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Show SCOUTS AT WINTER CAMPS A big thought In scouts' minds at this time is winter camping. Camping with Its heulth-glvlng work and play la so vital a part of a scout's activities, activi-ties, that the keen frosty air only serves to enhance the Joy of life out-of-doors. Six hundred and fifty scouts of Oreuter New York spent the holidays at the big Bear Mountain camp. The program consisted of shouting's combination com-bination of out-of-doors work and educational edu-cational training. The day's routine was as follows: 7:00 a. m. reveille, 7:05 a. m. calisthenics. calis-thenics. 8:00 a. m. breakfast (hot pancakes) etc., 0:00 a. m. to 11:00 a. ni. instruction and games, 12:00 noon dinner (piping hot), 1:00 p. m. to 2:00 p. m. rest period; 2:00 p. in. to 4:00 p. in. competitive games, hockey, skating, skat-ing, tobogunning, snowshoeing, skiing, etc.; 5:30 p. m. mess, 7:00 p. m. camp tiro. 9:00 p. m. taps. In Chicago the Klwanls club of En-g'ewood, En-g'ewood, Hyde Park and Woodlawn have furnished two cabins In the forest preserves not far from the city. On the site Is an artificial lake amid be-uutiful rustic surroundings. The Klu-nnls ofllclals have turned over -the keys of the preserves" to the scout oiilclals for the use of the boys. Ames (Iowa) council prepared Christmas vacation camp for Its "hard as flint" campers. The forest ranger In charge of the stnte park where the boys ca-inpcd. requested the scouts to assist him In the establishment of new Trails, In marking these and the existing ex-isting trails, in clearing brush from the scenic points, and In maintaining feeding stations for the wild life hloh Is abundant tn the park. Besides these camps, hundreds of others will be conducted during the winter and attended by the sturdy scouts bent on making themselves utror.g and fit for present and future -lrl. nshlp and service. |