The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-15
A E1JcH praise is constantly being | MMll given the Boy Scouts mot one
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MI given the Boy Scouts @ot on, one 9O9 bit more than they deserve eith- | er, and the following from the Red Cross Magazine tells of much splendid work they have accomplished the past few months and will be read with much interest: While the Boy scout follows pro rramme designed to make him good citizen and q self-reliant one, he is never engaged in any campaign of his own: He is never on parade and he is never seen in quantity It is an organization solely of service for others-the Boy Scout movement simply supplements the work of other organizations,
 Has any of them a piece of work to be carried out? The Boy scouts help Is there a parade? The Boy Scouts are seen not in the line of march but along the route, helping as ushers or as order lies or in policing the lines. Although they have many fine stunts that go well in public, they never exhibit<them solely for the purpose of showing off.
 The Scout has taken an oath to help other people at all times This means service which 1t is not always easy or convenient to perform. He is pledged to edo d good turn daily The cumu- lative effect of these hundreds of thou sands of daily good turns, amounting Tn the year to many millions, is one ol the greatest forces making for kind ness that this cruel old planet has ever seen.
 The government has put to work this organized ''boy power" of the natlon III many ways to win the war.
 The Bow Scouts of America, in three Liberty Loan campaigns, secured one out of every g subscriptions received by our government. The total reached l,S4sl subscriptions for s2Oe.179,150. Who would undertake to raise one-twentieth of that sum with uhcrganized boys2
 A medal, the treasury department war service emblem, was awarded to Soy Scouts of America who developed invest ors in 10 or more homes during the Ihlru Loan campaign. It has been won by F. 427 Scouts, while 11,Se6, who are wearing medals won in the preceding campa igns received bronze bars .233S awards Tn all
 The sales of War Savings Stamps ano certificates by the Boy Scouts of America can be measured only by mhlons
 The national council of the Boy Scouts of America passed significant reso lution on April g, 1917: ITO co-operat' with the Red Cross through US loca chapters in meeting their responsloiil ties occasioned by the state of war As messengers, in the salvage campaigns in Red Cross drives for money and mem hers. the Scouts have been dependapt helpers in countless ways.
 In the distribution of public document as .dispatch bearers of the government, the Scouts put out 15,000,oo0 pamphlets and the records show that 2,OOo0O0 re orests for additional literature have bee received by the committee on public ir formation as a result of the work tn Scouts did.
 The countrywide search by the Kid in khaki' for black walnut trees for tn war department is one of the most ama2 ing feats of successful war ~ work rapid-fire time. Black walnut IS badi needed for gun stocks and airplane pro pellers. The forest service, in giving tn total of the figures as submitted to tn ordnance department, says that LII Scouts had reported 14,o3S,56o board fee about 3667 carloads This will add thol sands of gun stocks and airplane pro