Arizona republican., 1915-12-07
The Boy Scouts

There appeared in The Republican yesterday morning a list of local accomplishments by the Boy Scouts of Phoenix. We reproduce part of the list:
 Found chicken which numb with cold and put it in place to recover"
 Gave first aid a boy who had splinter in his foot
 Helped a small boy get baseball a larger boy"
 Helped girl get her tricycle. on the sidewalk"
 Cave first aid to a rabbit with wounded
 Recovered laiy's hat which blown off by the wind.
 Removed large stone from the middle Of the
 "Watered horse for girl"
 All these little things but they were ser vices to members of the community therefore to the community. It is coming be recognized by right thinking and women in all walks of life that the thing while in this world is service
 The Boy Scouts nearly all small boys the oldest of them coming within that which we accustomed to call thoughtless irrespon- sible. In most boys of that thoughtessness takes the form of cruelty there is no animal cruel than the small boy.
 There were thirty accomplishments the to which have made reference Every one of them act of kindness thoug,tfulness or helpfulness and suppose that all of them performed without solicitation. The boys were look ing for something do
 We imagine that all these thirty boys are av- craze boys, neither better worse individually; than boys who Boy Scouts. But if they had been Boy Scouts they would not have per formed these little They would not have thought to perform of them. They would have been deterred by boyish sense of shame from performing of them showing tender for dumb and wounded animals and helping girls
 But,enow they organized for service and these little helpful acts all in the days work the more, the better showing at the end of the month and, natural result, there will be more at the end of life ime No doubt that these boys will grow into better men for having been Boy Scouts.
 In the issue Of The Republican in which this list was published there printed an Asso- ciated Press dispatch stating that Mir Ernest Thompson Seton had announced his resignation as Chief Scout of the Boy Scouts of America because mitarism, he said, supplanting woodcraft in the activities of the Boy Scouts Thompson Seton when his used be MT. Seton- Thompson, long before the Boy Scout movement was contemplated, had been crank" the sub ject of woodcraft many naturalists To Mir. Thompson -Setons mind, the many thousands of Boy Scouts in America should all be naturaists, all should be versed in woodcraft, which, course,
  most parts of this country. He therefore the broadening of their activities along O general usefulness and especially along elementary military lines. We suspect that MT. Thompson Seton is what is called pacifst and come to be regarded almost offensive epthet.
 We believe that General Baden-PowelI the hero of Mafekng the originator of the Boy Scout move ment, had in mind primarily the elementary military training of English boys and it be matter of sincere regret in Great not Boy Scouts there years ago. trained to serve the country, l it's hour of dire
 But even if Boy Scouts do become soldiers there many other and better ways be- coming proficient in woodcraft, which they may taught give well that Mir. Thompson Seton has resigned from the office of Chief Scout. Though he written his many books, one, Scouting in America he has less grasp of the meaning Boy Scout movement than has the Phoenix branch who last month gave first aid to a rabbit with injured leg"