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3E, PEKIN, INDIANAMX)YlSCOUTSWHERE REAL SCOUTS SHINEHie boy who learns fire building thoroughly is n safe inhabitant of the forest. The hoy who goes abroad with two matches and a new us ns his sole cqulmpcnt Is a menace to himself, the good name of scouting, and the safety of the woods Into which he ventures.Accordingly the ability to build a fire In the open, using not more than two matches, is a second-class scout requirement, and In actual practice it Is one of the first things n hoy should study upon entering the grent brotherhood.When the red gods coll and the weather man favors, any lad can entice flame, ignite a glorious smudge, singe His cyohrows, and come home with a feeling that potatoes baked In an oven are hotter than potatoes cremated in a bonfire.It Is the scoutmaster’s high privilege to initiate his hoys Into the charmed circle of real scouts to wliotn unpropitlous weather is no barrier, and to huild in their hearts, not only the pattern of the tepee fire and many other arrangements of fuel and draft, but to hultd also, love of the gnfwlng tree, love of an unscar red and unhurned woodland, love of an entirely extinguished fire marked hy two unhurned crossed sticks and uti-shumcd by waste paper and tin cans.SCOUTS’ FIRST-AID DRILL.HOW SCOUTS AID IN FORESTRY.The approval of scout co-operation In forestry work was given hy John H Wallace, Jr.. commissioner of conservation in Alabama:“The Boy Scouts of Alabama have recently rendered this department a distinctive service hy placing in conspicuous places, throughout their respective communities, our conservation posters.“I regard the friendship and cooperation of the Roy Scouts of Alabama as among the most valuable assets of this department in creating a wholesale public sentlroedt favorable to the enforcement of the laws of this state for the protection of our national resources.”SCOUT'S FIRST AID SAVES LIFE.The first aid help given by a hoy scout at the time of the injury probably saved the life of Ernest Whipple of I-eonn, Ore., whose arm was severed by a cut-off saw at a lumber mill. The boy was Howard.Leu, an employee of the mill, and when other men left the victim helpless because of tlmir ignorance of the care that should he given, young Lea bound tiie wound after the method taught nil members of the boy scout organization, and the resultant stopping of the flow of blood Is believed to have saved the young man's life.DOINGS OF THE BOY SCOUTS.Gaffney (R. C.) Troop No. 1 was particularly successful in collecting hooks for service men nod raised 511 .TOO for a poor family.Des Moines, In., scouts, during the student volunteer convention met 6,000 delegates at the railroad depot and escorted them to registration hu-reaus, checked their baggage, and supplied information at official booths.The Pennsylvania state game commission called upon the boy scouts to enlist in the movement to feed the MrdB, whose source of food was cut off by snow. The department had a force of men at work feeding quail and wild turkey In the central Pennsylvania districts.Scouts of Troop No. 2 of Effingham guarded a disabled mall airplane both day and night.Andover (N, H.) boy scouts ran the snow plow .through town and saved wood for the poor.Naugatuck (Conn.) Troop No. 2 returned a lost child tlt; its parents, mid searched for a lost aviator.Identification cards for boys scouts have been prepared by Mayor Stauffer of Rending, I’n, They coniuin the seal of the city, and Will he numbered and listed so that the city knows to whom each curd has been Issued.
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Pekin Advance
Pekin, Indiana, US
Thu, Apr 29, 1920
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