Show BOY SCOUT WORK FROM AN ECONOMIC standpoint by T dark clark callister Cal llster the boy scout Is law abiding statisticians inform us that the relative percentage ot of delinquency among scouts la Is extremely low and that scout work introduced into a 1 community results imm immedi ay in n a general lessening of 0 guv destructive vandalism it if Is an disputed fact that juvenile bellu 5 quency Is a great breeder of adult crime and that the amount ot of money expended each year by the tax payers to suppress this crime is appalling according to a statement recently published the city ot of bluefield I 1 west virginia three years agol ago i was sending fifty boys each year to the state reformatory and in the last two years only two boys have havel I 1 been sent to this institution the difference Is credited to boys club work established three years ago 1 and to a year round system of play grounds and recreation established I 1 one year later the establishment I 1 of boy scout work can accomplish oven even greater results than this tor for it embraces all ot of the good features ot of boys boya work and recreation and in addition gives that moral training so necessary for good citizenship I 1 it Is stated that the average cost ot of maintaining a juvenile in a reformatory for one year amounts to not loss less than tour four hundred dollars the estimated cost of conducting boy scout work in the zion national park council during the present year la Is two hundred dollars per one thousand ot of population the saving then in keeping a single boy out of the reformatory will provide scout work for or all of the boys in a community having a population ot of two thousand people A scout Is helpful he must bo be prepared at any time to save life help injured persons and share the home duties he must do at least one good turn tor for somebody every day much of the work done by scouts such as help rendered in case of injury or saving ot of life can not be expressed or valued in terms ot of cash we are limited in this article to that class only which can be so expressed or valued I 1 the scout Is trained in fire tion and notices immediately the I 1 bangor lurking in the abandoned camp fire then with the daily goo good d I 1 tr to I 1 rs ever on his mind lie be extin je fire and prevents the destruction of thousands of dollars worth of umber timber acting on oll this principle he 1 saves barns yards and even homes the scout notice the choice cow that has strayed into the lucerne patch and immediately removes her from the danger thus thua saving the owner of her the loss of probably one hundred fifty dollars always being on the elert he be notices the weed jam in the nead head gate dislodges them and prevents a serious break in can tl al with its attendant cost of repairs 1 loss of water and perhaps loss of crops he notices the hole in the broken bridge and impelled by the force of the dally daily good turn he stops long enough to make a temporary repair or provide a suitable warning signal thus reducing very materially the likelihood of loss of property and perhaps loss of life and in addition to this may save the e county or state from an expensive damage suit we find in a recent number of colliers weekly an excellent illustration ii ration of this principle and its effect upon citizenship A man in new jersey converted to this scout law the dally daily good turn lived by the side of the national highway lie ha wan wag seen one day out on the road tilling filling up a hole only took tooh me a minute he said and I 1 probably dived ved hundreds of dollars to the mot orista who went by as well as some thing to the stately sta state it lust just needed to be done and I 1 busy and that man own a motor car himself estimate it if you can the economic value of a community made up ot of citizens trained up in and converted to this single scout law tor for I 1 confess I 1 am unable to fix a value on it in terms of dollars and cents A scout cosent use tobacco statisticians estimate that there will bo be expended in the united states during the present year for tobacco two billions of dollars an amount shelor the ordinary mind can not comprehend let us reduce the amount of this treat great economic waste to terms we 14 N cm ai unA ersland by distributing jt it I 1 i fo the forty eight states in tit til boj fl a utah would receive in round numbers 00 forty one million seven hundred th thousand busand dollars let us now distribute this amount equally to the twenty nine counties in the state millard county would receive as its proportion approximately approximately 1400 one million four hundred thousand dollars each year enough to build forty seven miles of standard concrete paved roads each year and it if the federal government had bad funds with which to match our money on the present basis of seventy f lye five percent to the government and twenty live five per cent to the county we could build one hundred eighty eight miles of such road each year the total tax levied in millard millard county this year tor for all purposes except drainage amounts to with our proportion of tho the tobacco bonev as above determined we WB coulp coul AyaCh vath year and without levying a pran cent of tax pay all of tho the t expenses expense 3 of the munty flou aty I 1 schools our proportion of maintaining the state government and monr present road program amounting as stated above to approximately three hundred eighty thousand dollars dollar and in addition build ton forty thou thousand sanI dollar school houses amounting to and with federal ald aid build eighty miles of standard concrete paved roads amounting to GOO and still have i left tor for incidentals in thel the course ot of a few years yeara we would find ourselves in the same condition that brewster found in with his I 1 i millions we d not know what I 1 to do with our money 1 when you are called upon to bup bun port the hoy boy 1 you will be in n trio tho ne ii sider alder the hie value of f ni i i ing tor for our hova boys and lf L vi v it wllie hearted support orL |