Scouting, Volume 1, Number 19, February 1, 1914 Page: 4
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SCOUTING
SCOUTING
PUBLISHED SEMI-MONTHLY BY NATIONAL HEAD-
QUARTERS, BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA, FOR SCOUT
OFFICIALS AND OTHERS INTERESTED IN
THE BOY SCOUT MOVEMENT
OFFICERS OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL AND
EXECUTIVE BOARD
Honorary President: Woodrow Wilson.
Honorary Vice-President: William H. Taft.
Honorary Vice-President: Theodore Roosevelt.
President: Colin H. Livingstone, Washington.
Chief Scout: Ernest Thompson Seton.
Nat'l Scout Commissioner: Daniel C. Beard.
Treasurer: George D. Pratt, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Chief Scout Executive: James E. West, N. Y. C.
Office of Publication: 200 Fifth Avenue,
New York City
Entered as second-class matter at tke Post Office,
New York, N. Y., under the act of
August 24, 1912.
VOL. I. FEBRUARY 1, 1914. No. 19.
LET THEM HELP YOU.
WE sometimes wonder whether Scout
Officials and the parents of Scouts
realize what unique opportunities
the Scout Movement enjoys in the com-
plete interest and voluntary co-operation
of such men as Mr. Seton and Mr. Beard.
Many of them just take for granted the
really remarkable services performed
through the movement by these and other
notable men. Mention of these services
is made here, not only because these men
are entitled to it, but also, and particular-
ly, to call the attention of Scout workers
throughout the country to the possibility
of the further use of them in the inter-
ests of boys.
The recent trip of Mr. Seton to Pitts-
burgh, described in this issue, illustrates at
once how willing the Chief Scout is to as-
sist the Movement in every possible way,
and how capably the Scout Executive in
Pittsburgh capitalized his opportunity, get-
ting sixty seconds' worth of time from
every minute the Chief Scout was there.
All of the National officers or commit-
teemen are willing to give their time and
energy to help along the local situation
wherever they happen to be. 1 he chances
which these men offer are often lost
through the lack of initiative or careful
planning on the part of local officers. For
example, too few of the Scout Masters in
and around New York City have availed
themselves of the generous offer made by
Mr. Frits V. Holm to give to Scout troops
his interesting illustrated lecture on trav-
eling in China. There are, doubtless, many
locally prominent men whose interest and
co-operation could be secured by a little
exertion on the part of the Scout officials.
Go to the men of your city, and you will
be surprised to find how willing they are
to do anything in their power for the
Scouts taken hold of the selling of the
troops and more support from people who
before may have known virtually nothing
about the Scout Movement.
National Field Scout Commissioners
Moffat and Dale are just starting on long
tours, Mr. Moffat in the South and Mr.
Dale in the East and Middle West.. In
some cities, where plans are carefully
made for their visits, the Scout Movement
will receive an enormous impetus, ways
will be discovered to solve problems
which have been perplexing, and the visit-
ors will leave the Movement well along on
the road that runs straight into Easy
Street. It may be that in some cities the
arrangements will be inadequate, with lit-
tle opportunity for these National officers
to do what they might. Such places, when
the men depart, will probably find them-
selves in much the same position as they
were before, their problems still perplex-
ing.
Of the cities and towns which are on
the itineraries of Mr. Moffat and Mr. Dale
we would ask: Which kind of a Scout
city is yours? The National office is eager
to assist you in using these men effectively,
as they have been used by many other cit-
ies. Consult National Headquarters freely.
other animals, may serve as bonds between
man and nature."
Your Scouts are entitled to this knowl-
edge and this pleasure. In the winter,
when your boys can do good turns for the
birds, is the best time to gain their sym-
pathetic interest.
Take it up at your next meeting. If you
haven't time to "look up the subject," tele-
phone to a man in your town who knows
it already. He will be glad to speak to
your boys.
Don't put it off!
A GOOD SUGGESTION.
All Scout Masters might well point out
to their boys the possibility of their doing
the sort of work mentioned by Mr. Isaac
C. Sutton, of Philadelphia, in a letter
which is reprinted in this issue of Scout-
ing. Whether or not there is a Juvenile
Court in your town, your Scouts should be
encouraged to take a friendly, helpful at-
titude toward boys who are less fortunate.
Many Scouts do, thanks to wise counsel
from their Scout Masters. Others will,
now that the suggestion has been made.
ABOUT CIGARETTES.
EVERY man who works with boys, or
merely plays with them as their
friend, has found among them,
sometimes among the "best" of them,
users of cigarettes—casual smokers or
" fiends." Hence it is certain that all
readers of Scouting will be interested in
the article in this issue about Recorder
McGovern's crusade against the habit in
Jersey City, and in the letter of Scout
Commissioner Kinsey, of Portsmouth, O.,
describing the change which membership
in a Scout Troop wrought in one boy
smoker.
'Mr. Kinsey's statement that he could
give " fifty more such cases in our city"
proves that the case mentioned is no ex-
ception.
Scout workers elsewhere doubtless have
had similar experiences. We shall be glad
to have you report them.
THE BIRDS—NOW.
NO " good turns" of Scouts reported
to National Headquarters are more
worthy of commendation than the
feeding of the birds in winter. Though
troops in many States have been engaging
in this activity, the work seems to be more
general in Pennsylvania than elsewhere,
doubtless because the State Game Commis-
sioner, whose business it is to protect the
birds, recognized in the Scouts willing
aides who needed only the suggestion.
It is not too late in the present winter
for Scout Masters to start their boys in
at this delightful work. Indeed, it is prob-
able that the birds will suffer more, and
more of them will starve, in February than
in the earlier months of the snow-season.
Scout Masters, if you don't already know
about it, consult the books in your own or
the public library and ascertain why birds
should be protected. Then tell your boys
about the economic, esthetic, symbolic and
scientific relation of birds to man. In look-
ing up these facts for your boys, you are
pretty certain to find unusual personal
pleasure in the broadening of your own
understanding of the beauty and value of
.the little creatures which " more than any
MULTIPLY THE BENEFITS.
GENERAL Baden-Powell's statement,
printed to-day, about the import-
ance of the Boy Scouts' Magazine
to the success of the Movement, is based
on experience.
The Boy Scouts of America, in putting
out Boys' Life, is doing more than pub-
lishing a magazine. It is solving a prob-
lem whose importance and difficulties are
as yet but vaguely felt in America. Yet
experienced Scout workers, in their recent
enthusiastic commendation of Boys' Life,
have indicated a growing realization of it,
and a growing appreciation of the rapid
progress made.
No Scout official should fail to get a full
understanding of what's back of this mag-
azine work. Knowing, he will do his part,
and the benefits to boys will be multiplied.
When Others Were Too Busy.
So many Scouts helped at Christmas sell-
ing Red Cross Seals that it was impossible
even to make a list of such helpful troops.
However, one small troop in a little New
Jersey town did so well that the Scbut
Master, Rev. R. E. Locke, of Rutherford,
N. J., received a special letter from F. M.
Buckley, Chairman of the Committee, who
said: " I wish to say that had not the Boy
Seouts taken hold of the selling of the
stamps very little would have been done
here, as everybody else seemed to be so
busy with their own affairs that they had
no time to devote to this great work."
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