Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-15
CAMP HEINZ

Boy Scouts from Llanerch, Abingdon,
Bala, Bryn Mawr, Ashbourne and other
places in Delaware and Montgomery
Counties will mingle and shake hands at
the Central Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation. 1921 Arch street, tomorrow eve
ming in their annual rally and Camp Del
mont reunion.
Many will be the tales and experiences
they will swap, of swins and hikes and
contests, of wireless messages and smoke
signaling, which they all enjoyed on the
little isle on the Delaware, FIVE miles
north of Trenton, N. j., last summer.
More than 300 scouts, representing 20
troops from the two counties, and their
| guests-some 200 first-class scouts and
| scoutmasters from the Philadelphia
| troops-will crowd the auditorium for the
| program The brass band of the Ash
bourne troop Is expected. Leaders of the
Boy Scout movement in the counties who
will be present are Winthrop Sargent
chairman OF the Executive Scout Council;
Isaac C. Sutton, scout commissioner OF
Montgomery County; Walter MILESTONE.
scout commissioner of Delaware County
and George H. Weldner, secretary OF the
council
The program in the auditorium will be-
gin at o'clock. DR.. William Moore, the
African game hunter. will give talk
illustrated by lantern slides, on big game
hunting An address by William Cross
man, former headmaster of the Haver-
ford School, will be illustrated by moving
pictures His subject will be Egypt"
At the conclusion of the lectures, Com
missioner Sutton will award the troop
and Individual prizes won at Camp Bel
mont William l.. Saunders. I'd, scoutmas-
ter of Bala Troop l, the "Bucktails" will,
on behalf of his troop, receive the troop
efficiency prize. a large wooden shield
garnshed with silver and bronze. This
prize represents efficiency in all forms OF
camp craft, woodcraft athletics and scout
contests. The Ashbourne Troop, last
years winner was a close second The
sanitation efficiency prize, a pair of
mounted moose horns, will be awarded to
the Jenltintown Troop, of which the Rev.
J. G. Bartlett Is scoutmaster. This Will
be followed by the awarding of the honor
scout prizes. gold watchfobs, to six
scouts who carried on the highest honors
in camp. They are James Prescott OF the
Jenkintown Troop; Ward Powell, Pros
pect Park Troop; Jack Dearden, Ash
bourne Troop; Wendell Galley, Bala Troop
/; William Edwards, Lansdowne Troop,
and William Wood, SWarthmore Troop.
The Eagle scout badges, the highest
honor a Boy Scout can attain, will next be
presented to 16 scouts. Henry e. Knowl-
ton, OF the Bryn Mawr Troop Edmund 8.
Wood, SwaEthmore Troop; Jack Dearden,
William Mcintyre, C. Kenneth Scull,
Hammond Armstrong, Edwin Armstrong
and Paul Ka1Ienbach. of the Ashbourne
Troop, and Alexander Fl. Holcombe, Jr.,
Isaac Kershaw, William l.. Saunders,
Joseph Keefe Harry Ferrera John Rink
enbach, Henry Ingram and John Winters,
of Bala Troop l, are the scouts who have
fulfilled the requirements for the decora-
! ton.
Moving pictures and a demonstration OF
a new talking machine will conclude the
program.
Judge Ben b. Lindsey. Of Denver, the
boys friend" has a warm word for the
Boy Scouts, whom he regards as the sal
walton OF the boy problem and the girl
nroblem, letter from ''d' Jedge," as he
| Is called by DenveTs kids who are
brought before him, follows. 1t was writ
ten 10 Dr. Charles ID. Hart. chairman or
the Executive Scout Councils
afy dear Mr.. Hort
Courts and Jails will never DO
away with the gangs OF laWiess
youths that infest cities, II Is abso-
iutelv futile for any community TO
stand the terrific expense or police de-
partments, prisons, criminal courts
IL IL does not at the same time
wholeheartsdly support every enort
to conserve ana prevent.
The Boy Scout movement is our
greatest hope, the greatest single ao-
tiyity In this country promising
solution, not only OF the boy problem,
but the girl problem, for the best pro-
tector Of girls Is the youth who lives
up 10 the laws and ideals OF the Boy
Scouts.
Devoted, farsssing men have given
us this remedy. and Il ia the duty Of
every parent. teacher and citizsa 20
support Il. Ishs youth Of the land ia
anxious 70 join the Boy Scout move
Tnsnt, for there IS fun In IT, besides
every kind OF instruction and oppor-
tunity 20 serve.
After Is years Of juvenile work
say without question that II you give
the Boy scouf movement the moral
ana financial support It HiEhtfully de-
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