Scouting, Volume 10, Number 1, January 1922 Page: 5
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, JANUARY, 1922
Leaders
rERY SCOUT CAN DO
y wrote a commendation of the Daily Good
iding distinctive thing about the Boy Scout
urse, every scoutmaster will not instantane-
Scout idea in its entirety. The Good Turn
■ a tremendous and distinctive contribution
Drld. In bringing to the surface and giving
h to do things for others usually suppressed
ieems girlish, Scouting makes all the other
of attainment.
^hfcjup boys were apt to feel they were dis-
; atlmirers, by stoning a dog or robbing a
at fact is sufficient to bring out the over-
> sitpp on his way to school to pick up the
n's fallen package, would once upon a time
issy. Giving up his seat in a crowded car
:med an affectation. To deliberately have
:>ne out looking for opportunities to clear
Dr sick neighbor, without pay, would have
he boy. And in overturning all these false
ilse ideas in a boy's mind, and set him right
i gentleman.
is able to report a Good Turn daily by each
become anxious if he fails to do so. The
Dn in civic Good Turns by the troop are
ness of the world. The Good Turn more
iting, gives out something to others in the
i troop of from 8 to 20 boys were organized
hing else but the Daily Good Turn, and did
.kinV an excellent start in Scouting. If a
nni|g to train his boys in nothing else but
[ent|start. But it should go without saying
id ejid with the Daily Good Turn as its one
!t is a good thing to keep before the troop
Scouting. Perhaps the best way is to call
ct of faithfulness on the part of each scout
usand boys, each doing at least one definite
eartedly, cheerfully, will set in motion for
cheerfulness and good will toward others
:en started. It is impossible to estimate the
d States daily due to these comparatively
to remind them that the Daily Good Turn
:e teachings of every religion of consequence
I principle in most of them. Scouts should
in the Good Turn is undesirable and on the
;sirable. Fixing a horse's blanket that has
urn, but having done that should a scout
nd for the rest of the day? Or should he
urn until it has been something that cost
Daily Good Turn if he neglects any oppor-
r how many kindly acts he has already per-
of kindness or the principle of active kind-
ks to inculcate?
ind never less, of the Daily Good Turn idea
d it the key to success in all the other dis-
F the movement.
forest fire that threatened to be destruc-
tive on a mountain side near Reading,
Pa., was recently handled entirely by
scouts under the direction of Scout
Executive Schuck and Assistant Executive
Fryer. The fire was on a steep slope and
difficult to reach, good footing being hard
to secure. But the scouts had things un-
der control in record time, afterward tak-
ing in hand a large number of burning
stumps, not leaving the scene until the
last spark was extinguished, the incident
demonstrating the ability of scouts as a
fire-fighting unit to act promptly and ef-
fectively. . . . Because of their work
in planting one hundred trees in the city
parks, a movement is under way in Ponca
City, Okla., to name one of the parks
" Boy Scouts."
A NURSERY Troop No. 1 of Law-
FOR ton, Okla., claims it
BOY SCOUTS has the first Boy Scout
Nursery. The nursery
occupies one and one-half acres of
ground, it is not quite two years old but
self-supporting, and helps solve troop
finance problems, as this brief statement
indicates: 1100 canna bulbs sold, $41.65;
779 trees sold, $23.70; 130 miscellaneous
bulbs, $8.00; miscellaneous, $32.18. In
addition there were 488 canna bulbs and
700 trees grown and presented to the city
officials.
TWO EAGLE
SCOUTS AND
BOYS' LIFE
The editors of our
Official Scout Maga-
zine recently received
the following two sig-
nificant letters from Eagle Scouts. Eagle
Scout Carl Vohl of Brooklyn, N. Y., says:
" For years I have been an enthusiastic
reader of Boys' Life and have therefore
had ample time to come to a full realiza-
tion of the benefit I have derived from
its reading matter. Builder of imagina-
tions, inducer of high motives and sterling
principles of citizenship—no magazine of
greater value in character and mentality
construction has yet been published."
Eagle Scout Leon Wallace of Terre
Haute, Ind., says: " From the time that
I really began to understand Scouting, I
have read Boys' Life. Although I did
not realize it then, I know now that
Boys' Life is as indispensable to Scouting
as Scouting is to good citizenship. While
it is a spur to drive ahead to greater
things, it brings as well the opportunity
for relaxation and real enjoyment. Boys'
Life can accomplish more in its influence
on building character and citizenship, than
any other magazine I know."
EVERY SCOUT Why not? There are
A LANDLORD enough birds to go
'round. The making
and the putting up of bird houses is one
of the best of Good Turns. Many troops
have regular programs, for example, de-
voting January and February to building
bird houses, with a bird house exhibit for
the public in February; putting up the
houses in March in every suitable spot,—
yards, parks, private grounds, every-
where; in April, bird hikes; in May, as-
sembling data concerning eggs and nests;
in June, after the birds have ceased nest-
ing, collecting various types of nests for
study and exhibit; in July, writing ac-
counts of what has been done,—city li-
brarians, Audubon Societies and others
agreeing to offer prizes, usually bird books.
And so on. October is a good month for
exhibiting bird feeding stations, Novem-
ber for erecting them instead of bird
houses. Most of this brief program is
supplied by Scout Executive Hosmer, Sac-
ramento, Cal. In other sections of the
country other but none the less definite
programs will greatly increase the real
service that can be rendered in the mak-
ing and erection of bird houses. Every
scout a landlord.
WIRELESS Here is a letter from
BY MAIL a scout that should
challenge the attention
of all scouts: "I am a Boy Scout of Troop
2—Leonia, New Jersey. I have a small
radio station with a receiving range of
about five hundred miles. 1—I receive
the official scout messages each evening
from NAH on 1,500 meters. 2—1 receive
the time from NAA at 10 P. M. but do
not distribute it much. I get the weather
forecasts and press dispatches, baseball
scores and election returns. I have never
yet received reports from the United
States Bureau of Markets nor descrip-
tions of stolen automobiles. 3—1 have not
a transmitting set so I have not tried to
communicate with 2YM. 4—We have no
camp headquarters. 5—I have operated
no local radio service. 6—I can send and
receive twenty words per minute. I am
registered in the Third Naval District, 44
Whitehall Street, New York City, as Ama-
teur No. 3854. 7—I do not belong to any
radio organization. I have made arrange-
ments with my scoutmaster to receive the
Boy Scout messages each night and to
give them to him every Friday night at
the scout meeting. Pliny Goddard, Jr."
Scoutmasters are sensing the rapidly in-
creasing interest of boys in wireless. This
is a good " line" to " play." Amateur
radio clubs are forming all over the coun-
try, and the press makes almost continu-
ous reference to this sort of thing. _ Troop
16 of Atlanta, Ga., because of its interest
in wireless telegraphy, was recently ex-
tended the courtesy of inspecting the
wireless receiving station of the Georgia
Railway and Powers Company, and heard
music on Broadway, New York, wireless
telephone messages passing between Phil-
adelphia and Pittsburg, and also wireless
operators at Arlington giving the day's
news of the Arms Limitation Conference
in Washington. Thev also heard wireless
operators at Berlin, Rome and Bordeaux,
and listened to messages from San Fran-
cisco to the Hawaiian Islands. This is
one sort of thing that almost every boy
likes and that almost every scoutmaster
can help him in, and it has a legitimate
and important place in Scouting.
TEST OF While Commander
SELF-CONTROL Baker of the Piedmont
Post, American Legion
(California), was inspecting troop 1 of
that city recently, he particularly noted
two incidents. First, the boys were lined
up for inspection. Rigid attention and
100 per cent discipline are required during
the ceremony. Suddenly the fire siren
sounded, engines dashed down the street
in front of the church, not a scout budged.
" Baker," writes Scout Executive Keneipp,
" was sold to Scouting! "
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