Orland Zenith, Volume 15, Number 27, Orland, Steuben County, 14 October 1914 — Page 2

THE ZENITH, 0 E I* A N D, INDIANA

PURI BOY SCOUTS OF WOULD WILL ■ PUT IN GREAT EUROPEAN CONFLICT

IN CHARGE OF BRITISH TROOP TRAINS

An American railroad man is dl-1 reeling the work o£ transporting Brlt-1 Ish troops on the Great Eastern railway In England. He is Henry Vf. Thornton, who went from New York recently to take charge ol the affairs of the Great Eastern. In a letter to George D. Blau of New Castle, Pa., he writes; “It Is a wonderful but terrible experience for me. Terrible, not that we are In danger personally, but because It is pathetic to see the chap you dined gayly with last night, pick up his rifle, kiss his family good-by and calmly Join bis colors. fT: "The railways of England have been taken over by the government, but are operated by the existing staff and men. An executive committee of general managers acts as a medium between the war office and the roads and Issues the necessary Instructions for movements. We have worked out all our mobilization schedules and are tue troops. We are doing our Job on the Great Eastern splendidly, and I am proud of my gang. They are up on their toes and act like a bunch of Americans. The entire outfit Is pulling like one man. "I saw the German ambassador off yesterday. He Is Prince Llcbnowsky. The princess, his suite and about two hundred Germans accompanied him. It was a pathetic and historical sight. Many people were on hand. The ambassador and the princess arrived by motor. They passed between the rows of People to the platform, where the train started In aBsolute silence. There was not a hiss or ‘boo.’ Not a toot moved. There was nothing but a deadly, uncanny silence.”

Much Interest Is Evidenced Concerning Possible Action of About Three Hundred Thousand of These Youthful Warriors— They May Become Valuable Aids to the Embattled Nations From Many Points of View.

New York. —How great a part will Boy Scouts of the world play in the great war of nations staged In Europe? That they will play some part

has been demonstrated already. HardIj Vl had the Germans invaded Belgium than there came the report across seas that Belgian Boy Scouts to the number of about 30 had captured several German spies and escorted them to headquarters. A few days later this report appeared; “The Germans are using Boy Scouts as spies, according to reports from Begian army officers. Complete plans of the Dutch fortress at Maastricht were found on a German Boy Scout.” Nor is this all. That Europe had conceded the possibilities of the Boy Scout organizations in time of war was demonstrated when,? some years ago, the French Peace society Invited Sir Robert Baden-Poweil and 6,000 Boy Scouts to “invade” France and march on Paris. It was merely a whimsical way of showing the friendly relations existing between the English and French nations. But soon after the announcement was made there came a terrific pro-

thls point to the statement accredited to Major General Wood that “practically all wars have been fought by boys.” French and English scouts have played an indirect part in the war. In the former nation they have been detailed to carry provisions to the sick and wounded, care for old women, helpless men and children, and aid in reaping the crops upon which the men at the front must depend. In the latter nation they have been de tailed to guard bridges and, on occasions, aid the police in preserving order.

Everything In the Boy Scout's training appears to have fitted him for war. He can march, find his way through dense woods, signal to his comrades either by the telegraph or the signal flag, pitch a camp and generally rely upon himself. He can swim, shoot and run probably with more swiftness than a heavier and older soldier.

STICKS TO HIS POST

No less an authority than Ludwig S. Dale of New York city, one of the national authorities on the movement and a close friend of Baden-Poweli. has declared that in time of war the Boy Scouts’ drill work and training in signaling would fit them for military service.

Hon. Myron T. Herrick, American ambassador to Prance at the time of the outbreak of the war, though he has been Joined during the past week by his successor, whose appointment was made previous to the start of hostilities, was the only diplomat to remain in Paris after the French government removed Its headquarters to Bordeaux. Mr. Herrick has been requested by the United States government to remain at the Paris embassy for a time, until his successor can get the run of affairs, and he has consented to do so, believing he can best serve the interests of the United States by remaining and looking after the welfare of Americans. Many banking institutions which have the money of Americans on deposit would have transferred their cash if he had not remained. In the event o( the surrender of Paris Mr. Herrick, as the representative of tho most powttful neutral power, will be of great hslp _ md Kobett -Bacon, w* tamer-tAMK dor. Mrs. Herrick Is also remaining with him in Paris. She has been ill, according to recent dispatches Is recovering. Mrs. Herrick is a natlvt Dayton, Ohio.

test, principally from military men. The Invaders were termed as “boy spies of Britain," and the fact that the march was finally permitted did not lessen the hostility to it in certain quarters. Organized essentially in the Interests of the boys themselves and, without the Idea of war, these young scouts may become valuable aids to the embattled nations. Those who believe

HAS LIVED IN WASHINGTON

Of the Boy Scouts in Europe, England has more than any of her sister nations. Her organization is 200,000 strong. Germany comes next with an organization of 50,000, drilled in the same way, although they go by the name of “Pathfinders.” AustriaHungary has 15,000 scouts, and her enemy, France, has 8,000. Russian Poland alone has 8,000 scouts, the total number in the empire not being known. Servia has 4,000 scouts. Scandinavia, which, of course, is not In the war, has 30,000 Boy Scouts. The remainder of the European naAmOUr Sr*?"a.-? E J*J| f ; den-Powell, the English militafu-T, upon learning that out of England’s 3,000,000 boys few more than a quarter of a million were enabled to have proper care and training, • b«(gan to think seriously of trying to be of aid. Mere money had been tried before in various “uplift” endeavors. There must be something new. Thompson Seton, the writer of animals’, haunts and habits, had seen the necessity for the same thing in America and he had been experimenting. He had called the groups of lads he had gathered together and trained in woods lore “The Woodcraft Indians.” Dan Beard, then an editor, evolved another society called “The Sons of Daniel Boone,” afterward “The Boy Pioneers of America.” It is really difficult to pin the badge of honor for first thinking of the scheme* upon any one man, but it was General Baden-Poweli who, with fine experience as a constructionist, set about the practical plans of the Boy Scout movement. He had shortly before the organization was conceived, published a text book on the subject of scouting for soldiers. This book was utilized by various boys’ clubs and private schools with a surprising degree of interest, so its author was encouraged to devise some wide-reaching plan for all boys, whether belonging to clubs, going to private schools or living in the top of a tenement or on some lonely farm. rhe general, a colonel oi the Boer war * under Lord Edward Cecil, then sot together sortie English

I TRIES SUICIDE by dynamite I Wilson Adams, an Engineer, Is Terribly Mangled by an Explosion at Fogelsville, Pa. Allentown, Pa. —Wilson Adams, a steam engineer at the hematite ore bed at Fogelsville, was brought to the Allentown hospital in a desperate attempt to save his life after a horrible attempt at suicide. A fellow engineer heard an explosion in the boiler room and found Adams lying in a RWl of blood. He was conscious, although his right arm and left hand had been blown off, his chest crushed and his face lacerated. He had exploded a stick of dynamite while holding it over bis heart. He refused tp tell his motive, but expressed regret he had not succeeded! His brother, Lewis Adams, hanged himself two years ago. Big Saving to Coke Industry. Chicago.—By the use of improved i ovens which collected the by-products j the coke industry of the United Brutes saved tlS.OVO.OOO last year.

Mrs. Adolph Miller. Washington,—Mrs. Adolph Milter is the wife of Doctor Miller, one of the (members of the new federal reserve board. Mrs. Ml»e.y has already spent one winter in Washington for her husband before hia selection as a member of the new board was assistant secretary of the interior department. The Millers are natives of California.

NATURAL

RN FIGHTING MAN

Winston Churchill, first lord of th rltlsh admiralty, has all the stamp o genius andj;jfcigh odaring,; iSBPPlH » rowded more Into his forty yeata in any man of hia day. He has men through five ■wars; he has writer! seven books, one of them being he biography of his father, which anks among the first half-dozen la he English language; he was first lected to the house of commons as i Conservative, but has been a Liberal minister of the crown tor nearly years, and he has proved himself one of the most active and powrful as well as sagacious and farseeing of modern English statesmen, te has journeyed in most parts of the vorld, spent long months In the sadile, and yet by some process that nust be called genius combines the iterary style of a ripe scholar with ho voracious habits of a man of ictdon. This country he knows well, both by reason of his relationships and bis visjis nere, es* uw «=v.-„,e tours which he undertook after the Boer war when at about the age of twenty-eight. The key to his character is that he is a soldier. He is a natural bom fighting man. He is a true Churchill, very different from his cousin, the present duke of Marlborough, whose heir to the dukedom he was until the birth o£ the two sons of the present duchess, still remembered as Miss Consucio Vanderbilt.

NEW ADJUTANT GENERAL’S SECORD —ii - ' ' " "* "***■*■

Ga Henry P. McCain, Be new head of the adjutant general’s department. of the United State? army, has had rather an interesting experience. He wm an infantry officer and was serving in Alaska when the Spanish war began. He was sent on the first expedition to the Philippines, and had only engaged in the first brush ’htr troops had- in the islands when he fell sick of the fever that affected so many of the Americans when they first went to the tropics. He was ia valid-d home, and had concluded that , his army - career was over, as he saw ; HttJe hope of promotion in the future. [ Tilts congress passed a law which prided t hat appointments to the adjutant and inspector general’s departments should be by competitive examination. As they say at 'Vest point and Annapolis, McCain began to "“bone” for that examination. Be!n,t a student, and having been t aught h#w to study at West Point, he was —===■ atl«* to pass the best examination and was selected for the adjutant generals i««frps. He has been '04 the Philippines twice and served with Gea - Leonard Wood in fighting the Moron.

SEEK RICK MAN’S LOST SON Fortune in Eitiland Awaiting a Missing Heir f He Makes Claim to It. Loudon. —iti missing son, who Is entitled to a fortune it he claims It, is mentioned h the wijl of Mr, William Rouse Whlttlifeh'am Upjohn, of Guestling Hill, neaJ Hastings, who died in London last -IMay, leaving £46,1SS j gross. He directed that if his trustees re-; ceive no clain from his son during | the seven ye»rs following his death, j nor any rslfchle information as to the existenro of his son or any chii* dren of his, ffey. are to pfesume that his son died In his father’s lifetime without lea'i-d issue.

Marion, KW- —A young Marlon man announces tiff invention of a process for solving^ 'he fuel problem. By means of m P9cial motor and generator he cl4» s his ability to produce pure by art* 1 Sas from a decomposition of wi ? , at the low cost of tv.Q | cents pet ' Ioe n

MOTOR COMPANIES TO PAY House of Lords Says They Must Keep Up Roads Which They Use. London. —The select committee of the house of lords agreed to the Principle of the Middlesex county council s 'hill and for the first time established the precedent that motor omnibuses shall pay directly for the maintenance of roads. The bill enables the Middlesex county council to omnibus companies to S ive access to their books and make returns of the mileage run by their cars on the new Great •Western road and to charge the companies three-eighths of a penny per car mile toward the expense of maintaining the road. This clause, which was strenuously opposed by the omnibus companies, has already passed the house of commons. It was stated In evidence that damage to roads by motor omnibuses has cost the Middlesex county council some hundreds of thousands of pounds.

Boya in Surrey) He l °id them something of 1 what the boys in Mateking, Africa, liad doe1 o during the struggle In the Transvaal, how Lord Cecil had talked to them'of scout tactics, drilled them, and, giving them uniforms, made them, the proud messengers of the handful of weary men on the long advance line Qf; Matching. The general needn’t have told his young audience how eager for duty these reliefs of their fathers and elder brothers the British boys on the veldt were, as they rode on bicycles from fort to fort with messages, acted as orderlies, and never once shirked the dangers of a real firing line In a real war. thr- tyys,,, as they listened to the story of i<9 Hf *d the African plains were bul'Sfjling over with desire to learn not tmaj something of camp life during a battle, but the secrets

r ' R "Y r ut < -' os oi nature whilV. : iei, C1T5 'r^v «nJ them were hidde. in the woods and streams of ' Merrt England." Baden-Pow■•U's idea was to “teach the boys to toaoj themselves charac ter.” Th -or “scout” to young America suggests j.Fanlroore Coopei and forgotten Indian trails, hut young England- has Kipling as a remindei that the frontierlis still a prida In their king’s endeavor, that ex pit ring and colonl/.ing is one of England’s policies, and that border life is just as stirring and as; necessary for the glory of the union jack as when Sh Walter Raleigh lived. Feudal knights too, and chivalrous scouts of peace are heroes held before them, and there is little doubt that knight er rantry Ip all Us romance and colot has had much to dc,,wit.h the propa ganda of the niciemunt in Great Brit ajn. |- Nearly all tlpBjjtoing in all coun tries is given ouf of doors. Stars and moon, rain and iun, birds and butter files, each hav»bcir part in the new knowledge gair|d. Tracks and track ing are stndletl upd to become even a "tenderfoot,” r he language of the scouts, a bojf must prove, among other things,sjiat ha can trail in 25 minutes an obfihro track half a mile long. Before Je can rise beyond the "tenderfoot” WEfc' he must show that he can makd* fire out in the open, using not nit'O than two matches and there hi able to cook a certain amount of wM and potatoes with out other caking utensils than his "billy can."