Show A CHALLENGE TO SOMERS AND SAILORS amid the many voices asking and answering the question what shall the tha country do for the returning soldiers and sailors sailor 6 7 we occasionally hear it a voice that asks what are those returning young men going to do for tho the country no patriotic american anielli an would belittle the debt we owe to those who have fought we roust all help the discharged soldiers and sailors to find in civil life mccu pat ions in which there Is 13 both profit and happiness but certainly we should bo be worse than unpatriotic if vio no should say to these young men your duty to your country Is done take our ease case and let others bother about service the truth Is ie that we expect more of them than we did before they went away and that we shall bo be disappointed if in the glamour and the glory that are justly theirs they fall see the beacon of further ser service vire shining through one of the many ways in which the men fron from the army and the navy can serve the country la Is in connee alon 00 n with w ith boys they can take fair advantage of that admiration and hero worship which shines today in the ees of them whose great opportunity Is to enlist as scoutmasters scout masters ln in the doy boy scouts of america the nine years that have passed since the work was started in the united states rates pave have seen the scouts multiply in numbers with surprising ra and everyone now knows that a boy becomes a better citizen if he has haa had the scout training in many neighborhoods virtually all of the scoutmasters scout masters and assistant scoutmasters scout masters joined the government forces after april 1917 older men took their places and did the work well it if the records of the troops ln in the liberty loans are an indication more than one returning soldier will discover that his father who has I 1 been leading the troop in hla his absence and who does not wish to give the work up propose propos ej to form a partnership in scouting and what a partnership it would be dut but thousands of 0 boys are not so 0 o fortunate foit as the scouts who belong to such a troop they are kept wait ing to join the ranks because no one volunteers to serve as their scout master there Is no lack of boys who wish to become scouts the difficulty Is to find the leaders in suf numbers to meet the demand now that the menace of dol bol Is reddening the eastern horizon it behooves america to let no chance slip to train the youth of the country in patriotism and la in respect for law and order there Is no bet ter way of doing it than to establish a boy scout troop in every city precinct in every town and in every rural community between the atlantie atlantic and the pacific the youths companion |