The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-11-12

est citizen with character Of his
own.
To Do a Good Turn Every Day.
Further than that, we give him OPP
portunity of discipliniing himself. OF
obeying his employer, Of being loyal
| to his employer, with feeling Of
honor. We make the boys helpful to
/ other people, 1t is their business to
do some good turn. every day. That
| Is a small item, but it becomes very
important to a boy When a boy
dresses i'm the morning, he leaves his
necktie hanging out That Is to re-
mind him that he must do a good
turn to somebody or something. When
! he has done his good turn, he tucks
| il away.
This doing of small good turns puts
1t into their heads to do greater ones.
The heroism that is being displayed
by boy scouts is wonderful. Every
day l get reports of life saving. They
do NOT hesitate to juno into the water
They know 1t is their business to go
in and do the job. / saw a case while
was in Toronto. A poor little chap
was bathing with water wings. The
wings burst and he began to drown.
His brother, who saw hin, jumped in;
but he was a poor swimmer. There
were many men looking on and they
were all shouting. but nobody was
lending a real hand until boy scout
jumped in. He pulled the boys apart
under water, but was then grappled
by one of them himself. He fought
under water with this little fellow
I,nTF
drowned We have a lot of texts
hung up in our scout rooms. One of |
them Is, "a scout never says die till |
he is dead" Well, he could just gasp
this and in he jumped again to save |
the other boy, who grappled and very |
nearly strangled him, He broke away |
from him and was only just pulled |
out alive. The other boy was drowned. |
1t was such a plucky action that we l
awarded him the bronze cross which /
is our highest award. That is only /
typical of What these boys will do. |
We have had hundreds of cases of
heroism. 1t is wonderful what boys
will rise to when the idea is put be-
fore them in the right way
In addition to this individual self
sacrifice we teach them clearly that
il is their duty to love their neigh
bors, their country, and to do this
without reward. Therefore, a great
many troops form into life saving
brigades. fire brigades, ambulance
corps, and that kind of thing that
makes them useful to their fellow
men.
In Vancouver the other day found
that the scouts had taken upon them
selves the work of fire guards. The
fires were spreading day and night.
They had sentries watching the fires.
In that way they stopped two fires
from spreading into villages.
Scheme of Organization.
In order to give the boys and those
Interested in boys a clear idea Of just
how to get boy scout, Boys Sec
rotary Miller of the Y. M. C. A. ex-
plains the organization. Six or eight
scouts make patrol Two to four pa
rolls make troop Each patrol must
lave a patrol leader and corporal
each troop must have a scout master.
The patrol leaders and corporals are
Boys appointed by the scout master
# the troop after consultation with
he scouts of the respective patrols.
'he scout masters must be over 20
,ears of age, and should be men of
God character and should know as
nuch as possible of camp life, scout
ng, woodcraft, etc. This is not alb
olutely necessary providing he is