Scouting, Volume 2, Number 23, April 1, 1915 Page: 5
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OUR AIMS AND IDEALS
The world interest in the Boy Scout Movement challenges the intel-
ligent understanding of every one, and yet many people still ask 1' What
is Scouting?" "What do Boy Scouts do?"
The Boy Scout idea is a movement rather than an organization. It
aims to supplement existing organizations.
The aim of the Scout Movement is to inculcate character, which,
though essential to success in life, is not taught within the school, and
being a matter largely of environment is too generally left to chance,
often with deplorable results. The Scout Movement endeavors to sup-
ply the required environment and ambitions through games and out-
door activities, which lead a boy to become a better man and a good
citizen.
What Scouting Means
Scouting means outdoor life and so health, strength, happiness and
practical education. By combining wholesome, attractive, outdoor
activities with the influence of the Scout Oath and Law the Movement
develops character.
It develops the power of initiative and resourcefulness.
It helps boys.
It insures good citizenship.
The Boy Scout Movement healthfully and sanely offsets the disad-
vantages which civilization has caused.
Conservation of Boyhood
Conservation of our national resources is universally approved, but
of what value would material resources be unless we conserve the
moral, intellectual and physical future of the coming generation?
Prevention is recognized as better and less expensive than cure.
The Boy Scout Movement takes the boy at that time of life when he is
beset with the new and bewildering experiences of adolescence and
diverts his thoughts therefrom to wholesome and worth-while activities.
In this manner our character-building movement has done much in
numerous cities to diminish the problem of juvenile delinquency.
"Doing Is Learning'"
We want to help boys on leaving school to escape the evils of
"blind alley" occupations—that is, such work as gives the boy a mere
wage for the moment, but leaves him stranded without any trade or
handicraft to pursue when he is a man and so sends him as a recruit
to the great army of unemployed, and, what is worse, the unemployable.
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Boy Scouts of America. Scouting, Volume 2, Number 23, April 1, 1915, periodical, April 1, 1915; New York, New York. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth282730/m1/7/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Boy Scouts of America National Scouting Museum.