Identifier: ourlittlemenwome00russ (find matches)
Title: Our little men and women; modern methods of character building;
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Russell, Thomas Herbert, 1862-1947 Everett, Marshall, 1863-1939
Subjects: Boy scouts. (from old catalog)
Publisher: (Chicago, Printed by Homewood press)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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es and by suasion get-ting the bulk of the people to fight for what they do not know,and to kill people whom in most cases they could have loved.And all the time starving out of existence the tender youngof their own race by the expenditure which is part of modernwarfare. Also, I think it wicked to allow little boys and girlsto believe that physical warfare is inevitable. From the very first moment of his novitiate as a scout theboy is encouraged to observe and to deduce from observation.This is fundamental, of course, to all good scouting. Youmay notice two little men marching down the street, and theiralertness may attract you. If you inquire what they are do-ing, you will find, perhaps, they have been sent to discover if 136 TRAINING OF BOY SCOUTS there are any cripples requiring assistance or any blind menneeding guiding. Or it may be they are searching for firealarms to report where they are, or for the police or ambulancestations. Or they may merely have been sent to observe any
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SIE FRANCIS VANE, BART. General Scoutmaster of the British Boy Scouts, WhoHas Organized Scout Patrols in Many Countries peculiarities in the street and to make a report on these, or forpractice purposes the articles in the shop windows are to benoticed and reported on verbally. Everything is done withthe object of sharpening the boys intelligence, powers of ob-servation, and sense of responsibility. But the training is much wider than this, for, in fact, the TRAINING OF BOY SCOUTS 137 handicrafts, the arts and sciences are brought in to make hima good scout. To enable the scouting human boy to find hisway at night, he is taught something of the mystic movementsof the stars; to be a hunter he must know how to build huts,bridges, and even boats, to light fires and to cook; he learns oftrees, of plants, of the birds and beasts of the field, and hestudies field-sketching to enable him to report on the country. Again, he is especially instructed in ambulance work,life-saving, fire-brigade

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