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Identifier: stnicholasserial4721dodg (find matches)
Title: St. Nicholas (serial)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: (New York : Scribner & Co.)
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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aid, A Scout accepts no reward for a courtesy ora good turn. Then Mr. Boyce learned aboutBaden-Powells English Boy Scouts, and broughtthe idea home with him. A national office wasestablished in New York. A great many enterprises fail because the ideaback of them is nt quite sound, or because theorganization is nt managed wisely, or because theleadership is poor. The Boy Scouts of Americafailed in none of these respects, and its growthwas amazingly rapid. The Boy Scouts of America now has a Federalcharter. The system of registration makes a fel-low realize his responsibility as a unit in this greatnational force. With nearly 400,000 boys tryingto keep themselves physically strong, mentallyawake, and morally straight, to be brave, clean,and reverent, who can say that America has notgot a standing army fit for service? Most of you fellows who read The WatchTowER are Scouts, I suppose. You know howthose lucky three hundred chaps have worked forthe honor of representing America abroad. You
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Uiulerwood & UiuU-riv.uHl THE GKEATEK-NEW- VOKK BOV SCOUTS READY FOR THEIR WESTERN TRIP know its going to take something mighty good tobeat them in that international competition!Our Watch Tower crowd, boys and girls alike, is THE WATCH TOWER 1037 © Underwood & Underwood OVER THREE HUNDRED BOY SCOUTS, ON BOARD THE POCAHONTAS, SAILING FOR EUROPE rooting for them. But the fellows who went toEurope did nt have all the luck; just look atthe five chaps, one from each borough of greaterNew York, standing with Chief Scout ExecutiveWest and President Patton of the Far WesternTravelers Association. They came in for a tour ofthe National Parks, given by the F. W. T. A.A committee of welcome will meet them in everycity the> visit. Maybe they are nt going to seethe sights! And as for experiences, the stagein which they were, when on their way to theYosemite Valley, was held up by real bandits! They say the trip is made in the interest of theAmericanization Movement; let the boys seeAm

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