The High Point Scout
VOL. 1
HIGH POINT. N. C., JULY. 1919
NO. 5
PROFESSOR MARR.
The Scouts of High Point welcome
the return of Professor Weaver M.
Marr. A letter from Mr. Marr, re
ceived a month ago, just after our
last issue went to press, stated that
he hoped to be in High Point about
the middle of July. He did not then
know he had been elected to his old
position. The letter also revealed
his undying interest in the boys and
the scout work. He wrote of his ap
preciation of our efforts in publish
ing our little paper. Thanks, Pro
fessor Marr. There has never been
a man in High Point who has taken
the interest in boys that you have.
There is no one we could so warmly
welcome. We know you were a good
soldier, and we know you are a good
scout, and we are looking forward to
the work you are going to do with us
and for us the coming year. You
are our Scoutmaster still, and we are
your loyal scouts. We feel your sym
pathy; we feel you understand us.
You have not, as so many have done,
forgotten the days when you were
a boy. Glad we are that you retain
your youthful enthusiasm, and touch
with the young life. We believe that
later others will understand what
they "do not now—the value of the
Scout work. In your absence we
have held together and made some
advance. In your returit we are re
solved to press forward. We are
eager to hear something of your ex
periences in the army, of your obser
vations in other lands, and to have
you give us something of what the
war experience has added to your
life. Come on, we are waiting.
HIGH POINT SCOUT.
UP HIUTj or down.
There’s no neutral ground to the
gears of life; especially to the life
of the growing boy. Sometimes we
find an almost neutral socket to the
gears of men, who have past the
young stage of their lives, but never
in the gears of young boys.
It’s either up hill or down for the
young man. It’s either work and
progress or remain idle and sink
down to the 'bottom, for God takes
from you that which you have if you
add'not to it.
The young man’s life is like a
fisherman rowing a boat up a swift
stream to some bay where fish are
in abundance. The boat is the young
man’s being, the fisherman rowing
it is the young man’s mind, the river
the stream of life and the bay of fish
the shining goal of success. Let the
mind stop working for one, moment
and you are swept down the stream
of life onto the perilous rocks of fail
ure just as the boat would be if the
fisherman should cease to row, even
to light his pipe. - .
Never cease to progress lest you
should lose the progress that you
have made, for it’s either forward or
reverse—no neutral.
—By Nady Cates.
CAN YOU BE A ROOSTER OP THE
ROY SCOUTS?
Are you interested in the great
organization, “The Boy Scouts of
America?” Would you like to see it
prosper in your city? Would you
like to see your boys take hold and
push forward this movement?
There are some reasons why you
should be interested and here are
some:
1. When the boy joins the move
ment he comes in under certain laws
thus rais.ing his standard.
2. By attending the meetings he
learns how to carry on a meeting
according to parliamentary laws.
The tests and hikes helps to make
up the health and develop the mind.
These are things that each boy
needs as you already know, so why
not have more boys into the scout
movement where they can obtain
these things easy?
A good way to stir up interest is
to boost the' movement and boost
it through the “High Point Scout.”
We welcome short articles by
High Point citizens boosting the
Boy Scoutg. \ .
Send your article to Walter Cnss-
man, 212 Cable St.
THERE IT GOES AGAIN.
Jack—It asks no questions, but
you have to answer it quite fre
quently.
Tom—What is it?.
Jack—A door bell.—Boy’s Life.