The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-07

week lends: and they walk out there | to get the chance. Following Fri days close in school, they rush home, | spring into bed after their scout
 meeting and are up bright and early
 to take the Edgewood car. They go
 to the end of the line, fall off and l fall into rank and down the road they go swinging to a. joyous, happy time to a time of cutting logs and real 1 house fashioning.
 1 How fine it seems to be climbing i the hill at the campi
 | % just let me stay here for al-
 ways" That's the kind of things the l boys give vent to as they arrive.
 stretch out on the ground these tu-
 tumh days when pine needles are so | soft and go back over "reminiscences | of times past when they staged one l entertainment or another, practiced l gunnery or put on circus stunt
 70 boy, you remember the time
 when we had the sham battle-and 1 how Jimmy got tee-totally covered with flour so we had to dig him 1 out?"
 Of course his companions remem- 1 bered to man. and strangers must
 be told these are battles for play in which the missiles are bags filled
 with flour which the boys throw at
 each other. And N.iich burst. 1 Talk about "Antiny'' over--or 1 nowball-they'r not in it with that 1 game. and how hard as nails the I physical side of the scouts are built,
 and how much healthier. stur'iier
 youths they become.
 The scouts always call these The
 Battles of the Marnin" and wish for l one every day.
 l Whole Life Centers Here. i 0. you must jus. know that the 1 whole life of Boy Scouting in Br- | mngham centers around that camp . Fifteen hundred boys and their sco lt- masters are building it up. and one day it will be for the city one of it's regular show places" which nobody would miss seeing for anything. Already since it's establishment | about three years ago. it has devei- oped traditions. and a spirit distinctly
 its own has been created by he
 scouts.
 l In all that big camp one will not ] find q scrap of waste or trash thrown ] carelessly here or there. All garbage
 is burned. and everything is distinct l ly clean. Since about the first of June at least a thousand boys have l visited the camp. but so orderly are l tEty that l0tlr cltG NOuiu HfdRe Lut 1 city of Washington ashamed of it's i hoasted cleanliness. Some of the | scouts are planting shrubbery around their cabins and one troop is exca- vating underneath their cabin for a
 regular dining room and Kitchen. Would it interes. you to know that the boys. during general camp have
 their mayor and rs-uiar officers to
 see that rules are obeyed9 The k,ys themselves report attractions of
 rules and regular prosecuting at 1 torney is on duty. Isn't that fine
 self government? The boys Insist
 that even the spirit of the camp be
 not violated
 1 An Unusual Official. | They have one very unusual office ] holder, and his official title is hsquidge.
 Now squidge's job is 10 do all the
 worrying for tile scouts; and when I some youth would wish to lay such troubles upon his neighbor what he
 gets is:
 '.AHy. take U to Squldge.n and there i he finds q friend.
 How often in their srown-up days. the Scouts will remember when they
 took it to SGuidge, and )Squidge made stronger braves of them or made l them set their lips remembering q