Scouting, Volume 6, Number 33, December 26, 1918 Page: 4
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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
judgment of his associates will be of value
to all of the readers of Scouting. Any
scout official who makes a study of his
work in relation to the National Organiza-
tion will find plenty of material for good
stories which Scouting would be glad to
have. They do not need to be put into lit-
erary form, unless it is convenient for the
local officials to do this. Let the editor have
the facts and the photographs, and he will
do the rest.
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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.
President: Colin H. Livingstone, Washington.
Nat'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, 206
Calder Bldg., Harrisburg, Pa.; Stanley A. Har-
ris, 68 Madison Ave., Memphis, Tennessee;
johrt R. Boardman, 200 Fifth Ave., New York
City.
W. A. Perry, Editor.
EDITORIAL COMMITTEE
Franklin K. Mathiews, Director, Library Department
Lome W. Barclay, Director, Educational Dept.
James E. West, Chief Scout Executive
Office of Publication: 200 Fifth Avenue,
New York City.
SCOUTING shall tie made available without charge to
members of the National Council, Scoutmasters, Assistant
Scoutmasters, and as provided in Article Xlll, Section A,
Clause 2, of the By-Laws of the Boy Scouts of America, to there is occasion to march,
members and officials of local councils; others may receive
it on payment in advance of the annual subscription price
of one dollar per year.
Acceptance for mailing at special rate ^of postage pro-
vided for in Section 1103. Act of October 3, 1917, author-
ized June 13, 1918.
He tries to keep the old
trails clear, and point out
the new ones blazed by
faithful Scouts.
scout executive expresses himself
as sorry that another scout executive
in his local bulletin published a challenge
issued by a troop football team.
Most scout leaders agree that the intro-
duction of competitive athletics into Scout-
ing is unfortunate. Whatever good there
may be in athletic competition, I believe
on
Soldiers as Scoutleaders
Service as Scoutmasters will appeal to
thousands of our returning heroes.
There is little danger of any general at- no authority on work with boys has
tempt to militarize the Boy Scouts of ye-j- stated or believed that it compares with
America, though there may be local prob- tjie gQy Scout program as a means of char-
lems. _ acter development.
Without danger of introducing a military js difficult to make boys see things in
spirit into the scout troops which they may perspective and to keep them from getting
serve the ex-soldiers can bring to the move- so craZy about athletics that they forget
an ment a new conception of scout discipline, everything else.
We may hope to see every member in step j£ a ^cy specializes and succeeds in com-
petitive athletics, he usually comes under
We may even hope to see scout camps in influence of a professional coach, sooner
which the necessary work, systematized, is or ]ater.
done with a snap, leaving more hours for i^e coaches I have known were good
* nature study, play and scouting tests. fellows, but in order to hold their jobs they
VOL. VI DEC. 26, 1918 NO. 33 If we make the most of our opportunity, have to develop winners, whereas the scout-
~ we may even substitute alert, intelligent at- niaster gets along very well if he only pro-
_ tention to business for the slip-shod dilly- duces good boys.
Photographs Nee e dallying which too often characterizes the ^ little while ago a young business man
Scout officials have been exceedingly kind American boy. told me of his experience with one of the
in sending photographs for publication in However, those who compare Scouting ^est known coaches in America, at one of
Scouting and their cooperation is sincerely with military drill, as a program for boys,
our leading universities. The young man
appreciated. aSree that Scouting is far^ superior both in
was a phenomenal sprinter, and soon after
It is hoped that those who have sent pic- attractiveness to boys and in the results ob- entering college he defeated, in practice, the
tures will send more and that those who tained. _ university's best men. He was forced by
have never sent any will keep in mind the President Livingstone and the Chief the coach until he knocked out his whole
needs of the official organ. Scout Executive, in requesting the War
circulatory system and it was three years
Please consider the difference between Department to bring to the attention of before he regained his health.
local interest and national interest in se- army officers and enlisted men about to jf this could happen under professional
lecting photographs for Scouting. Posed leave the service the opportunity to continue leadership, what may not happen in towns
groups are very interesting to the persons to serve our country through Scouting, had
where the desire to win is as strong as in
who appear therein and to their friends, but no intention of promoting a military spirit college and no one has the technical train-
it is not fair to our constituency to print in the Boy Scouts of America. ^ ing required for keeping aspiring athletes
them in Scouting unless they illustrate an Most of these officers and men are civil- jn condition?
idea which is of value to the entire field, ians, whose military experience was due, * * *
The kind of pictures which Scouting not to any special interest in military af-
needs especially are those which show ac- fairs, but to their desire to render the pa- It is not always safe to take a slogan
tion—scouts doing something which other triotic service which was most needed in too literally. Some time ago in Scouting a
scouts ought to do; new stunts; old ideas the great emergency. slogan was suggested "Don't take off the
worked out in new ways; cooking stunts; Due caution will be exercised in select- khaki, just change the buttons." The in-
camping stunts; signalling; map making; ing men as Scout leaders. The selection tention.was that the army officers and sol-
bridge building; pioneering; and merit will not be left to boys, however much the diers of the right type should be encour-
badge work of all kinds. glamor of a uniform may obscure to their aged to take charge of scout troops as they
A picture is of far greater value for eyes the lack of essential qualities of Scout came back home from the service.
Scouting if it shows distinctly that it is a leadership. It seems that in some places the slogan
scout photograph. The scouts in the pic- The fact that a man served his country as was interpreted to mean that the officer or
ture should be correctly uniformed if pos- a soldier in the great war will attract boys soldier should carry out the slogan literally
sjble> to him, but it will not hold them unless he by cutting the buttons and removing the
Quite often the editor of Scouting is told knows boys and can give them genuine lead- shoulder straps from his uniform and using
very graciously but firmly that he has not ership. Military training will help in some the scout insignia. On account of the dif-
mentioned this or that local council or troop details of troop management, but the Move- ference of the style of the coats, this would
in a long time. Sometimes it is true and ment requires much more than that. A be as impractical as it is inadvisable. How-
sometimes there is proof to the contrary, good leader will be more useful because of ever, one scout executive reports already
But in any event, the failure to mention a his military experience. Lacking the quali- that men who have been in the army are
troop ©r council is due to the failure of the fications required by the Boy Scouts of negotiating with scouts for the sale of
editor to receive from that troop or council America, no man should be commissioned, army uniforms and equipment which they
material which in his judgment and the whether he has served in the army or not. no longer need.
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