Bogalusa enterprise. [volume] (Bogalusa, La.) 1914-1918, 1916-03-30
BOY SCOUTS ORGANIZED
AND OFFICERS ELECTED
Purpose Of Organization
And Something About
The Good They Do

On Thursday evening, at the
Y. M. C. A., the Boy Scouts were
formally organized in a troop, to be
known, as Troop No. /, Of the city
of Bogalusa. MIR. George B. Heck
man, physical director of the Y. M.
C. A., will be the Scout Master, and
the assistant Scout Master, will be
X. |. Bean, Searcy Young and John
Holman. On the local committee.
or the committee who sponsors the
movements, are, J. C. Mills, Rev.
w, P. Chalmers and W. N. Babing-
ton. The Boy Scout Movement is
familiar to everybody, and has
spread over the entire world, and is
proving to be one of the best train
ings a boy can receive. The aim
of the Boy Scouts, is to supplement
the various existing educational
agencies, and to promote the ability
in boys to do things for themselves
and Others It is not the aim to
set up a new organization to parall-
ell in its purposes already eStah'
lished. The opportunity is afforded
these organizations however, to in
troduce into their programs, unique
features, appealing to interests
which are universal among boys,
Themethod is summed up in the
term, Scoutcraft, and is a comblna'
ton of observation, deduction and
hardness, or the ability to do things.
Scoutcraft, includes instruction in
First Aid, Life Saving, Tracking,
Signaling, Cycling, Nature Study,
Seamanship, Campcraft, Chivalry,
Patriotism and other subjects.
The promotion Of the Boy Scout
Movement is essentially a commu-
nifty enterprise. 1t is the commu-
nity's opportunity to reach the boy
with corrective influences for char
acter building and good citizenship.
To give the work proper direction,
a governing committee, known as
) the Local Committee is formed. The
Boy Scout Movement is not antae'
onistic to any civic enterprise, but
rather seeked, to cooperate with all
good movements in the interest OF
the boy. The movement is wholly
non-sectarian and plans to work
with every sect and creed alike; i,
, is non-military, and seeks to pro-
, mote Peace Scouting, and to devel'
f op educational character.buildin@
+ for good citizenship. 1t is wholly
, non-partisan. 1t cannot favor one
interest against another, and cannot
countenance interference on any
debatable questions, whether social
religious, or political. 1t seeks tt
. make the boy a more useful ant
I appreciative son to his parents o.
to those to whom he owes his home
+. comforts, a more diligent and obedi
ent student in school life, a more
valuable aid to the community il
q promoting its material progress ant
= protection, and a more efficient an(
p better prepared young man in de
velopment for future citizenship
and the pleasures and hardships o
natures existence. In brief, Scout
ing appeals to boys, because it at
fords them activities suited to thei
years in complete, symmetrical way
These activities do not interfere
with the home, school or church
are primarily educational, and ure'
the SERVICE SPIRIT in adolscen
boyhood. The Scout idea, recog
nizes the voice of Adolescence, AM
is this, his thought and life challen
ges the developing boy to seek nev
expressions in a Good Turn Daily
to some one.
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