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SCOUTING, August, 1925
Certificate Requirement in
Purchasing Supplies
IT WOULD BE a refreshing bit of help
if scoutmasters would every now and
then remind their boys that the official
requirement that the membership certificate
shall be shown to the local outfitter every
time a scout purchases official equipment, is
not subject to ifs and ands. The scout who
tries to get the outfitter to waive the require-
ment because the certificate happens to be
back at camp, or anywhere but in his hand,
is not playing the game fairly. He puts the
outfitter to some embarrassment, for no
merchant wants to refuse to sell goods when
he has the opportunity, nor to seem dis-
obliging to a customer. But the outfitter
knows that HE MUST NOT VIOLATE
THE REQUIREMENT, and when a scout
asks him to, he wonders if after all "a Scout
is trustworthy."
Do not let that sort of thing happen.
Assure your boys that this requirement is in
their interests. The purpose is to prevent
the sale of official equipment to boys who
are not scouts. And experience has shown
that boys do try to purchase the uniform, or
parts of it, who are not entitled to own it, in
such numbers as to make the requirement
imperative.
THIS certificate requirement also helps
to establish THE OFFICIAL UNI-
FORM as the ONLY uniform a scout
should wear. The official uniform is pro-
tected by Act of Congress, and its sale is
protected still further by the certificate
requirement. It is all in the interests of the
boy and in the interests of the Movement.
Line your boys up for 100 per cent, observ-
ance of the certificate requirement.
TN THIS CONNECTION it is well to
keep in mind, and have the boys keep in
mind, just what parts of the equipment are
covered by the certificate requirement. The
restricted official scout equipment which
may not legally be sold to nor purchased by
a boy who does not show his unexpired
membership certificate in the Boy Scouts of
America, consists of the following: The hat,
breeches, shirt, shorts, belt, neckerchief and
neckerchief slide, including the outdoor
service outfit and V neck shirt and shorts,
scout mackinaw, sweater and haversack,
and all forms of the scout insignia which
definitely indicate membership in the
Organization. ALL OTHER ARTICLES
furnished by the Supply Department as
scout equipment, may be sold to any boy or
man. This provision is of genuine service
to all boys, who thus may benefit by the
activities our Supply Department in secur-
ing such articles at a maximum of quality
and a minimum of cost.
Governor Smith On Crime
Prevention
SPEAKING to 3,500 scouts at the
Greater New York Boy Scout Camps
at Kanohwahke Lakes, August 4th,
where he was present with 250 other guests
of Mr. Barron Collier, Vice-President of
the Boy Scout Foundation of Greater New
York, Governor Smith said:
"The one thing above all things that will
effectually prevent crime is the proper associa-
tions that you boys form through this Move-
ment, and the promotion of respect for law that
comes as a result of those associations."
This is an important statement to circulate
through newspapers at the present time,
in view of the wide discussion here and abroad
of the " crime wave" and preventive measures
that should be taken.
SCOUT CALENDAR
AUGUST 29, EVERY SCOUT A SWIMMER BY
THIS DATE.
SEPTEMBER 5-7, BIG DOINGS WEEK-END—
Good opportunity for all troops local jamboree
to celebrate close of summer camping season
and start of fall troop activities, school work,
community service. Outdoor troop meetings
to consider plans for the future.
SEPTEMBER 6, LAFAYETTE DAY—Where
observed with special exercises, scouts in uni-
form to lend their services as a Patriotic Good
Turn.
SEPTEMBER 7, LABOR DAY—Scout partici-
pation in local celebrations, with demonstra-
tions of scoutcraft and scout service. Good
day for special hikes, inviting as guests boys who
are not scouts, especially boys at work. Handi-
craft Good Turns are in order for this day.
SEPTEMBER 8, OPENING OF SCHOOL—
Whatever date schools open in your commun-
ity, try to have every scout who is still "in
school" present or accounted for. At preceding
troop meeting and in troop bulletins call upon
all scouts to bring honor to Scouting by their
school work and deportment throughout the
school year.
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| MESSAGES OF RELIGIONS 1
| Greece said: Be moderate; know I
| thyself.
| Rome said: Be strong; order
| thyself.
| Confucianism says: Be superior;
| correct thyself.
| Buddhism says: Be disillusioned:
| annihilate thyself.
| Hinduism says: Be separated;
| merge thyself.
| Mohammedanism says: Be sub-
j missive; bend thyself.
| Modern Materialism says: Be
■ industrious; enjoy thyself.
| Modern Dilettantism says: Be
| broad; cultivate thyself.
§ Christianity says: Be Christlike;
| give thyself.
—Rev. E. Stanley Jones.
| (In " Christian Leadershippub-
| lished by the Biblical Seminary in
| New York.)
SCOUTING
Published monthly for Officials and Leaders by
the National Council, Boy Scouts of America.
Entered as second-class matter April 10, 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: William H. Taft.
Honorary Vice-President: Colin H. Livingstone,
Washington.
Honorary Vice-President: Daniel C. Beard.
Honorary Vice-President : Wm. G. McAdoo.
President: James J. Storrow, Boston.
Vice-President: Mortimer L. Schiff, New York.
Vice-President: Milton A. McRae, Detroit.
Vice-President: Walter W. Head, Omaha.
Vice-President: Charles C. Moore, San Francisco.
Vice-President: Bolton Smith, Memphis, Tenn.
Nat'l Scout Commissioner: Daniel C. Beard.
International Commissioner: Mortimer L. Schiff.
Treasurer: George D. Pratt, Glen Cove, 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
William B. Ashley, Editor.
Vol. XIII., No. 7. August, 1925
Copyright, J926, by Boy Scouts of America
Good Ideas from a Scout
Annual
WRITING in Delaware and Mont-
gomery Counties 1924 Annual, about
his experiences abroad last summer,
Mr. Isaac C. Sutton, Scout Commissioner
for that Council, tells of meeting alert and
dependable' scouts whom he recognized by
their scout pins or uniforms, and who in-
variably recognized and returned his salute
and offered the left hand in the universal
scout handshake, and were glad to render
any small service they could. Mr. Sutton
concludes his report:
"It is a wonderful thing, this Interna-
tional Scouting. It makes us feel part of
a great world movement which is going to
help to do away with war. Every time
I came in contact with the scouts and scout
officials I felt a bond of friendship. After
all, the friendship among the different peo-
ples of the world and the understanding,
of one nation.by another is one of the great-
est incentives for peace." w
Elsewhere in the same report, we find
these helpful ideas:
"Scoutmaster, are you fit for the job?
Analyze yourself. What kind of a man are
you when in ordinary clothes? . . . Here's
the acid test. Are you the kind of a man
you want your scouts to be? If not, don't
drop the job. Get the vision and live up
to it. Remember—The Scoutmaster is a
commissioned officer—selected, approved,
trusted, commissioned."
"You have heard of the five-foot shelf of
books of culture. I recommend a five-inch
shelf for this great work, and three books—
The Bible, the Boy Scout Handbook and the
Scoutmasters' Manual."
Contest In Ship Modeling
THE FIELD will note that the compe-
tition in ship-modeling by scouts for
prizes offered by the American Marine
Exposition, announced in the July Scout
Executive and September Boys' Life, is
limited to scouts of the New York Metro-
politan area, chiefly because of the imprac-
ticability of scouts at distant points com-
pleting and entering their models before the
opening of the Exposition on November
6th.
The whole Field will be interested in this
competition because of the event itself, and
also because of what may possibly grow out
of it in a wider competition later on. In-
tense interest is already gripping scouts in
and around New York. The competing
models,, or the best of them, will form part
of a special Seascout exhibit at the Ex-
position, of unusual educational values to
the Movement. All Councils having official
connection and scouts in Bear Mountain
camps, Boy Scout Foundation of Greater
New York, are eligible. To secure exact
information address Mr. E. S. Martin at
the National Council office.
Persona Non Grata
SCOUT LEADERS will please note
that we are advised by the Director of
the International Scout Bureau that
"two Indians, Bapasola and Brumgara,"
are en route to America but are not scouts
nor entitled to recognition by the Boy Scouts
of America. In this connection, we again
call upon the Field to observe without devia-
tion the Safety First rule to withhold official
recognition from all strangers who fail to
satisfactorily establish their connection with
Scouting or their status otherwise by
questionable credentials.
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