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SCOUTING.
SCOUTING
PUBLISHED SEMI-MONTHLY BY NATIONAL HEAD
QUARTERS BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA. FOB 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. Bea'd
Treasurer: George D. Pratt, Brooklyn, N. Y. ^
Chief Scout Executive: James E. West, N Y.
National Field Scout Commissioner: S. A Moflai.
National Field Scout Commissioner tor the Pacihi
Coast District: H. D. Cross. 905 Phelan Build
ing, San Francisco. ......
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, 1912.
VOL. IV. AUGUST 1, 1916 No. 7
"SANITATION FIRST"
THERE are some camp accidents and
some camp dangers which are impos-
sible to guard against. Boys will sometimes
fall out of trees, or break into hornets' nests
or chop holes in their legs and arms. Occa-
sionally accidents such as this are unavoid-
able, and their occurrence is not necessarily
an indication of an inefficient camp.
But there is one danger—the most serious
of them all—which can be guarded against.
This danger is the lack of proper sanitation.
A.ny man in a responsible position in a
camp for boys who neglects this essential is
failing in the performance of his most
secred duty—that of protecting the health of
the boys entrusted to his care.
It is often a difficult matter to enforce
strict sanitary rules. Boys do not always
appreciate the importance of them and are
likely to be lax in observing them. It takes
continual harping on the subject to get re-
sults and this is discouraging, nerve-trying
work for the leader, but it must be done, for
as soon as the leader slackens in his in-
sistence on sanitation the boys are more
than likely to become careless in their ob-
servance of sanitary principles. The only
safe thing to do is to emphasize sanitation
morning, noon and night, and to deal
promptly and convincingly with the boy
guilty of the first infringement of the rules,
no matter how slight. This matter of camp
sanitation is always of prime importance
but it is especially important at present in
the Eastern section of the country on ac-
count of the infantile paralysis epidemic.
In most cases boys are safer in camp than
in any other place, for there they live a rug-
ged, health-building life in the open and
develop energy to fight disease. Sickness is
rare in a well-conducted camp. But to be
a safe place a camp must be well conducted.
A poorly directed camp, where sanitary
rules are laxly enforced, in a dangerous
place.
We strongly urge every scout official to
give this matter his most careful considera-
tion right now at the height of the camping
season. In YOUR camp make sanitation
the first principle of "Safety First.'
"A Scout (camp) Is Clean."
PIONEER SCOUTS
IN this number of Scouting is announced
the new plan for the registration of
boys as Pioneer Scouts. This plan has
been devised to meet a need which has been
jrapidly growing more and more pressing.
The demand of boys in rural communities
to be admitted to the great brotherhood has
grown to such proportions that it can no
'longer be ignored. Consequently a method
has been devised to enable boys in rural
districts, who have caught the spirit of
Scouting, to join the ranks and become
full-fledged scouts.
This demand of isolated boys to be admit-
ted to the Movement is a striking testi-
monial to the inherent appeal of the scout
program. There is a magic appeal in the
word "scout" that takes a grip on the imag-
ination of a boy and holds it fast.
We feel that our Pioneer Scouts are go-
ing to be a distinct credit to the Movement.
Many of them whose names we have on file
in our office have retained their enthusiasm
through discouragements that would have
taken the spirit out of fellows of ordinary
persistence. Many of them have proved al-
ready that they possess the qualities neces-
sary to make a success of Scouting, while
Working out the program under their own
nitiative.
We are proud to welcome such a group of
boys to the Movement.
aptitude by which a boy qualifies for the
orders of merit, will disabuse the critic
of the idea that scoutmasters are trying
to turn their troops into miniature soldiers.
But in a time of grave anxiety that calls
for those who know and can do, the teach-
ers and the pupils this country-sweeping
Movement has brought together may prove
invaluable. There are 186,783 boys enrolled,
and 43,000 men. From this army of peace-
ful preparedness many have responded and
many more will respond to their country's
call. The habits of self-control and of
quick obedience acquired will make directly
for soldierly efficiency. The crisis empha-
sizes the need of men to train the scouts.
There is no good quality of the trainer
that is not exercised in this work with the
most plastic of raw material. To young
men graduating from college it offers a
career of incalculable significance for the
future, in molding the character alike of
the teacher and the taught.
ROOSEVELT'S NEW SCOUT
WORK
'-p HEODORE ROOSEVELT'S accept-
ance of a place on the troop committee
of Troop 2, Oyster Bay, is further evidence
of a pronounced- tendency among men of
affairs in their relation to the Boy Scout
Movement.
Scouting has always claimed the attention
of prominent men because men of wide ex-
perience are more likely to realize the neces-
sity of dealing with boys in the adolescent
stage and to appreciate the results which
have been achieved by the scout program.
Recently there have been more and more
instances of active participation in scout
work by men of manifold interests and
nation-wide reputation. These men seem to
appreciate the fact that only by personal
contact with boys can they bring to bear
the influence of their personalities, and men
are coming to feel more emphatically the
duty they owe to the boys of the community
who look to them for leadership.
BOY SCOUTS AND WAR
Philadelphia Public Ledger.
npHE inspiration of the Boy Scout
Movement is by no means militaristic.
Perusal of the Handbook, and the study
of the wide diversity of knowledge and
HINTS ON KINDNESS TO ANIMALS
Suggestions have been offered by the
New York Women's League for Animals
in the interest of following out more ef-
ficiently Scout Law No. 6. It is very
probable that some effort will be made
in the future to distribute information of
this kind among scout officials.
The suggestions whereby boy scouts may
show kindness to animals are as follows:
1. P'ck ng iip nails and other sharp objects from
the street which might injure horses.
2. Smashing down tin cans so that cats cannot
get their heads fast in theiii!
3. Stopping children and others from tying tin
cans to dogs' tails.
4. Protecting birds by restoring little ones to
their nests or thwarting boys from destroying
birds' eggs or young.
5. Reporting genuine cases of cruelty to animals
to the proper authorities.
6. Reporting violation of the game laws.
7 <5tray or injured animals.
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LIFE-SAVING CASES REPORTED
The interest of the public is always
greatly stirred when boy scouts have an
opportunity to make use of their training /
in life saving, either in the way of first V
aid for the injured or in rescuing the ven-
turesome swimmer.
At the Methodist camp meeting at Des-
plaines, 111., Mrs. Margaret Eugen cut an
artery in her arm while trying to open a
bottle of root beer, and was fast bleeding
to death. No doctor could be found, but
Russell Nash and Fording Fellows, , boy
scouts, put into practice their knowledge of
first aid, binding a tourniquet about the
artery above the wound, applied dressings
to the cut and, though the patient was
faint for a time, she recovered and was
able to be taken to her home.
In Coal Creek, Tenn., Scouts Robert
Linsly and Ralph Wilson saved the life
of Orlie Plyley when the latter was seized
with cramps while swimming in a creek.
The scouts succeeded in pulling the boy
out as he was going down for the third
time. He was revived by artificial res-
piration.
Another rescue from drowning took
place in the Little River at La Salle, New f
York, when a lad by the name of Miller
Waite got beyond his depth. As he was
sinking, Scout Ralph Nafus dived in and
rescued him, being helped to shore by
Scout Edward Mills. Newspaper reports
have said that some influential friends are
seeking to have a Carnegie medal awarded
the lads for their expeditious acts.
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