The Washington times., 1937-07-03

on this side, not to be curiosity,
or to be scorned, or to be talked
about behind my back"
OLD TIME GREETING
Harold said it was an old time
greeting to foreigners warning
them to keep their tongues from
wagging.
Griff and Harry live about ESQ
miles apart in England, and never
met before. They wear different
kinds of Scout uniforms, as in Eng
land the towns each have a dis
tinguiShing kind of Boy Scout uni
form, rather than having the uni
versal khaki like in America. The
boys resemble each other with
their fair compilations and ruddy
cheeks, and like most young Eng
lishmen, are slow to voice an opin-
ion, but very frank when they do.
High Price of Swim
Griff asked me where he could
go swimming. told him and men
toned the fact that Scouts re-
ceived especial admission rates to
the pools of 10 and is cents. This
disguised him, as in his town a
fellow can go swimming in a pub
lie pool for a tuppence (about 4 to
6 cents.
There are so boys from England
in the troop of which Harold and
Johnny are members, and as rule
the boys expenses, which have
been pretty high, have been paid
almost wholly by the British Boy
Scout Association. The boys came
across in the Acquitania, and
stopped in New York city before
coming here.
They disliked the city very
much, according to Griff. 1t was
too grey, too immense, too COM
pressed. The youngsters were very
fond of Washington. Harold said:
I'VE like to see bit of green
trees, and a dash of cool water
and long lawns"
I mentioned food, and they said
they liked the American food, eX-
cept that it was too mixed and
too involved. Like scrambled eggs
and corn beef hash. II you ask
for meat and vegetables in London
you get them on two plates. If
you ask for the same thing in
Washington, nine chance out of
10 you'll get the two together in
one concoction. But they both
grinned agreements that you
Americans make jolly fine ice
cream!"
W2IOP and W8QYF are on GuSy
at the Boy Scout Amateur Radio
Station in the General Headquar'
tiers area. W2IOP's real name is
Larry eastman, of New York city,
and W8QYF are the call letters OF
James Heuser, of Asthibula, Ohio.
They will be on duty until 10 at
night sending messages for Scouts
to amateurs listing all over the
globe. They use Coast Guard
equipment.
A ten o'clock they are relieved
by W2SN q. R. Laudermilch OF
Cleona, Pa and W9PUB (Joseph
L. Hassett of Flint. MichO who
maintain communications all
night.
All of the boys are Scouts and
are licensed by the Federal Com
munications Commission. A local
Scout, W3ASE, or william Dunno
who lives at the Chastleton Hotel
at 10th and r SITS. has been an
operator for the past five years,
From the Pocohantas coal re-
gion in West Virginia comes a
group of Boy Scouts who have set
up in their camp area a complete
mining exhibit. And no clumsy
figures are these models, either
All displays are as neat as patent
office models. AS you enter their
show, they display q model coal
power scoop in a small coal mine
with little figures shoveling the
coal into the path of the auto
matte scoop.
NV favorite Times comic rStrir
was brought to mind today wher
l saw the Scioto Council (Ohioj
camp entrance arch, which is sur
mounted by long crocodile totem
like Long Shout in Tim Tyler!
Luck. The ''croc" is legend ii
this councils camp history anc
was brought from their Boy Scou
camp in Ohio.
Yesterday, half of our Sea Scout
contingent went to the NaVaI
Academy at Annapolis to have
lunch with the midShipmen AND
tour the grounds. Next Tuesday
the other half goes and repeats
this rare treat. And from what
hear, the mess is plenty fine in the
Navy. Another round Of Italian
hauSaP Rail0rl