The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1921-01-07
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Gradually these sons have grown
more hardly and self reliant, yet more
helpful and considerable. They can
mend a broken table leg, suggest a
way of keeping water cool in hot
weather; or turn in a fire alarm. di-
rect the men accurately and swiftly,
while other scouts close windows, car
ry out furniture, and uncoil the hose.
"a Scout is resourCeful," they say
teasingly to each other, but they are
proud to nave their resOurcefulness,
tested and proved. They even are
not ashamed to be seen helping an
old man across the street for the old
time gang" will recognize it as the
days good turn"
Then perhaps one day a crowded
rowboat oveTturns, or a child is push
ed off a pier. The little boy" as he
is still called at home. dives instant
ly, his brown arms flashing through
the water. He breaks the death
hold coOlly, and swims slowly back to
his comrades who are ready to pull res
cucd and rescuer from the water and
to pump the air back into the half
drowned lungs, The wet, shivering
scout looks up in establishment as the
crowd cheers or frantic parents thank
him. "'Twasn't anything he NUT
ters. ANY scout could do it. Is she
comm around all right, fellers?" The
scout is a hero. But more than t he
knowledge of the proper thing to do
his mother values the spirit of self
sacrifice and service hat prompts ac-
ton too quick for thought.
Work of Staff
In Il busy New York office, reading
mail, answering questions, advising
worried parents filing applications or
writing letters of counsel, encourage
ment and generalization, the staff of
the National Headquarters of the Boy
Scouts Of America works early and
late to give the boys, their parents
and the communities the best that the
movement affords. Every day they
enter the names of boys anxious to
join, and send them the literature that
tells them how to become Tenderfoot,
Second Glass, and First Glass Scouts.
For it is a very carefully worked
out system, psycholog.cally and peda-
logically, this Boy Scout Movement.
That is why it has succeeded and
grown where other boys movements
have had only q passing vogue. 1t
grows with the boys growth. AT
twelve years old he may join. He
learns the history OF the American
flag, commits to memory the Scout
Oath and law and learns the four
standard knots-a harder task for a
lad than seems at first sight. He is
admitted as q Tenderfoot.
Growing a little older, he wants to
attain a higher rank. His memory is
more trained and he can take in the
difficult signaling alphabets, and wig
wag" messages to other scouts. Then
he wants to camp, and must learn to
shift for himself. So, It first, per-
haps he crisps the bacon and burns
the cocoa and spills he eggs; but in
time he even makes the difficult
"~fapjacks." The Indians and pioneer
scouts, he learns could read tracks
and signs" invisible to unframed eyes
and he studies them out, learning
valuable things through fascinating
games. He discovers how to tell the
north, how to keep dry and warm in
the rain at night, how to use axe and
knife correctly and without accident
to- himself or others. First aid" is
more like play, but if an accident
ome he will "be prepared" Then
there's the dollar in the bank, his own
t~dihlhSS-lue HiSl leSSOu III tlllllt do
many an aching back and blistered
hand can testify to. But he passes
his examination with credit-and then
finds he has not yet reached the
highest goal.
Path Open Ahead
First class scouts are more expert
in all these lines. They draw maps,
SWIM, learn to Judge distance, size
weight and number. The trees, birds
and stars are yielding their secrets,
and the doctors tell them they can
bandage a compound farcture as well
as they once could a hurt finger.
Even the first class scout has no
temptation to rest on his ~laurels, for