Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-12-05
SON OF ENEMY ALIEN
/. POSES As BOY SCOUT
National Headquarters Warns All
Troops to Beware Of
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Reports have been received at National
headquarters Of the Boy Scouts of Amreica,
indicating that n boy named Herman
Budcrls has been miaSoprcsenting HIM
self as = member Of the Boy Scouts OF
America. His name dDcs not appear
on the records. A report received from
a scout official in South Orange, N. j.,
says, "A youth calling himself Herman
Buderus. was in South Orange early last
week He represented himself as
wounded Belgian, and woro tho uniform
of tho Boy. Scouts Of America. lie de-
mandcd the assistance OF scouts, MS nc
| had wounded arm. Some Of our scouts
assisted him The Boy Scout headquarters
of Newark reports that he is tho son OF
an enemy alien, interned. and that he is
an impostor,"
! At the last meating of the Scout Masters s
| Association, it was decided to prohibit
| the use of the Overseas cap being worn
| by scouts while in uniform. Several
| times the scouts have been asked not to
wear parts OF uniform from other organi-
cations This cap does not belong to
the scouts, and they should not wear II
unless officially adopted by national
| headquarters. ScoutmaStcrs will caution
| their scouts about these matters.
| Bov Scout councils NIL over the country
| are beginning y vigorous campaign, TO
| cmphasise the "Do n good turn daily,
| slogan. and the careful personal observa-
| iion of the Scout Oath and Law
Intensive scouting viii he the thing
| from now on.
| One branch of tho government at wash
| ington has instituted campaign 10 dis
courage the Use of nicknamcs for repre-
srntatives of our Allies, Boys are
| The ones who most Of all perpctuate the
use Of undignihod appcllatons, and the
| Bow Scouts Of America are invited To- ut
| their active ban on them
The uss, of nlcknames and names OF
| derislon, as applied 10 tho forc,gn-born IN
| America. is a considerable obstacle in the
way OF Americanixation," says Commits
sioner of Education L. T. Claxton, IN a
| letter TO Chief Scout Executive West
| 80 long as the forcign-born person
| feels that we do not respect him, he docs
not want TO JOIN with America, learn
| English or become a citizen. WITH the
| help Of the Boy Scouts Of America, We
| believe tho use Of such nicknamcs can he
eliminated to a very large extent
Everyone who attended the campfire
4 GPciRFFn u II SutfbS~a sitif NFtF ~ FRN's
crowd Of scouts out, but not "a good n
showing as could have been made. IN
occasion of this kind should be attended
in full strength by all scouts of the city
/, 4 novelty meeting is being planned for
| the near future and better turnout Is
F, expected,
| The registration of the following troops
| EXPIRES during this month: Troop /, New
| Castle. Troop S. Troop %, Troop "a,
| Troop -, Troop &c, Troop IS. Troop 39.
| Scoutrnasters arc urged not 10 wait until
the last minute, but 10 get their apn'i-
cations signed and turned into thus office
as soon "a possible
TROOP %
Troop - had fine showing IT the
camp trc rnd also had y good time
We met AZ the north Of Van Rurcn sire
| bridge where We had short business
meeting After the meeting w St rt'd
| for the camp flrc Uncle Dick dedicated
| tho fire to the Scouts of Delaware by
| breaking a bottle of kerosene oil over
! Il While al tho FIRE. one oi our boys
! lost his watch 50 II anyone should
| find one. please take II To headquarters
| Everybody he out Friday December s.
TROOP 10
Troop IL met at Trinity parish house
AZ O'Clock las; Friday night. Two
| fellows from Middlctown visited us, and
accompanied us TO tho big camp fire In
Rrandvwine Park, where VIC sang several
songs led bv CYRUS Pyle, Patrol Leaders,
| Reese and SprIancc received merit
badge at the tire from MIR Curtis. At
the Court Of Honor meeting, Sprrancc
! passcd his merit badge for cooking and
| Rumford passed carpentry and fireman.
ship Be on hand for the next meeting.
rRoor 81
hike was taken bv Troop 81 on
THANKSGIVING Day The members LETT
the Scoutmaster's home al 10 q. m, for
Chadd's Ford, but on account OF the
weather conditions, went no further than
Thompson s Bridge Dinner was cooked
underneath the bridge and everybody
did Justice to il after their walk in the
rain About 80 u. m. We started Tor
home After trudging FIVE miles in ram
not one of the boys was downhearted.
Most Of them were singing songs. which
kept our spirits up. Thirteen boys were
present,
Troop s attended The camp hre and we
certainly did enjoy ourselves especially
when Mr.. Mallery told us p ghost story
One of our fellows was afraid to go home
alone We were accompanied by our
eight piece band All the fellows that
didn't turn up certainly missed q good
time. We hope Mir. Greenhawk decides
10 have another camp Gre soon
Troop s wants TO have better at
tendance, as we have only been having
about 60 per cent out We are trying to
nave 100 per cent some night soon
The troop is going to have feed n honor
Of the recovery of our Scout Master,
Mr. Ricking. Don't forget rhe classes
for signaling and band practice.
During the Christmas campaign tor
nembprs Of the Red Cross, every scout
is urged by Executive Gree nhaw'k to he
come member Your Job during this
campaign is 10 see that every boy Joins