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DR. ANNIE BESANT AND THE SCOUTS.
Sir Chetput P. Ramaswamy Ayyar, Provincial Commissioner welcomed by the for Madras, was Madras Boy Scouts on his return from attending the Round Table Conference.
Dr. Annie Besant, Honorary Scout Commissioner in India, pre- sided at the meeting which in nugurated the Madras Boy Scout! Week.
The
with no regard for the winning- post. Flashlight, however, knew
at once what it was all about. aped at break-neck speed for the outer circle, planted his clawy toes on the chalked line and was the winner. When the excitement had died down all the competitors were carefully carried back to watery homes among the reeds of the lake to wait another year for the next marathon."
their
SCOUT CEREMONY AFLOAT.
STIRLING SCOUTS' NEW HEADQUARTERS.
the
new headquarters of Stag and District Boy Scouts were opened by Lady Bolton, the wife of Sir Edwin Bolton, County Scout Commissioner for Stirling- shiré.
At a cost of over £2,000, the new been recon- headquarters have structed and adapted from an old malt barn which previously OC- cupied the site.
Mr. D. W. Glass, the architect of the new headquarters, presented Lady Bolton with an inkstand and a fountain pen.
Colonel J. Spencer Muirhead, president of the Stirling and Dis- trict Boy Scouts, presided at the
ceremony.
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK.
"Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste."
A SCOUT DRINKING FOUNTAIN.
Dr. Annie Besant said that no one could challenge the usefulness While cruising from Seattle, of the Scout Movement.
Washington, to Tacoma the crew of greatest value of the Movement the Sea Scout Ship "Lightning" was that Scouts disciplined them- held an Impressive ceremony In selves from within and not from accordance with the traditions of without. Their duty was to do all the sea. they could in order that they might A sufficient number of the crew be useful citizens of their country had become Able Sea Scouts and and the habit of having to do one
this qualified the unit to rate good turn, every day always grew
first class ships flag, an honour
A drinking fountain has been into doing many good things. The hard to attain. opportunities for doing good would
The second class flag was lower-presented to the Boy Scouts of Cincinnati, and erceted ontelde come to everyone who would be watching for them if they remem bered the motto that the Scout was a friend to every creature, human or animal. The good turn was u voluntary offering and one good turn would show the way for many. Scouting was one of the great movements leading to peace and brotherhood. In the world.
SPEEDWAY TURNED TURTLE.
Where and
Writing under "World-Wide Brotherhood" in The Scouter, the official organ of the Boy Scouts Association, Mr. Hubert Martin, the International Commissioner of the Boy Scouts Association, describes
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ed over the side to "Davy Jones their headquarters. locker" and the new firat class flag
The tiles of the fountain repro hoisted and flown from the gaff.
sent the various Scout Badges, The Sea Scout Branch of the Boy while the design also includes the Scout Movement in which Lord two hemispheres emblematical of Baden-Powell, the Chief Scout, has the world-wide aspect of the Boysadors in London, Turkish and always taken a particular personal Scout Movement. interest, owing to his many boy-
On each side of the hemispheres hood adventures while afloat, now
are plaques of the American Boy numbers 5,705 Sea Scouts and 797 Scouts' Civic and Public Health Rover Sea Scouts..
badges commemorating the train Vico-Admiral A. V. Campbell, ing for citizenship provided by
Commissioner for Scouting. Headquarters Sea Scouts, reports that during the The fountain is a memorial to past year three Thames Sea Scout Scout J. Clark and was presented Troops have obtained sailing by his parents, barges for conversion into floating headquarters and in one of these
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"The Way of Bitterness," Boviet Russia, 1920, by Princess Peter Wolkonsky; with Illus-, trations; Demy 8vo.; Methuen, 108. 6d. net.]
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UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS.
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The following unclaimed re grams are lying at the E.E. Tele- The story of the rescue of graph Co. Office, Hong Kong: Princo Peter Wolkonsky from Ray Coulter, U.S.S. Mindanao, Soviet Ruaafa by his wife in 1920. South China Patrol, from Hong- Although Princess Wolkonsky had lulu. succeeded in making her own es- cape from Russia in 1919, she managed to return with the White Army through Gatchina, and when that Army retreated she remain- ed behind and reached Petrograd on foot. Her description of her ["Sully, Colbert,_and_Turgot," a experiences, of the persistence Chapter in French Economic which obtained the release of her History, by Eleanor C. Lodge, husband from a Moscow prison, M.A., D.Litt., Principal of and of their final auccess in cross- Westfield College, University ing the frontier into Esthonia, is of London; Hou, Fellow of contained in this book, which is The Boy Scouts of the Abbey Lady Margaret Hall Crown the record of an herole achitave School, Fort Augustus, have start- Bva; Methuen, 7. 6d. net.]
ment, and gives a vivid descrip- This book, though intended pri- tion of life in Rusalá`` under the ed a Pack of Wolf Cubs (junior Boy Scouts) among the boys of the merily for the University student, Bolsheviks, village in which the school stands. should prove of value to the up- Two of the senior Scouts of the per classes. In schools and the School Troop hold weekly meetings general reader. It gives a sketch "What sort of a show has he of the village Pack which has en-of 'French economie History dur- got?" asked one mummer of an-joyed a flourishing existence during ing the three important centuries
a Turtle Race held by the Boy Courge will be held in the near
do
ONE GOOD TURN A NIGHT.
It would not seem to be alto gether easy to devise a good music ball programme these days of fickle public taste.
Scouts of America at their future. Owasippe Camp. "The competitore were Comet, Meteor, Speed-Domen, Flashlight and some twenty other turtles, all duly groomed for the race! A circle, 20 feet in diameter, was chalked out; in the centro a smaller circle was made which was the starting point. At the word 'Go' each turtle competi- tor was placed in the inner circle, and the race commenced, to the frenzied abouts of their Scout, ers. The turtle which arrived first at the outer circle was to be the winner.s
"Comet never budged an inch; Speed-Demon went round in circles
other, referring to the managing director of a famous hallg
Oh, he's running the place on Boy Scout lines.”
"Boy Scout lines?”. "Yesane good turn a night.” Competitors Guide.
SCHOOL SCOUTS ORGANISE VILLAGE TROOP.
Its seven months life.
At the commencement the School Captain helped considerably with the Pack's formation.
Recently the village Pack visit ed the School and contributed to the School Scouts entertainment.
Thought and Letters in Western Europe (A.D. 500-900)," by M. L. W. Laistner, Professor of Ancient History in Cornell preceding the Revolution, and University; with a map; Demy shows the part played in that his 8vo; Nethuen, 158, net/j tory by the great statesmen whose An uncontroversial treatment to names appear in the title. It aims one volume of monastic education, at making accessible to English literature and thought in Western readers some of the valuable work Europa from the collapse of the done in recent years by French' Western Roman Empire to the end
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