THE - OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: DECEMBER 16, 1917.
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SCOUTS TO BEGIN
FIFTH CAMPAIGN
maha Troops to Assist in
National Drive in Interests of
Red Cross; Canvass All
Theaters.
Eight hundred Omaha Boy Scouts
will begin next Tuesday to assist in
the fifth national campaign of this
year. They will do their share in
making the local Red Cros drive a
success.
1 he scouts v ill canvass the the
aters and motion picture houses. A
schedule has been arranged for the
guidance of the scoutmasters. At
each night's performance a troop vHll
visit each theater and work during in
termissions. Executive English of the local
scout council believes Omaha scouts
will obtain no less than 5,000 Red
Cross pledges during this campaign,
which will last one week. Each scout
returning five or more pledges will
receive a service band of same de
sign that was awarded for the food
pledge campaign work. Four hundred
and titty Omaha scouts were award
ed service bands for the food conser
vation work and it is estimated that
as many will be decorated for this
Red Cross campaign. The hoys as
sisted in both of the Liberty loan
drives and the scouts of the country
won national recognition for that
work.
The big men of the nation have
expressed themselves in appreciative
terms regarding the great work done
this year by the Hoy Scouts in help
ing to make the world safe for
democracy.
Sight of Oakum Rouses
Valiant Scouts to Action
The boys of troop No. 9, in charge
of Scoutmaster E. R. Zabriskie, be
lieve in doing their share in the war
relief work. Last Monday when they
met in All Saints' church, Mrs. T. J.
a Mackay, wife of the rector, came in
'with three bales of oakum which was
to be used by local Red Cross work
ers in making first aid bandages for
the Sammies "over there." She ex
plained that before this material
could be used it must be prepared
by taking out the coarse fibers.
"Would the scouts of Troop No. 9
i'o the work?" she asked.
Would they do it? Can a duck
swim? N'o sooner had she made her
wishes known, than the boys fell to
with vim and in short order they had
the work completed. That's the wa
they do things in Troop No '.
A. B. Amber'son Reorganizes
Crack Scout Troop No. 1
A. B. Amberson is the new scout
master of troo.i No. 1. This troop
is undergoing a reorganization and
expects to be in the forefront of
things in the future. The meeting
place is in the Walrut Hill Methodist
church. First and second basket ball
teams have been organized. A' hike
to the country north of Florence is
being planned for the week between
Christmas and New Year's day.
Troop No. 8, which meets in St.
John's Episcopal church, believes it
lias some basket ball team. If any
other troop doubts that claim, they
may have a demonstration by noify
ing J. J. Cameron, jr., scoutmaster.
Scouts of Troop No. 31
Develop Sense of Touch
Scoutmaster Carl M. Worden of
tioop No. 4j is proud of his boys.
La.-t Monday night Scoutmaster Hill
of troop No. ol visited No. 4.? and
showed them a stunt which consists
of blind-folding a boy. placing him in
the center of a circle cf boys and
have him tell the name of the first
boy he touches by the sense of touch
and by asking one question. One
quick-witted scout asked the boy he
touched his address and thereby
quickly gave his name. Another boy
recognized the band on the trousers
of a high school cadet. Mr. Hill was
surprised at the quick wit of the ;
scouts of troop No. 4, i
Troop No. 1 Opens Meetings 1
With ''Oath to the -Flag"
l!y Ft: man Haym:iti. j
The scouts of Troop No. 1 now
open the meetings with .he "Oath to
the Flag." We are reot g uiizing the
troop under Mr. A'mberson. There
are three different corps, first aid,
under Louis Smetana; signal corps,
under Firman llayman; knot tying
corns, under Lvsle Vance. We have
a committee that is picking a cham- i
pion basket ball team. Another big j
niKe is pianneu tor me innsuuas va
cation. During this hike most of the
scouts are planning to pass as many
tests as possible.
Play Written by Omaha Girl
To Have Premier Tuesday
Final rehearsals for the play,
"Drafted," to be staged at Creightou
auditorium Tuesday night forecast a
splendid presentation of this "made-in-Oma1ia"
drama, according to Mrs.
Isabella McLaughlin, who is direct
ing the cast. Mae Greene,. 2616 Cali
fornia street, wrote the play. The
net proceeds will be donated to a
fund for the construction of a new
chapel at Fort Omaha.
Here, Scouts, Is an Old One;
Can You Figure It Out j
Hoys, see if you can figure this out:
Scout Executive English went into
a barber shop during the week, got
a shave and offered the barber $1.
The barber said he could not change
$!, so Mr. English said he had a So !
bill which the barber said he could .
change. Mr. English received back ;
$4.85. How did the barber make the
change of the $5 bill when he could j
not change the $1 bill?
E. L Johnson Is Chairman I
Of Red Cross Collections ,
The Red Cross Christmas mem- :
'icrship committee has appointed I
Manager Johnson of the Gayety tha-j
;'.ter as chairman of the collections to i
be made at all the theaters the com- j
! ing week. No doubt the appointment
was made because of the "go-get-it" j
methods employed by him at his !
own theater recently, when the $1,878
was obtained in two weeks for the
1 "Smokes for Sammies" fund.
COURT OF HONOR
SCODTTRIBDSAL
Well Known Men Sit to Pass
Upon Applications for Orders
of Merit; Requirements
Exacting.
The Court of Honor is the last word
in Omaha Boy Scout affairs. This
group of men sit from time to time
to pass upon applications for first
class scout certificates and merit
badge certificates.
The personnel of the local court is:
Judge Woodrough, I'aul L. Martin,
Dr. Irving S. Cutter. W. R. McKeen,
H. A. Senter, J. W. Welch and J. A.
Sunderland, "t'hey are all busy men
and it is not possible for them to at
tend every meeting, as was the case
when this picture was taken. But
their hearts are in the scout movement
and they are always ready, when time
permits, to lend their aid to help the
boys.
When a scout becomes first class,
he is entitled to strive for merit
badges which are given for proficiency
in 60 lines of activity which cover
nearly the entire field of everyday af
fairs. Some boys begin their life work
by becoming interested in an activity
to gain a merit badge. Automobiling,
for instance, may lead a boy to be
come a mechanician. The government
t this time is making a loud call for
automobile and aeroplane mechani
cians. The same may be said of
telegraphy, wireless telegraphy, ma
chinery, wood working and other lines
of work.
Boy Scouts have found that infor
mation gained in their efforts to win
merit badges has proved valuable in
more than one way. These activities
have broadened their, point of view
and helped them to be handy at home.
A boy who passes a handicraft merit
test can do almost any kind of repair
ing in the average home.
Scout Dawson Aids Polite
In Catching Slick Thief
Boy Scouts are quick to observe
things. That is part of scoutcraft.
Charles Dawson of troop No. 28 last
week observed a woman place'' some
money in a -paper on her door knob
for a lauudryman. He also observed
a man who was not a lauudryman
take the money. lie notified a po
liceman, who succeeded in arresting
the
thiet.
Brandeis Stores Open
Information Bureau
The Brandeis Stores have opened a
special holiday season information
bureau, where shoppers from out of
town especially, can get information
on any subject they wish. J. W.
Kennedy, a well known hotel man of
Omaha, has been placed in charge of
this important bureau and is ready to
furnish information in regard to
trains, hotel accommodations, places
of amusement and points of interest
to out-of-town visitors.
Mr. Kennedy, because of his long
association with three of the best ho
tels in Omaha, is also qualified to
give the best of service in obtaining
accommodations for holiday shoppers.
The holiday information bureau will
be located on the main floor, main
aisle (Will H. Thomas' office).
Troop No. 38 Goes Through
Foot Ball Season Unscathed
Troop No. 38, St. John's Catholic
church, Twenty-fifth and California
streets, is feeling rather chesty over
the record attained by its foot ball
team which has played eight games
this season without a defeat. John
Gillin is manager and Arthur Gaines
is captain.
Hand ball is another game in which
members of this troop claim su
periority. They will consider inter-
troop games,
Auto Salesmen Do Good
Business in Cold Weather
"One of the most prevalent reasons
advanced by automobile salesmen for
slack business during the winter," as
erts Manager O'Neal of the Nebraska
Oldsmobile company, "is the that peo
ple don't want to buy cars until warm
weather."
This, according to O'Neal, is poor
logic for two reasons. First, many
owners drive their cars all winter and
many prospects would do the same if
they had cars. Secondly, many motor
ists will be disappointed in the spring
when they find that it will be very
hard to get prompt delivery. Then,
too, there is every indication that cars
will advance from $150 to $J0O by
spiing. This will make many owners
wish they had bought during the win
ter at lower prices.
United States "Royal Cord"
Tire Passes 38,000 Mile Mark
Here is a tire performance that is
apt to hold the endurance record for
many a day to come, a performance
that is arousing such interest in Cali
fornia that the public is keeping score
on its daily mileage record.
The Kent Brothers, who operate the
motor stage between'San l'edro and
Redondo, CaL, have their car equip
ped with United States "Royal Cord"
tires. When one of these tires had
run 28,411 miles and was brought in
to be retreaded, the local press sat up
and took an intense interest in this
"wonder" tire, and on November
when a total of 38,249 miles was at
tained, crowds were waiting at each
end of he stage route to jot down the
mileage.
Missouri Pacific Official
Snowbound in Dakota
Traveling Passenger Agent Terry
of the Missouri Facific is in Omaha
from South Dakota, where he was
$torm bound a couple of clays of the
present cold spell. While the weather
was the coldest, Mr. Perry was in
Aberdeen. There the thermometers
registered 36 to 40 degrees below
zero. As told to Mr. Perry, this was the
coldest weather that the oldest South
Dakota residents had ever ex
perienced this early in the season. It
was so cold that business was prac
tically suspended and no attempt was
made to perforin outside labor.
What the Omaha Boy
i Scouts Are Doing
j Scoutmaster Zabriskie of Troop No.
i 9, has proposed to his boys a tcnta-
tivc constitution for the guidance of
his troop. This set of rules will be
for internal affairs of the troop and
will in no manner contravene the
rules as laid down in the handbook
of the Boy Scouts of America. Adop
tion of the proposed constitution will
be brought up in a week or so.
George Phillips of Troop No. 9, suf
fered a broken arm. The boys are
hoping that George will be up and
around in ttme to enjoy Christinas
dinner with both arms.
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Troop No. 20, tinder Scoutmaster
R. K. Edmunds, held a parents' night
session on Thursday. The boys gave
demonstrations of scout work for the zM
edification of their parents. fjj
Rev. C. E. Cobbey will speak to the , jej
boys of Troop No. 28 on Monday j gg
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