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Show WHAT SCOUTS ARE DOINQ. In Kansas City boy scouts annually participate tn the sanitary survey ot the city conducted under the ausplcles of tho Heulth department. Over 500 tronlH turned out last spring tor this service which Included a census of Are harnrdn and health menaces throughout the entlro city. Similar ten leu Is being rendered In iimnj other cities by scouts. Among other things. Krle, l"i. scouts Inst ear built bird bonnes, conducted a I.carn-to-Swlin campaign. contributed to the Manic Memorial, aldfd In .Salvation Army and Com miiiilty Chest drive acted as uldes at Rotury Club -convention, decent ted soldier's graves, co-operated with the state game warden In planting walnut trees and distributed Invitations to foreigners to attend Americanization classes. . Troop 1 of Florence, Alabama, took school census, aided chamber of commerce com-merce In checking up Federal census, and Instructed 2,500 people In tho use and location of fire alann boxes. Scouts of Bucyrus, Ohio, made an efficient collection of outstanding library books for the public library, conducted a clean-up In an old cemetery ceme-tery resetting stoues and nmrkftre, acted as culdes and messengers for ever 400 delcgntes at the State Young People's conference. Buy Scouts of Itlverslde, Cal., took a tree census, reporting not only mmber bnt species and location of Mcli. For five years past they hove guanltM and patrolled the ,tralls leading lead-ing to the summit of Rnbldnux Morn-tag, Morn-tag, on the occasion of the Taster sunrise sun-rise service. |