The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1920-11-26

are reaching the elders. Here, then,
is food for thought.
Juveniles receive instruction in
citizenship through school. Very of
ten, unfortunately, it is Served up
to them i'm such a way as to make ii
as appetizing as pure castor oil on
Saturday night. Unlike castor oil,
however, it accomplishes little. A
boy, nevertheless, has salvation in the
scout movement. This movement hav-
ing ably demonstrated what the citi-
zcnship training program can do with
hundreds of thousands of boys in the
United States, stands ready to have
its ~well-deserved share in the Ameri-
ranization work.
Fighting %Bolshevism
The Boy Scout propaganda against
The spirit of Bolshevism and other un-
Americani tendencies is already sue
cessfully reaching half a million men
and boys now in the scout movement
as it has reached the half million
graduate scouts who already have
benefited by the programmed it is
not merely fighting the good fight to-
iav. but deeply instilling in the
fathers of tomorrow TIE principles of
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ing true American ideals in future
generations. Arthur A. Carey has eN-
pressed this i'm his statement, IF the
boy is the father to the man, the Boy
Scout is surely father to the good citi-
zens who loves his country
The watch words of the Boy Scout
Movement are Liberty, Preparedness,
Honor and Unselhshness." His slogan
is BE Prepared" he is taught the
Rivalry which idealizes peace but re-
fuses to cry peace when there is no
peace. and dealizes the heroic strug-
gle on behalf of peace, like that
Chaucer knew:
a Knight there was, and that IA
worthy man,
That from the tyne that he hrsi
began
To ryden out, he lovede chiVal-
rye
Trouihe and honour, freedom and
courtesie.
The boy scout gives unstintingly OF
his best in service to home, church,
school, community, state and nation,
He is trained to help other fellows at
Ill times. To do a good turn is his
habit.
Spirit of Democracy
The spirit of democracy pervades
Scouting. Social classes are unrec-
ognized. In scouting there are no
'Wops" or "Polaks." Any boy, re-
gardless OF race, creed or home con-
iitions. may become a scout. Isn't
fhis the true democracy, the very
hing we have sacrificed our best
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the shirt of democracy we want in
the future, and haven't we assured it
if we succeed in intoxicating it in the
minds of the boys today, the citizens
of America? Isn't this Americaniza-
ton?
There are ten million boys of scout
age in the United States. The Boy
Scout Movement has today but $4,000
of them. 1t isn't that the boys do not
to become scouts. Have you
ever met a boy who hasn't that ambi-
ton? The real reason why ten mill
boys are not all scouts is that the
National Council of the Boy Scouts of
America is unable to provide sutfici-
ent leadership to organize the boys
into patrols and troops in the various
communities in the United States. The
lack of necessary funds with which to
the expense of leadership is pre-
venting the presentation of the scout
idea to each individual boy.
Now that peace is here, strong men
can show their high type of patriotism
by making the Boy Scout program
available Il every mothers son of the
ten million.
We have won a triumph of right in
he greatest of wars. Freedom and
democracy are victorious through the
sacrifices which our sons have made.
Victory can be maintained only by
making sure that the coming genera
tons have the great heart, the great
and the great love which are
essential to the better citizenship. The
coming citizens can be reached only
through the boys of today who will be
the fathers of tomorrow. VIII we
up to our responsibility?
Will we hearten to the appeal of the
city urchin for the chance to make
good in citizenship? We will If we
are men-real men! We will if we
want Old Glory to eternally wave DER
the land of the free and the home of
the brave!