Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-01-10
]. A. Wilder TO
TALK AT kauai
OF BOY SCOUTS
Leader of Movement is Making
an Energetic Campaign to
Build Up Organization

Another step In the movement: re
Gently begun by James A. Wilder TO
build up an organization Of Boy Scouts
in Hawaii which will be credit TO the
territorys will be the rally and meet.
ings on Kauai which are TO be held
the last week in January to perfect
the troops on the Garden Island. Mr.,
Wilder is TO make speech to citizens
on Kauai January Is.
IL am going to tell them just what
the movement means" Mr.. Wilder
said, speaking of the work on Kauai.
Il am going to point out TO them that
the Boy Scout movement will produce
good citizens with high ideals and the
idea of helpfulness. bravery when it Is
called for, self sacrifice. and the abil-
ity TO take care of themselves under
all circumstances. 49,. II
Years ago the idea was to work
for boys. Then IL changed to work
with boys. The Scout movement
means letting boys work. 1t teaches
them to do things. not to expect their
teachers to do them: to want know
edge OF all the things scout must
know, because il Is honorable to know
these things. and still more honor to
apply them. .1<..-. -..s..
Pledges Of Scouts. ...a
There are three chief pledges o.
the scouts which will in themselves
make q good man of any boy. These
are three OF the principal things $780,
900 boys in the organization have
pledged themselves to do.
Ito do his duty to God and to his
country and to obey the scout law
ITO help other people at all times
ITO keep himself physically strong
and morally straight
Dir. Wilder believes no place is bet
ter suited to the scout movement than
the territory and no set of boys can
use il to better advantage or get more
profit from II than the boys of Hawaii
There are SO many boys of varied
races here" he said, and many OF
them are lacking in some advantages.
II will be a wonderful thing for the
future If they are taught the scout
laws.
e".,Do a good tirn daily Always
be kind and brave There are two OF
our notices and they are obeyed in
big and little things. -. I'll.
Many Good Turns"
why, the reports from seoutmas-
tiers of the good turns are as varied
as life can allow them to be. read
scoutmaster' s report which happen
| to remember of scouts on'a hike who
/ took a tin can from a little dogs tail
\ In the face of opposition from a gang
of youngsters who did not know that
cruelty is not sport. There was q Lad
who reported his good turn this way:
| L picked up q handkerchief for fat
LADY They pick up glass from the
road, remove fruit peels from the side
walk. help old ladies and blind men
across the streets; these are some
small things. But I read also OF boy
who saved three persons from drown
ing, OF a scout troop that, when others
were standing helplessly by an injured
boy, rendered him first aid quickly and
effectively. There are hundreds Of
such deeds. <....
Praise From Police Chief.
RAYMOND w, Pullman, superin
tendent of the police department OF
the District of Columbia, said after the
g. A. r. reunion that he had followed
the scout movement for five years and
he adds: I find myself each year be
lieving more and more firmly that the
movement is giving the boys of this
country more that makes for character
building and good citizenship thar
any American institution, except the
home
lie Fun for the Boys.
/ Mr.. Wilder says all boys like to he
scouts. They like the outdoors knowl
edge 1t gives them of woodcraft, camp
hooking. forestry, trees. flowers and Of
fearing for themselves. II is natura
for a boy to be manly and clean. he
thinks, and when they learn that In
the scouts IL is smarter" to be good
hammered and manly than to he tough
j which boys sometimes think Is
4 smart" it is an easy task to make
good scouts of them.
I'VE can get scouts" he said in con
Guiding, but not until we get scout
masters. We need men who can give
some of their time, to the movement
as a pleasure and because they are
doing something worth while What
we need in Hawaii now is scoutmas
| farc uhn will holm To train all fhc