The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-10-02
SCOUT ACTIVITIES
WILL BE RESUMED
Regional and Area Officials
Meet With Sank Centre
Business Men
SHOULD BE SUPPORTED
Local Committees Will Meet
Soon to Map Out Active
Years Work

Last evening about 20 Of Sank
Centres business and professional
men enjoyed dinner at the Palmer
House and listened to interesting
talks by Central Area Scoutmaster
Nash, of st. Cloud, and Mr.. Cor
nell, of Minneapolis, Deputy Reg
ional superintendent of Scouting
in Minnesota, North and South Da-
kota, Montana and the eastern por-
ton of Wisconsin.
Scouting has been somewhat dor
mant in this city during the sum-
mer months but with the opening
of school the work has started
again and will be prosecuted Wig
orously until next June.
The meeting last evening was to
review Scouting and to impress up
on the men that it is their duty
and should be their pleasure to
carry on" this splendid work.
Chairman of the Sank Centre dis
trict, L. L. Kells, presided. He
first introduced Mr.. Nash who
gave review of the work of the
past year. He said he came into
the field rather late in the season
and it took him some time to get
the right slant on the conditions in
the II counties of the district. He
and Mr.. Cornell were concluding
a trip to the various centers of the
district where Scout work was
functioning. They had met with
the business and professional men
in many cities and said that the
attendance at the Sank Centre
meeting was the largest meeting
they had held, indicating that
Sank Centre was really and truly
interested in the Boy Scout move
ment.
During the summer II successful
camps were conducted in the area
two or three of them running at
the same time.
Mr.. Cornell said the idea in max
ing the survey was to confer with
the local Scout officials and COM
mittees and assist them in solving
any problems they might have. He
said life was a problem-it was
problems which made the world GO
round.
Manv instances were cited which
indicated that Boy Scout move.
ment was being more generally re.
congnized as times goes on. Citi-
zens were recognizing Scouting as
big help in character building.
AS evidence of the increasing in.
terest in the movement he stated
that a careful checking up indicat
ed that 10000 people visited the
Indiqn village at the State Fail
under the supervision of the Boy
Scouts.
According to the logic of Mr.
Cornell the boy or girl will learn to
do what they are paramoutly in.
terested in. He secuted the idea
that the boys and girls of today
were not as good as were their
father and mothers at their age
They are more frank and honest
than were the generation Of their
fathers and mothers. The parents
can assist the boy and girl to be
still better boys and girls by hav.
ing confidence in them.
Today there are 100000 Boy
Scouts in the United States; 26,0OC
of them are in this region and 1900
men of the Region are devotine
some of their time to Scout work
District Leader Kells recon-
mended that the men manning the
various local committees attend
the Troop meetings and show the
boys they were with them and in
terested in their work. He urged
the business men of the commun-
ity to get back Of the work.
Mr.. Cornell said the Dads owed
it to their boys to become actively
interested in the Scout work. This
activity and cooperation will make
both the Dads and the boys better
citizens.
The chairmen Of the various
local committees will be called to-
gether within a short time; an
aggressive and detailed campaign
for the year will be laid out.