Scouting, Volume 30, Number 10, November 1942 Page: 2
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America Needs More Scouts
By Arthur A. Schuck, Director, Division of Operations
BOY SCOUTS
OF AMERICA
1^0 meet the greater calls to na-
tional service facing the Boy
- Scouts of America, and to do our
part in preparing America's youth
for the jobs ahead of them, it is
imperative that every Troop and
Pack be at full strength, and that
new Troops and Packs be estab-
lished wherever possible.
In existing Troops, a replacement
should be recruited for each older
Scout who "graduates," and every
Troop with adequate leadership
should undertake to add members
at the rate of at least one new boy
for every Patrol, Similarly, every
Cub Pack with adequate leader-
ship should undertake to add new
boys at the rate of one in each
Den before December 31.
If your Troop has already parti-
cipated in its annual Inventory and
Roll Call, you will know how many
new candidates you need to bring
your membership up to full
strength. If you have not yet taken
your Inventory and Roll Call,
now is the time to recruit new
members and present a health-
ier picture when that event
does occur.
Now that we realize we need
more Scouts, how do we go about
getting them? Do we just stop a
youngster on the street and ask;
"Hey, bud, do you want to be a
Boy Scout?"
No, let's not do the job so hap-
hazardly. Three out of every four
boys want to be Scouts and it is
more advisable that we reach these
three through some dependable
plan,
A Recruiting Plan
A recruiting plan is no more
than a business-like method for re-
cruiting boys as they reach the age
of twelve. It has two essentials.
The first is getting from school
records the name, address, and
birthday of every eleven-year-old
THIRD ANNUAL
TROOP INVENTORY AND ROLL CALL
FOR SERVICE
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OFFICIAL BLANK FOR INVENTORY AND ROLL CALL
ROLL CALL ASSIGNED TO
MEETING PLACE ADDRESS
DAY OF MEETING
boy in the community. Many Coun-
cils make a point of doing this for
every District in their territory
and furnishing the information to
Troop Scouters, In other cases, a
Troop or group of Troops in a com-
munity get the information them-
selves from school officials,
The second essential is to see
that every eligible boy is invited
to a Troop meeting soon after his
twelfth birthday and that he finds
the Troop something he desires to
join,
This second step, of course, is
the most important, The first step
is worthless if someone does not
actually contact the boy and his
parents. The boy should fit natur-
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