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February, 1958, Vol. 46, No. 2
CONTENTS
Higher Than the Tallest Pine Tree
Let's Go Conservation, 29 4
Seout Shorts 6
Webelos Den Bridges the Gap ft
The Help Is Here 9
Physical Fitness For Youth 10
Recruiting Is Everybody's IUisiness
Road-Day-O 14
What Are Teenagers Made Of? lfi
12
Worth Retelling
18
A College President Looks at Scouting 20
Front Line Stuff 22
THIS MONTH'S COVER
The National Safety Good Turn
will afford opportunity for boys to
sharpen up their own safety prac-
tices, to alert parents, friends, and
communities to safety problems,
and to teach some of the safety
skills that save lives.
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SCOUTING is published monthly and bimonthly May-June and July-
August. Copyrighted 1957, by the Boy Scouts of America, New Bruns-
wick, N. J. Reentered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at
New Brunswick, N. J., under the act of March 3, 1879. Additional entry,
New York City. SCOUTING is sent to Scouters as a part of their
registration. Subscription to all others $1.00 a year.
Editor, Lex R. Lucas Production Director, George Corrado
Managing Editor, Forest Witcraft Assoc. Editors: Ted Holstein, Walter
Asst. Managing Editor, James Moise MacPeek, Sam Traughber
Art Director, Don Ross Circulation Service, Donald Fuchs
NATIONAL OFFICERS-BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
Honorary President, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER. Honorary Vice Presi
dents, HERBERT HOOVER, HARRY S. TRUMAN, AMORY HOUGHTON
JOHN M. SCHIFF. President, KENNETH K. BECHTEL. Vice Presidents
CHERRY L. EMERSON, GALE F. JOHNSTON, ELLSWORTH H. AUGUSTUS
NORTON CLAPP, FRANK WEIL. Treasurer, GERALD F. BEAL. Internation
al Commissioner, WILLIAM D. CAMPBELL. National Scout Commissioner,
GEORGE J. FISHER. Chief Scout, ELBERT K. FRETWELL. Chief Scout
Executive, ARTHUR A. SCHUCK. Deputy Chief Scout Executive, PLINY
H. POWERS.
EDITORIAL BOARD
WHEELER McMILLEN, chairman, WM. HARRISON FETRIDGE, vice-chair-
man, EZRA TAFT BENSON, GEORGE W. BOOTH, O. A. HANKE, FRANCIS
W. HATCH, JOHN A. JONES, ALBERT E. LOWNES, CHARLES B. McCABE,
KEN McCORMICK, FRANK C. RAND, JR., HARRISON M. SAYRE.
IVf .voiia /itf Speakiwtg
It's Fine—If
There will be many fine eulogies of Scouting
in the American Press this Boy Scout Week,
but this one in the Philadelphia Inquirer last
year was written by someone who thought too
much of Scouting just to praise it. He wanted it
really to live up to its potentialities—for all boys.
"Boy Scout Week is traditionally the occasion
for ceremonies celebrating the truly remarkable
accomplishments of this vigorously expanding
organization, and every tribute we can pay the
Boy Scouts is fully deserved.
"But it has been increasingly apparent in recent
years that the event ought to be an occasion for
something else as well. In the impressive statistics
of Boy Scout expansion there is a message of
serious need that we must not overlook.
"There aren't enough Scout leaders, there
aren't enough facilities. Some Scout units are far
less active than they should be as a result. Whole
troops have failed for months to advance beyond
the Tenderfoot stage. This is not Scouting, and
we should not kid ourselves that it is.
"Membership in the Boy Scouts—if it is active
and meaningful—is one of the finest things that
could happen to any young fellow. But mere
regular attendance at group meetings where the
principles of Scouting are seldom seriously ob-
served is another thing entirely.
"It has only been a few months now since all
thirteen members of a Somerset Scout patrol were
raised to the rank of Eagle Scout at once, and
last spring an Illinois Scout crippled by polio
hobbled twenty miles to complete his Eagle Scout
qualifications. That is Scouting. These are
achievements to which the vast majority of mem-
bers in the Delaware Valley can aspire."
During Boy Scout Week we show, to an in-
terested public, Scouting at its best. Having
done that, let's take a good critical look at all
our Scouting and do whatever is needed to see
to it that every boy gets the kind of Scouting ex-
perience we like to brag about. The kind of
Scouting that every boy has a right to expect.
Editor
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