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Published Bi-weekly for Officials and Leaders by the. National Council, Boy Scouts of America
VOL. VIII. NO. 9 April 22, 1920
After Ten Years—A Look Forward
By Chief Scout Executive, James E. West
OUR ten years of history so thoroughly
reviewed at the Tenth Annual Meeting
of our National Council, culminating
with our Tenth Birthday Dinner Party, is most
inspiring. Those of us who have had executive
responsibility, both locally and nationally, have
had presented a challenge to justify our posi-
tions of leadership. Likewise all who are so
splendidly serving as Scoutmasters, Assistant
Scoutmasters, Troop Committeemen, Members
of Local Councils, Commissioners, Deputy
Commissioners—indeed, all who are today a
part of the Boy Scouts of America must accept
the challenge. What shall our answer be?
As Mr. 'Schiff, the Chairman of our Commit-
tee on Organization so truly said at the
National Council Meeting: "We must either
go forward or go backward."
The National Council, in meeting, unani-
mously decided that we shall go forward, and
all of us alike are facing the task of having this
forward step 100% strong for a 100% accep-
tance of 100% of the entire program as adopted
by the National Council Meeting. The chal-
lenge includes not only extending our field
organization, but also reaching a larger per-
centage of boys in the communities where we
now have splendidly organized first class coun-
cils. Reaching as we are only one boy out of
every twenty, of boys between, the ages of 12
and 18, our responsibilities are very definite.
The scouts, who are under the nearly 9,000
Scoutmasters not under councils, are just as
much entitled to the benefits of local overhead
organization as are the scouts in the large cities.
As is shown in the Annual Report published
in the April 8th issue of SCOUTING, notwith-
standing the many reasons for encouragement
the task immediately at hand for more thor-
oughly occupying the field and coping with our
problems is worthy of the best effort of the
manhood of America, and those of us who are
in Scouting have the responsibility of passing
on to more people the opportunity to share in
these responsibilities, and this should be the
fixed purpose of each and every one of us as our
part in taking a big forward step in the first year
of the next decade in the history of Scouting.
OFFICERS OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL AND
EXECUTIVE BOARD
Honorary President: Woodrow Wilson. ■
Honorary Vice-President: William H. Taft.
Honorary Vice-President: Daniel C. Beard.
President: Colin H. Livingston, Washington.
Nat'l Scout Commissioner: Daniel C. Beard.
Treasurer: George D. Pratt, Brooklyn, N. T.
Chief Scout Executive: James E. West, N. Y. C.
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postage provided for In Section 1103, Act of
October 3, 1917, authorized June 13, 1918. En-
tered as second-class matter November 3, 1918,
Post Office at New Tork, N. Y., under the Act
of August 24, 1912.
CLARK E. SCHURMAN,
Editor
EDITORIAL COMMITTEE
LORNE W. BARCLAY
Director, Educational Dept.
FRANKLIN K. MATHIEWS
Director, Library Dept.
FREDERIC L. COLVER
Director, Publications
GEORGE J. FISHER
Deputy Chief Scout Executive
JAMES E. WEST
Chief Scout Executive
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