Scouting, Volume 23, Number 5, May 1935 Page: 4
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MEMBERSHIP SERVED
IN 1934
1,323,819 different per'
sons identified ivith Scout-
ing in its various branches
during the year.
73,008 Cubs ami Cub-
bers
1,048,811 Scouts and Cubs
275,008 Volunteer Lead-
ers in Cubbing
and Scouting
Grand total Member-
ship on December 31,
1934, including some men
serving in more than one
ca pacity— 1,004,2 6 6.
32,813 Grand total of
organization units on De-
cember 31 St.
6)530,330 Members of
Scouting, Sea Scouting,
and Cubbing since 1911.
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IN MAKING AVAILABLE the well-known McKenzie statuette of a
Boy Scout, the Chief Scout Executive remarked, "It will serve to
remind us that in all our thinking and all our planning we should keep
in mind, first, last and all the time—the boy. It will be to us a reminder
of the nearly million boys who are in all parts of America eager to
carry on as members of the Boy Scouts of America and that we,
because of our part in carrying on the Scout Program, are in a very
definite way contributing to the success of Scouting."
• It is because of what it means, translated into terms of boyhood,
of joy and satisfaction in the game of Scouting, of character building,
of citizenship training, that the membership record for the year 1934
gives basis for rejoicing.
• During the year, 1,323,819 different persons were identified with
Scouting in its different branches. Included in this number are I 15,122
who were related to Cubbing. 1,048,811 different boys were either
Boy Scouts or Cubs. 59,835 different men and boys were Cubs or
Cubbers. 275,008 different men served as leaders in Cubbing and
Scouting.
• On December 31st, 1934, the grand total membership of the Boy
Scouts of America reached a new high peak of 1,004,266, including
30,677 who have more than one commission.
• The Boy Scouts of America have every reason to feel proud of the
principles of the Ten Year Program now in its third year of operation.
At a time when other organizations were resigning themselves to a
period of retrogression, when educational systems were retrenching
and industry was stilled, we threw a challenge into the teeth of the
depression by this Ten Year Program. Instead of retreating, we
ordered an advance. We issued the challenge of attracting and main-
taining the interest of at least one-fourth of the boys in America for
a period of four years so that one in every four new male citizens
within the period of the decade will be a four year Scout-trained man.
This will be the contribution of Scouting to the American people.
I wish to congratulate the Boy Scout Movement upon the splendid and useful
service it has performed for the boys of our country during the past quarter of a
century. I have observed the beneficial effects of the high ideals held before those
boys who are members of Scout Troops and I know that the training given the
Sc«uts has been such as to stimulate their patriotism, to strengthen and build up
their characters, and in general to make them better citizens.
JAMES A. FARLEY
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