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Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-12
BSsie. of our Own

babIes Of Our OWE Lest Ve might live and die alone, Sod gave us babies of our own Wee. c1ddiing, crying, laughing things With the iznperiousness of kings; With an the strengths and weaknesses That we as older folks possess; Fith dreams we lost when older grown Be gave us babies Of our own.
 Farm Life
Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-12
Nsr sfember Aadsd
ENJOYED PosTAI CARp sHowET

s. A C-Your name has been added b the Social Corner membership
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-21
the states water power.
 Many Small Streams

the states water power.
 Many Small Streams
 Alabama is wonderfully blessed with Humorous small streams where from 10 to 200 horsepower could be developed and the number of large streams are many indeed compared with most other states.
 Small streams which can find enough, storage to produce 50 horse power ten hours a day for manufac- turing purposes is saving fuel at the rate of nearly 400 tons a year and thereby rendering a great service to the cause of coal conservation.
 We have today in our state over 500 water power developments rang ing from 6 to 50 horsepower and over so developments ranging from 50 to 800 horsepower and this is only a beginning, because the future possi- bility for large and small water power developments in Alabama is really great. By all means the great project at Muscle Shoals should be finished and this alone would ultimately gen crate 50 per cent more horsepower than is now produced at Niagara Falls.
 Water powers are becoming in- creasingly valuable and their devel- opment Is social, state and national necessity. All companies which hold legislative grants to develop water power and have not developed these projects, should be brought under provisions of a water power act which the next legislature should pass. The old order ''To have and to hold and be exempted from taxation" should henceforth be tabooed and the new order of the day, as an outcome of the next legislature, must be ITO have and to develop with no tax exemp tfon'" ~
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-21
You'll Know q Lot More About Water Power #
 You'll Read This Story

waterpower in Alabama ought to he a subject in which every Scout Is interested. Water Is one of the great est sources of wealth the state has.
 William l.. White, scout master Of Troop 52, who has made a study of Alabama waterpower, has sent in the following which contains much val uable information which should be of benefit to you not only now but as you scouts grow older. It will make you more familiar with this section in which you live.
 Water Possibilities
 "The non-renewable resources such as coal dolomite, ore. phosphates, manganese, etc, is which utilization. even though without any waste nec- essarily diminished the supply for fu- ture generations.
 "The self-renewing resources such as forests require a considerable time for complete renewal and any utili- zation of such resources diminishes the store available for our immediate successors but time will replace the loss for future generations
 Water power being different and having several peculiar characteris- tics may be classed by itself. Flow ing water which Is a free gift from our Creator to man and which may be had for the taking is, generally speaking, perpetual.
 If water power Is not utilized, 1t is wasted with no good results to anybody and instead of restriction as with the other classes. the greatest possible use should be advocated.
 "The necessary industries of the country require enormous quantities of coal and the transportation comes high. so a strong effort should be made at once to utilize and develop
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-21
yProfited

Out in Port Angeles, Washington, a troop of Boa Scouts looked very sober one night last winter when one of their number reported the sad story of a woman and her little chif- dren who hadn't enough to eat. The boys wanted to do something them. selves as well as setting some grown ups on the problem. The collected dues that evening amounted to a dol lar. What would dollar buy? Not much, alas. But there was the baby. Babies have to have milk and you could get quite a lot of milk for a dollar. It was voted unanimously to buy milk tickets. So said, so done. The next morning, two Scouts, thelr arms loaded with sugar, flour. bread etc, donations of elders to whom they had told the sad story, marched to the young widows house. But hap piest of all were the Scouts when they fished out those milk tickets, for those represented their own par tlcular Good Turn.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-21
Helped All

Not single civic organization in the city of Atlanta failed to call on the Boy Scouts for aid of some sort during ls21". So Scout Executive A. A. Pamison announced recently, in connection with the local anniversary observance. Some of the services rendered were the delivery of circu- lars and posters. usher service. dis tribution of clothing and food among the poor, and so on. For example the Red Cross found 1t wanted 10000 let ters stamped, folded and mailed and wanted the job done as speedily as possible. To hire help would have been impossible under such short mo- tice and unduly expensive into the bargain They called up MT. Jamison and asked if his Scouts would help. They would and did. Before ten o'clock that night everyone of the 10000 letters was mailed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-21
Here's Fine Report Fron,
 Troop 4 Scouts of Jasper

get in touch with any one of the troops, and they will be glad to satis- fly you. In the future there will be different kinds of indoor games at the respective scout meetings
 Mir. Brent then told us of big time he was planning for next month, and we all look forward to it, as we all can eat and there are eats on the program. There will be Scout Execu- tive Roland Shine, MT. Mcdonald, dep uty commissioner of No. district and 12 scouts from the Birmingham dis trlct to present the badges to the members of the different troops at d formal meeting. to which the public will be invited.
 After this we were dismissed in true scout form, all standing at sa- lute and repeating the scout oatht: On my honor I will do my best to: CD To do my duty to God and my country and to obey the scout law, CD To help other people at all times, and t3) To keep myself physically strong. mentally awake and morally straight"
 FLOYD sAPP. Troop 4. Scribe
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-21
From Other Lands

Troop 5s of Pittsburgh is proud to count D. Dem. Dimancesc. a student at Carnegie Tech" for one reason among others, that he was the found- CT of Scouting in Rumania, his native country. Some time when MT. Diman- cesc was a mere boy. he visited Aus tria and became interested in the Scout work he saw going there. Upon returning home he sold" the scout idea to his school friends and later interested some high up persons in spreading the movement generally throughout the country MT. Diman-. cesc IS a war hero, and a good all round scout who makes friends wherever he goes. The same troop is also interested in scout from Bolivia and frequently entertains two former English Boy Scouts, both of whom took part in the International Jamboree in 1920, they being at the time members of a London troop.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-21

has ever been made at camp was this one All noise must stop after the bugle blows at 9;30 o'clock, and that was one night I slept good, until W B. Garrett and George McKralin started fishing.
 arose to prepare breakfast. Af- ter breakfast nothing much was done because it was raining. We were to leave at 1:30 that day. We fooled around camp until dinner. Then after dinner we started packing up to leave. We checked up and went to meet the bus at the bottom of the hill because the truck could not pull the hill as 1t was raining. But alas! tho truck was not there. So we set out to walk to the highway. Through the mud. we went about 2iz miles. The bus was not on the highway so there we stood in the rain. The boys would say they heard it but it would only be Tin Lizzie. Bill Davis got se- were wound when cane stuck in his hand, but first aid was quickly given by MT. Terrell. Oife saver) and 4ill Clayton. As We had just prepared to walk, here came the bus. We piled in and were soon on our way home. We were caught In the big rain when we were on Shades Mountain, but Old Henry held the bus on the road At last we arrived in town and un- loaded to go home. as we were all wet.
 ALEX MILLER, Scribe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-21
Troop 9 Raises Cain
 Out at Camp Andrews

we were just about to leave when someone yelled: Call the roll" So out came little book and MT. Ter rell began: Marion Rainey (here) Bill Davis (here). W. B. Garrett (here) Jack Young (here) Charles Clayton (here). Billy Clayton (here). William Pool (here,) Bill Bass there). Carl Alexander (here), Franklin Sheuffold (here), Walter McNeil there), John Terrell (here), Warren Candler there), Bill Barr (here) Carlton Gladden. (here), Eugene Cad den (here) George McKralin (here) Louis Chapman (here), Dick Wash burn (here). George Miller (here), Alex Miller (here), Frank Parkinson. but no answer came. So here we had to wait. All the boys were get ting restless and would say, Let's go. MT. Terrell" So finally, after about 45 minutes of impatient wait ing, the old truck started off through town, while the boys were raising Cain.
 Over Red mountain we went down into the hollow, Rosedale, Shades Cahaba school, while the boys were waving at everything they passed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-21
Good Turns From
 West Orange

N. council others the following the CIeaned and did duty special police Essex supplied feeding for bd built docks for public at points where build aide carried flag Memorial flag poles for eghbo eand in
 following find di Scouts pushed helped wA to get hill Scouts unhitehed horse pulled picked
 for lady" helpsd he 'hped clean h 50 ha esuldb buiS hauss" &S}
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-21

Up the steep Shades mountain, over and down we went without bit of trouble. As we were rolling along we met Mir Shine and he took three or four of the boys. At last, after breathing MT. Shines dust until our lungs were full. we turned off to the little road that leads to camp.
 After about two and one-haif miles of this we stopped a bridge. Get your blankets" and out came each blanket. And because the truck could not carry us up around the road to the camp, we had to walk through the athletic field, where the R. O. T. c. was camping.
 Then over the swinging bridge and up the steep hill to the cabins. Some ran ahead and others Jagged be- hind. The first ran ahead to get the hunks And as I reached the cabin all of the hunks had been taken into Troop 22 cabin. Then MT. Terrell went to MT. Shine and asked if he night use Troop 66,s cabin. Mir. Shine told him he might use it, but if 66 came we would have to crawl out.
 Then MT Terrell read the list of duties for each. boy.
 John Terrell. Carl Alexander Franklin Shufford. were woodcut- ters; Richard Washburn, Bill Davis, Charles Clayton, were water boys; Bill Barr, Bill Bass and William Pool, were dishwashers; Marion Rainey, Carlton Cadden, Eugene Cadden, were watchmen; Billy Clayton, George Nc Khalin, Walter McNeil, George Mill Ter and Louis Chapman, were fire makers; Farren Caudte. MT. Terrell Tnnlxc And last but not least was w. B. Garrett. breadcutter.
 The firemen made their fire, and the cooks began to get a good supper. Forty eight eggs and about three or four pounds of clipped beef was heat ed and served to the hungry bunch.
 After supper all the boys began to prepare for bed. We went to tho mess hall and signed up for mat ! tresses which consisted of some straw sewed up in cloth. We picked our hunks and prepared for bed. The light was put out.
 Rocks began to hit the hunks I'd ! the boys began to hollo so that no one was able to close his eyes. After about four hours of racket some Of the boys dropped off to sleep.
 All at once there was loud noise which we discovered was made by John Terrell yawning. This brought forth loud shout. Then everything quieted down again and a few more dozed off When I went to sleep the clock was around the hour of 2.
 At I o'clock George McKralin and w. B. Garrett got up to go fish ing and woke everyone in the place up so Athat was not a night of very much sleep. Then the cooks were pulled out of bed to get breakfast. Eggs were cooked Bacon, crack CTS and coffee were served, and again the dish washers set to work. Then Mir. Terrell found out about swim ming and we all went in about 1S minutes.
 I went fishing but MT. Terrell told me to return in time to cook dinner. I thought l had been gone about | forty minutes but I returned to find that dinner was on the table. After dinner We had eaten so much that
 we had to lie in our hunks. Then about 4:S0 o'clock we hit the water again. leaving Eugene Cadden on guard.
 We again prepared our supper. Af- ter supper MT, Terrell read a bulli- ten from MT. Shine. The best law that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-21
Prepared Again

The cities of NoonAh and Menasha Wisconsin, were recently visited by the >severest storm in their history. Even the proverbial dest settler had never seen anything like 1t. People woke to finl the streets blocked with fallen trees, hranches, telephone poles and wires, some of them dangerously alive and spittinr veromous blue sparks. It was rather an appalling outlook but didn't frighten off the Boy Scouts who immediately got busy clearing up the debris to make the stree , passable, standing guard over dangerous spots and unlocking fire plugs, and all this In a cold, driv- ing rain. The service was entirely voluntary. 1-e body asked them to take 1t on. They just did it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-21
Jasper, Alabama.

Jasper, Alabama.
 On Friday night, March 31, at 7:30, this being our monthly get-together meeting, we met ip the Methodist church basement, with all five troops represented and with an attendance of 65 boys and scout masters. The meeting was called together by Acting Commissioner Brent, after which Troop No. 4. of which MT. J. E. Morton is scout master, conducted a regular scout meeting for the benefit of the other troops. This was enjoy ed by all and was very instructive to the scout masters as well as to the boys. Some games were planned by Commissioner Brent, but were post poned on account of wet grounds.
 There was much talk about camps for the summer, and it surely did sound good to all of us, for there is nothing like it. Committees were ap- pointed to try to find some supplies that belonged to the former scout troop.
 Athletics, Too
 Baseball and tennis were also dis eussed so if you want a game just
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-21
MGckey Says You
 Will Hear This Patrol

On the night of April 6. the Boy Scouts met and reorganized our pa troll They were bunch of real en- thusiastic scouts They expressed themselves as ready and willing to be ready to do things. They must live up to their name as members of the eagle patrol" said one of the members. And let our ideals be high!"
 There is plenty of work to be done by the young hands of America, and this bunch of fine Americans is going to do it's part.
 You shall hear from us.
 We now have 26 in our patrol, but we have just begun.
 O. B. MILLER, Scout Master.
 REX MARKEY, Reporter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-21
The Ghost House
By MIGNON HALL
What has happened beforei

What has happened beorei This is storyd dealing vii Birminghams future. his ma by joining The thing citizenship his soul One day, seeing being laid and attendant euOgy citizen, Bob he will be ma
 He
  bids him goodby He realizes locating the house where he thought she lived Getting coded his motherbut pacifies really he worried he does know how find the edheaded girl He is eager to talk vel his boyish future with her. he Norton for a time
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-21

Ne'IIIIOI UC BIUWII WIVIIUUt S66Uo.
 Last Friday the trip to camp was put off. and as this same tale every week has become rather dry and monotonous, the reporter threw up the sponge, so to speak. However. this Friday a good meeting was held MT. White was absent, but J. B. Hill. the assistant, was on deck and start ed the fireworks. The crowd was not bad. but there was room for more boys
 Allowance must be made for time lost in these reports. The news is a little stale, mildewed, or otherwise ancient, but We can't help that and ask all our friends to read the re- ports without being conscious of the fact that they are studying mediaeval
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-21

Campfire Girls are big sisters to the Scouts. and lately when Miss Edith Kempthorne, national field secretary, was here steps were taken to organize troops.
 Down at Hueytown. which is below Bessemer, there is an organization of Campfire Girls which Is doing great things for its school. Representa- tives from their club came Sdown to con fer with Miss Kempthorne while she was here. The national leader brought with her some wonderful In- dian garments. which Campfire Girls are given. and upon which they sew beads in designs which emphasize various periods and incidents of their lives.
 You Can Join
 Would you like to be Campfire ~ ,~I
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-21

history or a report from Cleopatra's royal guard.
 Fine Plans
 certain portion of Troop 52 met in Mir. Whites castle last Sunday and made plans for all sorts of things. We are soon to have radiophone all our own. Watch the report for de- tails. Also live contest will be put on soon and some bird will win a watch and other things that are ex- pensive to keep up, judging from past experiences. After the radiophone set Is up we will entertain fans with a genuine imitation of a fog horn. Our noted tenor, AK O Hawl, is marvel Just wait until the set is up, then, Larry, turn the crank"
 HORACE MCKNIGHT.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-21

Fifth avenue on account of the fact that 1t had won the highest number of tests for the month of March,
 Can Be Proud
 Troop 3's scout master is Tram Sessions; his assistant being Rosser Angell Both are live workers. and both could well be proud of the show ing that the chaps made.
 MT. West made wonderful impress sion on Birmingham people, and to MT. Dan Dimick MT. F. H. Andrews and 25 or more Scout leaders he em- phasized:
 How l wish we could get Scout troops organized in each school. We are able to get the boys who attend churches-but the boys in school do
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-21

not come under our influence. This is pity since the schools have not the time to give boys such train ing as the Scout movement offers"
 It was MT Vests first trip to Bir- mingham, and he was very greatly delighted with the rows and rows of cabins at Camp Andrews, and the 1.400 boys who are lined up with scouting in the Magic City.
 However, he stated:
 Set your stakes for several hun dred more boys. There are too many boys in Birmingham who are not Scouts for us not to be wide-awake every minute to bring them under the influence of our organization, which helps boys to become real men,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-21
Scouting in Virgin
 Islands

The governor of the Virgin Islands has been approached as to the possi- bility of re-organizing scouting on on the island where it has been all lowed to lapse, and declares himself in favor of, the project. As soon as Lieutenant Commander John J. Calf ney come back from the states im- mediate steps will be taken. Two Scouts of St. Thomas Denis Souffront and Alvaro Lujo are vigorously pro- noting the idea have been in com munication with the national head quarters in New York.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-21

Here Is the way the boys back up their big chief:
 Said chief is James E. West, na- tional executive of the Boy Scout movement.
 The scouts met him at the station on his recent visit here, and he said to them:
 What I want Birmingham Scouts to be is men. do not want you to be just wearers of the uniform. Are your hearts all right?
 Can you say, I am trustworthy, loyal, brave, kind, courteous, morally clean and straight. I do not lie."
 It was Troop which won the honor of escorting their leader down
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-21
Pioneering

Assistant Scoutmaster Philip L. Burton of Chicago is conducting a class in pioneering for scouts who are patrol leaders Special attention will be given to the use of spars and lashings. The scope of the course will be such as to enable those quail fying to act as instructors to other
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-21

Killing birds is a practice so use- less and so much to be deplored when it is indulged in merely as pas time. There is some excuse for kill ing birds if they are being shot for food But nothing can excuse a boy of person who kills merely for rhe sake of killing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-21

If you will go down today and look in the widow of the Studio Book shop. you will see a beautiful display of Campfire articles that will be very attractive and interesting to you. And if you wish to be a Camp fire Girl ring up Mrs. Dan Dimick. and she will tell you the way.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-21
City Joins In

The city council of Independence Mo-, believes sufficiently in scouting as community asset that 1t recently voted an appropriati ton from the citys funds to swell the Boy Scout budget
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-21
National Council

Chief Scout Executive James E. West went to Chicago last week to he'p complete arrangements for the Twelfth national council meeting
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-21

them alive. Get a tall lard bucket or ordinary water pail, place some small bits of bread in the bottom of 1t and a handful of leaves or straw. Now get a heavy piece of paper and tie over the top. Fasten it securely. Now cut a slit across both ways, as shown In sketch, place your pail in some dark corner. place some boxes around it for "our friend" to climb on. Now tie a hunk of cheese or bacon with a string and hang it sus- pended within or inches ot the cross slit in your paper cover. Now your trap is "all set" and when you return to camp next week you fel- lows, can have a fine game of Wood Rat Golf''--but don't miss one with your club for you'll never catch him again.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-21

because that might not kill 'em out right. And then, even If they are rats, I wouldn't want 'em to stay here till We come back next week hanging by enc foot. And then. even if the tra pixilis, why they would smell ss had we couldn't stay here"
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