Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-07

honor. consisting of five citizens of
Harrisburg, will be formed. The
duty of this court will be to act upon
all claims for prizes and awarding
the different scout grades.
The scout headquarters will be
moved next week to room 200, Cal
der building.
Official Report
j. Fl. Slime, scout executive. to-
day submitted the following report
covering the Boy Scout activities
from June 16 to date to the execu-
tive committee:
"On the invitation of various
scout troops / have visited five
scout meetings as follows: June %,
Church; June 25, Troop 4, Imman-
uel Presbyterian Church; June 26,
boys at Epworth M. E. Church; June
20. Troop II, Emmanuel Presby
terian; July 2, Troop 20, Fifth
Street Methodist.
''At each of the meetings 1 made
short talks to the boys and on June
% / helped the scoutmaster with
examinations of candidates, passing
same to the tenderfoot class. on
July issued certificates to Troop
20 Of the Fifth Street Methodist
Church.
Scouts Help Red Cross
During the Red Cross Campaign
we were called upon at different
times to furnish boys for various
services to the officers of the cam
paign. Eighteen boys presented
themselves at our call for this work
during the several days of the cam
paign.
Boy Scouts participated in the
Spanish-American War Veterans pa
n
and IL were in the line of the City
Grays' Veteran Association parade
on June 2S.
Scout Organizations
There are at present sixteen act
i've troops in Harrisburg. These
originate from fourteen different Or
ganiZations practically all of them
being churches. There are about
eighty-five churches listed in Har-
risburg and 1 a msending letters to
all the churches that do not have
Scout activities, with the hope OF
promoting a general interest in the
movement.
Due to the publicity of the recent
Scout campaign there seems to be
considerable interest on all sides re-
garding the work. Nearly every day
someone phones or visits the office
to talk over the possibility of organ
izing Scout work.
New Prospects
There are at present five live
prospects in Harrisburg and vicinity:
The Derry Street United Brethren
Church, st. Matthew's Church, Ridge
Avenue NJ. E. Church, Wesley Union
A. M. E. Church, where a colored
troop of twenty-six boys is practi-
cally org. uiZed under the leadership
of DIR. A. Leslie Marshall.
"Shiremanstown, which is in the
vicinity of Harrisburg, is also pros
pect
lone of the early questions for the
local council to take up will be the
question of allowing Scout Troops in
towns and villages near Harrisburg
to affiliate with the local council.
National headquarters permits such
arrangement on a provisional plan,
that should county councils or local
councils later be organized in the
various communities affiliated our
Jurisdiction automatically ceases.
I'VE have already received an ap-
plication for affiliation from Scout
master Joseph Mason, of the Ann
Street NJ. E. Church, Middletown,
Pa.
"The general features of the work
handled through this office, in my
"(1) To promote the Scout move
ment in general throughout the city.
"(2) To coordinate the existing
Scout troops and suggest further ex-
tensions of the work.
"(3) Keep an accurate record of
enrollments, tests, achievements and
awards of individual Scouts of all
the troops.
"(4 Give detailed help to organ
izations desirous of taking UP scout
ing.
"(5) Maintain an information
service relative to camps, trips,
equipment, and all details of prac-
tical scouting for the use of scout
masters and others interested.
("D Organize meetings of the
scoutmasters for the purpose of gen.
,eral instruction and exchange of
ideas.
"(7) Attend to the business ad-
ministration of the office.
New Scout Troops
"In the last two weeks there have
been organized four new troops as
follows:
Troop 16, Bethlehem Lutheran
CHURCH, ]. Warren Fortenbaugh,
scoutmaster, number of boys, IL;
Troop II, Emmanuel Presbyterian
Church, Robert d. Young, scoutmas-
ter. number of boys. 12; Troop 10,
Grace Methodist Church, James C.
Peet, scoutmaster. number of boys,
12; Troop 20, Fifth Street Metho-
dist Church, Ross II. Swope, scout
master, number of boys, 16; supple
ment enrolment of boys, 3; total,
54; assistant scoutmasters, 4.
Lacking a permanent organiza-
ton of committees with constituted
authority to recommend to national
headquarters the commissioning of
scoutmasters and to facilitate the
organizing of the above troops at a
time when the boys were formed to
become scouts. l signed the blanks.
as scout executive, with approval of
the president, and commissions were
duly issued by headquarters. My
action in so doing should be sane
toned by this committee and au-
thority to handle future cases should
be given me.
"The constitution should be drawn
at an early date and 1 recommend
that committee be appointed to
look into this matter as soon as prac-
ticable.
1.-The Court of Honor and other
standing committees will be part of
the required machinery for operat-
ing our council from now on"
COLLECTORS FILE BONDS
Six of the new tax collectors named