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Forget Them Not!
/\ NNUAL National Forget-Me-Not
Day will be observed Saturday, No-
vember 4th, under the auspices of the
Disabled American Veterans of the World
War. Mr. C. Hamilton Cook is the Na-
tional Commander of that organization,
with headquarters in the Bodmann Build-
ing, Cincinnati, Ohio. There are branches
everywhere throughout the country. The
active co-operation of all troops of Boy
Scouts has been promised, in the certainty
that all scout leaders will welcome the
opportunity. The only limitation placed
upon such co-operation is that Boy Scouts
cannot and must not solicit funds, as this
is contrary to the Constitution of the Boy
Scouts of America. Scouts, however, in-
dividually and by patrols and troops, can
render every other assistance in making
Forget-Me-Not Day a success. They can
help in making the forget-me-nots that
will be sold, proceeds going to the welfare
and relief of disabled and wounded veter-
ans of the Great War, to enable them to
rehabilitate themselves, establish clubhouse
headquarters, and maintain summer camps.
Our organization has been urgently re-
quested to help in every way. There is
printed matter to distribute, many errands
to run, especially on Forget-Me-Not Day,
visits of cheer to be made to disabled
veterans, and many other kinds of service
which will be pointed out by those in
charge of Forget-Me-Not Day in each
community.
Let's get into this! Get into this 100
per cent strong! Let every scout register
service on that day. Prompt, willing,
cheerful, efficient service. The cause is
worthy of it. Your scouts are worthy of
the trust reposed in them by invitations
of this kind to give service.
Regional Executives Confer
TAKING advantage of the fact that
the regional executives would be at
Blue Ridge, it was arranged to hold a
supplementary Conference of these execu-
tives, with the Chief Scout Executive, the
Deputy Chief Scout Executive, and some
of the heads of departments of the Na-
tional Office. This meeting was at Ashe-
ville, from September 19th to 22nd. Dis-
cussions had to do particularly with the
work of the regional executives in extend-
ing the Movement and maintaining existing
organization units. Among matters of
general interest was a determination to
make more use of planned publicity; de-
velopment of scoutmasters' conferences
and patrol leaders' conferences; aggressive
development of co-operation from public
schools; also of Sea Scouting; fixing
20,000 population as the minimum for the
organization of a new council and 20
troops as the minimum standard for a
first-class council; development of an im-
pressive program for presenting charters
to new troops not under council.
This number of Scouting having been
unavoidably delayed, will take the place
of both September and October issues, the
Field, nevertheless, receiving the same
amount of material, since this is a double
number.
SCOUTING, October, 1922
Veterans of Scouting
WE want the roll of Veteran Scouts
complete. It is an inspiration, an
incentive to every boy and man in the
Movement. Let your application for regis-
tration come in. To date, the roll shows
5,274 five-year men, and 361 ten-year
men!
The roll of the 10-year men begins with
Colin H. Livingstone, then come Daniel
Carter Beard, George D. Pratt, Frank
Presbrey, Mortimer L. Schiff, Hon. Wil-
liam Howard Taft, John Sherman Hoyt,
William D. Murray, Jeremiah W. Jenks,
Milton A. McRae, Benjamin L. Dulaney,
all but Mr. Taft being members of the
Executive Board. Several men at the
National Headquarters have been in serv-
ice 10 years and more. The Chief Scout
Executive is 'a 10-year man; Pirie Mac-
Donold of New York is another, and Rev.
F. D. Elmer of Poughkeepsie, Executives
W. W. Brundage, Buffalo, J. W. Patton,
Delaware and Montgomery Counties, A.
D. Jameson, Atlanta, Ga., and many others.
We wish we dared take space in Scout-
ing to publish the entire list; it would re-
quire over two pages solidly printed; not
practicable. We shall, however, try to find
space in future issues for the names of
newly registered Ten-Year Men. The
Five-Year Men are coming in too fast,
and perhaps presently the Ten-Year names
will come in too fast to permit of listing
them in Scouting. But "while the space
lasts," as it were, we shall publish the
names of newly registered Ten-Year Men.
For the month of October, the following
were registered:
Captain Francis Gidney, England; Honorary.
Arnold C. Sorenson, Asst. Deputy Scout Com-
missioner and Scoutmaster, Indian Orchard,
Mass.
John M. Woodbridge, Jr., Scoutmaster, New-
ton, Mass.
IN G
Published monthly for Officials and Leaders by
the National Council, Boy Scouts of America.
Entered as second-class matter April 19, 1913,
Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the Act
of August 24, 1912. Acceptance for mailing at
special rate of postage provided for in Section
1103, Act of October 3, 1917, authorized June 13,
1918. Also entered as Second Class mail matter
at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
OFFICERS OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL
AND EXECUTIVE BOARD
Honorary President: Warren G. Harding.
Honorary Vice-President: Woodrow Wilson.
Honorary Vice-President: William H. Taft.
Honorary Vice-President: Daniel C. fieard.
Honorary Vice-President: Wm. G. McAdoo.
President: Colin H. Livingstone, Washington.
Vice-President: Mortimer L. Schiff, New York.
Vice-President: Milton A. McRae, Detroit.
Vice-President: Benj. L. Dulaney, Bristol, Tenn.
Vice-President: Arthur Letts, Los Angeles.
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
Vol. X., No. 9 October, 1922
Copyright, 1922, by Boy Scouts of America
Remember the Chief Scout
Citizen!
/^"REAT MEN are given to the
world to inspire us all to be great
within our capacities. The oppor-
tunity to bring out the unexcelled qualities
of citizenship that exemplified the life of
Theodore Roosevelt, the first Chief
Scout Citizen, on the anniversary of his
birthday, October 27, 1858, will be made
much of throughout Scouting. It is
urged upon every local council and up-
on all scout leaders not under local
council to find a prominent place for
scouts in any public exercises of that
day, and where nothing of that kind
takes place to have the entire Scouting
community try to express the esteem
that all Americans have for the memory
of Roosevelt, in a fitting manner.
Special troop meetings on that night,
with invited parents and friends, to
bring out afresh to scouts and the
community the citizenship training pur-
poses and values of the Scouting Pro-
gram, would be excellent. Give promi-
nence to a large picture of Colonel
Roosevelt at troop headquarters. A
Round Table questionnaire between the
scoutmaster and scouts to bring out
their knowledge and appreciation of
Roosevelt's services to his country
would be valuable. Planting memorial
trees for decorative or utility purposes is
one of the best ways of observing the day.
It is a good date for investiture cere-
monies with a brief talk by a public
man and at which the fact that Roose-
velt overcame the physical handicap of
delicate health as a boy and by strength
of will and high ideals became what he
was, can be emphasized. The Boy
Scout Movement never had a more sin-
cere friend than Colonel Roosevelt, who
was the first Honorary President of the
Boy Scouts of America. It would be
most unfortunate if any Scout in the
membership should not have an oppor-
tunity October 27th to reaffirm in some way
his allegiance to the American flag and to
the Scout Law, as a tribute to the memory
of the first Chief Scout Citizen.
There are many excellent motion pic-
ture films about the late Theodore
Roosevelt, and scout leaders by speak-
ing to the managers of local motion
picture houses, well in advance, can un-
doubtedly influence the showing of such
reels on October 27th. Use of the radio
both for sending and receiving appropri-
ate quotations from and references- to
this great American will, of course, be
utilized.
As in former years, a pilgrimage by
scouts to the grave of Theodore Roose-
velt at Oyster Bay, L. I., will be ar-
ranged. Scouting units remote from
New York can send representatives to
participate with New York City Scouts,
or can arrange to be represented by
scouts or officials located in New York
City, for the purpose of laying flowers
at the tomb, by communicating with
the National Scout Commissioner, Dan-
iel Carter Beard, at 200 Fifth Avenue,
under whose direction the annual pil-
grimage will be made.
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