Scouting, Volume 23, Number 5, May 1935 Page: 16
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SCOUT
FI ELD
MEMBERSHIP FIGURES
FEBRUARY 28th
1935 1934
Scouts
(All Classes).... 700,779 674,313
Sea Scouts (In-
cluded Above) .. 19,414 18,616
Lone Scouts (In-
cluded Above) .. 3,666 3,298
Scouters (Net) .... 213,697 203,302
Cubs 45,831 35,499
Cubbers (Net) .... 9,520 5,960
Grand Total
(Net) 969,827 919,074
Grand Total
(Gross) 1,004,269 950,502
Meeting, an outstanding event in
Scouting history.
ANNUAL MEETING OF
THE NATIONAL
COUNCIL
AS announced, the Annual Meeting
of the National Council will take
place on May 16th and 17th, in Chi-
cago. The headquarters will be the
Stevens Hotel. A program of unusual
interest has been planned. Outstanding
speakers will include the Honorable R.
A. Nestos, formerly Governor of North
Dakota, and for 8 years an active
Scouter; he is especially interested in
the Rural Program and has designed
a unique method for training Rural
Leaders; Dr. Louis L. Mann, Rabbi
of Sinai Congregation, Chicago, for-
merly lecturer on Comparative Ethics
at Yale University and an outstanding
Jewish leader, he is greatly interested
in Scouting as a character training
program; Glenn Frank, the well-
known lecturer and writer, he was a
member of the group headed by ex-
President Taft that drafted the cove-
nant for the League of Nations and
has written many articles in the fields
of politics, business, education and re-
ligion.
Like last year, discussion groups will
be an important feature of the pro-
gram. The Annual Banquet will occur
on Thursday Evening, May 16th. Fri-
day evening will be given over to a
gigantic Circus where the delegates
will be the guests of the Chicago Coun-
cil. The railroads have made very at-
tractive rates. All Scouters are invited.
Be sure your Council sends a delegate.
This is the Twenty-Fifth Annual
Page Sixteen
C. J. Atkinson
CHRISTOPHER J. ATKINSON,
pioneer publisher and sponsor of
nation-wide Boys' Club activities, died
April 5th. He was Executive-Secretary
of the Boys' Club of America, Inc., for
seventeen years. While Chairman of
the Boys' Work Committee of the New
York City Rotary Club in 1920, he
originated Boys' Week. During his term
of office as Executive Secretary of the
Federated Boys' Clubs it increased from
60,000 members to 250,000.
Frank F. Gray
BOLTON SMITH
BOLTON SMITH, a Vice-Presi-
dent of the Boy Scouts of Ameri-
ca, was an important factor in the de-
velopment of Scouting in America. He
passed away on March 27th and will
be deeply mourned not only because of
the splendid work that he did, but be-
cause of his own genial and lovable
personality.
He was Chairman of the Inter-Racial
Committee and a member of the fol-
lowing National Committees — Divi-
sional Committee on Program, Divi-
sional Committee on Operations, Com-
mittee on Education, Committee on
Relationships. He had been a member
of the National Executive Board since
1918, but his Scouting interests dated
long before that time.
In 1927, in recognition of his out-
standing work for Negro boys, he was
awarded the Silver Buffalo, with the
following citation:
"BOLTON SMITH, banker,
worker in the promotion of better
inter-racial understanding. Vice-Presi-
dent of the National Council and mem-
ber of its Executive Board since 1918.
He has rendered an ardent service to
the boys of the South through Rotary
and Scouting. He has been associated
with Scouting as Member of the Mem-
phis Local Council, as Chairman of the
Fifth Regional Committee comprising
the States of Tennessee, Mississippi,
Louisiana, Alabama and Arkansas and
as member of the National Executive
Board. H is enthusiasm and initiative
are responsible for the activity in inter-
racial Scouting."
FRANK F. GRAY, who organized
one of the first Troops of Scouts in
this country, and who has been active
in the Movement from the very begin-
ning, passed away on March 27th. He
was a Scout Executive and a Scout Com-
missioner, and one of the founders of
the Boy Rangers Program for Younger
Boys. He did pioneer work in younger
boy programs, as well as in Scouting.
He was also strong in his leadership of
older boys, and his camp was noted for
the group of older boys who attended.
bet BO\ S LIFE Help Your Troop Program
GENERAL PERSHING
ENDORSES SCOUTING
SCOUTS and Scouters who were
fortunate enough to see the inter-
esting newsreel of General John J.
Perishing and a selected group of Scouts
will no doubt wish to have in per-
manent form the record of his address.
We are therefore reprinting it.
"I am very happy to congratulate the
Boy Scouts of America on their
Twenty-Fifth Anniversary. I consider
that Scouting is doing a splendid job in
training American boyhood. It is not a
military program and I would not
make it military, as I have stated be-
fore, if I could. It is doing the right
thing by our American youth in build-
ing strong bodies and fine character and
promoting good will not only in our
own United States, but among the
peoples of the world.
"I am especially happy over the great
National Jamboree Camp which has
been announced by President Roosevelt
to be held in Washington, D. C., this
summer. They tell me that 30,000
American boys will take part, coming
from every nook and cranny in this
country and that Scouts from foreign
countries have been invited. What a
wonderful force this will be to develop
friendliness, understanding and good
will. These boys will have an oppor-
tunity to camp and work and Scout
together for ten days, and I am confi-
dent that in many cases life long friend-
ships will be founded.
"I congratulate the Boy Scouts of
America on its program for the promo-
tion of good will and trained citizen-
ship."
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