The Wrangell sentinel., 1923-09-13
..BOY SCOUTS
 & tconducted by National Council of the Boy
 Scouts of America-)
SCOUTING AND THE SCHOOLS

The scouting and the schools" sec tion at the recent convention In Bos- ton of the National Education associa- ton held a prominent place among the thirty different department meetings. The convention was attended by over 10000 of the leading educators of the country.
 The educational value of scouting Its influence for citizenship training and character building are thoroughly recognized by the educators, who are more and more supplementing the school work with the scouting pro- gram.
 At the scouting section Edwin D. Miller, principal of the Northern High school, Detroit, Mich, told how De. troit's board of education Is co-operat. ing. Since 1920 the plan has been fol lowed of installing scout troops in school buildings under school auspices. The board of education employs a scout executive in the same way they would employ a teacher, although the actual scoutmasters are, of course, volunteers. About twenty-five troops are being conducted by the board of education and there are over fifty that meet In school buildings.
 'The public schools and the boy scouts are leaders among the agencies that make better boys" said Prof. AL bert Shiels of Columbia University, who has been Investigating the propo- sition for a number of years. 'The conclusion Is inevitable. We must CO., operate. Less eloQuence and more ac. complishment from now on."
 In his address on "Boyhood and Git izenship Training" pr. George J. Fisher, deputy chief scout executive, Boy Scouts of America, said: "It is strange that in a democracy like ours the average person has re- ceiyed little if any. training In the duties and responsibilities of citizen ship. To have an effective democracy we must seriously train the youth in the principles of democracy. His man experience is dependent upon his boy experience. Scouting has been a gEeat aid to the schools in furnishing definite program of service activi- ties. Scouting Is a course in the prac- tice of patriotism. What the youth of America needs is practical tasks, the doing of which gives him the con sciousness of having served the con- munity, the state, the nation. This scouting has provided for youth bet
 :er than any other program yet de- vised."
 In still another section "The Wider
 Use of School Houses" Scouting
 was the subject of important consid- eration. Charles H. Mills of national headquarters, Boy Scouts of America, stated in an address that from wide experience he believed no activity be-
 !onged to the wider use of schools
 more than scouting; and that there
 was no place where scouting belonged
 more than 1t did in the public school | house. "The two primal motives of scouting" said Mir. Mills, "are charac- ter building and citizenship training.
 Is there any possible way in which there could be formed better backing for citizenship training than to have
 the very civic forces themselves foster l and encourage and promote scouting
 It does not take the boy long to real
 ize that 1t is the city itself that Is
 working for him and serving him by
 the school community center interest
 ing itself in scouting. Immediately
 there arises in him the desire to re.
 ciprocate by serving his community"