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(ConducteA by National Coucll at the TScj Scouts o:: America.)THEIR BEST NOW AND ALWAYSDean Mann of Corner- says:“When the boys of t ay. shall hare, become grown men, the time will liavtf: arrived when thin nation will be feel-ing acutely the inevitable shortage of timber for our imperative needs, unless in the meantime a new altitude and a new program for tbe protection of our disappearing timber supply shall haw; been instituted. The boy scouts of today may well »-y.ert the** full effort and ir iluence in ’.■•■ ping h? assure an adequate wo .lt;■: supply against the time when they will ‘m,.r* ’.'he nation. A frat aivi fimdarneM T -•fop is . education—understand i:u: Jl«s. Vroblem and ’he way on' -md hC.;-; :y ot'her person* te unders ar,d it I.e. the boy scouts us»* every, tenms ;v-ward this end. .1 Is doubt;.-now tliat we arc again at the iygir rung of the can.ping season -rf 'at dry periods.noy -sen f* 1).; e l-’sh . ideaL-for national sort i(v They know how to quicken public l.ncag’-* anti act1 a, I in ye 'hoy will do u.ei* :cst p«,w .-a.-* always in this matter of fort-.sft nonet -tion and development, whfch is ,v 4% timtueiy, bound up wii’i our fniarA well-being.us a nethuf'How the Bright Lads Serve mInq Convention Visitors and Oth?*’-wlso Give Aid.THE BOY SCOUT “ON DUTYc1SCOUTS' BIGGEST ENROLLMENT..Tune, 1921, showed tlie. biggest eu-roiiment of .scouts' in tlio .history of tlie movement, a fact which ought to a matter of pride and congratulation to ail concerned. The more boys that come under the iuliuences of scouting', the healthier, happier, finer will the boyhood of America be, the greater the promise of its future. It Is not meaningless chance that makes us hear on every side that boy scout? arenT in the police courts, that boy scouts are in the honor roils of our schools, that boy scouts are performing this or that civic service. Seoutiyf rings true to its aims. It not onl/ claims to fit boys for nutnhood but It does it, so why shouldn’t we be proud that the Boy Scouts of America numbers an active membership of over 400,000. Why shouldn’t we salute and pay all honor to the scoutmaster, the volunteer leader of boyhood under great banner to a great goal? Why shouldn’t wj «§y to them and each other: 0 on, let’s make it 500,*000 by OTiriitmas?” ••••’ -RULES FOR BOY SCeU~.1. Do not start a forest'fire.2. Tell all your companions about the damage which forest fires do.3. Report all forest fires to the lmn.r-■st forest officer.4. Learn how to fight forest f1: s and take a hand in putting them out.5. Plant forest trees in vacant corners, waste places, abandoned fields, 011 barren mountain slopes ana other unoccupied (and.. I estnv insects which injure and destroy forest trees.7. Destroy rots, blights, and other fungous foes of the forest.3. ITclp cdoan up the forest by using the dead wood found lying on the forest Jioor.'9 '-Cut tut only undesirable trees and guard the more valuable ones,— by Scouts’ First Book of Forestry■11 Hck.SOi-ilE BOY SCOUT GOOD TURNS.Sioux City boy scouts turned out to rho number of 1,000 to incite a hoiise-to-lmu-vc canvass for elotnjS^ Fo ai^, t*. atvlcltc y peoplQ.o? Armenia.' pit«uS^t*Sif*U!«S4vMthroughout’ tli£ hospitals of the city, Tulsa, Oklar.'SaWed on a “spring offensive” against tEevfc^erworm^anu collected rearly a ton ol*glalt;k r’eces of rmi.il r'-ni other debris-r;iuLs In tie interests of tire safst
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Newburgh Register
Newburgh, Indiana, US
Fri, Jan 13, 1922
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