Scouting, Volume 2, Number 7, August 1, 1914 Page: 6
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STUDENT CAMPS OFFER
VALUABLE SUGGESTIONS.
Government Experts Have Worked Out
Practical Solutions to Sanitation
and Cooking Problems.
A LL Scout officials, who possibly can do
so, should visit one or more of the
Student Military Instruction Camps. Three
of these camps, conducted purely for edu-
cational purposes, are located at Asheville,
N. C., Burlington, Vt., and Ludington,
Mich., and are held from July 6 to August
7. A fourth, at Monterey, Cal., was con-
ducted from June "26 to July 31.
There is much about these camps that
will be of special interest to those en-
gaged in Scouting. Needless to say, the
camps are all model in every respect and
afford a striking object lesson of the pos-
sibilities of having an absolutely sanitary
camp and at the same time a great degree
of comfort at a minimum cost.
The Chief Scout Executive visited the
camp at Asheville, N. C., and found many
things of interest.
All of the kitchen and dining tents were
so constructed as to guard almost abso-
lutely against flies, and the method fol-
lowed was so simple that it leaves no ex-
cuse for any Scout camp not adopting the
same methods.
Mr. West also reports that the dining
tents, for instance, are simply constructed,
of an inexpensive frame-work of wood,
covered by canvas such as is commonly
used for a wagon cover, tarpaulin or ordi-
nary canvas used for other purposes.
Ordinary rolls of wire screening are then
used in enclosing the sides, and at the top
and bottom of the sides an inexpensive un-
bleached muslin is used in such a way as
to close all openings. A stock screen door,
which can be purchased anywhere for
$1.25 or $1.50, is used. One end of the
tent opens into the kitchen, which is simi-
larly constructed and completely screened.
A mess tent of this kind for twelve people
involved an expense of less than $8.
All three of the kitchens at Asheville
were equipped with a very simple range,
known as the Army Field Range No. 2.
SCOUTING.
plan of the range can be obtained from BOYS ARE THE NATION'S
the cross-section view shown in Figure A. M0ST VALUABLE ASSET.
F'6-A.
A complete description of the range can
be obtained in Circular No. 8, issued by the
War Department on May 18, 1914.
The ranges are manufactured by Mesker
Bros. Iron Co., of St. Louis, Mo., and all
who are interested should apply to this com-
pany for information about material, prices,
accessory equipment, etc.
HELP REDUCE FIRE LOSSES.
Michigan Forest Scouts Report and Ex=
tlnguish 731 Fires.
In the forestry report of the State of
Michigan, Warden W. R. Oates gives the
following significant statement:
" Loss by forest fires in Michigan, which
had approximated upwards of one million
dollars annually for fifty years, dropped
from $3,470,000 in 1911 to $67,000 in 1912
and to less than $23,000 in 1913."
The Forest Scouts have had a great part
in cutting down the losses, have planted
-several unit forests o,f a thousand trees, and
have kept track of the growth from time
to time. The Scouts have also carried on
an educational campaign, and have acted
as messengers and interpreters. The
activity of the Scouts has, in several cases,
acted as a stimulus to the adult wardens
who do not wish to be found shirking bv
" school boys." In all, the Forest Scouts
have a record of 731 fires extinguished and
reported.
This range, complete, weighs about 150
pounds with utensils, and is designed to
cook for fifty-five men. It consists es-
sentially of two parts—an oven and a boil-
ing plate. The range can be set up at a
moment's notice and for this reason is
convenient for use on a long hike. It is
capable of rendering even better service in
an established camp where time can be
taken to install it with a system of trenches
which provide for better draft.
Figure 1 shows a top view of the range.
The raised portion is the oven and the sec-
tion with the round hole in the top is the
boiling plate. A good idea of the general
Given Deed to Camp Site.
The courage and manliness of the Boy
Scouts of Bethlehem, N. H., has gained for
them a beautiful piece of land on Forest
Lake. The camping ground is to be shared
with the Camp Fire Girls who this year
had their camp near that of the Scouts.
A bad storm came up while the Scouts
and Camp Fire Girls were at a picture
show in Whitefield. When it came time
to go home the boys took charge of the
situation under Scoutmaster Dexter and
rowed the girls across the lake without any
excitement in spite of the roughness of the
water. Mr. Cummings, of Middleton*
N. H., saw the incident and watched the
boys as they rowed steadfastly against the
rain and high waves. As a result he deeded
them the land, saying: " Many boys and
girls come to camp at this lake, but I have
never seen a more manly set of fellows
than the Scouts from Bethlehem."
"Craftsman" Features Scout Article.
In a number of the Craftsman which
states on the cover that " American youth
is the inspiration of this number," an
article by Mr. S. A. Moffat, Field Scout
Commissioner, tells of "Volunteer Citi-
zen,—the Young Peace Army of America."
It is an estimate of the Scout Movement
especially from the side of constructive
citizenship and gives an inspiring idea of
the scope and power of the movement.
Boyhood Is Most Strategic Period
for Forming Right Ideals, Says
John R. Mott.
No person who is interested in boy's
work can fail to be interested and inspired
by the address on " The Strategic Impor-
tance of Work with Boys," prepared by Mr.
John R. Mott, in behalf of the Boys' Work
.Department of the International Commit-
tee of the Young Men's Christian Associa-
tion. For the benefit of the men who are
doing Scout work, Scouting reprints the
following extracts from Mr. Mott's address.
ANY idea or'ideal which you wish to
have dominate a nation must first lay
hold of the thoughtful boys, the ambitious
boys, the boys of vision. There is no more
direct way to accomplish the solution of
the most difficult problems which press
upon the nation than to dominate the boys,
the hope of the race, with right ideals
and visions. The boys have the power " to
let." Abounding in physical vitality, hav-
ing the many unspent years, they constitute
incomparably our most valuable asset.
Moreover, they are so susceptible to im-
pressions.
The age of youth is the age of laying
the secure foundation; the vision-forminp
age; the age in which ideal are fixed that
dominate; the age in which we rivet upon
ourselves the habits that made us or undo
us; the habits that enable a man to pass
through the cross-currents and the under-
tone of the modern age; or the habits that
result in disintegration and awful collapse.
The age of boyhood is the age that deter-
mines the future. What is the hope of the
greatness of any nation? What is the secret
of the greatness of any people? What
makes a nation great is the character, the
ideals and the spirit of the people; and
history shows that character is determined
in youth; that those ideals are placed high
then; that that spirit is determined likewise
by what happens with the ideals.
When I see the forces of sin and shame,
which are working such frightful havoc
on every hand; when I see the magnitude
of these forces and note their zealous ac-
tivity,, their fiendish cruelty and their in-
finite ingenuity, I do not wonder at what
I find in every nation, even in my own
country, in the way of the wreckage of
the boys. The most visible thing about us
in America is our material civilization. I
find that men are increasingly intent on
what they can see, hear and handle; and
the boys are tremendously impressed by it.
This nation must be saved from crass
materialism. If we are to do it, we must
give the future leaders vision at the time
when men receive visions that stay with
them. It is our ideals, at last, that deter-
mine the other things. If I could be ab-
solutely sure of what the ideals of the boys
were going to be, I would not need to be
a good student of history to prophesy what
the future would be. I find the boys have
visions, the like of which I do not find
among the college men; still less among
the men of middle age. Therefore, bv
bringing before these boys wide outlooks,
great horizons, far views, we are really
saving the nation as well as the boys, and
by giving them these ideals that can be
incarnated into character, we are making-
possible foundations for great men. You
cannot make men large without great ideals
and the ideals must begin to work in this
plastic period.
If we are going to get the strong men.
we have to begin in time, and I don't see
enough men in the horizon now. I see
enough in numbers, but not enough in
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