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Thursday, Feb. 5, 1948
Boy Scout Weok la
February 6 to 12
More than 2,120,000 members of the
Boy Scouts of America throughout the nation
will observe the 38th anniversary of
the Organization during Boy Scout Week
which opens Friday, Feb. 6 and continues
through Thursday, Feb. 12.
The anniversary will be celebrated in
every city and town and most villages and
hamlets throughout the nation and its
possessions. It is young America's largest
birthday celebration.
The theme of Boy Scout Week this year
is, "The Scout Citizen at Work . . . in,his
home ... in his community ... in his nation
. . . in His world." Scouting's activities
for the year beginning with the birthday
celebration will be related to this
theme.
The nation's Boy Scouts are engaged in
the program of saving and producing food
to alleviate the world's food shortage.
As part of their service program this
year each Boy Scout is expected to "save
a bushel, grow a bushel, share a bushel"
of food.
Each Cub Pack, Boy Scout Troop, Senior
Scout Unit, will share in a Report to
the Nation" that will tell of £heir community
services last year and their program
for this year. The report will be
made to the President of the United
States, to Congress and to the United Na- i
tions.
in addition to conserving food and natural
resources, the Boy Scouts will emphasize
safety and fire prevention, home
repairs and personal health. Through
their World Friendship Fund of voluntary
gifts the Scouts have sent more than
3,000 tons of supplies to help Scout organizations
overseas to rebuild. This aid
is to be continued throughout 1948.
Scouting is having a rebirth in many
of the countries ravaged by the war. The
Boy Scouts International Bureau in London
reports a world membership of 4,409,780
boys and leaders in 42 nations.
_ World peace and mutual understanding
is an objective of Scouting. Through
World Scout Jamborees and the resultant
expanding interest in friendships, understanding
and personal relationships
through correspondence these aims are
increasingly being met. Tfce Sixth World
Jamboree last summer brought 30,000
Boy Scouts and leaders together in France
from 38 nations.
The Boy Scouts of America is the largest
group in the World Scout Brotherhood.
Its 2,120,000 Scouts and Leaders are members
of 68,500 Units. They in turn come
under the jurisdiction of 545 Local Boy
Scout Councils which provide camping experiences,
leadership training, Scoutcraft
activities and Courts of Honor to mark individual
growth thrqugh the grades of the
various programs.
At special Boy Scout Week meetings
fathers, mothers and friends will see that
the Scout Unit is an example of "democracy
at work." Scouts and parents alike
will enjoy an evening' given over to
Scout games, stunts, campfire songs and
skits. Bach Unit will make public at these
meetings its part of "The Report to the
Nation/' listing the community seryices it
rendered in 1947 and its plans for this
year.
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Furthering Flood Control
(Twin City Sentinel)
Contrary to predictions made by John
W. Clark, the group of civic, national conservation,
and political leaders who assembled
in Winston-Salem over the weekend
to discuss the flood control project in
the Yadkin Vallejr agreed upon plans
designed to promote and speed practical
Diane for effecting the control of flood
waters in the valley.
It is true that the program which has
been given the green light by Federal authorities
does not embrace the development
of hydro-lectric power. But it does
propose the construction of detention
dams on the Yadkin and Reddies rivers for
flood control purposes and the application
of sound soil conservation measures
which will tend to "control" rain water
to a great extent before it reaches the
larger streams.
Owing to extremely \>ad weather conditions,
the larger meeting planned to
be held at the Robert E. Lee Hotel here
had to be cancelled. Hence the meeting
of a small group including Congressmen
John H. Folger and C. B. Deane, Homer
M. Wells, chief water conservation, Soil
Conservation Service, Washington; W. R.
Hine, of the National Forest Service of
the Department of Agriculture, Atlanta;
Harry J. Krusz, general manager of the
Winston-Salem Chamber of Commerce,
and others, was limited largely to a discussion
of some of the main points in the
proposed program.
This project will be of inestimable
worth to every community in and near the
Yadkin Valley, and in its provision of additional
wealth, of immense value likewise
to the State and nation. Friends of
flood control and soil conservation in the
valley and elsewhere should rally to the
support of this and similar projects purposed
to prevent the ravages of floods
and conserve the natural resources of the
land. They should fight any penny-wise,
pound-foolish viewpoint on Capitol Hill
whiqh might arise to defeat ih the name
of economy the efforts Of practical men
of vision to have public money wisely invested,
in the conservation and proper ex-j
ploitation of our rich natural resources, j
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— THEEVERYDAY
COUNSELOR
By Rev. Herbert
Spaugh, D. D.
What are you carrying around in y«ur
hand, a(^handshake of a hammer? Tiie Associated
Press relates a story from Marion,
Ind. where a 16-year-old boy was
walking along carrying a heavy wrench.
He came to railroad tracks where he
saw a padlocked switch. He battered the
lock off, threw the switch, then waited
around to see what happened. Soon a
train came along, ran into the open switch
and was wrecked. The boy was apprehended
by the police, and asked why he
did it. He said, "I don't know. I just wanted
something to do."
Many of us are like that boy. We walk
along with a hammer in hand, waiting for
something or someone to knock. The
world is filled with wreckage caused by
such an attitude.
A hammer can be a usef ul instrument in
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construction, but a vicious ome in destruction.
This boy's hammer, used viciously,
caused a train wreck and the injury of
three trainmen.
I once saw in an, office this motto,
"come in without knocking, and go out
the same way." Some people seeffi to take
an unholy delight in "knocking" other
people. The habit is vicious and downright
destructive. It destroys happiness for all
concerned. Unkind criticism even brings
unhappiness into the heart of the critic.
It destroys homes, churches, businesses,
even nations themselves.
Many of you who read this are suffering
just now from the wounds inflicted
by the unkind hammer blows of criticism
inflicted by others. Some of you don't feel
too well about those hammer blows which
you yourselves inflicted.
Throw that hammer away! It represents
jealousy, bitterness, hate. It will
contaminate you as well as injure those
against whom you use it. As long as you
carry it, you're going to be tempted to use
it. If you aren't careful, you're going to
use it on those whom you really love—
your wife, your husband, your children,
your friends, your minister. You are going
to wound those who are most ready
to help you. You're going to need that
help badly sometime, if you don't need
it now. You may even find that the helper
whom you desperately need has been
driven away by blows of that hammer.
Throw that hammer away. Then extend
that hand in greeting, friendship, encouragement
Remember that love is the most
powerful force in the world—even stronger
than hate.
By
D WIGHT
NICHOLS
et at
LOCAL CHATTER—
Lash LaRue, heap he-man of
western bang bangs and who was
here for a personal appearance
ct the Liberty January 28, returned
Sunday to see the girl he
dated while here . . . Yes, we're
heard that Billy Southworth
doesn't manage the Phillies, as
stated on your sports page Monday
... Local people like the!
way the city and highway forces!
have been disposing of snow on
Main street. When you haul It
away it'is out of the way . . .
One young Mies says she would
like the opposite of lower dresses
and higher prices . . . And another
says she never allows her
beau to kiss her while driving.
If he can drive safely while
kissing, she said, there's too
much attention J>eing given' to
driving . . . There is one occupation
that requires no talent,
no training, no technique, no
1 self-denial, no brains, no character
and no intelligence. We
refer to fault-finding.
ALL THE DATA— *
A tourist was on his first visit
to Niagara Falls. A guide was
trynig to lmpresg him with the'
sight. ". . j
"Grand?" hinted the guide.
The tourist did not answer, j
"Millions of gallons a minute," ,
contiued the guide.
"Ummph," said the visitor.
"Billions and billions of gal-,
Ions a day," enthused the guide.
"Runs all night too, I suppose,"
yawned the visitor. I
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