The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-01-25
TROOPS OF boy
SCOUTS PERFORM
GREAT SERVICES
Helping the Poor, Doing Good Turns
Daily and Thoughtful of
Others.

Seven Thousand troops of the Boy
Scouts OF America are Helping the
poor and the afflicted throughout the
country. To scout for the needy and
the i'll and then TO forage so- sup
plies for those persons is a part of
scout-craft in the modern sense OF
the word In other words, the boys
BIZ the country are inspiration in
helping others.
The Boy Scouts may give an
hours time in q week to community
service. When it is figured that
there are probably 500. 900 Boy
Scouts of America in the country
with every Scout devoting an hour,
you have 100000 hours in one week
devoted to charity work Estimating
Ethe work; Of professional man. or
workman at eight hours day. YOU
have the work of the Boy Scouts In
One week equal to such man, for
81 500 days, or more than 100 years.
This il ustration gives dramatic
glimpse of what the Boy Scouts are
doing.
The leaders OF the Boy Scouts OF
america have found it difficult at
mes to impress upon people gener-
ally the two great lines of work that
he scout movement is doing. These
are the helping of the boys to have
more fun out in the open and to in
;pire them to be of help to others. 1t
5 easily seen that the boys will take
the first but doubtless scoff at the
good turn daily" Reports. how.
ever, coming into the national head
quarters show that this spirit of the
good turn is being fol owed all over
he country. In the winter especial
" hoy scouts are riyaling one an
other in finding persons who are SO
poor that they have neither enough
lothes to wear or food to eat
When il is figured out that 1000
|.roops. numbering anywhere from "a
rs boys may be counted on to dc
This sort of work occasionally, the
objective amount OF community ser
ice thus rendered can be figured on
every city in the country where
here are hoy scouts, has reported
many instances of this kind I. Il
Hrtle's trnepssof scouts in Washing
Iton recently discovered a family Of
| five children and parents who were
n pressing need of food. The scouts
,ol ected a basket OF groceries and
neat and supplied the family for {
week.
In st. Louis, Hi liam w Hoxton
manager OF the Clearing House AS
ISOLATION, and also scoutmaster
las ded the boys in their scouting
or the poor and the i'll. At leas
| fifty different families have receives
| md through the keenness of the DO.
1 scouts. In Buffalo the same spiri
| ,-evails. In Boston and Bait more
he scouts have found and reporte
the charity bureau for further in
estigation cases of destitute fami
| les. In st. Paul and Minneapoli;
he same activity in the interest o
| he poor prevail s.
| On this point is an interesting lei
| err from George w. Schroeder, VIII
writes: What appealed to me mos
the Boy Scouts even before | BIZ
anne Scout Master. was the doin
| { good turn every day. l still BIZ
ieve after two years of service as
Scout Master that the good turn
| he Keystone of the Boy Scouts. La
! wear was told by a friend that
. family in the ne.ghborhood was
/ great need. 1t was near Thanksgi'
ng Day, SO told the boys that v
were going to do coed turn as
TROOP.
81 asked each one o. the troop
bring something in the way Of ea
lbles from home so that we coul
| ret up q basket and give ii to
| leedy family on Thanksgiving Da
n the marning the boys brougl
heir donations and we receive
'non2h to fill two baskets, Tn
hight the troop carried the baske
% place near the house and fol
of the boys placed them near the do
and ran. | was told by my frler
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