Scouting, Volume 48, Number 4, April-May 1960 Page: 1
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STAFF
EDITOR
Lex R. Lucas
MANAGING EDITOR
Oren R. Felton
ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITORS
Ted 5. Hoi stein
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ART DIRECTOR
Don Ross
PRODUCTION DIRECTOR
George Corrado
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Walter MacPeek
Walter Babson
Larry Carpenter
Tom Gibson
H. John Nelson
REGIONAL CONSULTANTS
Robert E. Pettit
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Charles A. Whitcomb
George Simpson
John B. Hackney
Clyde M. Clark
Earle K. Behrend
W. C. Youngblood
George D. Hedrick
Clarke Lethin
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NATIONAL OFFICERS
Dwight D. Eisenhower
HONORARY PRESIDENT
Ellsworth H. Augustus
PRESIDENT
Arthur A. Schuck
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SCOUTING is published monthly and bimonthly April.
May, June-July, and August-September. ©1960 by the Boy
Scouts of America, New Brunswick, N. J. Re-entered as
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'The Work Is Taken Out"
DO-IT-YOURSELF HANDICRAFT project was de-
scribed in a recent magazine ad:
.. quick and easy to build . .. completely prefabri-
cated ... no whittling or sanding . . . the work is taken
out and the fun left in . .."
"The work is taken out." Could you describe more
vividly one of the major problems of our times?
No work to do around the house (compared to the
day when there was wood to chop, cows to milk, a
big garden to hoe), and no long walk to school, in all
kinds of weather. (If a bus doesn't pick up the boy his
parents can be persuaded to drive him.)
When a boy wants to earn money he finds that there
are very few jobs available to him, what with the
problems of liability insurance, need of skilled workers,
and all the other factors that employers must consider.
And now, even the handicraft ads (not just the one
I quoted, but a good percentage of them) replace effort
and skill with a tube of quick-drying cement.
What kind of a race of men will this effortless life
produce? If you agree that this is a serious problem,
and if you want to do something about it, you can—-
in Scouting.
The Scout program provides for scores of challenges
to a boy's ambition, to his imagination, to his determi-
nation. The challenges are built into the program,
ready to use. But they won't become realities until a
leader takes steps to make them happen.
Are you planning den meetings? A troop over-
nighter? Are you setting standards for advancement in
your council, or developing a summer camp program?
Almost everything you do in Scouting ultimately pays
off in what a boy does in his pack, or troop, or Ex-
plorer unit.
If that boy has to work hard to win his next rank,
if his camping experience is a rugged one, if each ac-
complishment is one to tax his ability—and to make
him feel a sense of achievement—if these things hap-
pen, you will have done a lot for the boy who is grow-
ing up in a world entirely too lacking in man-making
effort.
All this vital opportunity is in Scouting, and the
results to be gained make it very much worth searching
for.
Editor
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