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SCOUTING, JANUARY, 1921
IMPORTANT NOTICE
Beginning with this issue of Scouting
it will, by direction of the Executive
Board, be published monthly instead of
bi-weekly, and will be published primar-
ily for scoutmasters and assistant scout-
masters.
NEW UNIFORMS IN STOCK
'"THE Department of Scout Supplies is now
A able to furnish at once the new design
of uniform as advertised in the Christmas cir-
cular to be made available the first of the
year. Scout officials may buy in cotton khaki
from stock or have melton and serge uni-
forms made to order, as the long considered
changes in the uniform are now thoroughly
established.
NEW BADGE SERIES READY
THE new series of scout officials' badges is
now completely in stock.
The scoutmaster's badge is green with a
silver outline. The assistant's, green with
a gold outline.
Ranking volunteers' or the commissioners'
series is blue graduated through silver and
gold, and the executives' series, red.
The new hat badges are three-fourths the
size of the old.
Scoutmaster's and Assistant's cloth badges,
50 cents each.
Metal hat badges with screw post back,
35 cents each.
Commissioner's, Deputy's and Assistant
Deputy's cloth, $1.00 each.
Metal hat badge, 60 cents each.
The new series includes the overlay of the
scoutmaster's silver badge upon the senior
patrol leader's three bars for the senior pa-
trol leader (who must, of course, be a first
class scout).
The S.P.L.'s sleeve badge remains as here-
tofore, 2 y2 green bars with the first class
badge worn on the lower part of the left
sleeve as for other first class scouts. The
new metal S.P.L. hat badge is 50 cents.
REMARKABLE OFFER ON
LANTERNS
THE Department of Scout Supplies is tem-
-1 porarily in a position to offer an almost
unheard of bargain in a limited quantity of
the well known Stonebridge folding candle
lantern, available to scoutmasters and scouts
only, at the price of $1.00 each net, postpaid.
This is the identical lantern listed in the
May 6th catalogue at $2.00, and is the model
extensively used by the Army, known as the
galvanized iron model. This lantern to those
who are not familiar with it, is light, com-
pact, simple, and, with reasonable treatment,
indestructible. It folds flat to be carried in
pocket or haversack, and opens in a moment
to 10x4%x4 inches. It has a reflecting back,
a wire handle for carrying or hanging up,
extra heavy mica sides, and is storm-proof.
(See photo, page 6).
This is a rare opportunity to equip each
patrol for overnight hiking at a wonderfully
attractive price.
THAT FIRE-ESCAPE PROJECT
TF you have not yet tried the five-story fire-
-1- escape project suggested in the last issue
because the solution of the problem did not
occur to you readily, you may be interested
in having one correct solution in mind, al-
though the object of the project is not to
display the scoutmaster's knowledge but to
make the boys themselves solve the real
problem.
Rope enough to reach two stories can be
doubled about a bedpost or table leg or even
a chair left inside the room, and made fast
by a lowered window sash. The scout having
gone down one story can release one end of
the rope, recover all of it by pulling the
other end, again anchor it to the furniture
of the fourth story, and continue his progress.
BOUND VOLUMES OF SCOUTING
Thirty-five copies of the 1920 file of
Scouting are available at $3.00 per copy
postpaid.
COMIN^EVENTS
January
Rehearsal for Anniversary.
Child Labor Day, Jan. 22, 23, 24.
Serbian Relief. (See Nov. 25th issue.)
February
11th Anniversary Celebration Week of
Feb. 8 th. Good Turn Week. See
Scouting Nov. 25, 1920, page 2.
March
National Council Annual Meeting. New
York, March 7.
Inauguration Service, at Washington.
Cancelled on account of President-
elect's policy of simplicity and econ-
omy.
April
Indoor Rallies and Exhibits.
Camp Registration and Plans.
LINCOLN SERIAL AT ONE DOLLAR
ILTERE is a wonderful partnership.
You, your boys, and Lincoln. You
know how much Lincoln has meant to
you, how much the spirit of Lincoln has
SCO
IN G
Published monthly for Officials and Leaders
by the National Council, Boy Scouts of
America.
Entered as second-class matter November 3,
1918, Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the
Act of August 24, 1912. Acceptance for mail
ing at special rate of postage provided for In
Section 1103, act of October 3, 1917, author-
ized June 13, 1918.
OFFICERS OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL
AND EXECUTIVE BOARD
Honorary President: Woodrow Wilson.
Honorary Vice-President: William H. Taft.
Honorary Vice-President: Daniel C. Beard.
Honorary Vice-President: Wm. G. McAdoo.
President: Colin H. Livingstone, Washington.
Nat'l Scout Commissioner: Daniel C. Beard.
Treasurer: George D. Pratt, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Chief Scout Executive: James E. West, N. Y. C.
Office of Publication:
200 Fifth Avenue, New York City
CLARK E. SCHURMAN, Editor
Vol. IX. No. 1
January, 1921
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meant to this country—to the world. You
know what a source of inspiration he has
been to mankind. The very sort of in-
spiration you want your boys to receive.
That is why Boys' Life, the official
scout magazine, has arranged with Ida
M. Tarbell, one of the greatest Lincoln
students in the world and a writer of
world reputation, to write a Boy Scout's
life of Lincoln. This is without doubt
the best biography of Lincoln that has
been written for a boy because it presents
him as living according to the principles
of what we know as the Scout Oath and
Law. It pictures him as the regular fel-
low that he was, as a back-woods boy en-
joying all the fun and thrill of pioneer
life, yet it carries the inspiration that
Lincoln took with him to the White
House and gave to this country in the
darkest moments of its history. To en-
able you to get this story before your boys
in their thoughtful moments at home, this
special offer is made. The complete Lin-
coln serial for $1.00. In book form it is
likely to be at least $2.50. In Boys' Life
for eight months, only $1.00. In addition,
in these eight months there are three big
camping numbers with articles by Dan
Beard, Belmore Browne, Dr. William T.
Hornaday, and a dozen other leading
authorities. Also five big fiction num-
bers with stories by a dozen of the best
writers of boy adventure, and two fine
serials.
Under all other circumstances Boys'
Life sells for $2.00 a year, 20 cents a sin-
gle copy. The great Lincoln story begins
with the February number. Can you do
anything more useful than to get the par-
ents of your boys to establish a partner-
ship with Lincoln through this new
biography ?
ANNUAL MEETING, MARCH 7
The Annual Meeting of the National Coun-
cil, Boy Scouts of America, will be held in
New York City, March 7. In addition to
the members at large, a list of which was
published at this time last year, each local
council should arrange for one representative
for the council and one for each 1000 boys
in its registration.
The date this year is three weeks earlier
than usual so that those attending the In-
auguration at Washington may attend the
National Council Meeting while on the same
trip East. However, because of this earlier
date it is necessary for local council officers
to get their annual reports in earlier than
they would by following last year's calendar
in order to have the satisfaction of a just
and up-to-date report of their share in the
national work.
It is needless to urge the value of a full
representation upon those councils which
participated in the last Annual Meeting,
deemed the most profitable in the ten years'
achievement of the Movement, yet a most
urgent and cordial emphasis upon the value
of the Annual Meeting may rightfully be
published to the hundred new councils of the
past year.
DECEMBER BROKE ALL
RECORDS
REGISTRATIONS and re-registrations dur-
ing the month of December totaled over
133,000 scouts—deluging the National Coun-
cil office with the equal of a third of a year's
registration work in the last month of the
extended time for re-registration at the old
fee. It is very gratifying to record that of
this number approximately 50,000 are newly
registered scouts. About 40,000 scouts took
advantage of the opportunity to re-registe.r
at the 25c rate and the balance were re-regis-
trations, including many troops which had
already been dropped from our records. The
new fee is 50 cents per boy, including all
boys—additional members of old troops as
well as new.
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