The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-03

Elaborate plans are being made for
the opening of the first camp for To-
peka Boy Scouts. which will open
July 3.
The camp site selected is two miles
from the Rock Island station at Maple
Hill, and slightly more than thirty
miles from Topeka.
It lies in a bend Of a creek at the
point where it joins Mill creek. 1t is
on the Barr ranch owned by w. J..
Tod. and has been granted free for
the use of the boys this summer.
The camp will be held in two divi-
sions-the first period commencing
at July 3 and continuing to July II,
and the second division going into
camp July Is to remain till July 81.
Every PrecautiOn Taken.
The cost of the camp to each Boy
Scout will be SO. which will cover
board and transportation Only
scouts of the second class or higher
rank will be accepted for the camp,
and then only with the written con-
sent of their parents or guardians.
1t has been the object of the mem
bers of the Boy Scout council and OF
John r. Floyd, scout executive for the
city, to give the camp as nearly as
possible the atmosphere of the free
and untrodden wild" and yet to sur
round the boys with every safeguard
of health and safety.
While the boys on their hikes Will
be dependent at certain times on their
own scout craft for their meals, in
the camp itself the cuisine will be of
the finest
A coIored chef. graduate of the
Pullman cooking school. will be pro-
vided with a thoroly modern and con-
venient kitchen, and told to go his
limit
Own Wen Furnishes Water.
It won't be that way out on the
hikes only uncooked food will be
taken on the trips thru the country
surrounding the camp. and 1t VIII be
UP to the scouts to build their own
fires and prepare it in primitive
fashion.
The water supply OF the camp. will
come from the camps own we'll. and
Will be tested daily by the camp ply
stefan.
At Camp Burrow, so named TO for
7 r. Burrow. ir.. president of the To-
peka Boy Scout Council. there will be
hospital tent completely equipped
for the treatment of any case of sick
ness or accident. DR.. F. H. Scholle.
medical director of the camp. will be
He has issued the following series
of advance instructions to the Scouts
who are planning to attend:
Have bad teeth fixed before leaving
Get your hair cut short 1t is easier
to keep clean, and dries quickly after swim
ming
3 Be sure that your stockings for hiking
are either new or undarned. Much discom-
fort by hiking in stockings with holes, re
suits
4. II. YOU are planning to take new shoes
for hiking. buy them now and break them
in Save yourself from tired and bnstered
feet
< Tooth brush and powder must be used
once a day at least.
ANY weakness or ailment OF your boy,
that parents Would like 10 have watched
kindl report to Scott office.
Once There Must Stay.
Strict discipline of the boys at the
camp will be maintained, and infrac-
lions OF discipline will result in the
Scout being returned from the camp
and discharged from the Scout move
ment.
Once at camp. only the certificate
of the camp physician that the boy il
ILL., will be accepted as a valid excuse
for leaving and returning home.
Under the head OF ''Homesickness,
the Instruction sheet now being is
sued, says; The little personal at