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Have you a Scouting story that is humorous,
inspirational, or otherwise worth retelling?
Share it with our readers. Send it to Scout-
ing Magazine, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
HIGH FLIERS. The four class presi-
dents, the basketball team captain, the
president of the National Honor So-
ciety, and the valedictorian last year of
the Hiawatha School District No. 426,
Kirkland, 111., were Eagle Scouts.
Harold, Blake
Executive Board Member
Chief Shabbona Council
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BOYHOOD PROMISE. After a
swearing-in ceremony for him at the
Pentagon last July, General Harold K.
Johnson, new Army Chief of Staff, told
friends and fellow officers that he
thought it appropriate to repeat part
of an oath he learned as a boy. "'On
my honor I will do my best to do my
duty to God and my country," Johnson
said as he spoke the first words of the
Boy Scout Oath.
☆ ☆ ☆
MORALE. A Navy captain defined
morale as "the mainspring of a fight-
ing force in peacetime. We all know
what morale is in general terms, but I
particularly like the definition ad-
vanced by an anonymous Navyman
during World War II: "Morale is when
your hands and feet keep working when
your head says it can't be done.' "
That's what made our roundup suc-
ceed. Many men's hands and feet keep
working when their heads just knew it
couldn't be done.
El Luckett, Commissioner,
Longhorn Council
REDCOATS. Our touring Explorers,
complete with the red wool jac-shirt,
were making quite an impression on
the rather smaller-than-usual British
Boy Scout as we checked in at the
Baden-Powell House in London. He
ventured up to me and said, '"Pardon
me, Sir, but you wouldn't be pulling
our leg, would you?"
Somewhat taken by his question. 1
asked, "I hope not—what do you
mean?" He replied, mischievously, 1
thought, '"Sir, are the redcoats really
coming?
Who pulled whose leg?
W. Byron Drumb
New Albany, hul.
HOLY SMOKES. After several
nights of camping out, a group of
Scouts attended a nearby church for
Sunday services. Campfires and smoke
had been in abundance during the
campout, and their uniforms were thor-
oughly impregnated with the odor.
While standing in line to be seated, 1
noticed a scurry of ushers checking the
closets, running up to the balcony and
down to the basement. As two of them
passed me, I heard one say, "It sure
smells like something burning, and it's
strongest right around here." The ex-
citement lessened as their fire marched
into the church and took their seats.
Robert J. Haber, Scoutmaster
Troop 46, Wilmington, Del.
DOERS. Baden-Powell, the founder
of Scouting, wrote in Scouting for Boys,
"'A Scout is active in doing good, not
passive in being good. It is his duty to
be helpful and generous to other peo-
ple." When did your Scouts (or you
for that matter) last do your Good
Turn?
By D. C. Spry
Director, Boy Scouts World Bureau
In the World Scouting Bulletin
BRAVE. For Hall oween season
Scoutmaster Steven Elder of Troop
116, Bedford, Mass., presented a Scout-
master's minute that pointed out the
relevance of the 10th point of the
Scout Law—bravery. He mentioned that
recently some boys had wantonly de-
stroyed some pumpkins on people's
doorsteps. He expressed the hope that
Scouts had not been involved. After
he had retired for the night, his door-
bell rang. Answering it, he discovered
one of his Scouts. The lad blurted out,
"1 just couldn't sleep until 1 told you—
I broke some of those pumpkins and
I'm sure sorry."
Bruce K. McMahon
District Scout Executive
Stoneham, Mass.
SMOKY. Twelve-year-old Arthur was
on his first winter camping trip. When
he awoke in a cold room, he decided
to build a fire in the old wood-burning
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