The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-24

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 An Accident
 His story is punctuated with the story of an accident which shows how well Scouts are taken care of by their leaders. These leaders serve without pay and serve ltnB hours in toy- building.
 He lauds the country schools and the board of education, which are car ryng knowledge into the wildernesses cf JefferHon county, and praises Scout Executive Roland l.. Shine, who. he says, stands firmly for tho. develop ment of Boy Scouts, mentally and physically. and puts the ban on snob- bery.
 Sikes begins with some sage re- marks concerning the deductions of one of his Scouts. declaring:
 Whitney is q good bit of philosG- pher, as all Boy Scouts ought to be. We were going over to the store of Mrs. Bains to get some good, old, plain bacon for Whit, and as we trudged along I got an insight Into tho character of mighty fine boy. We were discussing wealth and how it does not always bring happiness, and he outlined to me how the poor boy got a great deal more out of life than some Lord Fauntleroys who skip through life with but ltue care. Said Whit, When poor boy gees to a movie he knows that he must get all out of 1t he can; he knows that he cannot see another one soon, so he settles down to watch 1t through, anc never misses a thing. The same <.A4 1, r6a camp. Lots of them do not know what a summer resort Is, but l get lot more out Of it here than going with mother to some place where all we get to eat is style and salad dress ing. l am like my uncle--I like the swimming hole and good. plain, ola bacon with little cornbread on the side
 A Democratic Thing
 T thought of how this boy was making fine observation, and saw it borne out in troop where most oi the boys come from middle class homes. They get far more cut or camp than some of the silk stocking troops. I doubt that if in all Bif- mingham and It's environs there is a man doing more real good than oneie Sam, who looks after the Pratt City boys. No wonder the T. c. I. people give aid to the scouts. It makes more character to the square inch and gives more happiness than anything that I know of. And to Shines eter- nal credit let it be said that he con tinues to keep Camp Andrews free from the snobbery one encounters III certain camps. AS constituted now te Is a pure democracy. where boy ID judged by how far he can actuaAy swim and not by his social swim.
 Our boys fraternize with 43 a great deal. Last night we gathered arouhe their camp fire to have social chae and engage in that gossip 80 dear to boyish hearts. As usual the DOCKS Jack London came up and the resret was general that poor old Basdy, the celebrated dog that had won so mans Alaskan championships. had gone to his reward. When told the boys IL was once my good fortune to know Jack London they; crowded around and I had to relate some of his expe- riences as told to me. Things with action please boy and nothing seems to get quite Hc close to them as the story of a faithful dog. Poor ole Baldy; he lived his life and passed out in less than is years! What a pity that dogs must have such short span
 
 :, so much to contribute to the sum of human happiness. Even the com monest cur has entree into Camp An drews, where some boy will pat him on the head and feed him until he is ready to burst.
 A Hero
 "Jabov is a stoic and gave man. featation tonight that would make an Indian happy to zee. Troop 12. near us, was cooking in the open with a monster frying pan, trying to pre- i pare enough ham at one sitting to- care for about 20 boys. The pot o1 hot grease was on the ground when "Jabo" accidentally stepped into it. < He got hts feet and legs severely burned, but he only cried when some mention was made of carrying him homo and phoning his mother. He would not hear to 1t, 80 we bandaged him up with Aunt Jemima pancaKe flour and applied first aid.s Then the question of getting him to hospital was to be solved. Scoutmaster Ben ton sent four boys four miles to Ac- ton to phone Mir Inglis to come out for him. while I went over to the highway to catch car bound for town and see if we could get him there earlier. Two whisky runners passed uH up and would not stop. You can always tell whisky runner because he is in such big hurry, but soon car came along that I knew was thateof traveling salesman by it's general makeup.
 When we first flagged him down he thought we were hold-up men, un- til he caught sight of a Scout insig mia. Then he rolled up and we out lined the situation to him. l have always known that salesnien were tn esalt of the earth, but this fellow demonstrated 1t to the utmost. He was outbound from Birmingham, but he went over to the cabin. We let Jabo' down from the upper floor of his cabin on a stretcher. carried him to the car. put him on the back end on top of that portion of the runabout where the salesman carried his sam ples and had him in Hlllman hospital within one hour after the accident MT. Inglis came out in his car and pa ssed his boy on the way, but we had him home before his father cached camp. And the best part oi 1t all was that his mother was not frightened. Some of these days the boys are going to arrange little re- ceptIon for the drummer who re- sponded so promptly to our call for aid.
 Wants Good Head
 It is our hope that the editor will run n good head to this story, setting forth that all Good Samaritans e-- not dead. But there Is still another part to this story. When you hear env,,a fpllowS c1,sqiug n1iuers ao ,,,,