Show aff ra ELM U T S CUT NOV h IS ari r MI AC T S A men ION IN MIMI 1244 ft 0 1410 11 i 4 A al 4 R W 2 S f k 4 another attempt to put scouting 0 over lei lit in the beaver district hastaker hasta keu keit form again and the following bom committees have been chosen toh toi handl a tit tho the departments five depart menta lofv ot the ecsi c work borki finance department georgo george pat ce george cockett booi gooi c parkinson john ashworth dr 1 I j ji hopkins department of supervision anu anti Exton extension sion W V S tolton talton chairman low lew mar alar price will white morrell warr mr Ale meacham acham court of honor nor department J P I 1 tolton chairman dr J F mcgregor isadore lessing Lessl ng H D thompson abe murdock Mur clock department of education and training J F joseph chairman J W olsen fletcher barton burton NV T boyle E N thompson camping department J T tan ner chairman L grant tolton blaine Bo botensten T W gunn jack idiol tho hoy scout used to mean the ono one on oil watch for tile the rest nab have made the scout an alpert lit in life craft as welli well as woodcraft tor for lie ha Is trained in hl the things of the heart as well as tile the licad head anti and liand hand scouting has haa now uen leen made to cover riding swimming tramping trailing trail lug photography first aid aid camping loy loyalty tilty I 1 handicraft hani haili di craft obedience thrift courtesy courage and kindness whether you at be a farm boy or a shoo shoe dork clerk nowa boy or tho the son aon of a millionaire your place boys Is in the boy scout ranks A few years ears ago a committee of boys canvassed canvas aed w a city neighborhood to raise a small sum of money to be us used ed in fittin fitting g up a club room the first man they approached was u merchant who had been born on a pioneer farm when the hoya boys explained that they needed a slum tor for their physical development and a room tor for quiet games and reading in the evenings the old mait glared at them need exercise do you po go and saw wood for your ni mother other those twentieth century boys laughed they lived in tiny LOtt cottages ageg on oil twenty foot lots or in III small flats indig tenement building not one of thorn them had ever been it a stick etick of wood to burn nor a garden to hoeard hoo and weed nor it a cow to milk then get a job in et a store I 1 was sweeping sleeping out a country store anc all building the fires in this F barne s tore store when I 1 wag twelve twelve years old A boy allowed to work now until lie he Is fourteen and riot not a full lay day until lie he la Is sixteen said one oi of thu the boys ihm it to to ile bo with 1 well well I 1 guess tats so and the work now Is done dona in factories instead of out of doors alad it la is not good for boys boya to be shut up it was worth while being a boy eltty iltis years B I 1 iga I 1 could ride a 9 horse to water f it w acci drop born ablow a iona when I 1 was wag four years old at to 10 I 1 could curry it a horse clean a the garden and turn a grind stone I 1 could ride and shoot and swim and fish und and go on snow shoes like an all indian and find my way in anu woods w by mazes blazes on the trees and by the stars catch and cook my own supper anti and mako a good shelter and I 1 bedi I 1 khew all the wild plants nn ano birds asand and animals aul mals A boy hall had to rely on himself lit in those days and be of use to others which made a man mait of him the good old days with their chores and sports are all gone no wonder the boys boya are goott goil for nothing I 1 will have to look into this matter boys ilow it I 1 Is will 1103 S exly ile did look into the matter pic by the boys boya ile he found as aa every other man and all woman who havu investigated tho the matter has found that conditions ot of living have uli all changed and that boys boya and parents re equally the victims of our modern social life aside from the hour spent in ili school the growing boy of the city more particularly has haa no duties so BO also some of our country boya have no duties there Is 15 no noveal real use made of him la in the home living quarters of our large cities aro are so cramped cram peI the street la Is his only place to play there he has nothing to do that is interesting or important nothing to play with there Is he can get by his own exertions ert ions not nat bied even innocent run full so he i loiters loriers around street corbra and cheap Ip theatres theartres the atres la Is educated in evil money thai that he does not inot earn i reads chaap and vicious books and acts into trouble with officers of the lacity lie smokes cigarettes and tu to satisfy ills his love for adventure joins a gang ho he soon begins to degenerate degene dege ratu physically mentally and morally i and yet at heart this boy la is tho the same as the honest useful boy ot of pioneer days of which we like to speak what he needs I 1 Is a square deal space and freedom to give his hia energies I 1 an all opportunity to express themselves sel ves the boy scout movement mover rient ot of fars our boys boya this means ot of espro 1 sing shig themselves tham themselves selves properly supervised by the scout master lets all boost for the boy scouts |