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22 WILMET_ ".fE LIFE BOY SCOUT NEWS of the NORTH SHORE TROOPS p,, club, Kitchen Police --··· ·Nirut z ~ ~L WWK ~---....L uv ~. mtmbtn of the ·Boy Scout A r...-PfJ11f ptt,.. .. ..w~ Nottb Shore Atta Council Scouts Celebrate Latest Reports Show 20th Anniversary 1,159 Scouts Are Now February 7 to 13 Registered in Council This year marks the twentieth anniversary of the Boy Scouts of Ame'rica. Each year Anniversary week is celebrated around February 8, the date that marks the organization of Scouting in America in 191(). This year the dates are from February 7. to 1.1. Twenty years has seen 4,000,000 American boys influenced to character devtlopment and citizenship training through the Scouting program. In the North Shore Area council many of the boys who were Scouts have grown to manhood and are now passing on to other Scouts that which they have gained from Scouting. The week's celebration has definite objective. The major objective is "to bring more definitely to the attention of each community the value of Scouting as a program for work for boys for the development of character and training for citizenship." Incidental daily objectives are outlined with each day as follows: Anniversary day- The Scout and his obligations. The Scout and his church- (The Scout and his religion.) . The Scout and his school- (The Scout and his education.) The Scout and his home- (The Scout and his social duties.) The Scout and his community-(The Scout and his patriotism.) The Scout and his vocation-(The Scout and his citizenship.) The Scout and his health-(The Scout and his outdoor program.) Everv Scout is looking forward to Annive-rsary week this year. He is planning to take part in a nation wide festivitv with 800,000 other American Scouts and leaders now active in the movement. \\T atch this page for the next few weeks to find out more about Anniversary week plans in the North Shore Area council. The latest report showed 1,159 Scouts registered at the North Shore Area council headquarters. Several troops are re-registering and several other new troops are organized and are registering for the first time. It is expected that when report goes to National council December -31 that there will be over 1,200 Scouts in the council. Here is a list of the last twentythree to enter the books : Troop 13, Kenilworth - Tom Hildebrandt, Jack Coale, Robert McCloudJ Robert Murray, Robert Cutler~ E. Mess, Richard Holmes, Frank Carlen.ter, Paul Cornell, Val Smith, D. Jones, Jim Weston and Bruce Granstrom. Troop 22, Glencoe - Winfield Akerstrom, Kenneth Cowan, Thornton Elliot, Charles Sincere, Robert Skinkle, and Robert Sweeney. Troop 26, Winnetka Sea ScoutsS. W. Barrett, Jimmy Alsdorf and Carl Rompel. Troop 34, Hig hland Park- Walter Pardee. Wilmette Scout Troop Holds "Old Timers'" Dinner Troop 2 of Wilme~!e Con~reg~!io~al church held its first Old Ttmers dtnner last Frida.y, December 27. There was an attendance of forty-three. The. dinner was served in cafeteria style at 6:30 o'clock. Following this the troop was presented with its ninth consecutive charter. Also the North Shore Area council was presented with a picture of Bradford Hutson wh? \~as the first senior patrol leader. JUntor assistant scoutmaster, and Eagle Scout of Troop 2. He died last year following an illness. Speeches were given by Scoutmaster Cook Troop Committeeman \Vilson and 'former Committeeman Burtener and Hutson. Jack Riley and Karl Yost brought a word of &:reeting . from the "Old Timers." To bnng a chmax to a very pleasant evening, William T~m kins, the Indian sign language spect.alist. taught the group some fifty lndtan signs. The meeting was then brought to a close when all the present members of the troop rose and . gave the Sco?tmast.ers' benediction in Indian s1gn language. The troop plans to have an · '~ld Timers" dinner each year. A committee was appointed to make arrange"K. P." duty is one of the essenti;~l s ments for the Tenth Birthdav partv to in Scout training. Here we have (left be held next year. to right) Douglas Scott, Gerald May -Robert Fletcher, Troop 2 reporter and Anthony Schinler of Troop 9, St. Joseph's church, Wilmette, fixin ' the "Old Timers" Will Attend grub at the Cabin -in-the- Woods. Organize Scout Troop in Home for Mained Children A troop of Boy Scouts has been organized at the Children's Sea Sho're Home at Atlantic City for the inmates who are over twelve years old and would like to join the Boy Scout mo\icment. All of the boys in this home are suffering from tubercular bone, and ninety percent of them are bed-ridden. The troop will be known as Troop No. 35 of Atlantic City. This Scout troop for handicapped boys was made possible through the work · o f Troop 14 which meets at the Church of the Ascension in Atlantic City. Scoutmaster Malcpmb H. Shermer and the boys of the troop themselves made the plans. They went to the older boys' ward of the hospital and demonstrated various Scouting activit.ies, presenting each patient wath a "Handbook," and teaching them the . rudiments of Scouting so that they might pass the Tenderfoot tests. Through the interest of this Boy Scout troop in the handicapped boys of the hosoital. the Scout troop was soon for~ed. Dr. Edward Z. Holt, superin tendent of the Children's Sea Shore Home, has become the scoutmaster nf the troop and has enlisted the aid of several other doctors to act as troop committeemen. A patrol of Scouts from each of the troops in Atlantic Citv will visit the hospitals on successive Tuesday evenings to assist the troop of crippled boys in their Sc9ut work. The Scouting program has afforded to these shut-ins manv hours of real happiness, according to Harold V. Feyl, scout ex'e cutive of Atlantic Citv. ·· Meeting of Glencoe Troop Pages of United States Senate ·Form Scout Troop Church of St. Elisabeth Troop Holds Awards Court On Fridav, December 13, the Church of St. Elisabeth had a djnner. After the dinner the Boy Scout troop of that church held a Court of Award. Bob Lambert, a noted marksman from Idaho, gave us the 43 different awards that had been earned. Bob Lambert is a crack-pistol shot. He can throw up a clay disc with one hand and hold a gun in the other hand, then grab the vun with the hand with which he threw the disc and shoot the clay di'-C before it drops 18 inches. He can do manv other wonderful things with a revolver. He can also imitate birds and other things. He showed us pictures of the countr.y in which he lives. He is also a leader of Boy Scouts tn Idaho. He is a very interesting man to listen to and the troop enjoyed his talk very much. -Bob Johnson, Troop 23's Scribe ALMOST SCRATCHED THIS Dob Catcher: D~ )'Our dogs have licenses? . Small Bovs: Two of them have JUst been washed ·o they haven't any but the dog we got this morning is just covered with them. "To think of a clever but cutting remark. and then not make it-that is a iign of nobility."-Clarendon. A recently organized Boy Scout troop made up of pages of the United States senate and sponsored by a com mittee, which includes Senator James Couzens, republican of Michigan and Senator William E. Brock, democrat of Tennessee, has the unique honor of holding its meetings in the Capitol of the United States. The chairman of the troop committee is Dr.- Z. B. Phillips, chaplain of the senate. Chief Scout executive of the Boy Scouts of America, James E. West, officially welcomed the troop and greeted the scoutmaster on the occasion of the BATTLE TUSSOCK MOTHS qisplay of the "Scout Trail to CitizenBoy Scouts of Evanston, Illinois, ship" on November 30 in the Washinisioined with school children recentlv in ton auditorium. · war on the tussock moth, the i~sect that is threatening the trees of this Three Wilmette Scout suburh. Seven hundred Bov Scouts with poles and ladders systeTroops Again Register armed matically covered. the entire city reTrpop 4 of the St. Augustine's par- moving· the moths from the trees. ish, Troop 5 of the Presbyterian church, and Troop 11 of St. Francis NICODEMO Xavier, all of Wilmette, have just sent (The Indian tom-tom sounded as the national re-registration papers into Ma-Ka-J a-Wan Scouts echoed this Scout headquarters. D. C. Leach starts. song.) his eighth year as scoutmaster of Troop 4. S. E. Miner who until re- Umqui qualla walla, dalla walla, nostic cently has been a member of the com- Umqui qua, umqui qua: mittee of Troop 5 is now the scout- Uniqui qualta walla, dalla walla, nos~ic; FR M STEEL SPRINGS master to succeed Frank Reynolds. Umqui qua, umqui qua. The agriculture c 1.ss was discussing Father Norman is now the scoutmaster Oh, Nicodemo, the feedin~ of hogs. of Troop 11 with James and Morgan Oh. Challa alii umpa · The teacher asked, "What is a good Muench and Robert Pape as assistant Oh. Nicodemo mineral form of food for pigs?" scoptmasters. Oh, Chalti alii, umpa, -umpa, -umpa, Bright pupil answers, "Pig Iron." Troops 4 and 5 are full troops, each umPAH! with thirty-one Scouts registered. A STEADY JOB Troop 11 has nine registered Scouts. "SCOUTING" Q. What is it that everybody is d()"I know of no other form of Amerin~ at the same time? "Y ou may depend upon it that he is icanization that so produces real A. Growing older. a good man whose intimate friends are Americans." --Boys' Life good." -Herbert Hoover. Troop 23 of Glencoe Episcopal church is planning to have a meeting of all "Old Timers" of the troop. We intend to have a good time and eats, which will consist of apples, apple cider, and doughnuts. We expect to have some of the old Scouts who are now attending Shaddock Military academy help us with our drill. At some meeting soon Ralph Potter and Bob Johnson expect to give an exhibition of the Indian sign language to the entire troop. They learned it at the Junior Leaders' conference conducted by the council. -Donald Andrews and David Jasper, Troop 23 reporters a '. , all