Evening star., 1914-02-08

forenoon will be devoted to the reading
OF reports BY various officers of the
council At 2:15 o'clock in the afternoon
President Wilson will receive the coun-
Gil at the White House. President VIII
son is honorary president of the Boy
Scouts of America. and Is deeply inter
ested in the welfare OF the organization
Thursday night a. public meeting will
be held i'll the ballroom of the New Will
lard Hotel. Addresses will be made by
Secretaries Bryan and Daniels and by
officers of the National Council, includ-
ing Chief Scout Ernest Thompson Seton.
National Scout Commissioner Daniel
Carter Beard, Clifford Pnchot and
others.
Commissioner Beard, famliarly known
to all scouts as Dan" Beard, is sched-
uled to address the Boy Scouts OF the
city in the assembly hall of the Nc
o'clock Friday afternoon Mr.. beard
will be in charge of the summer camp
to be conducted jointly by the Boy Scout
councils of Washington and Baltlmore
next summer. 1t is understood he VIII
outline some of his plans for the camp.
Norris Gaddess of Troop No. BE prob
ably will be presented his eagle scout
badge by President Livingstone while
the National Council is In session
This is Boy Scout day in the churches
throughout the United States. request
was sent out broadcast throughout the
land several weeks ago to all ministers
that they make mention OF the BOY
Scout movement in their sermons TO-DAY.
a number of Washington clergymen have
notified local headquarters that they plan
to speak of the movement before their
congregations today.
During the past week merit oaoSes
have been received from national head
quarters for the following scouts, who
have successfully passed merit-badge eA-
aminations:
Raymond ScaggS. craftsmanship nandl-
craft and life-saving.
G. T. Smallwood, tiremanship, masonry.
first aid, architecture, pathfindlng, handl-
craft, craftsmanship and art.
Lloyd Harrison, machinery and fireman
ship.
Kenneth Harries, pathfinding. first aid,
firemanshp and handicraft.
D. o. Woolf, first aid and life-saving.
C. Throckmorton, pathfnding and first
aid. art and fremanship.
Paul c. Robin, first aid.
J D. Eggleston, firemanship and handi-
craft
Chester Guy, firemanship.
J. Noble Simpson. pioneering.
Norris Gaddess, ffremanship and first
aid to animals.
Fred c. Reed, music. pathfinding. chem
stry
Thomas Nikirk. music.
William Putzki, fremanship.
Devere Weedon. firemanship.
Orville Walsh firemanship.
National Headquarters has issued the
following requirements for the scholar
ship merit badge:
To obtain a merit badge for scholarship
scout must:
]. Have been in attendance at one
school. either grammar, high. private or
night school, for a period of at least one
year since becoming a first-class scout
=. Present certificate from the teacher
or principal showing ta) that his attend
ance has been satisfactory; Obj that his
department has been above the average
(c) that during the school year he secured
satisfactory average in all of his
studies.
Il would like to see every flrst-class
scout make application for this merit
badge examination" said Scout Commis-
sioner Martin yesterday. "A scout to be
a good scout should do everything well
and boy is not good scout unless he is
up in his school work as well as his
scout work.
Troop No. 81 at Friendship Heights,
Md. was reorganized Friday night Scouts
who lost interest in the troop have been
brought back into the fold again and
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membership.
Members of Troop No. II, of Takoma,
are being kept busy these days. The
troop has obtained the use of the old
Masonic Hall i'll Takoma, and now is
engaged in fitting up the room as head
quarters. Yesterday dozen or more
members Of the troop spent the entire
day scrubbing ZIP the room and putting
everything in ship-shape.
Troop No. y. is to give an entertain
ment in the parish hall of the Episcopal
Church Thursday evening. The scouts
have been rehearsing for the entertain
ment for several weeks. The money to
be used i'll this way is TO be utilized i'll
Quitting the troops new quarters.
The committee OH badges, awards and
scout requirements of the national council
has adopted a new set of requirements
for the first aid merit badge as follows:
l. Be able to do with an apparently
drowned person and demonstrate the Syl-
vester and Schaefer methods of artificial
respiration
:. Show how to apply bandages to the
head. ankle and hand.
$. Show how to apply a tourniquet to
stop arterial hemorrhage at any point (a)
on the lower extremity below arfIlpit ::