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SCOUTING
published weekly by national headquarters
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.
Honorary Vice-President: Daniel C. Beard.
1'resident: Colin H. Livingstone, Washington.
•N'at'l Scout Commissioner: Daniel C. Beard.
Treasurer: George D. Pratt, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Chief Scout Executive: James E. West, N. Y. C.
National Field Scout Commissioners:
H. D. Cross, 1100 Mutual Savings Bank-Bldg.,
San Francisco; Judson P. Freeman, 37 South
Wabash Ave., Chicago; R. N. Berry, 902 Dex-
ter Bldg., Boston, Mass.; H. M. Butler, 200
Calder Bldg., Harrisburg, Pa.; Stanley A. Har-
ris, 14 North 8th St., Richmond, Va.; Louis
Entzminger, 611 West 2nd Street, Fort
Worth, Texas.
W. A. Perry, Editor.
editorial committee
Franklin K. Mathiews, Director, Library Department
Lome W. Barclay, Director, Educational Dept.
Office of Publication: 200 Fifth Avenue,
New York City.
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Scoutmasters, and as provided in Article XIII, Section 3,
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vided for in Section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917,
authorized June 13, 1918.
VOL. VI. OCT. 3rd, 1918 NO. 21
Columbus and the Liberty Loan
Columbus was a Seascout.
He was trustworthy. Queen Isabella
started him for America and he arrived.
He was loyal. He offered his services
first to his own country. When refused, he
gave himself and his big idea to Spain and
was true to her.
Helpful, he did one of the greatest good
turns in history by opening the eyes of
Queen Isabella to possibilities which she had
never dreamed of.
Friendly, he treated the people of the new
world generously.
Courteous, he impressed them with his
cOurtly manners.
Kind, he checked the ruder impulses of
his rough sailors and insisted upon fair play
for all.
He was obedient. The orders of the
Spanish sovereigns were obeyed.
Only cheerfulness of the highest order
could have held his men through their days
of superstitious dread and nights of terror.
Thrift prompted him to suggest that the
discovery of the new world would mean un-
told wealth to Spain.
Without bravery he could never have
faced a journey which, in the thinking of
his time, led straight into the yawning jaws
of frightful monsters.
He must have been clean. An abused
body and mind would never have survived
a week of his terrific strain.
Reverent, he thought out and carried out
his voyage of discovery for the express pur-
pose of carrying the Christian religion to
souls who knew it not.
All America is a Columbus today.
Ever}' week we set out on some undertak-
ing larger, more difficult, than we ever at-
tempted before.
We have landed the bulk of our fighting
men on shores three to six thousand miles
from their homes.
They have gone without the possibility of
selfish gain—facing the certainty of per-
sonal loss—to make the world safe for other
people.
Behind them we have organized war ac-
tivities absorbing the time and energy of
every citizen whose lot is still cast in his
native land.
For war purposes we have placed our-
selves under a centralized, autocratic con-
trol which, they say, has turned the Kaiser
green with envy.
In doing it, by force of circumstances we
have turned a debit of two billion dollars
Edward A: Carlson
which we owed the world into a credit of
nine billion dollars which the world now
owes us.
The more we do, the more we have to do
with (notwithstanding temporary shortages
of sugar, coal and gasoline!).
Columbus, wise old Seascout, said there
was wealth in the New World.
There is!
No wideawake Scout will ask a fellow
citizen, "Will you buy a Liberty Bond?"
His one question will be: "How many?"
Queen Isabella pawned her jewels on a
long chance—and won !
Any American could mortgage his shirt
to make a first payment on a Liberty Bond
without a chance of gooseflesh.
It took a Columbus to see a continent
across three thousand miles of blue sea
water.
Even a Helen Keller—deaf, dumb and
blind—can see Victory in Liberty Bonds.
(She buys them.)
The newest Scout game is to try to cap-
ture dollars as fast as General Pershing
cjmtures Huns.
He is going some. Can your troop keep
up with him?
He tries to keep the old
trails clear, and point out
the new ones blazed by
faithful Scouts.
With all our organization and all our sys-
tems and all our literature and conferences
and discussions, we have never been able to
improve upon the primitive and only genuine
method of helping boys to be better boys.
This is understood, though in the rush of
affairs it is sometimes overlooked, by scout
officials from the scoutmaster to the Chief
Scout Executive.
A while ago a scout in an Eastern
city got into mischief of some sort or other
and was being rather severely handled. The
case was brought to the Chief Scout Exec-
utive's attention. He took time to show a
personal interest in the case. That he was
successful is shown by what the scout's
father says and what the scout himself says :
The father's letter reads:
"If there ever was a concrete illustration
of the good than can be done a boy through
an understanding of boy nature, this is such
a one. Your consideration of his case,
which led to his reinstatement in the scouts,
followed by kind words of advice and en-
couragement at a time every one seemed
bent on destroying his future because of a
boyish prank, have had wonderful results.
He came back from the school imbued with
those ideas that lead to good citizenship,
filled with a desire to advance, and exceed-
ingly grateful to you for moral support in
the hour of need."
The Scout wrote: "Well, .Dad, when I
had my trouble up home everybody seemed
bent on kicking me down and starting me
off by the shortest road to the jail, and I
wondered whether I had better run away or
jump in the river. Then you and Mr. West
stood by me, gave me a chance, put me in
right at the school, so that my past foolish-
ness did me no harm, and when I got to the
school I began to think it over. It seemed
to me that a chap who went back on you
and Air. West, after everybody else had de-
serted me, would be a pretty low sort of
cad, and I made up my mind that I would
make good to the men who had stood by
me through honoring their recommendation.
After reading the letters received by many
boys, I found that I was about the only one
who ever got any kind of encouragement
from anybody, and concluded that I was a
lucky chap. Now I feel that I owe it to
you and Mr. West to make good and I will."
From the Field
Mr. Edward A. Carlson has been elected to serve
the Delaware and Montgomery County Council,
Pa., as its Scout Executive.
The following record of his experience indicates
how well he is qualified for his work:
Boys' Physical Director, Central Branch, Y. M.
C. A., Brooklyn, N. Y., seven years; Physical Di-
rector, Bliss Electrical School, Washington, I). C.,
one year; Executive, Dan Beard, Outdoor Scout
School (camp) summer 1918: twelve years experi-
ence in conducting camps for boys; Commodore
i f the United States Volunteer Life Saving Corps,
having charge of all the life saving work of the
State of New York in the Y. M. C. A.'s; Chair-
man of Boys' Work Committee of the Physical Di-
rectors Society of Brooklyn, two years. This com-
mittee is responsible for the physical work for
boys in the Y. M. C. A.'s of Brooklyn. Member
of the Efficicncy Test Committee of the Interna-
tional Committee Y. M. C. A. 1917. This Com
mittee investigates the physical efficiency tests of
the United States and standardizes same. Chair-
man, Efficiency Test Committee of Brooklyn; Sec-
re arv, Y. M. C. A . Leaders' Corps; President
and Teacher, Men's Bible Class; Chairman, Brook-
lyn Baseball Committee; Secretary, Physical Di-
rectors' Societv.
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