Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-27
FORMED LOCAL COUNCIL
 OF BOY SCOUTS Seventeen Norwich Men EnrolIed- Troops Paraded Before Meeting in Town Hall

Troops Paraded Before Meeting in Town Hall.
 Seventeen prominent Norwich men
 were enrolled as members of the local | council formed Monday evening at an open meeting of the Norwich Boy 1 Scouts in the town hall. The newly | formed council will be permanently organized at a meeting to be held in | the near future when a scout comnis- sfoner will be chosen, officers elected and committees appointed.
 l Headed by Tubb's military band
 some 150 Boy Scouts, including scouts | from New London, Groton and Quaker 1 about 7.30 o'clock and paraded down l Broadway to Main street, east to a point beyond Chelsea bank, where they l countermarched to Union square and | then marched into the town hall In l an automobile in line with the Scouts 1 were His Honor, Mayor Timothy c. | Murphy Leonard O. Smith, the presid- 1 ing officer, and Scout Commissioner B. | L. White, of Waterbury, the speaker | of the evening
 | In the town hall few minutes after o'clock assembly sounded and 1 at the word If command from Scout
 master Benjamin Bruce the Scouts 1 stood at attention and repeated the
 Scout law. Rev. Herbert J. Wyckoff, | scoutmaster of the Second Congrega-
 tional troop, introduced as the presid- | ing officer Leonard o. Smith, and as
 MT. Smith arose to take the chair he
 was greeted with prolonged applause. | MT. Smith said he was glad indeed to I have the honor of presiding at the meeting and also said he was proud l of the boys who made such a fine l showing on the line of march. MT. Smith said that when he was a boy | there was no such thing as the Boy | Scout organization and that today the l T1an aYf iS. 1a 1 MT. Smith then introduced Mayor | Murphy and as the mayor arose from l his chair there was hearty burst of l applause.
 Greetings from Mayor.
 Tn his opening words the mayor con-
 graduated the boys on their splendid | showing and said he felt justly proud of them. For the organization which the Boy Scouts represent he had noth- ing but praise. In closing he said that | the Boy Scout work is something that | every boy ought to know for the boys | of today will be running the city and
 government within the next quarter 1 of century.
 l Scout Commissioner White. Commissioner White was next in-
 troduced by MT. Smith and he also was
 greeted with applause as he took the l floor.
 Commissioner White spoke of the l Boy Scout organization as the largest
 club in the world and he told of the l activities of the Boy Scouts in the
 war zone, where many are assisting | the army ambulance corps Coming
 nearer home Commissioner White told of a Connecticut Scout who with only
 two months training was able to save 1 the life of a woman who had accident 1 ally taken poison.
 | The speaker said that although troops may be formed they can go only l so far and can go no farther without aid, and this aid must come from the
 men. He told of large employers who
 have adopted a plan of giving pref
 erence to Boy Scouts for they know that by this method they will get only
 picked boys. A city the size of Nor
 wich, said Comnai White, ought I to have 8 council of about 40 men. What is really needed is men who will stand back of the scoutnasters and as-
 sist them in their work.
 | Enrolled in Council. l Four of the Scouts passed mem bership cards to the men in the au- ] dience for signatures and the seven l teen gentlemen who enrolled follow: I. c. Benjamin, c. H. Haskell, James
 L. Case, I. I. Royce, Henry D. Johnson, William F. Metzger, J. B. Stanton, J.
 H. Ely, G. R. Dofbeare, E. J. Graham, ! S. W Lefingwe1l, Percy M. Chapman Stephen D. Peckharn, Edwin Hill L. O. smith, Elmer C. JeW6tr, Nathan I A. Gibbs.
 | At the conclusion of his talk MT. White was given the America yell by the Scouts.
 Seouteraft Demonstration. l Chairman Smith then turned the meeting over to Scoutmaster Bruce and a demonstration of scoutcraft fol- lowed. Troop 4 opened this part of i the programme with a tenderfoot ini- tiation ceremony. Second class sig
 mailing by Troop 3 was followed by
 8 semaphore squad. Second class first aid was next on the programme and was commendably carried out by Troops 1, and 4. The Methodist church troop demonstrated the use of triangular bandages. First class work I in signalling was demonstrated by the lowed by the rescue race, a city troop contest, in which Troop 8 was vic torious. The final demonstration was | by the Norwich Town troop, who showed how various knots are tied | The meeting was brought to a. close with the America yell. -' During the evening Scoutmaster Bruce announced that it was through the generosity, of Leonard O. Smith that the use of Tubbs' band was secured for the eve- ming and in recognition of MT. Smiths kindness the Scouts gave three rous- ing cheers. The fifth annual report of the chief scout executive, just submitted, shows justi1es all that was claimed for 1t
 five years ago when the Boy Scouts of America was incorporated. The pres- anf eyfeT1f uirilifv and saffsfa cforv