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THE INSPIRING WORDS OF PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT on the occasion
of the last meeting of the National Council bid us go forward: "I
firmly believe that the Boy Scout Movement represents a new era of moral
force in America."
• Boys have never needed Scouting more than they do today and there
is no reason to expect that they will ever cease to need it as long as man
lives in organized society. The past year closed with an increase of 25,779.
There were during the year 1,268,441 individual members on our records.
The whole record of 1933 is a strong testimonial as to the vitality of Scout-
ing as an agency for training youth in America.
• The thing that has been more impressive, perhaps, than the member-
ship figures is the evidence of the real interest and progress in the Ten
Year Program. This program is by no means merely for increasing the
membership of the Boy Scouts of America. It is a program for intensive
development for better quality and better Scouting resulting in longer
tenure for Scouts, and hence, more effective character building influences.
This Ten Year Program has truly captured the imagination of the Scout
Field.
• The leaders of the Boy Scouts of America have set up for themselves
a challenging task, involving the recruiting of a sufficient number of boys
at the age of twelve to make it possible in a ten year period to reach the
objective which is to get one out of every four 12-year-olds in Scouting for
a four-year period. Essentially this means the organizing and training of all
leadership resources in a way that will so improve the quality of Scouting
that the interest of the boys will be maintained so that they happily and
of their own free will carry on as Scouts year after year as members of
Patrols and Troops, not merely as registered members of the Boy Scouts of
America, not merely carrying on the activities of the Game of Scouting,
but actually because of the motivating influences in the Scout Oath and
Law, and the idealisms of Scouting, qualifying so that we can truly claim
them to be creditable products of the Game of Scouting.
• An important feature of this is our responsibility to the boys who live
in the open country. 40% of the boy population of America lives in com-
munities of less than 1,000 population and in the open country. It is neces-
sary for Local Council and Troop Leaders to understand and deal intelli-
gently with the problems involved in making Scouting available to boys in
these rural areas. The evidence is abounding that there are ways of
organizing Troops in such communities so that they last, and so that rural
boys in large numbers carry on year after year as satisfied members of
Patrols, Troops and Tribes.
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If I may therefore be permitted to offer my advice to the boys it is to 'play the
game' always; to subordinate the natural desires for personal distinction to the welfare
of the organization, society, or profession to which you may belong is to become an
efficient unit of your 'team'; and to stand up for what is right and condemn what is
wrong and let the consequences take care of themselves.
ADMIRAL WILLIAM S. SIMS
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TOTAL MEMBERSHIP
SERVED DURING 1933
BOYS
Troop Scouts .. 923,324
Sea Scouts 25,307
Lone Scouts .... 5,191
Total Scouts 953,822
Scouts were
Cubs . .. 3,168
950,654
Cubs 5x,884
Total Differ-
ent Boys. 1,002,538
LEADERS
Scouters 258,361
Cubbers 7,542
Total Differ-
ent Men. 265,903
Grand Total
Belonging ... 1,268,441
MEMBERSHIP
DECEMBER 31, 1933
936,902
(This includes duplicates
among the Scouters and
Cubbers.)
Now (April 30, 1933)
increased to 968,999
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