Annual Report of the Boy Scouts of America: Letter from the Chief Scout Executive Transmitting the Annual Report of the Boy Scouts of America ... as Required by Federal Charter, Issue 29

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1939

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Page 76 - A Scout is helpful. He must be prepared at any time to save life, help injured persons, and share the home duties. He must do at least one good turn to somebody every day. 4. A Scout is friendly. He is a friend to all and a brother to every other Scout. 5. A Scout is courteous. He is polite to all, especially to women, children, old people, and the weak and helpless.
Page 71 - OATH On my honor I will do my best — 1. To do my duty to God and my country, and to obey the scout law; 2. To help other people at all times; 3. To keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight.
Page 74 - A scout is reverent. He is reverent toward God. He is faithful in his religious duties, and respects the convictions of others in matters of custom and religion.
Page 42 - The object for which the corporation is to be created is to foster the common interests of those engaged in the motion picture industry in the United States, by establishing and maintaining the highest possible moral and artistic standards in motion picture production, by developing the educational as well as the entertainment value and the general usefulness of the motion picture...
Page 76 - A Scout's honor is to be trusted. If he were to violate his honor by telling a lie, or by cheating, or by not doing exactly a given task, when trusted on his honor, he may be directed to hand over his Scout badge.
Page 3 - His favors and blessings are necessary to the best type of citizenship and are wholesome things in the education of the growing boy. No matter what the boy may be-;— Catholic or Protestant or Jew — this fundamental need of good citizenship should be kept before him.
Page 95 - Company; we also made a general review of the accounting methods and of the operating and income accounts for the year, but we did not make a detailed audit of the transactions.
Page 74 - On my honour, I promise that I will do my best, 1. To do my duty to God and my country. 2. To help other people at all times. 3. To obey the scout law.
Page 5 - He may work for pay, but must not receive tips for courtesies or good turns. 10. A scout is brave. He has the courage to face danger in spite of fear, and to stand up for the right against the coaxings of friends or the jeers or threats of enemies, and defeat does not down him. 11. A scout is clean. He keeps clean in body and thought, stands for clean speech, clean sport, clean habits, and travels with a clean crowd.
Page 101 - We have made an examination of the books and accounts of the...

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