Show 4 The American B Boy BoyThe y The Scout Boy BY THOMAS I I. I 0 OW many American boys have H HOW I inquired the exact meaning of ot the word Scout It is an interesting word And it means To hear With lith attention atten atten- attention tion to listen This shows you that scout is a great and sublime word in that it brings to mind when you ou understand it the theone theono theono ono one essential habit every person must form Corm in order to do either good team teamwork teamwork teamwork work or 01 good individual work That one ono habit Is To hear with attention and then go ahead and do what you ou have been told to do This one ono fact tact of or following directions I Is so 0 valuable that it alone will wilt keep keel the bo boy scout movement alive even If it nothing else recommends it It But man many other things quite quito as val valuable able do recommend it Of Ot these the tho first Is this It provides you OU with all an the gang company compan you want A gang I Is a good thing if It it ithe be he a decent one devoted to some purpose that docs loes not include destroyIng destroying de de- IC- IC property and doing the rowdy act generally Dr Luther H. H Gulick of the Russell Russen Sage Foundation ha has hac written about this gang spirit of you OU boys bos and he helloes does not condemn it He says ays of it that it Is your our natural natura impulse to bo ho with your mates It Is natures nature's call can canto to go So out and learn what other boys bos bosaro are arc like and with them to learn the social spirit Hence school games are area a great r at In Institution In- In They The bring boys together and engage them in doing some one definite thing And your school games gaines are not mere idle ide pastime either You learn honest team work to keep your our places to hold up your our end Emd of or the game Same to play fair Later In life Ufe wh when n you OU are at work you 1 0 will find that just ex exactly these qualities and nd actions will b bring you ou success ss II Now v o the b boy oy scout movement m nt j i is merely another game gam and one one one-of of ot the greatest games ver invented for it permits you all sorts of ot gang life and sets body and mind at work In a game of or great Importance It teaches you IOU to be prepared The people who do not make good goodare goodare are arc the they the who ho are not prepared One scout master and there are arenow arenow arenos' arenos now nos' of or them registered with the national organization who has twenty boys oOS reports that they are working in scout activities with all the tho earnestness that th they play pia ball bali The They go to camp for tor a week or more i Local doctors doctor's teach the boys bors first aid ald One of his boys bors born in the I great woods has taught tho the others woodcraft They The have all quit I smoking Factory men are arc re anxious to have their working boys hos learn the scout activities Why h Because the result is a b better boy and a Tho Iho boy becomes more manly he can think for for- himself he becomes self reliant and these are tho the very qualities a a. bo boy must depend on to be bea a success in business or in anything else III I As Dr Gulick says sas the theang gang ang spirit Is a er very natural one I There are two kinds of ot gangs The first kind is of boys bos who who- Yeli Yell like mall madmen men Interfere with other othea people Smash car windows indo s. s Frighten women and chi children hi ren Steal signs I Tr Try to pla play ball in the cars And more of or the tho same Their motto I is is- Smash ever everything The other kind is of or boys bos who are arc Playing an earnest game Hearing with attention Following directions Learning something I Quitting bad habits And more of or the same ame motto is is Be pr prepared |