Newark post., 1913-09-03
CHANGE TN BOY
SCOUT PLAN
Boys To Help In Maintenance
Of Organization

"The Boy Scouts Of America"
organization has adopted q new
membership plan, by the terms of
which the boys will help toward the
financial maintenance Of the organ
ization. AS adopted by the execu-
tive board, the new plan will go in
TO effect on October /. It was off
cially announced by James E.
West. the chief scout executive.
The plan provides that each en-
rolled Boy Scout shall pay an an
nual membership fee of Is cents.
A certain percentage Of this
amount will be retained by the To-
cal organization, and the remain
der contributed to the support of
the national organization. Mr.. West
said that the principle that scouts,
50 far as practicable, shall pay
their own way, was really one Of
the fundamentals of scoutcraft,
and was the moving cause for the
adoption Of the new plan. Never
theless, it was pointed out that fl
nancial aid from the boys, and it
was estimated that there are about
100000 scouts in the United
States, would go far to bring the
scout movement to a higher state
of general efficiency.
DISPOSITION OF FEES.
The membership dues collected
by scout councils of the first class,
representing cities such as Phila-
delphia and New York, and towns
and counties where a central office
is maintained with one or more
employed officials giving all their
time to the promotion of scout
work in that district, will be divid-
ed as follows: Fifteen cents Of each
membership fee of 25 cents is to be
retained for the maintenance Of
the local work and 10 cents sent to
the treasurer of the national coun-
Gil for the upkeep of the work ma
nationally.
The dues collected by councils Of
the second class, representing cit
les, towns and counties where the
work is not sufficiently developed
to make necessary the maintenance
of separate Offices and the employ
ment of scout officials, but where it
is necessary to provide court Of
honor and to keep the supervision
of the work under voluntry lead
ership, will be divided as follows:
Five Of each % cents viii be retain
ed for the maintenance Of local
work and 20 cents sent to the ma
tional organization.
BOYS ASKED TO EARN DUES.
In all other cases the member
ship dues will be transmitted by
the scout master as troop fund,
with the names, addresses and rank
of each scout; $1.25 of this amount
will be set aside at national head
quarters to provide for the scout
masters annual registration fee
and will entitle him to receive the
semimonthly bulletin, Scouting,
and the official magazine, Boys
Life.
It was recommended that the
membership dues Of the Boy Scouts
in so far as may be practicable, be
earned by the boy in the same way
he is now required to earn money
for deposit to meet his second class
requirement. Hereafter badges OF
any character issued by the nation
al council will not be sent unless
the records of the office definitely
show they are for scouts in good
standing.
Furthermore, the new plan pro-
vides for aid for the national or
ganization as follows: Local coun-
ellis of the first and second class, as
described in the foregoing, will pay
81 for each member of the local
council and for other local scout
officials, and these will receive from
national headquarters the two
scout publications. Members OF
the national council will pay to the
treasurer Of the national council a
membership fee of at least SO a
year and will receive the scout pa
pers.