Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-01
Just Talks With Scouts

Scouts We are told that we are
to celebrate our birthday in February,
for whole week Think of it! Any
way, the really truly birthday of the
B. S. A. falls on February s, but as
Lincoln's birthday comes so close 1t
| is suggested that each troop do some
especially fine thing on that date
| February IL. We are to make pres
ents to everybody-"good turn" pres
ents-all along in February, because
| il really should take an extra, long
time for 100000 Boy Scouts of Amer
lea to celebrate. T.
And through it all the writer has
been thinking, thinking. At last the
thoughts have begun to take definite
forms and to shape themselves into
little Joys" all hopping up on to and
over the float for the Carnival. Why
not? They are more than anxious TO
do their good turn for Alexander
Hume Ford, master of the float busi-
ness. No, he does not wear khaki, so
far as we know, but he's good scout,
anyway, and we ought to help him
make the parade a big success.
Now, just what is the good turn?
Well, each troop talk it over and see
what you can do about bringing some
ported ferns for the float, then help
out that old man Pluvius with his
watering pot you've heard about. He
may or may not pour down enough
from the clouds, so you'd better give
him some local assistance and keep
those ferns green. We don't want
any jealousy or rivalry to go on re-
garding our floating good turns-so to
speak-and no one troop should be
jealous because another troop Is go
ing to help out But lend hand, talk
it over with Duncan, and don't be
afraid of him when he looks down
on you and urges you on to a good
deed He won't bite. ~.
We found this on flagpole, stuck
up alongside Halemaumau, the last
time we were over at Kilaeua:
KILL. VOLCANOES? 49,. .~...
Seoutmaster-What kind Of stoves
did prehistoric men have?
Tende rfoot-Mountain ranges.
Once there was a man who was
perfectly satisfied to ride about in a
tub-on the water, of course Nat.
urally, the tub was round, and natur-
ally the man had plenty of ups and
downs while trying to enjoy this form
of sport There was no outrigger to
the thing, so far as known, so it
whirled round and round, wasting
much valuable time, instead of riding
a wave in dignified and sweeping
manner The gods of ancient Greece
whispered to this man that there were !
places in other waters where he might |
go and see different form of nayi. |
cation. But d. was a mulish gentle |
man and refused to bulge, dying at |
last from dizziness and disappoint- |
ment, without ever, gazing on this |
peaceful sea or the inhabitants of its |
volcanic isles. Columbus at that time |
hadn't come along to discover that a |
tub would not float off the edge of |
the water somewhere and fall into
space, so of course those people over
there in Europe missed a whole lot of |
knowledge about this side of the |
world, which they didn't know existed.
All of which leads up to the point |
of asking for photograph Of scouts |
The editor wants such a
picture with the names of the scouts. /
A surfboard scout would make an in
teresting picture, too, but merely a
swimming scout would be no good /
for the purpose in hand. He must
show canoe or a board-so something |
absolutely Hawaiian, so as to educate
those folks over there in Greece and
in other places, too. We don't wish
them to think we have to ride in tubs.
Send the picture in to the Star
Bulletin office in care of the Boy
Scout editor. 49,. ~
Dan Beard tells us that not long
since at Louisville, KY, each member
OF a bard of scouts placed his hat
upon fence post on the edge of the.
woods The ,scoutmaster then took
the boys into the woods, turned them
around two or three times and or
dered them to go fetch their hats.
One boy went directly to the fence
post and secured his hat, two others
in a short time. 1t took
of an hour for eight
others to find the way out of the
woods, and two hours for the scout
master to find the. three remaining
boys, who were discovered two miles
away in the opposite direction. In
this case there were but four trust
worthy scouts. although they were all
Of them honest, Straightforward, good |
boys.
When we say that scout is trust.
worthy we mean that he is trust
worthy within reasonable limits, and
Il is reasonable to trust we'll
trained boy to find his hat no further
han 200 yards distant.
Another quality we might do, we'll
to cultivate is perseverance such as
me of our Pacific Steamship Com |