The Snowflake herald., 1922-09-29

| by the community. VI course Tie dCI-
ual activities are done by the boys.
but the community is the enabling
agency. About twenty per cent of
the population of the community are
boys-boys with all the mysterious
impulses and contradictions which real
boys exhibit. Very, very few of them
are necessarily bad boys-but the
| impulse to action, to adventure, makes
it imperative that there be leadership
in providing activities for them. Boys
will do things if left entirely alone
but what things will they do? Who
can predict? Even the boys cannot
foretell.
What they do fixes their habits and
habits are the wool and warp OF
character. The welfare of the COM.
munity demands certain defininte
standards of ideals and conduct. Such
standards rest ultimately on habits.
To expect such habits to be the by
products of accident or unweighted
chance is to expect the unnatural.
Only as the community can provide
selected, purposeful and intrinsically
attractive things for it's boys to do,
can it with measure of confidence
look for results worthy of the term
social education"
The Boy Scout program offers these
boys the mysteries of companionship
with other boys and with worthy men
with all Incidental opportunities for
team-play, initiative and leadership.
1t offers them the long-deferred OPP
portunity for helpful participation
in the adult life of the community
a chance for community service. 1t
offers them attractive, interest-grip
ping individually useful and socially
purposeful things to do-things with
in their reach, to be done at their
own gait, yet with degrees of prog
resS challenging their abilities and
providing suitable recognitions.
i 1t affords them opportunities for
health of body and of spirit, for self
mastery; it reveals to them hitherto
unknown abilities; it makes them in
innate with stars and trees, with
animals and flowers, and it enables
them to "be prepared to meet any
emergencies as well as routine life.
It's merit badge work opens doors of
trial into over sixty vocations helping
the scout to find his place in life. It's
oath and law provide the lads a
dynamic, working code of morals
reve =, tolerant of others. This oath
and law operates from within their
group-it is the code of the boy group
NOT imposed from without. It's
goSd turn" puts the real social spirit
into practice
The fundamental tone of its men,
tai growth is activity learning
through doing; citizenship through
service-readines for emergencies
through "being prepared" in advance
In word, scouting teaches boys to
live by living.
This work costs us something. Not
only does it challenge our time, but
it requires our financial support. To
aid in carrying on the work for the
first year, we must raise the pledged
budget of 100000. This money must
be raised at once-it is our first ma
terial aid in the conservation and de
velopment of our boyhood.
Why Money For Scouting?
For community to provide for it's
boys the benefits of the Scout pro-
gram with its attendant adult COM
panlonShlp, costs much of time and
something, relatively small, of money.
The Scoutmasters and other leaders
give, their time. The community as
whole must supply the needed funds.
But since the ScoutmaSter gives his
time, and some institution gives a
place OF meeting, and the boy prefer
ably earns but at least provides his
own unlf orm, and the troop organiza-
ton meets the Incidental expenses of
the troop-and since these contacts
with boys are the essence and reality
of scouting-why should the commun-
ity provide money for scouting
1t has no building program costs
to maintain as it uses building equip
ments already availab,e-so why
should scouting need the communities
financial support
Only for the purpose of creating
a service through a small group Of
one or more executive specialists to do
certain things for the volunteer or
ganization, which they have found it
helpful and, because of the technical
aspects, necessary to have someone
do for them. In larger communities.
the pressure of responsibility for so
vital and growing a movement as
scouting becomes too heavy for vol
unteers and the executive is secured
w ANAP VIZ community recognize us
boy needs; to help it find and train
and use and keep Scoutmasters and
leaders; to help provide safe camping
privilege and all needed council for
clty-wlde equipment; to help it plan
and serve and grow sanely and Wig
orously and continually and along
lines sufficiently bulwarked by sue
i cess1ul experience to safeguard the
interests OF the boy and the chartered
oDhgatlons OF the Boy Scouts of
4 America.
In reality then, the community is
only asked TO pay a nominal sun, for
very lew executives specialists to
serve us boy workers and to respon-
slDiy conserve the name, interests and
extension OF the movement, and fur
ther modest sum for such general
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