Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 282, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1914 — Boy Scout Work Praised By K. C. Juvenile Judge. [ARTICLE]

Boy Scout Work Praised By K. C. Juvenile Judge.

Judge Edward Porterfield of the Kansas City Juvenile Court urges every parent in that city to induce his boys to join the Boy Scouts. “If every boy in the city would join,” he says, “the gangs would disappear, the juvenile court soon would be a stranger to the youth and. we would ;rear a generation of men that would require little police protection. I have never had a Boy Scout in my court, and there are 1,200 of them in Kansas City.” This splendid tribute to an organization scarcely four years old is a well-merited one. Boys are small bundles* of corked-up enthusiasm. This enthusiasm must have a vent. If there be ho other outlet, the gang is the result.

The Boy Scout movement is rapidly spreading throughout the nation, and it deserves the encouragement of every good man and woman.

The Boy Scout not only is provided with an outlet for his exuberant spirits, but he is taught the love of nature in the open. Be learns, too, to care for himself and for his comrades under any conditions. The first aid to the injured treatment is one of the 'Boy Scout’s first accomplishments. He soon knows how to make Are by friction, how to cook on heated stones, how to find hi 9 way in the foirest without a compass by the moss on the trees.

While there is nothing military about the; boy Scout organization, the youngsters are taught a wholesome discipline, a tenderness Jar the weak and a respect for the*rights of others.. „

Judge BprterAeld’s experience is being duplicated in every city in the nation, and it is not at all unlikely that the Boy Scout may solve the gangster and gun-man problem of the big city.