Laurel outlook., 1949-02-09
Scouting Is Theme
Of Kiwanis Program

prOVlue ways II means ana &C
ordination of club activities.
Harold Collins, chairman of
committee appointed last wee
. relative to providing a scor
. board at the high school gym
: nasium, reported that the com
: mittee was awaiting receipt O
: specifications.
H. Lee Hamlet, program
chairman, introduced the speak
er, Hoheisel.
Hoheisel commended Boy Scout
work that is being performed
here by interested adult execu-
tives and leaders-"a healthy
picture" he said as he enumerat-
ed the number of troops, mem
bership, personnel of the COM
mittee, number of cub dens and
membership and achievements in
the past that have made the Boy
Scout work in Laurel prominent
in the Yellowstone district of 81
counties.
Life without a purpose is a
tragedy" he remarked while de-
scribing how scouting provides a
purpose towards which youths
vigor may drive now and later
when the years of maturity have
accumulated. What better
medium is there than scouting
to absorb emotional excitement
of childhood and youth, particu-
larly when the old closely knit
ties of family interdependence
for livelihood have more or less
fallen apart in this era of in
dustrialism? he inquired.
The moral identity of men, by
banding together to develop gov
eminent and provide the world
with higher purposes, may be
traced to earlier development of
individuals abilities and good
habits-an essential in scouting.
Children have to have guided in
.terests, particularly those chill
dren who by a year or so have
graduated more or less from
close home control, the speaker
said as he cited some personal
observations of 1oose-ends be-
havior.
AS to true religion, it grows
and reaches into the future by
applying the Golden Rule, a fact
recognized in scouting. Church
sponsored troops often live long
er than others, and because of
this the Scout executives favor
church sponsorship in many in
stances. |
The work of the adults have
a personal reward in that the
older people again learn to play
some a lost art.
All youth has fun" 1t is
contagious, and very frequently
work becomes play as a result.
zone can't knock out props
without replacing them with
something" the speaker said.
The Hitlers and others knocked
out the props of morality, con-
structive thinking and awareness
others, and substituted those
IDEAS that made the subject peo-
Pile the tools of their overlords.
Another observation was to
effect that it is well to keep
mind occupied with ]
hose things it can understand, {
md let it wait a little before
,lunging it into the necessities
# maturity. "Atomic-age man
leeds more perspective"
That which goes into the mind
f a child comes out later in life
a reality. Scouting provides v
space the mind of youth can S
ranch into, and one of the Il
1any avenues, that of badge r
arning, is especially valuable. g
Some other points mentioned Y,
Y Hoheisel were: u
1CdSllllIS Vic NdIuC vi 0CtlO-
racy instead of license, as illus
in world events of recent
ears. q,
Abiding happiness comes from p.
hat one is instead of what one IL
is. w
Sense training is necessary to l.
arning. pl
Keep on learning. The mind al
re muscle becomes stronger &c
it'll use. w
Freedom with its many obli-
ltions is the way of enlighten- llt
faith. Many people are now in
that they have to pay sa
netting for faith if they are ar
attain or keep it. IN
With love and faith in the hi
heart there is nothing to tn
ar in the atomic age. to