Our little men and women; modern methods of character building; . orld has ever seen. Modern conditions have tended to change all the aspectsof life. One of the most painful effects of this change hasbeen the breaking down of discipline. At the very time whencommunities most need discipline to secure the greatest bene-fits from democratic government, it is discovered that thegreat mass of boys are growing up without being trained inforbearance, endurance, patience, steadfastness, and the abil-ity to live and work in harmony with their fellows. To change all this is the mission of the Scout sys
Our little men and women; modern methods of character building; . orld has ever seen. Modern conditions have tended to change all the aspectsof life. One of the most painful effects of this change hasbeen the breaking down of discipline. At the very time whencommunities most need discipline to secure the greatest bene-fits from democratic government, it is discovered that thegreat mass of boys are growing up without being trained inforbearance, endurance, patience, steadfastness, and the abil-ity to live and work in harmony with their fellows. To change all this is the mission of the Scout system, aselaborated and put into practice by Sir Francis Vane. Theabsolutely unique feature of the Scout plan is that the boyseagerly seek these open air schools and through the naturallove of adventure, idealism, and make-believe of youth theteacher implants ideas of world-fellowship, fearlessness, disci-pline, mutual helpfulness, truthfulness, respect for parents andelders, friendship, courtesy, kindness to all living creatures,and thriftiness without THE BOY SCOUTS VICTORY scoutmaster appears patrols organized—the forest schoolroom around the campfire states and their uses—cooking dinner—boys save a farmer^s home—be prepared/ DICK CROCKETT had some great news for the boysand he started for school in high spirits. As soon as hisfriends saw him running they knew something was up. Get together at the barn after school, he said quietly andmysteriously. Whats up? they asked, and some of the younger onesbegan teasing, for Dick was not in the habit of being mys-terious about nothing. It was Friday and study was unusually hard, because theboys were excited about Dick and his plans. At four oclockthey gathered at Dicks barn and he sat on an upturned barrel. Just wait a few minutes, he said, and keep quiet. Thereis going to be something going on in these diggings beforelong and only the fellows who can keep quiet and tend to busi-ness can get in on the job. 24 THE BOY
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