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orning Post, under Recently a letter appeared in the South Chinaˇ Ι
the pen-name
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Proˉ Boy
“ ’ Scouts’ , part of which reads as follows∶ Today
alk by the path leading down to the Boy Scouts Camp, 氵 、 veek ago this area Ⅵ/as complete1y clean, but at some tin1e during the intervening Ⅵ7eek a large nun1ber of tin cans and cardboard boxes lzas one have been dumped at the top of the path. bⅠ y 丘rst reaction △ of surprise that the Boy scouts Ⅵ/ould leave such a disgusting mess, but 飞 7ere not to blame.¨ ¨¨,¨ ¨ clo8er exa1nination shoⅥ /ed that the Scout8 、 “ or this l此 ter, but it seen1s that I have no idea Ⅵ厂 ho is respon8ible ￡ xx/e happened to 31、
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Ⅵ严 hoeVer left it is lacking both in civicˉ 1nindedness, and a sense of Ⅴ/ere vould assume, as I did, that the Scouts fairplay-n△ ost passersˉ by 、 guilty.
Incidentally, the Scouts’
Camp site is a model o￡ cleanhness, no
rubbish,no litter,no indications to shoⅥ / that anyone had camped there.”
s always a lot of good fun and amusement at a Cub sports vith of the game 、 or a Cub Ra1ly; our young Cubs enter into the spir⒒ There’
such enthusiasm and energy that it is a rea1 p1easure to l△
Tatch thel1o。
But one of the most i1npressive 8ights comes at the end of the day eep aCross it when t11e Cubs hne up at one end of t11e field and sⅥ 厂 vhich have been dropped, picking up all the litter and odds and ends 飞 Of course being Cubs there perhaps should not be any litter to pick up, but`^厂
e do encourage e are not all as good as 、e ought to be, and Ⅵ厂 ^厂
vho are not yet Cubs to come and those 、
汛 、 7atch our activities.
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I have kn0、 vn even scout8 make the excuse vvhen I have found some htter~not very obvious litter and not in great quantihes admittedly¨
on their camp site that it was there when they ar⒒ ved.As scou“ we have got to do just a httle better than avoiding leaving a mess behind
us when we camp or p忆 niC.There wⅡ l a1ways be non-Scouts who wⅡ e have to make never1earn to leave nothing behind but their thanks.、 l
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good for them by clearing up their litter as Ⅵ
`ell as our oⅥ
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I visited our Scout ca1np s"e yesterday and the litter mentioned in the letter to the south orniug Post was Chinaˇ Ι /as it cleaned up gone. 、、
by some of our ScoutsP I hope so.
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Colony Commis蚯 oner.