The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1922-06-02
H E ARE PREPARED

Two automobiles come together with a crash. There is a mix
up of machines and human bodies, bruised, bleeding, perhaps broken.
what to do. Into the crowd there elbow their way several boys
quick, keen and alert. One leaves the crowd on the run headed for the
nearest telephone to call medical or surgical assistance. One or more
of the others take things in hand, boys though they be. A touniquet
is put on arm, a head is neatly bandaged, an improvised splint is
put on a broken leg. Those boys are Boy Scouts, they know what
to do and how to do it. They are prepared.
In a theater there is a connection and all crowd curioudy to
see the cause. Some one has tainted. 1t is a boy who elbows his
way through and tells the crowd to stand back and give the sufferer
air. He renders first aid. He is a Boy Scout and he is prepared.
A lady is driving her car. There is a pop and a hiss. She has
a blow out. She must either wait for some other car to come along
or undertake the job of tire changing. Two or three boys come
along and pass on their way laughing. Two or three others follow,
stop, ask if they may assist and then get busy on the task OF tire
changing in a business like way. The lady offers them change, when
the task is completed and smilngly and politely they refuse the
Zip" They are just Boy Scouts and they are only doing their
daily good turn" that is all.
A party of pleasure seekers are driving along the road, drink
ing soda pop as they go. Some one throws an empty bottle from
the car and it breaks. They didn't think or didn't care. Along the
dusty highway trudges a boy, he sees the broken glass, stops, picks
up the bits and throws them well away from the road: tie goes on
further and his sharp eye sees a nail in the dust and he removes it
from the path of approaching cars. He is a Boy Scout and as such
he thinks and acts.
An entertainment is to be held. Ushers r needed but the pro-
ceeds are to be devoted to charity or some other public good and it
is felt that ushers cannot be paid. All right, the Boy Scouts do it.
At some public affair lines are needed to keep back the crowds,
errands have to be run, programs distributed. The Boy Scouts,
polite but firm, form the line that keeps back the crowd, the Boy
Scouts, quick, obliging and cheerful run the errands, the Boy Scouts
politely pass the programs and answer all questions put to them,
none buster than the Boy Scouts.
An alarm goes out that a little child is missing from home and
a troop of Boy Scouts is out on the trail and brings the frightened
little one home to its frantic mother. Its all in the Boy Scouts
days work.
Such is the type of boy that Scouting gives to a community.
They are trained to be prepared, their code is honesty to themselves
and their neighbors, kindness to the weak, helpfumess to the suffer-
ing or those neding assistance, participation in all that works for
community good. 1t is not hard to foresee the type OF man into
which such boys will develop.
A campaign is now on to raise the requisite funds to continue
the Scouting movement on Maui where it is now a "First Glass"
Council. There are more communities where the boys want to or
ganize for usefulness and purposefuness but if there is to be further
expansion more funds will be needed.
Those who admire the type of boy and man who is prepared,
who is cheerful, helpful, kindly, polite and obliging will aid the cam
paign with their subscriptions. Perhaps one cannot give much and
it may entail some personal sacrifice to give what is possible but the
cause is worthy of every support that can be given to it and the Scout
ing movement cannot be permitted to lag. The committees are out
calling on the public generally and it is to be hoped that the public
will be as prepared" to respond as the Boy Scouts ever are to re-
spond to the call of the public upon them.