Scouting, Volume 8, Number 9, April 22, 1920 Page: 24
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SCOUTING, APRIL 22, 1920
SALINA, KANS., Troops
1 and 4 were giving an
Anniversary Week dem-
onstration on a vacant lot in
the heart of the business dis-
trict when a real accident
occurred across the street. A
fourteen-year-old boy who
was not a scout fell, dislocat-
ing and breaking his ankle.
The scouts rendered first aid,
carried him on their stretcher
to his home two blocks away
and made him comfortable
until the doctor arrived. Re-
turning to their program of
demonstration they manned
the motor fire trucks and
demonstrated the laying of
hose and the rescuing of in-
jured. Two weeks later this
practice also was called into
performance when the par-
sonage of Christ Cathedral
burned, the scouts of Troop
4 aiding in handling the
crowd and saving many valu-
able church papers. These
two troops obtained 484 writ-
ten pledges from adults for
Good Turn Week.
Winston - Salem, N. C.,
Scouts have done traffic duty
on the home coming parade days, handled
the street publicity for the Salvation
Army and Red Cross Campaigns, manned
an ambulance and furnished 150 messen-
gers and emergency traffic scouts at the
County Fair, finding and returning to
their parents 22 lost children. They also
contributed to the detection of several
pick-pockets operating at the Fair. They
harvested the. giant cedar which was used
as a Community Christmas Tree, the
Weather man contributing a sleet storm
as his part of the hike for the tree.
St. Charles, 111. scouts by resolution of
the' American Legion have been made
junior members on account of their splen-
did services during the war.
George Hickey of Knoxville, Tenn., 13,
reported a leaking water plug.
Clyde Watkins of Knoxville, Tenn., 16,
reported a damaged fire alarm box.
Fall River, Mass. 20, distributed posters
for Anti-Tuberculosis Society.
'Brockton, Mass. 10, helped keep gutters
and fire hydrants clear of snow during
the winter.
Waynesville, N. C. 1, beautified the
town by putting flower beds around it.
Dorchester, Mass. 12, helped church
janitor to clean away snow.
Andover, Me. 2, kept hydrants in work-
ing order.
Westfield, Mass. scouts policed one •
quarter of town on its 250th Anniversary,
and also assisted police at a communhy
dance.
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Wadsworth, N. Y. 1, conducted traffic
at soldiers' reception.
Harrisburg, Pa., scouts collected broken
glass and nails under the direction of the
Motor Club, acted as traffic officers at
parades, and formed fire lines at all fires.
Wallace, Idaho, scouts sefit packages
containing clothing, toys, fruit, candy and
nuts to twenty-nine families at Christ-
mas.
New York City, 640, distributed baskets
to poor families on Thanksgiving and
Christmas.
Albany, N. Y. 25, shoveled snow from
hydrants.
Tampa, Fla. 1, helped to control crowds
at a $250,000 fire in wholesale district,
carried flowers to sick, and donated to
needy.
West Hazelton, Pa. 1, used their first
aid practice on several occasions, and as-
sisted the emergency committees during
the influenza epidemic.
Los Angeles, Calif., 78, gathered seeds
for reforesting mountains.
Scranton, Pa., 16, assisted police during
parades.
Woonsocket, R. I. 1, assisted the hospi-
tal during the influenza epidemic and col-
lected garments, carbon, tinfoil, etc., for
the Red Cross.
Williamsport, Pa., scouts discovered
and put out forest fire.
Newark, N. J. 1, distributed fifteen
dinners to poor families on Thanksgiving
Eve, and found ways and means of re-
lieving sickness and distress
among them.
West Orange, N. J. 3, kept
grounds around church clean.
Lynn, Mass. 15, hauled coal
to families in need on ac-
count "of storm.
Somerville, Mass. 7, acted
as messengers during tele-
phone strike.
Linden, N. J. 2, assisted in
Clean Up Week.
New York 236, supplied
fruit to the patients of the
Beth Israel Hospital as part
of their Good Turn Week
Celebration.
Morristown, N. J., scouts,
after a day's search found
the body of a lost child.
Warren, Pa., scouts, do
police duty each year at the
G. A. R. exercises on Memor-
ial Day, and in the Fall they
collect donations of canned
goods, vegetables and other
food stuffs, and hospital sup-
plies for the General Hospi-
tal. They also assist at public
gatherings and parades.
Dedham, Mass., scouts, cut
and cleaned out a wood
lot, gathering all the short
lengths and delivering them to deserving
families of the town. They also main-
tained numerous feeding stations for
birds.
La Grange, Ga. 2, scouts did a fine piece
of work when the Chattahoochee River
flooded West Point, by shoveling mud
from the floors, scouring walls and floors
of houses, and carrying watersoaked bed-
ding and furniture into the yards to dry.
Paterson, N. J. 51, supplied soldiers on
submarine with books.
Birmingham, Ala., scouts checked up
the census enumerators in ascertaining
whether all houses had been visited.
Enterprising seascouts of the good ship
" Mohawk," port of Schenectady, N. Y.,
are rigging a floating headquarters on a
15 x 30 foot pontoon float, holding several
tents and a small drill mast. This sea-
going hooker also has a wireless (airplane
type) installation with a 10-mile sending
radius, and the man who is one of the
most enthusiastic boosters is also the
president of the local council.
The Far Western Travelers' Associa-
tion is to send five boy scouts of Greater
New York on a trip this summer to the
National Parks of the West.
They wish to create an interest in things
American on the part of the grown-ups,
and they believe that the best way to do
this is through the boys.
These commercial men are sending out
this first group in the hope of stimulating
other organizations to send groups.
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