The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1920-02-06
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to raise pigs and chickens. NM;
The boys whose gardens supplied Wna1
more than enough for their fam WM1
lilies marketed the rest those boys who NJ
had no gardens of their gave
of their time to farmers and helped them harvest
and market their crops
Then comes the immense help that 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 over, and upon
armst1ce day in 1918 the slogan. "The war Is
over, but our work is not adopted us the
peace cry of scouts. right now the war risk
insurance and treasury departments 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
navy.
Each separate service was in its time the
most important and boy have achieved
a record for very large share in winning the
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 time permitted
their regular scout program.
Helping the police direct street traffic and
age unruy crowds, distributing anti-tubercuosis
gers helping somebody fix tire, restoring some
bodys doorbell 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 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
boosted of. You never hear scout boz sting of the
good turns he does By that principle will he
differ from some 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 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 DALI.
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 TIA
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 1894 distinct efforts of cheerfuness
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 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 innumerable times fixed
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 the coffee washed the
potatoes and fixed the fire, fed the chickens also
watered the flowers, taught a younger bow his
lessons in school, picked up needles and pins from
the floor lit the lamps and darned his own sweat
err, mopped up some water, and swept off the back
porch mailed letters and put up curtains. fixed
a pair of scissors, got the fruit cans for his moth
err opened of salmon, tomatoes and beams
dug out rat and set mousetrap turned the
washing machine many times and hung pictures
The scout is bound by his oath to be shelpful
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 occasionally gratifed I'm
pulse, but essential element of his Character
There 365470 Boy Scouts of America in the
United States all or less consciously ac-
curing the good-turn habit of acting and think
ing and feeling. Does anybody believe that these
365,470 boys with their all-round nth power
friendness of spirit aren't going TO help leayen the