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Show fl EUREKA'S BOY SCOUTS. H The Boy Scouts at Eureka, Utah, narrowly escaped disruption M hs an organized body when the "Western Federation of 'Miners pro- 1 tested against the boys of that mining camp being members of any H organization inculcating a military spirit. Hl Rev. F. V. Fisher of this cit3r, at the head of the Boy Scouts' M movement, was called to Eureka and, recognizing the objections of H the union miners as worthy of consideration, saved the boys' or- H ganization bj' reorganizing the youngsters into an independent boys' fl club, to be known as the Tintie Titans, with a membership of 100. H The protest of union labor is directed against the building up B of armies which, they claim, serve no purpose other than to pauper- M ize, bereave and demoralize not the non-producers, but men of M the laboring classes. They maintain that the makers of war do not H go to war, but send their subjects and, as a result, brother laborer M kills his brother and spreads desolation in the homes of fellow M toilers, and no one profits by the destruction of human lives aud M homes except the money lender, the exploiter of the army and the M man at the top. ' M This may) be an extreme view to take, yet it is a sentiment M which is growing among the union people and is having a powerful M influence in making military enlistments and the military spirit H unpopular. M "We doubt that the B03' Scouts' movement aids in creating a M desire for military life, but where that objection is made, it is the M part of wisdom for the leaders of the movement to do as Mr. Fisher H Aid at Eureka bow down to the protest and, by eliminating the H sbjectionable, still retain the, organization, for the banding together H of boys for healthful exercise under the guiding hand of a disciplin- H irian and moral teacher, is something to be fostered and encouraged. |
