The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-05-05
News About
Boy Scouts
Troop Meetings
week or ten days

Troop Meetings
Eleven troops will meet at 1880
o'clock tonight as follows: No. i
in the Methodist Protestant tenn
pie; No 4 in the First Presbyter-
ian Church; No. in the Fleming
school; No. in the Williams
Memorial Methodist Episcopal
Church South; No. 8 in the First
Methodist Episcopal Church; No.
in the Highland Avenue Metho-
dist Episcopal Church; No. Man
nington in the First Presbyterian
church of Warrington; No. Man
nington in the First Methodist
Episcopal Church of Huntington;
No. 4 Warrington in the Christian
Church of Warrington; No. L
Pennington in the Pennington
high school; No. ! Fairview in the
Fairview high school.
Warrington troop No. Will
meet at $50 o'clock Sunday after
noon in the office of the scout
master, DR.. w. J. Leahy-
Fifth Scout Law.
The fifth Scout law is, IA Scout
Is courteous.
He is polite to all, especially to
women, children, old people, and
the weak and helpless. HE MUST
NOT TAKE PAY FOR BEING
COURTEOUS OR HELPFUL"
He is polite to all, not necessar-
ilv with the manners of Lord Ches-
terrified, but considers the comfort
and convenience of others of much
more import than his own. All or
US want to be polite, and It IS only
the braggart and the bully who IS
rude and impolite to the extreme.
A Scout wants to help others, so IS
courteous and polite. Hardly II
ever will you find a Scout breaking
into conversation in order to tell
his opinion upon subject, be-
cause he knows that the man who
really knows is not the one who is
always telling about it, but the one
who can keep his tongue until re-
quested for an opinion, and he
knows that If he would always tel
what he knows upon everything
that his word would have little
weight, for it is only to those who
can listen as well, if not better,
than talk, that the world will listen
TO as the one who knows some
thing. "..
Because he is striving to make
his life worth while and to try to
copy as much as possible the man
ners and moods of the great men OF
the United States. he is always
willing to consider women and chill
dren. especially those younger than
himself, as always needing some
one to help and protect them in
time of need. He remembers the
old saying Of the sea, in time OF
distress, women and children
first" He helps the weak and the
helpless because he feels in sym
pathy with them. Perhaps some
dav he may be old and helpless
and would like to have some ore
be kind and courteous to him, and
he knows that unless some ore
tries to keep up the old fires OF
chivalry that they will die out, and
unless he is polite to the old, weak
and helpless, in time when he IS
of the same order, that no one VIII
have the least thought for him.
He is courteous to women. &C
cepting the fact that a woman IS
not Of the same type as man,
and should be protected from the
buffets of the world as much as pos
scIb1e. He considers them as h.
would have other men consider and
respect his sister or mother. n
Scout realizes what his sister or
mother may mean to him and he is
willing to consider another Scouts
sister or mother IN the same light.
He does not take pay for being
helpful OF courteous because he
must earn all. each and every pen
nv, of the money that he receives
He does not take a tip for doin~
something, because that which he
has done was a mere trifle and not
worth any recompense. He IS able
to differentiate between work for
which he should be paid and good
turn, for which he must not accept
any mercenary profit whatever. :