The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-10-18

| New York, Oct. 1S.-AnnOuncement
has been made that the Fairgrounds
Association Of America had joined in
support OF the Boy Scout movement as
started in England by General Baden
Powell and fostered here by Ernest
Thompson Seton. 1t is expected that
the Fairgrounds Association, an or
ganization with branches almost every
where throughout the country, will APP
point a paid secretary who will give
his whole time TO the new work. There
are already about $4,000 lads enroll
ed in the Boy Scouts OF America in
forty-six states, though the organiZa-
ton is only a few months old. Those
who have been watching the move
ment here say that nothing has ever
seemed 10 appeal so strongly to the
boys OF America.
General BadenP Powell has got the
English public 70 understand that the
pioneers Of civilization I'm Central At
RIGA, the ranchmen. cowboys and trap
pers Of the American West, the bush
men and drOvers Of Australia, the ex-
plorers Of the Arctic and the Asiatic
regions, and the hunters and prospec-
tors OF South America are all peace
scouts"-men accustomed to live on
their own resources. taking their lives
in their hands. and brave and loyal
TO their employers. The new boy
scout is n tenderfoot. He is usually
about twelve years old. In times he
will become a second-cla scout, the
next higher grade, and finally a first
class scout. Before the tenderfoot gets
grade higher he must know the
scouts laws and signs and how to sa-
lutte. He must know the composition
Of the national flag and how TO fly it.
out Of the reef. sheet bend, Glove hitch.
bowline. middlemen's fishermens and
sheepshanks knots, he must know how
to tie at least four.
Before being awarded the second
class scouts badge n tenderfoot must
pass these tests:
Have at least one months serv-
i've as a tenderfoot.
elementary first aid and bandag-
ing.
3-Signallng, elementary knowledge
Of semaphore or Morse alphabet.
4-Track half a mile in twenty-five
minutes. or If in a town, describe sat
isfactoryly the contents Of one store
window out of four, observed for one
minute each.
5-Go a mile in twelve minutes at
scouts pace"
clay and light n fire. using not
more than two matches.
Cook a quarter pound of meat and
two potatoes without cooking utensils
other than the regulation billy.
Slave at least twenty-five cents
in a savings bank.
9-Know the sixteen principal points
of the compass.
It is still more difficult TO become a
graduate in the out-of- door school. A
boy must do these things
Swim fifty yards. IN. B.-This
may be omitted where the doctor GER
titles that bathing is dangerous 10 the
boys health in which case he must
VII a. ihiit ih fikllN MINUTES VI Hfi-
form some equivalent selected by the
scoutmaster)
2-Must have at least fifty cents in
the savings bank.
3-Signallng. Send and receive a
message either in semaphore or Morse,
sixteen letters n minute.
GO on foot, or row boat, alone
10 a point seven miles away and re-
turn again; or, IL conveyed by any We
hicle or animal. go a distance Of fif-
teen miles and back, and write n short
report on II. II is preferable that he
should take two days over IL.
5-Describe or show the proper
means for saving life in case Of two Of
the following accidents Callotted by
the exasiners): Fire. drowning. run
away carriage, sewer gas, ice breaking.
or bandage an injured patient. or re-
vie apparently drowned person.
Cook satisfactorily two out OF the
following dishes. as may he dcsired;
Porridge bacon, hunters stew: or skin