Scouting, Volume 2, Number 14, November 15, 1914 Page: 4
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SCOUTING.
SCOUTING
PUBLISHED SEMI-MONTHLY BY NATIONAL HEAD-
QUARTERS, BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA, FOR SCOUT
OFFICIALS AND OTHERS INTERESTED IN
THE BOY SCOUT MOVEMENT.
OFFICERS OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL AND
EXECUTIVE BOARD
Honorary President: Woodrow Wilson.
Honorary Vice-President: William H. Taft.
Honorary Vice-President: Theodore Roosevelt.
President: Colin H. Livingstone, Washington.
Chief Scout: Ernest Thompson Seton.
Nat'l Scout Commissioner: Daniel C. Beard.
Treasurer: George D. Pratt, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Chief Scout Executive: James E. West, N. Y. C.
Office of Publication: 200 Fifth Avenue,
New York City.
Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office,
New York, N. Y., under the act of
August 24, 1912.
built up on short notice. Problems have
had to be met and solved—and problems
remain to be met and solved.
The movement is not now doing all it
can do for the boys of America, but there is
absolutely no doubt but that it will do
more. The important thing is that substan-
tial progress has been made. Definite poli-
cies have been adopted, equipment and
methods have been standardized, and the
general efficiency has been improved in all
phases of the work.
The movement is stronger to-day than it
ever has been, and its friends may work
with every assurance that their efforts will
contribute to the further success of a vital,
progressive, permanent force for good in
the lives of the adolescent boys of the
country.
OFFICIAL NOTICES.
Scoutmasters and Scout officials can
greatly assist the work at National Head-
quarters when ordering merit badges if
they will state whether or not the boy is a
Life, Star or Eagle Scout. This will save
a great deal of clerical work and will
greatly expedite the matter of getting the
badges passed upon.
Scout officials are urgently requested to
destroy old form blanks now in their pos-
session, and to make use of the new forms
only. For making annual reports and ap-
plication for re-registration, Form S. M. 3
should be used. For new Scoutmasters*
applications use Form S. M. 2. For re-
porting additions to a registered troop use
S. M. 5.
VOL. II. NOVEMBER 15, 1914. No. 14.
FACTS FOR DOUBTERS.
^ OT long ago a letter came to National
Headquarters from a Scout Commis-
sioner asking for facts to help convince the
people of his community " that the Boy
Scout movement is something more than
a passing fad."
Such requests were frequently received
when the movement was first organized.
So many " movements" had been started
and had died a lingering death that many
people were skeptical about the permanence
of Scouting.
The wonderful growth of the work, how-
ever, has convinced the great majority of
the doubters that the Boy Scout organiza-
tion has come to stay."
But evidently there are some who still
need " convincing."
The movement in the United States is
nearly five years old. If it were the "pass-
ing fad" that many predicted it would
prove to be, some signs of dissolution
should now be apparent.
But what are the facts? The official
records show that boys are becoming Scouts
at the rate of one thousand a week. Dur-
ing October more than four thousand en-
rolled and during the first ten days of No-
vember 1,794 new names were received at
National Headquarters. Adult leaders for
this ever-growing host of Scouts are being
commissioned. The long list of names of
new officials printed in every issue of
Scouting should be most convincing.
But not only are new boys coming into
the ranks of Scoutcraft; those who are in
the organization are working. During Oc-
tober, Eagle Scout certificates were granted
to forty-four boys, and 1,799 Merit Badges
were awarded as compared with 1,192 for
October, 1913.
Figures, however, cannot show the re-
markable progress which has been made in
organizing the movement for more effect--
ive work. Such an enormous organization
as the Boy Scouts of America cannot be
THE TEEN AGE.
■yHE teen age represents the most im-
portant period of life. Ideals and
standards are set up, habits formed and
decisions made that will make or mar a
life. It marks the period of adolescence,
when the powers and passions of manhood
and womanhood enter into the life of the
boy and girl, and when the will is not
strong enough to control these great forces.
Powers must be unfolded before ability
to use them can develop, and instincts
must be controlled while these are in the
process of development. The importance
of systematic adult leadership during this
period of storm and stress cannot be too
strongly emphasized.—From a leaflet is-
sued by the International Sunday School
Association.
Officials desiring to retain duplicates of
applications should make use of another
copy of the same blank. National Head-
quarters will gladly furnish, on request,
sufficient quantities to meet your needs.
A SPLENDID TRIBUTE.
TTNDER the title " The Largest Boys'
Club in the World" the New York
Globe printed on November 9 a signed edi-
torial by Dr. Frank Crane. The same edi-
torial was published simultaneously in some
thirty of the largest newspapers in the
United States to which Dr. Crane's articles
are supplied regularly.
It is a splendid tribute to the Boy Scout
movement by one who has made a thorough
study of it. Among other things Dr. Crane
says: " If your boy is of suitable age you
should let him join. * * * I would like
to see every boy in the United States be-
long to the Boy Scouts. * * * The Boy
Scouts are not soldiers in the making; they
are men, citizens in the making." In con-
clusion Dr. Crane says:
On my table lies the November number of Boys'
Life. I wish a copy of it could get into the hands
of each one of the eight million boys of this coun-
try. It is full of sound sense and "mighty inter-
estin' readin'.
The article, first in the magazine, by David Starr
Jordan, of the Leland Stanford, Jr., University,
is as great a piece of boy literature as you can
find. For instance, he says:
"We want you, Boy Scouts, for braver things
than war.
"It is a soldier's business to fight and to kill,
it is a Boy Scout's business to help and save.
"When this hideous war is over all the nations
will be filled with hate, for without hate there
could be no war. It will be for you to try to over-
come this spirit, to help us all to realize that men
are men, wherever they may live, or whatever
language they may speak."
In the December number of Boys' Life
will be found a number of pages devoted
to the Scout Supply Department. It is the
constant aim of National Headquarters to
increase the possibility for service in the
relation of that department to Scout offi-
cials and to Scouts themselves. During
the past few months all orders, except
■those requiring special manufacture, have
been filled within twenty-four hours of
their receipt, the majority going forward
within six hours. In spite of the increas-
ing number of orders handled, the number
of complaints has fallen steadily.
In response to the many requests re-
ceived for suggestions as to suitable prizes
for Scout events at rallies and for effi-
ciency rewards in patrol and troop con-
tests, an effort has been made in the forth-
coming supply department catalog to pro-
vide a considerable range of tokens which
may be used in this connection.
Among them are the " 100 per cent,
duty" emblems which Scout leaders may
use as they see fit. Concrete suggestions
based on efficiency contests which have
been promoted by two successful councils
are set forth in the catalog. The emblems
include a simple celluloid button which
may be awarded monthly to Scouts at-
taining success in the contest, an inexpen-
sive gold-plated shield pin to be bestowed
at the final termination of the competition
and a small gold-plated pin to be used in
cases where contests last a full Scout year.
A feature of this pin is the little bar bear-
ing the inscription " 1 year "; bars for sub-
sequent years may easily be added.
In the new catalog will also be found
a variety of inexpensive medals and ribbon
badges with suggestions for their use and
the supply department offers as well to fur-
nish rally committees and officials of Scout
contests on a large scale with souvenirs
for general distribution and with inexpen-
sive trophy cups, shields and placques for
award upon such occasions.
Bird Bulletin Circulated.
Through the kindness of Mr. Vernon
Bailey, Chief Field Naturalist of the Bu-
reau of Biological Survey of the Depart-
ment of Agriculture, Bulletin No. 609 on
bird houses has been sent to 8,000 Scout-
masters and Assistant Scoutmasters in all
parts of the country.
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