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Baloo's Bugle BALOO'S BUGLE Volume 18, Number 12 “Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.” Confucius --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- July 2012 Cub Scout Roundtable August 2012Core Value & Pack Meeting Ideas HONESTY KIDS AGAINST CRIME Tiger Cub, Wolf, Bear, Webelos, & Arrow of Light Activities CORE VALUES Abraham Lincoln Cub Scout Roundtable Leaders’ Guide The core value highlighted this month is: Abraham Lincoln's great laws of truth, integrity: Honesty: Telling the truth and being worthy of trust. Cub A long career ruled by honesty Scouts will gain a better understanding of the importance of following the rules, playing fair, and being trustworthy in games and in daily life.. COMMISSIONER’S CORNER If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. Mark Twain Many thanks to my great staff for sending me fantastic stuff again this month!!! I do not do this often enough. Sorry, staff "Mr. Lincoln . is almost monomaniac All 36 Supplemental Themes on the subject of honesty." are confirmed!! Mary Todd Lincoln, letter to a friend See the grid in the Roundtable Section The future president was first called "Honest Abe" when he was working as a young store clerk in New Salem, Ill. And while you are there - According to one story, whenever he realized he had Take part in our National Commissioner's National shortchanged a customer by a few pennies, he would close the shop and deliver the correct change-regardless of how far he Service Team Roundtable Lead's survey - It is only had to walk. one question. Send him an E-mail with your answer. People recognized his integrity and were soon asking him to Pat, Alice and I will be at Philmont Training Center act as judge or mediator in various contests, fights, and for July 15 - 21, for "Effective Roundtables" The arguments. According to Robert Rutledge of New Salem, "Lincoln's judgment was final in all that region of country. session is being led by Richard Keisker from Utah, and People relied implicitly upon his honesty, integrity, and Cheri Pepka. Cheri and I were in Master Trainer last impartiality." Fall. She has taught at PTC several times before. As a member of the Illinois legislature and later in his law Should be a great class. There are 16 enrolled (by the E- practice, he took advantage of his reputation for honesty and mail I received) so if you want, sign up and join us!! fairness to help broaden his constituency. His good name There are 5 Commissioner Courses that week and we helped win him four consecutive terms in the legislature. will be doing a Commissioner College!! Lincoln soon moved to Springfield, Ill, and began his law Plus it is Northeast Region Week!!! practice, a profession at which he admitted there was a All for now - Keep Scouting!!! "popular belief that lawyers are necessarily dishonest." His Dave advice to potential lawyers was: "Resolve to be honest at all BALOO'S BUGLE - (August 2012 Ideas) Page 2 events; and if in your judgment you cannot be an honest waste time convincing his opponents of his sincerity, he was lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer. Choose able to devote his energies to solving political issues and some other occupation, rather than one in the choosing of winning the war. which you do, in advance, consent to be a knave." According to Judge David Davis, in whose court Lincoln practiced for many years, "The framework for [Lincoln's] mental and moral being was honesty, and a wrong cause was poorly defended by him." Another judge who had worked with Lincoln agreed, saying "Such was the transparent candor and integrity of his nature that he could not well or strongly argue a side or a cause he thought wrong." Lincoln was ethical not only in his legal dealings with clients, but with his personal relationships. Lincoln as commander in chief was honest and Always comfortable telling jokes and stories around the men straightforward with his generals, always telling them directly of Springfield, he usually was awkward and self-conscious what he did and did not appreciate about them. An example of around women. In Lincoln's early political years, he wrote "I his candor is the following excerpt from a letter to Major want in all cases to do right, and most particularly so in all General Joseph Hooker in early 1863: cases with women." This was a principle to which he "I have placed you at the head of the Army of the Potomac. Of remained true all of his life. Today, historians tell us there is course I have done this upon what appear to me to be not a single credible story of Lincoln's being unfaithful to his sufficient reasons, and yet I think it best for you to know that wife. there are some things in regard to which I am not quite satisfied with you. I believe you to be a brave and a skillful soldier, which of course I like . I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying that both the army and the government needed a dictator. Of course it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up dictators. The Reverend Albert Hale of Springfield's First Presbyterian What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the Church said, "Abraham Lincoln has been here all the time, dictatorship." consulting and consulted by all classes, all parties, and on all Finally, in search for the reason Lincoln was so adamant about subjects of political interest, with men of every degree of honesty, a quote by one of his closest friends, Leonard Swett, corruption, and yet I have never heard even an enemy accuse is revealing: him of intentional dishonesty or corruption." "He believed in the great laws of truth, the right discharge of An example of an "enemy's" respect came in 1858, during duty, his accountability to God, the ultimate triumph of the Lincoln's Senate race against the powerful incumbent, Stephen right, and the overthrow of wrong." A. Douglas. The senator, having competed with Lincoln in the For further reading: legislature and many Illinois courtrooms, knew his opponent http://www.greatamericanhistory.net well. Please go to Great American History and check it out. Responding to the news that Lincoln was to be his adversary, Consider leaving them a donation to thank them for all Douglas said: "I shall have my hands full. He is the strong their hard work on Lincoln and the Civil war and other man of his party-full of wit, facts, dates-and the best stump parts of our history. CD speaker, with his droll ways and dry jokes, in the West. He is "Abraham Lincoln: Quotes, Quips, and Speeches" as honest as he is shrewd, and if I beat him my victory will be by Gordon Leidner or hardly won." "The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln" Lincoln lost his Senate bid to Douglas. Two years later, by Michael Burlingame. however, he found himself running against the same man for the presidency. When Douglas was told of Lincoln's victory, he unselfishly told his informants: "You have nominated a very able and very honest man." By the time Lincoln was president, statements he had made previously, such as "I have never tried to conceal my opinions, nor tried to deceive anyone in reference to them," and "I am glad of all the support I can get anywhere, if I can get it without practicing any deception to obtain it" had become a source of strength for him as a leader. Everyone, even his bitterest political opponents, knew exactly where they stood with Lincoln. Because he didn't have to BALOO'S BUGLE - (August 2012 Ideas) Page 3 SKITS ................................................................................. 32 TABLE OF CONTENTS GAMES .............................................................................. 33 In many of the sections you will find subdivisions for the Honesty Games ................................................................. 33 various topics covered in the den meetings Other Games ....................... Error! Bookmark not defined. CORE VALUES .................................................................. 1 CLOSING CEREMONIES ................................................ 35 COMMISSIONER’S CORNER .......................................... 1 CUBMASTER’S MINUTE............................................... 36 Abraham Lincoln ................................................................ 1 CORE VALUE RELATED STUFF ................................... 38 TABLE OF CONTENTS ..................................................... 3 Connecting Honesty with Outdoor Activities ................... 38 THOUGHTFUL ITEMS FOR SCOUTERS ........................ 4 HONESTY Character Connection..................................... 39 Roundtable Prayer ............................................................... 4 August - A Month for Honesty .......................................... 40 Honesty, Where Does it Come From? ................................ 4 Fun Facts about the Coast Guard ....................................... 43 Quotations ........................................................................... 5 Crazy Holidays .................................................................. 45 TRAINING TOPICS ............................................................ 6 PACK & DEN ACTIVITIES ............................................. 46 ScoutParents Program. ........................................................ 6 DEN MEETINGS............................................................... 49 Growing Up Right,
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