BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 53 this day. Bring us to our resting beds weary and content and undishonored, and grant us in the end the gift of sleep."
TO SUM UP
The whole object of our scheme is to seize the boy's character in its red-hot stage of enthusiasm, and to weld it into the right shape and to encourage and develop its individuality — so that the boy may become a good man and a valuable citizen for our coun- try in the immediate future, instead of being a waste of God's material. The nation is showing signs of illness. We can diagnose it as "bad citizenship." We know the kind of remedy to apply, namely, education of the rising generation in " character." " Scouting " offers one such remedy — if only as a " First Aid " pending the application of a better one. Meantime every minute is precious. The remedy needs widespread application. This can be got if every scout is made to bring in a recruit before he receives his badge; and, especially, if every scout-officer and every man or woman who reads this will make an earnest effort to obtain a worker to take up the training, and in his turn to obtain the services of yet another. It is by such a " snowball " movement that we may hope to take a really useful part in bringing strength, both moral and physical, to our ailing country.
BOOKS ON THE SUBJECT
" The Boy Problem." A study of boys and how to train them. By W. B. Forbush. (Progress Press, Boston, U. S. A.)
