New-York tribune., 1919-06-13

S& sS& iortv-elght n u r s
away. only $4,000
had been raised of
the S500,000 pledged
py the Manhattan committee in the
campaign for adult memberships.
o'her borough canvass ch;:rmen made
reports almost equally discouraginr.
AT luncheon of Boy Scout cam
paisn team captains yesterday Mr..
Leach said:
Our organization is functioninc
properly. We have every channel in the
city covered. but we are not getting re-
suits. 1t simply resolves itself into o
situation where our people who have
the means are not cooperating"
VI course. we are getting number
OF large subscriptions, but they are not
nearly numerous nor large enough"
James f. West. chief scout executive.
SAID. I'VE have placed cur cause be-
Tore the people of the city. 1t is their
cause, and they have responded gen
erously enough-I mean the WORKING
classes-but the men who really can
aHord to assist us without embarrass-
ment are falling down"
s325,o00 More Needed
In two days dwellers in Manhattan
VIII have to give 1925 900 if the Bow
Scout work is to go at top speed dur
ing the coming year. To raise this
amount it will be necessary for each
OF 25,ooo solicitors working with the
committee to raise SIS apiece.
Brooklyn is far behind also, and this
is true of the other boroughs of the
greater city. Every source of revenue
counted on by those who planned the
campaign has fallen far below the an
tlcipated results. The Scouts are ask
Ing for 100000 associate members in
the United States. They want 100000
OF these in New York City. The fnan-
clal requirements call for about 81 ,oOO.
COO from New York.
Some of the difficulties facing the
Scouts were laid before the Rotary
Ciub yesterday. There is a strict rule
that no subscriptions be taken at any
OF the club luncheons. This rule was
strained at the Hotel McAlpin when
President Clinton Z. Achorn suggested
to the members that there was nothing
to prevent them filing out subscrip-
ton blanks and sending them direct to
Scout headquarters.
.NcAdCO Makes Plea
William G. McAdoo, former Sccre-
tary OF the Treasury and chairman of
the national citizens committee of the
Boy Scouts. spoke at the luncheon. He
said:
Il often wonder what sort of a Con-
eress we would have at Washington
II every member were a Bow Scout"
inns remark was greeted by laughter.
Mr McAdoo paused and smiled before
he resumed.
i don't care whether you are Re-
publicans or Democrats. so long as YOU
are Americans. But can YOU conceive
OF Boy Scout Senator telling a lie or
paying politics against teh interests
q his country? Think. if you can. of a
Boy Scout Senator or Congressman or
Governor carrying partisanship into
public life in time Of war You cannot
imagine man with Bay Scout training
doing such a thing"
Mr.. McAdoo said the Boy Scouts were
tften correctly termed Junior Rota-
rians," and he referred to the SINH
iarity Of spirit in the Boy Scouts creed
and the Rotary Club motto, "Servicc
above SELF He said that the future
citizenship Of the country will be bet
ter, that public men will have higher
ideals and that anarchy and Bolshevism
Will be unthnkable if all boys of to-
day are given the benefits of Scout
life.
An announcement by "Big Bill" Ed
wards, Collector of Internal Revenue,
from the steps Of the Sub-Treasury
yesterday that s100 Liberty bond of
the fourth issue that he held in his
hand bore the autograph Of the late
Theodore Roosevelt was sufficient to
start spirited bidding for the bond,
donated BY Colgate Hoyt, that did not
stop until Major Robert D. Wrenn Of
5efed $500. He represented q syn
dicate OF STOCK Exchange members, all
1ormer Rough Riders" including
Charles <. Knoblauch, j. Lorimer
"orden and J. Hegcman Foster.
ar- Edwards was introduced by Mar
YIN Fogel, Assistant Treasurer of the
United S.ates.
seforc calling for bids Mr. Edwards
aaNca the Police Band to play the
star-Spangled Banner" az a tribute to
me former President, whom he styled
INC greatest Of the cvun,ry's Boy
Scouts"
Boys Give Exhibition
before the bond was sold Boy
Dc'u's demonstrated how TO kindle a
"'c without matches. Others gave
cenonstrationA Of wigwagging and
eemaphore signalling.
score or more Of girls from the
.o''ector's Office, who had volunteered
- "orK during their luncheon hour,
keagnt y1bscriptiony in thc cro,yd
1cey were highly 2ucccssful
speeches were made bv Jobn p
.roardma:,, scout commissioner ~ N.w
~, VIZ and New Jersey; Colonel CecIl
Williams. of the Carad;an Exned,,;nn.