Scouting, Volume 47, Number 7, September 1959 Page: 3
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CONTRIBUTORS
W. Cleon Skousen
From lawyer to FBI
agent to top lawman
in Salt Lake City
ought to be career
enough, but this man
has become a top-
flight author, too.
See page 4.
Lawrence P.
McDonough
Was a Scout at the
first world jamboree
in England in 1920.
We like his ideas
on Scout financing.
See page 24,
NATIONAL OFFICERS
Dwight D. Eisenhower
HONORARY PRESIDENT
Ellsworth H. Augustus
PRESIDENT
Arthur A. Schuck
CHIEF SCOUT EXECUTIVE
ADVERTISING OFFICES
New York, 2 Park Avenue, LExington 2-0985
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Boston, Door Associates, 80 Boylston St.,
Liberty 2-6684
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2412 W. 7th St., DUnkirk 2-6254
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ice, SCOUTING magazine, New Brunswick, N. J.
Just a Letter from a Boy
Just a letter from a boy in a little town in Wisconsin.
A town of 190 people.
The boy wrote, "How do you get to be a Boy
Scout?" and mailed it to the "Boy Scouts of America,
Washington, D. C." Someone there sent it to the
National office, and someone here sent it to the Wausau
Council in Wisconsin, and it reached District Execu-
tive Lee Crail's desk, along with a lot of other letters,
announcements, and reports.
Lee says that he took care of the "more important"
(or more pressing) correspondence and put the boy's
letter aside for a while. Finally he wrote the lad and
told him that he was too young to become a Boy Scout,
but that the council would help start a Cub pack if
there were any adults that would help.
The boy didn't sleep much the night after he got
the letter, and the next day he showed it all around
the school. You can guess the result—every boy in
school wanted to be a Scout.
So the word got to the parents in a big way. Some
of them met with a man from the district committee;
organizing and training meetings were set up for the
parents, and in no time there was a Cub pack and a
Scout troop.
Every boy in the community is now in Scouting.
That isn't all; a minister in a neighboring rural com-
munity heard about what had happened, asked for
help, and started a pack.
Just shows what can start from one boy's plea for
a chance to become a Scout—when it reaches the
right hands.
There's one thing that worries me though, and I
suspect it does you—how about the boys who won't
think about writing to say, "How do I get to be a
Scout?" They want, and need, Scouting just as much.
And some of them live on your street!
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