Scouting, Volume 5, Number 14, November 15, 1917 Page: 2
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SCOUTING.
would be open from 7:30 until 9. The Scoutmas-
ter sent out a call and another campaign was or-
ganized for the additional hour and a half, in
which $950 was secured. The total was $20,000.
"We did not care so much for the badge but
were working for Uncle Sam," reports Troop 1,
of Stoval, N. C.
As usual, Secretary McAdoo was pursued
throughout the country by Scouts. Two members
of Troop 10, Atlanta, Ga., trailed him all day
and at last landed him.
Pride Saved the Day
Estill Cou-nty, Ky., had failed to raise her quota
in the second Liberty Loan. The Boy Scouts de-
manded that she make good. They said that if
the grown-up people of the county did not have
sufficient pride to maintain its honor, they did.
Special meeting called; local printing office ap-
pealed to; entire night spent in getting out printed
appeals to the patriotism of the people. When the
people awoke the following morning, they found
on their door step the morning paper devoted ex-
clusively to Liberty Bonds. Every hour there-
after, they received a little card calling attention
to the fact that they were expected to give a Scout
a subscription. All day through the rain the Scouts
worked and worked and worked. Results: The
Boy Scouts secured subscriptions amounting to
$50,000, and Estill County over-subscribed her
allotment.
Memphis Makes Mark in Two Campaigns
Memphis, Tenn. was among the Scout centers
in which records were made during the first Lib-
erty Loan campaign. Twenty-two troops secured
3,264 subscriptions, amounting to $480,500. _ In view
of the fact that the population in Memphis is less
than 150,000 and that it has a colored population
of 60,000, this record is remarkable. In the second
campaign Memphis Scouts secured applications
amounting to $2,861,600.
One of the Scouts in Kingston, N. Y., ap-
proached a policeman on the bond question and
secured an application for $3-00. The officer stated
that, although people had been canvassing for a
week, the Scout was the first one to ask him to
buy a bond.
Man of Mystery Solved
San Diego, Cal., newspapers announced that a
man of mystery would go about his regular of-
fice work Monday the 22nd and that the first Boy
Scout who approached him could sell him $10,000
worth of Liberty Bonds. As a result of this an-
nouncement, Mr. Milton A. McRae, who is Presi-
dent of the San Diego Council and Vice-president
of the National Council, found seven Scouts
waiting for him when he reached his office the
next day. He made good.
Joyously Satisfied
"We didn't have sense enough to get into the
first campaign, but, Oh, Boy! wait for the third!
Our three troops raised $82,000. We can do bet-
ter next time. One boy sold 87 bonds, but to only
49 persons or families. Another sold less bonds,
but to more families. Which wins?
We are joyously satisfied with the whole af-
fair; glad we're living—glad we're Scouts. "Bliss
was it in that dawn to be alive, but to be young
was HEAVEN!"
(Signed) Geoffrey Morgan, Scoutmaster, Troop
1, B. S. A. and Supt. of Schools, Athens, Ohio.
FIELD NOTES
mill-
Y T T EST ORANGE, N. J., has raised
Vy $8,000 for a three years' budget.
This is $500 more than was asked
for. The campaign was organized by Ed-
ward B. Lyman.
* * *
A three years' budget for Bay City,
Mich., was raised under the leadership of
Edward C. Bacon. The amount asked for
was $10,000 and the amount raised was
$100 more.
* * *
The Rotary Club raised $10,000 for
Scouting in a forty-eight hour campaign
in Camden, N. J. This provides for a
three years' budget.
* * *
Under the supervision of H. D. Cross,
National Field Scout Commissioner for the
Pacific Coast states, Berkeley, Cal.,. raised
$4,000. The amount asked for was $2,500.
* * *
William F. Bacon goes to Rock Island,
Til., as Scout Executive. He is a graduate
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THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION
By the President of the United States of America
A PROCLAMATION
IT has been the honored custom of our people to turn, in the fruitful
autumn of the year, in praise and thanksgiving to Almighty God for His
many blessings and mercies to us as a nation. That custom we can follow
now even in the midst of the tragedy of a world shaken by war and im-
measurable disaster, in the midst pf sorrow and great peril, because even
amidst the darkness that has gathered about us we can see the great
blessings God has bestowed upon us, blessings that are better than mere
peace of mind and prosperity of enterprise.
WE have been given the opportunity to serve mankind as we once served
ourselves in the great day of our Declaration of Independence, by
taking up arms against a tyranny that threatened to master and debase men
everywhere and joining with other free peoples in demanding for all the
nations of the world what we then demanded and obtained for ourselves.
In this day of the revelation of our duty not only to defend our own rights
as a nation but to defend also the rights of free men throughout the world,
there has been vouchsafed us in full and inspiring measure the resolution
and spirit of united action. We have been brought to one mind and purpose.
A new vigor of common counsel and common action has been revealed to
us. We should especially thank God that in such circumstances, in the
midst of the greatest enterprise the spirits of men have ever entered upon,
we have, if we but observe a reasonable and practicable economy, abund-
ance with which to supply the needs of those associated with us as well as
our own. A new light shines about us. The great duties of a new day
awaken a new and greater national spirit in us. We shall never again be
divided or wonder what stuff we are made of.
AND while we render thanks for these things let us pray Almighty God
that in all humbleness of spirit we may look always to Him for guid-
ance; that we may be kept constant in the spirit and purpose of service;
that by His grace our minds may be directed and our hands strengthened;
and that in His good time liberty and security and peace and the comrade-
ship of a common justice may be vouchsafed all the nations of the earth.
WHEREFORE, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States of
America, do hereby designate Thursday, the twenty-ninth day cf
November next, as a day of thanksgiving and prayer, and invite the people
throughout the land to cease upon that day from their ordinary occupations
and in their several homes and places of worship to render thanks to God,
the great ruler of nations.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the
seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done in the District of Columbia this seventh day of November in the
year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seventeen and of the Inde-
pendence of the United States of America the one hundred and forty-second.
WOODROW WILSON.
By the President:
ROBERT LANSING,
Secretary of State.
THE President's Thanksgiving Proclamation should be read to every troop of scouts
at the troop meeting immediately preceding Thanksgiving Day.
The reading should be made as impressive as possible, the troop standing at
attention.
The importance of making the most of our National Holidays, especially under war
conditions cannot be over-emphasized. Carelessness in their observance is regrettable at
anv time but in these davs it is worse than that. Thanksgiving Day gives our Scouts one
of their best opportunities for setting an example to the community of loyal Americans
working for the public good. An impressive ceremony at the troop meeting preceding
Thanksgiving Day will send them out with a sense of the sacredness of the day which will
have an effect upon the whole community.
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of the McCormick Theological Seminary
and has been in the ministry for twelve
years. He has also had experience on the
lecture platform and in community social
work. In addition to this, he has spent
many seasons in boys' camps and has had
three years of military training.
Elgin, 111., has called Dwight M. Ramsay
as Scout Executive. He is a graduate of
the Illinois State Normal University and
has been in educational work. He was
scoutmaster of a troop while he was at
the University and has attended Boy Scout
camps.
* * *
The Scout work in Cleveland, O., which
has been so ably developed by Scout Com-
missioner Delo E. Mook, now demands
the time of a Scout Executive and Henry
F. Pollock has been appointed to that
position.
* * *
W. S. Cowing, of Philadelphia, has ac-
cepted a call as Secretary of Boston Uni-
versity and E. Urner Goodman has taken
his place as Scout Executive.
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