The Holly chieftain., 1924-03-06
for service spirit for which there is worldwide

for service spirit for which there is worldwide
need
The activities of Anniversary Week were many
and varied, whole communities joining In the cele-
bration Scouts visited the tombs Of the nations
presidents. They went to church in uniform Scout
Sunday. They held public demonstrations of scout
efficiency. They honored American heroes of the
out-of-doors like Kit Carson and Jim Bridger and
Buffalo Bill and John Muir. Chicago scouts elect
ed mayor and officials and ran the city for
hour. And everywhere the scouts celebrated Abra-
ham Llncoln's birthday in way that would have
pleased the Savior Of His Countrywide best
Old Scout Of them all. District of Columbia Scouts
called President Coolidge at the White House
and had good talk with him.
And the halfmilllon Boy Scouts enthusiastically
took anew the scout oath, which is 'to do my duty
to God and my country and to obey the scout law
to help other people at all tines to keep myself
physically strong. mentally awake and morally
straight"
So popular with the boys Of the United States
is the movement that the men of the nation will
have to bestir themselves to keep up with 1t and
give 1t fair chance to get Its natural growth
Several big cities busy with "drives" for scout
masters. Chicago, for example, hns 10000 Boy
Scouts ard 10000 boys who eligible for men,
bershp; S150,0OO could be used to advantage at
once in starting new troops. New York is driving
for 1900 new scoutmasers who are urgently need
ed. One of the pictures shows three of New forks
BOY Scouts before the microphone ut Station
WIZ speaking in this campaign. These boys
Qeft to right) Michael Sauka. George Ku'zeman
and Arnold Stanewck-all heroes. having saved
human life during the last year. The other pic
notwithstanding drill for saving life at fires.
cabn-buildng, map making, etc.-are self-explana-
tory
There are three classes of Scouts. the ,tenderfoot
second class scout and frst class scout. All must
thoroughly understand the Scont Oath and Law.
the Sign Salute and significance of the Badge. The
First Glass Scout must learn to swim 30 yards;
md nt ems n Duolfr
know advance signaling and advance first aid;
make 14rnile round trip alone or with another
Scout and write satisfactory account of things
observed; prepare and cook in the open with camp
utensils Il number of dishes; be able correctly to
rnap the country through which be passes produce
articles of carpentry, cabinet making or metal
work, judge distance, size, number, height md
weight within % per cent; and meet certain exact
ing nature study requirements
First Glass Scouts eligible to try for Merit
Badges in II vocational subjects md arrive at
the rank of Eagle Scout by qualifying in total of
81 of these subjects. All the Merit Badge subjects
have much international. educational, and voca-
tional value.
The general public has no real opportunity to
realize how useful are the Boy Scouts whole.
While the actual material service they render is
hardly to he computed In dollars and cents they
save the country thousands of dollars every year.
Here are Il few of their many activities:
Troop of Ravenna, o.. takes care of state
sanctuary containing Flhgheckeu pnehSints
and quuIl. In Suthcld, Conn, troop has been
feeding birds and game all winter: the hoys estab-
lished no fewer than seventeen feeding stations.
A troop In RoXbury. \, Y. has planted trout in
all the streams
Boy Scouts of Albany. n. Y. devoted Columbus
Day to planting 1000 trees. Last spring another
troop set out 5000 white pine in the community
forest at Malone \. Y. Sonkers scouts set our
5000 trees in single afternoon the city water
shed Bronx boys planted $4,000 two-year-old
seedlings in two week ends
Seventy-fye scouts spent their spring vacation
INST year resculnE sand dune overlooking the city