The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-10-26
MOVEMENT Of
THE BOY SCOUTS
MASS MEETING WILL BE HELD
THURSDAY NIGHT IN TIE
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE TO
MAKE ARRANGEMENTS TO Or
CAME THE BOYS OF PENSA-
COLA.

The Boy Scout movement. or1glnat-
ing in England, having spread into
Canada has at last invaded America
and Il coming to Pensacola. An e.
fort will be made to organize the
boys Of this city into bands Of Scouts.
In the interest of this movement,
mass meeting will be held next Thurs.
day night in tho Chamber Of Com
MERGE. which will be presided over by
Mr.. w. K. HyeT. Jr. Anybody inter-
ested in the Scout movement are in
vited to attend this meeting.
Extension TO the United States.
So much was being written IN the
papers and magazines about this work
that It soon attracted attention In this
country and men Interested In boy
life looked into the work as developed
In Canada and as SeatonThompscn
was largely responsible for valuable
suggestions to Baden-Powell's work,
and az he had been working along
somewhat similar lines IN the Red In
dams Of North America, IL WAS soon
decided to adapt the work to this
country and this necessitated some
changes in the manual, SO Seaton-
Thompson set to work with a will and
the result is the American manual
Boy Scouts Of America, the price Of
which-25 ca1ts-brings it within the
reach Of every boy
In short time organizations began
to come into being and from Portland,
Maine, to San Francisco, and from
Chicago to New Orleans, leading bust.
ness and professional men, educators
and bread men in all walks Of lie
have taken held Of the movement and
the enrolment has now passed the
100000 mark.
The Aim Of the Boy Scouts.
The airl of the Boy Scouts. as set
forth in the American handbook, is to
supplement the various existing edu-
cational agencies, and to promote the
ability in boys to do things for them
selves aud others. The method is
summed I'D in the term Sccut-craft.
and is a combination Of observation,
education and handiness-or the abil.
ity to do. Scout-craft consists Of first
aid. life saving, tracking. signaling,
cycling. nature study, seamanship, and
other instruction. This is accom-.
plished in games and team play and
Is a pleasure, not work, for the boy
The only equipment it needs is the
outdoors, group OF boys and a
leader.
ISoipu -. aug, Lu6 / iOIIud uOVSl1St
and magazine writer and the author
Of the Praying Skipper" has written
an interesting account Of the work of
the Boy Scouts in England. in which
he says:
Work in England.
This great crusade, whose purpose
is to make strong, clean, ana useful
men. has been misunderstood It's
dominant idea is not military. Il is
not a nursery for little Territorials''
or British volunteers, nor is it in
tended to furnish food for powder in
the next generation. What General
Haden-Powell says of England is true
of every other nation:
The permanent remedy evidently
les in giving cuT young men q chance
before they have grown into the
'waster' stage. by showing them as
lads how they can make for tham-
selves careers by efficient work. good
health. and sensible use CT their earn.
ings; In word. in teaching them self
reliance, energy and thrift
Because boys are full of romance
and like to live in a world Of make.
believes, this wise and famous soldier
determined to enroll them as Scouts"
and to teach them such lore as should
make every hedgerOw a possible am
huscade, every field hostile. terrain.
and every woodland frontier camp
ing ground.
The bare word scout appeals to