The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-08-08
SERVICE IS
THE KEY NOTE
The Nobility of Service
Daily Impressed
Upon Boys.
Do GOOD TURN DAILY
Annual Camp Is Great
Event to Which All
Scouts Anticipate.

"Help - better tLe community in
which you live might be claseed
az one Of the unwri;tca laws of
scouting. according to John NJ. Lind
~ scout executive. 1t Ia with this
unwrittcr law IN mind that the bov
scouts Of a community go forth ana
help IN civic work OF all kinds. And
~ scouts pf Tulsa are no exception
Indy says.
do good turn daily" Is one Of
the eInottoes Of a scout and scouts are
noA allowed to take pay for their
dH3 good turns. according Ia NJ
ldndly. The boy scouts cannot ana
VIII not work as an organization for
an institution that is not strictly a
community organization. Neither
can scouts work where they will be
expected to handle money
And no work Of civic nature is toe
stiff or hard for the scout to tackle,
Indy says BE prepared" IL one
OF the first things that n scout learns
and he trys to be prepared for any
Kind of work or emergency that
might arise. That is the reason for
all Of the training that a scout un-
dcrgoes, Indy said
The Sc uts are rewarded for doine
civic work los community good
turns. Ribbon bar Pins are .Iven to
those who perform specified num-
Der of hours work. A red pin is
given for % hours; white pin for SO
hoXf; blue pin for IS hours and Il
red white ana blue pin is awarded
for doing 100 hours.
Boys under adult leadership such
as is furnished in the scout move
ncnt and with scout training can
perform many duties and have prov
en- many times their ability to dc
things in thorough businesslikC
manner, Strcts are pltrolcd for
parades. In this they work in CO.
operation with the traffic police and
received orders from them. Civic
organizations of all kinds are help
. ed The Red Cross, Salvation Army
athc two VS. and numerous other
Euch organizations have many times
been indebted to the scouts for aid
When the Red Cross or the
Salvation Army put on a drive the
scout may be seen most anywhere
soliciting funds for these two or
ganiZations.
Under the leadership of John NJ
Indy. the boy scouts were tho
prime factors in making the city
cleanup campaign last spring a sue
cess. The city was divided into
routes and two boys were assigned
70 each route and made a couipi.t,
written report To Lindley Of each
place on their route. Also II a place
was found to be dirty and unsanitary
the scouts talked to the owner and
asked him to clean up. In this man.
Ter much rubbish and unslghtly oo-
jects were removed from the city
and the sanitary conditions of the
city bettered.
In cases of large fires the whole
scout organization is called out and
the scout rush to the scene OF the
fire helping in all ways possible. In
the fire last winter OF the Alexander
building. when the firemen fought
all day in a bitter storm, the scouts
rushed from fighter to fighter with a
sandwich and a cup of coffee. The
scouts on that day were real life
savers" Fire Chief Alder said later.
But scouting is not all work, and
while the scout is taught to look on
work as play he too has his hours
OF recreation and il Is during these
hours that the boys pack up and hike
10 the country. Hiking. camping
and nature study are encouraged In
. the scout movement.
Tulsa is conveniently situated for
hikes and many times troops have
h8S their weekly meetings In the
htN surrounding Tulsa. Scouts in
large groups are taken on overnight
and all-day hikes where the boys
cook their own meals and sleep in
Gods great out of doors. 1t is on
these overnight hikes that the boys
receive training that fits them TO
take care OF themselves or another
person when caught away from
human haunts. 4My.
Leantos are made by their own
hands from trees ana brush. They
build log cabins and live in them.
They learn to track the wild crea-
lures to their haunts, but the scout
does not kill; he does Mt carry gun,
in fact firearms are forbidden.
Parthenia park is a very popular
hiking place for the scouts. Several
troops have permanent camp sites
near the lake and spend the week
= end there. Lost City is also very
popular to the scouts and several
trobps have built log cabins there.
And then once year comes the
event in Tulsa scouting that every
scout looks forward TO with the keen
est of interest, and that is the gen
cral camp which is held at Table
Quah.
The camp this year will be under
the direction Of John Schleppey,
from August to II. Schleppey is
one of Tulsa's three Eagle scouts
and has had a great deal Of training
in camping. Mr. LAbly. who has for.
merly been camp ~lrector, will this
year be on the camp but he is leav-
ing everything up to his young coun-
terpart, Schleppey. There viii De
about 100 boys In the camp this year,
Berlin MidWiUes Defy
GIL L. DoootIsx.