Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1912-11-06
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FIELD ORGANIZER
Ludwig 3. DALI Accepts Important To-
sition with the BOY Scouts
Of Am0rloa g.

Ludwig 3. DALI Accepts Important TO-
sition with the BOY Scouts
Of America.
Ludwig S. Dale yesterday received
! from the Chief Scout executive in New
York city an appointment as national
field commissioner. Of the Boy Scouts of
America. Mr.. Dale will go to New York
within q few days, and. after comforting
with the other national officers. will be-
gin his new duties, which will take him
into all parts of the United States.
At Cambridge, Mimi, Friday night
Governor Eberhart. who Is chairman Of
| the Ramsey County Scout council, heard
of this appointment. and said:
Il am delighted to hear that this
honor has come to Mr. Dale, for he has
proved in Minnesota his mastery of
Scouting and his remarkable ability as
a Scout organizer and official. And it is
especially fitting that such appoint
ment should come to the Northwest,
where Scouting has reached it's finest
fruitage, and it should be added that
the great success of the movement here
has been due in no small degree to Mr..
Dale"
Mr.. Dale is known personally to more
Boy Scouts in Minnesota and adjoining
states than any other man, and all the
! boys admire him. Beginning under the
auspices Of the Pioneer Press, Mr.. Dale
in February. 1911. toured Minnesota,
| Wisconsin and North and South Dako-
ia, informing the leading citizens what
the Scout movement was, and how it
would benefit their boys. and later or
ganizing in each city and town a Scout
council of adults and one or more
troops of Boy Scouts. In all, he FORM
ed at least fifty councils and 200 troops,
having membership of approximately
5000 boys.
After Mr. Dale had been at this work
for while the National officers of the
Scout movement in New York recog-
nized the excellence of Mr. Dale's work
by giving him an appointment as North
west organizer.
Has Long Experience With Boys.
The new national field commissioner
has had long experience in work with
boys. At W1llmar, Mimi, where he was
graduated from the Willmar Seminary,
Mr.. Dale had a boys cadet corps with
which he was signally successful
When the Scout movement was intro
duced in the Northwest through arti-
cles in the Pioneer Press, Mr. Dale con-
verified his cadet corps into a Scout
troop. He was so successful with that
that he had calls from citizens in many
other towns in Minnesota asking for
his assistance in forming Scout organ
izations in those towns. He assisted
in such work as his time would permit,
and later, upon recommendations which
came from many sources, the Pioneer
Press put him in the field to assist those
who had been attracted to the move
ment
| About fifteen months ago Mr.. Dale
decided to go to Europe to see how the
| Scout movement was progressing there,
various newspaper and magazines arti-
cles having told of the remarkable sue
! cess of the organization there. He had
letters from Governor Eberhart, who
had helped him materially in his work
| in the Northwest, and from officers of
| the National Council Of the Boy Scouts
Of America, and in his travels in Nor
way, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Hol-
land, France, England, Scotland and
Ireland, he came in close contact with
the national and local officials of the
Scout organization and learned all the
details Of their plans and methods.
Mr.. Dale will be back to Willmar Fri
day to make his last visit before going
East to accept his new appointment.
He will travel in the South during the
winter, and on the Pacific coast next
spring. He considers W1llmar as his
home town and will give our city some
| o1y CT Io
We understand that his new position
carries with it salary Of $4,000 and
expenses.