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Show SOUTHERN Thursday, August 6, 1956 Lone Scout History . All right, Morgan. was the reply. IP thats the way you want it. Lone Scout Number 1 he shall There more talk, but the die was cast. I walked from the meeting with W. D. directly to Perry Emerson Thompson's drawing board and took the stance of the Indian Peace Sign, traditionally facing the North Star, both arms upraised, with palms down, signifying that his hands held no weapon. "Can you draw me an Indian . in this pose? an Perry Thompson procured American Indian artists model, George Whitewing, and the following Saturday showed me an pen and ink drawing precisely to my taste. One week later the' first copy of LONE SCOUT, with the Indian drawn into its cover, was in the mails. Twelve pages, price 1 cent, published weekly, it started off with the Degree Tests. Aware of the need for advancement in Woodcraft study, I borrowed the Degrees, but not the ritual, from Masonry. Devised as rapidly as needed, and dictated, these ran to the seventh, or Sagamore Lodge, and were serialized in LONE SCOUT. Later revised and developed, they afforded the Lone Scout the LSD7 title. I devised them all, trying the tests first on my son forgetting that Warren was already an Eagle Scout, BSA toned Later the tough ones-w'erdown. I also suggested the designs for the 5 Lodge ' badges. The honor system of reporting on tests, used throughout, appeared to elicit a high average of fiwas 18-inc- h e delity. As first editor of LONE SCOUT meanwmle, 1 had no small load to carry. There were never any editorial conferences in those days, but we did hold informal Harold Hall, the meetings foreman of the linotypes, the foreman of the presses, and Perry Emas to what erson Thompson the magazine should print. It was a brief gathering. For the first year or so the cover design ideas were mine. Sometimes i would make a rough sketch, and Perry would draw the finished product in his inimitable and warm style recalled with pleasure by so many. The magazines contents gave more trouble. Besides the Degree Tests I clipped news articles and tales, and dictated bird and nature articles to Miss Gallagher or to Hadold Hall. For a once-a-wee- k time re fell back on professional serial writers, until at Halls wrote two or three gestion, 1 sugser- ial stories myself, The Cruise of the Ypise 2" relating the actual experiences of two boys from Upstream Michigan. Ypsilanti, With the Mohawk," was another tale, and Under Sealed Orders a third. Many ides'- - were hammered out over the family dinner table at home. Others were contributed by the boys themselves. Tribes for five or more Lone Scouts in a group frere introduced; a Stamp Department, and a Messenger Department though w'hich widely separated members could correspond, proved popular. Mail tribes sprang up, suggested by a Scout. The first tribe paper, or amateur journal, the BLACK HAWK, by Elgie Andrione of Monessen, Penna. started a fad which soon became a permanent and wide spread activity. Local tribes were equally popular from the start, one of the first, announced in December of 1915, being the Kicka-po- o Tribe of Salt Lake City, Clare Stull, Captain. Is Mr. Stull listening? Six months later there were 1500 tribes in existence. As the Lone Scout membership grew' by leaps and bounds it became plain that help was needed. I suggested to Mr. Boyce that the boys themselves be invited to send in ideas of things to make and do, and he agreed Before long we were swamped with contributions. The first drawings were not very good, but Perry Thompson would do them over, or sometimes I would. Contributing contests were inaugurated, in which the boys wrote articles on an assigned subject. Articles, tales, letters and photos poured in. By August, 1916 a Members Number appearalmost entirely ed, contributed by Scouts. The boys liked it. In the First Anniversary Number, Oct. 28, 1916, membership was announced to be over 133,000 and in time the circulation of LONE SCOUT rose from 5000 copies loads, weekly to several mail-ca- r which eventually prompted the Chicago postal department to open a branch in the Boyce building. Thus within a short time the value of my original suggestion to Mr. Boyce proved itself many times over. Most of the eventual characteristices of Lone Scouting developed during the first year - many proposed by the inventive boys themselves. They needed only to be turned loose in constructive channels, and a tremendous creative burst resulted s proof once more of belief that boys needed only to be shown the way. We wanted to keep the lonely bov busy, and the way to do that wasto keep him interested. These boys were. Merit awards became a natural outgrowth of the article contests, and early in 1916 ribbpned medals were given for outstanding contributions to the magazine. By the following year the holder of bronze, silver and gold merit medals was awarded the title of LSC, for Lone Scout Contributor, to be pleased after his name with Dride. From that time on we had no trouble filling space, Canadian Number being contributed almost entirely from the Provinces alone. In the summer of 1917, with war clouds brewing in Europe, W. D. Boyce took a trip West. At Fort Berthold, North Dakota, on the Missouri he w'as inducted as a Chief of the Gros Ventre Indian tribe, and given the name Big Cloud. Nor was this an empty publicity stunt. Present were E. W. Jermack, Indian Agent, Judge R. N. Stevens of Bismarck, N. I)., Chief Red Bird, an Army Scout for Custer in the 1876 Sioux Campaign, and Mr. Boyces daughter, now Mrs. Happy Boyce Parker, of Carmel, California. The . ceremony, lasting three days, was public but parts were very secret, on the order of lodge ceremonies. Big Cloud was prer head-- I sented with an trimmed buckskin coat dress, with beads, leggings, Indian pipe acd tobacco pouch. Following the death ot the original Big Cloud, who aided Lewis and Clark over a hundred years before, the name was never used until given to Mr. Boyce. It was a real Ind- ian honor. n s, Twelve hundred I n d though not all Gros Ventres (Big Men) attended; all. how ever, from the Mandan Reser-- i vation. Many came on ponies for the gaudy occasion, but 65 automobiles were counted, all belonging to the Indians. The Christmas ' Number of LONE SCOUT for that year carried on its cover a picture of Mr. Boyce in full tribal regalia. Now he was Chief Totem indeed. On his return from the West, I UTAH NEWS Page Three "D A D" Baden-Pow-ell- -- full-fledge- d eagle-feathe- a dy. He tahght us from his store of knowledge, and He taught us well. He made a game of living, and of doing things Things that most men rail work; we were LONE SCOUTS But we were not MEN And he was DAD. sed the volume ot mail became huge. The task of compiling a which itself weekly magazine was too grew steadily in size great for men already laden with other work. But the end of the first year it was decided in conference to operate differently. Strangely enough, the first editor of this flourishing boys magazine was a woman, Anna Gallagher, who held the position under my supervision until she moved on to edit an publication. Meanwhile, in 1917 during the War with Germany I joined the U. S. Military forces and went to France with the 13th Engineers Railroad, and my close association with Scouting began to draw firry to a dose. With Miss Gallaghers departure, Harwell West, a boy of 15 from North Dakota, took the helm as probably the youngest CHIEF editor in the country. When he joined the Navy in 1918 my Died June 11th, 1929 Boru June 16th, 1858 wife, Mrs. Morgan, assumed the task until Wests return at the end of the war. By that time there William Dickson Boyce is pic- ed the official organ, and who tured here in the tribal coustme of remains today an honored and were literally stacks of editorial material to choose from. More the Gros Ventre Indians as Chief enthusiastic member of the than a year after my departure Totem of over 500,000 Lone Legion, LSA. The illustration was used as a cover demy nature articles were still beScouts in the period between ing printed in LONE SCOUT. October, 1915 and April. 1924 sign by James Webster on the August, 1929 iswhen he published the LONE To round off the story of a sue of his EVERY BOYS MAGSCOUT Magazine from 500 Scouting family, when Harwell North Dearborn Street, ChiAZINE which was the National West finally left the employ of cago, Illinois. .The drawing is Amateur Official Organ, Lone the Boyce Publishing Company, an original by Perry Emerson Scout Division, Boy Scouts of my son Warren became editor Thompson, talented artist who for a short time following his America until discontinued late drew most of the outdoor and own return from France. His serin 1930 Indian motif covers which grac ies Timely Talks by Lone Scout Number 1, is still occasionally mentioned. went to Mr. Boyce and asked how nearly doubled, and by the third All three of us had done our he liked what we were making of year it was well over 300,000 and best for the cause; and I was conthe magazine. Its the best of still going strong. tent with the results. When the 'lid " of life forced me into - affairs the own the organbeginning ?Shi,n(Ssprr it was with the awareother paths Bv the Second Anniversary in ization had been based essentially ness that the Lone Scout of As time pas 1917, LSA membership had again on correspondence. was on a firm footing, and ful-tim- e AT i2h -- VIA Uteiaihj fcr you gruff-spoke- t N great n I know' they do! Part two follows in next weeks Southern Utah News. Glendale flews Holes Anderson fam-il- v held Saturday Creek with a large crowd in attendance, dinner was served at noon and a program held during the afternoon. The Swain reunion Aug. 1, at M. was Duck Mr. and Mrs. Kent Anderson, Marianne and Daisy Anderson attended the Sperry Reunion held at Salt Lake City the past week. Mr. and Mrs. Lue H. Brinker-hof- f and Mr. and Mrs. Neldon Cox went to Salt Lake City the past week end on business. Mr. and Mrs. Gary Cram and son from Salt Lake City are visiting at the Eva Dallin home. Mrs. Louisa A. Brinkerhoff, Mr. Mrs. Merrill Bunting and Mr. and and the Salt Mrs. Maurice Pugh attended Brinkerhoff Reunion held at Lake City the past week end. :fi I by a man, Mr. Wm. D, Boyce, had with the help of God been performed as well as I could do it. Looking back I would say that my abiding motivation throughout was a love for boys that I found it difficult to put into words. I am a party, who has always liked to get on with the job; yet I like to think the boys understood me. After attending several recent Scouting alumni conventions, in New York City, Dntario and San Juan, Puerto tico very similar to the one being held this August in Kanab I am now satisfied on that score. Advertising can turn the coldest customer into a hot prospect Through out the pages of this newspaper you can find many examples cfjj warm appeal generated by advertising. But you cant warm up to anything if you're not aware of it Advil tising works overtime to keep you posted on new products and remind!, you of established brands. It is part of the variety of news in newspaper. (Advertising is a valuable asset to our economy because it provides the stimulant that makes people buy. As more goods arO bought more and more goods are, made -- and at lower cost to you. So, you t2 advertising really benefits you! the adver Every day, all across this land of ours, advertising-li- ke tising in this newspaper-- is doing its part to bring you the gpod news of morr nd better products-produ- cts that are constantly improves our st;. .ard of living. YOU EXPECT MORE FROM VT0C0 AND YOVCF.TJT! S that the task set me WOllI i UTOCO -- Franklin S. Miller, LSXVII, hii. "ma? I ' i taught us how to enjoy nature to know the trees the stars The birds the animals the reptiles Where and how they lived and grew. how to build our tepee to make a bridge. to start a fire a fire without matches. to trail to hike to climb . . .to swim. - to know the good from bad, in mind and matter. - to do a useful thing each He |