Smyrna times., 1940-02-08

The report includes record of
14,350 boy-days of camping, which
includes Scout attendance at the
Rodney Camps, and District Cam
porees, Scout tours, a Sea Scout
cruise and regional Sea Scout rem
devious at Camp Rodney. Organ
lied Troop camping doubled.
The number of Cub Packs doub-
led in 1889, new units being organ
lied at Wilmington and at Port
Deposit, and at Preston, Maryland.
Boy Scout Troops are located in
a great number of communities
from Wilmington to Cape Charles,
Virginia. Of the 172 units on the
records in 1889, 1O4 were located in
towns of less than 10000 popula-
tion, and 76 of these were located
in towns of less than $500. Will
mington is in the top six per cent
of communities of comparable size
in the United States in its proper
tion of Scouts to population.
Included in the large list of civic
services rendered during 1889 We're
service Troop encampRnents at the
New York Worlds Fair and the
Kent-Sussex Fair; assistance to the
Red Cross and Anti-Tuberculosis
Society; digging out hydrants and
catch-basins after snoWstorms; CO.
operation in Wilmington Bi-Centen-
NAL celebration; handling the Sal
isbury Thanksgiving nummers'
parade; ushering at civic gatherins,
and many other good turns.
Officers of the Del-Mar-Va Coun-
Gil include Charles H. Cant, Will
mington, president; DR.. Gilbert w.
Mead, Chestertown, j. Wallace
Woodford, Dover, Col. William B.
Tighman, Salisbury, and ]. Thomp
son Brown, Frank c. Evans, and j.
Edgar Rhoads, Wilmington, vice
presidents; Harold G. Irons, Will
mington, Treasurer; with the fol-
lowing serving as District Chair
man; J. Wallace Woodford, Dover
District; Wallace Williams, Elkton,
Cecil District; DR.. Frederick G.
Livingood, Chestertown, Kent, Md.
District; John w. Noble, Preston,
Tri-C County District; r. Clarke Hill,
Rehoboth Beach, Sussex District;
James M Bennett, Salisbury Dis
trcit; M, B. Thawley, Crisfeld, Po-
comoke District; Herbert M My
ers, Cape Charles, Virginia Dis
trict; Charles E. Brohawn, Cam
bridge, Dorchester District.
The Boy Scout Movement was
founded in America thirty years
ago this week Most of us have
watched it grow and gain in infu-
enece, with great satisfaction. It
is something vital to The Amesi-
can Way" and through three de-
cades, its service has gained the /
of all people
It would be difficult to point to i
any single quality of the Movement /
and say with posltlVeness, There |
is what makes Scouting great"
But in our judgment one of its out
standing contributions to the ma
ton, particularly in these times of /
world travail, is its simply-worded |
Twelfth Scout Law 1t epitomizes /
all that we as people stand for;
all that our forefathers pioneered /
for when they were fashioning a
safe homeland out of wilderness.
Read its stirring words. They
are worth memorizing and, more
than that, they should be lived by
all of us who have the high priv
ilege of being Americans.
Here is the Twelfth Scout Law:
A Scout is reverent.
He is reverent toward God. He
is faithful in his religious duties,
and respects the convictions of
others in matters of custom and re-
ligion.
All Americans worthy of the
name, all who believe in the Declar-
alton of Independence, the Bill of