Scouting, Volume 9, Number 6, June 1921 Page: 4
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SCOUTING, J
Boy Scouts Active on Memorial Day
Boy Scouts, all over the country, were
active in Memorial Day celebrations. In
Geneva, New York, Scouts occupied the
second place of honor in the line of
march. In Harrisburg, Pa., they co-
operated in patriotic and memorial serv-
ices with the G. A. R., Sons of Veterans,
City Groups, Veterans of For-
f—y eign Wars and the American
Legion.
In Babylon, Long Island,
the Memorial Day program
was under the auspices of the
Community Service League
and included a parade, the
decoration of soldiers' graves,
and the presentation of a com-
munity Playground project.
Boy Scouts were active in all
this.
Out in Texarkana, Texas,
two Boy Scouts had a little
practical pre-memorial day
service of their own when, as
a local paper reports, they, on
their own initiative, mowed
the lawn and raked up the
rubbish on the site of the Con-
federate Monument. " Lest we
forget" there is usually a
Scout to show the way to
grown-ups.
A beautiful and impressive
ceremony was made on Memo-
rial 'Day of the unveiling of
the Boy Scout Memorial in
honor of " Chubby," a well
beloved Scout "passed on," of
Troop 236, Manhattan. Boy
Scouts of four troops par-
ticipated.
Scouts Clean Up
" Clean-ups " seem to be the
order of the day this Spring,
and Scouts seem to have been
very much on the job.
Eight hundred Boy Scouts
of Syracuse, New
York, turned out for
the Annual Clean-up
Week and tour of in-
spection the first week
in May.
In Indianapolis, a
similar work was car-
ried out by
Scouts un-
der the di-
rection o f
the Junior
Chamber
of C o m -
merce. They
made an ef-
ficient house to house inspection, inci-
dentally salvaging a great quantity of
refuse, the proceeds of the sale of which
are to go to a fund for the erection of a
Boy Scout fountain in the city park.
Montana Scouts aren't behind in the
good work. Under the auspices of the
City Health Board of Kalispell, and the
Rotary Club, as well as their own local
leaders, they united their efforts to
" clean Kalispell as it never was cleaned
before," a plan including besides
the regular program the tearing
down of old shacks and fences
and other disfiguring objects.
Gulbertson, Montana, Scouts
volunteered for and put through
a similar much needed com-
munity service.
A Scout is thrifty! A troop
in Athens, Alabama, earned
some of their camp money by
cleaning people's back yards in
an efficient and thorough going
fashion which won much praise
from the citizens benefited.
In Peekskill, N. Y., they gave
two whole weeks to a city clean-
up, with Boy Scouts in evidence
all along the line. The programme out-
lined by the Board of Commerce was as
follows:
SUNDAYS, Church Co-operation Day
—All clergymen are asked to announce the
clean-up campaign. " Cleanliness is next
to Godliness."
MONDAYS, Fire Prevention Day-
Clean your basements and attics of rub-
bish and greasy rags, as well as waste
paper, which could be given to the Boy
Scouts to be sold for their summer camp.
" All fires are the same size at the start."
TUESDAYS, Front Yard Day—Cut
lawns, prepare gardens and flower beds
for planting, clean walks and gutters,
salt cracks in sidewalks, exterminate ants.
The Board of Commerce has the names
of many men who would be glad of a
couple of days' odd jobs like this.
WEDNES DAYS, -Dandelion and
Flower Bed Day—Dig dandelions, ex-
change plants, plant flower beds and trim
shrubbery. Keep up the fight against
dandelions. They are on the decrease.
And remember that they are a delicious
and cheap spring greens.
THURSDAYS, Paint Day —Visit
your paint dealer before this day so that
3'ou can start early in the morning to
paint your porches, fences, woodwork,
screens, porch chairs, etc., and brighten
up both inside and outside. Downtown
business men should clean windows and
replace old awnings.
FRIDAYS, Back Yard Day—Clean
alleys, repaint fences and sheds, screen
garbage cans, " swat the spring fly," put
fly traps on your garbage cans. Put up
screens, plant thrift gardens. Remember
Peekskill is to have five months of day-
light saving this year for you to work
in that garden.
SATURDAYS, Vacant Lot Day—
Everybody pitch in and help the Boy and
Girl Scouts and other school children
clean up the vacant lots and remove tin
cans, paper and dead weeds. Plow and
plant garden plots wherever possible.
Clean up the brook and make it look less
like a sewer.
If everyone paints up and cleans up just
a little, Peekskill will show the results
at the end of two weeks. The plan of
Civic Goc
Affording Practical Su{
the campaign, however, is to make this
just a starter and keep up the good work
through the year.
Boy Scouts vs. Vandals
Everybody who loves flowers and beauty
is shocked all too frequently by the wan-
ton vandalism practised in our public
parks, when great branches of lilacs or
other shrubs are broken off, to the injury
of the bush and the robbery of pleasure
of others. This is a kind of thing which
ought to be rigorously 'fought in all our
cities and towns, not only by the police
and other authorities but by all good citi-
zens.
The announcement that a permanent
" standing army" of the elder members
of the Boy Scouts of America had offered
it^ services to the Brooklyn Park Com-
missioner as special park guardians
against vandalism called forth the follow-
ing interesting editorial in a New York
newspaper:
" While the Boy Scouts may not be
able to prevent all infractions of the
laws, they can do much to stop pilfering
and the wanton destruction of trees,
shrubs and plants. A word from a Scout
to litterers would go far toward keeping
the parks neat and clean. The careless
know in their hearts their conduct is
wrong.
" The public admires and respects the
Scouts. It will gladly obey them.
"To the main causes of good citizen-
ship which the Boy Scouts of America aid
has been added another."
And As Special Police Aides
In Macon, Georgia, the Boy Scouts are
commissioned as an auxiliary police de-
partment. The mayor and police of that
city were constantly being besieged with
complaints in " bean-shooter season"
about wanton killing of birds, smashing
of windows and other juvenile offenses.
Some indignant citizens wanted these
small ruffians severely punished, even sent
to reform school, but the Mayor shook
his head and thought of another way
to go to work to cure the evil which
was real enough, he admitted. He sent
for a scoutmaster and some patrol
leaders. " I want you boys to be my
special police," he said. "There are some
bad boys in this town and I want 'em
straightened out. We don't want to arrest
them and make criminals of them. We
want them to grow up into good men,
setting the same kind of mark you boys
are reaching for. You lads can do more
with them than all the police on earth.
They'll listen to friends, and it will make
you feel good to know that you're help-
ing them. Keep your eyes open and re-
port to me every once in a while. If you
run across a boy you can't do anything
with let me know his name, and_ I'll'see
if we can't help you to get him in line."
The boys gladly took the assignment and
said they'd do their level best to make
good.
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