Show I SCOUT Conducted by National Council of the Boy Scouts of America DESERT BOY TO BE A SCOUT A letter from frolD the hot desert stretches near Lund Utah aroused the Interest of scout officials In Salt Lake City It was written by a woman from the district district dis dis- in the Interest of a lad who shows an Interest In eve everything good and whom the writer declares Is too to become merely a struggling starved half farmer on the desert The writer had recently read a story of a lad Just turning twelve who was about to attain his ambition of becoming becoming becoming be be- coming a scout lIevIng B-lIevIng that scoutIng scoutIng scouting scout- scout Ing might be the very channel through which the little hero of the desert might be lifted Into a bigger life she asked for any scout literature for the boy Scout Executive Oscar Kirkham has written In reply that the lad may become become become be be- come a pioneer scout without affiliation affiliation tion with any troop that there Is a scout magazine published for the boys and that the boy may become a candidate can can- for scout membership by communicatIng communicating communicating com com- with New York headquarters of the national organization Mr Kirkham declares that he feels there Is now another worthwhile convert made to scout activities In the little farmer of ot Lund 7 |