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Secretary Edwin Randolph Short of the provisional committee of the New England Boy Scouts announces that plans are well under way to hold a big Patriots Day Spectacle in Boston, where it is estimated that from 15,000 to 20,000 lads from every part of New England will parade through the streets.

Preliminary reports received by Secretary Short have made him most enthusiastic over the parade. "There has never been anything like it in the United States," he declares. "Rhode Island alone will send a thousand boys. It will be an imposing and instructive spectacle. Behind the advance police guard and band, will march file upon file of well-trained lads. And one in each eight will carry pennants of different kinds. The only arms the boys will carry will be the regulation Boy Scout staff and only the Scout Masters—men over 21 years of age—will wear swords. Each troop will carry a United States flag as well as a troop flag of their own design.

The staff of the Commander will be well worth watching, for the present indications are that there will be prominent clergymen, of all denominations, as well as well-known Boston and suburban business men represented.

Ernest W. Gay, Scout-master of seventy boys in Jamaica Plain, Boston, Massachusetts, has entered the voting contest of the Boston American and is working hard to come out a winner.

He has been connected with the movement ever since it was started in America, and has been an enthusiastic worker in the cause.

Mr. Gay is vice-chairman of the New England Boy Scouts and his work has always been very commendable.

New England boys should send in their votes to him within two weeks after they appear in the American as they are useless after that period.

Send votes to Mr. Gay, 175 Pearl Street, Somerville, Massachusetts.

No scout wilfully kills an animal for the mere sake of killing, unless it is a harmful creature.

By continually watching animals in their natural state one gets to like them too well to shoot them. The whole sport of hunting animals lies in woodcraft of stalking them, not in the killing.

A dog is the most human of all animals and, therefore, is the best companion for a man. He is always courteous, and always ready for a game—full of humor and very faithful and loving.

We are very much like bricks in a wall—we each have our place, though it may seem a small one in so big a wall. But if one brick