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Title: A history of Rome and Floyd County, State of Georgia, United States of America; including numerous incidents of more than local interest, 1540-1922
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Battey, George Magruder, 1887-1965
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Publisher: Atlanta, Webb and Vary Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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lad hillsand mountains with their hundreds ofsparkling brooks and gushing springs—all seem to have been designed by theGreat Master Builder of the universe asan ideal place for our boys to go outand come in touch with the great out-of-doors and learn lessons that they cannotobtain from books. The scouts underthis council are taking advantage ofthese opportunities and every troop hastaken an average of one hike eachmonth, either all night, all day or af-ternoon, in open air scouting.—Jan. 9,1921. HOW TO BE MEN—One of the mostpowerful talks ever heard in Rome onIjoy culture was delivered Tuesday nightto an audience of 500 at the Auditoriumby Prof. W. A. Sutton, principal of theTech High School and Atlanta ScoutCommissioner, and Prof. Sutton imme-diately received an invitation from G.E. Bennett, local scout executive, theRev. H. F. Saumenig, who introducedhim, and Robt. W. Graves, who alsosat on the stage, to come back again inthe near future. 424 A History of Rome and Floyd County
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WATER SPORTS ON LABOR DAY, SEPT. 5, 1921 At top is Rex Culpeppers Nell passing under Second Avenue bridge, and bottom, FredHoffmans A. M. L. winning race. In lower center, Ed. Kings Boy Scout barge Sequoyahmaking knots. Lower center, right, the Daniel boat underway. Scouts and others are else-where seen in characteristic attitudes. Miscellaneous—Scout Section 425 Prof. Suttons talk followed one hehad made a few hours before at a lunch-eon tendered him by the Rome KiwanisClub at the Hotel Forrest, in which hispoints were very much the same. Hegave seven stages in the making of aman, saying that some boys passthrough all and make great men, butthat some people who pass for mennever pass through any. To the fathers he said they shouldknow their Boy Scout sons, go on hikeswith them and advise them throughout.Two things are necessary to gettingalong with boys, he declared. One ishonesty and sincerity and the other isa sense of humor. Mr. Sutton told the boys to keeptheir bodies clean, to

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