Scouting, Volume 7, Number 20, May 15, 1919 Page: 25
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BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 25
of each 1,000 had any definite conception of what they would do as
a life work. The others claimed that the positions they then held
were accepted merely because they afforded a wage and not because
of any determination or ambition on the part of the boy to follow this
or that particular line of work as a livelihood. In other words, for
the most part these boys are following " blind alley " occupations
and are developing tendencies which will make a large proportion of
them " drifters," thus greatly undermining their potential power to
meet adequately the responsibilities of citizenship.
I might go on and tell of the negative influences which prevail
especially in the large cities and which occupy so much of the time
and attention of boys in their teen ages. Did you ever see an audience
leave a trashy burlesque house? Have you peeped into the public
pool-rooms in our large cities?
Need for the Scout Movement
It is not difficult to imagine how great is the need of the boy-
hood of America for some agency as a supplement to the influences
and training of the home, the church and the school. This new de-
mocracy to which we are all giving so much of our thought today is
in reality dependent upon what is done to prepare boys for the re-
sponsibilities of citizenship.
Bov Scout Troop No. 1, Akron, Ohio, has 36 First Class Scouts,,10 Life and Star,
anH two Eaele Scouts. The entire troop, just past two years old, wears over 300
merit badges. Has sold $36,000 of W. S. S., and $120,000 in Liberty Bonds,.
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Boy Scouts of America. Scouting, Volume 7, Number 20, May 15, 1919, periodical, May 15, 1919; New York, New York. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth283061/m1/27/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Boy Scouts of America National Scouting Museum.