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SCOUT PROGRAM
GOOD TURNS
rpHOUGHTFULNESS — a spirit
of good will towards all — a
compassion and sympathetic un-
derstanding — a desire to help
other people at all times — these
are qualities which many Scout
Troops are showing, and proving
by good works.
As Christmas draws near there
is an outpouring of good will
toward men. Troops have made
this season a high spot in their
Good Turn deeds for the year.
There are many whom we could
help — old folks, hospital ward
patients, less-change folks, the
blind, the handicapped.
A meeting might be staged at
which the entrance pass might
well be some canned food — some
toys, in good condition or in need
of repair — some flowering plants.
Between meetings, let the toys
be repaired.
Let baskets be prepared for de-
livery and let as much good accrue
from this undertaking as is
possible.
Let some of the fine points of
the Scout Law be dramatized at
the meeting as suggestions of pos-
sible Good Turns:
1. Helpful
2. Friendly
3. Kind
4. Courteous
Have someone from a Troop
that has already done Christmas
Good turns in former years, tell
about some of the human equa-
tions and results both for the reci-
pients and the boys who did the
Good Turns.
Keep the Patrol group in the
picture. By Patrols, collect toys
and repair them. By Patrols,
gather plants and distribute them.
By Patrols, help old folks and
crippled people. By Patrols, gather
food and distribute baskets. Co-
operate with the local agencies
in Christmas Good Turns.
Offer to help the neighborhood
postman through the Post Office.
Repair and keep full of food all
the bird shelters the Patrols have
serviced.
Look around for possible Good
Turns. Forget not the sponsoring
organization — whether Church,
School or Service Club.
Forget not the Neighborhood
or Community and all those who
wish us well and help us on our
way.
Rejoice at Christmas time that
we have a free country and that
we are blessed with the means to
be of service and use to our friends
who are less fortunate.
Rejoice and be exceeding glad
that God is still worshipped in
America and that the sweet spirit
of Christmas is abroad in this our
land.
Suggestions for
plane are also part of the work.
Back of these are the workers
in business, finance, sales and per-
sonnel. Also advertising, and what
is now called Public Relations or
publicity.
Teachers, managers, steward-
esses are part of the personnel.
The constantly changing and im-
proving air engineering, and pro-
duction are all necessary.
Not all your young Scouts who
are airplane enthusiasts will be
pilots or technicians or airline
officials, but their intimate knowl-
edge of aerodynamics and related
fields, their years of building air-
plane models both table and flying,
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Shreveport, La., Troop 17, busy repairing toys which brought joy to less-chance children.
This is their fifth year of this fine work.
MODEL AIRPLANES
To keep one airplane in the
air requires about thirty ground
workers.
The mechanics, the radio en-
gineers, the riggers, the sheet
metal workers are all specialists
in their particular fields.
There is the operations division
which checks on weather, plans
the schedules, makes all physical
arrangements and sees that the
work goes steadily on. Radio con-
tact and communications with the
will be the basis of a wonderful
future for American aviation.
Most of the improvements in
radio have come from young men
in their .twenties. So will the air-
plane improvements come from
the same youths who today are
building and flying their rubber
band and motor driven models.
At Cherry Hill on the way to
Paterson, N. J., you can see en-
thusiastics watching their model
planes zooming and soaring. The
air at times is full of these flight
models.
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