Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-12-09
Scout District
Elects Officers
On Friday Night
Hon. Hjalmar Petersen
Heads List of Speakers at
Dinner in Hinckley.

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Kanabec District of the North Star
Council, Boy Scouts of America, was
held Friday night in Hinckley and
attracted more than 100 representa-
tives from various places in the two
counties. The meeting, which was
presided over by H. L. Westby of
Mora, was attended by several ex-
ecutives in the Scout movement and
the same board of officers, consisting
of MIR. Westby as chairman; George
I. Glenn of Askov, as vice chairman,
and Jack Hurley of Hinckley, as
commissioner, was reelected.
After the dinner, which was served
by the Auxiliary of the Hinckley
American Legion post, a short pro-
gram of after-dinner speaking was
heard and consisted of various re-
ports as to the progress of the scout
ing program throughout the district,
and talks by John j. Lum, president
of the North Star Council; 1. X.
Lewis, vice president of the North
Star Council, and Hjalmar Petersen,
chairman of the Railroad g. Ware
house Commission.
Mr.. Lum spoke a few words in re-
CARDS to the work of the Scout or
ganization, and Mr.. Lewis talked on
the North Star Council as it serves
boys. In opening his remarks Mr..
Lewis complimented the Hinckley
meeting on the size of gathering and
the district on its accomplishments.
Father, Son Relationship.
The speaker made an impressive
lecture on the correct relationship
of a father to his boy and told a
story about certain race of people
on the Caribbean sea which indi-
Gated their perfect seafaring records.
The speaker told of an old Carib
father out on the sea in small boat
with his son when a night storm
broke upon them. For several hours
they battled the waves and the wind
together, but when the storm Gained
and the sky was again clear the
father was weary and after pointing
out the North Star as guide to his
son, he retired to his bunk. After
a time the sky again became clouded
and the boy lost sight of the North
Star, but later it came out again and
was in the rear of the boat. This
excited the boy and he called to his
father to point out something else
for him to follow as they had passed
the North Star.
Mr.. Lewis used that story to il
lustrate his point in regards to the
average boy and his father. He
asked, 'is father and son travelling
in the same boat?" He brought to
mind another point illustrated by
the story and that was in regards to
the boy taking over his fathers work
when he is tired. Mr.. Lewis solemn
ly advised the fathers to keep their
boys ain the same boat" with them.
In closing Mr.. Lewis referred to
the Scout promise embodying the
to God and country and to keep
morally straight as a good rule for
all to follow, saying that if we did,
how much trouble we could save in
human society.
Slaven Cited.
DR.. James Slaven of Pine City,
was present at the meeting and his
work as Scout leader in this section
during 1910, the first year of Scout
work in America, was cited by sew
eral at the meeting. incidentally
c. S. Gjertson of Sandstone, one of
his first Scouts, was present and was
introduced.
DIR. Slaven has been since that
time a tireless worker in behalf of
Scouting and his efforts have meant
much to the work, it was brought
out by various speakers.
Petersen Praises Scout Work.
Hjalmar Petersen launched his in
teresting talk by complimenting DR..
Slaven on his activity and telling of
some experiences he had while a
boy, which indicated the workings
of the boyish mind and what train
ing is necessary Mr.. Petersen praised
that part of the Scout program which
teaches boys to be self-reliant
and stressed the importance of teach
ing them to swim.
The speaker charged every COM
munity with the responsibility of
looking after its growing youth and
he complimented the American Lee
gion on its worthy sponsorship of
the movement.
He admonished his audience that
it is very important to have Scout
masters of ability and good moral
character in charge of the work as
in every boys makeup there is a
vein of hero worship. Mr.. Petersen
stated that out of approximately
100000 workers in the movement,
there are only about 1000 paid ex-
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