Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1916-08-14
Court Of HONOR
TO TEST scouts
Many Activities Conducted
at Camp Caesar Rodney
With Prizes in View
FUN AND HARD WORK
KEEP BOYS INTERESTED

Next Court Of Honor for Boy Scouts
of Wilmington should furnish many
of the boys with merit badges as
the result of this summers outing at
Camp Caesar Rodney. according to
Scout officials who have charge there.
Day after day and week after week
the twenty-five or more boys who al
tend comp, have been working hard
taking tests Of all kinds. figuring out
ways and means to do things and
learning different sorts OF scout craft
so as to be ready when announce
ment of regular examinations is made
IN few weeks, TO obtain the much
coveted badges.
Scouting, stalking, canoeing, track
ing, athletics, nature study, swim
ming, life saving, and all the things
which go with outdoor exercises are
being done by these boys at their
summer camp and everything carried
out with spirit that indicates an
absorbing interest in the undertake
ings.
These things are not all that are
done at the Scout camp. however, for
there is an immense amount of fun
going on, and yet a good deal OF the
fun is in the nature Of Scout work /.
fun because Il Is interesting. AS
one scoutmaster said even chopping
wood can be made fun il it il can be
made interesting.
Camp Caesar Rodney is a model
camp. We know this, because Cap
/ tain King says so. and he ought 10
/ know One thinks of all sorts OF
| things military as he approaches the
/ camp site and looks down over the
Z beautiful green hills along the his
/ toric Brandywine, where can be dis
: covered odd glory" gently dipping
! and swirling, as light winds from
/ among the surrounding hills sweep
/ through the valley.
2 One feels the romantic setting long
before he reaches the place and be-
/ gins TO appreciate the hold this sort of
thing has on these young fellows who
intend TO camp here for a week The
humping truck, which has brought us
bumps up TO the gate where a sign
reads: no automobiles allowed
Y here" The sign doesn't count with
US. apparently. for we drive in and
\ across the level parade ground "a
4 niuuNuetl ANA anu llAt lOIE cAlEtN
I carefully swept and lined with the
khaki colored tents set up in long
row.
There are greetings from the boys
from the captain and from Mrs. Cur.
\ ney. wife Of Scout Executive Charles
I Quincy Il takes but a half houi
OF so 10 arrange baggage, selec
p tents. make beds and go for water
then the bugle sounds mess
Some wise man, it is said, remark
ed. on seeing a healthy young bO
eat what does he do with it?'
That question might be asked thre
r times a day at this Scout camp, 70
more than score of young fellow
] manage to make away with an aston
2 ishingly large amount OF good, whole
2 some food, including plenty OF fruit
. milk. potatoes. bread and quantities
? of chocolate candy.
Retreat" has sounded and the fial
/ has been hauled down by a group o
: young Scouts with much Of the detail
e that attends the similar ceremony a
regular army camps. when a group o
bows approached the commissary.
rs the candy store open?'
"Open only from o'clock to 4.
is the answer and the boys turn sol
rowfully away.
Fifteen minutes later another grou