Evening journal., 1916-02-17

nothing positive TO do. The respon-
sibility is up to th's men of this COM
munity.
81 am here fo' :. the purpose of put
ting ON finar e ial campaign in this
city for the 81 IN Of $4,000 to estab-
iish permane Ot headquarters and to-
secure pa III executive to carry on
the work he y e. and place it on a solid
business = sis. Now please do not
feel any o snNiety for am not going
to ask az L body for cent today.
! do want to say that the various
items = .akins up this budget Of S1O.-
600 WSn be shown in a very definite
way through advertising matter
whi 2 Il will be sent to the residents Of
WI 3 nington later on but l want to
e' ? lain to you at this time that one
,lof the principal items. consists of the
$ um of $1,000 for the first year and
FS1,OOO for. the second year for the
, purpose of establishing a camp for
the Wilmington Scouts during the
D summer in some place adjacent to
a this city. It is the intention to keep
oil this money in Wilmington and to use
it right here
d We are perfectly sure that we are
going to get this amount for two
at reasons. first. because we are sure
IL. that citizens Of this city will be alive
hu to the fact that the establishment OF
VI this movement in he community Will
'n mean the highest standard Of your
~ future citizenship; and second. hav-
- ing realized this we are sure that
they will be willing to contribute lib
" orally TO this end. The raising Of this
We fund of $4,000 is really incidental to
~ the greater object VIC have in mind
~ y and this is the educating OF the peo-
y pie in Scouting work theoretically
N my energies in a compaign Of this
~. kind are per cent for the raising
=, 80 Of the campaign fund and % per cent
lo ~, education. and that is the way l will
~. spend the most of my time while
~. am here.
w. "You may have read during the
si last few days. statement OF the
20, growth OF this movement Throughout
~ the country. within the past years, as
ad reported at the meeting of the Ma.
on tional Council at Washington just Z
in week ago today. This increase ha.
been exactly 4G per cent. and there
,o,. are at the present time $4,000 Scouts
10 and Scout Masters registered in the
.sn States Of the Union. You will also be
NV interested to know that this State C
rtb Delaware stands second in the pro
,es portion of registered Boy Scouts FOL
lo the population Of the State There i!
ov- no reason in the world why this Stat'
ont should not be i'm first place, and il il
mo going to be the effort Of the men in
in terested m the work to put it there.
or This is not my campaign it is no
the a National Headquarters campaign. i
}ov is your campaign The National Head
rd- quarters get exactly $3.50 out o
for this campaign I am sure you will b.
oct interested to know the names form
zoe ing the Citizens Committee. and VIII
are in hearty sympathy with on
is plans. They are:
ivo General James II. Wilson. chair
stic man; T. Coleman DUPONT. Hon. Thom
mo as w. Miller. L. Scott Townsend, W
nrl, w. Laird Josiah Marvel. Thomas v
- Wilson. William J. McCorkindal
- Hon. James F. Price. Henderson Wei
Iio David Snellonburg. j. Monteith Jacl
No son. Millard F. Davis. Robert p. Rol
90 inson. William p White, James !
loet Morris.
'ro. also take pleasure in stating tn;
',s William J. Highfeld, city treasure
will he the treasurer Of this campaign
,,id "This campaign does me- consi'
only of going out and getting a SUI
+ho of money. the very best work tha
or you can do is to get yourself enthuse
-, with this thing. and spread the gosp'
ond of it. Talk about il to everyone yo
80 meet. When you meet a Scout, pa
|, him on the back and let him know yo
da, are back Of him. Let him know yo
o,,, are interested in what you are doing
o,r II will help to make men that are re'
80 men. DO it for the boys. and 70
W., will do it for Wilmington