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SCOUTING, JUNE 26, 1919
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—Photo Detroit 13, (c) C. E. S.
THE national campaign will bring to the Boy Scouts of America a host of
associate members. Among these will be many potential leaders, men who
should be scoutmasters, local council members, troop committeemen, members
of courts of honor, leaders in troop and council activities. If To permit these
men to come into the organization without planning to conserve their interest by giv-
ing them something to do would show as poor judgment as purchasing motive power
for a railroad with no rails in sight. If Now is the time to discover the leaders. Our
scout trail leads first to the father. We can be sure that he is interested in at least one
boy and that boy's gang. He knows where youngsters like to go, what they like to do,
what they need that the home cannot supply. The fathers should be the first to receive
the invitations to become active members of the Boy Scouts of America. II When
each man's possibilities have been studied, he should be fitted into the working force
wherever he belongs. If The Chief Scout Librarian has been a keen observer of fath-
ers. He is one. He says the backbone of the strongest scout organizations is the
father who has a son in a troop. Hon. Newton D. Baker, Secretary of War, is father to
a scout. President Colin H. Livingstone's son, a scout, ran the tractor which plowed
the Washington scouts enormous war garden. Bolton Smith, and G. Barrett Rich,
Jr., of the Executive Board of the National Council have sons who have done notable
things for their scout troops. Scouts' fathers cannot forget scouting, for they have it
for breakfast, dinner and supper. If Check up the fathers now, while outdoors calls
them.