AMERICAN BOY SCOUTS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 169, 6 April 1918, Page 10

AMERICAN BOY SCOUTS

Letters from President Wilson and from William G. M'Adoo, Secretary of the Treasury, were made public recently, endorsing tho plans of tho Boy Soouts of America to ''increase the organised boyhood" of the country by means of a campaign to raise £150,000 and to organise a Scout Leaders' reserve corps of 100,000 men, states the New York "Evening Post" of January 18. The Federation of Councils in session in New York voted to devote the week of February 15 to 21 to a campaign for 400 volunteer scoutmasters, and to raise £50,000 as Greater Now York's share. "The fine efficiency of the Boy Scouts of America must, of course, he maintained," reads the President's letter, received by Colin H. Livingstone, head of the National Council of the Scout organisation. "The Army and Navy have drawn • heavily upon the ranks for men, who have gone forth very gladly to make, if need bo, the supreme sacrifice. Men are needed, as a consequence, as scout masters and leaders to take their places. Money is needed, moreover, to build this efficient unit of the national service up to full strength. "I hope that all who can make gifts to the organisation or serve as scout masters will feel it their , duty'to help to organise the hundreds of thojusqnds of boys who need the leadership and the impulse of the Roy Scoutsin order that the nation may have their intelligent service. "Anything that is done or given to increase the war efficiency of the Boy Scouts will be a real contribution to the nation, and will help win tho war." Secretary M'Adoo, declaring that "the Boy Scouts of America are one of the greatest of. nur war facilities." urged that "they must he upheld" with men and money. The Snouts' services in the Liberty Loan, Thrift, Stamp, Hiiricultural, and other war campaigns, the Secretary wrote, "have proved them heroes of the old republic, and fit' successors of the men who are now fighting the battles of democracy in France and upon the high seas."