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Show Thursday, August 27, 1859 SOUTHERN UTAH NEWS, Kanab, Utah It will bo warmly remembered long after it is gone. This characteristic may perhaps serve partly to explain an old enigma, long debated in the ranks: What, is it that makes the Elbeetian Legion work, without laws, officers or d ies yet without a hitch? it remains in fact, a minor miracle long observed by others than ourselves. A number of Boy Scout officials belong to the Legion, by virtue of their early experience as Lone Scouts. In 1956 the Legion was graciously entertained en masse, both at the Boy Scout headquarters in New Brunswick, New' Jersey, and at the Schiff Memorial Training School for professional Seouters at Mendham. Mr. Arthur Schuck, the Chief Scout Executive, accepted gifts toward a Lone Scout museum. Charles Merlins explanation of the Legions vitality is simple, if hardly explicit. Nobody knows what makes it work, is his puzzled yet prideful comment. "But it does. In all candidness one feels bound to accuse Elbeetian Number 1 of his own qualities. Wm. D. Boyce organized the Lone Scouts of America, and started it rolling in 1915, by sheer force of personality. It was a movement in which F. Allan Morgan and Perry Emerson Thompson, personalities in their own right, took no small part. In a free exchange of creative energy, thous-ond.of intelligent hoys added their own weight, a chorus vast, impressive, and still echoing Personal Touch As originator and leader of the Legion alumni group, Charles Merlin inherited the mantle. A worthy choice, his own matchless personality has proven equal to the worthy task. He set the pattern for friendship, for tolerance, and for the original and living ELBEE-TEMagazine. Month after month, hundreds of Elbeetians find a brief note of greeting on the backs of the envelopes containing the magazine, in the handwriting of Elbeetian Number 1. The incomparable personal touch! Christ built Christianity on the simple basis of a perfect personality. Joseph Smith presented the world with a modern version of that process, and Brigham Young led the Disci-- of CEREMONIES MASTER Charles J. Merlin Tells of Elbeetian legion LSA and How It Was Organized By Charles J. Merlin LBTian RAYMOND SPUD LAWLESS Veteran San Francisco newspaperman and Elbeetian Legion member since 1928 will serve as M. C. at the Annual Pow-WoBanquet this Friday evening in the old- L D S Hall. of BEARER WAMPUM of the Southern Utah News may be wondering what sort of an organization The Elbeetian Legion, LSA, is? Well, its the alumni of the old Lone Scouts of America founded in 1915 by a Chicago publisher, William Dickson Boyce. Mr. Boyce also founded the Boy Scouts of America in 1910, after returning from a trip to England. Perhaps you are familiar with the incident that brought about this grand organization for Boys. Mr. Bovee lost his way in a London fog and was aided by a Boy Scout who refused any payment saying' that it was his good -- deed for the day. Mr. Boyce, long an admirer of boys, became very interested, met with Sir Baden Powell and, when he returned to America, was one of the men who chartered the Bov Scouts. Many the readers r 'I Page Five History of Kanab Thirty Years Ago By I.BTian Clayton F.. Smith The Kanab of today with its substantial buildings and pleas and streets, its movie making tea ms and uranium prospectors, is quite accustomed to continuous streams of tourists" on their to see the incomparable Grand Canyon, or on their wav north to the bewildering beauty of Zion and Bryce Canyons The local inhabitants could probably name for you every man, woman and child in Kanab, together with most of the dogs. Just about everything edge in the short space of a few hours. The youngsters on their way home from school pull up at the drug store or maybe the drive-isandwich shop for a coke and a casual discussion of the afternoon League games, or wav-sout- l- 1' I 'Vagr'"' 'JCRBKCS'VW , IKiirwKV W what's new on the rock n roll platters. It's a pleasant way of life, and an enviable location in which to enjoy it. "Thirty Years Ago There are a few oldtimers hereabouts who remember Kanab as it was the day I first rode into this friendly little town more than thirty jears ago. A trickle of tourists had started even then, be ause the North Rim had been opened to the public the previous season But in the mam, the people they saw each day were the same people they saw every day the ones who called Kanab home Just about everyone who visited Kanab in those days came in to town from the north The road south of Kanab ended abruptly at the North Rim, and a trail led east from Jacob Lake to LeeV Ferry deep in Marble Canyon. Only an occasional adventurous uul rugged individual would make he Lee s Fcrrv crossing and find his wav into Kanab from the south Lee's Ferry Road The road east of Lees Ferry .vas a seldom used wagon trail ilnough the sand and sage of the Nava 10 country, over 100 miles south through Tuba City, Camer-and Flagstaff. Zane Grey den enbed 41 in the opening chapter ! 'IMF. AST OF THE PLAINS VI KN It was a tortuous journey, ven it the Navam's were enjoy-nben usual unhurried way of ole Rut it was a dangerous jour ai v it some calamity befell a mem ocr ot the tribe while the traveler ,vas passing through The Indians vere quite likely to attribute the rouble to evil spirts brought in- 0 their midst by the stranger, ind proper steps for dealing with lie menace would be taken. ' services of the National Forest, we drifted, . talking, over to the trading post, a distanse of about 100 yards to the north, where I was introdured to the owners, Mr. and Mrs. Hayd Church and their children. I had intended looking up Mr Church on my way through Kanab again in 1952, but Mr. Mann " whom I saw in Flagstaff two days before told me Hayd had suffered a heart attackw hile' driving a tractor on his ramh, and was deceased. Well you cant set up housekeeping without grub and chewin' tobacco. announced M r. llornkohl. "So lets go to Kanab and get the layout. Rejnember the old White truck with the Forest Sendee emblem on its side? Sure you do if you were around Kanab in those davs It was the same truck that flipped over at the south entrance to Snake Gulch and fatally' injured one of the Willis hoys It was that truck which carried me into Kanab for the very first time "Bowmans Store We went directly to the Bowman General Store which, as I remember, was located on the main street right about in the middle of town. Mr Bowman was a genial man, round faced, heavy and with a durable smile. He knew right away that I didn't even know what sort of things to buy for stocking a ranger cabin, so he made it easy for me by suggesting, and I made it easy for both of us by taking anything he thought 1 would need My purchases were on the cuff of cohr.se, but when my first paycheck arrived via Mr. Mann. I returned to Kanab to pay up and restock for another month of eating my own cooking. One item that didnt need restocking was flour. The smallest sack carried by the Bowman store was 50 lbs, and that much flour can make an awful lot of biscuits. Elbeetian Legion has continued to grow It now numbers about 850 members from almost every state Lone Scouts Purpose in the Union and from Smith A OT1.EY MAXWELL LBTian 0. Mr. Boyce was not entirely sat In and Hawaii istied with the way the Boy Scouts of Pennsylvania has handled the merica,it Canada to have a was 1934. Leproposed the Elbeetian of were operating. It had been his treasury national pow wow in McKeesport idea to bring Scouting to lonely gion with dispatch for main, Pennsvlvama. These Reunions, or mam moons. W. D. him echoed lishes, Boyce boys in country towns and on farPowWows or Conventions, it you a dozen years later, it is well ms, and the Boy Scouts were not worth the cost, no matter what So he started the Lone Scouts of and also becoming interested in please, continued until 1941 when that cost might he. Finally and America with that express pur- girls, the real Old Timers we mean the second World War made it to travel and also took conclusively: To develop the vir- pose, where a boy, hy himself, simple faded avvav and the nrenni impossible so mnnv members from the ranks ile virtues in a nation that could enjov all the phases of Scout-in- 7ntmn that was known as the I, one thni a Pow Wow was out of the means to live at peace with the This new organization grew Seouts of America reallv died then world." declares the historic U. S in leaps and bounds and hocniis0 and (hero. Several feeble attempts question Meet Each Year Congressional report on the pur- of a magazine that Mr Boyce is- to earrv on were made hv groups sued in connection with it. railed in Chicago and Canada without' In 1946. the pose of Scouting were re Lone Scout, and which opened success Few who have enjoyed the prisumed, this time the I.BTians met its pages to the boys themselves, in Chicago, the cradle ot the I.S vilege of following Charles MerLegion Founding a lot of boys who it attracted From 1946 until this year when quite lin's career as boy and man, re- soon were In 1927, Charles Merlin, of Hudthe Reunion takes place in Kanab. competing nationally to son New of one sourceful Lone Scout and dedicated win Merit Medals offered Jersey, Heights, in August, the Elbeetian Legion by the Elbeetian, will be prepared to say magazine. So this organization ba- the boys who had pul out a Tribe has met each year to renew the as the known "Lone Beaver that he has not nurtured these sed on the American Indian and Paper ties of old time friendships ideals, promulgated before him woodcraft lore soon developed in- Tribune, got to wondering what Men lrom all walks ot life at All in all, a list of those who had become of the wondertul boys by great men, both faithfully and to an amateur journalism sy mposi-ium- , tend the although the first saw Kanab from the south, he had and with who corresponded Without fanfare, with success Boys all over the country Fourth Estate and its related fields piior to the construction of Navwith unswerving conviction in the started corresponding with one had won national fame in the pa- are in the majority. The memehrs ajo Biidge across Marble Canof So he out Lone sent Scoyt. worth and the rewards of his another, became story writers and ges now in their fifties and quite a yon in the 1930s, would be a a letter in which few of them he too has joined the ranks soon started what they called feelers and from meet liort one. grandfathers, of the great Tribe Papers, and became edi- Old Tuner Lone Scout Elmer Mar- to rekindle the fires of FriendI would he on that list. In fact, of CaliWeese Sierra Madre, tors and publishers. This so in- vin 303030 ship that had their beginnings my name could be wrote: fornia, Champion Biscuit Shooter Through placed on an Eternity creased the popularity of the Lone hack in boyhood days Men who How I became the champion Scouts that it was not long before Well Never Forget Those Old have known of each other for more even shorter list, of those who more than a half million boys Days," the idea for an informal than forty years but never met came in lrom Williams, traveling biscuit shooter of the Kaibab is noith without bothering another story, but it was all due fraternity or band was horn This were enrolled. physically sometimes meet for the directly The organization vv a s costing became the Elbeetian Legion, has first time at these affairs And to go around the canyon. Nothing to that big sack of flour and the to it now You can fly across the excessive amount of rain we had Friendships what do thev do9 Mr. Boyce a pretty penny each ed purely on the Root 4 mnyomn a lew mmoles, but in' that year. It was unusually cold n d a i d 1 o ttr lTc U oofn ) o o de hed "r orem y est oZ nrf nami r? st' Old Timers to be There Just were the 1920s, air service across the all summer; and being a thin skinBoyhood. in around of 1924, when April scale, Charles Merlin has perI was ad- ned Southerner from sea level LBTians like to talk, pass the cam on was unheard-of- . Chief Totem, as Mr. Boyce was no rules, no dues, no otfiecrs formed a like service for Scouta pledge that Thru Eter- time of bv the boss wrangler at F.l made it advisable that I vised old merely recall incidents to known day, the Lone Scouts stay reasto had ing circles. The that had national significance in Tovar's corral on the South Rim onably close to the four holer on nity Well Never Forget. the with merge the organization want their heads Boys only for member the organization, swap stories that a mule and a guide would rainy days. Boy Scouts. This was the black- only requirements turned the right way to become was that the applicant he an cost S20. per day for four days, Since the stove was hot and I ship the old the in est table, sing songs in difthe minds day history Womens hats are all good, useful citizens, wrote Badw'as rich In flour the natural thing and of Lone Scouts all over Old Timer Lone Scout and that and talk some more. They bring or I could hoof it; u'hich was hearts to one no likes because en Powell fifty years ago. If ferent the only choice left to a to do was bake biscuits. Even the world. However, as most of he would answer Round Up once their wives, know as TOTAs (The LONE SCOUT makes one better make the same mistake the a year. fellow whose resources of The Order young their chipmunks showed a decided rethem were Accepted), at college age then, citizen for every issue that it pub- twice. For more than thirty years the LB Tee ns and LBTeenies with to $2 50. luctance to risk their teeth on the first batch which I threw out the them. The spirit that prevails is Crosses Colorado Alone but later in the season window, OSQQPOQOQQSQQHQCSOSSOQD&OOQOQQQQQQSQQQQQQQQdnaCSQQQSQOSSDOQ something that one has to experwill Mr. remember Wynus, they had learned effective methMany ience to really know it Its more of the North Rim Park Rangods of handling my product and like a big family reunion. A First Chief He was near the head of ers. Were doing quite well. is old like an Timer friend after Trail on the afterfifteen minutes have elapsed Bright 1 Angel Aside from the Church family noon emerged from the canyon, and Cares are forgotten, troubles go the folks at the V. T. Lodge two over days after going out the window, business takes a nearly my nearest neighbors were Garn a drizzling in Rim alone South the back-sea- t as boyhood days and Willis and his brother, who were cost $10. per day to stay events are recalled, and Old Timer rain.El It stationed at Dry Park, nine miles at Tovar, so waiting for good walks with Old Tinier The Fadirectly west of V. T. weather was out of the question. mous Old Timer along with the We spenLznany Jays together, V. T. me to Mr. Wynus took Park, fellow who just read the magazine he introduced me to Mr somethime doing maintenance where and was a silent booster" in boywho was just puting the fin- work on a forest road, but mostly hood days are one and equal No Rust, touches on his wonderful tracking down fires set by lightishing one cares if youre a Governor or ning We had a good time .together nun mi inijy of. log cabins, the President -- or- the President and it is pleasing now to think V. T. Lodge. of a big concern. At the Reunion I saw Mr Rust-jus- t about every back to our work on the Kaibab. you're just an Old Timer Lone the summer, and I Im afraid I kidded Gam a little Scout We remember way back a day durng a pleasant evening too fast somethimes. I still remany spent few years ago when the late US in front of his big fireplace in the member how exasperated he was Senator from West Virginia, Rush of the ELBEETIAN LEGION, L S A and log building which was used as a at times with a worrisome little I). Holt, used to attend the Reand for entertainment runt from the frog ponds of Louisunions. To the fellows he was just lounge, everyone in iana." purposes. ANNUAL BANQUET UTAH KANAB, another Old Timer Lone Scout and the Kanab Almost area showed up at the I tried to see my old fire the organizer of the Red Rooster big fireplace at one time or anothfightin buddy when I was in Mail Tribe in his LSA days. er during the next few months, Kanab in 1951, and again iri Friday Evening, August 28, Honor Members and I met many of them. 1952; b n t was advised that There isn't mud) business to though he still lived in Kanab, MERLIN Stays With Mr. Rust LBTian CHARLES transact, The site of the next Rc Just before sundown on the day he was working out of twon. Honorary Chairman union is picked. Plans are made 1 arrived at V. T. Lodge Mr. Horn-kohl- , One of my most glorious memfor the publishing of a memory Chief Ranger on the Kai-ba- ories of the Kaibab has to do with LBTian CHRIS JENSEN Album filled with pictures of those and my immediate superior a fantastically beautiful band of General Chairman who attend and suggestions are in my new Forest Service job, wild horses which I had the rare made for the good and. welfare of came to Mr. Rusts office and took fortune to come upon in Mangum LBTian RAYMOND SPUD LAWLESS The Elbeetian ICgion Members me in hand. I spent the night at Canyon, on the west side of the who have done outstanding feats his of Ceremonies ranger station home in Snake Kaibab. Mangum runs generally diduring the year are honored with Gulch, over near the w'est side of in a north to membership in the ETA HUNKA the Kaibab. I ll never forget the rection. My companion, Mr. Walter and DistinINTRODUCTION of Civic PI Fraternity. The candidate is little red house and the 200 foot Mann, Supervisor of the Forest, to eat a piece of pie from waterfall asked Members Elbeetian Legion just behind it. From a and I had entered the canyon on guished off a dish placed in his left hand, short distance it looked as if the foot near its south end. The wind, with his right hand behind his water was SALUTE To First Editor of LONE SCOUT pouring right into the too gentle to be noticed, was moving back. Big Ifunka Pi, LBTian TER- top of the house. Actually it was down canyon and we were upon RY EMERSON THOMPSON, a vetPOW-WOMESSAGE by LBTian falling to the gulch floor some 40 the band before either the horses eran of the Spanish American or 50 feet behind the house. or we knew what was happening. THE WEST THIS IS by LBTian Merlin Of course the view and. the perWar, and the man who drew every I have most pleasant memorcover of Lone Scout Magazine, but Sheriff Cecil Richardson formance of the leader were of lovefour, during the nine year life of ies of the place and of that Ilorn-kohshort duration; but an indelible l able family, Mr. and Mrs. the Lone Scouts of America, preimpression was left on my mind. ' redand their three little sides and bestows the "hunks of Those of us who have many ears behind us are rich In mem- pie around the necks of his boys. headed daughters, the oldest ories. Many of the finest in my Cherish Honors or nine years old. collection are those associated To show you how much this hoThe station assigned to me was with Kanab, the Kaibab Plateau, nor is cherished, last year in Puer- V. T. Park. Next day Mr. Horn-koh- l and the fine folks I knew there. LIFE AROUND KANAB by LBTian Clayton to Rico, ANSEL E. TALBERT who and I went over to look the .30 30-- 30 is one of the leading experts on V. T. cabin over. There was a E. Smith ETA HUNKA PI Ceremony conin counthis aviation and safety four-holeForest Service stove, a Emerson Thompson by LBTians try, and who was decorated for homemade frame against the wall UH YOU STOP and Lucien W. Emerson that very thing by the President for my bed roll, a large wooden of France with the Legion of Ho- box with hinged lid for groceries TOTEM POLE Convention nor, said that the ribbon holding a table, two chairs which had seen his "hunk of pi was one of two better days and a stack of books Chairman by LBTian Chris of the prettiest and greatest hon- w hich my predecessor hadnt bothors ever bestowed on him. SPACE 7 Law and Order LBTian ered to take with him. LBTians like to gather in small Visits With Church Family knots and talk, as I told you beOfficial LBTian Ralph H. Mr. Walter Mann, Supervisor talk and reminisce. The fore Pow-WowiTOTAS, well, you know as well, as of the Kaibab, who resided in Ka Farewells Picture is what women nab with Mrs. Mann and their son I do that "talk DOWN do very well, but here, perhaps, Robert, drove to V. T. that mornis the one event where the men ing and met us at the cabin. After out-talI was warmly welcomed into the the ladies! stimating i : ' - I s I Bow-Wow- s Bow-Wow- lile-wor- y Ik OTd p lj, 1 s Css?"? - IS59 J. b Master north-westerl- Leaders Charles J. W - ducted Perry presented Jack Standard, Salazar, taking, ng r y4 1960 Jensen K safety Photographer and W! k |
