The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1911-06-10

to the Amerieanizatiop Of the manual
Says 81 think the suggestions are a
vast improvement over things eontsin.
ed In the manual which We have been
using. The change will be very much
appreciated by the boys, as they have
not felt that the manual was quite an
American book, and there were numer.
ous things in IL that did not appeal to
them. In fact things were somewhat
disaRreeable to them. Even the pic.
ture on the cover was a source Of troub.
ling questions and inquiries whereas
the cut now used on the bulletins and
the stationery Of the movement appeals
At once to the American boy"
aden.Powell also writes: 81 think
your revision Of the ScSt test aud Of
the Scout law an Improvement on the
original. We have, Ia fset. amended the
law lately to include purity Of though,
word aud deed in accord with your idea
aud also have altered the wording Of
honoring God to make Il more emphatic
tul practical.
The A., Limit
Appesls have hes. made to the ex.
r'u'ive Board OF the hoy scouts VI
N%r'i,,a to perm, boys uuder twelve
""rs % qualif4 &c. Scput, 'rhe exec.
''v' Board ga ihs request careful
r"rS l%eration and anally decided that,
nu view of the aims Of the toy scout
movement, ii ~ much wiser to keep the
age limit, twelve years, uniform
throughout the United states.
The reason FOR this decision i well
defined In the minds Of the members
IT the national council. Experiments
1moug boys under twelve years aud
over twelve years show conclusively
that, when The boys are left to them.
elves they Invariably separate into two
groups. The hoyS older than twelve
ears, invariably, want to play games
DO which III" Younger bows can not CON
pete. The older Joys take up the great.
~ part o. tue pE,y ground. Because Of
HE manner in which the loys i~nvaria
nlv separate, The members ~ the nation
81 council recently decided that they
AN not adopt the rcconm .ndation Of
Professor ClWk ". Hetheringtou. tor
he Incorporation " the Boy scouts of
\mert'a aud the Playground association
~ one Organization
Ohio Scouts Developing Rapidly
Preston g. Orwig, field secretary Of
he Boy Scouts Of America, who ~.
GENTLY made a tou ~ the Boy Scout
examinations In the west. saws that In
Columbus, especially, the Boy scouts
are " the highest order.
Concerning Scouting aud pspecia "
The boys IN Columbus. Orwig SAYS.
That sconting has taken a grip on
communities in al parts u the coun.
nv u demonstrated bv the fact that in
I'll The places touched Ia my trip 10 the
vest the work i found 10 b. in = mos,
ilourishiug condition, and backed by the
~ ~ FaHh community ~
Columbus. Ohio. the work headed by Mr..
Edgar :. Martin il Of the highest order
The scout masters in Columbus are an
unusually fine type Of men, and are
5"enly interested IN the work. Mr.. Mar.
Tin Is director ~ public recreation. a
public official, and with the multitudin.
aus duties n his Office has found time
70 oversee the Scout work OF the city.
Local council in Columbus is one ~
The most representative in the count ~.
being composed ~ business men. law
v"rs, bankers, physicians. representa-.
tive, n institutions doing work for
boys, members Of Protestant, Catholic
and Hebrew denominations. The work
10 Columbus has grown to such an eI.
tent that they expect shortly 70 put on
e paid city secretary to look after the
scout work.