1929-12-14 — Page 15

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1929.

Girl Guides' Grotto

THE CHINA MAIL,

ROUND THE CAMP FIRE

The Cubs' Corner

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We are the Girl Guides

So merry and gay,

We're happy and jolly

At work or at play.

We love to be out

Where it's open and free

To bask in the beauty

of flower, sky, and tree."

We try to live purely

And keep free from blame,

Be steadfast and honest,

And so play the game.

"Be prepared" is our motto,

To help others our aim,

And we strive to keep spotless Our glorious name.

A Talk on the First Law

Odds And Ends

MATTERS OF INTEREST TO

SCOUTS AND GUIDES

FIRST AID TRAINING IS USEFUL

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a large quill go that it will serve under its control. Within the next the purpose.

few weeks over 15,000 registration forms will be sent out, on which the local scout officers will enter every Scout, Wolf Cub, or Rover under their control. These forms are then collected by the officers of cach local association, who pass them on to the headquarters. A!!

the year are produced. Last year the numbers for the British Isles were 379,256, and for the whole of the British Empire 864,130. This year's Agures are expected to show a substantial increase.

Any number of players may join In this jolly little game, and before you start you myst draw a chalk line across a part of the field or playground. Now the "Hopper" is chosen from the rest of the players by "picking up" with a coin, and this player is the leader.

a run up to the line, and then jump To begin the game he must take on it and spring as far as he can over the other side. The spot where he lands is marked with a stick, and turn to jump the line. If any

of the game; but if any of the players should jump beyond the mark, then the "hopper" must im-, mediately go back and jump again

does not, a new hopper is chosen.

If he

The Jamboree Post Ofice It was obvious that in a camp the size of that held at Arrowe Park for the world Jamboree the Sir Harry Brittain, the well-mail would consist of a very con- known politician, has a very good siderable number of letters to land reason for being thankful for the from the 30,000 boye, not to men- the information la then checked and of them do not reach the spot mark- Scout and Guide training received tion official correspondence. Aaifted until the exact figures for ed by the stick, then they are out by his son and daughter. Re-special, camp post office was, there A Gulle's honour is to be trusted,cently, whilst opening a window, fore, organised, staffed by Scouts, Of all the Laws, this is the very he had misfortuno to Ancat, and if every girl kept this artery in his wrist. Law before her, and really tried to und daughter, who live up to it, she would flad that, the room at the time, at once after all, the others were not so took charge of the situation and very difficult to keep. If a girl is stopped the bleeding. They bound honourable, she will be loyal; loyal up the wound in

a most expert to her friends, her parents, those fashion, and when a doctor arrived around her; if she is loyal she will some time later he declared that he be a friend to all, she will obey could not have made a more effec- orders, and thus help others. So, tive job of the bandaging himself. you see, the first law is really the foundation upon which all the other Laws are based. Nothing is more splendid than to see a person who is absolutely trustworthy and re- , liable, a person who keeps her promises, shrinks from untruths and deceitfulness, who

be trusted in all things both great and small. How splendid it would be, if, when asked, "What is your honour?" we were able to say with all our hearts~

and all the daily delivery and col lection of letters was carried out by Scouts from the various camps.

and reach the new mark. were in

This post office during the period of the jamboree handled:—

216,322 letters and post cards.

2,469 registered letters. 3,702 parcels. 2,565 telegrams.

225,048 Items in all.

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My hnoor is MY LIFE! Both grow in one. Take honour from me, And my life is done.

-Shakespeare.

COMING-OF-AGE CELEBRATIONS

Local Scouts to Stage Spectacular Display

The Boy Scouts Association of Hong Kong are holding a Coming-of-Age concert and dis play (under the Distinguished Patronage of HE. Sir Cecil Clementi, K.C.M.G.) on Decem- ber 21, the Theatre Royal,

Early in the year they had hoped to stage an open air spectacular Jamboree someTM what on the lines of the Jam- boree held at Arrowe Park in August, but owing to trans- -port difficulties and the fact that a suitable ground could not be found, together with the question of finance, they had at last decided to hold an indoor show just to let the public see a few of the things they practise in their spare time.

THE MAIN OBJECT The main object of the concert is to raise funds to complete, the purchase of the new training centre at Saiwan Bay. This training centre fills a long delayed necessity, for the production of all that is best in Scouting.

A féirly varied programme has been arranged by the Groups, showing the lighter side of Sea Scout work in the form of Sea Shantles, etc.; other Groups contributing equally Scouting items. The second half of the programme will be a combined effort, in the production of the play "Robin Hood," and one can safely say that a very credit- able show. will be the out- come.

Chief Scout's Visit to Australia

The Next Jamboree Lord and Lady Baden-Powell The next world jamboree is to be have finalised the arrangements for held in 1933. Invitations have been their Australian programme." Ac-received from a number of coun- companied by Colonel Walton,tries, but the decision as to the Headquartera Commissioner, and, place of the jamboree has been de- Mrs. Walton, they will leave South-ferred until the meeting of the in- amption at the end of January, 1930, ternational conference for Wellington (NZ), via the This meeting of the conference will in 1931. Panama Canal. They will spend be held at Salzburg, Austria. There March in New Zealand contres, and is to be an international Rover will go to Sydney, Tasmania, Moot at Kandersteg, Switzerland, Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide, and either immediately before or after Perth, and expect to reach England the international conference. It is inte in July. Lady Baden-Fowell at Kandersteg that the Scouts' will devote her activities principal- Chalet is situated, and it is proving ly to the Girl Guides, but she and an ever-increasing popular rendez- her husband hope to arrange joint vous for the Scouts of the world. rallies of Scouts and Guides at all The International Rover Moot in centres.

1931 will be one of the biggest gatherings over held at the Chalet. As is well known, the Rover Scouts are the branch of the movement which caters for the elder lads, and the term "moot" has been taken by them as the name for their own particular gatherings.

Writing Aids

Milk, or the juice of a lemon, or any other acid fruit, makes an in- vlaible ink, which will turn brown when held close to a fire. Soot and water mixed with a little gum or glue will make ordinary ink. An- other writing fluid may be made by rubbing charcoal down to dust,

A Census of Scouts Each year the Imperial headquar-

and mixing it with a little milk.ters of the Boy Scouts' Association

If you are short of a pen, sharpen takes a census of all the Scouts

Keep a Log Book

The "Old Scout's ".. Column.

Have you a patrol

log book? If not I'd advise you to commence one im- mediately. No patrol is really com- plete without one. Your log book will soon become the most treasured possession of the patrol. There are several sorts of log book. Some patrols record events, and only im- portant events at that, rather formally, never departing from a stiff, third person style. Others have a more friendly, personal little book. Everything is recorded, and happy note struck throughout.

Making it a

Shanghai's Girl Guides-The annual church parade of the Girl Guides of Shanghai was held at Holy Trinity Cathedral, when Bov. V. G. Sutcliffe, M.A., Sub-Dean, was the preacher. Besides the Girl Guides, a number of friends were also present-(Ah Fong).

won't mind if he draws you just twice as big as you are, or if you are the tail one and ho depicts you three times as tall as the others. No, you won't mind, because you are a Scout, and because it will make your.book amusing and enter- taining. And photography! Or

A log book may

ed by anaps, jolly snaps of the

Hong Kong Scouts

LOCAL ASSOCIATION TO MEET

The annual meeting of the Hong Kong Boy Scouts Associa- tion will be held at 6.16 p.m. on

just be an ordin-course your events will be illustrat Wednesday, December 18, In St. Patrol Affair ary, thick exercise patrol at work and play, and of John's Cathedral Hall. The busi-

neas on the agenda are:———

(1) To receive and adept the Annual

Report and Statement of Ac counts.

(2) To elect the President, Vice-Pre- aident, Hon. Secretary, Hon. Treasurer, and Council for the (3) To deal with any other business

ensuing year. which may arise.

At the conclusion of the meet- ing the members of the Council will be requested to walt in order to elect the members of the Ex- ecutive Committee.

book. The pages should be numbered, and, after the places you've been to, not just each volume is complete, Indexed. stiff groups, with every Scout wear- Some have the Scouts' oath neatlyng an "I'm sure I'll break the printed at the beginning, and sign-camera" expression." ed by avery Scout in the patrol. Some' books also devote a page to

Perhaps your patrol each Scout in the patrol, on which

Newspaper. boasts of a post. the progress, &c., of the Scout in

Cuttings Then some of your shown. It is advisable for each

Also descriptions of badge Scout in the patrol to do his share

exams and rallies of the book. Some naturally are

can be in rhyme, adding atili fur more gifted than others; but a

ther to the variety of your material patrol consist of a number of boys, You'll paste all those pertaining to Newspaper cuttings? Oh, yes, Big events, like rallies, and each contributes something, a What to camps,

badge little bit of his personality will being collected by all members of and

the movement in the book, these THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK Record

exams, are given due shine through the book, thus mak the patrol. It seems to me im consideration, but the ing it really a patrol affair. The

"When I hear Patrol Loaders hundred and ono Interesting little handwriting should be legible and Possible to lack material for a complaining of the slackness of incidents that happen to every clear-in fact, just the beat each study. Are you going to have a bit bably a case of Physician, beal log book. Then there is Nature their patrols, I often feel it is pro patrol are not omitted. The dreary Scout can do. days, like the time the patrol lost marks for. talking at roll call, and came last in the knot racca, aro recorded just as faithfully as the sunny days. The latter type of book means more work, but it's well worth it, don't you think?

of God's glorious out-of-doors in thyself. E. Geoffrey Elwes. your book? Leaves, wildflowers, You need a big grasses, &c., correctly pressed and now for you badge-hunters, would- Illustration margin, so that named, make a very valuable addi-be writers, scribes, artists, photo-

and

your patrol artist Hon. Be careful, however, to avoid graphers, and naturalists, think Photography can illustrate the anything with bulky stalks, as the what a lot of practice for your And if Impression will, of course, go right badges your log book is going to you're the fat one in the patrol you through the pages of the book. And I give you.

events,

UNIVERSAL IDEALS |ther a thing is real, ugly or beauti- After the lowest point is reached the

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is always taking a higher form, even as we see in nature from the cosm of the sea through the mineral, the plant, the animal, to man.

It

le argued that there is ugliness in May I quote a few lines

Nature.

from Ralf Waldo Emerson on this

subject.

ful.

Restored to Equilibrium This beauty of nature must of necesalty flow enward, taking new forms and so from the natural man

sense perception

of

therefore contentment. -

upward urge comes and the many aspire to return to the One, through boods, and in the desire to unite family life, communities, brother nations, religions and races, and also the longing to find unity within

stined to reach these ideals. These ideals are realisable now in propor tion as the mind, will and heart are poseful action and loving emotions. developed In elevated thought, par-

soul, which leads to unity with the This threefold path of

mystics

Thus shall you conquer the Kingdom violence and our Theosophical Society shall be the nearer to the accom of Heaven which gladly suffereth

plishment of that mission of brother- hood to which we dedicated it hair a century ago.

changes into the super-man in spiritual unity is in his recognition,

the form himself. Man's just conception of Infinite. One, the goal of every true HONG KONG HEIGHTS oral, intellectual and spiritual of a God outside and beyond him- beauty, but beauty in man depends self. Later the truth of the God keeping to the middle path, avoiding the following list of some of the In lives we express this unity by For the Information of vialtora upon his aspirations to, Ideal beauty within is realleod. When man dis- extremes, and by seeing all aspects highest points on the Island and "Beauty in the moment of trans. The pursuit of the ideal of beauty covers a new truth he is apt to cast of life as a unity. In the Supreme Mainland is published:- tion, as is the form were just ready restores him to equilibrium and away the previous conception as bo- Being we see the Transcendental laland. to Bow into other formu. Any fixed ness, heaping or, concentration on one This attainment of equilibrium a danger of over emphasising the aim at a reasonable faith; in earth Ing altogether false and so there is Imminent Unity in theology we feature is the reverse of the flowing brings us to the culmination of the idea of "God within life strive for non-attachment and and therefore deformed. Beautiful

is the symmetry of any form, if three Ideals Into unity Goodness, The Infinite One is transcendental endeavour to be the form can move, we seek more truth, and beauty become unity be beyond and ever all things, the great idea![sts.“ excellent

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