The Holbrook news., 1922-09-22


 Realizing this fact, the following
 citizens ot Holbrook, l.. Caldwell, w. V. Bedding, J. M. Lee, W. B. Woods,
 ". L. Ferguson, A. r. Cooley, U. C'
 Williams, J. B. Crosby, w. Il. Cham
 berlain, F. R. Speek, Carl Taylor, Sid
 ney Sapp, John Branigan, Claire Jor- dan, Mary Bryan, took the initiative
 to secure q local organization of the
 Boy Scouts of America.
 The general facts of the case
 are already well known to you. but in brief let us gay that the Grand Canyon District council of the Boy Scouts Of America, to cover COconlno, Apache and Navajo counties, has been organized and application for charter
 has been made. A scout executive
 whose duty it is to aid in the promo
 ton of tle program throughout thls district, has been employed and Is on
 the field.
 The scout movement is a program of character building, citizenship de
 veiOping, leisme-time activities foi boys.
 l. 1t is educational as well as recrea- tional. It is vocationally purposeful. Its tasks are within lads reach and its progress at once challenges him through going at his rate of speed. It IS concerned with lads health and it prepares him to be resourceful m the out-nf dCors. Ii trains rhe lad to accept responsibility not only for the assigned task but for the uneX- peeted emergency. It brings the spliit o1 the Good Turn.
 Though initiated by several cit izens, this is not a one-man or one club affair-it is community proJ- ect. The fundamental principle under lying scouting is that scouting is done by the community. Or course the actual activities are done by the boys, but the community Is the enabling agency. About twenty per cent o1 the population of the community are b0ys-boys with all the mysterious and contradictions which real bows exhibit. Very, very few Of them are necessarily bad boys-but the to action, to adventure, makes it imperative that there be leadership in providing activities for them. Boys will do things ii lett entirely alone but what things will they to? Who can predict. Even the boys cannot foretell.
 What they do fixes their habits and habits are the wool and warp ot character. The welfare Of the com munity demands certain definite standards of ideals and conduct. Such standards rest ultimately on habits. To expect such habits to be the by products of accidental or unwelghted chance is to expect the unnatural. Only as the community can provide selected. purposeful and intlinslcally attractive things for its boys to do, can it with q measure of confidence look for re suits worthy Of the term social education"
 The Boy Scout program offers these boys the mysteries of companlohshp with other boys and with worthy men with all the incident opportunities Tor initiative and leadership It offers them the long-deferred op- portunity for "heipful' participation m the adult life Of the community a chance for community serVlce. u offers them attractive, lnterest-gfip- ping individually useful and soclally- things to dO-things with in their leach, to be done at then own gait, yet with degrees of prog ress challenging their abilities and providing suitable recognlhons.
 1t affords them opportunities toi health of body and ot spirit, tor sell mastery; it reveals 10 them hisG$' unknown abilities; it makes them m innate with stars and trees, with anim;Is and flowers, and it enables them to be prepared to meet an! as vel as routine ll1e: Its merit badge work opens doors ol trial into over sixty vacations helping the scout to find his place in life. Its oath and law provide the lads dynamic, working code of morals reverent, tolerant of others. This oath and law operates from within their is the code of the boy group not imposed from without. It's good turns puts the real social spirit into practice.
 The fundamental tone of its men tai growth is activities - learning through doing citizenship through for emergencieS being prepared" in advance. In a word. scouting teaches boys to live by living.
 This wolk costs us something. Not only does it challenge our time, but it requires our financial support. To liA in carrying on the work for the first year, we must raise the pledged ,udeet of SG00.00. This money must be raised at Onee-it Is our first ma .erial aid in the conservation and de selOpment of our boyhood.
 Why Money for Scouting?
 For community to provide for its Dovs the benefits of the Scout pro gam with it's attendant adult com costs much of time and relatively small, ohmoney.
 The Scoutmasters and other leaders give their time. The community as a whole must supply the needed funds.
 But since the Scoutmaster gives his time, and some institution gives q place of meeting, and the boy prefer ably earns but at least provides his own uniform and the troop organiZa- ton meets the incidental expenses of the tTO5p-and since these contacts with boys are the essence and reality of scouung-why should the commun- lty provide money for scouting?
 It has no building program costs to maintain as it uses building equip ments already available - so why should scouting need the community's support?
 Only for the purpose of creating a service through a small group of enc or more executive specialists to do certain things fer the volunteer or ganization, which they have found it helpful and, tecause of the technical