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I OMANCE Utility Out
door Life Discipline and
the Teachings of Manhood Are
Included in the Fascinating Semi
t Military Organizations to Which
the Boys of America and Britain
Are Flocking by Thousands
t Cop7ililTtiniObT tho New York herald Co All rtsbt retertfdl
UK Yek Yck
C C As this cry echoed along the slopes of
V Mornln fide Park a boy whose head was
surmounted by a broad brimmed hat of
peculiar design halted suddenly upon the
stone steps and screening his eyes from tho sun
peered in every direction
Grrao Grrao he replied
From behind u clump of bushes stepped a lad of
fourteen or thereabout in a khokl uniform aud salut
td with military precision
What troop Flying Eagle asked he of the stops
First Now York was the answer of the Bush Boy
Whats yours Tiger
I Thirtythird London was the response
Shake hands said Flying Eagle Glad to see
you You must know B P
Know him was the answer Why I came r
with him
am remarked Flying Eagle after a moments
hesitation Say youre a lucky scout Pre been
Rround myself some Pvc camped with Black Wolf
Now this does not happen to be a meeting In the
k t jungle far from the haunts of civilized man but be
tween two boys In a New York city park who bad J
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never before seen each other They were bound to I
gether by the tie of a new order of adolescent knlgh
hood which within the last two years has spread
w around the globe since Its organbotion In England by
Sir Robert S S BadenPowell B P the hero of t
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Four hundred thousand boy scouts ale enrolled In
Great Britain alone while troops and patrols of the
order ore to be found everywhere In the world nearly
and the Boy Scouts of America under tho leadership
of Mr Ernest Thompson Seton Black Wolf num
ber ono hundred thousand and are Increasing day by
tinyThere
There arc in the United States ten million boys it
t f > ncHmntnrl Tnrvlnr in nfo > from fve1p to eighteen
n n n u n
years who are eligible to the privilege being Scouts
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Judging by the energy which Is displayed by the
American organizers and by tbo enthusiasm of the
youths themselves It may be that before long a largo
t > proportion of them will be enrolled In this modern
I chivalry for such It is under Its novel latter day
i guise
ifi1 Although it was suggested In time of war the boy
cL scout movement Is not primarily military but Is more
x Sevoted to ways of peace Lieutenant General Baden
Powell now on a tour In the Interests of the move
P c j ment arrived recently In Vancouver and Is expected
< 1 In this city before long never Intended that it should
1 be a drill corps but rather that It should stimulate the
romantic and the imaginative boy nature and substi
Ii r tute individual initiative for the hard and fast rules
of tactics
hr This movement which is becoming so important a
factor in tho life of the young practically hud its ori
gin at Mafeklug In South Africa duriug the Boer
t War Lieutenant General then Colonel BadenPow
ell was besieged for 215 uays in Mafeking which he
held with 1200 men against a Boer army until In was
r > relieved The celebration over his gallant and success
fnl defence gave to the English language a new word
f matUcklng used to denote public transports of
delirious joy
I The siege itself brought into notice the boy scout
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garrison and so extensive were the ravages of hun
I ger and Illness that the commander could ill spare
r able bodied men for orderlies and for messengers
and therefore he utilized boys who volunteered
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These youthful defenders sped to their work on bi
t 1 cycles under the fire of the enemy and displayed such
willingness aud ability that Colonel BndeuPovoll
sc referred to them in his official report and since that
time has been much interested in the development
and progress of the boys
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He was impressed too as n thorough military man
with the paucity of able bodied alert and intelligent
I 1 men and he reached the conclusion tl ant the lack of
f early training and the neglect of manly sports and
r pastimes had much to do with what ho regarded as
r a sign of decline
He publicly founded the Boy Scours at Blrkcnhead
tp < England on January 21 100S Summing up the ob
r jects of the movement he stilted that It was intruded
to make boys manly men good aud useful cItizens
1 5 and not to train them as soldiers but rather to avoid
R > the bringing up of fortysix per cent of the boys pf
r tho nation without the knowledge of a useful occu
T pation The Idea was received with enthusiasm in
f 0 England and now there arc so many boy scouts In
< Great Britain that the organization Is embarrassed In
< its efforts to keep control of the multitude of recruits
which flock to its standard
Mr W D Boycc of Chicago who had seen some
q thing of their work caused to be introduced last April
7 t In the House of Representatives a bill to Incorporate
< In Washington the Boy Scouts of America which Is
I 1 V the official body here In tonch with < the corps founded
c + by the distinguished British soldier The charter was
S Issued In June The Scouts
Boy of America have no
affiliation with a body of almost similar name which
more recently has been founded The organization al
kVV ready had something of a nucleus from which to
work as In 1000 and In 1001 Mr Ernest Thompson
i 1 SeAou the American naturalist and apostle of the
f r gospel of the outdoor life fur boys had started bin
Woodcraft Indians a society which had for Its
basis the following of the free and untrammelled life
of tho aboriginal Inhabitants of this country Mr
V Dan Beard at this period also
Incorporated a body
of youths called the Pioneers or The Sons of Daniel
Boone
Mr Seton in 1501 visited Lieutenant General Baden
Powell and asked him to cooperate Jn popularizing a
movement which would make for the upbulldlug of
the character of tho boys of this generation The
ulcer after much mnture reflection started the Boy
r Scout movemnnt and wrote a handbook for It which
firn the first tens wn11 received and hnfi bpcomp the
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U S B CCleveland Buckeye No1 and
The GypsyThese and Two Patrols from
Central Y The Stag and Wolf Made Trip
to Ohio River and Return Walking More Than
225 Miles
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Boy Scouts Y M C A Training School
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wade mecum of hundreds of thousands of sturdy fol
lowers
The compendium of the Boy Scouts of America
Includes much of the BadenPowell edition with
which has been incorporated the Birch Bark Roll pre
pared by thc American naturalist
The committee on organization of the Boy Scouts
of America which is now hard at work consists of
Mr Seton chairman Mr Lee F Hanmer secretary
Mr George D Pratt treasurer and Messrs Jacob A
Rils W D Boyce Dr Luther II Guild Dan Beard
Edgar M Robinson and Colin H Livingstone It is
well financed and a business man who does not wish
his name known In that connection Is devoting large
stuns celT month to paying the necessary expense
The Boy Scouts of America have headquarters at No
124 East Twentyeighth street where the official
huslness Is conducted The committee already has
troops in Chicago Detroit Cleveland and cities of
such rank and has a large representation throughout
this State and New Jersey and Massachusetts Texas
that home of the rangers hag taken up the movement
with alacrity and the cllixcns of Fort Worth have
become as enthusiastic over the perfecting of the or
ganization as the young scouts themselves
As there were in days of old degrees of knighthood
so there are In scouthood The first degree Is that of
tenderfoot One who is less than twelve years of age
cannot be initiated into its mysterlcs Before taking
it the candidate must know the scout law iind signs
the co composition of the flag of his country and how to
fly It how to tie the following knots Reef sheet
bend clove hitch bowline middlemans fisherman
and sheepshank
The Laws of the Scouts I
First are the laws of the scouts which are as fol
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to 1 A scouts honor is to bo trusted
If a scout were to break his honor by telling a lie
or by not carrying out an order exactly when trusted
on his honor to do so he limy be directed to hand ovgi
hit scout badge and never to wear it again He ma
also be directed to cease to be a scout
2 A scout is loyal to his country his officers his
parents and his employers He must stick to thorn
through thick and thin against any one who is their
enemy or who even talks badly of them
3 A scouts duty Is to be useful and to help
others He must bo prepared at any time to save
life or to holp Injured persons And he must try his
best to do n good turn to somebody every day
4 A scout Is a friend to all and a brother to every
other scout no matter to what social class the other
belongs
A scout must never bo a snob A snob Is one
who looks down upon another because he Is tooror
or who Is poor and resents another because he Is rich
A scout accepts the other man as he finds him and
makes the hest of him
5 A scout Is courteous That is he Is polite to
all but especially to women and children mid old
people and luvalids cripples VVC And he must not
take any reward for being helpful and courteous
6 A scout Is a friend to animals He should save
them as far as possible from pain and should not kill
any animal unnecessarily Killing an animal for
food is allowable
i A scout obeys orders of his parents patrol
lender or scout master without question Even If ho
gets au order he does not like he must do as soldiers
and sailors do he must carry It out nil the same be
cause it Is his duty and uftoj he has done It he can
come and state any reasons against it but he must
carry out the order at once That Is discipline
S A scout smiles and whistles under nil circum
stances When he gets an order he should obey It
cheerily and readily not In n slow hangdog tort of
way Scouts never crumble ut hardships nor whine
at each other nor swear when put out The punish
mentfor swearing or using bad language J a for each
offence a mug of cold water to be poured down the
offenders sleeve bv the other scout It was the pun
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Gcn BadenPowelL Ernest Thompson
From the Graphic Seton
Ishmont Invented by the old scout Captafn John
Smith three hundred years ago
J1 scout is thrifty that is he saves every penny
he can and puts It Into the bank so that he may have
money to keep himself when out of work and thus
not make himself a burden to others or that he may
have money to give away to others when they neell It
A Law of Honor
What the Bushldo was to the Samurai of Japan
what the laws of honor are to the American Indians
the code of the boy scouts Is to them The young
years learn It as squires of the Middle Ace did tho
regulations which prepared them to be knights What
the word of an ofllcer and n gentleman Is in the army
nail navy are the yeas and nays of the scouts Tho
candidates arc questioned by their superiors the scout
masters on the points of this code and then at the
close of the month If the tenderfoot has shown that
he knows and understands what is required of him
he Is permitted to take the scouts oath Its words
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On my honor 1 promise to do my hest
1 To do my duty to God and country
To help other people at oil times
3 Obey the scout law
It Is an oath soon taken but Its observance Is con
sidered the subject of earnest thought and a viola
tion of it is regarded among the scouts as a serious
offence
Once a boy has passed his tenderfoot degree he has
6blhatious which ho must observe with extreme
fidelity for upon his mind Is impressed the Idea
Such Is the law of the scouts I
The salute of the order Is given by holding up three
lingers of the right hand with the thumb and tin1
little linger held down and toucHing each other at the
tips meaning thereby the trilogy of the law of the
scouts This Is the sign given by scouts meeting for
the first time The budge is a couventtomilled
tlcurdells which also suggests the three points and
beneath the emblem is a turned up scroll made to
suggest the smiling lips lifted at the corners and
bearing the voids Be pnpared All the tradi
tions of mediaeval heraldry arc suggested In the de
vice which originated In England and has been
adopted as the standard American badge
Having passed the tests for a scout the tenderfoot
realizes a cherished ambition for now he Is permitted
to dou the uniform The standard gnrb of the British
Boy Scouts consists of abbreviated khaki breeches
known as shorts which leave he knees hare
stockings of wool turned down and brawu or black
shoes or brown sneakers as tho cloth rubber soled
footgear Is called The shirt Is of flannel and In win
ter a sweater may be worn The oelt is of brown
leather with buckles of dull metal The bead la cov
ered with n khaki colored hut with flat brim and chin
strap A bluff unshod and thus adapted to feeling
Ute way about quietly is carried and a haversack of
khaki color The scouts also have knives attached to
lanyards and hitched to swivels on their belts and
scoutmasters and patrol loader have whistles on u
cord about the neck
Practically this uniform is being fashioned for tho
Boy Scouts of America with olive drab colorIngs in
stead of the khaki and certniu variation It Is In
tended to give the Scouts of America he choice of
two uniforms ne It Is thought pohslbly he bare knees
would b p too conspicuous for Hty use One variety I
will have shorts and lu the other breeches rpSlm
General BadenPowell Presenting Colors to
the Devon Boy Scouts
fling those used by riders will be employed Some
uniforms worn by the various branches of the Roy
Snouts of America which atc now in the Hold follow
closely on the order of the English pattern The Boy
Scouts lu Canada are committed to the bare kneed
varlet
The Qualifications
From tenderfoot the neophyte has passed to the
degree of second class scour for which these nro the
qualifications
i 1 Have at least one months service as a tenderfoot
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foot
2 Elcmontary first aid and bandaging
3 Signalling elementary knowledge of semaphore
or Morse alphabet
4 Track half a mile lu twentylive minutes or If
In a town describe satisfactorily the contents of one
store window out of four observed for one minute
each
n Go a mile In twelve minutes at scouts puce
G Lay and light a fire using not more than two
matches
7 Cook n quarter of pound of meat nnd two pota
toes without cooking utensils other than the regula
tion billy
S Have at least twentyfive cents in a savings
bank
0 Know the sixteen principal points of the com
pass
Signalling is done largely by flags and the scouts
have formulae for remembering the Mouse code The
billy or billy an referred to in the regulations Is
u combination of the can and skillet so arranged as to
e compactly carried
After it has been adjudged that the scout of the
second class has passed all his qualifications he is
eligible to promotion as n first class scout These
then are the tests which he must meet in order to
attain that position
1 Swim fifty yards ex 8This may be omitted
I whore the doctor certifies that bathing is dangerous
I to the boys health in which case he must run a mile
In eight minutes or perfoiu some equivalent selected
by the scoutmaster
2 Must have fifty cents at least In the savings bank
3 Signalling Send arid receive u message either In
semaphore or Morse sixteen letters per minute
4 Go on foot or row a boat alone to a point seven
miles away and return again or if conveyed by any
vehicle or animal go to a distance of II teen miles and
back and write a short report on It It Is preferable
that he should take two days over It
5 Describe or show the proper means for saving
life In case of two of the following accidents allotted
by the examiners Fire drowning runaway car
riage sewer gas ice breaking Or bandage an In
Jured patient or revive an ai arently drowned person
0 Cook satisfactorily two of the following dished
as may be directed Porridge bacon hunters stew
Or skin and cook a rabbit or pluck and cook u bird
Also make a dumper of half a pound of flour or a
twist bilked oil u thick stick
7 lliiul u map correctly and draw an Intelligent
rough sketch map Point out a compass direction
without the help of a compass
S Use au axe for felling or trimming light timber
or is an alternative produce an article of carpentry
or Joinery or metal work made by himself satlsfac
torily
0 Judge distance size numbers and height within
25 peer cent error
10 Train a tenderfoot for a month so that he may
qualify aft a second class scout
The Badges of Merit
Boys who have passed all these tests and have been
dilly enrolled as first class scouts have before them
the opportunity of sinning certain badges of merit
They may do this by qualifying by special training us
members of the ambulance corps or firemen or
e < 118U1 and also aa clerks signallers pioneers sea
men marksmen makers nt arms stalkers gardeners
horsemen electricians uud musicians
Shoulder lines are awindeU to any scout who has
attained six of those badge and the exalted rank of
Silver Wolf goes to the youth who has qualified in
all fourteen of these extra requirements Last of all
ig precious to these joung knights as orders con
ferred by kings and queen are tilt medals for meri
torious deeds to be worn only when conferred by the
Chief Scout Black Wolf hltnoclf The bronze cross
with the red ribbon Is for saving n life at the rIsk of
his own the silver eras bluo rIbbon for life saving
without the element of personal danger and the gilt
medal of merit with white ribbon Conferred for
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Ambulance Patrol
such meritorious services as assist In I thp police at
i personal risk for on more than one Oca lon In I ndou
troops of boy scouts have aided In keeping back the
crows by presenting a solid front with their staves
pressed forward and receiving thp impact of the
throng like veterans
The gilt medal of merit may he achieved also for
twenty good deeds such as stopping runaway horr
or assisting at tires or doing various gooi1 turns with
out being paid for them Good turns arc of carious
Kinds Patrols of boy scouts have even suddenly nl >
neared to help on old woman take In her washing
Another patrol aided a man whose automobile seemei
hopelessly mired In n country road
The most Important work In tho order Is done by
the scout masters who may he youths or men of
mature ace who train Iho scouts and gi Instruc
tion lu nil the degrees which are needful and take
charge of them on scouting parties Scouts must
always address these officials as Sir
There are scout commissionerswho Inspect troops
of scouts and give suggestions to scout masters for
the good of the service and overall Is the Chief Scout
who In England is Lieutenant General Baden Powell
and In tills country Mr Setoji
The Boy Scouts of America aro strictly a non sec
tarian organization and enrolled In its legions arc all
shades of religious belief Such agencies as tho Young
leas Christian Association various boy clubs ol
Catholics and the Young Mens Hebrew Association
are Interested In the movement It happens that for
the present tho liPiidquanters are In the building of
tho International Y M C A The oath to God and
country or to God mid tho King as It Is lu Great
Britain is considered by thc founder to bp sufficiently
comprehensive and there Is absolutely no distinction
made with respect to creeds
Discipline Is largely vested In courts of honor each
composed of a scout master and two patrol leaders
which decide upon rewards awards and punish
meats
It Is tho objoct of the entire movement to promote
the scout spirit to bring the boys lu touch with the
manly virtues to Interest them In nature to develop
their powers of observation and interest them In
lines of endeavor which will prepare them for useful
and honorable callings
Mr Sctons Plans
This Is a time wroto Mr Seton In his Birch
Bark Boll which has been Incorporated with the
BailenPowoll handbook for use In this country
when the whole nation turning toward tho outdoor
life seeking In It the physical regeneration so need
ful for continued national existence Is waking to the
fact so loug known to thoughtful oleo that those
live longest who live neatest the ground that is
who live the simple life of primitive times divested
iiWpTer of the Ignorance in those times begot Sport
Is the great Incentive to outdoor life nature study Js
the lntollectuil side of sport
I should like to lead this whole nation Into a way
of living outdoors for at least a mouth each year re
I viving and expanding a custom whlrh as far hack ns
Motes was deemed essential to the national well
being
beingNot long ago a benevolent rich man Impressed with
this Idea chartered a steamer and took some hundreds
of slum boys up to the Catskllls for a day In the
woods They were duly landed arid told to go and
have a glorious lime It was like gathering up a
netful of catfish and throwing them Into the woods
saying Go and have a glorious time The boys
sulked around and sullenly disappeared An hour
later they were found in groups under the bushes
smoking cigarettes shooting crops and playing cards
the only things they knew Thus ho well meaning
rich man learned that It was not enough to take them
out of door We must teach them to enjoy It
For the boys who have had the benefit of country
life it Is easier to come in touch with the scouting
period than it Is fpr those who know little beyond the
shrewd insight into life which they may gather In the
tenement districts of New York and London From
the cast side of Xew York at the present time how
ever hundreds of scouting parties are going 4n the
woods of New Terxey and the Palisades on explora
tions and are returning after their camping and scout
ing and signalling refreshed In mind and body and
wit their Intellectual faculties alert
The principles which are kept In view although the
Boy Scout movement Is essentially for recreation arc
splfgovorumorvt the magic of the camp lire wood
craft pursuits honors by standards personal decora
tlons for personal achievements the heroic Ideal and
the poetry the romance and the picturosquemvss vrhlca
lire the Imagination in all phases of life If the mind
is properly awakened and stimulated
The boys of the nation writes Lieutenant General
denPowell In his humlbook for lice British Scouts
are full of enthusiasm and spirit and only want their
heads to be turned in the right dlrtvllou to become
good and useful citizens This splendid material Li
being allowed do lun to waste naj worse than that
It Is allowed to become harmful to the nation simply
for want of education for want of u hand to guide
them at the crisis of their lives when they are at the
crossroads where their futures brunch off for good or
evilflue
The present authorized scheme of education In our
schools Includes plenty of book work but no develop
ment of the quality that counts namely character
union after all Is of tilt first Importance Not thou
sands but huudreds of thousands of hogs In our great
cities after un education In V reading sufficient to ena
ble them to devour the horrors of the Police News and
in ailthmctlc to make their football wagers are being
left to drift into the ranks of the hooligans and the
wasters without any attempt to stay tlnm But they
receive no teaching in resourcefulness chivalry
thrift citizenship and patriotism
The key to successful education la not eo much t <
leach the nunil as to gel him to learn for himself
The subject to be Instilled must be made to appeal
yon must lure your fish with a succulent worm nol
with a bit of hard dry biscuit That was
my object In suggesting the gilt of scouting for the
pill of education In manliness and good cltlzinshln
but I had no Idea when I did so n year ago that H
would moot with the response which It has done If
has been adopted b > all the bet associations for boy
and by a large number of schools It has also beet
used ou more than one of Ills Majestys ships uud on
several units In the army
General BadenPowull on his arrival at Vancouver
In the interests of the movement said he was glad f I
see that It was obtaining such a hold In the Unltw j
States although lie thought that la omo phafos It had
too much of the drill Idea in Ita tendency which the
Boy Scouts of America In their wish to follow tie
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British model hate sought especially to avoid
What applies to the movement In Great BrJttln tan
also bo lAid of the Boy Scouts of America wbO Jr
duIJr flocking to the standards of the new ldeaa
throughout the tailed States
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