Scouting, Volume 2, Number 1, May 1, 1914 Page: 4
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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.
Nafl 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 the Post Office;,
New York, N. Y., under the act of
August 24, 1912.
VOL. II. MAY 1, 1914. No. 1.
IT DOES.
I HOLD that a man is only fit to tea;h
so long as he is himself learning daily.
If the mind once becomes stagnant, it can
give no fresh draught to another mind; it
is drinking out of a pond instead of from
a spring.
A schoolmaster's intercourse is with the
young, the strong, and the happy; and he
cannot get on with them unless in animal
spirits he can sympathize with them, and
show that his thoughtfulness is not con-
nected with selfishness and weakness.—Ar-
nold.
SCOUTING
Scout official who is still actively interested
in Scouting.
' The replies to our postal card inquiry
indicate that three out of four of those
who have not yet re-registered intend to
do so. The remainder express their in-
terest and desire to receive the report, but
regret that circumstances beyond their con-
trol have necessitated their giving up Scout
work, and ask that their names be removed
from our rolls.
Find the post card which was sent to
you and send it to us without delay. If
you can't find the card, just write us say-
ing when you expect to re-register your
Troop and asking for a copy of the report,
or asking that your name be removed from
our rolls.
Of course, we cannot continue indefi-
nitely to send Scouting and our other pub-
lications to tho.se who have not re-regis-
tered in accordance with the regulations or
indicated their intention to do so within a
reasonable time.
If you are one of these, what are you
going to do about it?
" Seems to me this applies to Scout Mas-
ters and Commissioners, as well as to
school teachers," writes Mr. Merritt L.
Oxenham, Deputy Scout 'Commissioner in
Brooklyn, who sent the above quotation to
National Headquarters a few days ago.
MOTHERS' DAY.
ON the second Sunday in May white
carnatio,ns have become almost uni-
versal. It is in recognition of
"Mothers' Day," a recently instituted
national day.
May 10 is "Mothers' Day," and chiv-
alrous Scouts will be particularly glad to
honor by kindly act, thought or gift the
mothers to whom they o.we so much.
SCOUT EFFECT ON MEN.
The testimony of a man who has held
his Scouts together for three years and
had them advanced steadily under his
training is valuable as showing what effect
the work has upon the rpen of a city.
Mr. E. G. Jenkins, "of Honesdale, Pa.,
writes: "Work is progressing wonder-
fully. Last week nearly forty men of East
Honesdale asked me to tell them in detail
of the Scout work. The fire company of-
fered us the use of their rooms for our
meetings.
" The moral uplift among my older
Scouts is a source of great pleasure and,
indeed, pride, and our efforts to keep the
Scout Laws and Oath is having an effect
upon the community. A big business man,
one who does not pride himself on his
moral standing, said at a gathering of men:
' It would do us older chaps a great deal
of good to try to live up to that Oath. I
like that Good Turn idea. It would be a
good thing for us to practise.'
" And so after three years of effort our
chickens are still coming home to roost."
Scout Scheme Adopted in a Boys
School.
DID YOU GET YOURS?
A COPY of the annual report of Boy
Scout work in the United States—
128 pages with sixty-nine illustra-
tions—was mailed on April 15 to every
Scout official who has , registered at (
National Headquarters. A reply postal
card was mailed to all other Scout officials
who had not registered in accordance with
the new membership plan, telling them that
we would be glad to mail the report to
them if they would express, on the return
card, a desire to have it. To. all of those
who responded a copy of the report has
also been mailed. If you did not get a
copy, it is doubtless because we did not
hear from you.
We are anxious to send a copy to every
Wo.rd has just been received at National
Headquarters that the Fleet School for
Boys at Flat Rock, N. C„ has definitely
decided to adopt the Boy Scout scheme as
a basis for discipline and recreation in their
school work. Mr. H. E. Shaffer, formerly
o.f National Headquarters, and until re-
cently Scout Commissioner of Porto Rico,
has been selected as the Senior Master and
will have charge of the Scout work of the
school.
SUGGESTS HIGHER AWARD
THAN EAGLE SCOUT BADGE
Buffalo Court of Honor Would Have
"Great Eagle" for Forty Merit Badges.
FROM the Buffalo. (N. Y.) Court of
Honor, Mr. George R. Sikes, chair-
man, comes the suggestion of grant-
ing a higher award than Eagle Scout. We
publish Mr. Sikes' letter below, hoping
that other Scout officials will read it care-
fully and send their opinion of it to the
Committee on Badges, Awards and Scout
Requirements.
BUFFALO COUNCIL,
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA.
April 6, 1914.
Mr. James E. West,
Chief Scout Executive,
New York.
Dear Mr. West:
Since we have begun to have a large
number of Scouts almost reaching the
Eagle Scout limit (I use the word limit
advisedly), we find that running through
their ranks is a f eeling like this: " When
I am an Eagle Scout no more work for
me. My Scout Master can urge me to
nothing further."
The Buffalo Court of Honor feel there
should be something higher to strive after
along the line of Merit Badge work. We
feel that making a special honor for some
sort of Scout service would not fill the
bill even if confined to, Eagle Scouts. By
the time the Eagle Scout is reached the
doing of a service is, or ought to be, a
habit. We would suggest for the conve-
nience of this letter, that the higher honor
be called " The Great Eagle Scout."
At present the " Life Scout" is awarded
for five Merit Badges, that of " Star
Scout" for ten badges, that of Eagle
Scout for twenty-one badges, practically
doubling the test for each rank, so we sug-
gest the " Great Eagle" badge fo.r forty
merits. The boy reaching that point,
spurred on by Scout Master and Scout
friends, will then be so near the perfect,
all-round Scout that he will go for the full
fifty-seven, even if it be necessary to take
special training in same. _
We feel that this is quite a needed thing
in Buffalo, and if the need is felt here, it
probably is or will be felt in other places,
and so wish to suggest this to the National
Co.uncil and urge its establishment. We
feel that we wish always to keep the Scout
following the trail to greater usefulness.
Considering knowledge and practice the
great factors in becoming useful, we believe
that Merit Badges should be the blazes
along that trail.
May we further suggest that the same
Eagle Scout die be used to case gold eagles
for the Great Eagle Scouts, and that the
ribbon be changed?
We trust you will consider this worthy
of your consideration, and that you will
help the local work by giving this added
honor.
(Signed) George R. Sikes,
Chairman Court of Honor.
"Older Boys'" Conference.
An " older boys " camp conference is to
be held July 14-26 at Lake Geneva, Wis.
Leaders at this important gathering will
include such men as John L. Alexander,
Ernest Thompson Seton and Preston G.
Orwig. Interested Scout Masters may ob-
tain further information by writing to Mr.
Alexander, 1416 Mailers building, Chicago.
Wouldn't Trade Places With King.
" I would not trade my place as Scout
Master of Troop 4 with the King of Eng-
land, and miss the inspiration I receive
from, my boys. It is a wonderful work
and I am sorry more of our young men
don't take it up with boys. I wish I had
nothing else to do, but the time I put into
it gives me as much real pleasure as it
does the boys."—Raymond F. Sullivan,
Scout Master, Troop 4, Loraine, Ohio.
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