Scouting, Volume 6, Number 8, April 15, 1918 Page: 31
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BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
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An achievement button will be awarded
to every scout securing subscriptions from
twenty-five individuals, and an ace medal
when the achievement button winners have
secured an amount equal to $250.00 and a
palm for every additional $100 secured. This
campaign will continue throughout the year,
and it is hoped that the results will fully
justify the expectation of the Treasury De-
partment officials.
"Every Scout to Boost America"
ONE of the results of the marvelous success of the scouts in the two
Liberty Loan Campaigns was to cause numerous requests for their
services. Among these requests was one from the Committee on Public In-
formation, which was submitted by a letter from President Wilson as
follows:
THE WHITE HOUSE
Washington, December 3rd, 1917.
My dear Mr. Livingstone:
I desire to entrust the Boy Scouts of America with a new and important commis-
sion to make them the Government Dispatch Bearers in carrying to the homes of
their community the pamphlets on the War prepared by the Committee on Public
Information. The excellent service performed by the Boy Scouts in the past en-
courages me to believe that this new task will be cheerfully and faithfully discharged.
Sincerely yours,
(Signed) WOODROW WILSON.
Mr. Colin H. Livingstone, President,
National Council, Boy Scouts of America, Washington, D. C.
After careful consideration, a plan was developed whereby each en-
rolled member of the Boy Scouts of America was definitely appointed as
an aide to the Committee on Public Information and entrusted with the
responsibility of doing certain things as the Committee's representative, in
accordance with instructions worked out in a care-
fully prepared manual.
The first task undertaken was the distribution
of five and a half million copies of President
Wilson's Flag Day Address. This was done under
such conditions as to couple with the distribution
a personal appeal from the President of the United
States. The following letter from Mr. George
Creel, Chairman of the Committee on Public In-
formation, speaks for itself:
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