Scouting, Volume 46, Number 2, February 1958 Page: 2
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In its national program, "Onward for God and My
Country," Scouting achieves a new dimension, or
rather a newly accented dimension. It might be called
the blue dome of religion. Moral and spiritual training
have always figured prominently in this outdoor move-
ment. But now the architects give wider and inescapable
emphasis to this phase of Scouting.
Higher than the tallest pine tree on a hill, the topmost
branch of the giant redwood—or even the jets that fly
above these—are the forces which link a boy to his
main interest, they remind us. The free way of life cannot
exist without the deepening intake of these spiritual
values, according to Dr. Arthur A. Schuck, Chief Scout
Executive.
"As Scouting now influences the lives of three and a
quarter million boys," he says, "we must help them to
the realization and acceptance of God as the guiding
power of the universe. We must interpret and find addi-
tional methods to help a Scout in his own religious life
to fulfill his obligations to God as stated in the Scout
Oath and Law.
"Our theme denotes 'onward' movement. Progress in
the fulfillment of our destiny is not a static condition.
Instead, it is forward-marching, forward-looking citizen-
ship directed to the fulfillment of God's wishes and the
maintenance of our nation, strong and free."
Lest all this connote any long-faced lackluster con-
cept of the nation's most robust and spirited youth
program, there is assurance that it does not. Boy Scout
business on its many fronts will go on "as usual."
Woodland Shadows
The sun streaks through the tall branches, comes to
a full stop at a clearing in the woods. Here shadows and
chipmunks disappear and hungry Boy Scouts appear.
Someone has carefully built a fire, someone else has
placed a kettle over it, and soon the tender fumes of
savory meat arise. It's a hike cook. Who, in his woodland
travels, has never met Boy Scouts?
"Line up, fellows. Soup's on," a breezy voice calls out.
Many are the ingredients besides food elements that
go into such an episode.
Boy Scouts, in order to be thoroughly acceptable for
all this kind of fun, must have practiced the Scout Oath
and the Scout Law with success. They have pledged them-
selves to do their best: "To do my duty to God and my
country and to obey the Scout Law; to help other people
at all times; to keep myself physically strong, mentally-
awake, and morally straight."
Some newspaper headlines would indicate that the
present is a dim era for youth. Grim lawlessness stalks
the teens, they say. Crime, hypnotic in its false hues, has
become a "colorful" alternative to plain decency and
wholesome living, some would have us believe.
Yet there are more than 3,250,000 boys today who
are closely identified with the qualities of old-fashioned
goodness.
Boys who are trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly,
courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean,
and reverent are no scarcity—as long as there are Boy
A special correspondent for one of America's leutliny news-
papers appraises the inner meaning of the Boy Scout movement.
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