Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-02-19
BOY SCOUT WORKERS
HUSTLE FOR. FUNDS
MANY Generous Subscriptions
Promised TO Aid Organization
for Next Two Years

Members of the Executive Council Of
the Wilmington Boy Scouts of America
were busy today Intervening friends, and
calling others on the telephones seeking
subscriptions to tho Si4 900 budget fund
campaign which is under way this week
There were many responses of n generous
nature, but as the committee conducting
the campaign is taking nothing for grant
ed these subscriptions will not be counted
until the checks or money are IN the hands
of the treasurer, William j IIigh6Cld
This afternoon Boy Scouts will give
demonstrations of some Of the branches
of their work in the show windows Of the
Snellenburg store and the Stictf piano
store.
Practical results of what the scouts arc
doing arc called for at meeting of the
Boy Scout troops, and one that occurred
last week impressed Scout Executive
Greenhawk more than anything else.
The incident was related at a meeting
of the Boy Scouts of Central Presbyterian
Church. When the boys were lIncd up and
asked what good decd they had done re-
Gently all responded but one. The boys
told of helping mother wash the dishes,
OF getting coal for the aged, of buttonlng
sisters dress, of aiding father or mother
little things all Of which constituted their
most recent deeds.
But the scout at the end Of the line held
his head down and remained silent when
asked what he had done.
Again the interrogation was put 10 HIM
bv MIR GrcCnhawk but the lad was mute.
Then Rev J. X Crawford the pastor OF
the church. srcke.
'I would Ike 20 toll YOU what this chap
has done, he sand addressing tho scout
executive.
HELPING AGED WOMAN.
This boy scroc time ago learned Of an
aged woman who could scarcely move for
infirnities and age ard he learned that
one Of the hard"s; t.'incs she had TO do was
to carry coa3 lrtt the house ~ use In the
stove This lad. without suggestion went
to tho woman ard told her nc would get
the coal ard tend the fire So twice daily,
| he has been doing this chorc, without say
ing anything TO any one, and often going To
the store to make some purchases or doing
whatever errand was needed for the wo-
man and without penny IN return
- "One dav ] called at the house in the
morning TO make call, Rev. Crawford
continued "And what do YOU think |
witnessed? Why, there was this chap who
is too modest TO speak of his deeds, tend
ing the woman, who was IN bed. She told
me the lad had gotten her some breakfast
and had done many little things TO make
her as comfortable as possible.
This lads act speaks for itself. But
there are hundreds of scouts in this city
doing little deeds OF kindness, not for re-
cornpense but because they are living up
10 the scout oath which directs zone good
deed every day
SECRETARY DANIELS PRAISES WORK.
Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the
Navy is firm believer in the eff
cacv of Bow Scout work In speaking
of the movement the official saws:
Il am in hearty accord with the Boy
Scout movement and believe IT deserving
of encouragement in the great work it
has undertaken The men behind this
movement-men who are planning that
boys as they 90 out in life shall have fine
purposes and noble spirit-are proceed
ing on the theory, that you cannot tell
q boy to stop doing something he ought
not to do.
"You must crowd ont OF his life the
things that tend TO keep him from the
highest things, by pouring in something
better. But even greater than the phys
ical exercise and the direction of boys
cleanness of life and cleanness Of thinking.
sometimes think that if anything could
make me doubt the goodness of God,
it would be the fact that He gave to boys
in their teens all the passions of man
without mans restraint and judgment
$50 those of us who have sons and want
to see them grow 20 strength, wish TO
safeguard them from yielding TO tcmpta-
tions that mar their lives, before they are
old enough to know what they mean
The Boy Scout movement provides this
safeguard. 1t puts into the boys love
of country and gives them a splendid
obligation in their oath-an oath that is
as wholesome and elevating as the oath
of the Athenian states; an oath, which
think, gives them something splendid
and ideal TO live up to.
II believe that we shall find evolving
out Of the Boy Scout movement n new
generation Of men; men fit in mind, fit
in body and fit in moral fiber, and after all
if man has no moral fiber what is
everything else WORTH"
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