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Show SCOUTING IN ST GEORGE. UTAH All kinds of drives are being ! made to make worthy movements possible. I can think of no I greater drive than that of build- ing character and good citizenship i in our youth. The Boy Scout movement has been in existence j 23 years in America, twenty in ' I'tah. It was organized by pub-j pub-j lie-spirited men who recognized its value. It has been able to carry on largely through unsel-i unsel-i fish volunteer service, i But volunteers have :iad to have help; an organization has been necessary. Such an organization organi-zation costs money. St. George 13 now being asked to contribute its share a small f.mount. but ; an important amount; for without with-out it, scouting car.not function in St. George. Is it worth it? During the past ten years St. , George district has always had from four to six troops registered. register-ed. From ten to twenty men ; have given a great deal of their valuable time to keep the msti-; msti-; tution alive and growing. It ha-' ha-' been the character and citizen-; citizen-; ship values of scouting that have ; converted these men. It is practically impossible definitely de-finitely to measure all that scouting scout-ing has accomplished here, but mention of a few typical com-i com-i munity good turns will verify the ' statement that the movement is ' turning the minds of our youth j into constructive channels. The Scouts of St. George havi put the Sugar Loaf road in g. ,d traveling condition on three occasions; oc-casions; they constructed the bridge that connects the two large rocks, this bridge being built out of cast-off automobile parts. They have assisted the : city in cleanup drives, sanitary-surveys, sanitary-surveys, road work, park days, cemetery clean-up days. They i have repaired culverts: they have cleaned leaves from ditches, thus lessening the flow of water onto the streets. They have distributed distri-buted Thanksgiving and Christmas Christ-mas baskets, chopped wood for widows and old people; they have sung Christmas carols to ' old people and respected author- ; (Continued on last pagel BOY SCOUT NEWS (Continued from first page) ities. They have run errand?,' helped to decorate halls, washed dishes, distributed handbills, and sold tickets for charitable institutions. insti-tutions. These are but a few of the community good turns. In addition, each boy is pledged pledg-ed to do a good turn to some one every day. The individual good turns done in St. George would fill hooks. During the last ten years more than three hundred boys have participated actively in scouting in this vicinity. What would these boys be doing do-ing if-they were not in scouting? Without doubt they would be active, ac-tive, but active at what? At any thing that would suggest itself. Scouting has an appeal to boys; keep it growing. I appeal to the citizens of St. George to make their cash contributions con-tributions to W. W. McArthur, chairman of finance of this district. dis-trict. B. Glen Smith, district scout commissioner. |