Evening journal., 1918-09-19

Preparations are now being made for
Fourth Liberty Loan. the date OF
le drive Will begin September 2s, sew
ID committees together with the
uts will contribute their services TO
loan to make Il a success. Each
DOops will work under orders from
their scoutmaster and the districts will
not be limited. The plan No. ? stated
in the manual for the scouts will give
all the rules for you 10 follow. No
special blank applications will be hand
ed to the scouts. The local committee
will furnish applications which will be
rubber stamped for scout use. Every
troop must be registered and make a
report at the close OF the campaign
showing that every troop in the city
and every scout In the troop did his
part 10 make the loan a success. De-
tails for messenger service and the dis
tMbuiion OF circulars and posters will
be called from headquarters and Eg-
ecutiye Greenhawk expects 10 use the
information brought In by the ques-
tionnaires, for available scouts. This
loan must so over and the scouts must
come across with the support Of past
campaigns. The president OF the Boy
Scouts OF America has pledged the serv-
ices OF the scouts OF the entire coun,
try and be. as well as the Wilmington
Council, expects the scouts 10 do their
part Remember that we are 10 start
at the flrst OF the campaign and work
right through up TO the end with a
determination 10 sell bonds and show
400 per cent participation. BY the sec
ond plan, adopted In this State or city,
tho scouts will be required 10 sell
twenty-five bonds to enable them 10
receive the medal offered by the Treas
ury Department. No boy not regis
tered at this ofllce as a scout will be
permitted 10 work nor Will he receive
credit for any sale. Sec 10 II that you
are properly registered and that a full
report is made from your troop.
II isn't strange with the whole world
at war and millions Of men training
at gun-drills, that some boys will want
30 drill or have caught the gun-driu
fever. No doubt they think they can
help their country I'm that way. Let's
see about that, says the Cave Scout in
Boys Life, the boy scouts magazine,
for June, In answering a scout who
wants to drill with guns. Uncle Sam
has asked the boy scouts 10 help In the
first, second and third Liberty Loan
campaigns; he has enlisted them as
dispatch bearers in the drive against
Hun propaganda in America; no has
given them a big and important job In
boosting the sale OF Thrift and Wa
Savings Stamps; but so far as | know
he hasn't asked a single hoy OF scout
age 10 put a gun on his shoulder and
drill
Why hasn't Uncle Sam asked th,
icouts to drill and why hasn't he given
re- scouts guns2 Because he knows
ey can be a thousand times more
inful in winning the war in other
S. It's Just barely possible that
le Sam knows as much about what
wants his scouts 10 do, what they
rht 10 do, as does any high school
det. Now I'm not saying anything
bout your cadet: no doubt he Is
plendid fellow, and eager TO help; but
n this particular case he is on the
wrong track.
The boy scout movement Is now, al
Vays has been and always will be, a
lon-milltary organization. and gun
drills do not have a place in its pro-
gram Of activities. The best military
experts in the country do not believe
in drills for boys Of scout age. And
that is only one Of the many reasons
why military drill is not made a part
of scouting. There's plenty Of other
more necessary things TO do tee-age
boys. When you are older Uncle Sam
VIII give you the real thing in drill.
Since Executive Greenhawk has or
ganzed the Wolf Cubs in this city and
they have been such a success. Chief
Scout Executive James r. West. has