The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-02-04
chlckasha Citizens Put Up over
$1,000 in IA Minutes to Assist in
Broadening Boy Scout Move
ment Here.
ENTHUSIASM IS SHOWN
AND OUTLOOK PROMISING
J. {. Pershine, Scout Executive of
Oklahoma, and James p. Fitch.
National Field Commissioner
Talk on Subject.

lt LOOK repfeSentlVe body or en-
thuslaStic Chickasha citizens exactly
fourteen minutes to raise Slips to
be used in connection with the pro
motion of boy scout training in
Chickasha, following short speeches
by j. E. Pershing, scout executive
OF Oklahoma City, James p. Fitch,
national field scout commissioner
and number of the members of
the local scout council and other
business men of the city, at lunch
con at the GERONIMO hotel yester-
day.
The meeting was alive with enthu-
siasm and applause from the time
the chairman introduced Mr.. Per
shing until it, was adjourned.
During his ten minute speech, Mr.
Pershing, who is cousin TO Gener-
al John j. Pershing, stated that il
the general were to come to Chick
asha, he would be greeted by mar
tial music loud cheers and the waiv-
ing of banners and national flags,
which would be entirely fitting, but
ne went on to say that he fthe
speaker) could deliver a much more
vital apd important message at that
particular time than could the ia
nous war chief himself, for what he
had 10 say dealt with the develop
ment of boys into we'll trained and
useful citizens. He continued that
no one would now dare dispute the
Importance of, and the great benefits
to be reaped from scout work as
means of training boys for citizen
ship; that marked Improvement
had been felt in the department and
development of boys wherever the
work had been pursued; and that no
city or town could afford to do with
out the uplifting and lasting results
accomplished by systematic scout
trimming.
IN Oklahoma City" the speaker
said, cur boy scout work is encour
aged and financed by our most in
fluentlal citizens, and when smoeone
capable is needed to carry out i'm
portant projects, the scouts are al
ways called on to do the work, and
what is more. the boys do it,,
Il know a prominent manufactur-
er," Mr.. Fitch, who followed Mr.
Pershing on the floor, stated, who
carefully goes over the record and
qualification of every young man
who applies for employment, either
in the offices or shops, and after as
certaining what the applicant is pro-
badly worth to the business fixes
salary and then asks the prospec
tive employee if he has had master
scout work If the answer is in
the affirmative, five dollars Per
week is added to the rate of pay
previously fixed. This large en-
ployer has found out by experience
that boy who has had scout train
ing is worth at least five dollars
per week more than the boy who
has not taken the work.
Gentlemen, let me congratulate
you upon your great enthusiasm in
promoting scout training in Chicka-
sha, and in behalf of the national
council l pledge to you all the en-
courlgemer& and support that can
possibly be given" the speaker con-
cluded a1o
The speech of Mr.. Fitch was fol
lowed by pointed remarks by various
members of the local scout council
who stated in substance that the
scout work in Chickasha had far
outgrown the facilities set aside for
it and that its scope must be mater
fally increased in order to provide
for the many boys in the city who
should reap its benefits; that scout
) training was a serious and impor-
tant business and should be conduct
ed IN nothing but a businesslike
manner; that in order to do the
work in a systematic and thorough
manner it would be necessary to
establish an executive office and
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