Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-23
SCOUTING NOTES

In announcing the recent forma-
ton of four brand new Scout
troops, Harrisburg is pleased to take
this opportunity of welcoming the
new Scouts into the Harrisburg
jurisdiction and the Scout brother
hood. The new troops are located
at the following institutions: Troop
2, at the Y. NJ. II. A; Troop 3. at
Trinity Lutheran Church; Troop .,
at Messiah Lutheran, and Troop 3,
at the Capital Street Presbyterian
Church. We expect to hear great
things from these newcomers and
the doors are open for their sug-
gestions, schemes and achievements.
1t is interesting to note that Trinity
Lutheran Church formerly had
troop of Scouts and that they have
come back and reclaimed their old
number-Troop 3-while MesSlah
Lutheran in the days gone by main
tanned Troop /.
Harrisburg now has within its
city limits twenty troops of BOY
Scouts, and with those outside OF
the city, but under jurisdiction Of
the local council, there are twenty
three. This is a splendid record of
growth for a period of five months,
as anyone who knows the difficult
ties attending the organization of
hundred Harrisbur~ boys are now
living up to the standards of the
Scout oath and the Scout law, and
every day new. enrollments are re-
ceiVed at headquarters. Numbers
are not what we are working for so
much as to instil the Scout tenet of
service to others and good citizen
ship thoroughly into the minds or all
Scouts, new and old, but 1T is graft
inn q n
number of troops since the organi-
zation of the local council has been
$50 per cent, and in membership
1SO per cent. Further than this, a
comparative study of figures shows
that we have more than twice the
number of Scouts, in proportion to
population, than New York City.
A number of boys were In head
quarters the other evening, The
question of tying knots came up
and a rome was produced. Some Of
the boys with second class badges
could not tie the elementary knots.
This is not good scouting boys.
Each and every Scout should master
every detail of the tests. so that
none would ever be forgotten. Let's
check up!
All Scouts will be pleased to learn
of the big rallies planned for the
near future. The local council has
provided the place, and the time
will be once a month, probably on
Monday evenings. Big times are
looming up. and. with five or six
hundred boys all out together
there ought to be some time. Races,
games, entertainments and, last but
not least, scouting demonstrations
will go to make up an unusually
interesting program at the first af-
fair.
Scout scribes: Some of you are
forgetting about the weekly news
items for this page. You must re-
member that every line counts up
and it's up to you to represent your
troop Nothing is too small, moth
ing too big, in the way of Scout
news. There's always something to
get together. Use that little old
Imagination and write every week.
No. we haven't forgotten about
that basketball league. but we can't
wish for basketball floors and make
'em. Thought we were on the trail
of two good ones this week, but got
a disappointment. However, as the
doctor says: while there's life
there's hope" and we've still got
another shot to fire. This league
simply can't shape up much before
the first of the year, however, no
matter how fast we move. Looks
like the Scouts ought to- have "a
crackerjack league for all seasonal
sports in the near future.