The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1911-01-20
Organize Boy Scents I'm Rural DIS.
trlcty.

Kansas City, Kan.-The boy scouts
are not to be confined to the cities.
The Kansas State Agricultural Col
lege, at Manhattan, Kan, believes
that the scout idea is 30 good that
the college has begun the organiza-
ton Of the Rural Life Boy Scouts.
Any boy between the ages of twelve
and twenty may join the rural scouts,
and a. company may be organized In
any community with at least six
members.
The plan or organization of the Ru-
raj Life Boy Scouts provides that the
captain shall be the leader In all
scouting and camping expeditions
and the chairman or all company
meetings. The sergeant shall act as
secretary and acting captain. IF
there Is more than one sergeant the
captain shall appoint one to be sec
rotary. The captain and sergeant
shall select the company adviser,
who must be approved by the Agri-
cultural College council. All the ad-
or each company shall form a county
council, the chairman OF which will
be named by the college council.
In each July or August there shall
be five or ten days OF camp life for
the scout companies in each county,
the camp to be under the direction OF
will include games and athletic con-
tests, contests in judging farm crops,
stock and poultry; naming birds,
wild animals, fish, flowers, trees and
shrubs; report on savings bank ac-
dicnnccinp nf rrrrov life Crrh-
jects of particular interest to boys
the companies.
Promotion In the rural life scouts
will be in three classes. Upon enter
class. He must know by sight and
by sight and track ten common ami
mails; he must know by sight ten
common fish, know IN the field ten
common wild flowers, know by leaf,
bark and general outline ten common
trees and shrubs, and must know the
sixteen points of the compass.
He must learn the elementary rules
for preventing typhoid, and he must
plant and cultivate by scientific
methods not less than one-half acre
OF some farm or garden crop. Town
boys may substitute a town lot. He
must own and care for some domes-
tic animal or poultry worth not less
than $40. Most important, he must
have and maintain a bank account OF
not less than S..
In the second class a member must
know at least twenty birds, animals,
trees and shrubs, fish and flowers.
He must know the general rules for
the prevention of tuberculosis, must
cultivate one acre Of country land or
one city lot, have and care for ami
mails or poultry worth at least $40
and have bank account worth at
least SIS. He is also required to
read certain books.
BY the time the boy has served in
the second class he VIII have gather
ed much valuable information about
fauna and fora, the important ele-
ments Of hygiene, scientific crop
growing and stock raising and have
acquired the habit of thrift and in
dustry
He will then be eligible to enter the
first class ranks. He will be requir-
ed to know by sight and call the i'm
portant wild birds and animals OF
Kansas, all the common game fish,
all the common wild flowers, trees
and shrubs, and know by sight 25
common weeds. He must cultivate
at least twenty-five acres in the
country or it's equivalent in town
lots, have and care for domestic ami
mails or poultry worth at least $25
and have at least $25 in bank He
must have read at least two OF an ap-
proved list Of books on rural life.
When he goes into the scouts the
boy must take this oath -
81 give my word of honor that
will do my best to do my duty to God
and my country, to give some unset
fish service to some one every day,
to obey the laws Of the State and ma
ton and OF the Rural Life Boy Scouts,
and to respect the personal and
property rights of others"
The motto is Know the secrets
of the open country" The badge IL
an oxidized silver four pointed star,
with the letters r. L. B. s."