Scouting, Volume 2, Number 10, September 15, 1914 Page: 4
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SCOUTING.
SCOUTING
FUBLISHED SEMI-MONTHLY BY NATIONAL HEAD-
QUARTERS, BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA, FOR SCOUT
OFFICIALS AND OTHERS INTERESTED IN
THE BOY SCOUT MOVEMENT
OFFICERS OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL AND
EXECUTIVE BOARD
Honorary President: Woodrow Wilson.
Honorary Vice-President: William H. Taft.
Honorary Vice-President: Theodore Roosevelt.
President: Colin H. Livingstone, Washington.
Chief Scout: Ernest Thompson Seton.
Nat'l Scout Commissioner: Daniel C. Beard.
Treasurer: George D. Pratt, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Chief Scout Executive: James E. West, N. Y. C.
Office of Publication: 200 Fifth Avenue,
New York City.
Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office,
New York, N. Y., under the act of
August 24, 1912.
The Baltimore Celebration.
Just as Scouting was going to press re-
ports began to come in from Baltimore
concerning the work of the Boy Scouts
during the centennial celebration of the
writing of " The Star Spangled Banner,"
which was held in that city from September
6 to 15. These reports arrived too late to
include them in this number of Scouting.
An effort will be made to give an adequate
report of the Baltimore celebration in the
number for October 1.
VOL. II. SEPTEMBER 15, 1914. No. 10.
AN ENCOURAGING SPIRIT.
THE following letter from Hunter C.
Sledd, a Scoutmaster of Richmond,
Va., is typical of a number of letters
which we have received from Scoutmasters
in regard to re-registration, which will start
on October 1:
"It is the desire of my troop to be the first in
this State, and, if possible, the first in the country,
to re-register for the coming year.
"Will you kindly furnish me with detailed in-
formation as to how the registering is to be done
this year, and state what will be the earliest date
on which we may forward our registry sheet?
"We will appreciate your co-operation in help-
ing us to accomplish our purpose."
Wants Sea Scout Reports.
Mr. Arthur A. Carey, Chairman of the
National Committee on Sea Scouting,
writes from the Boy Scout ship Pioneer, at
sea between Provincetown and Marblehead,
that the last cruise of the Pioneer for this
seaon is drawing to a close and that he is
planning to publish, in the same way he did
last year, a report of all the Sea Scouting
activities during the past summer. He re-
quests that sea Scoutmasters and all who
have material to submit on Sea Scouting
for publication in such report send it in
not later than October 1.
STRETCHERS FOR RED CROSS.
Scoutmaster Suggests That Scouts Help
to Supply Them.
An unusually timely suggestion has been
sent to the Headquarters office by Scout-
master Charles O. Wright, of Troop 4,
Ridgewood, N. J. An appeal has been
made by the Red Cross Society for 10,000
stretchers, and Mr. Wright suggests that it
would be a fine thing for Scout Troops to
donate at least a part of the stretchers
needed.
"This seems to me," says Mr. Wright,
" to be in accord with our good turn, and
it would afford the world a good oppor-
tunity to see that the Scouts are helpers
rather than warriors."
All troops interested in this plan should
correspond with the National office of the
Red Cross Society in Washington, D. C.
It is most encouraging to know that the
field is responding so promptly and enthusi
astically to the registration plan. It is this
sort of spirit on the part of the Scout men
in the field which will make the Movement
most effective.
NEW SLIDES AVAILABLE.
Three Sets Are Received from the
Geological Survey.
ATIONAL HEADQUARTERS has
received from Mr. George Otis
Smith, Director of the United States
Geological Survey of the Department of
the Interior, three sets of lantern slides.
These slides have been presented to
National Headquarters because of the fact
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PRAISES SCOUTS' EFFICIENCY.
Master of Cape Cod Pageant Compli=
ments Boy Helpers.
W/1LLIAM CHAUNCEY LANGDON,
master of the recent pageant at Cape
Cod, has written to National Headquarters
and complimented the Boy Scouts who as-
sisted in that important event. Mr. Lang-
don's letter is as follows:
"My Dear Mr. West:
" I want to call your attention to the ex-
cellent and helpful work done by a number
of Boy Scouts in this recent pageant of
Cape Cod. They were members "of the
Tiger Patrol of Onset, Mass.; of the Ware-
ham Patrol and the Tiger Patrol of Sand-
wick, Mass., and came with Mr. Bigler, of
Wareham. Some of them assisted me very
efficiently as my aides during the pageant
THE G. A. R. ENCAMPMENT.
ONCE more the Boy Scouts have shown
their effectiveness in an important
way. The work of the Scouts at the
National Encampment of the Grand Army
of the Republic, recently held at Detroit,
Mich., has aroused that whole city to a
realization of the true principles and value
of the Boy Scout program. The city is
almost unanimous in its praise of the
Movement. This demonstration of Scout
efficiency undoubtedly will result in an in-
crease both in numbers and effectiveness of
the Detroit organization.
all parts of the country. The slides are
now available for the field at the usual rate,
that is, three cents per slide for the first
day of use and two cents for each day
thereafter, transportation charges to be
paid by the parties to whom the slides are
sent.
The first set of slides consists of views
illustrating camp life and the work of the
surveyor in the field. The second set is
educational in character and includes forest
scenes, volcanoes, examples of wind and
water erosion, ocean pictures, rivers and
scenes of glaciers and arid regions. The
third collection is made up of attractive
scenes from all parts of the United States,
ranging from the White Mountains in New
Hampshire and the Blue Ridge of North
Carolina to the celebrated National Parks
of the West. Complete descriptions of each
set have been received from the Geological
Survey and will be sent out with the slides.
Orders for these new slides will receive
prompt attention.
and at the distant telephone station behind
the scenes. They also took part in the
pageant, representing the work of the Boy
Scouts in first aid and in a prompt and
spirited rush to the rescue when the forest
fire broke out, which latter incident was in
charge of the State l ire Warden. They
were at all times gentlemanly and efficient,
a credit to the organization and a good
sample of its manly ideals."
THE SCOUTMASTERS' COURSE.
THE first article in the training course
for Scoutmasters will be found on
page six of this issue. It is important
that Scout Officials begin their study of
the course with the very first number.
This course is the same one which has
been so popular with the Scoutmasters in
England. It fits the fundamental principles
of Scouting so well that it has been neces-
sary to make very few changes to adapt
it to the work in the United States. It
is hoped that the course will greatly in-
Woolen Stockings Arrive.
The Supply Department at National
Headquarters is glad to announce that or-
ders can now be filled for woolen stockings
recently withdrawn from sale because manu-
Reproductions of Poster Available.
In response to a number of requests,
National Headquarters has made arrange-
ments so that Scout Officials can obtain a
reproduction in color of the Boy Scout
bill poster which has attracted so much
favorable attention in all parts of the coun-
try. The reproduction is an exact copy of
the big poster and is attractively framed
with a glass and a white mat. The poster
without the frame measures 3x6%
inches. With the mat and frame the pic-
ture is 6% x 10 inches. The framed poster
will be sent any Scout Official, postpaid, on
receipt of 50 cents.
The National Council of the Boy Scouts
of America has received the following note
from President Woodrow Wilson in re-
sponse to the message sent to him soon
factured abroad and unavailable owing to after the death of Mrs. Wilson:
the war. The price remains as formerly $1.25 " The President deeply appreciates your
per pair. Many will be interested in a new
woolen puttee which has just been perfected,
after many experiments, for the National
Guard and U. S. Army. This puttee is made
of specially prepared cloth and can be
secured at $1.25 a pair. They are being used
message of sympathy and begs that you
will express his sincere gratitude to those
associated with you."
The Supply Department of National
Headquarters has added to its lists of sup-
extensively by officers of the National Guard plies a stock of khaki thread. This thread
, „ . , , _ _ „ . , at the present time and are highly recom- }s designed especially for mending Scout
crease the efficiency of the Scout Officials mended by Scout Officials who have ex- uniforms and can be had at 10 cents a
in this country. perimented with them. spool.
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