Scouting, Volume 3, Number 15, December 1, 1915 Page: 2
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SCOUTING.
$200,000 CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED IN GREATER NEW YORK
tions of the greater city, are giving gratuitously
of their time as well as of their means in this
volunteer effort to finance this fine character-
building work for the next three years. We are
all busy men, but this work is worth while.
We offer you this opportunity to participate in
a work of which you are now proud if you are
acquainted with it, or will be proud when you
know more about it.
Six thousand boys are now getting the benefit
of Scout work in Greater New York. Five times
this number can and will be reached and helped
during the next three years. You will find a
self-explanatory subscription card and return
envelope attached to this folder.
How the Money Will be Spent
Accompanying the appeal is a detailed
budget, showing how the money will be
expended during the next three years.
This budget is as follows:
BUDGET FOR GREATER NEW
Items Manhattan Brooklyn Bronx
Executives, Field Workers and Office
Assistants $6,780
District Councils — 1,000
Rent, light and heat 600
Office Expenses 1,000
Traveling Expenses M00
Rallies
The City Officials Help
In response to a request from Judge
Franklin Chase Hoyt, Presiding Justice
of the Children's Court, and Dr. _ C.
Ward Crampton, Director of Physical
Education in the New York Public
Schools, General George W. Wingate,
President of the Public Schools Athletic
League, and others, the Acting Mayor of
the City invited three hundred or more
men to meet at the City Hall on Mon-
day, November 22, for a conference on
the boy problem in Greater New York.
This conference was attended by some
of the most representative and wealthy
men in the community. All present man-
ifested a genuine interest in the boy
problem in the Greater City. Among
other matters, the question of our atti-
tude on militarism was thoroughly dis-
cussed and the resolutions of the Exec-
YORK FOR THREE YEARS.
300
Contingencies 1®®
TOTALS W.780
$6,940
1,000
600
1,000
1,000
200
100
10,840
8,070
Queens
Richmond
$4,920
$2,520
1,000
300
500
600
750
600
1,000
600
200
100
100
100
8,470
4,820
$42,980
GRAND TOTAL, BOROUGH BUDGETS FOR YEAR 1916 $42,980
Advisory Committee appropriations:
Camp expenses
Extension work M50
Accounting, publicity and contingencies • 3,850 ^
Grand total first year's budget (1916)....
Grand total second year's budget (1917) ••••• 67,408
Grand total third year's budget (1918) 70,47^
GRAND TOTAL FOR THREE YEARS' WORK IN GREATER NEW YORK $199,160
utive Board passed at its October meet-
ing were accepted as a satisfactory set-
tlement of the controversy.
Citizens Committee Proposed
The meeting unanimously voted to re-
quest the Mayor to appoint a Citizens'
Committee to co-operate with the Advis-
ory Committee of the New York City
Scout Councils. Among the names sug-
gested for appointment on this commit-
tee are included the following: Robert
Adamson, Fire Commissioner; Vincent
Astor, August Belmont, Gordon Knox
Bell, George Gordon Battle, George B.
Cortelyou, Cleveland H. Dodge, Francis
P. Dodge, Stuyvesant Fish, Jr., Elbert
H. Gary, Bishop David H. Greer, Mar-
cus M. Marks, Borough President of
Manhattan; Lewis H. Pounds, Borough
President of Brooklyn, William A. Pren-
dergast, Cornelius Vanderbilt.
Campaign Expenses Paid in Advance
One of the very interesting features of
the financial campaign which should be
clearly understood by all is that the
committee has planned so that all of the
expenses of the campaign will be taken
care of by special contributions which are
being made specifically for that purpose.
This is done in order that it may be
truthfully said that every cent contrib-
uted as a result of the efforts of the
members of the campaign committee will
be used exclusively for the purpose of
the budget, which is made the basis of
the appeal.
Mr. Alexander J. Hemphill, the Presi-
dent of the Guaranty Trust Company,
has consented to serve as treasurer of
the special fund.
TOLEDO CAMPAIGN ON
Local Officials Working to Provide
$6,000 Budget for the Coming
Year
Local scout officials in Toledo, Ohio,
are now engaged in a vigorous financial
campaign to provide a budget for the
coming year. The dates of this cam-
paign are December .1 to 4. A budget
of $6,000 is needed to run the Move-
ment during 1916.
The Toledo campaign is being con-
ducted by the Toledo officials without
any outside assistance. An unusually
large amount of excellent publicity work
is being done, several of the Toledo
papers carrying a whole page announce-
ment of the Boy Scout Movement and
the effort to provide funds for local
scout work. #
Scout Executive J. St. Clair Menden-
hall has every confidence that the cam-
paign will be a significant success, for
the citizens of Toledo have been given
striking evidence of scout progress and
efficiencv. During the past year, or since
November 1, 1914, the number of active
troops, has increased from four to twen-
ty-two and the number of active scouts
from 211 to 791. On November 1, 1914,
there was one scout for every 948 per-
sons in Toledo and in November, 1915,
there was one scout for every 253 per-
sons. These figures do not include new
troops now organizing, which give 300
additional scouts.
As a result of the financial campaign,
Toledo scout officials hope that the bene-
fits of Scouting will be extended to 1,000
more boys during the coming year.
Labor Men Endorse Stand on
Militarism
Labor men in all sections of the country
are taking a keen interest in the attitude
of the Boy Scout Movement on the ques-
tion of militarism, as set forth in the
resolution passed by the National Educa-
tional Association, and published in the
November 1st issue of Scouting.
The following letter has been received
from Theodore Debs, brother of Eugene
Debs:
Please allow me to acknowledge the receipt
of your favor of the 8th inst., addressed to
my brother, who will gladly give the same his
careful consideration. He has been long ab-
sent on a speaking tour in the Eastern states.
The endorsement given you and your or-
ganization by the National Educational As-
sociation is certainly a matter of deep interest
and of gratification.
Another letter bearing on the same sub-
ject has been received from Van Bittner,
President of the United Mine Workers of
America. Mr. Bittner's letter is as fol-
lows :
Your favor of November 4 received and
contents carefully noted, and I am certainly
pleased with the resolution passed by the Na-
tional Educational Association in its last
convention, relative to the attempt to mili-
tarize this country, and I certainly hope if
this is the policy of the Boy Scouts of America
that it will not only continue, but a re-
newed eifort be put forth to keep our country
in a state of peace.
Mr. John H. Nicholson
(Continued from page 1)
About fifteen years_ ago, he became con-
nected with the National Tube Company
and was given charge of the operations of
all the seamless tube mills owned and con-
trolled by that company. He is now Sec-
ond Vice-president of the Shelby Steel
Tube Company.
From its inception in Pittsburgh, Mr.
Nicholson has been connected with the
Boy Scout Movement and has been active
in scout affairs for the last two and one-
half years. His work with the boy scouts
has been more along the line of business
organization than that of actual work with
the boy. He has actively participated in
the endeavor of the Boy Scout Council,
of Allegheny County, to make an efficient
business organization of the Allegheny
County Council.
Mr. Nicholson has been one of an earn-
est group of men in Pittsburgh who have
recognized the value of scout training and
who have been untiring in their efforts to
bring its opportunities to the boys of Alle-
gheny County. His business and organiz-
ing ability, together with his intimate
knowledge of the problems of Scouting,
make him a valuable member of the Execu-
tive Board of the National Council. His
services to the Movement in this larger
field are certain to be effective.
The Boy Scouts of Portsmouth, Ohio,
rendered distinctive service during the
Korn Karnival held recently. Their ac-
tivities brought the highest praise from the
people of Portsmouth and the Mayor of
the city sent them a word of appreciation.
For Buffalo's First Class Scouts
Scout Executive W. W. Brundage of
Buffalo is always planning something new
to keep the Buffalo scouts up on their toes.
His latest stunt was a "Clam Chowder
Fest." This stunt was open only to First
Class Scouts.
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