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This is, to have volunteer Scouts make a street tree census of the 

 district and mark on a large scale map the location of each street 

 tree, using different colored crayon for different species. This 

 is simple work which Scouts have successfully performed in main- 

 land cities and which they can well accomplish here. From the 

 map, resulting from this tree census, a definite and uniform plan 

 for systematic street tree planting, making use of the existing 

 trees as far as possible, can readily be worked out. Moreover, 

 the taking of this census affords the Scout unusual opportunities 

 for becoming familiar with trees which will help him in his for- 

 estry test for First Class Scout and in the examination for his 

 Merit Badge for Forestry. 



In closing, permit me to relate an incident which came recently 

 to my attention and which involved a feat that I am sure any 

 first-class Honolulu Scout could accomplish. A friend of mine 

 on Dole street had built a small cottage almost under a huge, 

 towering algaroba tree. Fearing that the next storm would blow 

 the tree over and ruin her fragile home, she endeavored to secure 

 someone to top the tree for her. In vain she asked several Japanese 

 to perform the job, even offering the wood and extra pay in re- 

 turn for the labor. Each shook his head at the tree and said, 

 "No can." At the time, I had visiting me, as a guest from 

 Oregon, a young fellow who had worked up from messenger, 

 delivery boy, and an usher in a Portland vaudeville house to 

 clerk and finally forest ranger with the Forest Service. While 

 not registered at headquarters as a Boy Scout he had all the 

 propensities and makings of an excellent Scout. In fact he is 

 one of those "lads who put the can in can't." He offered to top 

 the huge branches from the menacing tree and at once set to 

 work in a businesslike manner. He hired a rope and an old 

 hand-saw and began the task in the middle of the morning. He 

 found it a much harder job than he had imagined, but worked 

 steadily at it without lunch until toward the end of the after- 

 noon. With the assistance of some telephone men in guilding 

 the fall of the last huge branch he succeeded in taking down every 

 limb without touching the house or even disturbing the rockery 

 and young trees which thickly dotted the yard. He had never 

 tackled a similar job before, but, like all Scouts, he was prepared 

 to do his good turn. 



