The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-07-26
Boys Look up to Scout
master as Their Ideal
of Man
JOB FOR BOY LOVERS
Progress of Scout Movement
in Tulsa Given in Plain
Terms

lie mas spent the most of his life in
scout work.
The Boy Scouts OF America Is a
national organization with local
councils located in the towns and
cities. Each local council is
member of the national organization
and governed by It's rules. In each
town which has a Boy Scout or
ganization there is an executive
council composed Of the business
men OF the town who are interested
In boys. These men furnish the
funds for carrying on local work.
The officers of the Tulsa council
of the Boy Scouts OF America are:
Lee 4evering, president; II. l..
StandSeven, c. l.. Buchner, T.. NJ.
Pritchard and o. S. Budkholder,
:. ,vice-presidents; w. +. Stahl, secre-
" tary. ~ j. Gubser, treasurer: j..
w. Robb, commissioner, and John
M. Indy, executive. The additional
members of the executive commit
tee are: Charles Meyers, l.. ]. T..
Rooney. Max Madansky, Rev. C. w.
Kerr. Clark Field. A. J. Rudd, w.
c. Steger and A. T.. Wickizer.
The scouts are divided into troops
which consist of from Is TO 30 boys.
Each troop is under the guidance
OF scoutmaster who has some older
boy for his assistant. The troop is
subdivided into patrols OF eight boys.
Each patrol has its leader and as
sistant leader The troops are
usually divided amongst tn @
churches. The scout movement is
directly related to the church be-
cause 1t teaches the boy reverance
for his God Tho scoutmaster OF a
troop is often the pastor of the
church or the superintendent OF the
SuEdat school. Any man who likes
boys Ind has little time can make
successful scoutmaster. The
scoCtmaster is the key man to the
: cout movement; he Is the man who
- aims the boy, he is the boys hero
Gnc ideal; he Is the man whom
the boys looks up to as a leader and
teacher. 80 man is too big to be
a scoutmaster. All scoutmasters re-
ceived their information and train
ing from local headquarters at the
Y. NJ. C. A.
There are fourteen troops In town
div.hed amongst the various
churches and with the following
scoutmasters: w. Il. La Forge, l.
~ ~ ID bdlt, w.
Murphy. Leo w Fremuth, n. ]
Wasileewski. W. T. Jones. Howard
Meyers. l.. w. Wise, L. A. Bones
Fred Woodson. NJ. i. Mason, Aller
Howell Homer Hughes and ]. w
Dillbeck. with the following assist
ant scoutmasters: G. b. welietts
Glen La Forge. Ralph Childs. ]. L.
Irwin, John Schleppey, Moran Ran.
som, Charles Madden, Loui,
O'Rourke, Walter Raper. Joe Bad
ter. Harry Thompson, C. p. Bristc
and +. c. Barbeau
The fourteen Tulsa troops are
divided among the followine
churches, each church having one
troop and some churches have two
troops; First Presbyterian, Firs,
Christian. Second Presbyterian. First
Methodist, Holy Family, Grace NJ
r., College Hill Presbyterian. Firs,
Baptist, circuit NJ. E. Boston Avenue
NJ. E., and Nogales Avenue Baptist
There are troops also at the Boy,
Home and the Mark Twain school
Out of town troops receiving guild
ance and helpful information from
Tulsa headquarters are: SANE
'pringS Sapupa, jerks, Claremore
S>ilton. 1Skiatook. Broken Arrow ant
- Mounds.
When a boy enrolls to become Z
scout he usually goes to the pastor
of his church and finds out who th'
scoutmaster is and when the scou
meetings are held. He will prob
ably go the the next meeting and tel
the scoutmaster or his assistant o
his desire to become a scout. Hi
name is considered by the troop ant
IL he Is accepted he is then referred
10 the scout executive who passe
on him and instructs the scoutmas
ter to give the tenderfoot test. Thi
Il the first scout test and is com
paratively easy. 1t consists II
knowing the scout law and oath an
in being able to give a short demon
stration of woodcraft. II he passe
this first test he is enrolled in tn
national organization and given hi
tenderfoot pin, He is now "Bo
Scout"
IA After the tenderfoot test comes tn
osecond class which is more diff
cult than the first class test whic
Is the most difficult of the three
wheA boy passes the first clas
test he Is pretty nearly able to TAX
care OF himself in most any predica
ment in which he finds himsel
After the boy becomes first elias
scout he is privileged to try for IN
"merit badges" These are sma
badges for passing other tests o
various subjects, such as swimminl
gardening, chemistry and woodcraf
n a boy wins specified number c
merit badges he receives an extr
ranking. Ten specified mer
badges gives the boy the rank OF
honor scout. Also by passing ce'
= tain other scout tests he may p'
come q life scout and other ties
entitle him to the rank OF Eag
scout. the highest order In "scou'
ing" -,
The scout oath and law are Ut ~
heart of the scout movement III
scout oath follows: ION my hoh'
i will 90 my best-To do my du'
to Go@ and my country and to oo'
the scoht law; to help other peop
IM0THERC ERIEND S>c,O,