Meild, Many other such occur to above Along the aide of the man-of-war | January 10. The Portuguese Chun (Wuchow district) Bottom rences are recorded In all parts of
June
we was damaged. Y
Roman Catholic priest the Rev. did considerable damage to herself stra Jel and Dilly collided in plerodd and fore compartment food, the Yangtze.
AON November.
Patrick Power, In Holy Cross and some to the cruiser. Ebe drop the Samshulares both sustaining Vessal settled down on rocks,
June 14. Fire discovered on November The str. Kwangchf Cemetery, at Malden (Main), havd red both anchors and win the damage and necessitati repairs, and was refloated on February 193
Chinese fank Kwongfat near Naval was pirated near Wenchow, One been forbidden by the Archbishop April 18 A large Chinese pas dock. Cargo consisted of gasoline passenger was killed and all pass of Boston, Cardinal O'Connell
We come to November 7 when the British str. Moilere swung across the river as a result of parting of: her stern mooring ropes caused by the German, str. Lahn passing at high speed. The former vessel grounded aft but was later able to resume her position at the buoys, In going through our records we come across several similar in stances.
December
On December 17, the Japanese str. Yetorofa Marn, Inward bound, collided with HMS Berylok at
Accidents off the China Coast、
During 1929 BHPAST The following shipping disasters and accidents are selected at ran dom and are occurrences at sea which took place at points off the China const other than in the ap proaches to Shanghal. ·
January
January 4 The British str. Talming struck a submerged object at Tak Hou below Shut Hing. The damage sustained necessitated dry
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