Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-09-13
themselves little huts of turf, furnished

themselves little nuts of turf. furnished
with sort of lattice door OF twigs
Which reminds one OF the near-to-
nature environment OF the South African
scouts. The sea borders tho province
OF Natal. and several instances OF life
saving renorted are credited To these boys
of the Garden Colony OF the British"
There are Girl Scouts here. too. and one
Of them. Miss Carrie Cross. received the
silver cross for rescuing a woman swim.
mer who had gore hevond her derth IN
the surf johannesburg whose very name
recalls the Boer war. has her quota of
scouts: then COMING along the western
coast Of Africa. nigeria and Sierra feons
have organizations.
Back In F,urope noatn iitt,a r,ore ,.>H
he said Fn- the success ~ the movement
In Germany than tNp+ tho teiser ,,d
kaiee-in and the government az WHOLE
are heartily IN symnathv with It. And In
the systematic manner everything IA
done in the German ernnf-e there Is
periodically n certain sun, Get aside from
the evcheoue- for use in furtherinr
scoutdom toward better and better ef.,
cienrv.
BOYS between the ares Of ten and
eirhteen Rre elirih,e for membership
and are taken az they come MentsT
measure is made of them, and they dre
arpointe" 10 patrol. These oatrols
have Individual na~es and calls A
scout may re trailing aho,t in the
woods and harren to hear the crack
ling of twi@s that hetokens Some OF
his cornnanions may have strayed that
way II fox Re viii at once begin
to bark" If an owl to "hoot," and
thereby he proclnims his tribe. There
are secret natrol calls members use
for communication. and the leaders Of
patrols carry flags upon which the
fox, hear" or whatever II Is they
represent Is pictured. while each young
"qnadruped" must be able to draw him.
self In his animal gufse.
The unit of ORGANIZATION OF the Boy
Scouts is a parro' Of six bows under .
commander. specified number OF pa
trols constitute a troop and this Is iooy,sd
after by a scoutmasts- Before Sc
''tenderfoot" can become a second-class
scout he must know a number Of practi-
cal things. He must know sometime Of
arst-aid work and how to put on ban
dages. be familiar with the Morse code
able to describe. after one minutes look
ing. what is In a display window: he
must travel mile at scouts pace and
know the points Of the COMPASS In Eng
land a second-c!ass scout must also have
a few shillings in bank.
To rank first-class he shall swim fifty
capable OF sending or rece wing a mes
sage by Morse or semarhcre at a rate
of sixteen letters to the m nrte, and know
how to deal with all accidents he may
come across He shall, as a test OF sell.
reliance, go Off for a two-dav trip with
only one companion. anctrer scor-. MAX
ing map is another renu.re:Ei n and so
is the judging OF distance heisht ana
weight no less than IS per cent perfectly:
Then he must bring In tenoerioot
trained BY hlmSeif ana reho! ioi "'so""-
class work
His next step is to try to gan badge
of proficiency in Workmanship. am
bulancework signaling or wo"dcratt OK
some sort. Such an accompaniment oe-
nends much upon the geographT OF the
country or the section In which he lives.
So many of the scouts in the United
states live inland that opportunities Tor
saving people In peril OF drowning are
not often given the average seoul Ne"
Zealand being small and having an ir.
regular coast line. sees many lives lost
IN the ocean that surrounds the island.
The boys there. growing up along the
sea be~ome careless frequently. ana one
ofternoop when a wind was blowing hard
and harder and heavy sea was on
Youthful adventurer In canoe was being
carried out to sea. Alan Fisher. Ettle
crinnle who was standing on the sands
and saw the danger. hailed three other
scouts launched boat in the twinkllng
of an eye and put out to reach the toss.
fnp to- of brich bark In whose hold sat
q lad who never expected to see the shore
again.
Two hours seems long time for
handful of children to dare the big
Pacific's roar and gale. and 1t is not with
out a thrill that one learns they succeed
ed in getting their playfeilow into their
boat and back to land. The pity is that
but one medal could be awarded for
this hero.sm. The cripple got II. OF
course. for he would have had no chance
had the boat overturned.
Gen Baden-Powell' once asked a very
immature scout who hailed from the
south of ENGLAND and was wearing
nesal for pallantry what so youthful
meda!ist had done to acquire such nonor.
with Rightly that would have creolted
soldier, and with no small degree OF
hauteur came the answer. FOR sdSMs
a noIiceman, sir" Though this Is the
on,y case on record where a scout saved
a no,iceman there are hundreds of cases
where they have assisted Dnfc mon
A wear or two before Baden-PoweH
came over the French Peace Society IN.
vited him to invade" France with 5000
scouts, and develop the movement
there. Thew were to marcn on
vored the movement, but suddenly there
was some objection raised; some one
branded the British contingent as
'Great Britain's boy spies." and II was
with no little difficulty that the French
lads finally secured the helping hand
that arranged things for them ana
made the Boy Scout movement possible
in the land of the Bourbons.
fication similar to that of gunpoiSder.
but more restricted in range, may pc