The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-08-11
Boy Scout
Exposition
At State Fair
16 Members of Troop 25, Sank
Centre to Spend Week
at st. Paul
EDUCATION'L PROGRAM
Expense for Individual Scouts
Will Be Small-Carefully
Supervised

The Boy Scout Exposition at the
State Fair this year will be on a
different basis than heretofore.
There will be a larger number of
troops attending and a more COM
prehensive plan is being worked
out at headquarters in st. Paul so
that the boys time will be more
profiitably spent, both in their
Scouting work and in their sight
seeing at the Fair. A meeting wa.
held last Sunday at the st. Paul
Athletic Club and the Scoutmasters
of the eight troops which are at
tending the Fair were invited to be
present. While each boy will have
time to see the fair, it is thought
best to restrict the amount of
money each boy may take with him
as spending money. This will not
work hardship on the boy in fact
it will be a benefit to him. There
are so many places at the Fair
where one may spent a dime or
quarter or dollar that it is believed
every parent would much perfer to
know that his or her boy can take
only small amount with him
which can be used for that pur-
pose. Even if each boy had little or
no extra money, he will always be
well provided with good food and
lodging, and with an interesting
Scout program and interesting
sight seeing trips. Each boy can
have good time without the ne
cessity of spending more than is
necessary for the trip.
Those boys who take this trip will
be the principal beneficaries and
with the low cost of food while
there and low rates for Transports
ton, it is not going to cost any
boy much more to take the trip
than to stay at home. A great deal
depends. upon how each boy pays
and how he uses his money. Scout
ing pays especial attention to thrift
and the present instance can be
made an excellent thrift lesson for
each Scout. The matter of un-
forms is not an added expense, in
fact with proper planning, it has
often, been found that the uniform
equipment is a thrift saving in the
long run, even under the old prices
for uniforms and now that these
prices are considerably less it is
fully as possible to make the uni
form an economical buy. These un-
iforms are not meant to wear only
when the boy attends the Scout
meetings, they can be worn most
any time and so they profitably
supplant other garmens which the
boy would buy anyhow if he were
not a Scout.
So far it appears that there will
not be more than 16 Sank Centre
Scouts making the trip although
this number may be increased as
soon as several of the other boys
are able to determine if they can
make the trip. 1t is an opportun-
ity which none of the boys want to
miss and so they are striving to
find a way to go.
Meantime they are not forgetting
the value of merit badges which are
the desire of every Scout. Wednes-
day two of the boys went out af
ter their bicycling merit badge.
None of the boys here however
earned as many badges this sum-
mer as John Pesheck who is now
at his farm home in Mikkelson N.
D. far far away from any Other
Scout and a member of the K. F.
Y. r. Radio Troop.
In a recent letter John states
that he has earned 10 merit badges
this summer bringing the total up
to 62. There are few Scouts who
ever acquire as many badges as
John has now.