The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-01-04
Commissioner Wilder Delivers
Interesting Address AT Special
Sunday Night Exercises
JUVENILES OF KHAKI
ARE PRESENT IN BODY
Growth of Organization In Ha-
walls Hampered BY Lack
Of Masters

An earnest appeal for more scout
masters to take charge Of the field Of
endeavor which lies open for the tillfng
in Honolulu, and a stirring dissertation
on the Boy Scouts gospel of the good
turn, were the high spots of Scout
Commissioner James A. Wilder's ad.
dress on 1.-THE Boy Scouts" delivered
Sunday night at Central Union Church
The edifee was we'll filed, the scouts
present, who were attired in uniform,
being seated in the first pews.
1t was Boy Scout service, from
Soldiers" to the spirited singing of
America at its conclusions. Both
DR.. DOremus Scudder and Rev. A. A.
Ebersole made reference to the great
Scout movement, by prayer or other
wise, and the hymns were all of a
service nature. ...ta'
Commissioner Wilder opened his ad-
dress by calling attention to the fact
that the service was the first ever given
for Boy Scouts in Honolulu. The move.
ment, he said, was taken almost as a
joke Mt first, but today people who
laughed at the scout before, sahted
him. He said that the pioneer of the
Boy Scout movement was the great
child crusade of the Middle Ages, in
which thousands of children set out
from Europe for the Holy Land.
Eight Million Scouts
There were, the speaker said, 5000.
600 Boy Scouts in the United States
who had promised to obey the Scout
law, which meant that they were phys.
ically fit, mentally awake and morally
straight.
1.-THE core of the whole thing"
said the comm ssioner, "is the promise
to do a good turn, which is the little
ever burning fame which is keeping the
scout movement alive all over the
world. 1t is a revival of the knight
errantry Of old and the quest of these
modern knights is the good turn"
The speaker said that it was while
autoing in England in 1910 that he
saw his first, BOY Scout Becoming lost
as to the direction of q certain town
n Boy Scout offered to guide the party.
When he had done his good turn Viii
der offered him half crown as a re-
ward for his services. This the boy
refused to take, and on being questioned
as to the reason of his refusal, he told
the HonOlulan that he had only done
good turn and that the reason why
he couldn t accept the money was be-
cause he was a Scout.
1T is not enough to want to do the
good turn,' said Commissioner Viii
der, Zone must also know how to do
it, or, in other words, he must be pre-.
pared, which is the Scouts motto. This
preparedness consists of physical drill
for the purpose of keeping fit and in
learning the very many things on the
knowledge of which the safety of life
and property might depend in time OF
emergency.
After instancing n number of typi-
cal good turns which have been done Of
late by the Boy Scouts of Honolulu,
Commissioner Wilder mentioned that al
though the work was going ahead in
this city, there was not yet in the local
body a life, star or an eagle scout,
of the latter of whom there are $50
in the United States. He said that he
would be disappointed if, year from
now, Honolulu hadn't at least one
eagle scout.
New troops are being planned and
promised in every direction, " said
Mr.. Wilder, and it looks as If the pres
ent muster in Honolulu of $50 Scouts
would be greatly increased during the
present year.
"What Is needed most of ALL said
the speaker, '"is more scoutmasters to
take charge of the 800 or moro poor
boys in Honolulu who are anxious to
join a Scout troop, but who cannot do
so on account of there being crying
paucity, of scOutmasters. He spoke of
the great work which man might
do by volunteering his services in this
connection, and of the benefit which
the man himself could not fail tote
eeiye.
1--WE want the assistance of the wo,
men in Honolulu in this NATTER" con
cluded Mr. Wilder, "and we want every
father and mother in town to become
interested in the movement II makes
distinctly for the good of the boy and
Of the community, A Scout pledges him
self to do his duty to his God and his
cOrntrv, to render service whenever
possible to the community, and to CO.
operate with others in helping others. "
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