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Vol. XV, No. 6
Scouting
qA ^Magazine of Information for Scout Leaders
Published monthly by the National Council, Boy Scouts of America
JUNE, 1927
OFFICERS OF THE NATIONAL
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: William G. McAdoo.
President: Walter W. Head, Omaha.
Vice-President: Mortimer L. Schiff, New York.
COUNCIL AND EXECUTIVE BOARD
Vice-President: Milton A. McRae, Detroit.
Vice-President: Charles C. Moore, San Francisco.
Vice-President: Bolton Smith, Memphis, Tenn.
Vice-President: John Sherman Hoyt, N. Y. C.
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: Entered as second-class matter April 10, 1913,
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E. S. Martin—Editor Act October 3, 1917, authorized June 13, 1918.
Copyright, 1927, by Boy Scouts of America
Fifteen Years of Service
HP HE account of the nineteen scoutmasters who have for fifteen
years given service to boyhood through the Boy Scout Move-
ment forms one of the most humanly interesting records of Scout-
ing. We are publishing sixteen of their photographs on the
cover page, and three additional photographs received too late
to be included in this group appear with the records on page 5.
These records have been compiled from the material furnished
to us. We hope to publish others monthly as they are received
at the National Office.
Perhaps the most impressive feature of the testimony of these
men is their enthusiasm for the work, their unanimous assertion
that it has been well worth while, and that they want to give
fifteen years more. Significant too is the loyalty of their scouts.
The boys who were trained by these scoutmasters as recruits
fifteen years ago are leaders themselves, helping other recruits
today.
To these veterans the years of service, the discouragements,
the hard work, the few rewards and many disappointments mean
little. Theirs has been the high privilege to mould the characters
of their country's boyhood. The records of their years of service
are written in the lives "of hundreds of men whom their leader-
ship has guided, and through them upon thousands of lives whom
they shall never know.
Salute these veterans of the Boy Scouts of America! Our
Nation can display no more splendid achievement upon her
shining roll of honor.
Scoutmaster and the Annual
Meeting
HP HE Seventeenth Annual Meeting is now a matter of history.
Details of the event are published on pages 7 to 14. They
vitally concern you. Too often it happens that the individual
leader absorbed in the problems of his own troop and his own
community, overlooks the fact that Scouting is a National Move-
ment.
The National Council of the Boy Scouts of America repre-
sents your troop and thousands of other troops like yours, as the
Congress of the United States has a representative of every
citizen of the country. Every chartered institution has a repre-
sentative on the local council, and each local council sends its
delegate to the national council, so that your troop takes part
in the proceedings outlined. The Annual Meeting gives the dele-
gate from the local council in Maine a chance to talk Scouting
with the delegate from California. They see their policies more
clearly when they realize that they face the same problems. A
realization of the National importance of the Movement should
come from this Annual Meeting. It is only as scout leaders
acquire this sense of identification with something bigger than
one troop, only as they think in terms of a country-wide program
and service to the Nation that they can pass on to their troops
the true Spirit of Scouting.
Flag Day
JUST one hundred and fifty years ago on June 14th, the Flag
of the United States of America was adopted. Let us make
this anniversary memorable to the boys of America by special
Flag programs, a Flag drill, a short impressive talk by the
scoutmaster, a review of Flag history by the troop, a rededi-
cation to the highest principles of citizenship for which The
Flag stands. And let us not stop here; let us carry into the
daily activities of the troop, scout standards of respect toward
The Flag. The scout should be taught that his obligations are
the same in the short term camp as in the council camp, the public
square, or the city hall. The proper forms of respect to The
Flag are published in the Handbook for Boys, the Handbook for
Scoutmasters and in the official pamphlet, "A Code of The Flag."
The scoutmaster who is instilling love and reverence for The
Flag of the United States in his boys and helping them to keep
faith with all that our Flag stands for, is doing a great patriotic
service.
A Harmon Foundation Scout in
Your Troop
[OW many candidates is your troop presenting for the
Harmon Foundation Award? This offers a splendid oppor-
tunity to eagle scouts to secure higher education. Four eagle
scouts in each region will be chosen to receive the scholarship
fund of $100.00 each. See the Handbook for Boys (36 or 37
edition P 68 C) for details, or write the National Council Office.
Note that evidence must be submitted that the scout has been
in attendance at school for at least one year, that he has made
marked progress in his studies and that his deportment and
attendance have been above the average. Be sure to secure this
evidence from teachers before the close of school.
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