The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-09-22
KENOSHA MAY GET IN Line
Boys of the City Taking an Interest in
the Movement and Company of
Scouts May Be Formed Here Later
On

Uncle Sam Wants Boy Scouts.
What they are-Boys trained to do
the right thing at the right time and
do it quick.
How they are trained-By playing
the best outdoor game ever devised.
What they can do-Take care of
others because they have learned to
take care of themselves.
What there is in it-A chance to
become strong, quick, observant, brave
manly in the best sense-to be Gre
dit to yourself and valuable to your
country.
How to become a seout-Follow the
scout articles. This is the first. 1t
tells how the plans originated and
gives an idea of what irst-class
"scouts" boys can become-if they
try,
Show this to your parents and talk
it over with them
Show it to the "fellows" and get
ready to take up this bully game, which
has all outdoors for its field.
How to enlist--Get together patrol
of seven or eight members and enroll
it with the Boy Scouts of the United
States. This will make you a part Of
the national movement and will cost
you nothing.
When boy fails to sit up and take
notice at the word "scout" it's time
to send for the family doctor.
Here's chance to prove that you
don't need the doctor, anyhow, and to
get into the best game you ever saw
the big "boy scout" movement, with
thousands of other bright, active boys
all over the United States.
You can learn how to do all those
things that COL Roosevelt did in the
west--how to track people and game;
how to build safe fires that can It be
seen; how to cook over them; how to
take care of yourself anywhere in the
open, under all conditions; how to
" wig-wag' signals and send messages,
just as they do in the army-in fact,
everything that goes to make self
reliant, strong, healthy, quick and OBJ
servant scout, in city or country
through forest or prairie.
The boy scout companies are being
formed at various places in America
and movement to establish a. nation
al boy scout bureau under compe-
tent army officer is rapidly taking
form.
The boy scout S training is a COM
prehtnsive one. He is taught to find
food, fire and shelter from what ma
ture offers him; to follow trail; to
communicate by signal over long dis
tances, to handle rifle safely and to
shoot it accurately, and, before his
training is completed, he is initiated
into the most ancient of all mysteries
s-woodcraft.
This last accomplishment is made
up of a multitude of details. For in
stance--how many grown men are
there who know how to build prop
er camp fre2 The boy scout learns
this early in his training.
The real woodsman s fire is a small
affair of Goals and fame about as big
as eompaign hat Such fire is bet,
ter to cook over than the typical pic
mic bonfre-and it gives off no smoke
by which lurking enemy might be
warned to flee or guided to attack.
The boy scout movement started in
England, where literally hundreds of
thousands of boys are organized under
the leadership of Gen. Baden Powell, a
hero of the Boer war. 1t has spread
rapidly to the English colonies, to Ger
many and other countries.
The Boer war proved that even the
mature; city softened Englishman was
capable of learning to find food and
shelter outdoors and-though this was
slow In coming-not to make himself
a conspicuous mark for every hostile
rifle within range.
It is poor time to begin this train
ing when an alert enemy is at hand
to make bloody interruption of the
lesson at every opportunity.
The boy scouts learn woodcraft, camp
lore. manliness, courtesy, frst-aid-to-
the injured, how to help others in any
predicament and heap of other things
that every boy wants to know.