Scouting, Volume 8, Number 9, April 22, 1920 Page: 23
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SCOUTING, APRIL 22, 1920
23
No. 3 in the
Editor's series
of " attacks "
on Boys' Life
VXTE submit this picture from Boys' Life for May as evi-
* * dence that our campaign for the reform of that magazine
is doing nicely for one so young. How much better for our
tender youth to ruminate on this act of fidelity and kindness to
human animals than to get goose pimples over uncouth char-
acters of the world they will know all too soon.
Aside from that—our campaign is
a screaming success.
qEVERAL brave critics were
^ taking a wallop at our little
brudder. Personally, we were for
the kid. We believed—and believe
—in good adventure fiction for
boys. We wanted—and want—a
real competitor so far as thrill and
interest go, for the dime novel and
the boy-warping movie.
^"pHIS is a practical world, and
we knew—and know—that
real power to move boys' lives
doesn't reside in sissy or goody-
goody " stories." It comes in sto-
ries like Johnny Kelly—and a lot
more that have knives in their
pictures.
ALSO—pictures must " sell " fiction
as well as illustrate. Frankly, we
ourself wouldn't have read " Johnny
Kelly " if it hadn't had a lot of knives
and snakes. We aren't abnormal, we
are merely honest about it!
THE critics aren't rallying to our cam-
paign. In fact, they let us " fight"
alone.
When a fellow thinks it through, he
doesn't want the job of editing Boys'
Life, after all. He concludes that Mat-
hiews and Crump are making a wonder-
ful magazine. Then—the subscriptions
begin to come from his troop. You bet
they do.
LOOK at Boys' Life through boys'
eyes. Read it'—don't stop at the pic-
tures alone. And then supplement your
scoutmastership by introducing Boys'
Life to every recruit.
Eight months' trial subscription "for the suspicious," $1.00.
A "Rockwell" Boy Scout Calendar for the
first 250 who mention this ad.
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Boy Scouts of America. Scouting, Volume 8, Number 9, April 22, 1920, periodical, April 22, 1920; New York, New York. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth283168/m1/23/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Boy Scouts of America National Scouting Museum.