L Principles of Scouting 



Nine Important Principles of Scouting 



THIS is a time when the whole nation is turning 

 toward the Outdoor Life, seeking in it the physical 

 regeneration so needful for continued national 

 existence — is waking to the fact long known to thoughtful 

 men, that those live longest who live nearest to the ground 

 — that is, who Hve the simple life of primitive times, dives- 

 ted, however, of the evils that ignorance in those times begot. 



Consumption, the white man's plague since he has be- 

 come a house race, is vanquished by the sun and air, and 

 many ills of the mind also are forgotten when the sufferer 

 boldly takes to the life in tents. 



Half our diseases are in our minds and half in our houses. 

 We can safely leave the rest to the physicians for treatment. 



Sport is the great incentive to Outdoor Life; Nature 

 Study is the intellectual side of sport. 



I should like to lead this whole nation into the way of 

 living outdoors for at least a month each year, reviving and 

 expanding a custom that as far back as Moses was deemed 

 essential to the national well-being. 



Not long ago a benevolent rich man, impressed with this 

 idea, chartered a steamer and took some hundreds of slum 

 boys up to the Catskills for a day in the woods. They were 

 duly landed and told to "go in now and have a glorious 

 time." It was lijie gathering up a netful of catfish and 



