Scouting, Volume 20, Number 3, March 1932 Page: 63
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MARCH, 1932
Vol. XX, No. 3
Copyright, 1932
by Boy Scouts
of America
A Magazine of Information for Scout Leaders
Participating Citizenship
-Prosperity
IN the present vast emergency, Boy Scouts have again been
called upon for service. They have been asked by Mr.
Henry J. Stevens, Jr., National Commander of the Am-
erican Legion, to participate in the project which the Legion
has inaugurated in connection
with the Association of Na-
tional Advertisers, American
Federation of Labor and others,
to attempt to find employment
for the thousands that are now
idle. This program goes fur-
ther, as outlined, and proposes
the re-establishment of public
confidence and the resumption
of normal buying. These are
fine purposes in which we can
thoroughly cooperate.
The American Legion has or-
ganized 10,800 community com-
mittees. The leadership of the
local American Legion Post
Commanders and the combined
forces of the American Legion,
the Association of National Ad-
vertisers and the American Fed-
eration of Labor are behind the
project. In connection with these local organizations Boy
Scouts should render an especially fine and high type of
community service.
By the time Scout Leaders read this, the campaign will be
in full swing. Each community has been organized into a
district industrial unit so that every employer of labor will be
contacted. A team has been assigned to each district. The
American Legion is asking that each employer add one or
more persons to his payroll, inasmuch as 999,999 other em-
ployers are being asked to do the same thing. Other plans
will follow, but the first object is 1,000,000 new jobs. If
each community is successful, there is no doubt of the success
of the whole campaign, and by the middle of March, 1,000,000
wage earners hitherto unemployed will be back at work.
WHAT a wonderful opportunity for Scouts! In this
connection we can recall with pride our record of fine
service made during the war. At the time of the Liberty
Loan campaigns, Scouts were not permitted to undertake pro-
motion at the beginning of the drives, lest their efforts handi-
cap the adults who were handling the work. Only after it
seemed that all the subscriptions that could be secured had
been turned in, were these boys called upon. As "gleaners
MARCH, 1932
★
We have enlisted
in the war against
depression
$
ONE MILLION MEN
BACK TO WORK
after the reapers," in the farm Liberty Loans they sold 1,867,047
subscriptions, amounting to $278,744,650, together with War
Savings stamps to the amount of $42,751,031.25. They dis-
tributed over 30,000,000 pieces of government literature.
They located 20,758,660 board
feet of standing walnut. They
rendered invaluable services to
the Red Cross, the War Work
Commission and other national
organizations, serving the gov-
ernment, and performed count-
less other services too numerous
to mention.
This record made by Boy
Scouts fourteen years ago is a
challenge to Scouts today. Is
their patriotism, their spirit of
service the same in 1932 as in
1918?
This campaign can have tre-
mendous citizenship training
values. The New York Times,
in an editorial of February 9
on the work being done by the
Legion comments:
"Here is another illustration
of WILLIAM JAMES' moral equivalent of war: an ac-
tivity in which soldiers and laymen alike may serve their
country by performing disagreeable duties—even if they are
not perilous—and making real sacrifices in order to restore
unemployed men and women to hopeful existence. The Legion
has the approval of the President in this campaign."
LET every Boy Scout Troop join in this War on Depression.
Get in touch with your Local Council office at once, and
offer the services of yourself and your Troop. As Mr. Stevens,
the National Commander who is himself an active Scoutmas-
ter of a Troop in Warsaw, N. C. delivered the matter to
Dr. West, Scouts can render outstanding service in many
ways. They can assist in activities for which wages cannot
be paid, and for which no funds are available, may act as
messengers, as aides in the local offices and in the distribution
of literature and gathering of data after school hours and
on Saturdays.
Let every Scout make it his personal responsibility to get
into this great work and help in his own or someone else's
family. This is an opportunity for the youth of the Nation
to show its strength for Prosperity.
Is Your Council Tied Up With This Campaign?
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