New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
825.OOO Good Citizens and
Patriots Sought to Guide
Greatest Juvenile Force
World Ever Has Known
Meeting in Hippodrome
McAdoo and Others Will
Present Cause of Young
sters; Parade Wednesday

New York this morning is being
searched for S25, 1000 of the city's best
citizens
lust any sort of men won't do. They
must be patriotic, honest, conscien-
tious. industrious and generally able
citizens. In other words, they must
measure up to the high standards of
The Boy Scouts of America.
For that is the number of associate
nembers the Greater City is expected
- produce during this, Boy Scout
Week. during which the nation will be
combed for one million men of the
tvpe who may be used as leaders of
Scouts.
Throughout this week the city will
concentrate all its energies, not on the
adult citizen and the problems of
business in which they are concerned,
but on the future citizen-the boy of
to-day. This morning the accomplish
nents of the Scouts during the war
will be described from nearly every
pulpit in the city. In "movie" houses
rom the Atlantic to the Pacific films
will be shown and addresses will be
delivered for the purpose of exploit
ing the advantages of membership in
this the greatest organization of boys
the world ever has known.
Mass Meeting at Hippodrome
Tonight the campaign for members
here officially will open in what prom
i.es to be one OF the most remarkable
OF the many mass meetings held in the
Hppodrome. William G. McAdoo, for
ner head of the Treasury Department,
and a long list of other speakers will
set forth the purposes Of the weeks
drive. Elsie Janis and Ed Wynn will
attempt to prevent any man of Scout
ing possibilities getting out Of the big
theatre until he signs his name on the
dotted line and pays the 81 or more re-
CURED of all new members.
Already more than '10o,0 900 names
have been prepared in readiness to turn
over to enrolment clerks as soon as
the books of the Scouts are opened to-
day. The organization that is ex-
pected to produce tire $4,000 members
during the coming seven days includes
many prominent men and women in
the city Not an apartment house in
New York, will be overlooked by those
who have undertaken to carry on the
canvass
The country has been divided into
twelve districts, spending to the
Federal Reserve districts. for the pur-
pose of the drive Mr.. McAdoo, who
will direct the quest for members just
as ne directed the floating Of the Lib
erty Loan issues. will utilize practi-
cally all the machinery used in the loan
drives.
"The Scouts did more to float the
loans than any other one organization"
said Mr.. McAdoo Yesterday. "Why
shouldn't the loan machinery be used
- assist them row ."
Others Feel Same Way
Judging from the response thus far
made by Liberty Loan workers, it is
evident that Mr.. McAdoo found many
OF his subordnates feeling the same
way.
In New York City "Big Bill" Ed
wards, collector of internal revenue.
heads the citizens committee that will
Lead in the search for adult associate
members of the Boy Scouts A. B.
Leach, who was head Of the metropoli-
tan canvass committee during four Lib
erty Loan campaigns, is directing a
similar committee for the Scouts.
known as the Manhattan Canvass Com