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SCOUTING
Published semi-monthly by National Headquarters, Boy Scouts of America
For Scout Officials and Others Interested In Work for Boys
VOL. VI
NEW YORK, AUGUST 1, 1918
No. IS
FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN CALLS HUGE
ARMIES OF SCOUTS TO ACTION AGAIN
Tentative Announcement of Opening in September Should Stir Nation's Boyhood—Treasury
Department States That the Plans for New Financial Drive Will Be Radically
Different—Plans to be Announced Later.
OUR fighting forces have demonstrated their efficiency.
The U-boats are still active, but with the aid of our
Navy they are being destroyed faster than Germany can
build them. Germany herself appears to have given up hope of
preventing American men, food and equipment from reaching our
allies.
United States Army engineers have completed, in less than a
year, port facilities on the French coast which the French esti-
mated would require seven years in the building.
Men and supplies are being landed in France so rapidly that
French railroads and those built and equipped by Americans to
relieve the pressure are worked to capacity.
Our army on the western front has marvelous motor equip-
ment. Men, guns, munitions and even horses are shifted from
position to position with such rapidity that the Hun multiplies
his estimate of our forces.
Our aircraft, manned by American aviators, are an increasing
factor, as the Crown Prince has learned to his deep sorrow.
America is about to have an aviation force greater than all the
allies combined.
Soldiers The spirit of our warriors is as great as their
Eager to material resources. Men of the transport and
Get to Front armed guard service, returning from frequent
trips to European ports, report the insistent eager-
ness of our soldiers to get to the front. Duty out of hearing of
the guns is reckoned the greatest hardship.
The whole great system is in the hands of leaders who, in
spite of the many sudden and drastic orders which the needs
of the hour have compelled them to give and enforce, find a
larger and more enthusiastic following as the conflict develops.
So closely articulated is the whole nation into one great war
machine that the critics and slackers are as isolated and impotent
as calves bellowing in the path of a lightning express.
Democracy is fast developing efficiency in finance, production
and conservation equal to the best methods of the unlimited one-
man power of autocracy.
Now comes the Fourth Liberty Loan Campaign. Not a new
experiment, like the first one in June last year, but an established
system, tried and proven good for all concerned.
The tentative announcement sets Sept. 28th as the date for
the opening. The Boy Scouts of America will do their share as
before. The Treasury Department states that plans for the new
financial drive will be radically different from any used before.
But it wants the co-operation of the Scouts and will make a
specific request in the near future.
Our Part It is our part to Be Prepared. We will continue
to Be to Do Our Good Turn Daily by selling Thrift
Prepared Stamps to every man, woman or child who has a
quarter—and "big ones" to those who have more
money. But we will keep our ears open for the call of our Presi-
dent for definite service in the Liberty Loan Campaign and be
ready when it comes.
August 1, 1918
Mobilization plans have been practiced until they move like
clockwork. Every Scout knows his place and his work. The
veteran campaigner has instructed the Tenderfoot. No longer
do we start the game with the gabble and gush of the backwoods
ball field. When the bugle sounds we will wheel into our sector
like our boys at the tip of the Soisson-Rheims salient in France.
We'll hit the Kaiser a smash that will hurt him like the breaking
of the point of the Crown Prince's wedge at Chateau Thierry.
No power can long resist the combined strength of America and
our allies. Recent successes in France have inspired Italy with
new courage to press on to another victory. No doubt they
will help the Russian situation. As the Kaiser's hopes crumble,
one by one, ultimate victory for humanity and democracy become
more certain.
Nothing but failure over here could prevent complete triumph
over there. Every dollar raised in the Fourth Liberty Loan
Campaign will count. It will raise the morale of our forces abroad
as well as that of our allies. It will dishearten the Hun.
Now is the time to perfect all the details of our organization,
strengthen the morale of our troops of Scouts and train them to
the minute.
Again let the Scout Oath be fulfilled.
Scout Officials
Confer on Fourth
Liberty Loan
The Treasury Department's request for the
participation of the Boy Scouts of America
in the Fourth Liberty Loan Campaign was
received a month earlier than expected.
This was due to the decision of the government to open the drive
late in September instead of in October, as had been planned.
But the call found National Headquarters and the field prepared.
At a conference of the National Headquarters staff it was de-
cided that a conference of Scout Executives should be called
even though camp duties and vacations would make attendance
inconvenient and difficult.
The Treasury Department had requested that the Chief Scout
Executive go to Washington, prepared to state the sentiment
of our organization, on Thursday, August 1st, less than a week
after the call was received. It was necessary therefore to have
the conference not later than Tuesday, July 30. It was called for
that date and all Scout Executives who were near enough to
National Headquarters to reach it at the appointed time were
invited to be present. At the same time an effort was made to
secure the sentiment of those in more remote fields and of the
Scoutmasters and other officials who are not under councils.
Present at conference July 30th, 1918:
Mr. C. A. Worden, Scout Executive, Queens Boro, N. Y.; Mr.
K. S. McLean, Scout Executive, Atlantic City, N. J.; Mr. R. W.
Seamons, Scout Executive, Providence, R. I.; Mr. J. Kulp, Scout
Executive, Jersey City, N. J.; Mr. C. Russell, Scout Executive,
Poughkeepsie, N.Y.; Mr. George Rugg, Scout Executive, Worces-
ter, Mass.; Mr. H. A. Gordon, Scout Executive, Philadelphia,
Pa.; Mr. N. P. Randel, Scout Executive, Stamford, Conn.; Mr!
D. Gulick, Scout Executive, Scranton, Pa.; Mr. F. Virgin, Scout
Executive, Harrisburg, Pa.; Mr. W. E. Dorland, Scout Execu-
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