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Show SCOUTS OBSERVE ANNIVERSARY Court of Honor Meeting in Tabernacle Tab-ernacle Sunday Evening; Will Repair Sugar Loaf Roadway Wm. D. Boyce, Chicago publisher and traveler, was seeking a difficult address in old London. A boy approached ap-proached him and asked, "May I be of service to you?" Mr. Boyce told him where he wanted to go and the boy saluted and said, "Come with me, sir," and forthwith led him to the desired spot. -Like the typical Ameri-. can tourist, Mr. Boyce reached in his pocket and offered the boy a shilling. The boy promptly replied, "No, sir, I am a Scout. Scouts do not accept tips for courtesies." The man in surprise murmured "What do you say?" The Scout repeated and then added, "Don't you know about the Scouts?" Mr. Boyce said, "Tell me about them." The boy did and added, "Their office is very near, sir. I'll be glad to show you the way." Mr. Boyce had to complete his errand er-rand first. The lad waited, however, and then led him to the office of Sir Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the British Boy Scout Association, where information about the Scout movement move-ment was gladly given. Mr. Boyce was tremendously impressed and gathering all available information brought it back to the United States. On February 8, 1910, Mr. Boyce and others interested in boys and citizenship, citizen-ship, formally incorporated The Boy Scouts of America. This day is observed observ-ed each year as the birthday of Scouting Scout-ing in the United States. The basic aims in Scouting are i training in character and citizenship. There are many misconceptions as to i Scouting, but very few of them are i based on the products. Most of these false ideas arise from ignorance of the facts. Scouting is non-military, non-sectarian, non-political. It does teach, however, patriotism, reverence and civic service. The Scout promise follows: On my honor I will do my best 1. To do my duty to God and my country, coun-try, and to obey the Scout law. 2. To help other people at all times. 3 To keep myself physically strong, mentally men-tally awake and morally straight. The Scout law teaches trustworthiness, trustworthi-ness, loyalty, helpfulness, friendliness, courtesy, kindness, obedience, cheerfulness, cheerful-ness, bravery, cleanliness and reverence. rever-ence. To become a tenderfoot the boy must memorize and learn the mteaning of his laws. He must know something of the history of the flag of the United States of America, together with the forms of respect due it; and he must learn to tie nine useful knots. To become be-come a second class Scout he must learn something of first aid, signaling, tracking, fire building, cooking, safety, use of knife and axe, etc. He studies similar outdoor work for first class rank. Then the field of more than 90 merit badges is open to the boy. The merit badge is a splendid type of pre-vocational pre-vocational training. Up to date, about four and one-half million boys have received the advantages advan-tages of Scouting in the United States. There are approximately one-half million mil-lion Scouts registered today. There are Scouts in 57 civilized countries, representing repre-senting 91 per cent of the world's population. Calvin Coolidge is honorary honor-ary president of the Boy Scouts of America. In our colleges today, we find that nearly half of the college men have been and are Scouts. In Harvard 49 per cent of the students have been and are Scouts, Yale 33 per cent; Michigan Michi-gan 44 per cent, Lafayette 50 per cent, Northwestern 42 per cent, Washington & Jefferson 64 per cent. Other universities uni-versities are proportionate. There are about 80 registered Scouts in St. George. These boys are doing some very splendid work. The public is cordially invited to attend at-tend the annual Court of Honor meeting meet-ing in the tabernacle Sunday evening. The meeting is called for 6:30. The first half hour will be under the direction di-rection of the St. George bishoprics. Following this the St. George Court of Honor will preside. J. .Wm. Harrison in charge. The following program will be given: Music, under the direction of the Dixie College. Pageant, The Challenge of Scouting. Scout-ing. Review of awards given during the last year. These will be given in the following order: Second class, first class, merit badge, star, life, eagle and eagle palm. The Scoutmasters will maKe the recommendations. Troop committeemen and other prominent Scout officials will make the presentations. presen-tations. Talk. "What Scouting Can Do and Has Done," LcRoy Condie, a veteran Scout who is now serving as assistant Scoutmaster. The public is reminded of the educational ed-ucational film being shown at the Electric theater tonight. L-eo A. Enow and Mahroni Snow, representing the city, and B. Glen Smith and George Thompson, representing repre-senting the local Scout troops, went to the Sugar Loaf last week end to make a survey of the road and to determine the work for the Scouts to do Saturday Satur-day when the boys will repair the road as their monthly troop good turns. The Scout officials of the three troops went to the Watercress springs Sunday with the thought in view of selecting a winter campsite for the local Scouts. A committee was named to formulate plans and to wait on the city council for a city charter, with 'police protection of any improvement- that may be made. The committee I consists of A. A. Paxman. Brigham Jarvis. Jr.. Woodruff Cannon and 1 Wayne Gardner. j The three local tr";op committees are busy preparing a surprise treat for the local Scouts Saturday. The treat will be given following the work on the Sugar Loaf. |