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SCOUTMG
November9'1958, Vol. 46, No. 9
CONTEXTS
New Exploring Program 2
King Those Bells 5
Worth Retelling 6
Another Miraele on 34th Street 8
The Boys Are There 10
Yardstick for Advancement 11
Have Kocks, Will Travel 115
Scout Shorts 14
Philmont Letter 10
Hit the Line Hard 1#
Rugged—But Not Reckless 20
Parents Are Mavericks, Too 22
Front Line Stuff 23
Tools of the Trade 24
Program Features 20
THIS MONTH'S COVER
Slim steps right out of the pages
of the Exploring manual to the
cover of Scouting magazine. Slim
is the epitome of tomorrow's high
school age youth. The Explorer
Code on the second cover is re-
printed from the Exploring manual
also.
SCOUTING is published monthly and bimonthly May-June and July-
August. Copyrighted 1958, 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, Oren R. Felton Assoc. Editors: Walter Babson,
Asst. Managing Editor, Ted Holstein Tom Gibson, Walter MacPeek,
Art Director, Don Ross Sam Traughber
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,
ELLSWORTH H. AUGUSTUS, NORTON CLAPP, WM. HARRISON FET-
RIDGE, GALE F. JOHNSTON, THOMAS J. WATSON, JR. International
Commissioner, WILLIAM D. CAMPBELL. National Scout Commissioner,
GEORGE J. FISHER. Chief Scout, ELBERT K. FRETWELL. Treasurer,
GERALD F. BEAL. Chief Scout Executive, ARTHUR A. SHUCK.
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.
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Hoodlums on Pago Olio
Excerpts from a letter to the editor of the Miami
Herald in Florida touch on a widespread, impor-
tant problem.
"Dear Editor:
"T his letter speaks for the hundreds of school-
teachers, coaches, ministers, Sunday school teach-
ers, Four-H, Boy Scout, and Girl Scout leaders—
and many, many other youth leaders, as well as
the young people themselves.
"We all protest the selection of news that is
chosen to receive large emphasis—especially the
news that concerns young people.
'"On October 5, the Herald carried a big spread
about four young hoodlums who were unsocial,
unruly, and indecent.
'"The rest of the story was spread all over the
first page of the second section. The sob reporters
hastened to get side stories on Mom and the rest
of the propagators of that dereliction.
'"We feel that news about such doings has to be
printed to alert our community. However, the
space given this story editorially is in excess of
that duty. It makes it almost worthwhile to be a
delinquent.
"Contrast that display with the news space given
to a young man who is more representative of our
young people. On the last page, the bottom story
of the third column, we read about Jim Gillespie,
a sixteen-year-old Eagle Scout, who won the God
and Country Award. He is also a junior assistant
Scoutmaster.
"Where are the pictures? We'd like to get a
comment from his parents.
"The energy, mental effort and courage in-
volved in winning any one of Gillespie's awards
more than exceed that expended by the delin-
quents who made the front page. And our society
is built on what Gillespie did. . .
R. H. T.
A lot of us have felt this way about overempha-
sis on the problems of life as compared with the
reporting of the wholesome successes.
Have you stopped to think that part of the re-
sponsibility is ours? It's our job to find the ways
to point out the significance, the dramatic quali-
ties, of the wholesome achievements.
Of course, it's easier to play up the sensational
problem. But it's possible to do a lot better with
the telling of our story.
—-
Editor
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