TTTE SFXDAY OHEGONTAN, rORTl.AT, DECEMBER 17, 1923
PORTLAND BOY SCOUTS LEAD NATION IN HIGH STANDARDS
Local Council, With 104 Troops and 2179 Members Has Distinction of Having MoreYouths Enrolled in ProportiQn to Population Than Any Other City Its Rules and Thrift System Recommended for Adoption
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BT LOUISE F. SHIELDS.
THERE is ho such term as "bad
boy" in the lexicon of the boy
scout movement.
"Some boys are misunderstood,"
Bays a leader in the Portland coun
cil of the Boy Scouts of America.
"Others are subjected to tempta
tions without a strong friend stand
ins by, and others just simply have
too much energy for the channel
of outlet furnished them by their
elders."
The scout leaders seem to know
how to grip the imagination of boys
with the good sport of carrying in
wood for a poor widow instead of
raiding her chicken roost."
James E. Brockway, scout execu
tive for the Portland council, says:
"Portland had, in the past, boy
gangs which terrorized their neigh
borhoods. Today those same gangs
are doing constructive community
service because they have been
made over by the friendship of
clean, older men. In one section of
our city where the boy life had been
a by-word there has been a com
plete reversal of popular opinion.
This modern miracle has come
about through the example of the
splendid men who have interpreted
the scout oath to the boys through
living alongside them until their
own character was caught.
Youth Downs Temptation.
"One of the boys whose troop
leader thought he needed double
assistance came to me for a con-
xerence every ween tor a long pe-1
riod during a terrible temptation he
assistant scout master and is now
away at a university perparing for
a useful life.
"Another, a close competitor for
the title of 'worst boy' in his neigh
borhood, has overcome his handi
caps until be has been chosen as
sistant scoutmaster. Another with
a "bad boy' reputation of several
years ago attended a recent execu
tive meeting and said he had no
time for the social activities in
which friends were trying to in
terest him this winter because he
feels honor-bound to give all his
spare time to the scouts and to pass
on to other boys the things which
have made a man of him. Several
years ago a scout master invited
ma to meet him and three of his
troop at cabin in the woods for
a day and talk with each alone
about matters of personal conduct.
All three resented it at the time
but afterward cleaned up their
lives and have now become de
pendable leaders."
Scout Button Prized.
Boys whose grades in .school have
brought gray hair to their teachers
as well as their parents now re
spect the despised books for the
sake of the scout button permitted
to those who reach and maintain 85
per cent in their school work. One
boy had U's, meaning unsatisfac
tory, and the first month after try
ing for the echool button he had
only one U and since then has had
none at all. Another boy, who stood
28th In his class, immediately rose
to eighth and has held his place as
eighth or ninth ever since."
Scout Tests Hard. .
President Emeritus Eliot of Har
vard says, "Between the ages of
12 and 18 a boy receives more of
practical education from scouting
than from school." His statement
takes on meaning when one finds
that in order to become a first-class
scout In Portland a boy must swim
a distance of SO yards without as
sistance, prove his ability to give
relief in drowning, fire, electric or
gas accident, fainting, freezing,
sunburn, poison oak, stings, bites,
Including that of a mad dog, chills,
nosebleed, earache and toothache;
to prevent a pane; must earn and
deposit at least 2 in a public bank;
send and receive a message by the
Semaphore and by the international
Morse alphabet; cook in the open
without regular kitchen utensils
fowl, game and hoecake; know four
methods of carrying the injured;
mark a trail (a) in a forest, (b) in
a country covered with tall grass,
(c) in a country bare and rocky;
find the North star and at least
three constellations; tell the direc
tions by a watch and the sun; and a
host at other kinds of practical
Information.
Duties Are Many.
Ee must kiow the names and
duties of his city's officials, have
received a course in sex-hygiene,
promise to keep thought, speech,
body, habits and companions clean,
manly and decent, to use no vulgar
or profane language as long as he
remains a soout; promise not to
touch or use in any way any kind
of tobacco or liquor until at least
21. One of the significant require
ments is that he must have enlisted
a boy trained by himself alone in
the requirements of a tenderfjoot
and see that he is enrolled in a
troop.
According to the scout manual,
''to be a scout means to be pre
pared to do the right thing at the
right moment, no matter what the
consequences may be."
Public Service Aim.
Jlr. Brockway says:. "Emphasis
was upon the physical development
of the scout a few years ago and
t,h e i r material accomplishments,
rather than the mental or moral.
Today the emphasis is upon the
Idealistic and the public service side
of the movement. This year of
1922. which has not yet closed, has
seen 25 per cent of all the merit
hadees ever awarded in the entire
13 years of scouting in the United
States. All through Oregon, as well
as the other 47 states, there are
thousands of scouts rendering com
munity service, patrolling parade
lines, ministering to Dystanaers, re
lieving congested traffic conditions
rleanlng community parks, lots and
vards. distributing health posters
and even putting our forest fires.
The Portland clean-up week com
mittee said: 'But for the Boy Scouts
we would not have accomplished
such great results,' and the Oregon
Tuberculosis association, 'we could
not exist without the Boy Scouts.'
Good Deeds Pledged.
"In the private good turns which
each scout is under oath to perform
every day. he not only helps a
woman carry her baby up a hill,
helps a lost child to find its par
ents, ties up the wounded foot of
dog, but best of all he has had
the softening influence of such ac
tions upon his own life. It isn't
o much what scouts do as what
they become that counts. The fi
nal and chief test of the scout is
tlx. doing of a good turn to some
body every day, quietly and with
out boasting.
"The Portland council has made
Its troops non-sectarian and non.
racial whereas some cities have the
various troops made up of boys of
only one group religiously or ra
cially Methodist, Roman Cath
olic Christian Scientist or Jewish.
?n 'Portland the troops' meeting
in denominational centers are open
to all School buildings are large
ly used for meeting places and
there is a flne c-Peration from
the school board.
Religion Is Essential.
rha boy's own personal religion
u i essential element in making
TiJT. srood citizen and we do all in
Jower to U. him up with th
religious leaders of his own par
ticular creed, but in the troop he
must respect the convictions of
those who differ from him.''
Each of the 104 troops in Port
Land has 32 or less boys, organized
on the basi3 of one to "four patrols
of eight boys each. The leaders
find better results when they keep
on intimate terms with the smal
ler number. In Portland the aver
age number is 22.
In addition to the year-around
work in the city there Is an eight
weeks' outing at Camp Chlnidere,
established by the Portland Coun
cil in 1916 at Lake Wahtum, 18
miles above the Columbia highway
from Eagle creek and in the
United States forest reserve. The
scout headquarters office at 250
Third street has a. large file of let
ters from . parents praising the
camp,
Portland Council Lead.
Portland council of the Boy Scouts !
of America has led the national
organization in high standards,
which have- now been accepted by ,
all councils of the Pacific coast,
and have been recommended by the
national council; in the number en
rolled in proportion to the popula
tion; in originating a workable
thrift system, which has been
adopted by many other cities, and
in the type of its leaders.
C. C. Colt, president of the Port
land council, says; "The credit for
this gratifying record belongs
largely to one 'man, James E.
Brockway, our scout executive,
whose fine character and compell
ing enthusiasm have inspired the
entire group of men and boys. He
has repeatedly received recogni
tion from the national organiza
tion as one of the leaders in the
American scout movement. He is
dean of scout executives in the
states, having had the longest pe
riod of continuous Bervice."
- High Standard Set.
Shortly after assuming the duties
of scout executive for the Portland
council in 1916, Mr. Brockway met
for conference with executives from
other coast cities and was told that
the standards ke named were im
possibly high, that he would be
unable -to secure men as scout
masters and committee men on the
basis of euch ideals and habits, and
that he would frighten away the
boys. Mr. Brockway replied: "In
that, case, gentlemen, we would
have to give tip thereout movement
in Portland, but if we continue it,
we will hold to these "Standards."
Since that time every one of the
cities represented In that confer
ence has adopted the Portland
standards, and in 1920 Scouting, the
national official periodical, pub
lished them and recommended them
to all American scouts. j
Boys Like Hard Jobs.
"A high standard appeals to the
best there is in a b6y," says Mr.
Brockway. "I can get a quicker
response from the average boy by
asking him to do something hard
than something easy. He likes to
finda man's Job waiting for him
and leaders who believe him cap
able of handling it. Some fine boys
who had dropped out of the scat
tered troops before the- council's
organization- came back after the
adoption of the present uniform
standards, and ever since then we
have had no difficulty in holding
the finest type and in developing
the best n the average boy, and in
even the socially and morally sub
normal. A first-class scout from
Portland can enter any troop in the
United States of America. Boys
from other cities upon coming here
sometimes find they cannot meet
the requirements of their rank, and
in several cases have voluntarily
surrendered their emblems until
they should become worthy of
them."
Leader ikng in World. .
Mr. Brockway has been the scout
executive ever since the Portland
council emerged from the scattered
troops following the personal stand
ards of whatever leader happened to
be Interested enough to give his
time. Up to that time Mr. Brock
way had been in business but had
given his leisure time to work
among boys under one title or an
other for 20 years. His interest in
boys gradually absorbed all of his
time. He says there are three rea
sons for his concentrating on the
scout movement to the exclusion of
other fine organizations. First, it
has a definite programme which In
sures some results even though the
scoutmasters and committeemen in
Isolated districts may have only
moderate gifts of leadership and
may have no training outside the
scout handbook .and occasional con
ferences. Then its nation-wide scope
appealed to him as providing the
right opportunity for boys remov
ing to a new city to continue the
same activities without losing their
progressive rank. Third, it gives an
opportunity for instantaneous prac
tice of every theory which might be
forgotten if put off until tomorrow
or next week.
Portland Has 104 Troops.
Portland has the largest number
of troops in proportion to the popu
lation of all the Pacific coast cities,
indeed, the largest in all. cities up to
400.000 in the entire country, Port
land, with a population of 258,000,
has 104 troops, 2179 scouts and a
cost per capita of 18.55; Seattle, with
830,000, has 74 troops, 1386 scouts
and a cost per capita of $12.54, and
Oakland, with 250,000, has 48 troops,
1196 scouts and a cost per capita of
$16.03. San Francisco seems to have
an especially hard time to secure
scout leaders, for with her 2357
scouts enrolled she has only 86
troops. Portland averages 22 in a
troop. The basis of organization
with less than the permitted four
patrols of eight boys each has
proved to promote the close persona
relation to which Jr'residen. Colt and
Executive Brockway attribute the
results in Portland.
Thrift System Famous.
Portland's thrift system has be
come nation-wide. A first class
scout must have a certain amount
of money in the bank. Out of 300
Interviewed on the subject, Mr.
Brockway found that 248 have bank
accounts The scout thrift stamps,
which were invented by Mr. Brock
way and which bear his signature,
are always on hand at headquar
ters, at troop meetings and at the
bank chosen as depository. All funds
are held subject to the signature of
the depositor and the counter signa
ture of the scout executive. Often a
boy has accepted the suggestion to
put off the withdrawal of his money
until he may have a more important
object than the one of his first im
pulse. A part of the scout law is:
"A scout is thrifty. He does not
wantonly destroy property. He
works faithfully, wastes nothing
and makes the best use of his oppor
tunities. He saves his money so
that he may pay his own way,- be
generous to those in need and help
ful to worthy objects. He ma.y work
for pay, but must not receive tips
for courtesies or good turns."
Mr. Brockway has associated with
him as assistant scout executives J.
C. Oakes, W. D. Janin and W. B.
MorBe, ,.who spend practically all of
their time la discovering ana devel
oping leaders, scout masters, assist
ant scout masters and troop com
mittees. They study men of the city
who are making a success of their
own profession or busiries and who
may or may not be already active
in some civic work.
"The man who becomes One of bur
leaders does not need to know any
thing of scout craft," says Mr.
Brockway. "We have two or three
training classes for leaders each
season. "We agree to furnish them
with all the technical knowledge re
quired and to train them in methods
of applying the - knowledge. But
three requirements are inexorably
exacted: (1) clean thinking and liv
ing; (2), forcefulness of character,
and 3) inclination.
"Three men of outstanding char
acter and ability have been our
presidents since the organization of
the council," says Mr. Brockway,
"M. W. Cotton, L. C. Gilman andC.
C. Colt, who has now given three
years of notably fine administra
tion. Among our other officers and
executive committee members are
Adolphe Wolfe,,L, Allen Lewis, Hor
ace Mecklem, E, C. SammonB, Mar
shall N. Dana, H. D. Angell, O. B.
Coldwell, J. A. Cranston, J. F. Clark
eon, T. M. Dunne, J. K Gill, C. E.
Grelle, Frank R. Kerr, W. B. Mac
kay, S. W. Ottenheimer, T. H. Sher
rard, Frank L. Shull, Omar C. Spen
cer, Guy W. Talbot -end Dr. Otis B.
Wight.
Our greatest need Just now is for
a larger number of scout masters,
assistant scout masters and com
mitteemen who will have close con
tact with a limited number of boys.
One of the purposes of the annual
dinner followed by the evening mass
meeting next Wednesday is to re
cruit men who will give themselves
and not just their money to this
citizen building endeavor."
Visitor Asked to Meeting
of Boy Scouts.
Annual Returns on Investment o
Be Made Known Wednesday.
BT GEORGIANA GERLINGER.
EVEP.YONE Interested in scouting
Is invited to meet with th Port
land council of the Boy Scouts of
America," local executive officers
and scoutmasters in a mass meet
ing at 8 o'clock next Wednesday
night at the ChamDer of Commerce,
to hear annual returns on the in
vestment. The principal address
will be given by Dr. Earle Pearce,
a member of the faculty in the Uni
versity of Washington.
This week closes the Portland
recruiting campaign for new scouts,
which is a part of the national cam
paign closing "with the anniversary
round-up February 15.
At present there ar,e 400,000 scouts
In the United States, while there
are eight million boys of scout age
(between 12 and 18 years of age)
in the country. It is the aim of
the organization to bring their en
rollment up to the half million
mark in this drive. In a recent
radio address made by James E.
West, chief scout executive, from
the national office In New York, a
plea was made for all the citizens
who heard him to help make the
scouting programme available for
more American boys.
"Our organization is one that Is
chartered by the congress of the
United States and stand solely for
the purpose of training for citizen
ship through service. . Since we
have had scouting in America Just
about two million boys have come
into active touch, as members, with
the ssoutlng programme," Mr. West
stated. "Scouting today reaches al
most every civilized country," he
added. For those who were not
familiar with the oath which every
scout takes upon becoming a mem
ber he repeated it:
" 'On my honor I will do my best:
" '1. To do my duty to God and
my country, and to obey the scout
law.
"'2. To help other people"at all
times.
" '3. To keep myself physically
strong, mentally awake and morally
straight! "
Mr. West continued to explain the
scope of scouting and said that there
are troops In 500 American cities
and counties and that 125,000 scout
leaders are giving their time from
their business and professions to do
voluntary service in training the
boys of the country to become hon
orable and useful citizens. There
is a need for men to lead troups
in all of these cities where new
members will be organized this
year, and he urged all men over 18
years of age to get into touch Im
mediately with the nearest scout
authorities and offer their services
in the scouting programme.
Mr. West expressed gratification
at the response which the scouts all
over the country have made in
keeping the Jaws of scouting. "When
it comes to good turns and service,
which are rendered In scouting, the
actual stories and statistics are
most convincing of the benefits of
this movement not only to the boys
themselves, but to America. There
is scarcely a city or town today
that has not been the recipient of
services rendered by this organiza
tion," he concluded.
C. C. Colt of the First National
bank is the president of the Boy
Scouts in Portland and will preside
over the meeting at the Chamber
of Commerce. All persons in the
city who are interested in the work
of the organization and who are
willing to help in the future, and
particularly in the present cam
paign for members, will be wel
comed at the meeting on Wednes
day. Girls' Industrial Clubs
Hold Their Meetings.
Activities t Y. w. c. A. Cover
Wide Range of Welfare.
FURTEEN were present at the
monthly business meeting of the
Blue Triangle club. .
The membership committee re
ported looking up absent members
and asked each member to invite a
new girl.
The social committee reported a
club supper and stunt night to be
held December 27. Each member
must have a stunt or be fined 25
cents.
For social service work, jl stock
ing is to be filled for an ex-club
member who is ill at a sanitarium.
Olive Holland and Clara Juve ar
the committee in charge.
A finance committee, Miss Fitz
gerald and Clara Juve, was ap
pointed to draw up a budget and
make plans for raising money for a
delegate to Seabeck. The business
meeting was adjourned to hear Mrs.
Alta Stephens in her lectures on
"Life Adjustment." The lectures are
given on the first and third Thurs
days of the month at 8 o'clock and
are free to all girls.
Miss Carrie B. Wood, of the First
Friends church of Portland, ad
dressed the Industrial clubs of the
Young Women's Christian associa
tion on her experiences and work In
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Among the many excellent features ot the Boy Scouts' work in Oregon
In the summer camp at Wahtum lake. This photograph shows happy
scouts enjoying: themselves there.
India, last Tuesday night. Miss Wood
has passed 12 years in India and is
home on her second furlough. She
expects to return to renew her work
there next fall. She was located at
Norvgong, 700 miles north of Bom
bay. Indian women of high caste
are not allowed to leave their homes.
Miss Wood visited these women and
taught them to read. She never was
permitted to touch them or they
would be defiled. In order to give
them a book, she must place it upon
the floor and out of her hands be
fore it can be picked up by the
Indian woman. One woman in 100
can read and write.
There will be special Christmas
music at the industrial department
supper next Tuesday.
Twelve members of the Blue Bird
club of the True Blu Biscuit com
pany, at their meeting last Monday
night, decided to give a play in Feb
ruary for the benefit of their Sea
beck conference delegates' fund. For
social service the club will give
food for a Christmas basket and the
members are selling tuberculosis
seals in the factory.
The girls have asked a hair
dresser to give them a course in the
care of the hair.
At the Sunday Christmas pageant
the ushering and the tea service will
be in charge of Hazel Trask, August
Posteri, Dorothy Kelly, Helen Peter
son, Mary Dodson and Hilda Rose.
Girls from the Pacific Coast Bis
euit company - met at the Young
Woman's Christian association last
Tuesday for supper and practiced a
stunt to be given at the White Ele
phant party, January 2, entitled
"The Eskimo Tragedy." The cast
includes: Eskimo, Hattie Burbach;
Eskimaid, kitty Webber; Fido, tht
Dog, Anna Yost; Eskimurder, the
Rival, Hazel Whittuck; Footllght,
Christine Miller; Curtain Pole, Doro
thy Brown; Potted Plants, Edna
Damon and Elsl Smith. The cast
will meet for another rehearsal
Tuesday, December 19.
Public Welfare Bureau
Opens Yule Offices.
Christmas Gifts for Needy Will
Be Received.
Thf. public welfare bureau will
maintain a downtown headquar
ters from now until Christmas In
the Concord building, at Second and
Stark streets.
All the Greathearts and Goodfel
fows who wish to share their bounty
with the less fortunate are asked to
bring their gifts of money or ma
terials to this office and store
room. There la ample space for
boxes of fruit, cases of canned
goods, bags of vegetables, furniture,
bedding and clothing.
The welfare bureau has sent out
more than 4000 letters to friends of
the needy asking them to put them
selves in the ptece of those who
receive the gifts" and decide whether
they would want the method used
which is suggested. Wherever needy
but self-respecting parents may be
trusted with cash contribution!
they will be given the joy of mak
ing their own Christmas purchases
and playing Santa Claus to their
own children. The letters name
four objects In this plan: (1) That
the largest number of givers and
the needy be brought together. 2)
That actual needs be met without
the waste which comes from giving
without knowing the circumstances
of the recipient. (3) An equitable
distribution. (4) The advantage of
having some money and supplies
left to carry the Christmas spirit
into the New Year in case more is
given than covers the holiday needs.
. Miss Bernice Adams, who 'Is In
charge of ths Christmas bureau,
says that the fourth point is one
of the principal objects.
"By using this plan," said Miss
Adams, "we will eliminate much of
the waste during Christmas week
and be able to help families who
will be in need loftg after New
Year's day. Last year one family re
ceived three crates of candy no, not
small boxes, but crates and made
.themselves ill with the sweets,
whereas they needed a mattress and
blankets and other essentials for
health. One woman received three
boxes of apples. Of course, a part
of them were spoiled before she
could use them, a poor example of
thrift. There are many families
that need cooking utensils, under
wear, stockings, shoes, suits for
growing boys and clothing for vari
ous ages, bedding and plain furni
ture more than 'they need turkey
and cranberry sauce unless they
can have both. ,
"Those of us who visit in the
homes find it better for the bureau
to arrange the distribution of gifts,
in order to keep from humiliating
the self-respecting or further de
grading those who have the servile
attitude. Anyone who wishes to
make a real contribution in friend
'v visitation may ask for an assign
ment to help some needy familj
egularly throughput the year,"
Dog's Point of View Given.
Edmund J. Kiffer in New York Sun.
Flees are the badge of all our
tribe.
Bury bones in haste; retrieve at
leisure.,
A bigger dog should be seen, not
disturbed,
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Service Worker Praises .
Portland Training.
Mrs. June Nlssen Tells of Benefit
of Experience Here.
MRS. JUNE NISSEN, who spoke
at a recent meeting of the
Oregon Association of Social Work
ers regarding her work among the
soldiers and sailors during and
since the war, paid a high tribute to
the training for social service which
she had received in Portland.
"I went from my work as proba
tion officer for the Juvenile court
In Portland," said Mrs. Nissen, "to
take training in New York. When
I answered the government examin
ation questions I found that the
ones on which I made the best
grades were the ones In which J
quoted my experience in Portland
among the theaters whose managers
gave me such splendid co-operation
in looking after the chorus girls.
In all my work with the service
men and the girls who lived near
the military posts, I would think
back to the way we decided mat
ters in Portland."
After serving at Camps Lewis,
Green and Riley, she returned to the
coast and was stationed in River
side and then In San Diego. Since
congress has abolished, the case
workers of the bureau of social hy
giene, she has accepted the posi
tion of probation officer for adults,
under the municipality of San Diego.
That means she is doing the same
work in befriending the soldiers as
before, but under a different title.
For the past 16 months, Mrs. NIs
son has been Red Cross mother of
the government hospital for dis
abled veterans at Camp Kearney,
Cal. While there several of the boya
for whom she has cared were from
Oregon, she said. Cities which were
represented were Portland, Baker,
Oregon City, Bend and Astoria.
"My work with the men at Camp
Kearney was delightful," Bhe ,said.
"I don't know of anything I have
done that I like so well." The
men from Oregon are eager for news
from this state, she said, and either
read the newspapers or hear them
read each day.
The Red Cross has reorganized
the work in the hospital and no
longer employs a hostess or Red
Cross mother. Mrs, Nissen will take
up her work in San Diego after the
first of the year.
"In San Diego I have the support
of one of the grandest men in the
navy, Admiral Roger Wells. The
ooys can him, 'our old lady,' but
they mean it as a compliment. He
really cares for his boys and is wise
as well as sympathetic in handling
them. He has arranged for marine
officers to stand at the doors of cer
tain dance halls of which I have
warned him, and to save the boys
from the contamination there. I
also have the fine co-operation of
a manly young chief of police and
a fearless group of women In a civic
club.
Welfare Bills Proposed for
Next Legislature.
Oregon Social Workers Rehlnd
Important Measures.
FRANKLIN F. KORRELL, chair
man of the Oregon social work-
rs' legislative committee, says that
the committee has under considera
tion several measures of great im
portance to the family and com
munity life of the state.
The committee is drafting bills to
submit to the legislature at the
coming session and is co-operating
with a number of civic organiza
tions in compiling facts as to pres
ent needs in the state and compar
ing present laws with enactments
in other commonwealths. The com
mittee expects to confine its efforts
to a few important measures rather
than scatter its force over a large
number of relatively minor matters.
With Mr. Korrell on the committee
are James E. Brockway, ex-officio
as president of the Oregon Social
Workers' association; Mrs. E. C.
Simmons, Mrs. Alexander Thomp
son, miss juua Spooner, Mrs.
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, McElroy, Mrs. Norman F. Coleman'
mis. u. x; tjuiana, Clarence H. Gil
bert, Dean Hale of . the University
of Oregon law school. Mrs. Sadie
Orr - Dunbar, Gilbert Wells, Mrs.
Harriet H. ..Heller, W. G. MacLaren
and Misa Frances S. Hayes.
Lane County Lad Tells of
Raising Chickens.
Three of Flock Given for Club
Dinner, gays Letter.
I
ftLAYTON CAUTHORN. aged 1L la
VJ a thrifty young citizen of Lane
county. He recently wrote a letter
to the state club leader which is
published with the original phrase
ology and spelling in order to reveal
how the 1922 child mind works.
'The reason I joined the poultry
club I had to have money to pay
for my calf. I helped in the garden.
cleaned the chicken house and helDed
fn f epd nhickens For mv work mnth..
I game. me. 15 purebred Wyandotte
1
eggs. These I set in April. In due
time I had 13 chicks. I placed the
mother hen in an open front coop
!C the little ones could run in and
out. I did not feed anything for 38
hours. Then I gave them some milk
to drink, a little hard-boiled egg and
bread crums.
"In about a week I began to feed
them clover cut fine, baked potatoes
and grown 6orn, scraps from the
table and all the sour milk they
could drink. I washed their drinking
eish and feeding dishes every day.
The hawks caught part of them.
I only raised seven to be grown and
they were all roosters. As I fed little
but potatoes, milk and grain we
raised, they only cost me $2.50 for
feed and lice powder."
He is receiving about $10 for the
four he Is selling, since he learned
to caponize and rear for the top
notch market price. He gave three
for a club dinner. Some of Oregon's
older citizens think Clayton haa de
veloped early the right kind of olvio
spirit in giving three out of his
seven fowls for a community purpose.
Girl Scouts at Work to
Assist Needy.
Alriaworth School Troon Raises
Funds for Astoria Children's
. Christmas.
GIRL SCOUTS urge all girls to
search for the "singing heart"
that they may spread joy through
out the world. The Ainsworth
School troop has as a part of its
Christmas plans a donation to the
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children, and is earning the money
through the sale of tiny, decorated
Christmas trees to be used for the
Christmas dinner table.
Sunflower troop and troop 8 and
4 are dressing dolls and making
other Christmas gifts for their
adopted children.
The Dogwood troop has planned
a social evening after the holidays
to raise money for troop uniforms,
and will sell a quilt made of em
broidered blocks as a part of their
second-class work. The troop en
joyed ths help last Tuesday of their
mothers, whose committee is com
posed of Mesdames Robinson, Fred
lareal, Frank Woddell, Rhodes and
S. P. Stewart, captain of the troop.
The Kill Brownies met at the
home of Catherine Lathrop lasi
Thursday to sew on their caps the
bees embroidered as a part of their
Bee test requirements.
Any girls in the Failing school
who are Interested In scouting will
kindly hand their names to Evelyn
Syverson and attend the meeting
next Wednesday at her home.
For-get-me-not troop of the
Franklin High., school elected the
following officers: Gladys Acker,
president; Nellie Benson, secretary
and treasurer; Thelman Ras, scribe;
Ruth McClure and Frances Everett,
patrol leaders. The Christmas gifts
will go to a family of six children.
Montavilla troop of older girls has
chosen the name Bluebells and pink
and blue for colors. It is to have
Mrs. D. Stewart for Its leader. The
girls of the fourth and fifth grades
are forming a second troopr with
Mrs. Sandman as leader. The two
groups are having a membership
contest
Mrs. Daisy Stewart, regional di
rector, passed the week-end in El
lensburg, Wash., to assist in the
Leader's Course given at the State
Normal school to a large class, with
full academic credit for their work
under Miss Allen of the physical
education department.
All officers are requested to pre
sent reports on their troops' Christ
mas work at the leaders' meeting
next Tuesday morning from 10:30 to
11:30 at the Central library.
Headquarters requests each ' cap
tain to send the names of the
Mothers' committee.
Yute Gifts for Parents Are
- Listed for Guidance.
Belated Christmas Shoppers Slay
Choose Presents. '
BELATED Christmas shoppers may
avail themselves of the follow
ing list of suggested gifts for
mother and father. Few fathers
and mothers need suggestions as to
what their children need or have
put off buying until the last min
ute: For mother Album, apron, bag:, bath
roba, beads, blouse, books, boudoir cap,
brooch, brushes, bureau set, camera,
candy, center pieces, clook, cut glass,
dollies, 'dress form, dress foods, em
broidered table linen, fern dish, furs,
gloves, bandkerchlews, hosiery, house
dress. Jardiniere, Jewelry, kimono, knit
ting needles, tsces, lamp shade, lingerie,
lorgnette, magazine order, manicure set,
opera glasses, pearls, perfume, petti
coat, robe, scarf, sewing machine, sew
ing outfit, shawl, shears, silks, skirt,
slippers, stationery, sweater, tea wagon,
thermos bottle, thimble, toilet articles,
towels, umbrella, underthings, vanity
case, vase, veil, watch.
For father Auto robs, bath robe, belt,
bill folder, books, book rack, brushes,
calendar, camera, cane, checker outfit,
chess outfit, clock, collars, collar bag,
comb, cuff links, diary, fountain pen,
gloves, golf goods, handkerchiefs, hat,
house coat, knife, laundry bag., loung
ing robe, purse, reading lamp, safety
razor, scarf, scarf pin, shaving set,
shirts, silver match case, Uppers,
smoking jacket, sporting goods, sta
tionery, sweaters, tie, tie rack, umbrella,
watch, watch chain and fob. ,
Games Are Suggested for
Winter Nights.
Carvlns; ot Apples to Represent
Persons Is Amusing.
ON A LONG winter evening when
all members of the family sit
around the fireplace, enjoying Ore
gon's unsurpassed apples, an inter
esting game grows out of a con
test in carving faces on the smooth,
red surface of the Juicy fruit.
The only tool needed is a sharp
pointed fruit knife. Cloves add to
the realistic effect of eyes, and a
toothpick helps to hold in place
curls made from a part of the par
ings. For the most artistic and the
most grotesque countenances de
lightfully edible prizes may be foot
ball players made of figs for body,
raisins for legs and arms and
almonds for face, hands and feet.
A broad grin contest should be
directed by the youngest member of
the olrcle, preferably under 12 years
of age, who displays a tempting
prize for the winner and then
measures the grins of all present
with a tape line and renders the
award to the one who actually
covers the most Inches in smiling.
To get into practice for those
"thank you notes" which Christmas
gifts require, it is popular now for
families to have a new-fashioned
spelling bee, UBing words . which
have come Into the dictionary re
cently enough for one to enjoy dis
playing erudtion in connection with
them. The poorest speller in the
party is chosen to be teacher, be
cause there would be no use in his
trying, and there is a good deal of
merriment in having each one at-
tamnt to demonstrate in advance
Just what a, poor speller he is- and
why he should not 'take a place
among the spellers. No one loses his
piace because of missing wort's, bifi
the duilard who misses the largest
number has to sit with his face to
ward the wall for ten minutes. One
of the younger members of the fam
ily will enjoy selecting the wordB.
Astoria Scouts Telegraph
for New Uniforms.
Action Taken Immediately After
Fire as Aid in Dischare of Duty.
SCOUT efficiency was put to the
test In Alexander's reojiest Just
one hour before his performance
for Boy Scout help in his diving ex
hibition for the benefit of the Com
munity Chest. The llth-hour call
may have caused some Inconvenience
to mothers who had planned other
employment for their boys.
Astoria scout headquarters tele
graphed Immediately after the fire
for new scout equipment in order
that the scouts might wear their
uniforms In the discharge of public
service. .
- Astoria scouts will have the satis
faction of distributing Christmas
gifts provided by Portland scouts
through the clothing, food and toys
to be brought to the big scout rally
at Lincoln high school on Friday,
December 22.
Troop 94 of the Fulton Park
school, in a survey of all the boys in
the neighborhood eligible, for scout
ing, found only three not yet en
rolled in some troop and is "track
ing" them for recruits.
Centenary-Wilbur Methodist Epis
copal church is organizing a new
troop. No. 43, with 22 boys under
the leadership of H. T. Green and
& S. Brown. This church has al
ready one full-sized troop as a part
of its seven-day-a-week programme
In Its community house.
Members of Troop 67 have secured
16 new scouts for Portland troops
during the recruiting campaisrn.
- Troop 40 has 42 members and six
applicants waiting to pass their
tests, being one of the troops whose
leaders give sufficient time to jus
tify the larger number than the
regulation two to four patrols of
eight boys each. This troop has had
23 hikes in 1922, 15 of them over
night and usually for two or three
nights. The eight daytime hikes
have averaged ten miles each on the
trip to the troop's own camp on the
Columbia slough.
The scout leaders' training class
met Thursday and discussed "Pa
trol Leaders; How to Select Them
and What They Are to Do." The
leaders' class will meet tomorrow.
Old Timers' clubs in the great edu
cational institutions of the north
west will continue outdoor activities
and pursue training for volunteer
leadership in their home cities upon
the completion of college studies.
The Reed college group is already
functioning and organizations are
under way at the University of Ore
gon, Oregon Agricultural college
and the University of Washington.
This affords an unusual type of fra
ternal bond to young men who have
come from many different cities but
are all trained in the same high
standards of rersonal life and
service. -
Campfire Guardians Get
Instruction.
members of Association Working
to Win Honor.
rTTHE members , of the Campfire
X Guardians' association' spent
Monday evening working together
to win the honor which is to be
known as the Portland honor, under
the instructions of Miss Florence
Norval, an assistant in the chil
dren's department in the library.
This instruction will be given to
the various groups of girls later.
Campfire headquarters has been
a busy place the past week. Many
of the guardians have been work
ing faithfully, preparing the ma
terial for the toys that the girls
are going to make as their Christ
mas offering to some needy chil
dren. Mrs. Pearl Shively and Mrs.
Mary Savage, the toy committee,
were assisted by Mrs. Mabel Broder,
Mrs. Wayne Leever, Mrs. Pearl
Lechner, Mrs. Ivy Feldman and Mrs.
Olive Hlnz.
Mrs. Elizabeth J. White, execu
tive, organized another group at
Troutdale December 2. Mrs. J. R.
Knarr Is the guardian and Mrs
Olive Wilson assistant guardian.
The girls have selected Chanamanipi
as the name of their group. The
15 girls comprising this group are:
Helen Lahdan, Amy Kendall, Beulah
Miller, Grace Surber, Viola Pye,
Elizabeth Robinson, Clelia Craw
ford, Harriett Holmes, Miriam
Spence, Mildred Surben, Helen
Althans. Faye Parsons, Dorothy
Sterling and Louise Howard.
The Ol-un-ak-wa group, a group
of Lincoln high school girls, with
their new guardian, Mrs. Wayne
Leever, met at the home of Miss
Wreatha Brickley Tuesday noon
for luncheon and the making of
toys for their Christmas giving.
The girls present were: Virginia
Sterling, Miriam Shepherd, Marion
Huggins, Elizabeth Sawdy. Jacque
line Honeywell, Eleanor Larson and
Josephine Ropp.
The group of Oswego lake is one
of 11 busy girls and on Friday at
their ceremonial meeting they initi
ated two new members: Christie
MacDonald and Helen Wissllng.
Helen Fattier -nd Elizabeth
Buckner of the Ky-east group, Mrs.
Martha Goodwin, guardian, cooked
supper for the members of their
group on Friday evening. For do
ing this, Helen and Elizabeth each
won an honor, which makes their
list of honors complete for the fire
makers' degree.
Mrs. Elizabeth J. White, Portlana
executive, spoke at the luncheon of
the Oregon Social Workers last
Wednesday and asked the members
present for the names f r.ny chil
dren on their lists who might need
the surplus toys from the Camp
fire Girls' supply.
High School Reserves at
Christmas Work.
Tri-Y Clnbs Preparine Cheer for
II. S. Hospitals.
AT THE recent grade school ad
visers' council meeting, Mrs.' P.
A. Ogelbei was appointed chairman
of the committee to plan for a
Christmas party to be given next
Wednesday, following the grade
school swimming meet, which is
scheduled for 2 o'clock. Mrs. Frank
Christopher and Miss Mabel Byrd
will act as members of the commit-
I tee. .
Every corps in the city is plan
I ning some form of social service
1 work for Christmas. Sick children,
1 the aged, and needy families will
I share girl reserve hospitality at this
season of the year.
Betsy Rosa corps was organized
at Vernon school with a membership
of tea girlSi who already are start-
lng their Christmas service work of
making sheets and night dresses for
babies at the Alberttna Kerr baby
home. They also are planning to
provide soap and wash cloths for
the residents at a borne for the aged
in the city. This corps sold candy
at the Christmas play given at the
Vernon school last Friday. The old
er girls' corps at the school pre
sented the play "Snow White," under
the direction of Mrs. Everett Mar
shall Hurd. Mrs. Frank Julian and
Mrs. M. E. Lipes are in charge of
the two corps.
Girl reserves of the city are plan
ing to raise as large a sum of money
as possible to be sent to the near
east. A start has been made and
quite a sum has been realized from
the sale of a new game of "base
ball," over which .all Portland boys
are becoming quite enthused and
even the girls. It makes a desirable
Christmas gift. Orders may be
telephoned to Miss Mitchell, at Main
7876, or given through girl reserve
members in the various districts.
Sellwood girl reserves will have a
Christmas bazaar December 23 at
the Sellwood furniture store. The
proceeds will be used in corps serv
ice work. Mrs. Errol Brown is
adviser for this group.
Girl Reserves of School
Division Are Active.
Christmas Work Is Under Way In
Grade Department.
rlE high sehbol clubs of reserves
are all busy doing Christmas
service work. The Tri-Y clubs are
making preparations for the United
States public health hospital, and
many various forms of Christmas
cheer will be given by the girls of
these upper grade clubs in Lincoln,
Franklin, Jefferson and Washington
high schools. The Pepper and Spice
clubs are packing large boxes fuJl
of gifts, for the Indian tubereumr
children in Idaho. The other clubs
are preparing to assist in taking
Christmas baskets of clothing and
provisions to children and mothers
in Portland. The Live Wire club
will sing carols at the Woodmere
home on December 23.
A large party is being planned for
all city high school reserves by ths
advisers of the various clubs. It
will take place Thursday night, Jan
uary 28, at 7:30 P. M In the Social
hall of the Y. W. C. A. Every girl
who is planning to come should send
word to her advlser before Christ
mas. The Y's club gave a delightful tea
for their mothers yesterday after
noon in the club rooms. Mts. Frank
Cram poured, assisted by ths social
committee of which Jane Stevens is
chairman. Mrs.' Ray Conway, ad
viser, and Marjorie Cram, club pis
ldent, received. There was a formal
Initiation service preceding the
serving of the tea.
A. F. Bittner spoke at the Y's clifo
regular luncheon and club meeting
Wednesday. The talk was most m
spiring and helpful to the girls, as
it touched on many characteristics'
of high school girls. Mr. Bittner
also spoke on concentration in
studying and how best to improve
in the hardest studies. The Lincoln
Tri-Y held a splendid informal in
itiation Tuesday. Every new girl
presented a stunt of some kind Be
fore the members. There was ais
a mock wedding, joining the old srtrl
and the new girl in the Blue trian
gle matrimony.
The Jefferson girls gave thetr in
formal Initiation Friday. These girls
have had strenuous weeks of initia
tion in order to make them see the
full meaning of working for a
stronger body, mind and spirit.
The swimming meet will be held
the third Saturday in January. The
two entries from each club are now
practicing with Miss Payne in the
"Y" tank.
There will be no basketball prac
tice until the first Saturday in Jan
uary. COLLEGE HEADS TO MEET
Important Topics to Be Discussed
at Chicago in January.
CHICAGO. Dec. 16. The status of
the religious life and the methods
of religious education, attempts at
unification of the college curriculum
now being made throughout tae
country and the present status of
intercollegiate athletics in- various
sections of the country, are among
the topics to be discussed at tho
meeting of the Association of Ameri
can Colleges, to be held here the
second week in January, according
to Samuel Plantz, yice-presloeni. ot
the association.
Other topics of importance to col
lege executives and administrators
include reports on special surveys
of colleges in Colorado, Nebraska,
Arkansas, Oklahoma and Iowa, and
the increase in endowments and
maintenance of the colleges belong
ing to the association since the
Rockefeller gift of 1920.
"The second week in January has
for some years been known as
'education week' in Chicago." said
Mr. Plantz. "The Council of
Churches board of education, com
posed of the boards of education of
18 Protestant churches, will open
Its sessions Monday, January 8.
Sessslons of the council will con
tinue until Tuesday evening, wnen
it will meet jointly with the con
ference of church workers in uni
versities, which will close its ses
sions at noon Friday.
"Various denominational colleges
associations will meet Wednesday
and Thursday. A banquet Thursday
evening will mark the opening of
the Association of American Col
leges." -
PRINCE ONCE IN IDAHO
Italian Ambassador Mining Engi
neer at Wallace in 19 08.
WALLACE. Idaho, Dec. 16.
Prince Gelasio. Caetain, recently
named Italian ambassador to Wash
ington, D. C, was engineer in
charge of the mill of the Bunker
Hill & Sullivan mine here in 1908.
according to Z. W. Simmons, one
of the mine officials. At that time
the prince was in the United States
metallurgical department, says Mr.
Simmons.
Upon leaving the Wallace mine
Prince Caetain went to San Fran
cisco, where he remained until Italy
was drawn Into the world war. He
then returned to his native country
and served during. the war with
the engineering corps of the
Italian army. It is said that it was
Prince Caetain who laid a mine
which blew up the top of Coldi
Lana mountain, an Austrian strong
hold. When Senator Ricci, who re
signed the Italian ambassadorship
to the United States after the
fascisti party came into power in
Italy, resigned his post, Premier
Mussolini appointed Prince Caetain
to succeed him.
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