The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-09-20
The BOY SCOUTS
IN OTHER CITIES
SINCE THE MOVEMENT TO OR.
CAME PATROLS in FARGO HAS
BEEN PROPOSED A GREAT DEAL
OF INTEREST HAS BEEN.
AROUSED.

Since the Y. M. G. A. has taken up
and proposes to organize several pa
trolls of boy scouts in Fargo large
number Of boys and also quite num-
Der OF adults have taken quite an in
terest in the organization and will be
interested in what is being done in
other cities.
Association Boys has the following:
The Boy Scout idea is more than
popular with the boys of Patterson. We
think we have discovered club which
will help all classes of boys-Jews
catholic, Protestant alike, and make
Of them better boys and useful citi-
zens. Three patrols have already been
organized and many boys have their
names on the waiting list.
The Rattlesnake and Roosevelt pa
trolls have enjoyed several scouting par
ties, but the one that they will perhaps
never forget was taken to the Newark
association fourteen miles away There
they listened to some great scout stor-
les told by Mr.. Wakefield and Mr..
Head both promoters of the scout
movement iR England. The stories of
now the scouts in England were doing
good turn for someone every time the
opportunity presented itself made a
great impression on the boys Coming
home on this same day they stopped
to help an elderly lady NOW her lawn.
The boys went to work with a will and
In a short time had the grass moved
and raked. The woman stood by much
amused at the happy and business-like
manner the boys showed in doing their
good turn" mistrusting, no doubt.
that she would have to give each lad
something in return for the work. |
She was relieved of all anxiety, how |
ever, when the boys had finished for
with scout salute and a good day" |
they continued on their journey.
At each of the weekly meetings they
report on the good turns they have
done and unite the knot they have
placed in their ties as a reminder.
The scouts are rarely ever found |
about the rooms loaf1ng or even play-
ing games, their time is too valuable.
Ihey spend 1T in the reading room or
library studying the Morse code. first
AID or some other phase of scouting
that Will help them on to the next
class. The members of the Peterson
Troop are all tenderfeet at the time of
the writing of this article, but are
working hard at first aid, signaling,
making fires without paper, tracking.
cooking out of doors without cook
ng utensils, learning the sixteen points
'f the compass, and getting their pen
1les together for a bank account, One
months service as a tenderfoot and
'hese seven stunts are necessary to
become scout of the second class.
The instruction a scout receives to
make him flrst-class scout is through
practlce' games, and competitions. One
eommendable feature Of the competf-
tons is where heats are run off the
osers run in them and not the winners
rs is usually the custom. In this wav
we find out who is the worst and at
he same time the poorer competitor
gets the most practice.
Each patrol has its sign and call as
veil as its colors. The RattIesnake ma
rol has the reptile of that name as
heir sign while the call is the rattle
u a pebble in tin box. The patrol
Is green felt background
With a brown felt snake and list p. IT,,
IN 1t.