The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-13
bOYSCOUTCAMPA|G CLOSED LAST NIGHT WITH GOOD REPORTS While S15,0OO Mark is Not Reached In Active Cam paign, Work Continues CITIZENS THANKED
 FOR GENEROSITY Sufficient Amount Subscribed To h. sure Permanency of Movement
 In City-Work Will Go For
 ward at Once

The first installment of the money subscribed for the Boy Scouts will be available February 1. The work of organization will go forward as rap idly IS possible, and it is the inten- tion of the official family of Birming- ham council to have an organization unequaled in the south before the re- union here of the Confederate veter- ans. These scouts will be on duty dur ing the reunion and will be of service wherever possible. The Richmond council, Boy Scouts of America, se- cured more favorable advertising for the city through their countless cour- tesies than could have been secured in any other way.
 It is the intention of the local coun- Gil not only to make it's members the manly little fellows they will have to be to "belong," but to spread far and wide Birmingham name for chivalry courtesy which not only is true of the older members of the citizenry, but which extends even unto the second and third generations.
 The whirlwind campaign to raise s15,OOO to be used in the furtherance of Boy Scout work in Birmin gham was closed last night with $10111. 50 reported and more coming in rapidly The $15,000 mark may not be reached but the leaders in the campaign were extremely optimistic last night that later reports would run the total up to the immediate vicinity of $15O0O
 Several of the teams have not yet re- ported, and while the active campaign work will be carried on until the full amount is reached.
 The teams and amounts reported last night were;
 Team No. 1, F. P. Glass. $2226.5o; No ?, Louis Gelders, s967; No. 3, Angus NJ. Taylor, s645; No 4. Frank Efferman, $271. .50 No. 5, Louis Pizitz. SS90; No 6, F. H. Andrews, $1115; No. z, E. J. Morgan, $520; No S, no report: No g., no report; flying squadron" I297S 50; total, $10.111.50.
 At the noon hour yesterday H. NJ Butler, special national field scout con- missioner, addressed the teams after the luncheon at Boy Scout headquar- ters, 307 Twentieth street, and told them of the splendid showing made by other cities, smaller than Birmingham, and without Birmingham enviable reputation for generosity.
 Sydney J. Bowie addressed the cam paigners and said his team had only begun to fight "We are going to get that money" said MT. Bowie, land the best way to do it is to get out of here and go to work"
 He left the room and was followed by the other teams, and the work was on in earnest for the entire afternoon. Last night Borden Burr, president of Birmingham council; Colman Blach, chairman financial committees pr. Elwyn Ballard, scout commissioner, and H. M. Butler, signed the following statement of thanks to the people Of Birmingham:
 We wish to thank the citizens of Birmingham for their generous re- sponse to the call of the Boy Scouts. A sufficient amount has been sub scribed to insure the permanency of this work. This means for Birmingham an opportunity for the neglected boys to become the directed boys. Our com mittees have decided at the proper time to complete the canvass and give those who have not been seen an op- portunity to subscribe The money will be judiciously and economically eX- pended in an effort to keep those boys physically strong, mentally awake and morally straight" In the upbuilding of citizenship. the making of better and more useful men, the money you have so generously contributed will be used to develop Birmingham's best asset-its boyhood.
 COI.MAN BI.ACH.
 Chairman Financial Committed
 BORDEN BURR,
 President Birmingham Council.
 DR. ELWYN BALLARD,
 Scout Commissi
 w. M BUTLER. Special National Field Scout Commissioner.