The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-11-21
Episcopal Convention Finds Much to
Praise in Activities of Order -
Now Troops Keep
Busy.

Boy Scouts in Keokuk will be in.
terested in knowing that Lieutenant
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt has &C
cepted membership on the executive
board of the national council of the
Boy Scouts of America. Governor
Myron 7. Herrick, of Cleveland, for
mer governor of Ohio and ambassa.
dor to France, is also on the national
executive committee, and James J.
Storrow, of Boston, was elected to
the board at the same time. Arch.
bishop Patrick J.. Hays, of New York
City. has also become an honorary
member of the council.
A resolution certifying to the bene-
fits of the Boy Scout training was
adopted by the house of deputies OF
the Episcopal church at Detroit.
The campaign to place the wal and
navy department citations for EN-.
ployers Of returned soldiers has been
St successfully carried on by the
troops all over the country that
Washington officials offer hearty
praise to the Scouts.
How Scouts Keep Busy.
Some ways in which scout troops
keep busy are recorded in the Scout
Bulletin:
Scout troop No. 5. Of Highland
Park, Mich, were the first ones to
clear the ground for the new church
home.
Boy Scout troop No. 1 of Bay City,
Mich, shoveled snow from city wa
ter hydrants, cleaned the Red Cross
sewing room every week and deliV-
cred literature for the board of
health.
AS a novel good turn the Scouts
in troop No. 4, of Dormont, Pa, have
planted twenty-five cherry trees 'just
for the birds"
Scouts in Wyano, Pa, raised enough
money to buy a bell for a church and
also pledged $50.
Scouts in Los Angeles collected
tons of brush seed to be used in sow
ing over a burned area with a view
to %recreating the growth of brush
! which retards water flow.
While several men ran for a rope
to throw to Mrs. Roberts Sparks, of
Malad, Idaho, who had drifted into
dangerous water and was crying for
help while bathing in Lake View,
Idaho, Hyrum Parry, a ~15-year-old
Boy Scout of troop 55, wan out and
pulled her to safety.
The juvenile probationers in Mont
clair, N. j., are handled at the Boy
Scout office.
Theodore E.. Curtis, member Of
troop %, Boy Scouts, of Salt Lake
City, is credited with saving the life
of Henry c. Krentz in Cottonwood
canyon, when the later had all the
fingers on his left hand and the
thumb on the right blown off by the
explosion of a giant dynamite cap
he found lying in the woods
near where miners had been blasting.
Scouts of Fort Lauderdale, Fla,
have been busy cutting palms and
earned 500 with which to build
camp site.
During the past summer every
in troop No. /, Blue Mound,
.as., was engaged in some kind OF
Useful work. These boys also kept /,
he grounds clean around the school :
and have been responsible for +
he distribution of government pam +
!
Scout troop No. 25, Portsmouth, !
"a, has done police duty at three I
Tres, and was invited to be.a guard Z
# honor at the homecoming parade '
# soldiers and sailors. r
Detroit Boy Scout troop No. %, al r
he request of the United States g
officials, acted as orderlies. s
hey have also showed good spirit in n
nswering local calls and doing traf-l b
ic duty. e
Boy Scout troop No. 5, Detroit, has c
evsral times come to the assistance I
( the police in regulating traffic, L
troops No. 5 and No. 10 were es-
useful and energetic in the
ity's cleanup campaign. RI
Treaty Is Effective. ST