Scouting, Volume 1, Number 20, February 15, 1914 Page: 8
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SCOUTING
" DANVILLE JUST WAKING UP"
TO ITS DUTY TO ITS BOYS.
Newspaper There Says Scout Movement
Is the Best Agency for Laying
Foundations for Citizenship.
IN connection with a big Scout carnp
held recently under the direction of
Scout Commissioner Leslie V. Barger,
of Danville, 111., the Danville News prints
the following paragraph of appreciation
and encouragement:
" Danville is just waking up to the fact
that the work of laying the foundations
for good citizenship in the boys of to-day
is a work well worth while; and that the
Scout movements does this sort of thing
in a better and more thorough manner than
is otherwise possible.
" Many of the world's greatest ideas
have been suggested by commonplace ob-
servations, that have been adapted to the
needs of the hour. The Scouts are taught
to observe everything that comes in their
way. Recently, a good example of the re-
sults of this training was exemplified when
a Scout returning from an expedition de-
clared that a quarter of a mile from camp,
he crossed the stream at a point where no-
body had crossed for at least a half-hour
before him. Asked how he could be sure
of this, he replied: 'There was a turtle
sitting on a log and his back was dry; and
everybody knows that it takes a half-hour
for a turtle's back to dry on a day like
this.' Maybe everybody didn't know it—in
all probability only a comparative few did
know it—but a boy's eyes are in his head
to see and record the things that his brain
later reasons out and the training of such
powers can not fail to be beneficial through-
out his life.
" A boy is a man in a cocoon: nobody can
tell what he will become, the boy least of
all. His life is big with possibilities; his
may be the power that will make and un-
make kings; change the boundary lines of
State and nation; his may be the brain that
will bring forth books that shall be mould-
ers of character; or his the hand that will
revolutionize the commerce of the world.
" Patience is the keynote in dealing with
boys; dealing with them, you are handling
' soul-stuff,' and ' destiny ' waits just around
the corner."
NEW BOARD MEMBER.
" IF PROOFS WERE NEEDED."
Mr. John Vincent Blasi, Scout Master
Troop 47, Olivet Chapel, Newark, N. J.,
has received the following letter from the
secretary of the Essex County Park Com-
mission :
Dear Sir:
The Park Commission has been informed that
the boys of Troop 47, under your leadership, were
instrumental in putting out a fire near the limits
of South Mountain Reservation yesterday, which,
had it been allowed to burn, might have done
serious damage to our park.
On behalf of the Park Commission I desire to
thank you and the other Boy Scouts for your un-
selfish public-spirited work and your interest in
the Park Commission. Acts like these prove, if
any proofs were needed, the value of the Boy
Scouts_ and the great good which they can do.
Again thanking you, I am,
Very respectfully,
(Signed) A. Church,
Secretary.
mr. g. barrett rich, jr.
Mr. G. Barrett Rich, Jr., Scout Com-
missioner of Buffalo, N. Y., and a new
member of the Executive Board of the
National Council of the Boy Scouts of
America, has always been particularly
active in all movements connected with boy
life in Buffalo, and since the start of the
Scout work there has taken a leading part
in its administration. Indeed, the Scout
leaders there fully believe that Mr. Rich is
more interested in the Scout work than he
is in any other of his numerous connec-
tions.
During the early weeks of February the
Buffalo Council carried on a whirlwind
campaign for funds, starting the week with
speeches by Mr. L. S. Dale, National Field
Scout Commissioner, and the Anniversary
celebrations. They extended their appeals
to every citizen of Buffalo, and at the close
of the campaign had very close to the
$8,000 which they had set as their mark.
It was so close that when the total was de-
clared a few men managed to bring it up
to the mark in a very short time. This
furnishes for Buffalo another year of the
competent and progressive management for
which the Scout work in that city has be-
come famous.
Mr. Rich's counsel and assistance on the
Executive Board, based on his sincere in-
terest in boys and his wide experience with
them, and particularly with the Scout
Movement, will be of vast benefit to the
Boy Scouts of America.
Red Cross Car No. Three.
The itinerary of Red Cross Car No. 3
follows: Lowell, Mass., February 25-27;
South Framingham, Mass., February 28 to
March 2; Clinton, Mass., March 3; Ritch-
burg, Mass., March 4, 5; Worcester, Mass.,
March 6, 7; Pittsfield, Mass., March 8, 9;
Canaan, Conn., March 10; Danbury, Conn.,
March 11, 12; Maybrook, N. Y., March
13, 14.
A GOOD BOOK ON CAMPING.
" Roughing It With Boys" Gives Help-
ful Suggestions to Scout Masters.
By F. K. Mathiews, Chief Scout Librarian.
" Roughing It With Boys," by George W.
Hinckley, General Supervisor of the Good
Will Home Association, is a book so brim-
ful of the things worth reading that when
once you begin you will want to read right
straight through to the end. Mr. Hinckley
knows the boy, and many illustrations of
his rare insight into boy nature are given.
While the book does not attempt to give
any thorough-going knowledge of camping,
all Camp Directors will find in the book
many helpful suggestions as to how to get
the most out of the camping experience so
far as the boy is concerned.
In a number of instances Mr. Hinckley
has made mention of the books he used
with the boys in camp, such as Hornaday's
" Camp Fires in the Canadian Rockies,"
Wallace's "The Lure of the Labrador
Wild," Hyde's "Self-Measurement," etc.
About the camp fire, or on a Sunday after-
noon with the master teacher's skill and
cunning, Mr. Hinckley, by means of these
books, was brought into most intimate com-
munion with his boys. Here is a sugges-
tion to all Camp Directors as to how to
make some part of the camp experiences
count for character culture.
Everybody who knows Mr. Hinckley
would be disappointed if he did not get
some of his fine humor into such a book.
From the first page to the last that is just
what the reader will find. The fact of the
business is that about the only time you
will stop reading is when you halt to make
merry over one of Mr. Hinckley's charac-
teristically funny remarks.
The book is published by the Association
Press in their Boy Life series, and may be
purchased through the Boy Scout Book
Department at National Headquarters for
80 cents, postpaid.
Troop Calendar of Events.
Troop 5 of East Orange, N. J., issues
monthly a small card conveying a calendar
of events for the coming month, and dis-
tributes these cards to all members of the
troop regularly. The calendar for 'January
called attention to regular troop meetings
monthly, church service, first-aid instruc-
tion, the came.-a squad, hikes, a trip to New
York to the Museum of Art, a lecture on
the teeth, a n ip out into the country, busi-
ness meeting and social. Besides the regu-
lar troop meetings, troop headquarters are
open certain days in the week for reading
and games,
FIELD NOTES.
Montevideo, Minn.—The Montevideo
Boy Scouts' band was organized in 1912 by
Mr. N. B. Pomroy with seventeen mem-
bers. It now has a membership of fifty
and is still growing. The boys play a good
grade of music and are very popular in the
city. The band has been self-supporting
eve^ since it started. Each member pays
$1 a month for tuition and expenses. Re-
hearsals are held twice a week in a room
furnished by the city. The band is ex-
tremely popular for all sorts of engage-
ments in Montevideo, as they have a high
reputation for paying attention and being
on deck at the right time.
Auburn, N. Y.—A special campaign is
being carried on by the Local Council in
Auburn, N. Y., to increase the Scout en-
rollment in that city. They have set a
thousand Scouts as their aim and have
issued the appeal broadcast through the
city. The local newspapers have taken up
the campaign with vigor and print several
columns about the Handbook, the Scout
Laws and letters from seven of the leading
bankers of Auburn, endorsing the Scout
Movement. Each of them says that the
movement tends to develop character, in-
telligence and reliability in boys.
Lorr, Luui. Cal., comes a
letter reporting the excellent work done
by the Scouts of that town, under Mr.
G. S. Long, Scout Master. Many of the
Scouts are self-supporting and devote part
of their earnings to help their fathers and
mothers,
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