New-York tribune., 1919-06-09

ing measured up to scout standards,
have become associate members of
the greatest boy organization in the
world.
Just how many of these men will
become actual scoutmasters nobody
can say. Only those who show the
qualities of leadership-and leadership
Of boys especially-will be accepted 1t
is far easier to be the head Of great
corporation than Of Scout troop, say
leaders of the movement
Numerically, the first day of Scout
Week, which is expected to net the
Boy Scouts of America 100000 adult
associate members, was a great sue
cess. In enthusiasm it surpassed all
expectations.
Most of the members were acquired
at the Hippodrome mass meeting last
night, when every seat was occupied
and aisles were crowded to the doors
by men and women who were eager
to- record their approval of the move
ment to support Americas organized
boyhood. Others were supplied through
the guarantees of financial and in
dustrial leaders who, in anticipation of
the opening of the drive, had prepared
lists of applicants for membership that
were rushed to Scout headquarters at
200 Fifth Avenue early in the day.
$63,60O Added to Fund
Actual cash contributed at the mass
meeting totalled $4,000. While the
minimum fee for an associate Scout
membership is 81, contributions as
high as $4,000 were freely given by
men who declared it an honor to asso-
ciate themselves with the movement
Ed Wynn and Captain Elsie Janis,
fresh from her triumphs as an enter
tainer of soldiers overseas, aided in
bringing forth the flow of cash to the
Scout Golfers. George D. Pratt started
the contributions by claiming a men,
bership for $4,000. The Rockefeller
Foundation expressed it's approval of
the campaign by giving a check for a
similar sum. A contributor who
wished his name withheld gave $500.
John D. Rockefeller, jr., made an ap-
plication for membership, accompany
ing 1T with $4,000 check Mortimer
L~Schiff handed a check for similar
amount to Ed Wynn. There were nu-
merous checks for $4,000, many for
$1,000, and several hats full of 81 bills.
contributed by men and women in the
audience.
An early auditing of the money
dropped into Scout hats showed that
those in the audience who did not avail
themselves Of the membership privi-
leges had given $4,000 to aid the cam
paign.
Cheers for Leaders
Groups of khaki-clad scouts souatted
about the stage at the Hippodrome and
cheered their able assistants in the
membership campaign, William G. Nc
Adoo, big Bill" Edwards, Father Duffy.
Rabbi Joseph Silverman, and the versa
tile Elsie Janis-all of whom pleaded
Tor the contribution of enough cash to
make 1t possible to bring every boy in
the United States into the comradeship
Of the scouts.
Every speaker indorscd the work of
the scout organization. Representa-
tiyes of every political party and every
religious faith, either at the Hippo
drome meeting or at the church
services held throughout the city dur
ing the day, pleaded for united support
OF the campaign to bring men and
dollars to the aid of the BOYS who did
.Mr. McAdoo, who has abandoned all
other duties until the close of Scout
Week in order to act as national chair
man of the Scout membership COM
m,ttee, declared that the greatest af-
tcr-war task of the United States
that Of Americanizing America-was
one tina. the Scouts would have to
tackle.
My first contact with the Scout or
sTnization came when these great Lib
eFty 'oans mad to be offered to the pub
~. Anu IL became necessary to mo-
p,Hze every available agency in this
country and enlist the interest and
support OF all citizens, men and women
alske,' said he. "Then l familiarized
myself with the Boy Scout movement.
what we did with the Boy Scouts was
THIS: Toward the end of each loan,
wnen the adult workers of the country
nad SKINNED the cream of subscrip-
t'ons, we called out the Boy Scouts and
set them to work.
ffln other words, when there was
nomething almost hopeless to be done
ese called on these boys, because, know
ing the training they had received,
the ideals for which they stood, their
passionate love Of country, their thirst
for action, their enthusiasm for doiny.
we put them on the job and they raised
something like three hundred million
dollars in four Liberty Loan cam
paigns.
$50. when was asked to give part
o. my time for strengthening and max
Ing more potential this great move
n9ent, felt that IL there were no other
reason than my gratitude to these boys
f@f the great things they had done
.ef their country. l should accept it.:
but did 1t not for that reason alone.
but primarily because regard thjs
great movement az one Of the most i'm
portAnt that we can promote TO i'm
prove the character OF .he future
yonsg men of America. and az ono Of
tps most effective ways to Thoroughly
A1usricanize America for the future.
Many Great Lessons Taught
This war has taught Ms a sreat
UAssay lessonA. and II wA are intelligent
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