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SCOUTING, September, 1923
A Scout of Two Countries
CAPTAIN FRANCIS GIDNEY has re-
turned to England at heart a member
of the Boy Scouts of America as well
as of the British Boy Scout Association.
Captain Gidney was tendered a farewell
luncheon by the Chief Scout Executive, on
which occasion his ears were burned close to
his head by remarks from the heads of dif-
ferent departments. The "Skipper" has
brought the two countries closer together in
scouting. He has enriched our own scout
work and declares he is taking back to
England many valuable ideas gathered from
his visits in various regions and at the Na-
tional Office. He has made some specific
contributions of service also, by which we
shall all benefit eventually, and about which
announcement will be made in due time.
Captain Gidney has unofficially become a
Friend-at-Large of the Boy Scouts of Amer-
ica, even as he proved himself while here a
most loyal-hearted member of the British
Boy Scout Association.
Second International Boy *
Scout Jamboree
ALL that can be said at this moment is
that Copenhagen, Denmark, has been
selected as the place, and August 10,
1924, as the date. How many days will be
devoted to the Jamboree, and what limita-
tion will be made upon the number of dele-
gates, cannot yet be announced. We shall
want a strong contingent of scouts to go
from America chosen solely and absolutely by
some standard of individual merit. The mere
possibility of being chosen as a delegate
should stimulate the ambition of every
scout. It is none too soon to get the troop
talking about this coming event upon which
the eyes of the whole world will be turned
in 1924.
Prizes Offered to Boy Scouts
A TOTAL of $180 has been offered in
prizes to boys by Boys' Life for
the best letters or essays on two
subjects, one having to do with the Bok
Peace Award, and the other "How I Earn
Money to Help Me Through High School
and College." As a boy may earn a $50
award under these offers, this is something
well worth while. Scoutmasters may want
to encourage their boys to tackle this propo-
sition with vim. The conditions are very
simple. Manuscripts must be within 500
words, typewritten or legibly written on one
side of the paper only, sent folded or flat,
not rolled, fully prepaid postage, the full
name and address of the writer and, if a
scout, his troop number in the upper left-
hand corner, and no manuscript to be re-
turned to the writers, the essays on the Bok
Peace Award to be on the topic "Why The
Boy Scout Movement Is Best Able To Bring
About World Peace" and mailed addressed
to the Boys' Life Bok Peace Contest
Editor, 200 Fifth Avenue, New York, in
time to be received by 12 o'clock noon,
October 31st, and the essays on money for
school work to be addressed to the Boys' Life
School Contest Editor, in time to be received
by 12 o'clock noon, December 15th.
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"There is on earth no finer law upon
which society can base its future con-
duct than the Twelfth Scout Law,
which sets in motion a force directly
opposed to intolerance."—Newspaper
quotation from speech by the Chief Scout
Executive.
SCOUT CALENDAR
FROM THIS DATE UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE—
Energetic cooperation "with American Red Cross for
Japanese relief. Also wise planting of roadside, deco-
rative and utilitarian trees wherever possible, includ-
ing Harding Memorial Trees in appropriate spots.
OCTOBER 7-13, FIRE PREVENTION WEEK—
Practical demonstration of 9th Scout Law, cooperation
with agencies interested in fire prevention.
OCTOBER 12, COLUMBUS DAY—Patriotic troop
meetings. Investiture of new scouts. Enter upon new
plans for Winter activities.
OCTOBER 27, ROOSEVELT DAY, ALSO NAVY
DAY—Pilgrimage to Roosevelt's grave. Memorial
hikes and meetings. Read to troop article in October
Boys' Life by Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Assistant
Secretary of the Navy. Furnish local press with ex-
tracts of that article, in time to be printed by this date.
NOVEMBER 2, TROOP MEMORIAL MEETINGS
TO THE LATE PRESIDENT HARDING—Or on other
date selected by local officials. Other boys, family,
friends and public invited.
NOVEMBER 6, ELECTION DAY—All-day hikes.
Tests for advance in rank. Court of Honor meetings.
NOVEMBER 11, ARMISTICE DAY—Attend church
services as troops in uniform. Participate in local
exercises.
NOVEMBER 11-17, "CHILDREN'S BOOK WEEK"
—A nation-wide event in the interest of good reading
for youth. Enough said!
NOVEMBER 29, THANKSGIVING DAY—Annual
Big Good Turn to the needy and the helpless.
THE BOY SCOUT ASSOCIATION
25, Buckingham Palace Road,
London, S. W. I.,
17th, August 1923
Dear West:
Thank you very much for your letter of
the 2nd of August. In the name of the Boy
Scouts of Great Britain I want to express our
.most grateful appreciation of the resolution
passed at your great meeting of the National
Council in July. It was an unexpected
pleasure and honour, so far as I personally am
concerned, to have been thought of in this
generous way; and we all are more than glad
that Captain Gidney's visit should have
been so welcomed by your Association.
I do sincerely hope that we may have the
pleasure of welcoming some of you over here
before long, and am looking forward at any
rate to the International Conference next
year as likely to attract a good many of your
leaders over to this side.
Meantime, anything that we can do to
promote our common interests and to ce-
ment the comradeship and good feeling
between our respective rising generations,
we of the British Association will gladly do.
And I mean this, not as a mere polite
form of words but as an expression of what
we over here desire in our hearts.
Yours truly,
Robert Baden-Powell.
SCOUTING
Published monthly for Officials and Leaders by
the National Council, Boy Scouts of America.
Entered as second-class matter April 19, 1913,
Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of
August 24, 1912. Acceptance for mailing at special
rate of postage provided for in Section 1103, Act
of October 3, 1917, authorized June 13, 1918.
OFFICERS OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL
AND EXECUTIVE BOARD
Honorary President: Calvin Coolidge.
Honorary Vice-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.
Vice-President: Mortimer L. Schiff, New York.
Vice-President: Milton A. McRae, Detroit.
Vice-President: Benj. L. Dulaney, Bristol, Tenn.
Vice-President: Walter W. Head, Omaha.
Vice-President: Charles C. Moore, San Francisco.
Nat'l Scout Commissioner: Daniel C. Beard.
International Commissioner: Mortimer L. Schiff.
Treasurer: George D. Pratt, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Chief Scout Executive: James E. West, N. Y. C.
Office of Publication:
Boy Scouts of America
The Fifth Avenue Building, 200 Fifth Avenue
New York City
Vol. XI., No. 10. September, 1923
Copyright, 19SS, by Boy Scouts of America
When to Put Out a Fire
THE week of October 7-13 is to be
devoted, by those chiefly concerned, in
persuading the public that the best
time to put out a fire is before it starts. In
other words, this is Fire Prevention Week.
Fortunately, considering how short a notice
we are able to give the Field, a scout is
always prepared for an emergency. He is
prepared for the emergency of fire, and for
the emergency of a sudden call to carry on
in a Fire Prevention Week. Let's do our
best, every one of us, to demonstrate Boy
Scout efficiency, and at the same time let us
make sure that all scouts have an oppor-
tunity during this week to learn a little
more about the duties and responsibilities of
citizenship.
Manufacturing Scout
Publications
ONE of the most interesting phases of
scout work at National Headquarters
in the Fifth Avenue Building, 200 Fifth
Avenue, New York, is the Department of
Scout Publications. Few scoutmasters and
scout officials have any real conception of
the magnitude of this work. For example,
Boys' Life, our monthly scout maga-
zine, with its monthly edition exceeding
100,000 copies, requires the constant work
not only of the editorial and art staff, but
of the business and manufacturing ends as
well. Beginning on the 20th of each month
and running continuously until the 20th
of the next month, the manufacturing end
is setting type, making plates, correcting
proofs, doing press work, binding and
mailing. It requires a full carload (about
40 tons) of paper for each edition of Boys'
Life.
The most popular book publication con-
nected with the scout movement is the
"Handbook for Boys," a 528-page book,
of which fully 200,000 copies are manufac-
tured and sold each year. More than two
carloads of paper are required for the an-
nual output of this handbook. The two
house organs, Scouting and The Scout
Executive, are published monthly to
help all scout officials and require editorial
and art men, besides the manufacturing.
Once a year or more often, are published
new editions of the "Handbook for Scout-
masters," and " Community Boy Leader-
ship: A Manual for Scout Executives."
Beside these publications the Editorial De-
partment is constantly issuing new merit
badge pamphlets and revising the merit
badge pamphlets already published, as
well as numerous other booklets.
This brief resume of the activities of
the Department of Publications and the
Editorial Department is published at this
time in order that scout officials and
friends of the Boy Scout Movement gen-
erally will keep us informed of the printing
facilities in their home cities, so that such
printers as are interested may have an
opportunity to bid on work pertaining to
our scout publications. We always invite
competitive bids and such bids, where
facilities and service meet our require-
ments, govern the awarding of all contracts
for printing. Through our scout officials
we are always glad to get in touch with
competitive printing and binding estab-
lishments desirous of doing our work.
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Have you held on to your round-up gains ?
Have you stopped up all troop leaks ?
Are you finding something for your "grad-
uates" to do for the troop ?
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