Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-02
BRAVE BOY SCOUTS,
ALL TRUE KNIGHTS
Ever Ready With Aid for the
''0Id Boys" at Gettys-
burg Reunion.
FIFTY WASHINGTON LADS
HONOR THEIR HOME CITY
Always Within Call, Sturdy Young
America Is Main Reliance in
Emergencies.
By EARL GOODWIN.

66II Sb XII, "a, July 2.-Thefe was
a shout in q Gettysburg street: a horse.
frightened by a passing motor car, veered
to the sidewalk and knocked over an old
gentleman wearing an Iron Brigade
badge. The veteran had about exhausted
his strength in the heat and dust Of
long walk, and the blow he received
when he struck the rough pavement
might have been serious.
Immediately . tremendous crowd of
curious ones started for the spot where
the old man lay. but they were not quick
enough. Five Washington Boy Scouts, on
their way to some errand with their stats
in their hands. by lucky chance jumped
right into the thick Of things. Four of
the scouts made a hollow square with
their STATS surrounding the fallen man
with sturdy fence. beyond which the
unfeeling and curious gang Of street folks
could not pass. And the fifth knew ex-
actly what to do to bring one of the
hundreds Of ambulances which are parked
about Gettysburg, for just such emergen-
cies.
The street crowd pressed in. but that
hollow square held. When the ambulance
arrived there was a scout in 1t, with his
first-aid kit. There was a doctor. too, but
he had a scout beside him all the time
They cannot get along without the scouts
the camp would have to import 100 men
to do the work. and at that there would
be trouble.
Washington Boys at the Fore.
The Washington Boy Scouts. praised
here as being the cleanest. manifest and
most efficient of the entire little brigade
of 400 or 500 scouts from various places
rise to the supreme heights OF all that Is
clean and good in youth this week Fifty
Washington boys distributed to the many
first-aid and Red Cross stations which
are placed about this big section Of
superheated country are making a name
for themselves which will linger until
the last man at Gettysburg today has
passed into the eternal world beyond
And the full story of Gettysburg 1919,
with its reunions its glorious peace and
the death and sorrow and pain for the
weaker veterans will never be told prop
erly until some one writes in undying
words of the manly little lads who have
been the big brother to the old. old
men; who have been the good Samaritan
to the hundreds of sick veterans who
have fallen in the streets unable to walk
another step, and who have caused army
officers to pause and gasp at the efhcien-
cy of boys Of twelve and thirteen years
OF age.
take off your hats and yell like mad II
| you saw one of your little boy friends
| standing in the middle of the dustiest
| road crossing in Pennsylvania with q red
mobile drivers to Go slow and don't
get too close to the old soldiers"-and
bossing the job like a section superin-
tendent at that. Things like that are
World. and the Boy scouts S pare are putting
| new ideas on the subject of American
boys into the heads of a lot Of people
who always believed that boys ought to
be Kept In prison until they are OF age.
Always Within Railing Distance.
At night. when the old men get lost
calling:
"Oh, scout. Oh, scout
And a scout is always somewhere at
hand. He comes running as fast as his
sturdy little legs can carry him. He may
be tired. but he die before he'd admit II.
Are you lost, sir? Can take you
And they never fail to take them direct
through this maze OF a tented city, with
its almost $4,000 people, including the
regulars, the Pennsylvania militia and
the help.
When the old men arrived, tired and
some of them on the verge of lying down
In their tracks unable to move another
| foot. you could see scouts pop up from
everywhere.
WEI IL carry your DdB8aSe, they would
say, and touching their scout hats with
| two fingers they would lug gripsacks and
all sort OF veteran kit the most astonisb
| Ing distances.
you're mighty kind. you are" one
veteran said to a Washington lad. who
had shouldered bag as big as himself.
I'VE are here to help. sir. We're not
going to do anything else but help
Other Qualities Prominent.
Washington's scouts made a record for
themselves at something beside the