Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-06-02 | Page 9 | Is Your Boy This Kind of Manly Young Citizen? Boy Scout Week Now Being Observed in Ogden

fe Your Boy This Kind of Manly Young Citizen? Boy Scout Week how Being Observed In Ogden T?oy Scouts do a "Good deed every day" deeds like those Illustrated here. They help strangers find their way about the town. They help aged men and women 'across bad corners and on cars. They .pick up paper that careless (grown-ups like us drop in the street and put It wh.To it belongs hi the litter lit-ter box. They -take homo children who havo lost their way. Intercut in the J3oy Scout bs Increasing Increas-ing as the object and good work of the organization is becoming" known by the public. The Tenth liirihd.o program which is being carried o t this tvcli i.s Id inking hpi'nrc the ge;.- eral public the real purpose of the organization, or-ganization, iioy Scouts have participated partici-pated In church services. hac celebrated cele-brated "Home Day" when the- boys remained re-mained at home during the entire dayl helping their mothers, they have tak-l on their fathers on hikes and given, (scout programs and In this wav adultsj who h:iv. thought little of the Hoy; j Scout organization are beginning to1 see that it nuuns the salvation of thej American boy. I There aro at the present time' 39G,-00S 39G,-00S Boy Smus in America and 10,-OOo.OOO 10,-OOo.OOO bos of yc out age who are not yet Identified with the organ ligation. IThis is Boy t-'cout week and the peo-'plo peo-'plo of Ugaen are asKed to take an interest in the movement that Is mak-J Ing- good American citizens and manly courteous, helpful bos. A l!oy Scout Is exjiected to perform .i good act each da and this makes him constantly con-stantly watching for opportunities to ' 1" help those. In need of help. ', Judge D'an Sullivan of the juvenile court has said that Juvenile delinquency delinquen-cy has decreased 20 pur cent in Og-I Og-I den in one year owing to tho Boy ! Scout m&vcment. Parents of scouts 'can also tell of the good results of1 the organization to their boys. Durlnjf the present week a daily program pro-gram is being tarried out in which l the purpose if ihe organization is being be-ing demonstrated. The week began last Sunday when the scouts gave programs pro-grams In the various churches in Og-, Og-, den and it will close next Sunday which is known n "Reverence" day when each scout will attend church ! accompanied by his father. . The outstanding purpose of Boy (Scout week is to stimulate interest in scouting so as to reach a larger proportion pro-portion of the nut ion's boyhood, according ac-cording to Oeorge Goale.s. Ogden scout exec utlvt .