"$ NEWS RNP NOTES OF THE BOY SCOUTS $ >LAN FOR HUGE SCOUT BANQUET Father and Son" Dinner to Be Held February 10; Many Stunts Arrangements are well under way !or the big celebration and night of iollilication on February 10. In other words, for the "Father and Son Ban quet." Owing to lack of room ,-Jlie plans have had to be change and the iffair will bo held in the Masonic Tefnplc hall at Third and State streets instead of at the Penn-Harris Hotel. Tickets are now at headquar ters—7s cents for a scout —$1.00 for his father. On the "stunts" commit tee are Lewis P. Jenkins, scoutmas ter Troop 8, and John German, Jr., scoutmaster of Troop 13. This com mittee requests that all repolrts on troop "stunts" be made next Tues day evening, February 4, at scout masters' meeting as this will £e the time for all final reports. Every troop is expected to contribute some form of entertainment song, , speech, sketch, etc. In addition, L. E. Vana li an, scoutmaster Troop 26 : , who is c hairman of the first-aid demonstra tion, will be in charge of a contest in first-aid undor the captaincy of Paul Kohlhaas, assistant scoutmas ter of that troop. Proficiency, ac curacy, and speed are the factor which will determine the winners of this contest. There's no,doubt about it—this is going to be a big affair. HEARTBURN or heaviness a£ter - meals are most an noying manifestations of acid-dyspepsia. oleasant to take, neutralize acidity and help restore normal digestion. MADE BY SCOTT & BOWNE MAKERS OF SCOTT'S EMULSION . ' 19-3 mm; K&& 1 "mo*™™™™*- H AIRN ET 1 j: 1 l[ Coal Office Seventh & Woodbine Sts, i . I u FOR the convenience of consumers up town Vve maintain a coal office and yard at 7th and Woodbine Streets. Orders given our up-tovyn yard arc Til led j carefully and,,promptly. No long waits for coal for the simple reason that the yard is \ located a short distance from the point of delivery. 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No fellows, that's only the beginning—just the briefest pos sible outline. There's music, troop colors waving in, the air, songs, cheersj stunts an* everything a fel- > low wints to'.gats' Let Ine tell ydu scouts, the fellotp' who rfiisses that wtll miss the Best thing we have ever "put over." The troop that does not come with some real stunts, songs and cheers will certainly be a dead one. But all the songs, stunts and eats are the small est part about it. Thgft is some thing In copn'ectlon with the affair 'that goes beyqjid all that. It's the fact , that the best boy scout of, them all will be there! V Who is th| best real boy scout? Why it's dad. Dad's go ing to be ther© with the rest of us boys and let me, say it again fellows, dad is T H E scdtit. We look at dad to-day as a busy man; burdened with business cafes, worries and the dally tasks of life. Perhaps his hair is growing thin on the top or is turning white about the temples. Perhaps his shoulders uro slightly stooped from the' years of labor and his hands are stained and hardened by patient toil. This is the dad we see day by day. But let us look at dad as boy. Of course he was TROOP NO. EIGHT DOES SIGNALLING Live Organization Plays Bas ketball Practices Regularly and Has Splendid Time Last Monday evening as the man who was to entertain us did not turn up we did wot have our union meeting. We had a buzzer arrange* inent in our Scout roorrt, and the Scoutnlaster sent messages to the Scouts. We also had some signal work. Our new Assistant Scoutmaster, Mr. Keller, asked if any Scouts had good turns to report. He was all most swamped by the Scouts. Scout master Jenkins told of a novel good turn lie had done for three persons. It was an exciting story, and also taught us a lesson. The Scouts of this Troop are securing "ads" for a boy. jHfe was as fond of the swim ming halfc as you and I. As a bare footed he knew what farmer's tree bone .the sweetest cherries. He knew wemnh was the prettiest girl in th school. Ho knew the favorite pools of pickerel, bass and catfish. He knew where the robin and thrush built their nests. He knew where to find the pussy wlilow, the sweet birch bafk and tB© flavory roots of myrrh. He knewjjthe woods and the streams perhaps even better than you know them, aitd there are perhaps times when Dad's fancy carries him back to boyhood days and his heart is as young as yours and mine. And talk about good turns! Which one of us can count all the good turns dad has done for us? How many of jus. know often dad has denied hiniself Aome pleasure or some little perhaps even a necessity, dn order; that we might benefit by his sacrifice? Let us show our appreciation. 'Put a red ring around February 10 on the calendar and tell dad that is his night. Let every scout see that dad is at the banquet. It may take a little urging, but keek> at it until he agrees to be your guest. Amid the bright lights, amid the songs, ..the cheers and the laughter, help hdm travel back again to the golden land of boyhood and if you do not know it already, yo will find that 'dad is the best scout of them ulh RED CLOUD., the Church Directory and all returns U be in this evening, f Owmg to the illness of our star, Burchfield, we lost a game to Troop 4 last - Tuesday, but we are not beaten yet, and hope to have another game \vjth Troop 4 some time in (tjie future. Friday evening we will play the Crescent team. Mr. Swope wili talk to the Troop next Monday evening. All Bcouts of Troop 8 are requested to be pres ent without fail and in full uni form. EDGAR A. SPOTZ. Scribe. ) THE OFFICE SCOUT .Dear Gang: Have you got yours? HUs Djid got his? (Jet 'em early. What?J Why your tickets for the fatliel* and son banquet, of course. Don't tpll me you don't know about it. It's going to be the only thing in towh that night, and If you want a bang-up good time you'd better he at the Masonic Temple on the night ct February 10th. Make it early, too. That's all I'm going to say about it but read this week's Wigwam, and the article about the affair. Vou'll decide to go then sure. I've been asked to state that all the Scoots who won prizes in the W. S. S. campaign contest in Decem ber ai-e to come in to headquarters as soon as possible to select their want. Tou do. So let us know. I know wjiat I'd get, but, gee, I didn't win one. Won't Dad have a good time? : , THE OFFICE SCOUT. P. S.—Get 'em early. The num ber of tickets is limited. Scouts of Troop 26 to Have a Champion Team We had some meeting on Monday I evening at Troop 26. After the de votional exercises two first aid teams werq picked by Assistant Scoutmas ter Kohlhaas, and werfe given in struction in bandaging of lacerations of the head, shoulder, ribs and knee. It is likely that these same teams I will give a splendid exhibition at the ' big Scout banquet on February 10. The Scouts who represent the two tirst aid teams are: Joseph Steele, Andrew Stouffer, Paul Wynn, Rob ert Quigley, John Byrem, H. Thurs ton Collitott. We will soon be pre pared to meet any Scout team in first a>id. In the meantime Assistant Scout master Sparrow, who had charge of I the re infilling Scouts, formed a ! bicycle lajjuad. This squad will be ready to answer calls from head ■ quarters. Some interesting bicycle 1 trips will be taken. The following 1 Scouts belong to the Squad: Wentzel I Grove, Walker Edmondson, Lester ; Bowman, George Rodenhelser, M. T. I Colllcott, Joseph Steele. Any Stouts jof Troop 26 wishing to join will I please notify Mr. Sparrow. ! Two of the Scouts brought ,fire | making sets which they had made, but were unable to make a fire be | cause they did not put enough pep [ into it tp get a tire. We are hoping for better results soon. They were then giyqn a little instruction on a • few of 'ljic constellations and how to find- north star. Also how to read'a compass correctly. J( RED CRANE. Troop Fourteen to Be Present at Big Banquet Troep 14 held a very successful meeting last Monday night. Two new members passed the tenderfoot, examination. Action was taken on purchasing telegraph instruments to be installed in the scout room, for the use of those scouts who wish to i learn the telegraph code. Our newly ; conynissioncd assistant scoutmaster, i Malcolm Hall, took charge of the j scouts at the close of the meeting and put them through the first steps !In military drilling. He . will con tinue training the scouts in this fea ture.of scoutcraft for several weeks or so. The scouts were instructed by Scoutmaster Seifert to be sure to ut tend next Monday night's meeting at which time full particulars about an niversary tyeek will be given out. and tickets will be placed on sale for the big) scout banquet being held Febru aryllo. The scouts of our troop and their fathers are expected to be pres-" en< in full force at the banquet.' Wfl , are also planning to turn out in a. , body to attend the big scout service at Fine Street Presbyterian church, Sunday night, February 9. j SCRIBE, PAUL WARFIELD. TROOP 11 TO MEET Troop 11 will * hold one of the J most inspiring meetings in its hla* ; tory. Owing to the large number of new members enrolled in the last ' few months, all patrols will be | organized and new patrol leaders and assistant leaders appointed. A neiw Scribe and treasurer will also i be elected. ! A doctor will be present at the 1 meeting to give the boys directions in) first aid. There will be basket ball practice and wig-wagging fol • lowing the meetnlg. All members are urgently request ed to be present at this meeting in, uniform. F. L. MURRAY, t . Acting Scribe. > - •. W ac• . 4 TROOP TWENTY IS VERY ACTIVE New System of Monthly Merit Awards Announced at j Last Meeting Last Friday the Troop held its reg- i ular meeting at 7.30. A new system of monthly merit awards was an nounced. Beginning Friday, Febru-' ary 7, flues to the amount of five cents a week will be charged. The Scout gaining the most'merits in the month will be awarded the black ; bar pin. The Scout standing second! in rank will be awarded the yellow bar pin, and the third ranking Scout will be entitled to wear the blue bar ! pin. Any Scout having possession of the black bar pin for two successive months will be awarded the 100 per cent, efficiency gold pin. This he will retain for six months provided his | average demerits for the following | months do not exceed the number of demerits he had when he was awarded the pin. While in posses-1 sion of this pin he will be exempt, from dues. Tonight there will be aj meeting at 7 o'clock. . Signaling will j be held Friday, February -4. All | scouts must be at least Second Class .Scouts by June the fourth. This is the troop's anniversary day. Mr. Chas. McKibbiu, a former res ident of this city, now living in Montana was the guest of our Scouts Friday, January 17, He is in the U. S. Forestry Service, located on 'the Deerlodge Forest Reserve. He explained the duties and responsibil ities of a forester to the troop. He also described the country in detail and the different forest tires which have to be fought. Just as an in stance of the size of the Reserve I will tell you that the Deerlodge Re serve comprises several million acres —and this Mr. McKibbin considers a small forest! One kind of fire which the forest er explained was the "Crown Fire." This fire is in the tops of the trees, and when once started cannot be stopped. Such fires travel with ex press train speed,'and he stated that he knew in ofne instance of a crown fire leaping a valley without setting fire to the valley itself. The foresters live with their fam ilies in real log cabins and travel by trails only. The lire spotters have solitary huts on high peaks which over-look the forests. Here they must live for two weeks without see ing a human being until the supply man brings the groceries and pro visions. These must be carried up on foot as horses cannot keep to the steep trails. The spotters are all connected by phone to a central sta tion where fires are reported and records made, on a large chart of the forest. -, f This chart is markod off in squares and each #ne has a number. When the, spotter reports tire in a certain area .this is marked, and by this means they can determine very ac curately the range of the fire. When asked if it got very 'cold in Mon tana, Mr. McKibbiu said, "Not very. It was only 25 degrees below zero when I left in December." We intended to arrange tor a union meeting with several troops to .share -Mr. McKibbin's talk, but because of the short notice we re ceived this was impossible. How ever, when he comes east again, we will try to have him talk to all the troops at a big union mcetipg. Just now it's all out for the banquet. Henry A. Baer, Scribe. May Form Two Basketball Teams For Troop Seven All -the Scouts are awaiting with much anxiety for the coming ban quet of the Scouts of the city. At the last meeting,• Lloyd Got walt was elected manager of the basketball aggregation. 'lt is most likely that, two teams will be form ed. A practice game of the teams will be held'on pext Tuesday eve ning at 7 o'clock,'a-t the Steel school gliding. Special letters have been sent out to. all the Scouts concerning the re registration of the troop' in Febru ary. The troop will begin its third year's work. From the present out look it has many new ideas that will make it a successful year. Sev eral committees have been .appointed to arrange for their anniversary, which will take place on February 21. Tonight our real live Scout Ex ecutive Mr. Virgin will appear be fore the troop in one of his Interest ing talks about real. Scouts. Don't 1 forget. 7 p. m., sharp. Reinoehl, Scribe. Rules For Buglers Adopted by Scoutmasters In order to have uniformity in the Scout Bugle Corps, the fol'owing de cision was reached at thd meeting of the Scoutmasters' Association on Tuesday evening: "The requirements for a bugler shall be that.he must he able to sound the following calls properly: I—First call. 2—Reveille. 3—Mess. • 4—Assembly. s—Taps. Scouts who come up to these re quirements will be entitled to wear the bugler's insignia. VTUXATED N IRON '• ■ H you are not strong or well m you owe it to yourself to make the following teat: see how long you can work or how far you can '.walk without becoming tired. Nest take Own five grain tablet* NUXATED UtON. three L J times per day - for two week*. Then test your strength again rwlUJßil and see how' much you have gained. Mane people have made E-A' yjja this test and have been aston ■ pWr;:;; 'JffA ished at their increased strength, L. ■ mm J endurance and energy. Nuxated " ESS", ' Iron is guaranteed to give satis. MS' ""J faction or money refunded. At all good druggists. "e , ./ 4 * i grm* corns w W"m W W BUNIONS CALLUSES GORGAS DRUGSTORES 11 in " I i * ► OLEO LICENSE SHOULD STAND Commissioner Foust Declares That Any Reduction Would Mean Trouble State Dairy and Food Commis- ; sioner James Foust is opposing any change in the oleomargerine license law, especially in reduction of the license fees, such as is proposed by some bills presented to the Legisla ture and which are understood to be in prospect. The commissioner has issued seven reasons why the state should not make any change in "oleo" laws, one being that the Pennsyl vania law on the subject is the best of any state and that there is niore of the product sold in Pennsylvania than in any other state. "If the license fee is eliminated crooks and irresponsible people will engage in the 'oleo" business,"' says he. "Moon shining will start in cellars and other unsanitary places by unsani tary people coloring the product and selling it for butter and at butter prices." The commissioner says oleomar gerine has been sold for twelve years and is now recognised as a wholesome article of food, but it is not butter. He contends that it should make its own market and sell at its own price. Now, he says, its price is regulated by the price of butter and in Philipsburg, N. J., it sells for the same as in Easfon', Pa., although New Jersey has no license and Pennsylvania has such a system. The law is now workihg admir ably, he contends, an 4 there arc practically no prosecutions and the consumption of the product in a de gree greater than in any other state under such conditions, he says is an argument for letting the law stand. The license does not amount to one eighth of a cent a pound now, he re marks and there are 300 licenses in Philadelphia alone and every town has licensed places. Troop Sixteen Helps to Start New Troop Thie Troop met at the Bethlehem Lutheran Church on Sunday and from there walked up to St. Mat thew's Lutheran, where the middle aisle was reserved for us. Every one was present except two mem bers. Mr. Virgin then talked to the congregation about the Scout move ment. and of the things that keep the girls and boys in the church. After Mr. Virgin had finished talk ing another man talked about the Scout movement and of church ben evolence. A great many people shook hands with us when church was over. We hope the new Troop there is success ful and good luck to them. CLEON CRISWELL, Will Labor's Mighty Forces Form a New Party? "Third Parties" in this country have generally come to grief, but the scope of the new move ment to organize "hand and .brain" workers into a political unit and its appearance in a winter of un rest and discontent convince observers that history is likely to forget to repeat herself in this in stance. Samuel Gompers, a consistent opponent of the Tabor-party idea, pleaded with New York leaders on the eve of his departure for Europe not to join the new "movement, but within a week, as The Evening Post, (New York) notes, a New York Central Federated Union, the Brooklyn Central Labor Union, and the Woman's Trade Union League had met in convention and created the most formidable of the local party organizations. In an enlightening article in this week's LITERARY DIGEST February Ist all the par ticulars of this new political movement-are shown. The platform adopted in New York is also pre sented. A new political labor party directly affects millions of men and women in' this country. Don't fail to read about this latest development in our industrial life. Other articles of great interest in this number are: / Why the Farmer Opposes "Day-Light Saving" The Result of an Investigation Made by "The Literary Digest" Among the Spokesmen For the Farmers—The Editors of Agricultural Papers Throughout the Country The Probable Effect of Nation-Wide Teaching Americanism in the Factory Prohibition Rostand's Satire of William The Railroads' Own Remedy A Poet's Horror of War Germany Votes For Order French and American Praise for the "Y" Does Finland Deserve Help? The Trenches Against the Church Lichnowsky's Peace Suggestions Slackers in War Prove Slackers in To Stop Germany at the Rhine Marriage A Tree Census Jugo-Slavia Germany's Economic Crisis ; The Best of the Current Poetry Rescuing Stranded Fish News of Finance and Commerce The Diminishing "Mayflowerites" Personal Glimpses of Men and Events Many Striking Illustrations, Together With the Best of the Cartoons eWorld Opinion On the Peace Conference Yours in "The Digest" In Paris to-day an international conference conference progresses- and cdmpactlv summarized for precedent in history is engaged upon the m'ohientous you, as will the view-points of the leading periodicals task of reshaping the destinies of the world. The news countries, from which quotations illustrative of of what is accomplished from week to week- by this c\try shadeof opinion will he made for your benefit. If L i i n i t • i ,i y° u WlS fi> therefore, to be accurately informed as to what •assemblage of li icral statesmen is, perhaps the most j s being done in France and also as to what the press of important that has ever been be fully covered in IHE LITERARY DIGEST, as the to read THE DIGEST. February Ist Number on Sale Today—All Newsdealers—lo Cents H Jitereuj Digest {f| FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY (Publishers of the Famous NEW Standard Dictionary). NEW YORK Yum! Yum! Pack Two to Have Fried Oysters Fellows, the caps have come and] you can get them at 208 Liberty street, for 65 cents. Tlicy are just the thing for "Teddy Bear" and "Yale" half cuts—believe me, if your hair won't slay back with one of those caps on it's hopeless. Sunday night we went to church at St. Matthew's Lutheran, and every cub but two was present. Those two were sick. Tough luck, for we'll get five merits for going. I'm t!smade A by , 'thi g|j "Gee—■ but it's good!" LITTLE Johnny's a pretty keen judge of food values. And he j says, right from the heart, that "Purity" Margarine is the best margarine he's ever tasted. "And, gee whiz," he adds enthusias tically, "you can't tell it from butter." Personally, we know that Johnny is 100% right because we eat "Purity" ourselves. You just ought to try it. Sells for about per pound less than butter. Capital City Dairy Company Branch, 40 S. Delaware Ave., Phila., Pa. I'lioncnt Hell—Lombard 14711 Ko> Mono—>lnln 2NH6 THE PUREST SPREAD FOR BREAD* I glad not one of our fellows gets lif j teen demerits for not going. | This week we have cats, and we | hope George lioak and Richard i Plains will be able to come. Mr. j Virgin will bo with us. I think we - are going to have fried oysters and I oaked bear.B, pickles, buttered rolls • and coffee. There is a prize contest md some good games. We played a one last week—flying cloud, i It proves that ihe hand is quicker ' than the eye. Come with an extra s good voice; eat some licorice, or • suck a lemon, for wo are going to i try our now yell. Our banquet plans are coming along fine, and we hope to have every cub there that fateful night. See you tonight. So long. Cub Huston, Scribe. IMPERIAL OOFFEK IS BOTH "ROASTED" AND PRAISED IN HARRISBURG ( Coffee roasted fresh daily at mod erate prices—3oc, 35c, 40c per lb. Satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded. Imperial Tea Co., 213 Chester St. Personal Pg Feb 1 I l. T se McNeil's Pain Extermlnator--A(l 19
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