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SCOUTING
Published semi-monthly by National Headquarters, Boy Scouts of America
For Scout Officials and Others Interested In Work for Boys
Vol. III.
NEW YORK, N. Y., NOVEMBER 15, 1915
No. 14
Mr. Loene W. Barclay
SCOUT EXECUTIVE FOR
MANHATTAN AND BRONX
New Official for These Boroughs Has Had
Wide Experience in Community
Work
LORNE W. BARCLAY has been ap-
pointed Scout Executive for the
Boroughs of Manhattan and the
Bronx to fill the position left vacant by
the resignation of the former Executive,
Charles L. Pollard. Mr. Barclay has al-
ready taken up his new duties as the execu-
tive head of the boy scout work in these
two important boroughs of Greater New
York.
Mr. Barclay is well equipped both by
training and experience for the important
position to which he has been appointed,
as he has been engaged in various forms of
philanthropic and community work for a
number of years.
Graduate of Yale
The new Executive for Manhattan and
the Bronx is a graduate of Bethany Col-
lege, where he took A. B. and M. A. de-
grees, and a graduate of Yale with a B D
degree. At Yale , he specialized in social"
education, social problems and practical
sociology. At the completion of his col-
lege work Mr. Barclay served one year as
professor in mathematics in Sinclair Col-
lege, Canada. For one year he was the
director of the Madison Square Boy's Club
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thanksgiving Proclamation
Of the President of the Boy Scouts of America
fl Special Good Cwrit for thanksgiving Day
1 ,° c?n.form' by word and deed, to the spirit expressed in
the Thanksgiving Proclamation of the President of the United
T r p «S\™. 1S a so the Hon<>rary President of our Organization,
1, Colin H Livingstone President of the National Council of the Boy
bcouts of America, do hereby proclaim it to be our duty and privilege
fulness"eSS °Ur thankfulness to Almighty God by practical acts of help-
As sco«ts who have pledged ourselves to be helpful to others, at all
times, and to DO A GOOD TURN DAILY, we should take advantage of
0fISalSlP!ro?t0PfK0rtUn,tuy t0 SerL-' \n a manner worthy and characteristic
in need °n V Sadness, are sick, afflicted, or
P,PJirday' nN°Vefm£tr ?we.nt.y-fifth has been designated by our
ffi • i jS-aj—j ThanksSlvln&- I suggest and urge that all scout
v h '"dividual scouts definitely plan now so that on this day they
may by co-operative effort, have their DAILY GOOD TURN speciallv
effective and appropriate to the Thanksgiving season
A scout patrol or troop, or the scout official and scout as individ-
ohila^hr ? practical service to the local associated charities or other
philanthropic organizations, or to the authorities of the church, by serv-
ing as messengers to collect and distribute fuel, food and clothing for
those in need, and in this way share in the work and spirit of the day.
President, National Council, Boy Scouts of America.
National Headquarters, Boy Scouts of America,
Nov. 15, 1915.
A WEEK FOR GOOD BOOKS
Reprinted from issue of The Outlook for November 3)
Sci?-Uls *s °neu °* th-e or£ani~ uni*e \n urSing the public not only to shop
zatioiis which is substituting virile early, but to buy the best books for their
and manly for debilitating condi- children. Appeals will be sent to librari-
ans, and is supplying healthful means of ans, asking them to collect and exhibit
nf an I 'maSmatlon and the body the best books; the aid of the pulpit will
into serS lirWf "T7 ^om get be invoked, and women's clubs will have
into serious mischief and some of whom the opportunity of doing work of the very
v- a^s°'ute ruin because the normal first importance in this connection. It is
activities of their nature and the normal hoped by this co-operative campaign of
The ? a/e ?ot ™t. Publicity to direct the mind of theTouS:
I he Library Commission of the Boy try to the necessity of guarding the minds
book trade that 1Cfhe>r°P°lred f° i?6 refail °u *1 childre,n from the demoralization of
book trade that the week of November the cheap and exaggerated story This ad-
^December 4 be set aside as Juvenile mirable plan has been indorsed by the
Week, and asked all booksellers to American Library Association and by the
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