The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1920-02-06

OF praise reward simply and sincerely render
60 Ior sheer good Wills sake A scout is helpful.
Nearly every individual, institution and organ
Hation In this country has become accustomed by
.hS tlme TO seeing khaki-clad boy scouts busting
ABOUT, lending hand here and there and every
"nere, wherever and whenever there is some
thlng to be DONE The latter day version of the
adage: If you want a thing well done, you must
40 IL yourself" seemsAto be n you want thing
done well, get the boy scouts to do it,"
What scouts have done towards winning the
world war and their usefulness generally in times
OF peace Is now fully realized by the American
people No agency called into service by the
government In wars emergency responded with
more enthusiasm or with greater. efficiency than
did the army OF almost half million boys who
constitute the Boy Scouts Of America
In the five Liberty loan campaigns boy scouts
acting always as cleaners after the reapers and
working as solicitors only in the last few DAYS Of
each drive, secured 2,32S3OS separate subscrlp-
lions amounting to 1882 22,975. Reducing this
total to an average for each scout it means a
sale of $3.50 worth Of bonds a boy
The treasury department has recognized this
service by awarding to scouts 66914 war service
embems and 2S497 bronze bars making total
of 95,411 awards to scouts for distinguished sery-
ice in Liberty loan work
Soliciting Liberty loan subscriptions was a IA.
triotic service done at definite, stated times But
throughout the war-and they are still hard at
it--these boys sold 2.1S9417 War Savings stamps
to the total amount of SAB 022, O44. For excep-
tional work in the sale of stamps the treasury
department has given %, Ill achievement buttons
each button representing sales made in 25 different
homes and 1921 ace medals for sales totaling
$3.50
But 1t is only small part of scout war service
that be measured in terms of money. In the
soliciting of funds for Liberty loans scouts were
only used "Moppers Up" and while their use
fitness and achievements in this respect are
things of which scouts proud they are proud
est Of their other work that was more individual
w. Enthusiastically, scout Good Turn" service
There is much that is included in the term
scout service, but analysis of Individual good
turns applied to the community or nation
duces 1t simply to the job to be done next AS a
rule there many jobs that there no
next-they all had to be done at once and what
Is more-they In connection with Uncle
Sans loans there great deal of publicity for
the scouts to spread broadcast. Between local
headquarters, scout messengers strengthened the
lines of communication; scout messengers helped
out the banks and made lighter the work Of city
and federal officials Those posters the wind
shield OF practically automobile In the land
were put there by scouts
At the loan rallies and other big patriotic meet
ings In every community In the land. it was a
boy scout that ushered you In, boy scout that
gave YOU the subscription blank boy scout that
acted as orderly for the speaker 1t was a boy
scout band very often that played and 1t was
boy scouts who formed a corps of assistants to
the police.
Scouts at the outdoor rallies attracted the at
tention of passers-by with scout demonstrations
or loan speakers and everywhere SERVED in any
cspacity In which the scout uniform and what II
stands for" gave prestige to the occasion and
helped sell bonds.
Another big item in war service scout gar
dens. No plot too large or too small for
the efforts Of the scouts whose slogan was Every
scout to feed a soldier and one Other" In cities
scouts made vegetable gardens grow in back yards
that used to be a mass of unkept grass and
weeds Boys who have no back yards asked
owners of vacant lots to let them cultivate the
land, and then paid rental with some of their
choicest products Country scouts planted war
gardens q large scale, and bod Ne advantage