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Show SCOUT'S BRAVERY TESTED. What his medal for war work means to a boy scout Is Illustrated by this little story. Itohert Ooodwln. a scout in Des Moines, la., was lying In the hospital very 111 from typhoid when Scout Executive OeBdall received the boy's Ace Medal for selling War Savings Sav-ings stamps for the government. Ill as the scout was It was decided that he should receive his medal, and It was taken to him in the hospital. He wanted It pinned on the pocket of his nightgown. Shortly aftes that It was discovered that he also had appendicitis and he was prepared for an operutlon. As he was placed upon the wheeled table to he curried Into the operating room his mother asked him If he was afraid. "No." he sold, "one of the twelve points of the scout law If thut a scout Is brave." Scout Goodwin's mother says that she is convinced that If the scout law meant so much to her hoy at such a time Its application to all hoys would he a good thing. |
