Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1919-03-22
BIC BOY SCOUT
UNIT ASSURED
FOR THIS CITY
Spirit of Giving Runs High
Prosecutor Stricken and Judge
DAILY Speak at Meeting

Perth Amboy went on the map of
boyhood last night amid a great out
burst of enthusiasm manifested on the
part of the populace of the city, when
the local or city scout council, which
will have complete supervision of all
scout activities hereafter, was pre-
sented with the national charter and
formally installed as an active organ
ization at a huge scout mass meeting
in the high school auditorium.
This is the elimination of the efforts
put forth in the last month by H. A.
Groesbeck, a national field scout COM
missioner who came to the city for
the purpose of organizing the council,
and several of the scout masters who
have been endeavoring to secure the
establishment of such a body in the
city so that scout work would be of
more benefit to the boys Of the city
than it ever has been before.
The spirit of giving also ran hign
last night and the eloquent words and
the urgent appeal of the speakers for
funds to carry on the work here eff
ciently loosened many purse strings,
until a total of $3,G35 had been sub
scribed. The aim of the council is to
raise at least $4,000, and they purpose
to secure that amount in the next few
days.
All the scout troops in the city. six
in number, marched into the audito-
rum and sat down in a body in the
center of the hall. The. meeting was
formally opened by the assemblage
singingst the "Star Spangled Banner"
led by chorus of eighth grade girls,
who for the last few weeks have been
--rchearsing under the tutelage of Miss
Chisholm, instructor of singing at the
high school. County Prosecutor Jo-
seph Z. Stricken presided, and said
that the people were gathered there
for the most laudable purpose known
to the American mind, that of organ
iZing a substantial unit of the Boy
Scouts of America in this city. He
declared that the thing uppermost in
mems minds today was to inculcatc
the spirit of Americanism into every
man, woman and child and that there
was no better way in a cosmopolitan
city like this, than to establish a
large scout unit under the supervision
of a competent council.
The various troops next performed
different scouting stunts. Troop 1
gave demonstration of first aid
work as did also Troop 6; Troop 2
built pyramids from which signalling
was done; Troop 3 received and sent
messages by the wig-wag system;
Troop 4 went through several scout
tests; Troop 5 presented corps OF
DuglerS Tor their STUNT.
Robert Fogerty, field secretary of
the Boy Scouts of America, from New
Bedford, Mass, spoke concerning
scout work and said that scouting did
for the boys of the country that
which the parents, the home, the
school and even. the church cannot
do.
George b. Petit. director of scout
ing in New Jersey, was then called
upon and declared that the people OF
this city had made a move dis-similar
TO any before originated in the city
by banding a group of seyenty-one
men together who will put their
heart, soul and mind into the study
of scouting for the uplift OF the youth
of Perth Amboy. Mr.. Petit then pre-
sented the charter, which bears the
signature of both President Wilson
and Ex-President Taft, TO the council
snd 1t was accepted by tracy u
Waring, the president
I. T. Madsen on behalf OF the
Board of Trade presented the council
flag to the men and w. Guy Weaver
presented the national colors, which
had been given by the Elks. Both
these emblems were received for the
council by ]. f. Stricken.
Mr.. Stricken then introduced Judge
Peter Francis DAILY, OF New Bruns-
wick. Judge DAILY spoke on scouting
in relation to its elimination OF JuVe-
nile delinquents. He said when II
came to juvenile deinquents he never
vet had seen a criminal in his life un-
der the age OF sixteen years. He de-
clared when boys get into trouble
with the courts ii is either because
they are mentally deficient or lack
proper parental rearing.
Judge Daily remarked that 0verence
one of the points in the scout law,
was sadly needed in America today.
He said that the wonderful work done
by the boy scouts during the war was
enough to swell the heart with pride
well nigh near the bursting point. He
declared that the boys win make
Perth Amboy a wonderful city and
that there is no place I'm the Union
more suitably situated from a physi-
cal standpoint than this city. Judge
DAILY declared that everybody was not
created equal in physical strength or
mental endowment but that when il
comes 10 law everyone is equal as far
as the application of the law is con-
cerned. Reverence of the law is the
very heart Of the scout movemnt, Mr..
DAILY added. stand up for the law
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