Scouting, Volume 2, Number 4, June 15, 1914 Page: 5
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SCOUTING 5
LET YOUR BOYS LEAD IN A "SANE" FOURTH CELEBRATION.
a striking feature of a sane parade.
They Can Have a Really Good Time and Do
a Grand Good Turn for Their Com=
munity—Just Point Out the Way.
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in the brave days of old. '
THERE are so many possible sugges-
tions for sensible Fourth of July
celebrations that the Scout Master
may become quite lo.st when he tries to
plan a program for his Scouts. These two
pictures show what other cities have done.
The float was got up by young Americans
whose progenitors came from Norway, and
represents a Viking ship. It can be con-
structed without great difficulty, as any old
boat might be turned up to represent the
high sides and curving prow of this old
vessel. A hardware shop would help out
when it came to the spears and armor,
and cheese cloth judiciously applied can be
made to represent old-fashioned trappings.
This might be introduced as a section from
U. S. history, for it is generally believed
that the first to come to the American
shores were the Norsemen who touched
Newfoundland and Northern New England
long before Columbus landed in the South.
Then the Scandinavian citizens might show
what their country has given to the New
World.
The other is American history and can
be used with good pictorial effect. " In the
brave days of old," represented by this
tableau, any old bits of costuming can be
used to advantage. Almost every town has
some families who cherish historic coats,
hats, bits o,f lace or military trappings
which have been handed down since Revo-
lutionary days. These can be divided
among the participants. Mothers and sis-
ters will be glad to help fit out their sons
and brothers.
. People may object to the war spirit
represented in some Revolutionary scenes,
but it is better to. carry a wooden gun than
a real fire cracker. Certainly it will hardly
inspire love of military things in the boys
to represent these stirring scenes from the
history of their own country.
The fact must be emphasized that,
though everybody wants to do these things,
somebody must start them, and there is no
better person to. do this than the Scout
Master. You will be surprised to find how
readily people will be to fall in with your
suggestions and how clever they are at
devising costumes, thinking up floats or
suggesting games. The city authorities will
gladly co-operate in district celebrations and,
with the assistance of the pamphlets issued
by the Russell Sage Foundation (men-
tioned in the June 1 Scouting) and the
many library books on history, very inter-
esting celebrations can be worked out with
very little trouble.
Let the Boy Scouts lead in this, too.
SCOUT TUTOR CHOSEN.
New Jersey Boy One of Thirty=five
Qualified Scouts Who Applied.
There were so many applications for the
position of Scout tutor, which was an-
nounced in a recent number of Scouting,
that it was very difficult to decide between
them. Every one of the boys seemed capa-
woodcraft and will be exceptionally capable
of teaching all the different branches of
Scouting.
It is a splendid testimonial to the value
of the Scout Movement that thirty-five such
boys should be upon call at any moment.
Every one has had training similar to that
of Scout Plummer. If such an appeal had
been made four years ago few, if any,
organizations could have got in touch so
ble of doing the job required to the satis- quickly with any boys qualified to teach the
faction of the mo.st exacting critic. Eagle exacting requirements demanded of Scout
Scout James A. Plummer, of Rutherford, Plummer, yet there are thirty-four other
N. J., was finally chosen.
Scout Plummer is a Senior Patrol Leader
and has acted as Assistant Scout Master.
Some of the Merit Badges which he has
received are Life Saving, Swimming, Path-
finding, First Aid, Craftsmanship and Elec-
tricity. He is also well up in the art of
boys who were anxious to try to do this,
and there are doubtless a great many from
whom the officials did not hear. We only
wish that there had been a similar po.sition
for each one. As it was, it was very hard
for the gentlemen who desired the tutor to
choose from the applicants.
ST. LOUIS SCOUTS PRAISED
FOR SERVICE AT PAGEANT.
The Value of Their Training Proved in
an Ordeal of Crowds.
VjTfHEN St. Louis, Mo., mounted the
largest civic pageant that probably
has ever taken place in this country the
officials turned, naturally enough, to the
Boy Scouts of America for assistance.
There were literally hundreds of them
on deck and they proved their value many
times over. They acted as ushers, guides,
general dispensers of information, and
handy men wherever they were needed.
Others o.f them had real opportunities to
help in the first aid, and those who had per-
haps the hardest duty of all, namely, seat-
ing the crowds at the pageant, never for an
instant relaxed their prompt and attentive
behavior.
One night a terrible rainstorm came up
and the boys, though drenched to the skin,
remained at their posts helping the " half
drowned" audience in its rush, and pre-
vented accident and crush. The St. Louis
Times printed an editorial which well ex-
plains the feeling of all who saw the boys
at work.
"We wish especially to commend the
Boy Scouts for their indispensable use-
fulness in directing the record-breaking
audience to. their seats. A manlier,
quieter and more determined body of
boys never was seen. The lackadaisical
demeanor of the average theater usher
was never glimpsed for an instant.
These boys, dogged and perspiring,
were never for a moment overborne by
the requirements of the moment. They
worked as honestly and as promptly as
soldiers digging trenches under fire—
and they got results.
"If last night's exhibition can be
taken as an evidence of what the Boy
Scout training is doing for them—as
we assume it may—there are going to
be tho.uands of good men in the com-
munity in a few years—men whose ef-
ficiency and good deportment will be
traceable to the training which these
sturdy iboys are receiving to-day."
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