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Show AN APPEALJO FATHER I'rovo, Utah. 6- 6- 21. Let's roll back the pages ot your memory. Can you remember how you loosed for 'ihe day to come whea It was your privilege to ride on the bolster of a -wagon up that wonderful canyon cany-on for.a load of wood? Con you re-memUor re-memUor the gortesque figures and fantastic shapes your Imagination created on Its walls And Oh! how your neck ached from holding your bead just so, that you might observe all, both real and imaginary. How bracing and dxhllaratlna was that pine scented air, the streams playfully play-fully bounding over their rugged paths, the trees and rocks, and even the animals and birds seomed to breath to you a wolcome Introduction to nature's wonderland, and it you could have power to recall the Impression it all made upon you, I venture It was righteous and uplifting. uplift-ing. And that camp supper of bacon and spuds bears mention from tho fact that It appeased your nature whltted appetite. The udventuro stories of byirs, wolves and wildcats furnished thrills for hours of contemplative imagination. And as tho embers of the camp fire died out, you reluctantly rolled In your blankets, wishing that every day might contain as much now and glorious glor-ious as that ono had brought you. I hopo tho recollection of that trip still lingers In fond momory; If It doeo not, or If you nover had tho experience, ex-perience, you have missed much. Tho boy ot today is robbed of such experience. The getUng out wood is now relegated to the ages past. If thoro is ono thing that speaks loudly to the boy for a clean life and habits, It Is our grand old mountains with their snow capped peaks, the forest lakes, and rugged canyons. They aro "God's Croat Out-of-Dodrs," cabling for us to be RealxMen, An occasional trip Into natures wpnderland is an inho'rjlanco duo every American Boy. Father, your work no Jonger takes you into these beauty spots you fool, or have felt, too busy to Introduco this Uonanza to' your Uoy. Men, as fathers of Bcou'.i, yo'a aro Jnvuou (u Ulco an Intorest In scout activities. You can repay, and show rut!ti4c to those scoul-Icnders by lending a hand How? Tako a trip at the aide of your son, be a boy again. Come try it once. Oh yea, I know your time la valuable, but so Is the Scoutleader's time. Listen! It you wishto prolong your life, if ytm really would like to llvo over again blessed with the knowlodge you have I acquired, "Be a Boy" again. Just drop things, your business, your companions, your tobacco, tea and coffee, and what other shackles cusi toms and civilization may have brought you, .and step out with tho cleanest crowd of fellows you have ovor met, The Boy Scouts ot America, out In the open In God's Oreat Out of Doors, not to kill his croatureo, but to worship In righteous admiration His handiwork. Blncerly Yours A. A. Anderson Scout Executive |