Mohave County miner., 1917-08-18

of General Baden Powell. whose ge-
 nius gave shape and direction to the
 HE sql U! uesq sB4 lBq2 lu5IueAom
 on this side of the water for years,
 accounted for some of it; the uniform and the long marches for most Of the rest. But the khaki uniform, smart though it be, does not make Q scout. The soldierly virtues of honor, loyalty, and obedience are part of his equip-
 ment, but not all. Something Of the
 spirit of the early pioneers, even of the knights of old he must have caught to pass muster.
 When it crops out in the home, in school; when father, home from the
 office, rubs his spectacles and takes another look: "What is the matter with Tom never knew him to be that way before; is he sick, or. something 2" then he is the real thing. He is the
 same boy all right, as the folks will have occasion to note before many
 moons; but his energies have been run
 into a new channel.
 The "good turn every day" is the capstone of scouting, and quite unlike any fighting scheme ever heard of. It is enlisting with consumate wisdom
 the good in the lad in the making of the man through his play. That the better citizen, when he is made, will be the better able to defend the flag which the scouts have been taught to love, goes without saying; and are we the worse off for that? As to the marching, fancy soldiers "on hike" The scouts know their outings by no other term.
 Here are some reports of "good turns from the headquarters mailbag. Please understand that they are in tended for information, not for pa rade.
 Here are two little scouts coming upon a horse that has upset his dinner and scattered the oats on the pave ment. Seeing that he cannot get his head down, the boys sweep up the oats and hold the. box till he has eaten. 4 squirrel has it's head caught in an old tin can; a scout hears 1t cry, sets it free, and lets it go. The last ou Int to get the lad a hero medal--to miss the chance of securing a pet squirreli But here is a whole troop in the town of Edgewood, Pennsylvania, taking over the care of the grounds at the orphans home, choPping down dead wood, filling up a cesspool that was dangerous, pruning grapevines, and grating apple trees.
 All over the country the services of the scouts are being enlisted in c,vic affairs. The city of Philadelphia has recently appropriated five hundred | dollars for badges to be given scouts | who qualify as tree wardens. The state of NewJ ersey has a fish and game pa trol of boy scouts. Massachusetts has had most effective cooperation from scouts in taking a tree census. Mich l igan has body of forest scouts.S .Splen- did work has been done by the scouts | in the war on the brown-tail moth and | other pests in infected districts, and in 'swat the fly" campaigns all over the country.
 In New York City the health depart ment enlists the scouts in the "Clean City Campaign" They did it in Yonk- CTS so well that the oldest inhabitant | would not have known the bank of the that had been the general dump of the city for generation.
 Another grab Gin the mail bag) | brings up scout masters reports in the oyos' own language That is unusual, for it is no part of the plan to make little Pharsees of the fellows, but this was an attempt to get at what they themselves thought of it. This is what -hey thought:
 4 man had horse and it was young and it would not stand for him, so he asked me if I would please get him lis mail, so did.
 I wiped the dishes for my mother.
 My grandmother lost her glasses and
 found them.
 They were little things of course; put put yourself in granGmother's Ilace looking for her glasses and get her opinr n of them.
 Besides, there are plenty of bigger .hings to rep. 70. cl.G osr to call hem so. It dercn IS upon how you oox at it.
 In the spr . fiOn ss n he nn,idle , z. t-the scott: were e g.1a service, helping, and even taking a land in saving life. The scouts of AL egheny county, Pennsylvania, voted wo hundred dollars they had saved or their summer camp for the relief ,f the flood sufferers and collected .hree hundred garments besides for hem. In Chicago the scouts are wag- ng war on the caterpillars and all heir kin, which is no mean service to 'ender. In Pittsburgh a scout found ,oTty-five dollars in the street and ook the money to the Kingsley house, efusing to "divvy" with his fellows yho were with him. The money turned ut to have been lost by anItalian wo- nan who had caused the arrest of a