Scouting, Volume 8, Number 2, January 15, 1920 Page: 13
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SCOUTING, JANUARY 15, 1920
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The expenditures of the National Citi-
zens' Committee for this nation-wide edu-
cational Campaign, including expenses of
some of the District Representatives,
State Chairmen, and City Chairmen, in-
cluding New York City, were $204,015.43.
These expenditures were not merely for
the raising of money but also for the or-
ganization of the entire country to carry
out the six obj ectives of the campaign and
covered the expense of advertising and
printed matter for use throughout the
country in the promotional features of the
Campaign.
Of the $1,647,432 received throughout
the country, $301,490 represents member-
ships and contributions received in New
York City, to be used for both the local
and National work.
The report shows that the Executive
Board expressed its appreciation not only
to those who directed the campaign but
to all who have contributed.
The result of the campaign has already
made possible an increase in the Field and
Extension Service of the Movement as
also intensifying the local work in Greater
New York. An example of this was seen
in the camp at Bear Mountain last sum-
mer which accommodated 9,000 boys, or
an average of 1,500 per day. They were
given an opportunity to follow the Scout-
ing program under ideal conditions in the
largest camp for boys in the world. This
is done at a cost to the boy far below
the actual expenses involved in order
that all boys of whatever station in life
might have the advantages of camp train-
ing.
One of the most gratifying results of
the Boy Scout Week Campaign has been
the organization of additional permanent
'local committees, known as local councils,
to further the Scouting Program. Al-
ready 67 such additional committees have
been chartered as new local councils, and
between 300 and 400 are in the process
of organization largely as the result of the
campaign. The membership of the Boy
'Scouts of America today is 364,407 boyc
as compared with 329,685 a year ago, and
"in addition there are about 100,000 adults
serving as volunteers—scoutmasters, as-
sistant scoutmasters, scout commissioners
and members of troop committes and local
• councils, thus making a total enrollment
of about 464,000 men and boys.
NEW POLICY RE: UNIFORMS
AND SCOUT EQUIPMENT
Until otherwise ordered, as an experi
ment, the policy of the Supply Depart-
ment will be changed to conform to the
following:
1. The Boy Scout membership certifi-
cates will be recognized everywhere as
entitling the holder to uniform or any
part thereof handled by official outfitters,
as well as to tenderfoot badges without
the necessity of any further certification
or approval of any character. It shall be
the duty of scoutmasters or scout execu-
tives to withhold the issuance of any certi-
ficates to boys who are not qualified to
have the uniform or tenderfoot pins, or
withdraw certificates once issued if that
right ceases for any reason.
2. Orders for second-class or first-class
pins or emblems must be countersigned by
the scoutmaster, and in cases where the
Scout is under a council, by the repre-
sentative of the council. A Scoutmaster's
signature to. an order will be recognized
as sufficient; except as above noted for
second-class or , first-class and merit
badges when under local council.
3. Order for merit badges must be cer-
tified to strictly in accordance with the
regulations heretofore in force and should
in each instance involve an examination
of oUr records to see if the boy is actually
registered in good standing and be
based upon the formal certificate required
on a separate blank for each merit badge
to be issued.
4. All other scout supplies, whether
they have the emblems or not, including
knives, axes, canteens, but excepting
haversacks, may be sold regardless ot
membership in the Boy Scouts of America
and without any formal review of our
records to see if the orders come from
scouts or scout officials. The use of a
knife with a scout emblem on it can do
no substantial harm, but on the other
hand may help to spread the gospel of
scouting, and likewise' with other scout
equipment which does not actually denote
membership in the Boy Scouts of America
or rank therein.
The foregoing regulations are the result
of long experience and made with a view
of best serving the field and reducing to a
minimum expense in clerical and un-
necessary routine operations both at the
National Council and in the field. The
question has been raised by scoutmasters
in large cities who seek to save the time
of boys who often become discouraged in
their efforts to get necessary O. K.'s or
approvals for orders for scout supplies
which really do not involve vital factors.
James E. West,
January 3, 1920. Chief Scout Executive.
Mr. West Goes to the Coast
The Chief Scout Executive will attend
the conference of Western executives at
Berkeley, and his itinerary oil this trip is
given below. It is his wish to meet as
many scoutmasters and other officials as
possible, conferring with them regarding
important matters that are coming up for
decision by the National Council at its
meeting in March.
Mr. West's Itinerary
Pittsburgh, Pa.. January 14
Chicago, 111 January 15
San Francisco. Cal. (Arr.) January 18
Bakersfield 1
Fresno J- January 19 and 20
Stockton J
Berkeley January 21
San Francisco January 26
Oakland January 27
Santa Barbara ) OQ
Los Angeles ) • January 28
Los Angeles January 2&
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Portland, Ore February 4
Tacoma, Wash February 5
Seattle, Wash February 6
Spokane, Wash......... . ...... .February 7
Butte, Montana................ February 9
Salt Lake City, Utah.......... February 10
Ogden, Utah ,, . February 11
Denver, Colo..; ...... . ...... j February 12
' I February 13
Omaha, Neb February 14
St. Paul, Minn February 16
Chicago, 111 February 17
New York February 19
THE INTERNATIONAL SCOUT
JAMBOREE
To bring together Boy Scouts from 52
nations of this unsettled old world and
show wherein peace and harmony are
compatible with energy and national pride,
will be one result of an invitation ex-
tended by Sir Robert Baden-Powell to the
Boy Scouts of America and Boy Scouts
of all other lands, for an International
Jamboree, July 30 to August 7, 1920.
The National Council is discussing as
rapidly as the mails permit, details of the
program which, according to American
standards, should contain more of Scout-
ing and less of athletics. Meanwhile, ways
and means of sending a representative
group of Boy Scouts from the United
States are being as earnestly considered.
It is probable that the delegation will be
limited to the neighborhood of 200 scouts,
and that these will be invited from as
many different cities, preference being
given to those cities doing the most suc-
cessful scout work and to able representa-
tives with satisfactory personal records.
How these standards should be deter-
mined is a question on which -advice from
all quarters is most eagerly invited. Ad-
vice is also wanted on how the expense of
sending such a representation from the
Boy Scouts of America should be met.
The tentative program sent out by the
scouts of Great Britain includes scenic
displays, Scouting and musical competi-
tions, competition in model making,
stamp collecting, keeping diaries and
making posters for the jamboree, as
well as non-competitive exhibitions of
recreative activities, community singing
and whistling, and a Boy Scout Zoo to be
made up of animal mascots brought by the
participants,
Scouting Index Ready
A twelve page index for SCOUTING
July 1, 1918 to June 26, 1919 inclusive
is now available and will be sent upon
request to the Magazine Department.
Apply for your copy of the index before
having your 1919 numbers of SCOUT-
ING bound, so that it may be included
in the volume.
Cross and Gordon at New York
Mr. Harry D. Cross, National Field
ocout Commissioner for the Western Dis-
trict, has joined the corps of workers at
the National Council office, his responsi-
bility being that of Director of the Finan-
cial Department.
Mr. H. A. Gordon, of the Pennsylvania
territory, has undertaken the direction of
the immense Boy Scout Camp in which
many Metropolitan District councils par-
ticipate in the Palisades Interstate Park
at Bear Mountain, New York.
N
turn
O good turn is so sweet that self-
advertising of it will not make it
A wriggly face seldom accompanies
a stable mind.
Better hunter's stew and com pone
with two scouts than soda pop with
all present.
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