Scouting, Volume 6, Number 29, November 28, 1918 Page: 1
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SCOUTING
Published Weekly by National Headquarters, Boy Scouts of America
For Scout Officials and Others Interested In Work for Boys
Subscription Price $1.00 a year. Office of publication, 200 Fifth Ave., New York, N. Y.
Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Section 1103, Act of
October 3, 1917, authorized June 13, 1918.
Vol. VI.
NEW YORK, N. Y, November 28, 1918
No. 29
Scouts to Get Full Credit For All W. S. S. Sales
New Plan of Reporting Approved by Treasury Department Allows
Credit for All Sales Made—Scouts Meanwhile Urged to Push W. S. S.
THE Treasury Department expects the Many Scouts Discouraged By Failure of ment that the letter carriers in every town
scouts to finish the job which they Red Cards to Carry Through and city where there was free delivery,
undertook at the beginning of the Several difficulties have arisen, which it is could deliver War Savings and Thrift
year. Difficulties removed make this pos- believed, have hindered the campaign. The Stamps ordered by the public on the red
sible. first of these concerns the co-operation of post cards as a result of the efforts of the
By arrangement with the Treasury De- the Postoffice Department. The Postmaster Boy Scouts. In many cases it has been
partment the Boy Scouts of America were General agreed with the Treasury Depart- learned that red post cards signed and de-
provided early in the year with six-
teen million special red post cards
in order that they might do their
full share in selling War Savings
and Thrift Stamps.
The Treasury Department prom-
ised our Government that it would
undertake to dispose of two billion
dollars worth of these stamps in the
course of the year and that amount
was included in the war budget, re-
ducing by that amount, the special
war taxes and the sum to be raised
in Liberty Loan campaigns.
The amount which the National
Council believed the Boy Scouts
could sell and which they indicated
to our Government that they would
sell was one hundred million dol-
lars.
The campaign started vigorously
and has been carried on vigorously.
Ace medals have been awarded to
5,173 scouts for selling $250 worth
of stamps. Eleven thousand one
hundred and fifty-three palms have
been awarded for further sales of
$100 worth of stamps. Achieve-
ment buttons which are given for
sales of any amount to twenty-five
different individuals have been
earned by 11,247 scouts. Thousands
of other scouts have fine records.
Victory mobilization in New York City to promote sale of IVa?
Savings Stamps and other after the war_ activities. Photo by
Press Illustrating Service
livered to the local postoffice have
not resulted in the delivery of the
stamps, in spite of the orders pub-
lished several times in the official
organ of the post-office department.
The reason for this my have
been the loss of cards in the mail,
the lack of understanding of the
Postmaster General's instructions to
postmasters and letter carriers, or
possibly in some cases the inabil-
ity of the letter carriers because of
pressure of other work to undertake
the additional work of delivering
and collecting for the stamps. As
the scout has received no credit for
the order unless the stamps were de-
livered and the red post card rt
turned through his local postoffice
to our National Headquarters,
many have been discouraged through
the failure of their excellent work.
Difficulty of Complete Pos': Card
Reports Now Obviated
This difficulty has been removed
by a special plan which is to be
used during the final clean-up in the
month of December. From now
until December 31st, scouts are re-
quested to report to their scoutmas-
ters, the sales which they make
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