The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-16
Gardening, Liberty Loan, Red Cross
and Food Conservation Work
All Part of
Program
REGULAR WORK GOES ON
Campaigns for Clean Cities and Swat
ting Flies and Mosquitoes
Not Neg
lected

The army of 251,1S9 Boy Scouts Of
America, thoroughly organized and
disciplined, trained to obey orders
cheerfully and hardened to hiking
and outdoor life and the physical
exertion that comes in the soldiers
life, has already been called on by
Uncle Sam to take part in several
campaigns. Those that have not
already been brilliantly won are
being driven forward successfully.
The first of these is the gardening
campaign under the battle-cry,
Every Scout to Feed Soldier.
Thousands of boy scouts in thou
sands or back yards and vacant lots
and on country acres are nursing
skyward the beanstalks that will
later on enable the American army
in France to enter the fight fed on
the good old American bean. The
perishable articles of the garden that
the scouts will raise for home con-
sumption will release thousands OF
allies.
The Liberty loan campaign was
another four-day battle pursued with
magnificent strategy and persistence.
So far, $1S,661 900 in bond signatures
is recorded at national headquarters
as having been captured for Uncle
Sam. The Red Cross has had
faithful and efficient ally from the
first in the boy scout; and. while no
national campaign has been carried
on by the boy scouts for this pur-
pose, in hundreds of cities and towns
the country over the troops have col
lected money, and have made pads
and bandages, and have put up pound
packages of concentrated food, and
have packed cases, and have done
other hard work ordinarily done by
the men.
Fourth Campaign is the Hardest.
The latest bugle call for service
has been sounded by Mr.. Herbert C.
Hoover, who now announces plans
for enrolling the women of the coun-
try in the food administration, ask
ing that all rearrange their house
hold methods of living. The boy
scouts are asked to assist in tabu-
lating and checking up all the homes,
each house to make a pledge and ex-
hibit a window-card that it is follow
ing out the administration program.
All of this wonderful service cheer
fully performed by the Boy Scouts
OF America will bring in new vision
of scouting on the part of the general
public 1t will mean further in
creased responsibility on the part of
scout leaders to maintain the ideals
of scouting as the membership of
the organization increases by reason
of it's broader appeal. Registrations
are now coming in at an average
rate of 1880 day. There are now
PSI ,1S9 scouts, an increase since
January l of over fifty thousand
Undoubtedly another of the results
will be an increased demand for the
service Of scouts. Through organ
lied effort, the Boy Scouts Of Amer
lea will be able to serve their coun-
try effectively in other worthwhile
and national undertakings such as
the garden and Liberty loan propa-
ganda. This does not mean, how
ever, that scouts will give up doing
their daily good turns or give up
their regular program or be any the
| less concerned as to their oblfga-
ton to serve their home town in
civic affairs.
Regular Scout Program Going On.
Anti-fiy and anti-mosquito cam
paigns must depend, as they have in
| the years past, upon the activity Of
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