Jerome County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1919-1920, 1920-01-29

over their city brothers Of being able WxS&S
To raise pigs and chickens. NJ
The boys whose gardens supplied Mes
more than enough for their own fam WN1
HES marketed the rest those boys who "
had no gardens of their own gave Y
Oh their time to farmers and helped them harvest
and market their crops
Then comes the immense help that was given
10 the Red Cross, particularly In membership
drives and to the library association in collecting
DOCKS by the carloads to be sent To men overseas.
Nlllons OF feet Of standing black walnut We're To-
Gated by scouts, and hundreds of carloads OF
peach pits collected
Scout war service is by means over and upon
armlstice day in 1918, the slogan The war is
over but our work is not was adopted the
peace cry of scouts, and right now the risk
insurance and treasury departments are asking
scouts help in placing posters and getting cta-
lions from employers who are taking back all
their former employees who enlisted in the army
or navy.
Each separate service 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.
Helping the police direct street traffic and man
age uuruiy crowds distributing nnti-tuberculOSis
literature or Red Cross posters directing stran.
gers, helping somebody fix tire, restoring some
body's doorbell. finding lost children dragging
small boys out Of the water, collecting your old
newspapers, helping tmid old ladies across the
street removing unsighty signs building bird
houses, planting trees. raising community flags
there is end to the things scouts find TO do
with their time and energy and vigorous good
will
che good turn the scout does is done quietly
and without ostentation; it is not matter to be
boosted Of You never hear scout boasting Of the
good turns he does. BY that principle will he
differ from some meE when later he comes into
the larger activities Of manhood. Lincoln used to
say that n certain public Individual reminded him
Of the Mississippi river steamboat that had n G.
foot boiler and 1O-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 da'-
Tho god turns reported for one scout for tbe
year. the record probably having been kent bv
some kindly, watchful aunt, said that he got ia
buckets Of coal and 10 buckets Of wafer carried
ont the ashes 124 times and the disl,yater 1o5
times. and did other miscellaneous good turns
amounting to 1884 distinct efforts Of cheerfulncss
during the year.
He brought in cOrncobs for the fire went of,or
the washing, fixing up the mail cleaned nm Tho
waste paper picked up a limb from the sidevraIl,
for
mother many times, picked up glass from tbo
sidewalk, replaced brick In the nov.,na,,
stopped a dog fight, loaned his knife. wound IN,
clock and set the alarm innumerable times e1
the fire and made his bed elephoned rnees.,,..
changed fve-dollar bill, fed the dog and clo,,. -
UP some INK baked the pancakes for hreolr
fried some bacon. put OH the coffee wished ,I,o
potatoes and fixed the fire fed the chick.,,
watered the howers, taught a younger ho, 49,,
lessons in school. picked Mp needles ana rns Fms ''S
the floor III the lamps and darned his own ~
er, mopped up some water. and swept off tho h.a,.
porch mailed letters and put up curtains e'o',
a pair of scissors, got the fruit cans for bis 10y,
er, opened cans of salmon, tomatoes nnd -,
dug out n rat and set Inousetran tnrna,
washing machine many times and hing IT,, '"e
The scout Is bound by his oath to no ,1,s,
to an people at all times" Little Nv u,,I ~,
good-turn habit becomes ingraned in HE aa ,,e
conduct and attitude Of mind Helnfn,noa u"'iy
others becomes not an occasionally protIeo1 "
pulse Dut an essential element of nj. - nm
There are 3e5,47O Boy Scouts Of Am.rioa ''ac,er.
Oniteo states, all more or less consco,'s, - 'ie
curing me good-turn habit Of acting ~ ac-
nns anu any ieeng Does anybody believe tbot Elm
Soo4lO boys with their alI-round n,p s"' .nese
irendliness Of spirit aren't going to helm power