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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1929.

Girl Guides' Grotto

In seven years Miss Maud Bayes. of Glenbrook, New South Wales. who arrived back in Australia after a year's absence in England, has gained high honours as a girl Culde. Miss Bayes is an Eagle Owl, Five years ago, In England, she gained her blue cord, and this year her red cord. Miss Bayes went to England for a holiday, but Wos pressed into training service at the Imperial Camp for Gulders last year at Foxicuse Park, and at a time like that diploma guiders from, overseas can help greatly by work- log among guiders from ather places.

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ROUND THE CAMP FIRE

surroundings. Princess Mary was in camp a good deal, and her in- terest in guiding was inspirational. Before inspecting each division, she was anxious to gain an idea of the special displaya being worked up in her humour. She was very in- terested to learn that guiders in my section were doing fire-fighting." Speaking of England and Scotland

Iracting considerable public atten- was most enthusiastic about the

In The Limberlost "STORY-BOOK" PLACE FOR

BOY SCOUTS

WILD NATIVE BEAUTY

Deep in the Limberlost that Indiana woodland which gave Gene Stratton-Porter the background for

ducts. The gleaming lake will afford water sports of all klada.

Nature-loving Scouts will have an opportunity here for endless study. Apart from its literary associations, the Limberlost is outstanding for its collection of trees, plants, herbs, vines and shrubs.

A Land of Flowers Underneath great oaks, butternut

The Cubs' Corner

The Union Jack files over many different races, but fow stranger than a certain tribe whose native habitat is a corner of distant Kenya Colony, that part of British East Africa which, with ordinary luck, brightest jewel of Imperial Britain. will one day rival India as the

native tribes and white men alike, Looked down on by many other the Wakambas-to give them their correct name-nevertheless possess national customs which are both bizarre and interesting.

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They are a very primitive people, filing their teeth and in conse quence speaking Swahili-the Kon-

bloom. Here in happy companion-native haunts they

manner, making it difficult for non-

ship with wild flowera, golden hunters and use the bow and arrow as the principal weapon of attack,

The girl Guide movement is at generally, Miss Bayes said that she her nature novels-Boy Scouts are and maples are shrubby St. John's. yun national language—in a lisping tlon in England just now. The help i loveliness of springtime in Great to have a literat "story-book setting" wood, snapping hazel and winter wakambas to understand. In their

Britain. The country side was for a camp. The estate of Mrs.

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Speaking on her return, Miss Bayes said: "In travelling I have found it good to be a guider. The badge is a magie symbol that re- sults in offers of genuine friendship in strange lands from those whose Ideals and aims

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that guiders give in their own dis- tricts impresses more thun cere-fascinating with the folds monial parades, though rallies and daisies, the banks of primroses, the public functions are necessary

avenues of bluebells, all so fresh .bring guiders in touch with one and soft, in a setting of wonderful

another.

green, and the smell of the cut clover in the fields in the twilight. Even the weeds in England adi to landscape beauty, "A field where the dock was the despair of its owner delighted me. All my life f had longed to see Loch Lomond. 1 are similar. I went there one autumn morning, spent a good deal of time at Fox-fearful of disillusionment. I was Irase. The week before the Im enchanted. The waler was. perial Camp was held, I helped Mrs. Cowan Douglas, the Great Brown Owl, in Brownie training work. The camp was held in July under ideal conditions in days of bright sunshine and cool nights. Tents were set up in the most beautiful

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heavenly blue, with reflections in it from the rich autumnul colourings of the leaves on the trees, and those faltan beneath them. The heather on the hills was pale lac. Loch Lomond is surely the loveliest spot on earth."

The "Old Scout's

Column.

The fourth law of The Fourth our brotherhood is: "A Scout is a friend to all, and a brother to every Scout, no matter to what social class the other belongs." Now what does this teach us? It teaches us first of all not to put our nows up in the air, that we must

be courteous to all. Courtesy coats as nothing, but it certainly helps immensely to put the other fellow

hundred and one ways of being a friend to all, and if you would only put yourself out to be friendly, you? simply cannot help being looked upon na a friend and brother to all.

Here is Your Opportunity

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You

The Scout Move-I ment in Hong Kong is a cosmo- have British, Chinese, Portuguese,

politan one.

Indians, and other nationalities in your brotherhood. Well, here is). at his ease. It is also your hall-your opportunity to be a brother mark. It shows that your parents and a friend to all: Don't allow have brought you up carefully and

race, nationality, or creed to come that you are a credit to your Scout between you and your brother master and to your teacher at

Scouts. Treat them all alike and if **chool.

you can be of any use to them, you must not hesitate to offer your ser- vicen. Be sympathetic and charit able, and it is only in this way you can fulfil the Fourth Law of the World's Brotherhood of Scouts.

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Porter, on Sylvan Lake, near Rom:

are great

of

shooting their arrows into the lord- ly, flop-eared African elephant, the deadly buffalo, or terrible lion with skill, for they know too well that the mighty denizen East Africa with one of their ar rows in his leathery hide will be atone dead in three short minutes. while the King of Cats or a human being will expire in a few seconds. From childhood the Wakamba. practise, as children, with small bows, and as they grow up so does the size of the bow increase, until on reaching man's estate, they are, without exception, experts handling this deadly weapon, and so accurate is their aim that they -can often hít objects no larger than electric light bulbs at a distance of about 50 yards.

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W. Tomkins, member of the California Executive of the Boy Souts' Association is bere shown demonstrating to a boy scout on Jard Canadian Pacific steamship "Duchess of York" the Indian sign for "good" while the scout is making the sign for "wolf" which means "Keont. Mr. Tomkins has been specially commissioned by Chief - Senut Baden-Powell to instruct boy scouts in the Indian sign language and was photographed on his way to attend the World Scout Jamboree held at Birkenhead, England, first two weeks of August.

City, with her rustic home, Limber- lost Cabin, and 140 acres of Hoosier forest, meadow and field was recent- y purchased by the Anthony Wayne Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America, with headquarters at Fort Wayne, Ind.

The cabin of matched logs and tinted stones, where Mrs. Porter did much of her writing, will be used a

trumpeted daffodils light

up the woodland whadows; leatherwoods. Indiana's state flower, spread their red csier and branches; a canopy

tulip popular. valley Illies and precious orchids. for violets, and offer homes rent-free for feathery residents the bittern, chowink, sow bird, bobolink, tit mouse. flickers, orders, saw-whet.

"To be a friend An Honour all." is indeed

To Strive honour for which all For right - thinking men

a naturs muscum and-leaders' train-bluebirds and many other songsters And boys .would

ing centre; the 10-acre garden will that stop at Limberlost in migration strive. How few of us can truly

If you see a fellow be kept for the study of nature in to feed and rest or to spend the sum- said that he is liked by all whom

Don't Be Scout with a number will be preserved unspoiled. The willow, rare skeleton leaf; grasses,

all its glory. Forty acres of forest

mer. Wild ferns, flags, hyacinths, he knows. And yet it is not diffi-

Jealous of badges cult to be a friend to all. Be up-

sleeves, and you have remaining land will be used for herbs, tender, lacy and great woody have only one or two, don't be general camp activities and for pro-lengths of vines--all mingle together right. in all your dealings, enter-jealous. Study your subjects, and viding vegetables and dairy pro in joyous harmony. tain no harsh thoughts against any go in for them yourself. And once une, be broad-minded, courteous you have won them you must be

and willing to be of the slightest use to all you meet with, and, above all wear a ebeerful countenance. There is nothing to make your friends and school-mates dislike you more than being gloomy and sullen.

his

charitable and teach the other fal

low who had not been able to pass Ho would not teach other Scouts the tests. What you cannot your- or even to give them any assistance self achieve, you must hope that in preparing them for the tests. others can. spirit you will be much liked by If you can show this

every one in your troop or patrol.

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We held a populuri Badges Notty contest, a second Everything class Scout who had

Was

To the casual visitor the Impres sion is one of colourful beauty. To the botanist and student of nature records point out beds of definite a systematic order is revealed, and colour plants, like red tones, yellow, white pink, blue, lavender, maroon, eshid and "Dutch." A list of wild flowers alone enumerates definite plantings of various species totalling While I am on this If a stranger asks Don't Be subject I am remind-badges.

only won two

approximately 1,500. Hundred And you to tell him

Squirrels, rabbits, coon, skunk, Selfish

unanimously ac- One Ways

ed of my own acout claimed to be the most popular little woodchuck and opossum frolic the where L certain

ing days. There was fellow in the whole Movement. He grounds joyously. Moths and butter- place is, you willa Kanaka boy in our patrol who was the most unselfish young chap flies fit and zigzag, flashing rich make him like you more if you can studied very assiduously for his whom I had the good fortune to colourings in the summer sunlight apare a few minutes and take him badges.. He soon won the all-round meet. there yourself rather than tell him cord and then the Silver Wolf. He badges, but he could never find humming birds, for there is a rich lie could have won many and sip nectar with the beas and the way to get there. This is an was very proud of himself and we time for them. All his spare time, supply for all in the flow planted other way of making friends. Offer did not blame him for it. But in was spent in doing a little bit of and loved at Limberlos! by the ing your beats in a tram or a 'hus spite of the 21 badges, which he service for the. fenderfeet, and de- previous

a lady or an aged gentleman more on his sleeves, he was the most vising games for them, You sec, would at once stamp you as a “nice unpopular fellow in the whole after all, winning badges is not little gentleman." There are a patrol. Why? Well, he was selfish, everything.

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Porter.

owner, Gene Stratton-

Visitors May Enter The Limborlost property was pur-

in

good

The Wakamba are known to bo anake caters a very low cult, and are a crude but brave race, and al- though, as a people, to their white rulers they are respectful, and when trained will make "askaris" (native soldiers). They exhibit much latent intelligence and are conscientious, plucky, and reliable. Many a white hunter I owes his life to his black Wakamba "boy," who can be trusted to stand his ground with his "boss" in a tight

corner.

Trade and the civil engineer fol- low the flag, bringing the inevitable change and tendency towards a kind of standardisation amongst our coloured fellow subjects over-! sene, but it is good to know that there are still some people in their natural surroundings possessing their own customs, character, and code of "playing the game."

chased from a daughter of Mrs. been by heritage since December, Porter, in whose, possession it has 1924. The consideration was $20,000. The Porter estate refused much larger private offers in favour of the Boy Scouts in order that the memory of the naturalist, who used many of the enchanting settings in

shrined. It is and around Limberlost for her stories, might be more fittingly en Porter had invested between $50,000 stated that Mrs. and $100,000

the cabin and

in nature-work alone..

After actual possesion has been taken_and_camp_organisation-com-- pleted, John L. Anguish, Scout ments will be made allowing the executive, announces, that arrange- public within the sanctuary on special visiting days. Visitors will receive an unforgettable Impression

as they pass the two huge horned owls of stone perching on massive pillars of the arched gateway. The curving driveway to the cabin is hedged with shrubby redbuds, black- has, roses, red alders. From the approach they will enter the realm to see winding terraced paths of bling deep in a basin of coloured Bedford rock; icy spring water bub- stones, trickling downhill to a lake and its water lilles; bird houses of. miniature rustic logs; upside-down pictures in sparkling lake waters- the whole enhanced by a background of book romance.

MASTERY OF PACIFIC machinery, machine and hand toole, has no special. advantage in the are those actualy engaged in the trade, though, so far, the effects of electrical materials and fittings, production of any of the goods just trades mentioned, and to them it anti-Japanese and anti-British boy- telegraph and telephone materials, mentioned. building materiale, locomotives,

may be suggested-in ylow of the, cotts have been temporary. Still railway carriages, railway and

Yot where she is not exporting importance of the matter as a whole the fact that boycott takes place tramway materials,

more than Great Britain she is ex---that the question is worth collec-; in China with serious, if temporary, including porting nearly as much. Is price tive, Investigation. sleepers, motor-cars, leather belt the explanation? Ing, printing, lithographic a Photographic materials;

Where it is, then, clearly, the superiority of our organisations in

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STEEL TO COLONY Let us turn firat to the Iron and steel trades, in which San Francisco

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No. JA. WYNDHAM STREET-PHONE C. 22,

THE OVERLAND

GUEST LIST

VISITORS STAYING AT THE HONG KONG HOTEL effects shows that moral factors have to be taken into account. And sidence. at

The following visitors are in re- In the writer's opinion the moral-Hotel-

the Hong Kong

China to-day is, in certain respecta. Bergheim, N. Brandel, Waller Influence exercised by America in

Messrs. J. Le Botief, Leon greater than that exercised by Great Britain.

CONDUCT OF TRADE The third possible explanation of America's increasing trade with i China, the growth of direct trade, le, if correct, the most important

Binns,

Messra. C. A. Calkins, Wm. B. Coleman.

Mr. Demarge.. Mr. R. E. Francis. Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Gellion. Mr. F. C. Hogg.

As regards enterprise, it may be doubted whether the British mer. IB proposing to take a hand. In writers, stationery, paper, paints, China must be discounted. Indeed, though he may be more cautious, chant in China is less energetic. 1927 pur iron and steel exports to canned goods, furniture and furni in such circumstances it must be than his competitors.. China and Hong Kong were valued, ture-making materials: boots and supposed-as merchants, like every according to the Department of shoes, sole leather and leather

The possibility of a general pre- Overseas Trade at £1,100,000. Ae-goods, the principle underlying this body else, must buy la the cheapest ference existing-apart from prien cording to the Chinese Customs grouping being, apart from the get the benefit of our commercial goods. raises two questions: Arst market that American producers for American rather than British figures, American exporte of statistical weight of the Items iron and 'steel" to China Belected, their relationship. to the mechanian. Where price is not the how the existence of such pre- were valued, approximately, at needs of modern China: The figures cause of American success, then this ference is to be determined, for it £963,000, to which total must show that, where American totals explanation must be sought either certainly is not strong enough to be added a proportion of China's do not exceed ours, as in several China, or in a genoral Chinese preparative chaapness; and secondly, Britain and China the volume of in greater American enterprise in withstand the seduction of com of the three. As between Great importations through Hong Kong, Instances they do, they are not, ex-ference-existing apart from prien assuming. It to exist and to or direct trede is known to be small... Machogay, M which were valued at £625.000. cept in certain types of machinery, for American rather than British one of a number of imponderable Hitherto such trade has been re American exports to China direct of very far behind them.

goode, or In a larger volume of factors created by international-in-garded as dangerous-vide an offl

Mapa. direct trade-ie, without the usa tercourse, whether Buch Tactors clal American pamphlet, entitled- The, distributing organisations of foreign, Intermediaries between have any traceable effect on trade The Conduct of Trado with

Chian and the United States than maintained by British Arms In

China," published some 10 years China are more numerous and more between China and Great Britain.

aga. Since then, however, con- AVE QUESTION OF PRICE

siderable advance has been made. by Chinese banks, and it may be

a greater extent than we are. that Amaricans are using them to

rails, tinned plates, bars;", "screws, sheets and plates, bamboo steel, and old and scrap Iron and steel considerably exceeded ours.

CHINESE CUSTOMS Next let us glance, at the 1927 Chinese Customs figures relating to

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BRITISH FIRMS

ANTI-JAPANESE

elaborate than those of American. firms, While with the possible ex

In answer, it may be said that ception of canned goods, America poople who are qualified to speak in boycott, undoubtedly affects On the question of price the only sentiment, when it finds expression

Messrs. A. Jenkins, J. E Joseph. Miss Lillie, Messrs. W. K. Lo..

Mr. Marchegay, Mr. and Mrs.

Mr. J. Neluwenhuys. Mrs. A, S. Perkins, Mr.. R. C.. Faulet.A

Messrs. Paul Schwab, P. N. So,

Seeger.

Massra, R. G. Wheildon, E. J..T.

Wolyusky.

Warren, Mr. and Mrs. M. S.

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