Scouting, Volume 3, Number 15, December 1, 1915 Page: 12
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SCOUTING
AT NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS- REPORTS AND NOTICES
Book Department
In connection with the plans for "Safe-
ty First Juvenile Book Week," a rather
unusual opportunity has been offered to
our Library Commission. The John
Wanamaker store of New York City has
very generously offered the use of their
auditorium for three meetings, to be held
Thursday, Friday and Saturday, during the
week of the campaign, Nov. 28-Dec. 4.
The meeting on Thursday will con-
vene at 2:30 with Mr. Claude F. Leland,
Superintendent, Bureau of Libraries,
New York Board of Education, presid-
ing. Everett T. Tomlinson, Ph. D., the
popular author of historical stories for
boys, will deliver an address on the im-
portance of boys' reading during the
early 'teen age.
On Friday, at 2:30, with Mr. Edward
F. Stevens, Librarian, Pratt Institute
Free Library presiding, Thornton W.
Burgess, creator of the "Quaddies" and
author of a series of boy scout story
books, will deliver an address. On both
of these days, there will be music ap-
propriate to the occasion and a demon-
stration of scout activities by troops of
Greater New York.
On Saturday, there will be two pro-
grams, one at 11:00 in the morning and
the other at 2:30 in the afternoon. At
11 o'clock, the presiding officer will be
William D. Murray, Chairman of the
Editorial Board of the National Coun-
cil, and addresses will be given by Na-
tional Scout Commissioner Daniel Car-
ter Beard and Chief Scout Librarian
Franklin K. Mathiews. Besides the spe-
cial music and the demonstration of
scout activities, there will be present a
number of the popular authors of boys'
books. The following authors have al-
ready consented to be present: Ralph
Henry Barber, Everett T. Tomlinson,
Joseph A. Altsheler, William Heyliger,
Alfred Bishop Mason, Joseph B. Ames,
Irving Crump, Paul Tomlinson, Percy K.
Fitzhugh, Thorton W. Burgess and
Daniel Carter Beard, with many others
to hear from.
The meeting in the afternoon at 2:30
will be more particularly for children.
Mr. Walter P. McGuire, Editor of our
Boys' Life Magazine, will preside, and
Thornton W. Burgess, author of the
"Bedtime Story Books" and the "Moth-
er West Wind Why" stories will, in his
own most winning way, tell stories to
the children. During the hour, there will
be special music and a demonstration of
scout activities.
It is hoped that scoutmasters in Great-
er New York and the towns and cities
thereabout, will bring to the attention of
the parents of their boys these special
meetings in the interest of our "Safety
First Juvenile Book Week." Announcement
has been made by the Advisory Committee
of Greater New York that there will be no
rally on Saturday afternoon. Scout offi-
cials in the Metropolitan district, therefore,
are urged to bring to the attention of their
boys the fine opportunity afforded them
of visiting the Wanamaker Auditorium
on Saturday, where Mr. Beard will speak
and where_ there will be afforded the
great privilege of meeting personally
their favorite authors?
Department of Fquipment
and Supplies
Scout officials who have had occasion
recently to order supplies or equipment
from National Headquarters may have
noticed, when their package arrived, that
it bore a little diamond shaped label,
printed in red, with the words, "Rush
Service" and the further explanation that
"This parcel was shipped the day your
order reached us. Any delay will be due
to transportation."
The label is rather inconspicuous, for
modesty's sake, but its presence on the
package is important to the recipient,
for it means that the Supply Depart-
ment has lost no time in shipping what
was requested.
During the three days before Thanks-
giving, the records show that over 75
per cent, of the orders received bore
the little "Rush Service" label.
Scout officials and others will make
possible the use of these labels on every
order not calling for something which
has to be made to order, if they, them-
selves, will make sure that the few nec-
essary regulations are complied with.
It is failure to observe these which, in
the majority of cases, prevents the im-
mediate handling of orders by the Sup-
ply Department. Use of official order
blanks wherever possible is recommend-
ed. Ordinarily, at least one order blank
is enclosed with every letter and package
going out from the Supply Department.
If you order your supplies in a para-
graph in a letter having to do with two
or three other matters which have to
pass through various hands, it may mean
that there will be delay in turning your
communication over to the Supply De-
partment for attention. Another source
of delayed handling of orders is failure
properly to identify what is required by
omitting catalog numbers or sizes of gar-
ments. All too frequently, scoutmasters
in cities where there are local councils,
forget to have their orders counter-
signed by the authorized representative
thereof. Attention to these details and
a close following of the supply catalog
will greatly expedite the handling of or-
ders for supplies.
3. If the scoutmaster is available for
further service he is invited to organize
another troop; if not, to become a scout-
master unassigned until he is ready to
re-enter the active service.
4. In case of the removal of the
scoutmaster, he is given the name and
address of some scout official in his new
location and the scout official is request-
ed to get in touch with him.
Scores of appreciative letters have
been received showing the helpfulness of
this service.
The Record Department is glad of this
opportunity to call this service to the
attention of the field, for there may be
many officials who, like Mr. Templeton,
had never been informed of its existence.
Editorial and Publicity
Record Department
Scoutmaster Irving R. Templeton, of
Buffalo, N. Y., suggests the organiza-
tion of a department at National Head-
quarters for the purpose of following up
competent scoutmasters who remove
from one field to another.
Such a department already exists, one
man having been detailed to this work
more than a year ago. When Head-
quarters is notified of the resignation of
a scoutmaster the following steps are
immediately taken:
1. Information is secured as to the
man's record and his availability for fur-
ther service.
2. His troop is provided with new
leadership, if possible, through the local
council, troop committee, or others who
are interested.
We would like to call the special at-
tention of scoutmasters to the picture
contest announced in the December
number of Boy's Life. We are par-
ticularly anxious to make a good show-
ing of "Good Turn" pictures in the Feb-
ruary number. Photographs submitted
for this issue should be in our hands not
later than Dec. 20. A prize of five
dollars will be awarded for the best
"Good Turn" picture received and prizes
of one dollar will be awarded for every
other picture used on the "Double Page"
display.
Let every scoutmaster call this matter
to the attention of his boys, so that our
February display of "Good Turns" may
be really distinctive.
This issue of Scouting—sixteen pages
—contains an unusually large amount of
material that can be turned to good ac-
count both as publicity and educational
matter.
It is suggested that scout officials
make it a point to bring to the attention
of the educators of their cities the arti-
cle on "The Educational Aspects of the
Boy Scout Movement."
For short, human interest "filler"—
something that is always in demand in
newspaper offices—the reports of good
turns will be found most helpful. We
believe that hundreds of editors would
be glad to have these items called to
their attention. And the Movement can
have no better publicity than these re-
ports of the interesting and helpful
things our troops actually are doing.
A scoutmaster in Ohio recently sent
to the Publicity Department a collection
of clippings taken from his local papers
and suggested that we write to the edi-
tors and express the appreciation of the
National Office for the splendid publicity
they are giving to the Movement.
We were glad to act upon this sug-
gestion, not only because it afforded us
an opportunity to express our apprecia-
tion, but because it afforded us further
opportunity to place in the hands of
these men a mass of information con-
cerning the Movement, to which previ-
ously they had not had access.
The Publicity Department will be glad
to perform a similar service for any other
men who write and request it.
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