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J mm s BW-5G0U t S -. .bad. 1 ?iiV " - . t. a wear movement t . iiich Began In England ' and IIUO VUIIVU U IVVIIIVIU United States. By ROBERTUS LOVE. Ttjl ELLO, old scout!" M trfl fi a frrAPtinar of - 2 II present day slang, but it does not refer to the boy scout, who nerer'is old The boy scout never will grow old ei ther, no matter how many years may be a'dded to his record, if he keeps alive with in him the spirit of youth instilled by his teachiugs and his experi ences as a boy scout. Boy, are No? Then you'd 7,-i T BOY SCOUT AT WOKK you a boy scout? better get busy and be one, for the boy scout movement has begun to per colate through the forty -six states and the several territories of the grandest republic that ever flashed a flag to the heavens. Just now, while young America is looking forward to the celebration of Independence day and old America is preparing a few weeks earlier to pay jtribute to the boys of '61, it is fitting -that the boy scout movement, which teaches morality through modified mil itarism and inculcates patriotism through the play soldier business, has Novel Idea Which Tends to De-; velop Boyish Lads! Into Manly '" Men-Bodies of Scoufs to Be ' ? Organized in Every State, We know now that war is what Gen eral Sherman said it is, and we have no desire to shut up the ledgers, lock Up the grocery store, close down the pickle factory and don the habiliments of martial combat Just for the glory of the thing. ' I. " ; But when we were boys each of us hoped some day to excel Napoleon or Washington or Grant or Lee or Stone wall Jackson as a leader of fighting men in the imminent deadly breach. This progressive world of ours has worked along to healthier, saner aod safer ideals. Boys will be boys as al ways, but today some of those who used to be boys have devised a method of venting military enthusiasm which tends toward the development of boy ish boys into manly men. And the boy scout movement is the method. Primarily out of the needs,, of boy hood, but incidentally out of the Boer war in South Africa, the boy scout movement has evolved. General Rob ert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell; one of the conquering heroes of that struggle against the heroic riflemen of the veldts, is the originator of this movement, which began in England and has just begun to spread in the United States. General Baden-Powell after he quit fighting took a look in at the English boys and conceived the no tion that he could organize them into a great army of peace, with military ERNEST THOMPSON SETON. GENERAL FREDERICK D. GRAN' AND GENERAL BADEN-POWELL (ON THE U.UHTi WITH t BOY SCOUT. discipline not too severe for comfort, so that they might spend a consider able part of their timl in God's great outdoors and learn some of the field tactics which come In handy when there is a real war. . Hot Primarily Military. y It cannot be deified that the original luea or tne general was to teach-the . young British idea how to sprout in a virile force for the- upholding of the - t -J "- T J. A-t T" J it I - iii f ii i-ki 1 1 i iiu r-s. tin m-m 1 1. - i -7Xi II n : ning naa aeveiopea a still more practi cal thinsr the ineiilratinn at nprsnn.nl y habits of acting and thinking. - So the boy scout movement comes to the United States, after morp thnn -' ftTl rtflA P!ntrHah hrnrc hiro honn n,nnt. rather, than a war measure. Edwin D. Horsfield of Edinburgh planted the seed of the boy scout propaganda in this country at Springfield. Mass. He organized the boys of the Young Men's Christian association into a comnanv based upon? the Baden-Powell plan. :v .with ; offshoots : suggested by experi , ence. These are the fundamental principles: a scoui a nonor is ro ne rrnsrwi a i conn HottV,T?1 ; ita 'unntan other scour. - no matter to what artfi 1 :i; courteous, ue.is a inena to all ani- , J-uius. i . vucir. t iie smiles v and whistles under all circumstances. " He Is; thrifty., This is the pledge he becun to gain a foothold on United States soil and to march through Geor gi:; and the reat of .thj states. L'rcthcr. you and I, who are cavorting around the edges of forty and still feeling the friskiness of boyhood un doruentb the visible surface, must con fess that we envy the boj's of 1910 They didn't have the boy scouts in our days in the delectable kingdom of Boyyille. We had to shift for our selves, finding our fun independently We played "bull ring" and "three cor nered cat" when we wanted the real strenuity of things outdoors, and we had to do our own organizing for tht sport. Frequently there was a woeful lack of .organization, and when the old solid rubber ball, wrapped tightly with a thin layer of yarn, plunked us in the plexus we sometimes resented it with fisticuffs, which method was inelegant and unmanly, no matter what may be said as to the desirability of the manly art of self defense. The trouble was we lacked discipline The boy scout propaganda teache? discipline. .It teaches the universal brotherhood of boys. It teaches boys to be Just and generous to each other and works toward the elimination of the "gang" idea, so that the south aiders will not lie in -wait for the west enders with an arsenal of brickbats. Did You Never Train ? Twill do. my duty to God and mr country. .. I s will 7 do my best. to Help the scout law and will obey it." y , . isnm nroiBssionHi -. moral isr . miirnr. i manufacture a $ Jbetter oode of ethicsf for American boys, but he doesn't hap- IltU LLf UaD UUUC DUP .. -- - - Fset of principles turns any of the boys : .. Wfea im ; uiv uw cwicufc. . - uvea - uvu ' Tnere ft mock la tb t scout plan that Millions of ,; American men now in life's prime recall that old piece of verse in McGuffey's Third Reader which began something; like this: 1 Oh, wer&you ne'er a soldier,. I . And did you never train V You ne'er can feel again? - When you and I were boys, particu larly If we lived in the border states or on the edges of the Mason and Dixon : line, we used to divide accord ing to . the "Reb" or "Fed" sentiment and do sham battling that sometimes developed into something perilously near to a shambles, which the diction ary tells, ns Is a place for slaughtering meat We .did such things simply be cause every boy who has red drops io his arteries must have some means of working off Ms military enthusism. m . x n li n u - -i fCantinued from page 1) Sec. 4. That said Bureau of Public Roads shall consist of three com missioners, to be known as "Commis sioners of Roads," who shall be ap pointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and the President in making said appointment shall designate one of said commissioners as chairmen, and they shall each receive a salary of four thousand dollars per year Said commissions shall employ such agents and servants as may be nec essary to carry out the provisions cf this Act and shall make such rules and regulations as may be necessary for cooDerating with the various states and territories and civil sub divisions thereof, under tne provis ions of this act, and shall make snch rules and regulations as may be necessary for carrying out the pro visions of this act in general. But said commissioners shall in all things be under the supervision of of the secretary of agriculture. Sec. 5. That at any time after the ratification of this act any state or territory or any county, township, or other civil subdivision thereof may apply, through the persons Jiaving jurisdiction over public roads therein, for aid in the permanent improvement of construction of any public road or section of road locat ed in said state or territory; and if the said commissioners shall con sider said road or section' thereof of sufficient importance to be entitled to the cooperation of said bureau they may aid the said state or ter- titory or civil subdivision thereof in the permanent improvement or con struction of such public road or sec tion thereof to the extent of one haly of the expense thereof, the other half to be paid by the state or territory or civil subdivision there of in Which said road or section cf road is located. Said commission ers may, in their discretion, give said state or territories or civil sub divisions thereof credit for labor, material, and machinery used in said work: Fr3vided, that no money shall be advanced by the United States under this act for any road work except as the actual construct ion progresses, and no payment or payments made before the work is finished shall exceed seventy-five per centum of the work actually done. The said commissioners of roads .shall not cooperate with any state or territory or any civil sub division thereof, under the pro visions of this act, in the permanent improvement or construction of any public road or section of road until said state or territory or civil sub division thereof has provided for the payment of its portion of the total cost of the work to be done, to the satisfaction of said commissioners, a ad until said commissioners are farther satisfied that said road o section of road on which said work is to be done is a permanent public road which will N be kept up and maintained by the local authorities without regard to further aid from the United States. Sec. 6. That the foregoing section shall not be construed as prohibit ing the said commissioners from conducting such investigations and experiments as to the construction and improvement of roads as they may deem advisable, either with or without the aid of the local auth orities; but is intended to apply only in cases where aid is granted by said commissioners in such perrnan- j ent improvement or construction of public roads as will be a permanent and substantial benefit, to the com munity in which the road or section of road so improved or constructed is located. Sec. 7. That whenever any public road or section of road: which is used as a rural mail route shall be permanently improved construct- yoti sa prices y on are pay roceries? G thi lit fig m 1 gal Georgia cane Syrup 1 gal Karo corn syrup 12 gal Karo corn syrup Arbuckles coffee 2 cans syrup Peaches Can Pie Peaches, Apples Tomatoes, Corn, big Hominy, String beans, Peas, Sweet potatoes, Blockberries sauer kraut ill on OPPOSITI T ail HOUSE Will the said commissioners, in addition to such general statistics as they may prepare and publish concern ing same, shall prepare and publish special statistics showing, as far as possible to what extent the cost of said improvements borne by the United States and the cost of main tenance over and above the amount which will be reasonably expee'ed to be paid by the local authorities will be offset by the increased effic iency of said road as a rural route, and the consequent saving to the government by reason thereof. Sec. 8. That the lawful- expend itures ana disbursements ci said bureau for aid in cooperation with any state 01 territory or civil sub division thereof and all other lawful j expenditures and disbursements for j m the operation and maintenance ot ; m said bureau snail ne paid Dy me treasurer of the United States t pon the requisition of said commission ers, out of the appropriation made by this act, and any future appro priations which may te made to carry out the provisions of this act. You can always get thsJBest Goods for the JJMo:iey at the aroliiiiy Vehicle ompany Syndicate Building, Main Street Hendersonvillc, N. C Studebaker VehicIesindHarness "None Better" 1m Mn jMjuathMp IM llnmii MiiriiMltotafa, u mm uuu u MM haU UUU U Q W Li atiue TRIAL BOTTLE FREE ANDAILTHROATAKD LtlftG TROUBLES GUARANTEED SATiSFACTORV IL Off MONEY RJEFUADIZD. 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