Scouting, Volume 1, Number 13, October 15, 1913 Page: 7
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SCOUTING
"THE MAKING OF A SCOUT"
DESCRIBED BY A CRITIC.
BY W. STEPHEN BUSH.
THE seven-reel feature, entitled "The
Making of a Scout," shows the great
teaching power of the motion picture.
It shows more. It furnishes proof that at
least one great civic organization with a
•noble mission in our modern life, has prac-
tically recognized the value of the motion
picture as the best known means of spread-
ing a knowledge of facts and of ideas. The
National Council of the Boy Scouts of
America deserves no small credit for being
one of the pioneers of the educational field.
I have no doubt whatever that their ex-
ample will be followed by other civic organ-
izations, and indeed by all bodies and men
who have a message for the public.
The superb handling of the task by Mr.
Edward Warren, formerly of the Solax
Company, assures success of other similar
tasks. In this production Mr. Warren has
displayed a skill and an intelligence very
far above the average. He has, indeed,
been the right man in the right place. He
has, of course, had the assistance of the
officials of the organization in getting all
the work of the Boy Scouts on the screen
in a correct manner, but outside of that
the credit for the wonderful success of
this venture is due to him alone.
Seven reels, or even six or five reels,
showing nothing but the different exercises
of the Boy Scouts, would have been im-
possible for the general public and tiresome
even to those specially interested. It was,
of course, necessary to make the dramatic
story the main thing, and to bring in the
work of the Boy Scouts as natural inci-
dents. Mr. Warren knew exactly what to
do. Although the production is nothing
more nor less than a means of propaganda
for the Scout movement, he never obtrudes
this fact in the slightest degree. On the
contrary, there is not a man, woman or
child in the audience who is not, first of
all, interested in the plot. You begin to
feel like cheering for the Boy Scouts very
early in the second reel, not because they
are Boy Scouts, but because they always
come in at the right moment to do the
right thing.
The hero of the story is a boy born and
raised in the vicious surroundings that in
the congested centers of our population go
too often hand in hand with poverty. From
the first our sympathy goes to this boy,
who, by the way, is one of the very best
boy actors I have ever seen in my career
as a critic. He is a sturdy, fine-looking boy
with a good, earnest face. It is plain from
the first that he will rise above his distress-
ing environment and that he has the mak-
ing of a real man in him. Mr. Warren
makes the Boy Scout Movement and its
inculcation of the principles of self-reliance
and helpfulness the medium through which
the good stuff in the boy is brought out
and developed into the full flower of fine
young manhood.
It is not surprising, then, that the prom-
inent men in the movement are most en-
thusiastic in the praises of the pictures and
have become the stanchest kinds of friends
of the motion picture. The pictures, how-
ever, are interesting to everybody. The
dr*>matic situations are always present and
International Congress Thanks
Buffalo Boy Scouts.
Q. Barret Rich,
Scout Commissioner,
Buffalo Boy Scouts:
My dear Mr. Rich-
Through you I wish to thank the Boy
Scouts of Buffalo for their very great serv-
ice at the International Congress on School
Hygiene. We are all under obligations to
them for their assistance at the depot, the
City Hall, the Hotel Iroquois, Elmwood
Music Hall, and the Broadway Auditorium.
They did their full share in making the
Congress a success; in giving Buffalo a
splendid reputation; and making the Boy
Scout standards known to delegates from
all parts of the world.
Sincerely yours,
Thomas A. Story, Secretary=General.
the suspense never fails to arrive. If I
wanted to lecture on the value of the pic-
ture as an educator I would want to have
such a production as Mr. Warren's with
me to give a practical demonstration and
reinforce my arguments.
The motion picture owes a debt to the
young folks in every community who have
too often been fed with so-called Western
drivel, and to whom cheap heroes of a false
type have been held up for admiration.
"The Making of a Scout" makes some
atonement for the sins of the past.—From
The Moving Picture World.
PHILADELPHIA SCOUT
WORK PROGRESSES FAST.
Office Secretary Visits National Head-
quarters Giving and Getting Help.
E. W. Rubencame, Office Secretary of
the Philadelphia Council, Boy Scouts of
America, told some very interesting and
encouraging stories about the Boy Scout
work in Philadelphia when he called at
headquarters office Monday, October 6, to
spend the entire day familiarizing himself
with the work which is being done here.
The Philadelphia Council has been very
through and successful in its work with its
Scouts, and the Scout Masters are sincerely
and efficiently devoted to their duties. A
Scout Masters' Round Table is held once
a month, programs for which are arranged
by a Committee of Scout Masters, so the
discussions always are of practical Scouting
matters. Their successful experience with
Scout problems should encourage and in-
spire Scout work everywhere.
Th Philadelphia Scouts enjoyed and were
benefited by their summer camp, "Treasure
Island," and are fortunate to have, when in
the city, a large meeting place and reading
room, with a large library, at Scout Head"
quarters in Independence Hall,
Every Scout official is urged to in-
terest the news editor of the local
newspaper in the publication of one
or more of the items in this issue of
SCOUTING.
THE HEADQUARTERS' REGISTER.
Every State in the Union is represented
on the visitors' register kept at National
Headquarters, and a great many foreign
countries are also shown. A few of the
names which have been written there re-
cently are the following:
Edgar S. Martin, Scout Commissioner, Washing-
ton, D. C.
A. Caswell Ellis. Director Extension Teaching,
Texas University, Austin. Texas.
John R. Boardman, of Good Will Home Associa-
tion. New York
R. Golden Donaldson, lawver, Washington, D. C
Russell Doubleday, author and member of
Doubleday, Page & Co.. Garden City, L. I.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest P. Bicknell, National Di-
rector American Fed Cross Society, and member
of our Executive Board, Washington, D. C.
Colin H. Livingstone. President Boy Scouts of
America, Washington, D. C.
Major Robert Patterson, in charge of First Aid
Work, American Red Cross Society, Washington,
D. G
Richard Harding Davis, author, Mt. Kisco, N. Y.
H. H. Hallett, President Local Scout Council,
Pasadena, Cal.
John Fleming Wilson, author, Central Valley,
N. Y.
Gifford Pinchot, Chief Scout Forester, Washing-
ton, D. C-
Lawrence Abbott, of The Outlook. New York.
David Z. F. Yui, Shanghai, China, and Isur Ye
Isung. Pekin, China, studying social conditions in
America.
P. C. Chang, New York.
I Hsuan Si, New Haven, Conn.
Walter Prichard Eaton, author, Stockbridge,
Mass.
Carter R. Keene, Director of the Division of
Postal Savings, Washington, D. C.
T. W. Patton, Deputy Scout Commissioner, Phila-
delphia. Pa.
L. Viereder. Berlin. Germany.
L. Stanley Kelley, Scout Commissioner, Worces-
ter. Mass.
Stephen S. Aplin. Scout Commissioner Delaware
and Montgomery Counties, Philadelphia, Pa.
F. J. Romanes. Scout Master. Philadelphia, Pa.
Charles Harritt. Scout, Beaumont, Texas.
J. Richard Spann, Boys' Secretary Methodist
Church, Pichmond, Va.
A. R._ Pardington, Secretary Lincoln Highways
Association, Detroit, Mich
Miss Helen C. Dwight, Constantinople, Turkey.
Judge Ben B. Lindsey. Denver, Col.
E. W. Rubencame, Office Executive, B. S. A.,
Philadelphia, Pa.
LONO TRIP FOR BEST SCOUTS.
Scout Commissioner Ward Willard Duf-
field of Harlan, Ky., is planning for a trip
of 250 to 300 miles down the Cumberland
river to Burnside, whence the party will go
South into Tennessee, returning by way
of Knoxville to visit the National Con-
servation Exposition. He will take along
nine boys whom he has chosen because they
are second-class Scouts and have all lived
up to, and by their daily life demonstrated,
the Scout law. Each boy will keep a jour-
nal and write a description of the trip.
Commissioner Duffield expects that by next
year he will have a larger enrollment for
a similar trip.
President's Message to "Boys'
Life" Reprinted in Canada.
The Columbian, a newspaper of Van-
couver, British Columbia, has reprinted
President Wilson's message to boys which
he sent to Boys' Life. This has been re-
printed all over the United States and
read aloud in many of the schools, and we
are glad to know that our Canadian neigh-
bors are also interested in the President's
co-operation.
SCOUTS JOIN HUMANE SOCIETY.
The Boy Scouts of Elgin, 111., will be
enlisted to support the Elgin branch of the
Illinois IHumane Society in the work of
preventing cruelty to animals. Scouts ex-
pect to be able to do many good turns in
their new work.
The big rally of the Boy Scouts at Castle
Point, Hoboken. was caught by the moving
picture men and the reels are being shown
to big audiences in the neighboring New
Jersey towns.
SCOUT MASTER'S HELPS.
THE OFFICIAL SONG BOOK
Good all the year 'round. On
the hike, in camp, and at
Winter troop meetings Scout
Masters will find the Song
Book a great resource.
Forty-six songs of Scouting,
patriotism, fun and good
cheer.
15 Cents Per Copy.
25 to so, less 10%; ioo or more, less 15%
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