Scouting, Volume 11, Number 5, April 1923 Page: 2
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SCOUTING, April, 1923
New Member of the International Committee
AT THE International Conference On Scouting held in
Paris last Summer, a permanent committee to be
known as the International Committee to -represent all
nations in Scouting, was created.
Mr. Mortimer L. Schiff, recently designated as Inter-
national Commissioner for the Boy Scouts of America, is
a member of this International Committee. At a recent
meeting of the Executive Board Mr. Frank Presbrey was
elected to serve on that Committee in the place of Hon.
Myron T. Herrick, Ambassador to France, who is unable
to serve. Mr. Presbrey has been a member of our Execu-
tive Board since the date of organization, and is Chairman
of the Sub-Committee of the Executive Board and Chair-
man of the Committee in charge of Boys' Life, besides
being active in the Organization in other ways. Mr. Pres-
brey is head of the advertising business which carries his
name, and the author of several outdoor books and ar-
ticles, a man of world-wide acquaintances and business
contacts. The International Committee is composed of
Frank Presbrey
nine men, all prominent in the Boy Scout Movement in their own countries.
A National Good Turn
ONE of the greatest problems confronting
our country is the preservation of its
forests. The original forestry areas of
822,000,000 acres have been reduced to
about 463,000,000. Three-fifths of the
timber originally in the United States is
gone. In the five years 1916-1920, there
were 160,000 forest fires that burned over
more than 56,600,000 acres of forest, caused
the death of hundreds of people and destruc-
tion of homes and wild animals. Enormous
quantities of timber are cut for necessary
commercial purposes, and the great problem
is to keep the forests renewed by new plant-
ings and to prevent their waste by fire. t
Because of the situation, President
Harding has issued a proclamation in which
he says:
THEREFORE, I, WARREN G. HARDING, President
0! the United States, do urge upon the
Governors of the various States to designate
and set apart the week of April 22-28, 1923,
as Forest Protection Week, and wherever
practicable ~nd not in conflict with State
law or accepted custom, to make Arbor
Day fall within the same week; and to
urge citizens, teachers, officers of public
instruction, commercial and other associa-
tions, and the press to unite in thought and
effort for the preservation of the nation s
forest resources by conducting appropriate
exercises and programs and by publishing
information pertaining to the waste from
forest fires and ways of preventing or re-
ducing such losses, in order that our forests
may be conserved for the inestimable
service of mankind.
THROUGH the Forest Service the De-
partment of Agriculture asks for co-
operation from every scout troop and
every scout in the observance of Forest
Protection Week and in forest conservation
continuously. The Department states that in
some places Boy Scouts have practically
handled the Forest Protection Week activities.
It is suggested that scout officials take the
lead in every community in putting before
the people the need for forest protection by
arranging for talks in schools, theaters, and
before business clubs; holding parades;
bringing the subject up in the homes and
among friends; outdoor demonstrations in
building camp-fires and how to extinguish
them; educational talks at troop meetings.
The time is short in which to make ex-
tensive preparation, but the invitation of
the Forest Service gives every troop an
opportunity to make some contribution of
service during Forest Protection Week of
which every scout leader should vigorously
avail himself
What a Scoutmaster Can
Do in April and May
1. Make sure every scout intends to stick.
2. Pass at least one boy of each scout rank
into the next higher.
3. Start the week-end hike habit.
4. Get scouts busy earning and saving up
their camp money.
5. Offer the troop's services for one Good
Turn to the community—Sick Tree Census,
Unsanitary Menaces, Walk-Rite Campaign,
or other.
6. Help troop observe Mothers' Day.
7. Participate in local Memorial Day cere-
monies.
8. Bring about and participate in a Scout-
masters' Round Table for mutual helpfulness
and sociability.
9. Conduct one Parent-Night Troop Meeting.
10. Secure a larger percentage of daily Good
Turns from his scouts.
11. Add one brand new scout to the move-
ment.
12. Spend one hour a week, at least, in self
instruction on scoutcratt and boy leadership.
When Scouting Brings Life
SOMETHING perhaps in a way more im-
portant than camping, comes to our thresh-
old with spring this year, an opportunity
for Boy Scouts in America to demonstrate
the spirit of Scouting that is within them.
There are over 60,000 orphan boys in
Armenia, 15,000 of them of scout age.
The representatives of the organization
"Near East Relief," which is administering
the gifts of America for the building up of
Armenia, say that the best thing that can
happen to these boys and to their stricken
country is that they become scouts.
Already there are some four thousand
Boy Scouts in Armenia. Others are asking
to join. To encourage these scouts and, in
short, in many cases to clothe them, they need
uniforms. Not necessarily new uniforms.
They can get along with second-hand coats
and shorts and all the rest of the equipment.
They can make out with other things per-
taining to scouting that have been pretty
well used. Why not send a shipload of scout
stuff to Armenia from the Boy Scouts of
America?
THE Near East Relief makes an urgent
appeal to us for help. Let us do this and
do it right. Our scouts will meet the situa-
tion as splendidly as they have met emergen-
cies here that called for self-sacrifice, IF
YOU WILL GIVE THEM THE LEAD.
Before, they have helped men, women and
children,_now they are called upon to help
scouts, boys who are just like themselves,
excepting that they have been crushed with
suffering.
Obviously, new scout garments, or money
with which to purchase them, will be even
more welcome than worn garments. What-
ever any troop or patrol or individual scout
or scoutmaster can do, let it be done
promptly, and sent direct, all carrying
charges fully prepaid, to the National
Headquarters of Near East Relief, 151 Fifth
Avenue, New York City, or preferably to
the Near East Relief Committee or State
Headquarters nearest to you. Green ship-
ping tags can be obtained on request of the
National Headquarters.
"What Else Did Father Do?"
UNDER this suggestive title, in an arti-
cle in December Scribner's, Edward
Bok, former editor of The Ladies'
Home Journal, brings directly to the
attention of every man who is making a
success of his business or profession, the
just claims Which that man's community
has upon him for service for the common
good. Without the support which the
community has given to his efforts, the
business man or the professional man could
not have succeeded. The son of such a man
in conversation admits that "Dad" had
been a success in business and made a lot
of money, "But what else did father do?"
he wants to know. The question gets right
home to every man who is taking something
out of the community and not putting as
much back; business or professional ser-
vice does not square the debt. Only by
giving of the same quality of business and
professional service to some form of civic
betterment work, will Dad square himself
in the eyes of the present generation of
children who want to know what else
besides sticking to business did father do.
Mr. Bok's story should be brought to the
attention of every man whose services are
needed for the development of the local
scout work. We are trying to arrange for
a reprint of the article on some basis to
make it available to the Field. Mean-
while, we recommend that scout executives,
and presidents, at any rate, of local councils,
read that article for themselves; it can be
found in any library if not in bookstores or
upon the home reading table. It is great
"selling talk" for Scouting.
Let's help add thousands of these Armenian
boys to the World Brotherhood of Scouts
Why let one boy fall out of a life-boat in order to lift another boy in? SAVE BOTH!
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