Scouting, Volume 11, Number 12, November 1923 Page: 1
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SCOUTING
NOVEMBER, 1923
Copyright, 1923, by Boy Scouts of America
VOL. XI. NO. 12
Our Objectives
WITH GRATITUDE, not with boasting, we remind
our 143,648 men that the Boy Scouts of America
is the largest and most efficiently organized volun-
teer agency in the United States for citizenship-training of
boys regardless of their race, creed, or station. Might it not
be a good idea for each one of us, and all of us collectively, to make sure we
are trying with all our might for the same objectives? For, as an Organization
—better still as a Movement—and as individual workers in that Movement,
we shall succeed in the proportion that all of us are faithfully seeking the same
objectives.
The major objectives of the Boy Scout
Movement are:
Do
unto
others
□ To promote, through organization, and
cooperation with other agencies, the ability
of boys to do things for themselves and
others, to train them in Scoutcraft, and to
teach them patriotism, courage, self-re-
liance, and kindred virtues, using the
methods which are now in common use by
Boy Scouts, by placing emphasis on the
Scout Oath and Law for character-develop-
ing, citizenship-training and physical fitness.
□ To reach, with a high quality of leader-
ship, the utmost number of boys.
□ To hold permanently in the member-
ship in some capacity every boy who joins
a troop.
□ To persistently enroll new scouts and
find places for them in troops.
□ To bring about the formation of new
troops in connection with responsible
institutions.
□ To secure steady advance by scouts
toward the rank of Eagle Scout.
□ To build up a strong, active older scout
and Veteran Scout constituency.
□ To capture the largest possible portion
of each scout's reading time with a reading
program, particularly Boys' Life.
□ To secure the highest degree of troop
efficiency through patrol organization.
□ To secure for every boy opportunities
for a large measure of educational and
recreational outdoor activities, particularly
hikes, overnight camps, and participation
in standardized Boy Scout summer and
winter camps.
□ To have every scout properly uniformed
as a help to him and aid in maintaining
public interest in him as a scout.
□ To secure for every troop the ad-
vantages of some form of local council
supervision.
□ To secure by means of training courses
a high degree of individual scoutmastership
ability.
□ To maintain conditions so that boys
actually intensely desire to be scouts, and
so that men are" willing to give volunteer
service as scoutmasters, assistant scout-
masters, troop committeemen and members
of local councils.
□ Last, but yet first, to promote the
Daily Good Turn and Troop Civic Service
and Community Betterment Good Turn.
WE ask each man, whatever his
relationship to the Movement,
to signify his attitude toward each of
these objectives by writing X for "yes "
in each square, leaving it blank for
"no," and afterward to place this
where it will remind him every day
of the standing objectives of the
Movement of which he is a part.
but other famous
men
Not only
Fairbanks
have given
their best for
boys
in the biff
December
BOYS' LIFE
You
can
if you
will!"
WE are very grateful for the splen-
did cooperation that is being
given by the entire Field, es-
pecially by scoutmasters and scout execu-
tives, in the plans to makfe Boys' Life a
more practical force in the program of the
Movement. This clearly indicates an
awakening to the vital need of capturing as
much as possible of the boy's reading
period with literature that he intensely
desires to read while at the same time clinch-
ing the work of the scoutmaster.
Editorially, we have abundant reason
for happiness in the progress of our plans.
Nothing but satisfaction awaits the Field in
the forthcoming issues of the magazine.
What is needed most of all is active co-
operation in getting the magazine regularly
into the hands of scouts and of boys who
are not scouts. This being the heaviest
subscription season for magazines, Boys'
Life, like others, faces the expiration of
many subscriptions, and it is important
that these should be renewed. A friendly
word to boys by the scoutmaster, perhaps
at the troop meeting, but preferably one by
one, calling attention to the splendid things
that are in preparation and already coming
through, and expressing the hope that the
subscription will be renewed, should prove
effective.
IN PARTICULAR we want every man's
help in the Big Effort to build up an
immense boy constituency at this time.
To maintain the high editorial plane which
we are reaching by the aid of the $100,000
gift, we must get the magazine upon a
paying business basis. This means sub-
scriptions sufficient in number to attract
advertisers. With a proper income assured
in this manner, we can realize our outstand-
ing purpose to so increase the quality and
attractiveness of the material in Boys' Life
as to maintain a condition which will
actually make boys to intensely desire to
read the magazine.
, We suggest three lines of effort on the
part of scoutmasters to help build up the
circulation of Boys' Life. First, is to see that
your newsstands have the magazine on
sale. We have been able to induce the
American News Company to handle Boys'
Life on a "returnable" basis. You are at
liberty to state this to your news dealers,
but do not let the idea run away with them.
They should order liberally but wisely.
Remember this—Every copy of the magazine
sold at the newsstand becomes a subscription
agent in the home.
Second, you can induce doctors, and
dentists, and other professional men who
have public waiting rooms, and also librar-
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