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•XTffft^i'!, $*?.^*wS»S â„¢ mMmmt************* â- wttiaiai Labor Federation Approve Boys Allies of Labor Cause. ANNUAL REPORT OF LABOR Organizations Commends Scout Movement Aimsâ€"Hope to Find Boys Strong Allies. The executive council of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor, the old enemy of the Boy Scout movement, has reconsidered its decision and sees in the organization of American youths a ally to the cause of organ- ized labor. The- council has recom- mended that the general federation take on an amicable relation to the scouts. The reasons are plainly stat- ed In the annual report of the Federa- tion. It shows that the American Boy Scouts are military. It makes it clear that the Boy Scouts of America are for .peace; that the boys are taught to be manly, self-reliant and deter- mined, to think for themselves. It shows that there is nothing in the ac- tivities of the second organization hos- tile to the interests of organized labor. Wide Field for the Scout*. "The Boy Scout movement seems to be one phase of a larger movement, sometimes termed the 'simple life,' the purpose of which is to counteract the injurious effects of our increasing- ly complex civilization and method of living. The idea is to get back to the elemental things, to close contact with the earth, forest and water, to de- velop a strong, vigorous physique so that the boy may know the pure joy of mere living, and as a strong, healthy animal be able to take care of himself under all circumstances with- out artificial assistance. Our artifi- cial method of living and the strain of modern industry have so taxed the physical endurance of the race that scientists have been constantly warn- ing us that we must conserve our physical resources or the race will de- teriorate. The Boy Scout movement rightly directed will help to solve this problem. Another present ideal of the organization is to develop all of the good qualities resulting from military life without the attendant evils of militarism. To gain these re- sults boys are taught to regard as -sportsâ€"theâ€"stalking ofâ€"animals, to learn their customs, to catch a picture of them in their native haunts, ex- ploring, etc. There is much about the activities of the organization that would sene as a school for training the imagination, such as the emphasis laid on legends, animal life, the weird mystery of the camp fire, the long nights spent in the open with only the Btars overhead and the winds telling strange stories of the stream and for- est and hillside. These things bring out the poetry of life and the poetry of the world, and serve as an antidote for much of our too practical civiliza- tion. Boys Interested. "The movement seizes the keenest interests of the boys of the adolescent age and directs them toward pure and simple things, and in this way keeps them away from much of the evil and impure that would, otherwise occupy their thoughts and time. It deals with the problems of child - training by the simple process of substituting good things for evil things and crowd- ing out what would be detrimental. The list of activities, any one of which each scout, may pursue In order to win distinction is a very vide one, and includes almost every form of use- ful huma* activity. "The ideals of the movement seem to be well chosen and calculat- ed to develop poise* self-confidence and comradeship among the boys. Of course, in any organisation of seen a sfse and scope, there Is a chance for the machinery to be misused by of tne agents elected. This Is of any organisation, for only the human • agency can any be realised, and in dealing with esiOi hunian agent the personal equa- tion will modify more or less the pur- poses and instructions of the officials. 1 public schools under their present ganixatlon, the load might be more than they could carry. good to be done there is also a great chance for evil to result through mis- management. The causes for com- plaint and objection have so far been purely local. On the whole, however, the officials seem amenable to sug- gestion and desirous of doing what the public demands. Too Much to Expect of Teachers. "The argument of the teachers that the work done by the Boy Scout or- ganisation in nature study, wood- craft, physical culture and ethics be- longs to the teachers and the school, is not altogether convincing. It is true that some of the more progressive schools have attempted something along these lines, but the greater pro- portion of the schools outside of the large cities do very little of this work. This is due to lack of funds, and to the low salaries paid the teachers, so that well-equipped and efficient in- structors are not secured. While to incorporate all of these lines in a full and complete education may be the ideal toward which the schools are working, very few have attained this ideal and there seems no present pros- pect of its universal attainment. In the meantime, if these different objects can be worked out by some outside organization, their practicability and feasibility fully demonstrateed, their usefulness in child development fully Illustrated, it will be much easier for the public to demand that they be made part of the ordinary school cur- riculum, and that teachers trained in these lines be employed. 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During the months of summer vacation, as well as during that part of the day not spent in the school, there Is absolutely no control. If some outside organization can sup- plement this moral and ethical in- struction, the American school boy x . ._____^>A^^^,»^, will be the gainer. Under the present fo»MiMMM*MI,MMHM organisation a great majority of the â- â€¢*. . -,â-  . .•- ^^i^^^ -â-  teachers are women, and It would not be practicable to expect them to lead the boys in crossH»untry "hikes," out- door gymnastics and camp life. To be sure, the change would lead to training and employment of more qualified teachers, or to the utilisation of the present force in the school. But it should be noted that many of the leaders of the Boy Scouts are the trained, active and efficient men teachers in the publie schools, so that after all the school still has an influ- ence in the Boy Scout movement which should be increased and de- veloped." WATERPROOF CAPES, COAT GENTLEMEN'S EN RUBBER GOODS W. 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