Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-08-17
THE BOY SCOUTS.

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Tour news columns last Saturday. is al
event OF some Importance. He Is her
in the interest Of the Boy Scout move
{ment. an idea that many believe vii
have an important effect upon the min,
and heart OF the rising generation, TIT
General is not sociolosist nor a pub
7 lcist, but seems 10 be making a sue
( cessful appeal TO the primal instinct Of
fair play that exists In the soul oil
almost all, II not every youth OF righ;
mind.
In Great Britain the Boy Scout
ana has subjected hundreds % thou
sands Of youngsters TO its chivalric dis
4 cipline. and ii is said that snobs, cads.
? shirks and mollycoddles over there be.
sin to feel an uncongenial change in
I the climate OF that country.
& william Randolph Hearst is the
sponsor Of the movement in America.
He declares that the spirit ~ Bayard
and sydney IL abroad here, and that the
poor, the weak and the unfortunate
meet with unaccustomed consideration.
He believes that therq Is a band OF
young knights in every village aching
10 stop a Are or boiling horse, Ia
thresh bully or help an old woman
with a burden on her back.
In New York, the movement has al
ready been incorporated the parent
body being given power TO charter sub
.sidiary organizations all over the coun-
try. Its purpose is TO inculcate in the
American boy a spirit OF loyalty and
obedience TO the Government, 10 his
parents and 20 his superiors and. by
training him mentally. morally and
physically. to equip him TO perform
the duties and obligations Of citizenship
in the most desirable manner.
The membership Of boys is already
rs, 900, though the work has boon going
only for only so days. The promoters
believe that within year fully half
million boys will be enrolled. and that
the time viii soon arrive when every
American boy will affiliate himself with
the scout movement. the same as he
now attends public school
The boys are organized in patrols OF
ten; ten patrols make a troop, and ten
troops compose a regiment. Leaders of
patrols and troops are chosen from the
boys themselves, and competent drill
masters, who are either army or militia
men, give the necessary instruction in
scouting, athletics and military maneu-
vers
In this organization. the boys receive
a wide and varied training outside Of
school hours and school days. The boys
are sent to the woods and forests to
learn the secrets OF nature, There they
hnd. study. and follow the footprints OF
animals, locate and protect birds and
their nests. with the idea OF creating
IN their minds an abhorrence Of the
slaughter OF these friends in feathers
md fur. Here. too, the boys learn
which are the best fruits, roots and
plants for human food, so that, in case
,f emergency. a boy lost in the forest
might sustain himself there.
Besides this training in woodcraft
md natural observation, the tracks Of
With the view of hndng out what these
,igns reveal as to what had been going
IN there. Every boy will be trained
low to saddle and harness horses ana
n general to learn to see and to do
Kings for himself.
Boys like life in the open; 1t is there
ore proposed TO establish summer
amps In which the scouts may spend
heir vacations Here they will be
aught how TO put up tent, to lay and
ight fire. to kill, cut up, clean and
.ook their food. TO construct bridges
md RATS, to ind their way by night.
md. in fact. everything which the vet
ran oampaigner has learned by bitter
experience.
Every scout viii be able 10 swim, 10
ide wheel 10 ride horseback. To-
lrive, to row understand various sig
FALLING systems. to interpret weather
to administer FIRST aid to |
he injured, and to save human life
Wireless telegrap ply will be mastered |
md aerial navigation will he taken IN |
10 that the boys will be accomplished
Iviators by the time aviation becomes !
General
Mr. Hearst explains that besides
ending to make the boy strong.
lealthy, and active patriotism and
morality viii be strongly inculcated by
he regime indicated. He says:
The scout Is expected 10 stick TO his
'arents, 20 his superiors, 10 his employ
rs and 10 his country through thick |
nd thin, against any one who Is their
nemv or even talks badly about them
10 must be prepared AZ any time to |
ave human life and to help others. II
scout meet another scout whether !
10 knows him or not he must speak to
i'm a scout must never be a snob
The rich scout and the poor scout stand
Ipon the same footing and must treat
ach other accordingly
"A scout must Blways be polite mar
icularly to women and children. old
'eople and invalids Kindness TO ami
nails and obedience 20 his superiors are
insisted upon, and a scout must smile
lnder all circumstance. whether his.
ask is hard and disaEreeable or moi
'he scout should be thrifty. too and
very penny that oan be saved should
'e put In the bank"
We are not surpriscd o. a. A..