The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1921-02-11
PRACTICAL PATRIOTISM
BOY SCOUTS is SHOWN

Cooperation with civic authorities
has time and time again proved to
o1lclals and citizens alike the remark
able force at their command. When
the international Hygiene Conference
met in Buffalo, the activity and cheer
tul, present service of the scouts gave
the delegates from all over The world
Il new impression TO carry home OF
the willingness and Capability of the
American boy. Scouts have been lead
ers in such municipal celebrations as
the big st, Louis pageant, where they
were alike actors and assistants. the
Perry Centennial on Lake Erie, where
the Mayor of Cleveland expressed in
glowing terms his appreciation of their
u~nlooked-fOr service. Sanitary sur
Veys have come into fashion largely
as a result of the unbounded enthus-
iasm of the scouts for cleaner cities
and counties.
y boy would just as son pick up as
scatter, or create as destroy. He
must have some safety valve for his
irrcpressible activity. and the scout
movement emphasizes the creative ev-
-ry time.
Activities Are Manifold
We have seen Fairgrounds started
and conducted under scout manage
ment, cleanup campaigns carried
through with remarkable system and
thoroughness, fi~re-prevention parades
III which the scouts demonstrated
their knowledge of both prevention
Il h~re-hghting methods. Not long
ago. an eX-fire chief in New York
stood before a group of 40 or more ac-
V Boy Scouts IN a spring after
noon an dhCld their attention riVeted
by his technical and detailed descrip-
tlOn OF the latest variety of sprinkler
ana his Instructions on cleaning prem
lseS n guarding against fire traps.
outside, a SrOu of non-SCoutS PLAYED
at a dangerous anne of cat among
charging automobiles and changing
street cars; inside, boys their own
age were held s~pellbound, and the
same amount of activity was trans
mltted into definite and positive force
for civic improvement. 1t was a con
crete instance of the sound psychology
upon which the movement bases its
teaching of practical patriotism.
Within the last decade or so the
growing danger of o~bliterating the ma
tural sourc of the country and eX
terminating its game and fish has
forced itself home to the thinking
patriots who realize the value lin
mlllions) of a sturdy growth of forest,
but a the present generation receiv-
ed the training now being given the
coming generation, the danger would
not be so great. All over the coun-
Try, scouts are studying forestry and
conservation. They are learning the
valuable woods, practicing tree sur
gerry d expert instruction, reforest
ing barren tracts, setting out shade
trees, killing tree pests and fighting
wood fires with boyish zest against
almost insurmountable difficulties.
State authorities have recognized their
value in this line also, and Michigan
has a special band of Forest Scouts
who lave saved the state thousands
OF dollars in a single season.
Work is Constructive
Gould anything be more practical
patriotism that the active parti-
cipation of Boy Scouts in the
Cleveland Unemployment Canvass? "a
job for every men, was their slogan.
and they We're willing to help their
unfortunate fellow citizens by every
sort OF messenger, guide and errand
service, all given cheerfully and with
out reward. They know how to meet
the emergency, and from their ranks
VIII com few of the floaters and drift
ers, the men who seem to fit in no.
where and who complain that they
never are given a fair chance. Your
good scout knows how to make his
own chance, and better still, how to
make a chance for the next fellow,
how to remedy unfair conditions, how
to reach the difficulty fundamentally
and how to enforce the elementary
principles of justice and equality for
which we have often claimed and they
know the United States of America
stands.
60 BE. Continued)