The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-01-30

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over their city brothers of being able W%
to raise pigs and chickens. WXSE#4
The boys whose gardens supplied W
more than enough for their fam NJ
lilies marketed the rest; those boys who ~
had gardens of their gave Y
of their time to farmers and helped them harvest
and market their crops
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 To-
Gated by scouts, and hundreds of carloads Of
peach pits were collected.
Scout war service is by means over, and upon
armistice day in 1918. the slogan THE war Is
over, but work is not adopted as the
peace cry of scouts, and right now the war risk
insurance and treasury departments are asking
scouts help in placing posters and getting cita-
tions from employers who 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 have achieved
a record for very large share in winning the
war. Besides definite 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.
Helping the police direct street traffic and man.
age unruly crowds, distributing anti-tuberculosis
literature Red Cross posters directing stran
body's doorbell, finding lost children, dragging
small boys out of the water, collecting your old
newspapers, helping timid old ladies across the
street. removing unsghtly 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
will.
The good turn the scout does is done quietly
and without ostentation; 1t is not matter to be
boasted of. You never hear scout boasting of the
1onc that V,rfn nr1a xxrt1I In
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 g.
foot boiler and 10-foot whistle and every time
they blew the whistle they had to stop the boat.
boy scout is expected to do at least good
dail-.
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 174
buckets of coal and 129 buckets of water carried
out the ashes 124 times and the dshwater 125
times, and did other miscellaneous good turns
amounting to 1894 distinct efforts of cheerfulness
during the year.
He brought In corncobs for the fire, went after
the washing, fixing up the mail, cleaned up the
waste paper picked up limb from the sidewalk
cut some tail for 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
the fire and made his bed, telephoned messages
changed fve-dollar bill, fed the dog and cleaned
up some ink baked the pancakes for breakfast
fried some bacon put on the coffee, washed the
potatoes 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
a pair of scissors. got the fruit for his moth
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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 TO
others becomes not an occasionally gratif1ed i'm
pulse, but essential element Of his character
There are 365,470 Boy Scouts of America In the
United States. all more less consciously ac-
quiring the goodturn habit of acting and think
Ing and feeling. Does anybody believe that these
865,470 boys with their all-round nth power
friendlness of spirit aren't going to help eaven the