Scouting, Volume 50, Number 3, March 1962 Page: 12
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WHAT IS SCOUTING?
What is Scouting? I'll tell you, son . ..
It's being happy and having fun;
It's hiking the mountains ever so high,
It's campfires and singing "neath God's
starlit sky.
What is Scouting? I'll tell you, son . . .
It's a Good Turn daily, a job well
done;
It's loving nature — her hills and
streams,
Her trees, her animals, her warm sun's
beams.
What is Scouting? I'll tell you, son . . .
It's being a sport, when you've lost or
won;
It's being a pal to the other guy,
It's being a man! It's aiming high!
Dr. Jim. W 7 adsworth
University of Vermont
25 YEARS AGO. From the March,
1937. issue of Scouting: The ideals
of Scouting are not simply ideals for
boys, they are ideals for men. for the
ideal of service to others can never be
outgrown however often it may be lost
sight of by some.
Our country was developed by pio-
neers who camped along the trails
which they blazed all the way from
the Atlantic Ocean to the slopes of the
Pacific. To the American people for
generations, camping was a way of
living. It is in our very blood.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
☆ ☆ ☆
HOT SOX. On a cave-exploring trip,
an experienced Advisor decided to
show his Explorers an old method of
drying heavy socks. He heated a large,
flat rock to almost red-hot temperature.
At this point, "better living through
chemistry" caught up with him. Plac-
ing his wet socks on the hot rock, he
stood aghast as they melted—he had
forgotten they were nylon.
FIRST THINGS FIRST. Who of us
is mature enough for offspring before
the offspring themselves arrive? The
value of marriage is not that adults
produce children but that children
produce adults.
Peter De Vries in The Tunnel of Love
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DUTY TO GOD. While working for
their God and Country Awards, nine-
teen boys from the Methodist Church
troop, Liberal, Kansas, put in a total
of 4,582 hours service to their
churches, an average of 241 hours per
boy. Time included worship services,
Sunday school, Methodist Youth Fel-
lowship, Bible training, and special
work for the church.
AD LIB. The den skit featured a race
between the pony express and the rail-
road. Cub Scout pony express messen-
gers, riding broomstick hobbyhorses,
raced madly to beat the "Iron Horse."
Each messenger shouted the following
instructions to the next rider: "Here's
the mail—on to San Francisco. Indians
in the pass. Watch out for gopher
holes."
In the stretch run, the last mes-
senger tangled his feet with his broom-
stick and fell flat on his stomach. As
he lay there gasping for breath, he
shouted angrily, "Darn those gopher
holes!"
JV. H. Jeffrey, District Scout Executive
Calvin Coolidge Council, Vermont
WRONG ORDER. Our preacher was
telling of the shepherds protecting
their flocks from bears, lions, and
wolves. My Cub Scout son, age eight,
shook my arm and whispered, "No,
Mother, he has that all wrong. It's
Wolf, Bear, and then Lion."
Mrs. Eve W hite, Den Mother
Pack 37, Roanoke, Virginia
INDIAN NOT LOST. A Cub Scout
walked up to the information booth of
one of the city's largest department
stores. Interrupting the young lady
who was announcing the specials of
the day, he calmly requested, "Would
you please announce a lost mother—
and have her meet me here?"
"Are you sure it's your mother who's
lost?" the lady replied, holding back
a grin.
"No, not really," he painfully re-
plied, "only it sounds better that way.
You see, she has a couple of fellows
from my den with her."
W. Church, Indianapolis, Indiana
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YOUR EXAMPLE. There is no sure
way to guarantee that your child will
grow up to be the kind of person you
would like him to be. The most likely
way is for you to be the kind of person
you would like him to be.
Gulf Ridge Scouting
Tampa, Florida
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