Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1910-10-20
Scout MOVEMENT
COLONEL A. S. FROST OF SIOUX
FALLS is OFFICIAL HEAD
IN SOUTH DAKOTA
OUTLINE OF ITS PURPOSE
Obeject Of the Movement and Scope
of Work and Other Interesting
Particulars are Here
with Given

In response to numerous inquiries
regarding the Boy Scout movement
and the way to organize the boys, Col.
A. S. Frost has compiled the follow
ing information:
The idea back of the American Boy
Scout is to keep the boys interested
in the work included in the Scout
plan while at the same time holding
before him high ideals of conduct and
character.
The problem in all work for boys is
to keep them interested. The Scout
plan has proved the best yet devised
for holding such interest.
Through a system of games and pro-
gressive instruction the boy goes from
one interesting thing to another and
all the while his instructors keep be-
fore him the Scout law.
Instruction includes the rud ments
of military training, camping, cook
ing, signaling, woodcraft sanitation,
first aid to the injured swimming,
boating the rescue of persons from
the water, fire etc, and hundreds OF
other interesting things.
AS the boy goes on he receives GER
tifcates and medals, which he prizes
highly and for which he will work
hard
The American Boy Scouts are to be
uniformed The official uniforms are
made by j. Emil Dryfoos, Great
Jones street, New York, and sold
through merchants III the various
cities Dryfoos was the successful bid
der of sixteen large uniform manufac-
turers who competed for this work.
The uniforms are sold by merchants
without profit at 1925 for khaki hat,
military coat with Scout emblem on
sleeve, pants, leggins and haversack.
The military uniform does not mean
that the American Boy Scout is mill
tary organization. 1t is far more. Its
training is for peace. The things the
boys learn will be always useful The
building up of bodies and cha acter
will make for clean manhood, and the
man who has been an American Eoy
Scout will have better chances than
the man who does not have the Scout
training, should war ever come.
The first step toward the organiza-
ton of the American Boy Scout in any
place must be the organization of a
committee of prominent men, those
interested in boywelfare work, espe-
cially to supervise the work of the
Scouts.
The committee organized, the next
step is the enlistment of the boys
This is a very easy matter, as the boys
are interested already the country
over. The very word Scout" br ngs
them in. Then it is up to the commit
tee and its leaders to go ahead viii
the work under the American Boy
Scout plan of instruction.
Enlistment should be by patrols, the
unit of the organization. ten boys ant
patrol leader. The local papers WI
print patrol enlistment applications
Individual enlistment is not desirable
The boys themselves will do mo t o
the recruiting and the moment the!
appear in uniform other boys W
want to join the movement. 1t is I'M
wise to enlist too many boys at ONE
They will run away with their in
structors.
Drummers and trumpeters should b.
encouraged to join the organization
and bands should be organized wher
possible.
Success has been won in many cite
through camps and hikes For tines
the boys furnish their own blanket
and rations, cook their own meals an
enjoy the walking involved. Hikes ca
De dIIduS6u LII TllIeay ollSih NON ...-
Saturdays.
The average hoy does not know hoy
to build a fire. how to cook the sim
plest rations, how to swim Or how t
take care of himself in the OPEN H
does not use his eyes and ears, an
does not stop to think.
The Scout plan is to make him d
these things, especially to make hiI
think. The American Boy Scout game
all go to that end.
And in the meantime, back OF all c
the drills and games, there is tn
Scout Law. which, with the Scor
"Oath" p1ake up the boys code.
There is little enough of chivalry
America these days. The Scout La
makes for it. The Scout "Oath" fcs
tiers patriotism and the Scouts Mott
%sSemper Paratus, Always Plepa' e
teaches them to think, for it near
that the American Boy Scout shoul
be prepared for any emergency /
having thought out beforehand jul
what he would do in the circun
stances presented.
The scout oath" taken upon tt
Scouts honor follows:
THE SCOUT OATH.
I do on my honor, promise to
my best:
l. To do my duty to God and n
country.
2. To help other people at g
times.
2. To obey the Scout Law.
The Scout Law follows:
/. A Scouts Honor Is to Be Trus
ed.
If Scout says ION my honor it
so,'' that means that it is SO, Just I
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