Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-11-23
S-DAY CAMPAIGN
TO RAISE $4,000
FOR BOY SCOUTS
Two Hundred Men Will
Make Whirlwind Canvass
of City Collecting Fund to
Continue Work.

In the hope of making Philadelphia the
largest Boy Scout city In the world, a
campaign is about to be inaugurated
with headquarters in the Curtis Build
ing, to provide the means for the ad-
mission OF 10000 boys in this city who
are anxious to be associated with the
movement.
This number of boys are anxious for
admission, according to the Scout Execu-
tive Committee chairman in Philadelphia
DIR. Charles d. Hart, but 1t is essential
IL the work be carried on with such an
increased enrolment that the budget for
1915. 1916 and 1917 be increased
Because of this condition II has been
decided to start a three-day campaign on
November 30 for the purpose of obtaining
subscriptions or cash to the amount OF
$4,000 to obtain the necessary funds The
plan is to organize 40 teams of five men
each, which will reach out into every
section of Philadelphia to get the people
interested In the movement. The head
quarters in the Curtis Building will be
located on tho seventh floor, and may be
reached by elevator from the entrance
at the northwest corner of 9TH and San
som streets.
DIRECTOR PORTER ENTHUSIASTIC.
The movement has the good will and
support of some of the leading business
men of the city, who have come to see
that the plan OF the organization of Boy
Scouts to build up clean, manly young
men, who are At to serve their country
we'll by honest service and kindness to
their fellow-men. Director of Public
Safety Porter, who is Scout Commissioner,
is enthusiastic over the work that has al
ready been done. The boys who belong
to the Scouts, he has found, are doing
much to improve the conditions In many
sections OF the city, and although thou
sands of boys get into the clutches of
the police each year, 1t is seldom that
any boy who Is affiliated with the Boy
Scouts causes any trouble. Instead they
assist In preserving peace, the Director
says
In Philadelphia there are now about
2SOO boys in the lO6 troops that come
under the direction of the executive coun-
ell for the local work. Many applications
are received daily from boys and their
parents. and from clergymen and leaders
in social betterment work in all parts of
the city, asking for the formation of
troops or for the admission OF young men
to organizations. But, due to the lack of
funds to carry on the work, 1t has been
impossible to open the way to some 10000
Of these.
Records at scout headquarters in Inde-
pendence square show the cost for carry
ing on the work during the last year per
scout was s2W With the funds avail
able for the advancement of the work
so that the 10000 may be enlisted. and
Philadelphia made the leader OF the
world for Boy Scouts, field and district
secretaries will be employed and there
will be a general education campaign TO
make the force of the movement felt more
thoroughly everywhere in the advance
ment Of all that is good.
OFFICERS OF COUNCIL.
omcials Of the executive committee or
council of the Boy Scouts Of Philadel-
phia are:
DR.. Charles D. Hart, chairman.
Roy Smith Wallace. secretary.
Orlando Crease. Jr.. treasurer,
e. T. Stotesbury, treasurer Boy Scout
Fund.
Walter s. Cowing. scout executive.
George D. Porter, scout commissioner.
j. Woodbridge Patton, deputy scout
commissioner.
Il. w. Rubenoame, offioe secretary.
Assistant District Attorney Charles Ed
win Fox, who comes In daily contact with
the youth that are taken into the Juve-
nile Court, has declared that the move
ment should appeal to the taxpayers as
worthy.