Scouting, Volume 23, Number 5, May 1935 Page: 12
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FOR A LONG TIME farmers were somewhat skeptical as to whether
their boys needed Scouting. Country boys are out in the open most
of the time anyway, and what good could a program do that was
designed to take city boys out into the woods, for country boys who
spend most of their daylight hours at certain seasons in the year
outdoors doing farm work?
e With an increased knowledge of the rich activities of Scouting
and a better opportunity to see what the Scout Program has to offe
to the rural boy, these same parents have come to realize that it i
the farm boy who, perhaps, needs Scouting even more than the boy,
who has the advantages of city educational facilities and recreational
activities.
• Forty percent of the population of this country live in places of
1,000 population or under. These farm boys are hungry for companion-
ship. They want the leadership of men of fine character. They want
hobbies, restful occupations to keep them happily employed after a
hard day of farm work. They want a reading program. They want the
sense of belonging, of being one of a big boys' club. They want health
education and an opportunity to achieve, and to have their achieve-
ments recognized.
• All these things the Scout Program offers them. It is adaptable
to all manner of rural conditions, acceptable to all rural agencies and
organizations, and workable on a basis of what a rural neighborhood
is able to do. It meets the needs of country boys on their home
grounds and is so flexible that any boy can now get Scout training
on a basis of his own capacity to do the work.
• There are many Rural Scout Troops carrying on actively with
emphasis on work and activities that appeal to the country boy. If
there are not enough boys for a Troop, even as few as two boys can
organize into a Neighborhood Patrol, and the lonely boy on a farm
can join as a Lone Scout and under the leadership of an Adult Friend
and Counselor carry on a regular Scout Program. Lone Scouts may
be organized into a Tribe of from five to thirty-two boys, which meets
once a month at some place convenient for the members.
• Under the "all coverage" plan, Local Councils are organizing so
that every boy will have an opportunity to have Scouting in some
form. More and better plans have been developed in our rural areas.
There has been a big increase in the numbers of Lone Scouts, Neigh-
borhood Patrols and Lone Scout Tribes.
It gives me pleasure to earnestly endorse the Boy Scout Movement, which is
the safest kind of insurance against unlawful and anti-social avocations that result
in tremendous financial burdens to the tax payer.
LEWIS E. LAWES
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Boy Scouts of America. Scouting, Volume 23, Number 5, May 1935, periodical, May 1935; New York, New York. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth313005/m1/12/: accessed May 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Boy Scouts of America National Scouting Museum.