The Charles Mix new era. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1???-1911, 1910-10-21
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
n 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 IN be 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, 8 Great
Jones street, New York, and sold
through merchants in 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 a mill
tary organization. 1t is far more. Its
boys learn will be always useful. The
building up of bodies and cha acter
will make for clean manhood, and the
nan who has been an American Coy
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 boy-welfare work, e. Pc
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" brings
them in. Then it is up to the commit
tee and it's leaders to go ahead with
the work under the American Boy
Scout plan of instruction.
Enlistment should be by patrols, the
unit of the organization. ten boys and
a patrol leader. The local papers w II
print patrol enlistment applications,
Individual enlistment is not desirable
The boys themselves will do mot Of
the recruiting and the moment they
appear in uniform other boys W II
want to join the movement. 1t is un-
wise to enlist too many boys at once
They will run away with their In
structors.
Drummers and trumpeters hould be
encouraged to join the organization
and bands should be organized where
possible.
Success has been won in many cities
through camps and hikes. For these
the boys furnish their own blankets
and r%ations. cook their own meals and
enjoy the walking involved. Hikes car
be arranged for Friday afternoon anc
Saturdays.
The average hoy does net know how
to build a fire, how to coo the sim
plest rations, how to swim or how te
take care of himself in the open. He
does not use his eyes and ears, AM
does not stop to think.
The Scout plan is to make him &c
these things, especially to make hin
think. The American Boy Scout games
all go to that end.
And, in the meantime, back OF all o.
the drills and games, there is thu
Scout Law, which, with the Scou'
Oath make up the boys code.
There is little enough of chivalry IL
America these days. The Scout Law
makes for it. The Scout Oath fcs
ters patriotism and the Scouts Motto
Paratus always Prepare:
teaches them to think, for it mean
that the American Boy Scout shoult
be prepared for any emergency b!
having thought out beforehand jus
what he would do in the circum
stances presented.
The scout oath taken upon TIT
Scouts honor, follows:
THE SCOUT OATH.
I do, on my honor, promise 10 o.
my best:
/. To do my duty to God and m,
country. =,
2. To help other people at al
times.
8. To obey the Scout Law.
The Scout Law follows:
1. A Scouts Honor Is to Be Trust
ed.
If a Scout says "On my honor it |
So" that means that it is so, Just a
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