Evening star., 1915-11-23
hoy SCOUTS HAVE
COLLECTED $4,000
Campaign Managers Encour-
aged by Result Of First
Days Work.
COMPETITION is KEEN
FOR THE SILVER CUP
Twenty Thousand Subscription
Blanks Are Being Distributed
| Among Local Citizens.

| The big thermometers placed in prom
inent locations throughout Washington
to indicate the progress Of the three
day campaign fund on behalf of the
Boy Scout movement here registered
$4,000 this morning. Each day the red
| mercury" will creep higher until, it
1t hoped. 1t will stand level with the
$30,00G mark. Reports of the work
done from pm. yesterday until the
lunch hour today were submitted at a
business meeting this afternoon, and
the indicators will be changed to show
the further progress made, Every en-
deavor was used this morning to make
the second days showing Just twice as
good as that of the first.
The two silver cups and the two sill
yer vases, which have been offered to
the best four of the twenty-four teams
are obtaining the subscriptions were
displayed, as at yesterdays lunch
They are the gifts of Arthur C. Moses.
Today the first prize rested on the table
of the team headed by Colin H. Living
stone. The second was on George Har-
ris' and Holcombe Johnson's. the third
on Frank ]. Middleton's and the fourth
on j: Leo kolb's, representing the
tion, gold, silver. and bronze scout
medal fobs are offered to the CAPTAINS
of teams raising $4,000, $4,000 and 81, 900,
respectively. or 10 any individual mem
Der, who raises. like amount.
Distributing Subscription Blanks.
Twenty thousand subscription blanks
are being distributed among Washing
ton residents flor pledges for subscrip-
t1ons to be made in four payments. The
first payment is to be made December
l, 1915. and the others continue every
six months until the last payment oc-
ours. June /, 1917. The idea is to raise
$4,000 a year for three years. but to
do 1t at one ''swoop'. of 100000.
The finance committee of the local
Boy Scout council has issued a statement
! explaining the use to which the money
ITO the Washington Public: -'
The undersigned. being the finance
committee of the. Boy Scout Associa-
| ton In your city. will authorize all ex-
penditures made by the local council,
| and wish to announce at this time that
the $4,000 which 1t Is planned to raise
in this three-day financial campaign
will be used first to pay $4,S99.13 Of
back debts; that $1,000 will be used in
i the next six months for all expenses in
an active campaign to increase the
Boy Scout membership in this city to
5000 members.
Ten thousand dollars will be expend-
ed in the twelve months ending June
oV, wa III dCtINc WOTk 10 increase the
membership to 10000 boys and $4,000
more VIII be spent up to June 80.
1:1S. to increase the Boy Scout MEM
bership in this city to $4,000 II we are
successful in raising the $4,000, MOTH
ing more will be asked of the Wash
ington public for Boy Scout work for
the next three years.
Need of High-Class Men.
1T should be borne in mind that to
| increase the Boy Scout enrolment as
rapidly as we propose means the en-
ployment of high-class men, who will
give their entire time to the work.
This is an absolute necessity, because
these troops can only be organized at
night, when the boys are not in school,
and the hours OF the day are used by
these executives to obtain the volun-
teers who act as scoutmasters, assist
ant scoutmasters and merit badge eX-
aminers. -
"Of the latter we now have ffty-one
men who are experts in their respective
lines-in business, in the medical pro-
fession and in scientific work-who ex-
anime the boys when they have been
prepared by their scoutmasters and the
scout executives for the various tests
which they must pass in order to OBJ
tain the promotion that the boys them
selves seek to obtain.
IF you are deeply interested in the
boy life of your city and our future
citizenship we know there is no better
investment that we can recommend to
your consideration.
'"The expenditures are herewith item
lied and we ask the careful scrutiny of
the thinking public of all our proposed
expenditures. 4
Budget of Expenditures.
Budget financial statement of needs
for three years. December l, 1915, to
November 80, 1916: Scout executive,
$4,000; clerical assistance, $1,000; rent,
s275; printing. $450 annual camp main
tenance, $3.50; postage, $3.50; trans
portation, 500: telephone. 800: four
deputy scout commissioners at $3.50 per
wear. $1,000; national headquarters,
$3.50: scoutmaster associa ton, $500;
mortgage on camp site, $1,000. Total,
SS.4S5.
1.-The budget for the next year amounts to
to s4S9913, and with the expenses of the
salaries of the scout executive and of
clerical assistants is indicated. In the
year from December /. 1917 to November
90, 1918, corresponding raises in salary
are noted, bringing the budget for that
year to sS,565. In the summing-up un-
der the head of Indebtedness, amounting
to s4.S9s.l3 and with the expenses of the
financial campaign added, the grand to-
tai appears as $30.644.13.'
The report is signed by A. c. Moses.
president of A. G. Moses Construction
Company; w. r. Galliher. president Of
the American National Bank; Colin II.
Livingstone, vice president of the Amer
lean National Bank; John Poole. presi-
dent of the Federal National Bank, and c.
H. Pope, vice president Of the Munsey