Scouting, Volume 8, Number 17, November 11, 1920 Page: 7
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THE VETERAN SCOUT
CAMPAIGN
WIDESPREAD interest is being
taken in the campaign to bring
about the registration of all
eligible for membership in the Veteran
Scout Association. Until the present cam-
paign started, the possibilities of the
Veteran Scout Association as a means of
holding the older boy, and of raising scout
morale had been largely overlooked, and
but 1,677 of the 50,000 estimated to be
eligible had registered in the nearly four
years since the Veteran Scout Association
was started. The average monthly
registration in 1920, up to September, was
53j4. In the last eight days of September,
however, following the Scout Executives'
Conference at which the campaign was
launched, 28 were registered, and in Octo-
ber, 197. The indications are that that
figure will be multiplied several times in
November.
Delaware with 1.8% of its total registra-
tion of scouts and officials (according to
the 10th Annual Report) as members of
the'Veteran Scout Association, and Mary-
land, with 1.2%, lead the states in the pro-
portion of registered Veterans. New
York leads with the largest number of
Veteran Scouts, 406, and Pennsylvania,
New Jersey, Massachusetts, Ohio, In-
diana, Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland and
Michigan follow in the order named, all
having more than fifty.
Of individual cities or councils, Mont-
clair, N. J., leads with 3.7% of its total
registration as Veteran Scouts. Others
above 2% are as follows:
East Orange, N. Buffalo, N. Y...2.1%
J 2.7% Richmond, Va. ..2.1%
Austin, Tex 2.5% New Brunswick,
Wilmington, Del.2.4% N. J 2.1%
Grant Co., Ind..2.3%
The number of Veteran Scouts under
different councils (or in independent com-
munities) is, for those above a total of 20,
as follows:
Philadelphia, Pa. 112 Chicago, 111 30
Buffalo, N. Y. . . . 74 Detroit, Mich.... 27
Manhattan, N. Y. 61 Queens Co., N. Y. 26
Baltimore, Md. . . 54 Wilmington, Del.. 24
Brooklyn, N. Y. . . 52 Richmond, Va.... 21
Allegheny Co., Pa. 41 Boston, Mass 21
Indianapolis, Ind. 36 Toledo, Ohio 20
Cleveland, Ohio.. . 35 Washington, D. C. 20
A DISCOVERY HIKE
A MANHATTAN scoutmaster off on
a hike spied a dilapidated and de-
serted building in a distant field and
took a chance. As a result, for $3.00 pur-
chase price and $10.00 cartage, he now
possesses intact a remarkable fireplace
over 100! years old, one of these affairs
with an enormous cedar beam across the
top, and also a genuine oak antique cor-
ner cupboard or closed whatnot. Those
treasures had stood there unnoticed for
years.
A ways out of Meriden, Conn., a curi-
osity far older was visited by scouts on a
recent hike. Lava deposited in prehistoric
times was found in a quarry, in a part of
an extinct volcano. The university pro-
fessor with the party was able to point
out the various stages in the flow and
cooling of the lava. Scout Executive J. D.
Roberts states that the place is known to
very few people of the vicinity.
Discovery hikes are mighty fascinating.
They require perseverance. Prior con-
versations with local authorities, especially
octogenarians, will not come amiss. The
SCOUTING, NOVEMBER 11, 1920
Meriden boys got two columns of news-
paper space with pictures.
Where such a " find" is known to the
scoutmaster, and not to the boys or to
many of them, it can be made the objective
of an unusually exciting and worth while
treasure hunt. In the treasure hunt full
advantage should always be taken of every
opportunity to develop Scouting abilities
as indicated in the Handbook for Boys.
Always make full use of the compass on
such hunts.
EVERYBODY LOVES A BAND
AND every local council can have one,
if it's wanted. A band is great for
instilling ideas of discipline, team
work, and several of the Scout Laws, not
to mention the cultivation of musical
ability. A good scout band is an asset
to the local council. A good fife and drum
corps or any other musical combination
is a big asset to Scouting in any com-
munity large or small. Recently the Boy
Scout band of Fall River, Mass., made a
ten-day tour of Cape Cod, playing for fifty
minutes to an immense crowd that
gathered at the City Hall to see them off.
Throughout their tour the band took ad-
vantage^ of every opportunity to go into
camp, visit points of educational interest,
and polish up on Scouting generally. At
over a score of places the band paraded
and gave a concert. They invariably col-
lected record crowds and in practically
every stop their performance was made the
occasion of addresses by the prominent
men of the town on Scouting.
A STRONG TEAM FOR A DRIVE
A COMBINATION newspaper adver-
tising and letter appeal is being tried
out in New York City by the Execu-
tive Board as a substitute for the usual
form of "Drive." The idea in its gen-
eral aspects was proposed by Mr. A. C.
Olson, Assistant to the Chief Scout
Executive. Members of the Executive
Board and heads of departments at the
National Council Office have assisted in
rounding the plan out.
A series of " teaser" ads was run in
the leading Greater New York morning
and afternoon newspapers beginning with
Monday November 1st, and continuing
through Thursday. Each of the first
three ads pictured six eminent men of di-
verse views on public questions, bound to-
BUZZZ—ZZZ
gether by the headline " They All Agree."
The fourth ad carried smiling boy faces
instead of photographs of men. The four
ads were alike in text with the exception
that each successive ad included the names
of the men who had been pictured in the
preceding ones, and were as follows:
"They All Agree"
" Upon one question of vital interest
to every citizen of New York City.
Be Prepared. See tomorrow's papers."
The effect of these " teaser " ads was a
growing interest on the part of the public
in finding out what it was all about. As
the publisher of one of the morning
papers stated when discussing the position
that the final advertisement would be
given in his paper, said: " It will make
little difference where that ad appears as
your teaser copy has gotten the public
so interested they will hunt the paper
through on Friday to find the solution.
Friday's ad was a full page excepting
one column, and is reproduced reduced
as the back cover of this issue. An exact
quotation from each man was printed
under his picture. The consent of every
man to use his photograph, name and
statement in this series of ads, was will-
ingly given in advance.
The advertising was made possible and
paid for by four men who have been
members of our National Executive Board
for ten years, namely, Messrs. John Sher-
man Hoyt, Mortimer L. Schiff, George
D. Pratt and Frank Presbrey.
The Personal Touch
On the day that the full-page ad ap-
peared letters were mailed to carefully
selected lists of names aggregating about
280,000. In addition about thirty promi-
nent men including some members of the
Executive Board sent out to other .and
very restricted lists, letters on. their own
stationery signed by themselves endorsing
the appeal for public financial support.
This form of campaign involves far
less expense than in the use of many
forms of publicity, posters, indiscriminate
distribution of letters and circulars, the
organizing of personal workers. The
drive actually began with the mailing of
the letters a day or two before Scout-
ing goes to press. Consequently it is im-
possible to give results at this time. But
the plan is mentioned as a suggestion to
local councils, of the first class particu-
larly, who may wish to make use of some
of its features.
Mint
(~)LD stuff. But as it is still go-
ing strong it must be good
stuff. As many groups of threes
as there are can play it at a
time. One wears a skull cap and
stands between the other two,
each of whom puts the hand
which is farthest from the skull-
cap-boy across his eyes as shown.
The other hands are held at the
side until the Buzzer, everlast-
ingly saying BUZZZ-ZZZ-ZZ-Z,
strikes the palm of one of the
two, who is then entitled to strike
off the skull cap—if he can do
it. Playing fair and keeping his
eyes covered, of course, he has
his troubles because the Buzzer,
instantly he strikes a palm,
stoops or dodges to escape, but
must not leave his place. This is
a great game for learning to be
cheerful under all conditions.
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