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dragon-flies
?44It makes me very much annoyed/'
said Daddy Dragon-Fly, "when 1 am
not appreciated. We eat up naughty
little insects and people shouldn't be
afraid of us."
"Well," said another Dragon-Fly,
whose real name was Mr. Epiaeschna
Ileros, "I wasn't very welcome the
other day. I flew in a window of a
| house ? and there was a little &lrl tuk
j ing a bath. She was having a beautiful
lime, splashing and all, so I buzzed
about and thought I'd make a noise,
too. But she screamed at seeing me.
44 That great, big, horrid thing,' was
the rude, cruel way in which she spoke
of me.
"It grieved me sadly. Aiid when I
say that it grieved me sadly I mean
that it made me feel 4juite unhappy. I
was expecting to ask her many ques
tions ? why she used soap and a wash
rag and a sponge. I thought those
would be most, interesting questions
: and though, perhaps, jshe wouldn't
| know how to answer ine, I felt that
i by watching her I might find out.
"I thought It was a most interesting
thing to see sqap being useu, and the
soap did such strange things. 1 knew
it was soap, because I had heard the
little girl ask her mother for a iresh
cake of soap and I saw what her
mother gave her. The soap made bub
bles and the soap was frothy and some
j thing like a bathtub variety of ocean
foam. But, dear me, the way she did
treat me! Screamed at me! And I
wouldn't have hurt her.
"We often get into buildirtgs and
houses and we're not so very welcome.
No, I must say, we're not so very wel
! come. If the little girl had known my
I name she might have been frightened
by it. It is a very long naitfe. But
she just kneiv me as a Dragon-Fly and
had no idea of tiie enormous and mag
! ni ftcen t name which I always carry !
with me wherever I go. So there wfls i
no reason for her to be frightened. It j
j was very sad, as I've said. I cannot ?
see why people should be afraid of
i me. I cannot see, but then the ways
of people are beyond a poor Dragon
Fly's understanding."
"You are the largest of all the
' Dragon-Flies," said Daddy Dragon-Fly.
i "At least I should say that your family
belong to the species or kind of Dragfth
Fly which is bigger than any other,
i "Quite often you're taken for me and j
I'm sure taken fop you. Rut you're
much bigger lhan I am and you haven't
j the round spot in front of your eyes
that 1 1 have. You have a T-shaped
j mark. Yes, your wings are big' and
outspread and your body is very long. I
My body isn't nearly so long. It is a
shame not to be appreciated. Now, we
do a very good work and we're inter
esting-looking creatures. I lived in j
the water unt 'J I got my fine wings.
That is the way we do as a family.
"Yqu know that well enough. And
when I was young I used to shoot
forth my smart little juws and grab
up anything that passed my way that
looked good to eat.
"Now I fly about and gather up my
prey with my legs, holding it as though
In a market basket. But, oh dear, ; 1 do
wish people would stop gossiping
about us biting them. We won't bite
anything but our insect food ! We're
doing good and ' not harm and we're
graceful and nice to look at, surely.
So let's beg people to leave us alone
nnd not to be frightened nt us ! We
don'f like to frighten thehi. We cer
tainly don't like to do anything like
that !
"That's the Dragon-Fly truth !".
Least Damaging.
"To be sure, 1 want my daughter to
enjoy some kind of artistic education,"
said the father who had recently made
his fortune. "I think I'll let her study,
singing."
"Why not art orv literature?" ques
tioned a friend. *
"No. Art spoils canvas and litera
ture wastes reams of paper. Singing
merely produces a temporary disturb
ance of the atmosphere." ? Chicago j
Daily News.
Varying Height#.
Hoffy, having moved to the country,
had to stand for a lot of near-humor
from his down town friends and got
very tired of it. Ilence the following
dialogue :
"Hello, Hoffy."
"Lo."
"So you now live in the suburbs?"
"Yes."
, "How high are onioni?"
"Four inches in the garden; highc
at the grocery store."
?BOY
SCOUTS
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HELP MAKE NEW CITIZENS
An effective piece of Americaniza
tion work 18 being quietly but actively
carried on all year through by the
Boy Scouts of America for the bureau
of naturalization of the United States
Department of Labor.
In the fall of 1919 the aid of the
Boy Scouts of America was sought to
provide the personal, friendly touch
necessary to winning the confidence of
the foreign-born who wish to become
citizens, and to bring them into pub
lic school glasses of instruction for.
preparation for citizenship. The bu
reau of naturalization regularly issues
cards of invitation urging applicants
for naturalization to attend such
classes, and the plan was to have
these cards distributed personally by
boy scouts.
Commissioner of Naturalization
Raymond F. Crist states that during
the last fiscal year 116,475 sucti cards
were sent to 471 cities for distribution,
bringing the total number so distrib
uted to approximately 400,000.
The Detroit Americanization com
mittee in reporting on 1922, their big
gest year, says:
"The personal delivery of Invitations
to attend schools, delivered to the
adult alien at his home by. the boy
scouts, must have been one of the big
factors in filling our Immigrant edu
cation classes last year."
The commissioner of naturalization,
In commenting upon this year
through practical civic good turn by
scouts, states !
"While the most important service
to Americanization which the boy
scouts have performed Is doubtless
that of getting In touch with appli
cants for citizenship, their activities
hove included many other 'good turns'
to this cause. 'Among these may be
mentioned taking part In public cere
monies held to present new citizens
with their certificates of naturaliza
tion, actinp as ushers and otherwise
participating In graduation exercises
of citizenship classes, and in Ameri
canization rallies r.nd mass meetings.
"The cumulative effect of these
varied activities has been to keep be
fore the public, our native as well as
our foreign-born residents, the press
ing need of amalgamating the many
races within our shores Into one
homogeneous people. Iii other words,
the boy scouts help in maintaining this
'melting pot' for the adult foreign
horn just as they form and maintain
the all-Amerlcan 'melting pot' among
the youth of America."
POEM TO BOY SCOUTS
The author of the following poem
dedicated and contributed to the Boy
Scouts of America, Is J. B. Strauss,
president of the Strauss Bascule Bridge
company of Chicago, and the designer
of a majority of the large movable
bridges in this country and throughout
the world. Mr. Strauss came Into con
tact with the boy scout movement when
his sons became members of Troop 888
of Chicago. He Interested himself In
the activities of that troop and soon
extended his Interests to the local work
!n general, and In order to give prac
tical service, accepted the position of
North shore district commissioner:
A Scout I am: this is my creed:
For every day a worthy deed:
And this my faith: the love of right
? And truth and peace, the strength t *
light
For those In need: the will to be
My brother's prop: his trust in me
To keep and mine in heart of man:
Than this there ia no nobler plan.
A Scout I am: in every land
Beneath the sun my colors stand
For Honor's cause: my hands are bounrf I
With million hands the world around j
To service that bespeaks the strong.
To do the things that conquer wrong
And did we search until Time's end,
No braver task could Fortune send.
A Scout I am: and proud am I
As troop on troop goes marching Ly
To march with them: to feel the thrill '
Of comradeship and staunch good will: (
To know what message to the world . '
We bring, where'er our flag1s unfurled. !
To know tnat all the Earth throughout !
None rank superior to the Scout.
LEGION AND BOY SCOUT8
"One hundred posts of the Aiperican
Legion, have in the last year organized
scout troops," states Alvin M. Owsley,
national commander of the Ameri
can Legion. "The Legion is heartily
In favor of further development of the
boy scout movement. By encourag
ing this development, the Legion
'feels that Its own Ideals will be per
petuated."
A TRANSFERRED GOOD TURN
A lad and a lady each with a transfer
and both without change were the prin
cipal figures in tfte following "good
turn" by a member of the boy scout
troop connected with a Legion post,
Milwaukee, Wis. "Gave up my trans
fer to a lady who had taken a wrong
one," says the scout's laconic state
ment. '"Without the proper transfer
she would have had to walkf quite a
way, whereas I had only about a mile
to go out of mine."
"MASTERS
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A thrilling film ltory '
who., vein, run hot v. , ,h r . N
hlnnrl I u Ojlr
of men*
by MORGAN ROBERfjI
TKe greatest story of tb,
--reened !
A thrilling fil
hose
blood I 1
A blunt, vigorous yarn of , i
fight upward against overwK I 1
jdd?, where fight tneani a
and prime muscle, higV, C0Ur/ ^
a ready wallop!
Shanghaied! DrugRed by ^
and flung insensible into tKe heU^
forward, where sweating browVl
men live like beasts s-ourged t
tasks with curses and beUyjn?? 7
The sea! The flavor cf salt
nostrils; the odor of p.tch in ^7
the snapping of wind-?w>pt *
crackling like a machine
creaking, singing wood strainjj*
she rides the high 'vavcj! All,/'1
and lure of adventurr. the Sp^
Main and sailormen! ^
Love! ' A timid boy's uniPcL
dream of his heart's desire; a ?i^T
old-fashioned to offer love unkiU?
a lad's sacrifice of youth's dearest *
session ? honor ? to protect her
the shame of another's crime. ?
confusion of bitter niisunderjtanL.
that threaten lifelong broken htjJ
Uncle Sam's blue jaclsets!
fighting men of the sreate?t nation,
the world, and what they think ^
how they live; their loyalty and
and youth, eternal, living,
youth! The careless devil.miy.^
"gob," incorrigible, loyal; inpu^
end loveable!
Romance! The sea spelli rom^
Red sunsets turn green watei ^
crashing mountains of blood; B0l
?uns spread gold upon the bosom j
the sea, gold that beckons and cai
to youth to gathe* its riches; b?tc
ending mirages of golden bowls t
rainbows' ends. And, the sea gin,,
riches; only character and manta*
bitterly squeezed out of its cold, ba
business.
Wholesome, clean, healthy! j
boy's life of adventure, free fr,
tawdry conflicts and sex illuimt
based on fact gathered by one n
served among men, who loved on
who admired men and who wiit
young America to so live that i
might become a man! The truh
silly, social temptations ha? nop*
in this screen story of a boy who )t
came the master of the man.
Here is a story of the making
tnen; men who acted and argued late
Shifty-footed men, with a right u
left punch and a keen eye andikf
tense of honor and guts togothelir
Dick Halpin is the lad you wsa
to be; and 1 wanted to be! He'ii
fellow we dreamed of, whose
courage we envied. He's the boytai
assumed another's petty crime c
ran away to sea to live it down a
the girl he loved might not besfcia
and humiliated by the revelaticti
her brother's weakness. He.tkfc
low you and I used to talk i*
that lad of strength and Honor t
built with boyish imaginations ?i
the haymow, or while idling wrtii
home-made fishing rod down byi
creek. He's your kind and my d
and because we had fathers
mothers to make our way ea.ieM
never managed to be h,mi
wanted to and we'll 1." our ta
again with Dick Halptnm tWiWi
ing motion picture, "Master, of Ma
A ma.ter of men wrote tk? P
sea tale. A man whose life *?l
hard as the diamond, he cut a ?
never wrote a line unt,1,h
beyond an average man s age,
who took a beating ct the h <
brutal iecond mate wlth * . t
who administered a
equal cheerfulness; a man
the sea and a sailorman M ?
criticized Kipling ri^tfuly'i
wrote his first sea tale o p
a man who knew the sea"^,
a better story of the sea, ^ f
earned little by his p
starred while he wrote,
writer of sea stor.es m ill
Morgan Robertson, ? "1,^|
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