The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-02-12
He is Our Boy
That khaki kid is our boy.


enc of the men of the city.
What kind Of a man?
The trained kind because we are
going to help him up the ladder.
Exchange Your Money
Money depends on men. Its making
and its morals are in the hands OF
men. Tomorrow that boy will be a
man. He will have to do with money.
What will he do with it? He will be
honest, straight clean, because we are
going to help him up that ladder.
! Community character depends on
the character OF its citizens. Tomor-
row that boy will be a citizen. What
kind of a citizen will he be? He will
be: Physically strong, mentally
awake, and morally straight" Be-
cause we are going to help him up
that ladder.
The men and women of today are
going to exchange $4,000 in
cash for the development Of char
acter in one thousand Lakeland boys.
1t is the greatest investment that can
be made.
Scouting Has Been Tested
1t is an investment but not an ex-
pertinent.
i 1t is no gold brick.
No blue sky law restraints it.
Your receipt for your subscription
will not be relic of folly.
| 1t will be souvenir that in later
days will make your dimming eyes
glow with pride.
Some day you will sit and think OF
things done in making Lakeland and
you will say: Character and inteli-
ligence made that trail. 1t paid to put
some money into scouting"
MY hoy is All Right
Here and there we find parent who
thinks only in the terms of his own
boy. my boy is all right He doesn't
need to be scout. I'm taking care
of him myself"
Raising his boy to be a hermit.
He is a mental hermit himself who
} thinks that way.
If he has time and intelligence to
really care for his own boy he ought
to be a scoutmastef and help take
care Of other boys also.
Suppose You Succeeded
; Suppose you Mr.. Man. could take
care Of your boy and meet his desires
and train him for manhood. Could
YOU get any better result than to have
him ''rhysically strong. mentally
awake, and morally straight" Could
you!
How long are You going to keep him
isolated! Sooner or later he must d.
things for himself. You can't keer
on his trail and by his side all the
time and do anything else in life
yourself. What then?
He may have learned to thereby un-
derstand you. He has not thus learned
to understand other boys. And they
! are the ones with whom he must later
build his own life. This is where
scouting comes in.
1t trains the boy with boys. And
later when he grows up they will be
. grown up. And their lives will trai
together.
1t Is Just the Same With That Othe,
Boy
We have talked about your boy
Mr., Man. You thirk you can take
adequate care of him. But in addition
to what we have said about your tota
inability to train him to understand
other boys with whom he must late
work we have one more thing to sug
gest to your consideration.
You are not helping to train tina
other boy at all.
That other boy is the one that seem.
incorrigible. There are many of him
Nothing that society has so far don,
seems to affect his desire for,-well
let US say, mischief, in, order to speal
constructively.
OF course his mischief may lead t.
murder or any Of the degrees of tn
undesirable that lie between thes
two extremes.
Suppose it should be murder (fo
we haven't space to talk of all the in
tervening degrees) and that your bo
happened to be his victim.
Your anger and your sorrow wou,,
be alike helpless before this catastro
phe.
Your boy, carefully reared, ade
quately cared for. would be Just III
same and gone beyond recall.