The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-09-17
Ambulance Patrol.

Ambulance Patrol
such mcrltorIous services assisting the police at
personal risk for more than occasion In London
troops Of boy scouts have aided In keeping back the
crowds by presenting solid front with their
pressed forward md receiving the impact Of the
throng like veterans
The gilt medal of merit may he achieved also for
twenty good deeds. such stopping runaway horses
or assisting at fires doing various good turns with
out being paid for them. Good turns arc of various
kinds. Patrols OF boy scouts have even suddenly ap
PearGd TO help an old woman take in her washing
Another patrol aided whose automobile seemed
hopelessly mircd in "A country road.
The most important work In the order Is done by
the. scout masters, who may he youths or men o.
mnture age, who train the scouts and gig inst7c.
tion in all the degrees which are needin and tako
charge Of them on scouting parties. Scouts must
always address these officials ms "Slr."
There scout commissioners who inspect troops
OF and give suggestions to masters for
the good of the service and all IS the Chief Scout
who in England is Lieutenant General Baden Powell
and In this country Mr.. Seton
The Boy Scouts of America are strictly n
taran organization and enrolled in It's leglons arc all
shades Of religious belief Such agencies the Young
Mems Christian Association. various boys clubs of
Catholics and the Young Mems Hebrew Association
Interested In the movement II happens that for
the present the hc0dquancrs are In the building OF
the International Y. VI. G. A. The oath 10 God and
country To God and the King, 1t Is In Great
Britain, is considered by the founder to he sufficiently
comprehensive and there Is absolutely distinction
made with respect TO creeds.
Discipline Is largely vested I'm courts of honor each
composed Of a scout master and two patrol leaders
which decide upon rewards awards and punish.
ments.
II is the object OF the entire movement to promote
the scout spirit bring the boys in touch with the
manly virtues, 10 interest them In nature, 10 develop
their powers of observation and interest them In
lines Of cndeayor which will prepare them for useful
and honorable calllngS
Mr.. Seton's Plans.
This IS a time" wrote AIr. Seton In his Birch
Bark Roll. which has been Incorporated with the
BadenPowell handbook for In this country.
when the whole nation. turning toward the outdoor
life, seeking in 1t the physical regeneration need
ful for continued national existence is waking to the
fact so long known thougbtful men that those
live longest who live nearest the ground-that IS.
who live tho simple life of primitive times. divested.
however, of the Ignorance I'm those times bcgot Sport
Is the great incentive TO outdoor life: nature study Is
the intellectual side of sport.
II should Ike 10 lead this whole nation into way
Of living outdoors for at least month each ye0r,
vlyng and expanding custom which as far hack
Moses was deemed essential TO the national we'll
being
Not long ago n benevolent rich Impressed with
this Idea chartered steamer and took somo hundreds
of Slum boys mp to the Catskills for day In the
woods They were duly landed and told go and
have glorious time IT like gathering up
netful OF catfish and throwing them Into the woods
SAYING, 60 and have glorious time The boys
sulked around and sullenly disappeared. An hour
later they were found In groups under the bushes
smoking cigarettes shooting craps and playing cards
the only things they knew. Thus the well meaning
rich man learned that 1t not enough to take them
out of doors We must teach them to enjoy It"
For The boys who have had ihe benefit Of country
life IL is easier come In touch with the scouting
period II Is for those who know tte beyond the
shrewd insight into life which they may gather In the
tenement districts Of New York md London. From
the east side of New York the present time how
ever hundreds of scouting parties are going to the
woods OF New Jersey and the Palisades on eNplora-
tonS and are returning after their camping and scout
ing and signalling refreshed In mind and body and
with their intellectual faculties alert.
The principles which are kept in view, although the
Boy Scout movement is essentially for recreation are
seligoVernment the magic of the camp fire. wood
cratt pursuits honors by standards personal decora
tions for personal achievements, the heroic Ideal aud
the poetry the romance and the pcureslueness which
hre the Imagination In all phases of lie II the mind
is properly awakened and stimulated
"The boys Of the nation" writes Lieutenant General
BadenpOwell In his handbook for the British Scouts,
are full OF enthusiasm spirit and only their
heads to be turned In the right direction to become
good and useful citizens This splendid material IL
being allowed TO run 10 waste-nay, than that
Il Is allowed To become harmful the nation simply
Tor want of education. for want of hand to guide
them AT the crisis OF their lives when they the
crossroads where their futures branch of for good
evil.
THE present authorized scheme OF educn uou In our
schools includes plenty Of book work. but develop
nent OF the quality that counts namely, character,
which, after all Is OF the FIRST Importance Not thou
ands but hundreds of thousands of boys IN our great
ties after an education in reading sufficient 10
he them to devour the horrors OF the Police News and
arithmetic to make their football waecrs are being
eft to drift into the ranks OF the hooliGanS and tho
wasters' without any attempt TO stay them But they
eceive teaching in resourcetulness. chvalry,
hrlft. citizenship and patriotism.
The key to successful education Is not so much
each the pupil as IN get him to learn for himself
he subject 10 be nstied must be made appeal
on lure your nsb with succulcut worm no
tth bit Of hard, dry biscuit That
" object in suggesting the gilt OF Scouting for the
ill OF education in manliness and good citizenship
ut had no idea when did a year ago that II
ould with the response which II has done
been adopted by all the best associations for boyi
nd by large number OF schools. It has also beer
sed than OF His MaleSty'g ships and
'yera units In the army"
General BodcnP Powell. on his arrival at Vancouver
the interests OF the movement, said lie was glad 70
q that II was obtaining such hold In the United
ntes. although he thought that ia phases 1t had
o much OF the drill idea In it-a tendency which the
oy Scouts OF America. In their wish to follow the
Irish model, have sought especially 10 avoid.
What applies to the movement Ia Great Britain eap
so be said OF the Boy Scouts of America, who ar
ily docking to the standards Of the new ios'i