The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1920-02-12
THIS IS BOY SCOUTS
Week IN AMERICA
If Some Manly Young Fellow Asks
You to Do Good Turn, Don't
Think You Are the Victim of
Confidence Game.

commence pdINe.
Do Good Turn Daily; what does IT,
mean? Ask a Scout, he knows. And
to further demonstrate it's meaning,
100000 Scouts expect to do $500, ,O0b
good turns this week, to as many PEG
pie, living under the Stars and Stripes.
The occasion is the tenth anniversary
OF the introduction of Scouting in AM
erica. So if you are approached dur
Ing the week by an agreeable looking
young gentleman, wearing bronze
pin on the lapel of his coat and smihe
that won't come off on his face, who
insists ON aiding you in some task,
that you have undertaken, or if your
young son offers to wash the dishes
or something like that, don't get u1.-
easy, 1T isn't confidence game, it's
Just Scouting. He's doing his 'bit"
in the big program he and his pals arc
pulling off for Uncle Sam this week.
If you were to offer to pay him for his
services l am quite sure you would
embara'ass him very much for you
can't pay Scout for his daily Good
Turn" You can reward him, how
ever, by approaching his Scoutsman-
ship and finding opportunity to ga
courage him in his Scout work.
To Rev. T. A. Olsen belongs tine
honor o Introducing the Scout move
ment into Minot. In 1911 he organic
ed Troop One of this city. 1t was o1s
of the first if not The first troop on
ganized in the State. Many of this
boys Of the Troop participated in tte
Great War, and their service refiect
y, IN
IN the organization Of thel:- boyhood
days. Later Rev. Olsen organized
Troop Two, which is still with us.
Troops have since been organized by
the Episcopal and Presbyterian Sur
day schools. Since q Scout Troop ts
limited to 80 boys, this is not much Of
a showing for a city having a Scoua
population of something: over GM
But the difficulty has been to get tlse
Scoutmasters. People are slow to ret,-
ognize the importance of the work.
The Scoutmaster's job is dhankle
one and not everyone is adapted d.
work with boys. It would take too
long to tell you all that the Scout.
did for Uncle Sam during the Big
War, Mr.. ~McAdoo says The value of
their work to the government canrDs
be overestimated. We, the Scoats, be-
lieve that Mt is just as necessary to be
patriotic in times of peace as in time.
of war, and so we're ON the job evary,
day. It's our purpose to build for tbs
future, believing that if we can have
better boyhoOd jim 1920 we've hl6
naturally bot to have better n1anhopd
in 1880, and we are interested IN
1880. In our program there is 1K>
place for the red flag, nor the con-
scienceless profiteer. We give alleg-
lance to but one Flag, the Stars a1Ns;
Stripes. In the twelve points of the
twelve points of the Scout law, tc-
wit: A Scout is trustworthy, loyal
helpful, friendly, courteous, kind,
obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave.
clean and reverent, There is little to
encourage the man who would profit
at the expense of a neighbours mikfo4.
tune. We have no political nor relia-
ious creeds i'm the Boy Scouts, but W.
are Ane1icans always and bow in rev.
erence to our Creator.
Upon this platform we tfarp aEk
your cooperation and aid. If you
would like to know more about us we
will be glad to Inform you. If YOU,
believe in us, let us know about it.
won't you, please. We are only boys
and our earning capacity lis small. We
cannot accomplish our highest hopper
without your financial aid. Butt we do
not want your money without your
faith in our work, for tine "gift with
out the giver is bare" We want your
as an investment on which you expect
ise on our honor as Scouts to make
good.' Our camping "trip last year
was a disaster, because we did not
have your cooperation. But we are
not discouraged amid we are going
again this year. We don't know where
but we are going-to real camp. We
expect to have a good thine but we are
working for you just the same. How
much we accomplish depends ON you.
We are glad to inform you that we
are part of the largest boys organiz-
ation in the world. We are inter1la-
tional in scope, butt not in our alleg-
lance. All over the civilized world
our cousin Scouts are studying the
same ideals as we, learning to tie the
same knots, and we wonder if it isn't
just barely possible that those knots
may not some day in the future tie
the world together i'm such brother
hood THAT war may fade away Who
can say? And now in closing let us
say that we are really sorry that we
were not able to offer you something
interesting in the way of show or
Scout demonstration, but next year
with your help, we promise to do bet-
ter. And now won't you join US lie;
one verse Of our maching songs
o, yes, we are the Boy Scouts,
And we're very proud to be.
We wear the Kaihki on parade
That every one may see
And know that we are loyal
To the Flag that made us free.
AS we go marching on.
Most respectfully,
THE MINOT SCOUTS,
By Darrell D. Riley,
Scoutmaster.