Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-02
BOY SCOUTS

| Thirty-five Scouts from Troops 16,
! 40. As and SIS, under the direction of
| Thomas King, scoutmaster of Troop
| 49, spent last Friday afternoon and
evening assisting the Salvation Army
in the distribution of baskets and toys
| to needy families of Washington.
! Twenty-Five Scouts from Troop 100.
| led by Scoutmaster Tyrrell, assisted
| at the exercises incident to the light
| ing of the community tree on Sher
man Square last Friday by President
Coolidge. Wilson Leverton of Troop
40 sounded the Scouts Call" as the
tree was lighted, and Scout buglers
all over the city echoed the call.
AT a meeting of the program COM
mittee Monday evening plans were
made for the annual anniversary
meeting to be held in Central High
School February II. Vice President
lawes will speak and life Eagle
Scout badges earned during the year
will be presented.
Personal health was the most,
popular badge for the month, 20
Scouts obtaining it, while fireman
ship and public health are next. First
aid electricity, handicraft and path
finding are next in the order Of their
popularity. Troop 81 led the city in
badges taken, with 43 to their
credit, while Troop 8, with 81,
was second, and Troop 100, with
80 badges, was third. Troop 35 was
fourth. with 10 badges
Court of honor and review will be
held at the Thomson School Jan
uary II.
In order to avoid confusion at the
courts of review, Scouts are urged
to pigidly observe the methods of pro-
cedure as set forth in a circular that
went out to %COutmaSterS early in the
season. Additional copies are avail
able at headquarters.
Report cards We're sent to scout
masters last week. They should be
filled out in duplicate and one sent to
Scout headquarters and one to the
deputy commissioners of the divisions
before January 10. Standing in the
troop efficiency contest is largely de.
termined by these reports.
Troop II, under the leadership of
j. S. Hawley and A. Boyd Kinds, is
now settled in it's new meeting place,
at 1908 II street. The scouts have
two clubrooms, a drill floor, kitchen
and museum. Three patrols are deco
rating the house. AS a sort of house
warming affair, Commodore Longfel-
low of the American Red Cross, a
member of the troop committee,
cooked a meal for the Scouts.
Troop II turns out en- masse
on Saturdays to distribute church bull
letins. In deep appreciation of the
large and untiring service of their
former scoutmaster, who has recently
been made a deputy commissioner,
the troop presented Mai William I.
Simpson with a beautiful loving cup. !
The first division will hold their
swimming meet next Friday evening
at the Boys Y. NJ. c. A. pool at
O'Clock.
The scoutmasters' round table Of
the third division will meet at Scout
headquarters tomorrow evening
The fourth division forum will meet
at the Wilson Normal School tomor-
row evening.
The sixth annual banquet of the
c. NJ. o., the honor tribe of Camp
Roosevelt, the Washington Boy Scout
camp, was held Wednesday evening
at the Highlands. Representatives
from two other chapters, at Waltham,
Mass, and Pitman, n. j., brought the
greetings from their respective coun-
ellis. Features of the evening were
music by the male quartet, led by
Paul CARRIER; selections by "Wampus
Cat" Stuart, and Walt Mason poem,
composed and read by Jim Hall,
executive of Gloucester-Salem Council,
New Jersey. DR.. Paul Bartsch was
the honor guest, and greeted the mem
bers of the G. M. o. in behalf of the
Washington Council.