Evening star., 1937-07-12
Washington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things.
SCOUT NEWS

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SCOUT NEWS.
TINE Boy Scouts are gone. TIL
streets which ran red land lot
Of other colors) with necker
chiefs have resumed thei
normal appearance. Memories an
mementos remain of their visit, tn
most vivid Of the former group bein
that Of woman who insists she sa,
a eangling Scout jump over an au
tomobile which she says was goin
to run him down.
The mementos consist largely Of au
tographs. The city knows how boy
write, boys all the way from Siwash t.
Siam.
The boys had a good time. Wash
ington had good time. The paper
devoted a great deal of space to tn
lamboree. Reporters shed great blob
Of persplration in the pursuit of Scou
news. 1t was all very happy, bu
we still have couple of Scout sto
rles (ln spite of the thoroughness O
the reporters) to tell.
4
RIDE.
One OF them concerns a hacker
uho Uds among those making lots
OF dimes By carrying Scouts at 10
cents per Scout. 1t was a profit
able practice. especially for drivers
Dho rent cabs and don't hare to
1oorrv about getting springs re-
pared as penalty for ouerload-
ing.
The hacker hero Of this tale ros
one OF those. He had a huge load
one day uhen he ran into the cabs
orner.
Hey, you." shouted the latter
as the cab ,rent saoging by, "mhy
don't you 90 back and get the
ScoutmaSter?"
The hacker still is laughing
about that. He had the Scout
master all the time; had him so
deeply buried in Scouts that the
cab gunner couldn't see him.
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GUIDE.
4 ND another echo!
1t took days for the informan
to muster enough energy to come a
the way up TO the seventh floor fo
purposes Of telling some one about tn
incident, but it seems that one of tn
Scouts was passing The Star Buildin
with feminine companion, VIII
doubled, most probably, as feminin
admirer AS they came abreast OF tn
entrance he pointed,
That's where they keep the plan
in which Lindbergh flew to Paris,
he said.
SPIKE.
4 S HAPPENS wherever there is
collection Of youth. the Scou
lamboree has its poignant little trae
edies involving the humiliation Q
one boy in the presence of others,
So We bring you the story of tn
Sea Scout and a gay evening at Gle
Echo which went sour. There's
device in the amusement park
'flendish device-like huge woode
tub sunk in the floor. The idea
to stay in the raised center portion c
the tub while it is being revolved a
a dizzy pace. Most riders" are fun
to the rim after a few revolution.
but Spike" the Sea Scout, WASH
He held on manfully until just befor
the thing came to stop, then off h
slid, and with shout of warnin
became actively i'll.
Yah! Yah!" taunted other youth
whose equilibrium was quite all rigf
because they had been standing COIL
on the sidelines. Sea Scout &c,
sea sick. Har! Har! Better tax
off that uniform fore you go in 1ha
again i. Heb, heh :. He hasn't &c
his land legs vet" and so forth.
Spike took it with a grin (whe
he was able to grim. raising his sailo
cap and departing head high. W
know about all this because We wer
In the tub with Spike" Thing
like that never bother us, neve
bother us. nvr both'us, nvr
O-o-o-oop!
ATTENTION.
THE grass is not only greener in tn
other fellows pasture. but road
side signs are much more noticeable
1t came out in a conversation upo
which one of our operatives caves
dropped at luncheon.
"One of the things I saw" said tn
man, obviously just back from a moto
tour, was a sign near Philadelphi
which read: If you lived in Blank
you'd be home now"
Yeah" said the other. How com
you never noticed that there is a sig
saying the same thing on the roa
you travel twice daily between you
office and home?"
X X
JOKE.
JdtneT Ue knOU poured out
what he thought was sound
psychology on dealing with the
Jokes his adolescent daughter uas
likely to hear. He thought to put
her in the position OF being able
to say, eyes, / knop that one," bv
telling her most OF his supply NTH
suitable reuisions to take the ra1uer
edge of some she seemed bound to
hear anyUay.
1t looked like a good system one
OF the things the child specialists
should hare figured out long ago,
until the father learned the child
Tcs q comparative sensation in her
set BY repeating the jokes in less
arttul 9uise.
Many uere the good laughs they
used to hare together, but not anu