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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1929.
After A Hike
WHAT THE "CHIEF", EXPECTS YOU TO-DO
A SMART FINISH
[By the Chlef Scout!
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THE CHINA MAIL,
ROUND THE CAMP FIRE
to making that showing, but it was worth it.
Be Prepared
THINGS WE ALL SHOULD
› KNOW
"Oh, I know there's something heroic in looking as if you'd been on a tough trip and barely pulled. through, and at the end of a week's hiking in the wilderness it may be The freman's helmet has other full right to give that thrill to a uses besides being an ornamental select few who come to meet you, head covering. The polished brass but when you display your dirt and work has the effect of reflecting the dust on the public highway and the heat of the flames; the beat-down home front porch It's not interpret-brim at the back prevents water ed just as you intended."
often boiling after passing through the flames-from running down the fireman's neck. The ridge down
I saw a barquantine.coming up to the tug off Cape Flattery once, when we were taking a little trip down to Los Angeles. She was bound in from Australia. We passed her close aboard, and we could see that every bit of paint on her hull and deck-house was fresh, and every bit of running rigging neatly secured or colled up. The brass fittings on her poop deck were shining, and - even the canvas covers of her two
life-boats were gleaming white.
"I mentioned it to an old seaman who was watching her admiringly, and he told me she was all that a ship in her altuation should be. Since then I've read the same thing in books about the famous Yanked clippers. It seems that a craft was supposed to look her very best when she came into port, and her crew were kept extra busy on the home- ward stretch with holy-stoning, When you have been on a long painting, polishing, serving, splic-hike or camping the true Scout ing, repairing saile and that sort reaches home looking as smart and of thing. If she has been battered by clean as when he went out; it is storms or soiled by dirty cargo they only the Tenderfoot who comes back made special efforts to remove ali particularly travel-stained and traces of that before she got home. dirty to try to show what hardships
he has been through.
A Lesson for You
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I have extracted the above from a letter by Stuart P. Walsh in the American Scouters' Gazette, Scout ing, because I believe It has its warning for you British Scouts as well.
Fren Polish Their Soles
The
I remember when I was return. ing in a troopship from an expedi- tion on the West Coast of Africa we called in at Gibraltar. Governor was giving a big party that evening and he sent an invita tion to the officors on the ship to come to it. Naturally we cleaned ourselves up and put on our best togs.
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the centre of the helmet is a pre- caution against falling panes of glass.
Fire
The first thing to do in the case of fire is to warn the inhabitants of the house.
Either go or send someone to break the nearest fire-alarm and get into touch with the local fire- station. Break the glass of the alarm, pull the knob and wait for the fire engine.
Warn the policeman on the best. If a person's clothes are on fire, don't throw water over him. Tale a blanket or rug and wrap it tightly round him and roll him; about on the ground,
Full Speed Ahead! Firemen who are sleeping in the upper rooms of the re-station have to hastily don their clothes when the alarm is given and slide down a pole to the ground. And it
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The Cubs' Corner
There is a great opportunity for Cubs to show their mettle within the next few months. There will be the Swimming Competition at the V.R.C: baths later on in the month
with a huge blade four feet in and then we have the Totem Pole longth. The "key," as its name im-competition in December. It would plies, is used for "opening" doors? be very nice to see every Cub Puck -The equipment box also contains
Don't Do It!
In a storm---
Don't stand under trees with thick foliage.
Don't stand up in an open fold or on a beach-lia down.
saws, levers, spanners, ropes, first in the Association hard at work for aid outfit, and so on?
these two events. I am sure no one Big hoses are seldom used for would be more pleased than the small fires. The water comes Commissioner to see through these at a pressure of well eager to bring honour to his Pack, every boy over one hundred pounds to the and what a reward it will be for the square inch-force enough to knock hard work the Cubmasters have put flown partitions and da
as much in, damage as the fire itself?
I have been looking over the testa they do not seem to be very thing that every boy can do. We hard and I am sure there is some-
know how valuable swimming is to anyone. All Cubs aught to 'swim, opportunity of practice which we all especially those who have the fine
the Colony. I was Pleased to see in a report from home quite recently, which was confirmed by "The Scouter," that a Cub from my old Pack had been responsible for saving the lives of two other boys whilst on holiday. It's a fire act for a Cub, but he couldn't have done that if he was a non-swimmer. Our Swimming Competitions will give us an idea of the number of boys who can swim, and I hope we shall find there are quite a lot.
Don't stand near tall chimneys. Don't leave your wireless set con- nacted-see that it is earthed.
Don't allow any cattle belonging to the farmer on whose ground you are camping to collect under a trec ar stand near a wire fence.
First Aid To Animal When an animal la in pain it will usually snap at a stranger who tries to help it, so the owner should at once be informed, because, he is the best person to render "Arst aid."
In the case of a dog, a place of tape should be tied round the dog's nose, then knotted under the chin and round the neck behind the cars, so as to prevent it from snapping A cat should be held by the loose skin at the back of the neck and of our number had gone on aheat't so easy as it looks. Descen- an arm should be placed under the of us and had already arrived, and in a forty foot pole fast enough hody. was the centre of interest among
Horses can be held by the head not to waste any time, and yet able the brilliant assemblage, because he reach the bottom without brenker nose and cattle by fingers in the hud kept on his old campaigning one's legs on the floor needs nostrils. kit and appeared dirty and unkempt training. The whole secret lies in and as if fresh from the battlefield in the legs as brakes. He did not get half ragged about it by all of us!
"It struck me on this trip that there's a lesson in this for Scouts. Here they come, back to the busy streets where hundreds turn to look at them.
There's mother waiting at the front door to welcome Jimmy *home. And ten to one aho klases Jimmy at arm's length and says, 'My How perfectly Althy you look. March right up to the bathroom. No-wait. Brush that mud off your boots before you go another step." 17 To aur kurror and amusement "In the 1924 International Jam- when we got there we found one boree at Copenhagen there was u twenty-four hour Patrol hiking con- test and the judges scored very shurply on how clean and neat the fellows looked when they checked in at the end. It sounded exactly right and proper. Why, Isn't there something rather good for personal pride and Troop spirit in the motion of teaching a boy to take extra pains to scrub lifa face, hands, cars and neck, clean the mud off his shoes and the grease spots off his shorts, and make his pack trim and ahipshape before returning to the public gaze and the home circle?
In the Scouts' Marathon (how wish I could have seen the one in Essex the other day!) one of the important points which the judges. look into in awarding marks is the clean and smart appearance of the competitors when they come in from their long trek.
Always Looking Swart 'saw Jack's Troop come back from a mountain hike once, and when piled out of the cars they looked as fresh as if they were starting for a parade. They had stepped at a creek half a mile up the trail and devoted a whole hourshoes.
When I saw the Kentish boys on the trek jus! before their arrival at the finish they were polishing themselves up to the last button. More than that they even got their pals to polish the soles of their
The "Old Scout's". Column.
Well, there is an
Fire Facts
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The equipment box carried on the footboard of every fire-engine con- tainà thé firemen's "key"—an axe
After an accident has occurred! great cure must be taken to prevent niore movement than is absolutely necessary. In the case of bleeding a piece of cord should be tied tightly above or below the wound
have in
very
We also want to increase our numbers. It's a good thing to do a bit of recruiting and get some of our chums who seem to have nothing! to do, to come along and enjoy the great chumminess of a Pack life. I have seen so many boys avise are not lot of chaps really-and it is only Cub-they seem to be a different because they are missing the thrill that we others are getting out of Cubbing. So, as you think of Doing Your Beat, try to make it a little better by helping to swell the mem- bership of your Pack. I had a happy little chat with a Cab the other evening, no shyness, full of enthusiasm: it did me good. He came from a Pack at Kowloon and he was very proud of the fact too. Are you proud of your Pack? You ought to be and it is up to you to make it the best Pack In the Asso- ciation. You'll try, won't you? Good hunting.-D. C. B
HANDS ACROSS THE SEA
Have you a chum in an- other country? How would you like to correspond with a Brother Scout or a Sister Guide abroad?
I want to help you to know friends who are thousands of miles away or may be within a stone's throw of your own town.
If any Scouts or Guides would like to have 3 pen friend, please communicate with me "Old Scout" c/e "The China Mail"--and I shall be glad to help you.
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There are many Why Scouting reasons for the way Appeals in which Scouting has appealed to the youth of all nations. At every point and in every detail one marks the fruits of genius. But the main cause of success-stands out pretty obvious. The one saying of Christ which the Bible preserves for us outside the four Gospels-the say ing, namely, that "it is more bless- ed to give than to receive”—is a profound truth rooted in the very constitution of human nature. We often miss the true significance of the text because the word "blessed" makes us think of religious and moral standards of judgment. But Dr. Moffatt translates the text, in his new translation of the Bible, "To give is happier than to get," und that exactly expresses both the idea of Christ'a saying and the truth of human nature. · The Chief Scout was not, of course, the first to recognise or to apply this any-
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The Root of old and true say. Saclul Evils, ing that the man who tries to buy love gets the kind of love he de- surves. And the man who tries to form einracter by means of re- wards and punishments gets the kind of character that lies at the root of must of our social evils to- day. Discipline, of course, is a different matter. But of discipline it may be said that the only sort werth having is self-discipline; and that is just the kind which the free training of the Scout troop de- velops. But does not the success of the movement give the lle to those who say that the best work can only be drawn out of men by a system which secures the big cash prizes. for the clever-hardworking, and successful?,
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May not those men Self-Interest who have been de
No Appeal claring for genera-
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Brinkley Bus, Boy Scout of Beaumont, Texas, stopped off at New York in his way home from the International Scout Jamboree in Britain, long enough to pay a visit to Mayor Walker at City Hall. He says that Mayor Walker Is "just as nice as the Prince of Wales," so of course "His Honour" feels highly elated.
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The Guides and the Brownies are people with a purpose. So are the Rangers. And yet throughout the. Guide world people are finding li; difficult to define exactly what it should mean to be a Ranger. The handbooks state quite clearly' that it means taking the Gulde promise out
in Egypt. Mr. Martin was the into a wider world, but that seems
guest of the Egyptian Boy Scouts a nebulous principle to work or
Association, of which King Fuad Is when one tries to apply it to every.
the patron. The Scout movement in day life. There have been debates
Egypt is under the auspices of the on the subject. "I think a Range
Ministry of Education, and all the 1. ought to be actively loyal to God and the King, and lead a fairly
Mr. Hubert Martin, C.B.E., Inter-Royal and Government schools. In troops are in connection with tho straight life, and vote for the right national Commissioner of the Boy addition to the Egyptian Scouts,
British and Greek Scouts at Cairo, Alexandria, and Port Said. Before salling for England, Mr. Martin at-
SCOUTING IN PALESTINE, EGYPT AND AFRICA
In Africa
Mr.... Arthur Gaddum, County Commissioner SE Lancashire Boy Scouts, and Major M. D. Mawe, Worcestershire Boy Scouts, have Assistant County Commissioner, been visiting the Boy Scouts of South Africa and Rhodesia
There is a very simple way of telling at what speed one walks, lads, and to be kept to his need be right after all able time wasted by a Fatrol be-Take a piece of thin string, say so busy is the best treatment for one The idea that self-interest is the of those attacks of silliness from best thing to appeal to is an identween the time of arrival at the 1 to 100 yards long. To one end tie olan, said one girl. "The purpose Scouts Association, made a month's i there is a number of troops of
a weight a piece of lead or other of the Rangers should be to make tour in Palestine and Egypt on a which the best boys suffer at times, that, as far as boys at play are con- camp-site and the first meal in metal, or even a stone. At a point people happy, every one at home, ir But the wisdom of the Chief Scout corned, has been given the He by camp. Everyone esems to be in the 44 feet from the weight put, a hot business, ald or young,'", said an visit the Scouts of those coun- lay in this: that he made the appeal the Scout movement. Is it impos- other fellow's way.
or a loop. Then put a second knot other. The whole position is sum-tries. In the course of his tour intended a combined rally of British, for service not a more ecccasional sible to conceive a system of society Before starting off for the cump 44 feet from the first, and so onmed up by a Ranger, whose words Palestine, Mr. Martin visited the Egyptian, and Greek Scouts at medicine for the troublesome, but in which men at work might be each Scout should be given a job along the entire length of the string are quoted In "The Guider." the fundamental note of appeal for found to respond to some more which he will carry out on arrival put a series of knots 44 feet from says:We are told to render ser Ramleh, Nablus (Samaria), Tiberi-
Shc Scouts of Jerusalem, Nazareth, Alexandria, who gave him a bota-
terous send-off. all ranke. I believe the success of altruistic appeal? What sort or
at the camp-site and 1, always find each other.. Take in one hand a viec, but we are not told how or the Scout movement is due to the civilisation would it be which had the idea of splitting the Patrol up watch with a second hand. Now what to do. We avant definite sug 18, Jafla, Haifa, Acre, and Gaza, re- ideal of service, to the appeal for its baan in the conviction that "it into two sections works very well drop the weight upon the ground gestions and a definite lead." ceiving an enthusiastic wolcome in ono good turn every day, more than is happier to give than to get?
Indeed.
and walk along at an ordinary pace, The progress of the Gulde move each town. The Scout movement, to all the other attractions put to.
On arriving at the camp site the letting the weight remain where it mant in the few years of its exist has caught on amongst the Arab gether. In pre-Scout days the ap
"A" section of the Patrol, in charge fell, and allowing the knots or loops once has been simply phenomenal; boys of Palestine, and is making peal for service was not by any
of the Patrol-lender, should put up to slip through one hand. The Gulding and Browning have been steady progress. Mr. Martin found means unknown or unused. But the.
the tents, dig the latrines, and get number of knots that pass through planned out to the last degree, and main tools in the hands of workers
Dr. Annie Besant, Chief Scout all the kits together,
the band in half a minute is the Gulders undergo highly specialise the Palestinian Arab Scouts full of with boys were either rewards and Commissioner for Indin, says at B
The "nection of the Patrol same us the number of miles walked training. But Guides and Brownies humour and thoroughly enjoy Kenya were present at the World. punishments or the ideal of disc oars of age: "If I had a dezon under the Second should start the in an hour. The reason for this is are almper to cater for than the the game of scouting. All the Tambores pline.
sons have only one I would fire and brew the tea. Ona Scout that 44 feet is the 120th part of a Rangers. They very definitely want Palestinian troops of Scouts are in soud them all into the Scout move should fetch water and collect mile, because a mile contains 6,280 fun, and exciting things to do, But connection with the schools, and ment as suon as they could enter wood, another should mark off the feet, or 1,760 yards, and a half at 18 a girl is not so sure that that in every case the Arab head Its lowest grade. And I would send kitchen and rope it round and re-minute is the 120th part of an hour, in all and wants. She is a mess of the daughters Into the Girl Gulden move the turf for the camir Are Therefore, we are able to walk 120th under similar conditions, to begin whiist, the rest prepare the support of a mile just of many that in at the beginning. I have seen Cubs
Leave the camp gadgets until the 120th of an hou and Scouts and Rovers, and I know morning because most of your fel-mile in an hour all the dirt and dust that has no what a useful lot they are lows will be dead tired and won't cumulated Saildo SLO Kaka
6635 fed) a bit like work. But do have After running for about seventy:
yan camp-fired or eighty hills the hub
HINTS FOR CYCLIST
Every month or sơ the hab
three speed gear should be
out with paraffin so us to
olled withemsel
vaseline solidines” (inalda?
-A TRIBUTE TO SCOUTS AND GUIDES
A big contingent of 250 Scouts from South Africa, Rhodesia, and
Mr. Gaddum and Major Mawe travelled some 12,000 miles by rail and 3,000 motor car. The point which had at the greatest impres conflicting impulses, and so it is not masters testified in the warmest surprising that the Ranger, Pranch terms to the value of scouting from son their zalude was, the ime we can walk a has not developed so quickly as the on
A point of view portance of the scouting-and guld-
Guides and Brownie brauchen. It was particularly interesting to find Au uveda, much more subtle organising Christians and Moslems in the same But when it has properly found its troops werking happily together in place it will be a fine outlet for the the spirit of brotherhood which is wealth of fico purpose that exists a basic principle of the Scout move. among riris, of Ränger age.
ment.
inku down the things that he put and makes for easier running, and When it is time to pack up and up. gives longer life to the cogs of the return home again split up the Good luck and good camping to
Patrol as before and let cech Scout, you allt
hub three-speed gear.
ing handbooks having been trans lated Into Afrikaans. Many of the troopsán South Africa to-day have a membership of 50 per cent. Dutch boys and: 50 per cent. Eng- Ilah boys, who are working together, side by side.
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