Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-11-23
Just Talks With Scouts
Conducted by Mabel Putnam chiIson

Did IL ever occur to us that the
young man scout, when he thinks, puts
on different kind OF thinking-cap
from the one that the baby scout
slaps on his head when he thinks :?
The youths cap hasn't az much trim
ming as the baby's. for the youth is
beginning to look into real life, while
the little fellow prefers to play. All
this is said by way Of asking the Young
assistant scoutmasters TO confer with
the older scoutmasters and to find
out IN anything more can be done to
keep the interest OF the life and star
scouts, or even of the eagle scouts.
There must be something ahead-al.
ways something ahead. They certain
ly, after all the. scouting experience
they have had, must not be put aside
for the substitution of youngsters.
Now, we are saying nothing against
12-year-olds ESQ TO speak, for We re-
gard everyone of them seriously. But
from s to II, plenty OF little boys who
are hungry for scout life know per-
fectly well that If they should try to
do as much az the big fellows, they
would fall down alongside the road
(say, on cross country hike) and be
found later having a grand old snooze
by a tree trunk. Isn't 1t so? And
here comes in the usefulness Of the
Wolf Pack In this organization every
cub knows he's cub and nothing
more. So he acts like cub and eats
Ike cub and sleeps like a cub; at
least over in England he does; while
in sthe states" little Indians go about.
pointing arrows at targets in the big
American forests and think they're
living the life of Hiawatha for sure.
AnC It's a good thing. But let us not
forget that young man of Is must
have something more serious than
feathers and beads with which to
amuse himself, and that he's altogeth-
er worth while, and that we must think
ysout him more and more
4fBefore delving into anything more
fJf a serious nature. let us tap our
brains and shake up the gray matter
a bit and tell ourselves that Troop
Xxx is to give a dance Friday (tomor-
row. evening at the Normal school. It
is to be hoped that as big crowd
will enter the bali room as that which
cheered Troop v last week in its ex-
celIent show
Do you live in the country away
from scouts? Would you like to join
a troop? Well. II so. and even if you
know you cannot join in with other
fellows, listen:
The country boy who. lives so far
from other boys that it is not prac-
tical for him to join scout group or
patrol, may now become Boy Scout
without becoming a patrol member.
This has Just been announced at ma
tional headquarters. Wherever a boy
is located he may now have all the
fun that scouts everywhere are hay-
ing, he may become a member Of the
Boy Scouts of America, the great or
ganization of more than 100000 boys
led by the most eminent men of this
country, among whom are the presi-
dent and the two former presidents.
To thousands of boys from the
backwoods of Maine TO the ranches of
California and from the everglades of
Florida to the plains Of the great
Northwest, who have written to ma
tional headquarters and begged to be
enrolled as scouts, the answer has al
ways been, You must form a troop
or join troop already organized"
In an enormous number of cases,
however, the boys have found it inn
,,,c,;hia ~ dn oither nf these Vet