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Show NEW BOY SCOUT MANUAL HAS MANY FEATURES The hundreds of thousands of boy scouts throughout tha country will bi greatly pleased to learn that the mw manual of the Roy Scouts of America will coma from the prcm on June 1. and that at the eaiV ttmm nm ka.laen' also alU--b&. raflv. The editorial hoard of whirl. W t . M urrs v n rhal rma n, announcep t lia t all the rhaptorn have ben completed and will go to the printer within a few dava. The manual covers almnet everv ai'tiv-ity ai'tiv-ity of Inter-et lo th active. Browing brv: It treata of life in the wooda. ganiea. chivairv. cltisenahip. H'a aavlng and nrat aid to the Injured and tends to make ihe hov healthful, alert and wholesome. whole-some. It mill be of unueual Jntereat to the hove. While the old manual was written hirtv bv one or two men and larselv adapted from the manual prepared pre-pared hv Sir Vn. Rohrt Baden-Powcll. the originator of the bov scout moVentent, ihe Amerlcnn manual ban been prepared bv manv m-n. every one of whom Is an expert In his speHii. line. Among the Interesting features of the new manual will he euhlects which never before have been treated In a mnner suitable fr hos. Ten or twelve of the ableMt government experts In Washington hve prepared this material. Thev have npenl much time in writing thes- articles heauae nf their interest In th scout movement and herHueo the subject on whi h thev write bve not hn placed before the bovs hitherto in popular vein i For Inxtame. there ine articles- on I innwlB ami kIi'11h. ivnyr '.-fiM- trentei, In a manner that would appeal to bms. In the same stvle. experts In the geological geologi-cal survey, the Rmlihaonlan Institution and department of agriculture, and varl-ou varl-ou other biireaua In Wahlnion have written art h lea. Such aublecta as liah. birds, rocriaj rlowera. butterfllen and the rl fiofangTIhg wirte TlltrcnssTvl trior ourhly. The new manual Is arranged In nine chapters. The first chspter. hv John I.. Alexander, expert In bovs work, tresis. In a new manner, of "Scoutcrsft and Mow to Become a Roy Scout." "Woodcrgft," bv Krnest Thompson Keton, member of (he National Audubon socioty and Government Gov-ernment Kxperts. la chapter N. 2. The nxt chapter deala with '.'-ampcraff and Outdoor Life." hv H. W. Glhaon. boys- work i-ecretsry of Massachusetts, and Arthur Ar-thur A. Carey of Cambridge. Mass. "Trscks, Trailing snd Signaling." by Reton. taken up a chapter. "Health. Endurance En-durance and IKgiene." bv Pr. Jcorge J. Kinhor of the International Y. M. C. A.; "i 'hlvalrv: Ancrnt, American and Modern Mod-ern Knighthood." bv' Alexander; "First Aid snd Life Saving." bv MaJ. Charles l.vnch. medical director of the American Red 4'rosa; Commodore William E. 1Ong-fellov', 1Ong-fellov', I". S. volunteers' life saving corps, snd II. W. Olhson. lake up othef chapters. chap-ters. Chapter No. treats of "Catnea and Athletic Standards." hv Seton. bee F. Ilanmer. SHaorlate director of the child hRtcnlf department of the Rusell Hsg Koundalton. and Alexander. The la -it chapter Is on "Patriotism satd CltJaen-vh'P." CltJaen-vh'P." by Waldo H Phermnn |