Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-06
BOY SCOUTS EARN
PRAISE FOR WORK
Showing of Capital Youths at
Gettysburg Reunion EIicits
Hearty Commentator.
FINEST BODY IN WORLD.
DECLARES GEN. LlGGET1
Many Instances Recorded at Camp Of
Aid Given Veterans by Trained
Youngsters.
BY EARL GOODWIN.

HAGERSTOWN, Nd. July 5-The
Washington veterans who for a week
have been part of the worlds greatest
peace reunion have returned to their
homes. The Boy Scouts OF this CITY, who
have covered themselves with glory and
who have had the personal praise OF Gen.
Hunter Liggett. Maj. James E. Normoyle.
Capt. Justus. MAJ. Patterson of the Red
Cross and every other army man IN
camp. arrived in special car from Get
| tysburg yesterday afternoon
To the boys of '63 and the lads OF 1919
the great camp is now memory. and to
the everlasting credit OF the army organ
ization. the Red Cross and the Boy Scouts
history will be able to record no untoward
circumstance during the week which
closes today. Gen. Liggett and Mai Nor
| moyle We're standing at headquarters tent
when the train bearing the Washington
Boy Scouts pulled out over the impro-
vised railroad yards built specially for the
great camp
General Voices High Praise.
There they go!' said the general The
finest organization OF boys in the world
| I never saw such effective work as they
have done: they have been absolutely in
dispensable. They cannot be praised too
highly. They are courteous. They show
such veneration for the older man Be.
sides that they have discarded the boyish
crudities for finely trained organization.
hope to see the day when every village
and city has its full quota OF the scouts"
The Washington boys certainly did ac-
complish some remarkable things The
| notebooks Of the scout master are filled
| with facts concerning the thousands OF
| cases where the boys stood up to their
jobs like grown-up soldiers. Scout Com
L nor 10 1fi xuvI.< l.fk IN~fl
has received a letter from the Red Cross
officials in camp testifying to the indis-
pensable quality of the boys aid
Take, for instance. the thing done by
years old. and who lives at 41O1 Harri-
son street northwest. He happened to
| be in Gettysburg alone. In the crowded
dusty turmoil of the city square which
| was filled day and night with a jostle Of
old men, sightseers. soldiers and chill
dren. veteran was knocked to the
| ground by a swiftly moving wagon The
old mans scalp was torn. and the wound
| was ugly and bloody.
i Efficiently Handles Case.
As men and women shudder 1 ana
tn. curious ones pushed in front to see
| the thing. Terry. who simply happened to
4 be passing. asserted the right of en-
inent domain. dragged the veteran to
a doorstep of a house. got a clean
| cloth from somewhere, cleaned the
| wound. and kept the crowd back in the
meantime. with the aid Of another scout.
| whose name has not been preserved. but
| who happened along at the time Terry
! was not duty at the time and did
not have his first-aid packet with l. n.
but when ambulance arrived all OF
| the first-aid work had been done on
| the doorstep with the chance material
he could get. Then there We're Kenneth
! Price and Lawrence Prentiss. wso. as
| first-aid scouts attached to a Red Cross
station, bandaged and set a silver fork
! fracture"-a painful accident to vet
! erans wrist. Doctors attached TO the
/ Red Cross have been speaking of this
| particular work with unbouEded enthu-
siasm They We're particularly loud in
their praise of the way the boys did
| the bandaging.
| The boys also proud of the fact
| that one of their number. William Zely.
: stationed at one of the first-aid Red
Cross rest stations scattered about the
! battlefield. escorted a c~.~hter OF Gen.
| Meade to a rest station and five minutes
later escorted the grandson and grand
daughter of Gen. Longstreet int, the
same rest tent for glass of water.
comfortable chair and fan.
| The Washington Boy Scouts have been
at the beck and call of the Red Cross
| exclusively
Boys Assisted Big Staff
/ Mai Robert = Patterson. Medical
!; Corps. L. S. A.. in charee of the Red
!! Cross at the War Department has been
! at camp right along. and the necessity
! fer this organization was early in
/ the formative stage OF the camp. The
| wisdom of sending a Red Cross camp
/ re has been seen over and over a-ain.
/ Ten doctors from Washington have been
/ with the organization in charge Of the
/ outlying stations. They are Drs Macatee.
/ Tobias. Sanders. Tostel. Burbank. Cook.
/ I-gDert. Hunt. Beale and King. There
/ were seventy-cne nurses from Philadel-
! ph:a ten motor cars ard ten hard-work-
4 IN chauffeurs. eleven cooks and thirty
| three PENNSYLVANIA miners ira aimed ia BED
i Cros. work br the aid department o the
.nesi. Al I,cd Cross.
! Now L vGs 70 help this biz scheme thar
/ the ~ Na~i,;nSton Boy Scouts taken
tC c.lini,. where they wore a white band
! with farming Insignia OF their helpful
! duty bound uilon their left arms The
] iss,s. W.is scattered annnr tn. fourteen
I aid st3t.ons. and some i,es. Of what sort
! of soGA IL hands did is cleaned from
: the fact that July The stations took
! care Of 4 .:2,s2 cases Ct these 2s1 were more
! or less serious requiring transfers 10 hos
! pita IS; the others Were rest and water
! cases, recurring "A soothing haif hour. q
. Ass OF cool water and opportunity
! 10 lie down