Scouting, Volume 3, Number 5, July 1, 1915 Page: 4
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SCOUTING.
SCOUTING
PUBLISHED SEMI-MONTHLY BY NATIONAL HEAD-
QUARTERS, BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA, FOR SCOUT
OFFICIALS AND OTHERS INTERESTED IN
THE BOY SCOUT MOVEMENT.
OFFICERS OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL AND
EXECUTIVE BOARD
Honorary President: Woodrow Wilson.
Honorary Vice-President: William H. Taft.
Honorary Vice-President: Theodore Roosevelt.
President: Colin H. Livingstone, Washington.
Nat'l Scout Commissioner: Daniel C. Beard.
Treasurer: George D. Pratt, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Chief Scout Executive: .Tames E. West. N. Y. C.
National Field Scout Commissioners: S. A. Mof-
fat and L. S. Dale.
National Field Scout Commissioner for the Pacific
Coast District: H. D. Cross. 1206 Baker-Detwiler
Building. Los Angeles, Cal.
National Field Scout Commissioner for the Middle
West District: Judson P. Freeman, 39 South La
Salle St., Chicago.
Office of Publication: 200 Fifth Avenue,
New York City.
Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office,
New York, N. Y., under the act of
August 24, igi2.
ter, published in that issue and in the July
Boys'" Life, be read at Scout meetings or in
Scout camps on or about the Fourth of
July, and be made the text for a patriotic
talk. It is hoped that Scoutmasters every-
where will do this.
Scout Executive Argetsinger, of Pater-
son, N. J., writes: "That letter of Mr.
Wilson's is just like him—kind, magnani-
mous and far-seeing. It will surely stiffen
the back of every Scout to hear that read
to him."
No scout official should forget that the
opportunity is here—that the utilization of
it in the interest of his boys will depend
upon himself.
fulness to those in his charge extended
even to the growing generation.
In this case Scouting has been a tre-
mendous asset to the church in bringing
within its sphere of influence such a large
number of active and promising boys and
young men. And what, after all, is more
important than a boy?
vol. III.
july 1, 1915.
No. 5
FARMS FOR SCOUTS.
A FORWARD step has been taken in
Philadelphia, where, through the ef-
forts of the Scout officials, a chain of
farm-camps is being established.
What a saving of time, effort and worry
when a troop can know just where it is
going when it starts out for an over-night
or week-end hike, how long it takes to get
there, and what equipment, food and water
are handy — and that there is no irate
farmer to explain to, no vicious dog to
dodge.
Camp-site chains should be easy to es-
tablish around almost any city if proper
explanation is made to the owners about
the scout movement. Virtually all will
feel, like Mr. Bodine, of Philadelphia, that
it is fine to raise on a farm not only good
crops, but good citizens as well.
LET OTHERS KNOW.
Scout officials are particularly re-
quested to send to National Head-
quarters information as to the partici-
pation of their Scouts in Independence Day
celebrations, and to enumerate in what way
the significance of the day was impressed
on the boys, and in what ways the boys
were helpful.
Contributed Editorials
G
CLOSER TOGETHER.
radually the value to the boy of
a better understanding between
Scoutmasters and parents is becom-
ing clearer to both.
In Boston each Scoutmaster sends a
statement to the parents of his boys telling
of the troop's plans and asking questions
which, answered, will help him to make his
work with each boy count for more.
Many Scoutmasters have obtained extra
copies of the June 15th Scouting to send
to the parents of their boys so they may
read the recommended article entitled "The
Psychology of Scouting."
When the general public knows the Scout
movement not only in its outward form,
but in its true significance, the benefits to
boys will be multiplied.
IT DEPENDS UPON YOU.
Scoutmasters in various parts of
the country have indicated their inter-
est in the suggestion made in the June
15th Scouting that President Wilson's let-
Ministers and Scouts.
By Lawrence Perry.
INISTERS who give "the duties of
the pastorate" as an excuse for their
failure to do effective work with
boys should consider the example set by a
pastor in one of the western states.
This pastor organized a troop which soon
grew to a membership of more than 100
boys, both members and non-members of
his church. Last fall he decided to con-
fine his efforts to the boys of his own con-
gregation, and gave notice to that effect,
but immediately such an outcry was raised
that he felt obliged to rescind his notice.
He asked the pastors of other churches to
form troops, but none would do so. He
tried to get other men to act as Scout-
masters, and no one responded. Heroically
he continued to carry on the whole burden
of the community in spite of great diffi-
culties encountered.
His troop includes boys of many de-
nominations. He also has a junior organi-
zation of 50 boys under 12 years of age.
Recently his church built a club house
containing a hall with a seating capacity
of 400, gymnasium, dressing rooms and
shower baths.
The men in the town who would not give
time to help the work were induced to
give money enough to employ a paid helper.
The troop committee became so enthusi-
astic that they went out and raised $1,500
in three hours for the support of the move-
ment.
This pastor was obliged to wage war
against the saloon and the brothel. When
he went to the town boy-life seemed to
be rotten, but the results which he has
achieved have been most encouraging.
The club house is open week days and
evenings and Saturday afternoons, aind it
is used as a headquarters by 400 boys. The
older boys are now beginning to prepare the
younger boys for scout examinations.
Certainly this is a phenomenal result in
so short a time of the efforts of one Scout-
master, a minister whose vision of help-
The Eagle Scout.
An {Editorial in the New York Evening Mail.
IN America the lad becomes a man at
twenty-one—a citizen, a voter. In that
remarkable organization known as the
Boy Scouts of America the lad is trained
to be a real man, and there are two hun-
dred thousand youths now growing into
manhood under the influence of the Scout
law.
The Scout's progress through the stages
of development is marked by the earning
of merit badges, which denote his increas-
ing proficiency in the accomplishments
necessary to wholesome, vigorous, useful
life. He attains his majority as a Scout
when he acquires twenty-one merit badges.
Then he is an Eagle Scout.
An Eagle! That is the national bird!
The king of the air! The embodiment of
might and courage, far-sighted, fearless.
That is the model set for the Boy Scouts.
That is the model to be kept before every
boy in the land if this country is to fulfill
its destiny among the nations.
"The boy of to-day is the man of to-
morrow." The future of America lies with
him. If this country is to enter into pos-
session of its heritage as the nation of na-
tions in the sense that it unites in its popu-
lation the strength of all peoples, it will
be by the boy of to-day becoming strong
and brave, keen of vision and true to the
higher instincts of humanity, fearing noth-
ing except dishonor. In a word, to use
another Scout motto, the lads of America
must "Be prepared."
The land of the Eagle should teem with
Eagle Scouts.
The Coming Bulwark.
From an Editorial in the Middletown, O., Journal.
IT was only last winter that the Boy
Scout movement could celebrate its fifth
birthday anniversary. To acquire a
strength in excess of 100,000 in five years
speaks for the popularity of scouting. It
speaks also for its intrinsic worth. If it
were merely a sport, the movement might
prove but a flash in the pan. It would en-
joy its little hour of prominence and dis-
appear. But the Boy Scout movement is
destined to a long career. Some day there
may be fewer boys out of the scout uni-
form than there are in it.
^ They are the coming bulwark of a
Greater America.
As An Opportunity.
Every patriotic man who thinks about
this remarkable movement should think of
it also—indeed, he should think of it pri-
marily—as a splendid and easy opportunity
for him to do his part toward improving
the characters of the men of tomorrow, the
men in whose hands will rest the fate of
this nation and its ideals—From the Patri-
otic Instructor.
Raw Material.
We have aspirations to be the manufac-
turing nation of the world. Why should
we neglect the successful manufacture of
conduct, ideals, high aims in the handling
of the most valuable raw material pos-
sessed by the nation — OUR BOYS?
Thomas B. Stearns, President Denver
Chamber of Commerce.
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