Scouting, Volume 3, Number 22, April 1, 1916 Page: 82
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REPORT OF THE^COMMITTEE ON SCOUT SUPPLIES
Submitted by Frederick N. Cooke, Jr., Secretary.
IT is a fact which cannot be emphasized too often that a uniform and
equipment of any character is entirely optional with each member
of the scout organization. The Committee on Scout Supplies has
kept this axiom constantly before it with the corollary principle that the
purpose of National Headquarters in handling equipment and supplies is
primarily to render service to the scout public. Since the earliest days
of our existence when it became evident that there was a common call
from many scouts and their leaders for a serviceable uniform, a knife,
an axe, a simple cooking outfit and various badges of membership, the
committee has made as the sole test of the proposal to add a given new
item to this list, the question, "Is there a sufficient demand and need
for it from within the organization?" In this way, article after article
tending to increase the enjoyment and benefit from the scout program
has been added. The Department of Equipment and Supplies publishes
a general catalog, a copy of which is sent to scouts and leaders as they
become registered, and to others interested who may request.
Efforts Toward Increased Efficiency.
As the number of items handled has increased, an effort has been
made to develop commensurate efficiency of operation of the depart-
ment. Perhaps the greatest single factor conducive to increased effi-
ciency on the part of the Supply Department was the securing early in
the year just ended of an entire floor in a neighboring building for the
reception, storage and shipment of all uniforms and equipment listed in
the catalog—-with a few exceptions determined by expediency. This
move made possible absolute independence of manufacturers of scout
equipment who previously in some instances had made shipments for us
because of lack of space for the department's operations. The new
division handled successfully the heavy demands of the summer and
Christmas seasons.
An adequate force to care for the business of the department has
been employed so that the practice may be continued of filling on the day
of receipt all orders properly authorized unless supplies made to order
or special handwork are called for. Ordinarily all orders received at
National Headquarters up to three o'clock in the afternoon are de-
spatched on the same day unless the person placing the order has (1)
failed to respect some necessary regulation or formality, (2) failed to
give sufficient information to permit efficient interpretation of the order,
or (3) failed to make proper cash remittance.
Scout officials who have had occasion recently to order supplies or
equipment from National Headquarters may have noticed, when their
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Boy Scouts of America. Scouting, Volume 3, Number 22, April 1, 1916, periodical, April 1, 1916; New York, New York. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth282801/m1/84/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Boy Scouts of America National Scouting Museum.