Scouting, Volume 1, Number 21, March 1, 1914 Page: 2
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SCOUTING
SCOUTING
PUBLISHED SEMI-MONTHLY BY NATIONAL HEAD-
QUARTERS, BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA, FOR SCOUT
OFFICIALS AND OTHERS INTERESTED IN
THE BOY SCOUT MOVEMENT
"OFFICERS OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL AND
EXECUTIVE BOARD
Honorary President: Woodrow Wilson.
Honorary Vice-President: William H. Taft.
Honorary Vice-President: Theodore Roosevelt.
President: Colin H. Livingstone, Washington.
Chief Scout: Ernest Thompson Seton.
Nat'l Scout Commissioner: Daniel C. Beard.
Treasurer: George D. Pratt, Brooklyn, N. V.
Chief Scout Executive: James E. West, N. Y. C.
Office of Publication: 200 Fifth Avenue,
New York City.
Entered^ as second-class matter at the Post Office,
New York, N. Y., under the act of
August 24, 1912.
VOL. I.
MARCH 1, 1914.
No. 21.
SCOUT MASTERS.
From "The Seattle Scout," published by the Seattle
Council.
WE are working among the boys and to
trying to get them into the Scout
spirit. We recognize that the true
Scout is the ideal boy. We fully believe
there is an imperative demand for the cul-
tivation of Scout ideals
Are we prepared to do this? Have we
caught the Scout spirit ourselves? We
have taken up the work because of our
love for humanity and a desire to do good.
Are we daily preparing ourselves to i^o
better work? How many of us have read
the Scout Masters' Manual from cover to
cover? How many read Scouting as it
comes to us twice a month? Before we
can get our boys into the Scout spirit, we
must imbibe its principles ourselves.
National Headquarters is placing every
means in our hands to aid in the great
work. Let us take advantage of those aids
to prepare ourselves for more efficient
work.
MERIT BADGE ARTICLES.
Helpful Information Interestingly Pre=
sented in "Boys' Life."
The March number of Boys' Life gives
in an interesting way, accurate information
which will enable a Scout to understand
" the laws of electrical attraction and re-
pulsion " and to meet the first of the re-
quirements for the Merit Badge in Elec-
tricity. Experiments illustrating the work-
ings of these laws (such as the Merit
Badge test requires) are given in detail,
with illustrations.
In the April Boys' Life an article will
explain the construction of a machine to
make static electricity, another require-
ment for the Merit Badge. This also will
be graphically illustrated.
In later issues other electrical informa-
tion helpful to boys intending to take the
tests for this Merit Badge will be presented
in terms of the boys' understanding. The
author of these articles is Robert C.
Mathes, an expert.
The April issue of the magazine will
contain also detailed information needed
pass the Horsemanship Merit Badge
test. The article has been written by Cap-
tain Robert Rossovv, of the Culver Black
Horse Troop.
Facts about camping and cooking, in-
cluding recipes, which will be valuable to
all campers, and especially to boys who
wish to earn the Camping Merit Badge,
will appear in the Spring and Summer is-
sues of Boys' Life.
SEA SCOUTS IN WASHINGTON.
State Commissioner Visits National
Headquarters.
Mr. Peder Jensen, Sea Scout Commis-
sioner for tlie State of Washington, was
at National Headquarters on Feb. 28 in
the interest of the organization of Sea
Scouts among the boys on the Washington
Coast.
Mr. Jensen has a Troop of Sea Scouts at
Puyallup, near Tacoma. What he has done
with these boys has interested Scout Mas-
ters in other coast and sound cities, and
it was at their suggestion and upon their
recommendation that he was appointed Sea
Scout Commissioner for the State recently.
It is planned, Commissioner Jensen says,
to organize a Sea Scouting Council made
up of the Governor of the State and the
mayors of all of the principal coast cities
in the State, and to organize nautical
1 roops in all of these places.
Mr. Jensen said that interest in the Boy
Scout Movement continues to grow
throughout the Pacific Northwest, and that
everywhere the Movement is regarded as a
fixture 'in community life, bringing benefits
to boys which are unobtainable in any
other way.
TWO BOYS MISSING.
Scouts Urged to Watch for Clarence
Lockwood and George Russell.
Frightened by a small occurrence which
other people realized
Clarence Lockwood,
DON'T LOSE HIM.
SIGNIFICANT of a fuller appreciation
of our duties to the "older Scout,"
are the plans on foot in many Coun-
cils to provide special activities for boys
apt to lose interest in Scout work. One
cuch effort is reported in this issue of
Scouting—the effort in Delaware and
Montgomery Counties, Pennsylvania. The
statement of the "policy" of the Chicago
Council, also printed to-day, contains an
item which indicates a recogniton of the
special needs of the older Scouts. In a
third place mention is made of the work
done in Chicago in training older Scouts
to be Scout Masters.
Similar plans are on foot in many cities.
It means not only that these older
Scouts of to-day are to receive additional
benefits of the organization, but that the
Scout of to-morrow is to have the ad-
vantage of leadership far superior to the
leadership of the present. And the bene-
fits of Scouting will continue to increase
in geometric ratio.
was not important,
until recently con-
nected with Troop
3 of Xewburgh, N.
Y., disa p p e a r e d
from home on Jan.
31 and has not been
heard from since.
His mother, who
has no other chil-
dren and is com-
pelled to be self-
supporting, is pros-
trated by his ab-
sence. As he is al-
ways interested in
the Scouts he may
be traced through
who, along about their sixteenth year are CLARENCE LOCKWOOD. other Scouts whom
he may meet.
Clarence will be 18 in June, is about five
feet, eight or nine inches tall and weighs
about 140 pounds. When he left home he
wore a brown suit, gray striped overcoat,
blue fedora hat with a gray band. Any
news would be greatly welcomed by his
mother, Mrs. Leuella Lockwood, 213 North
Miller St., Newburgh, N. Y.
Another lost boy who left home in Buf-
falo last September is George C. Russell.
We are informed that he is 16 years old,
five feet four inches tall, has light brown
hair, blue eyes, fair complexion and rosy
cheeks. He speaks with a slight English
accent. A corner is broken off one of his
front teeth and he has a scar on the inside
of his middle finger of his right hand. Anv
information regarding him should be im-
mediately communicated to Dr. W. L.
Savage, 507 Prospect Ave., Buffalo, N. Y.
It is hoped that Scout Masters will ask
their Scouts to watch for these two bovs
whose absence from home has caused so
much unhappiness and trouble.
THE OLDER SCOUT.
One Council Makes Special Plans to
Keep and Aid Him.
A conference on the subject of keeping
the older Boy Scouts was held recently at
Lansdowne, Pa., by the Delaware and
Montgomery counties troops. An excellent
banquet was served by the local Scouts,
who entertained the delegates during their
stay.
After instruction by Scout Master W. B.
Berg, of Philadelphia, he pointed out that
the principles and ideals of Scoutcraft were
for lifetime and should not be dropped
when the boy reaches eighteen. Interesting
incidents of the development among older
boys were related and the remarks were
much appreciated by the boys.
The session next morning was for the
discussion of the recommendation for the
organization of a group of graduate
Scouts, and the delegates took up the dis-
cussion of the minimum'age limit, which
was finally set at sixteen years.. It was
decided that a Graduate Scout Section be
conducted at the Delaware and Montgom-
ery County Headquarters, and at the ex-
piration of that time the conference of the
older Boy Scouts should be held to discuss
a camping trip during the summer holidays
and for further activities.
At the end of each month the County
Headquarters will plan an educational trip
in the nature of vocational guidance, the
plan being to get the boys in touch with
various lines of business and manufacture
and with the professions.
The first series has already been taken,
sixteen of the delegates visiting the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania under the guidance of
a member of the County Council and who
is also a senior there.
Plan Scout Masters' Fchool.
Plans are being made in Richmond, Va.,
under the new Executive. W. J. B. Hous-
man, for a Scout Masters' School which
will supplement the work by a series of
public lectures by prominent men. The
lectures will touch upon bov work, birds,
first aid, games, and any other Scoutcraft
subjects in which expert lecturers can be
found. Chief Scout Ernest Thompson
Seton made a visit to the Richmond Scouts
early in February, arousing a great deal of
enthusiasm and renewed interest in the
work.
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