Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1920-02-05

of praise or reward, simply and sincerely render
ed for sheer good Wills sake. A scout is helpful.
Nearly every individual, institution and organ
azation in this country has become accustomed by
this time to seeing khaki-clad boy scouts bustling
about, lending a hand here and there and every
where, wherever and whenever there is some
thing to be done. The latter day version of the
adage: eff you want a thing well done, you must
do it yourself seems to be IF you want q thing
done well, get the boy scouts to do it"
What scouts have done towards winning the
world war and their usefulness generally in times
of peace is now fully realized by the American
people. No agency called into service by the
government in wars emergency responded with
more enthusiasm or with greater efficiency than
did the army of almost half a million boys who
constitute the Boy Scouts of America.
In the FIVE Liberty loan campaigns, boy scouts,
scting always as cleaners after the reapers and
working as solicitors only in the last few days OF
each drive, secured 2,32S,90S separate subscrip-
lions amounting to 1852, 122,975. Reducing this
total to an average for each scout, 1t means a
sale of $3.50 worth of bonds a boy.
The treasury department has recognized this
service by awarding to scouts 66,914 war service
emblems and 2S,497 bronze bars, making a total
of 95.411 awards to scouts for distinguished serv-
ice in Liberty loan work.
Soliciting Liberty loan subscriptions was a pa
triotsc service done at definite, stated times. But
throughout the War-dnQ Lney are Sill dIu AZ
it-these boys sold 2,1S9,417 War Savings stamps
tn the total amount of $43,O22,044. For excep-
t1onal work in the sale Of stamps the treasury
department has given 23,111 achievement buttons,
each button representing sales made In % different
MONIES. and 1921 ace medals for sales totaling
$3.50.
But II is only a small part Of scout war service
that can be measured in terms of money. In the
soliciting of funds for Liberty loans scouts were
only used as "Moppers Up" and while their use
s,lnass and achievements in this respect are
things Of which scouts are proud, they are PROUD
est Of their other work that was more Individual
Nv characteristically scout "Good Turn" service
Tbare is much that is included in the tern
scout service, but an analysis OF Individual gooe
turns as applied to the community or nation re
d,cas II simply to the job to be done next. AS {
rule there were so many jobs that there was M
raxt-they all had to be done at once, anu VIVA
- more-they were. In connection with Uncl'
SAINTS loans there was a great deal of publicity To-
a. scouts TO spread broadcast. Between loca
beaao1arters. scout messengers strengthened tn
vines of communication; scout messengers helpe'
out fine hanks and made lighter the work OF CIT
and federal officials. Those posters on the vino
sbield Of practically every automobile In the Ian
were put there by scouts.
At the loan rallies, and other big patriotic meet
fnrs in every community in the land, 1t was
boy scout that usnereu you III d wy sSous 20
cave YOU the subscription blank, a boy scout tina
actad as orderly for the speaker; it was a DO
scout band very often that played and it wa
boy scouts who formed a corps of assistants
the police.
Scouts at the outdoor rallies attracted the q
tantion of passers-by with scout demonstratioI
or loan speakers and everywhere served IN an
canacity IN which the scout uniform and what
stands for gave prestige to the occasion az
helped sell bonds.
Another big item in war service was scout ga
dens. No plot was too large or too small =
the efforts Of the scouts whose slogan was I'VE
scout to feed a soldier and one other" In citi
.scouts made vegetable gardens grow in back var
that used to be a mass Of unkept grass a.
weeds. Boys who have no back yards ASK
owners Of vacant lots to let them cultivate =
land. and then paid rental with some Of tne
choicest products. Country SCOUTS pia uaaan "
gardens on a large scale, and had the advanta