Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-22

DR.. Charles A. Eastman. lecturer,
writer and full-blooded Sioux Indian, is
to be director of Camp Archibald Butt
bay, next summer. Announcement to
this effect was made yesterday by Scout
Commissioner z. s. Martin. Mr. Martin
said National Scout Commissioner Daniel
Carter Beard, who was to have been
direcor of the camp. had reported he
would be unable to do SO because of
pressure of literary work. and DR.. East
man was selected in his stead. a
DR.. Charles a. Eastman was Born
about fifty years ago in Minnesota. then
the country Of the Sioux, and lived for
fifteen years the rowing life of the primi-
tive Indian. His mother, the grand
daughter of Chief Cloud Nab. died at
his birth. His father, full-blooded
Sioux called Many Lightnings, became
involved in the Indian war of 1862, was
captured and imprisoned, and thus
separated from his Youngest son, DR..
Eastman. who was reared in the Nilds
of Manitoba by his grandmother and
uncle.
His school days began in a mission
school in Dakota territory. chen he at
tended Beloit College. Wisconsin. He
passed later to Knox College, Illinois.
then to Dartmouth. from which he was
graduated in 1887. in $50 he was grad
uated from the Boston University School
of Medicine. and he was Immediately
appointed government physician to the
Pine Ridge agency. In 1902 his first book
Indian Boyhood.'' appeared: and this
the Animal People" odd Indian Days,
''Wigwam Evenings and The Soul of
the Indian" For ten years past he has
lectured extensively on Indian life, Gus
toms and history.
DIR. Eastman was at one time on the
international committee Of the Y. NJ. G.
A. He represented the American Indian
at the universal races congress in Lon
don in 1911. Several of his books have
been translated into German, French and
Danish
The wish of the Washington and Balti-
more Scout authorities is to make Camp
Archibald Butt National Boy Scout
camp. and in selecting the site. preparing
the plans and erecting the buildings on
this camp site this idea will be fore
most in mind. To secure the best thought
along these lines the following advisory
committee has been secured to assist
in carrying out the above plan:
Daniel Carter Beard, national scout
commissioner. Flushing. y. y: Ernest
Thompson Seton. chief scout, Greenwich,
Conn: Franklin u. Roosevelt. assistant
secretary of the navy: Beverly D. Gallo
way. assistant secretary of agriculture:
Gen. Leonard Wood chief of staff: Rear
Admiral Robert f. Peary. L. S. n. re-
Thompson, L. S. A. retired; James
E. West, chief scout executive. Ma
tional Council Boy Scouts of America,
New York citl
The first class examinations we're fin
T,rae
headquarters in the District building.
The following boys have passed all the
tests successfully and are now full
fledged first-class scouts:
Otto Spices. Troop a; Dorm Etiene,
Troop SO: Raymond Baur, Troop 30;
Norman Murphy. Troop IS: II. f. Lugen-
bell Troop SO: Roger Lugenbeel. Troop
80; Carl Dwyer. Troop So; Robert Gard,
Troop 51 Robert Young, Troop 81: Roger
Gates. Troop 81: Hummel f'ishbLrn.
Troop ii; Ralph Lee. jr.. Troop IL; Rob
ert Ensslin. Troop %; Fred w. Liver
more, Troop "a: Donald Gates. Troop 81;
William Knoll, Troop 81; Beverly Gallo
way, Troop p.
The new scoutmasters manual is now
at headquarters. 1t is artistically bound
in cloth and illustrated with half-tone
made in the field and head
quarters. Plans for scout meetings are
laid out and work in the field fully de-
scribed and illustrated.
The Boy Scouts are assisting in the
of "go-to-church-o
posters.
The local headquarters staff and the
of the merit badge faculty are
assisting the national committee on merit
badges to revise the merit badge tests
so that they may be of greater value to
the scouts.
The instructors corps held its second
meeting at the G.. A. K. Hall last Satur-
day evening. There We're twenty-five
boys present. Carl w. Woodward of the
forest service gave a talk on the pro-
posed White mountain trip, telling the
boys what would be expected of them
when they are on the grounds He il
Illustrated his talk by the use of maps so
that the scouts may get an idea of the
general lie of the forest reservation.
The instructors corps will be limited
to 4 membership OF thirty-six boys all to
be first-class scouts.
Plans for the. Easter hike will be an
nounced next week. A map is being pre-
pared showing the country that will be
covered by the campers and mixers.
A. c. Moses. president of the local
council is to give dinner to the scout
masters TueSd3 evening Tag dav nIaps