The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1911-04-21
Boy Scout Notes.
(BY C. N. GILMAiN.)
must have a scoutmaster.

years of age or over and who has
been commissioned either by the ma
tonial council or by local scout council
thriving authority from the national
body.
This may lcok as If it lets you boys
out, but it DOESN'T.
Start with the nearest man, your
father usually. Tell him that you
and your friends want to take up the
scout game and need his help. Get
him to write to national headquarter
for dirsctiOns how to go ahead and
form local council.
tn gsenearl directions for forming
such body as given by national head
QUARTERS are that it shall consist of
some representatives of the city gov
ernment, the mayor for preference;
Representatives, of every organization
working for boys between the ages of
twelve and eightesn--these are the
scout age limits-such as boys clubs,
charitable associations, Juvenile court,
public schools Sunday schools, Y. NJ.
c. A., Young Mems Hebrew Associa-
ton, Young Mems Institute, play
grounds association, settlement work
ersymfnisterial association and medical
societies; and men of general interest
representing such public institutions
as-business, the press, the police force
the national guard and the fire de-
parItment.
This council should register with
the national council.
masters, who in their turn, can en-
roll scouts.
The council will keep general super
vision over all the troops enrolled
by the scoutmasters, it will conduct
public meetings to raise interest in
the scout work, and it will inspect
all troops and patrols and award all
promotions and merit badges.
This is the only way to keep every
thing running on the square and to
keep down fake scouts.
There are a. lot of these. Gangs of
boys have picked up the name scout
and gone around making all kinds of
trouble for farmers and others living
near towns and getting the genuine
scouts a bad name.
You don't want to be one of these
flake scouts" but a real scout and
the way TO be a real baseball player
lis to play the game according to tn
rules.
Many requests have been received
at the National Headquarters of the
Boy Scouts Of America for executive
secretaries to take charge of the boy
scout work in various cities through
out the country. The local commit
bses in charge of the scout movement
have realized the necessity OF having
q hIthi cAPbWChNcu III hhHuhhhS bOyo q
trained in the psychology of boy work
to be the executive head.
Requests for seven secretaries have
been received in the last week.
Among the cities asking for skilled
organizers are Boston, Oakland, st.
Paul and Minneapolis. Philadelphia
alrtady has opened a branch office Of
the National Headquarters and has
installed a paid secretary and Chicago
also has a paid secretary.
The Boy Scout movement, however,
is spreading SO fast and the demands
for organizers to get the ScOutmaster
started ON their work, have been so
great that Headquarters cannot fill
thtm Considerable training and
in addition to an innate talent for
boys are required in an exc
cutiVe secnetary.
Representative Richmond p. Hob
SON believes in the Boy Scout and say
that both of his young sons shall JOIN
the organization when they are old
enough. He supports the movement
because it is teaching the city boys to
GIT out into the woods and to enjoy
nature. 1.-The day OF the scout" says
he extended TO 1856, but the Stats
tics down to that point show that
about S5 per cent of all the people in
the United States We're engaged or in
some way connected with agricultu-
raj pursuits; that those who fought
in the civil war wene MEN OF the
farm, that those men who founded tie
nation and constructed dts institutions
were men of the country.
To-day there are less than 80 per
cent of the people of the United
States connected with agricultural
pursuits. 1t means that the nations
whole future is going to rest upon
the city boy. 1t is a sad fact that
every case where city life has come
to have an appearance in the life OF