Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1916-04-13
Successful Tag Day Work.

Twenty-one scouts from three of the
local troops did very good work for the
Belgian Tag Day fund, in spite of bad
weather.
Special mention was made of Scouts
John Buchanan and John Atterbury of
Troop s. Scout Buchanan solicited
1874 while Scout Atterbury made
himself very useful at the Red Cross
headquarters.
The following is the amounts taken
$11O; Troop 8, twelve scouts, $51.S5;
Troop 9. six scouts. 1913; total of
S73.4S.
Troop Active.
Boy Scouts, Troop No. 3, met in the
First Congregational chapel Tuesday
evening. Arrangements were COM
pleted for second class work within
two months. A hike for Monday af-
ternoon at O'Clock was planned. 1t
was voted to have H. T. Frazier as
| assistant scoutmaster. There was a
rehearsal of the play.
School of Instruction.
On next Wednesday afternoon, April
| 18th, school of instruction in second
class scout work will be held in Mo-
| hogan Park at 2 p. m, at the baseball
grounds. All second class scouts who
| Will be on vacation, should take OPP
portunity to advance.
| Boston Scouts Camp.
| Three Pond Camp is a Boy Scout
camp, and only Boy Scouts will be ad-
mitted 1t is under the management
| of The Association of Three Pond
Camp for Boy Scouts" which is COM
posed of men interested in the welfare
| OF scouting in all its branches, and
who have as their object to provide
a camp for Boy Scouts which while
| furnishing all the benefits of phystca
recreation out of doors and the various
| Boy Scout activities, lay especial en-
phasis upon obedience, Difference, or
der and discipline as the Fundamental
characteristics of the Scout oath anC
law
The officers of the association are:
President, Arthur A. Carey; vice-presi
dent, Charles c. Jackson; secretary.
treasurer, George A. Mansfield; CAM
commissioner, Hugo B. Seikel
| PARENTS, Scoutmasters or scout troops
wishing to meet any of the instructors
or the camp commissioner before tn
camp opens, can make appointment
by writing to the camp commissioner
hugo B. Seikel, 321 Crescent street
Waltham.
Purpose: To stimulate good com
radeship, clean sport, honest effor
and efficient scouting, with the spiri
OF responsibility and prompt obedienc
; characteristic of the scout law.
Camp motto: Work we'll done is tn
| OSSl Ol II.
Anti-Militarists are Set Riaht.
The training of the Boy Scout ha
s often been looked at askance by anti
m1ltarlsts," writes Charles Henri
+ West, c. I. E, in the London Week.
}, Dispatch, but the readiness wit
s which he has answered his country
:, call has given a certain semblance c
It truth to the belief that the Boy Scout
s have always been prepared for war
: subtle scheme for recruiting implante
d in every home!
e Nothing could be farther from tn
: truth. The Boy Scout Movement i
9 primarily and essentially, a peac
II movement, and its main object in lii
Il Is purely and simply to generate goo
= citizens. 1t is only directing and ac
3 c1dentally, so to speak, that the goo
d citizen goes to war and as it is char
W acter that makes the true soldier an
II the civilian alike, it is the building {
Re that which the Chief Scout has alway
II Kept in the forefront of the movemen
d The Boy Scout is undoubtedly OF
It OF the greatest assets we have in IL
present crisis In many cases he
d far better trained, and often far mo-
a technically proficient, than the ave-
ID age recruit-but he Is something mo!
- than he has yet shown himself as
e. man of war. He is the type of the ma
i'd of peace whom not only the Empi
a calls for, but which civilization itse
le demands to weld all humanity In
@Sr vast Brotherhood"