Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1920-01-30

over their city brothers of being able WTM~M
to raise pigs and chickens. W$SzS
49,. The boys whose gardens supplied r WsSAaS
more than enough for their fam NM#S
lilies marketed the rest those boys who L N
had gardens of their own gave
of their time to farmers and helped them harvest
and market their crops H
Then comes the immense help that was given
to the Red Cross, particularly in membership
drives, and to the library association in collecting
books by the carloads to be sent TO men overseas.
Millions of feet of standing black walnut were 10
Gated by scouts, and hundreds of carloads OF
peach pits collected.
Scout service is by means over, and upon
armistice day in 1918 the slogan THE war Is
over, but our work is not" adopted as the
peace cry of scouts, and right now the war FISK
insurance and treasury departments are asking
scouts help in placing posters and getting cita-
lions from employers who are taking back, all
their former employees who enlisted IN the army
navy.
Each separate service was in Its own time the
most important and boy scouts have achieved
a record for a very large share in winning the
war. Besides definite war service, scouts were
always prepared to jump into every local emer-
gency, and kept up their civic good turns, their
Individual good turns, and as time permitted
their regular scout program ti
Helping the police direct street traffic and man.
age unruly crowds, distributing anti-tubercuoss
literature or Red Cross posters. directing stran-
gers, helping somebody fix tire, restoring some
body's doorbe finding lost children, dragging
small boys out of the water, collecting your old
newspapers, helping timd old ladies across the
street. removing unsightly signs, building bird
houses, planting trees, raising community flags
there is no end to the things scouts find to do
with their time and energy and vigorous good
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The good turn the scout does is done quietly
and without ostentation 1t is not matter to be
boasted Of You never hear scout Boosting Of the
good turns he does. BY that principle will he
differ from some men when later he comes into
the larger activities of manhood. Lincoln used to
say that certain public individual reminded him
of the Mississippi river steamboat that had a u
foot boiler and a 10-foot whistle, and every time
they blew the whistle they had to stop the boat
A boy scout Is expected to do at least one good
turn daily.
The good turns reported for one scout for the
year. the record probably having been kept by
some kindly, watchful aunt, said that he got 1T4
buckets of coal and 129 buckets of water. carried
out the ashes 124 times and the dishwater 125
times and did other miscellaneous good turns
amounting to 1904 distinct efforts of cheerfulness
during the year. - ~
! the Washing fixing up the mall cleaned up the
waste paper, picked up a limb from the sidewalk.
cut some tail for a kids kite went to town for
mother many times picked up glass from the
sidewalk replaced brick In the pavement,
stopped dog fight. loaned his knife, wound the
clock and set the alarm innumerabfe times fixed
the fire and made his bed telephoned messages
changed fve-dolar bill, fed the dog and cleaned
I'D some ink, baked the pancakes for breakfast
fried some bacon, put the coffee. washed the
notatoes and fixed the fire. fed the chickens, also
watered the flowers, taught younger boy his
lessons In school, picked up needles and pins from
the floor, lit the lamps and darned his own sweat
er, mopped up some water, and swept Off the back
porch mailed letters and put up curtains. fixed
pair of scissors, got the fruit cans for his moth
er, opened cans of salmon, tomatoes and beans
dug out rat and set mousetrap, turned the
washing machine many times and hung pictures
The scout is bound by his oath to be helpful
TO all people at all times Little by little, the
good-turn habit becomes ingrained in his daily
conduct and attitude of mind. Helpfulness Il
others becomes not an occasionally gratifed i'm
pulse but an essential element of his character
There are 365,470 Boy Scouts of America in tn,
United States. all or less consciously &C
curing the good-turn habit of acting and think
ing and feeling. Does anybody believe that thes.
5470 boys with their all-round nth powe
frendliness of spirit aren't going TO help leaven tn