Boy Scouts at War

All over the U.S. last week Boy Scouts were on the march—not across hills and through woods, but over pavements and alleys. No longer do they search for sticks to rub together to start camp fires. Now they hunt trash conveyances—trash to collect. They are Public Scavenger Service No. 1.

In Lancaster, Pa., during the week after Pearl Harbor, small, 84-lb., 13-year-old Star Scout Daniel Flory marched up & down the streets politely ringing doorbells, politely asking housewives for old newspapers. In seven afternoons he collected in his little wagon the last...

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