The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-11-12
BOY SCOUT MOVEMENTS WHAT
1T IS---WHAT 1T IS NOW DOING
Movement Fully Launched IN Fargo-Spendd Thing for the
BOysGives Them Training in Discipline and
Makes Them Self Reliant

The boys scout movement was
launched in Fargo Wednesday with
the impetus that destines it to be a
coming factor in the boy life Of the
city. over 100 boys of Moorhead and
Fargo attended the meeting which
was held at the Y. M. c. A., and all
OF the lads were more than enthus-
iastic over the future Of the Fargo
troop.
What Boy Scout Movement Is.
Less than three years ago General
Baden Powell, taking his ideas from
his own experience with boys who
acted as scouts for him during the
Boer war in South Africa, also from
the books of Ernest Thompson Seten
and Dan Beard, founded by the Boy
Scout Movement in Birkenhead, Eng
land. Since then the movement has
been widely advertised and has grown
enormously, This summer the general
made a tour of the larger Canadian
and some American cities, and the
rapidity with which scouts are being
enrolled and trained is even greater
IL
are extracts from an article by him i'm
the November number of Association
Men. 1t is a first hand account of
what the movement is, what it aims
to do and it's methods.
The term Scouting" is not limited
to the scouting done by soldiers in
time Of war. There is another kind
peace scouting That is the work of
Buffalo Jones and Of other pioneers of
civflization-men who live on the
frontiers, doing their duty as explor-
ers, surveyors, missionaries. police,
and so on, where it is hardest, facing
All kinds of danger from climate and
from wild beasts, living apart from
their kind, but doing their duty and
trying to help others. These are
men who have been able to look after
themselves in difficult situations, men |
who can help a comrade when he is |
injured and, therefore, men full of |
chivaIry.
Those are the best men of our race |
and those are the men that we can |
hold mp as ideals to the boys, because |
they have prestige among boys. Boys
are only too willing to rise to that
l.
fore we put up scouting, because it is
a parsuit that appeals to the boys and
because it has that in 1t which will
tend to make good men of them, good
AT the same time it is possible for
boys to be too self reliant They
can become wanting in courtesy, in
discipline. This scouting may be
means of teaching them chivalry, of
to each other and those
are attributes recognized everywhere.
All men flock to a country to help
make great nation. They need some
building material, which viii bring
hem all together in spirit Spirit is
what you want in a nation-not
merely the material achievement.
These men of the rising generation by
working together will have engender-
ID a spirit of comradeship which can
not fail to be a combining spirit
among them for the rest of their lives.
Method That Appeals to Boys.
Our method is to do with the boys
What appeals to them. 1t is no use
aging to him Come and be good.
( he has any spirit in him at all he ,
will just go off and be bad. But if I
'ou say to him, "Come, we will play :
zig Indian, he is for it every time.
Then when you get him in and play !
zig Indiana, you can teach him all the :
'etter attributes, and he will rise to
he occasion and become a good hon {