Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-11-27
Boy Scouts Will
Expand Activity
Over Southeast
Splendid Organization Plans
to Recruit Members in All
Districts of Four States

At meeting at the Piedmont hotel
in Atlanta on Thursday, December 2,
a program will be formulated which
will extend the activity and member
ship of the Boy Scouts of America
to every company in Georgia,
Florida and the Carolinas.
Eli r. Galloway, state president of
the Scout Organization, has called the
conference. Its object is to assem-
ment for the purpose of organizing
committee which will promote and
lend direct assistance to new units
of the Scouts throughout the south
east.
In general, the plan will be to es-
tablish a Scout council in every con-
gressional district of the states
named. Each Of these councils will
maintain a travelling representative
who will visit all towns and commun-
tiles appointing Scoutmasters and
helping to organize troops.
Then will follow training courses
both for Scouts and Scoutmasters,
held day rallies, camps and all the
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ing up links in the Boy Scout chain.
According to statistics, Georgia is
far behind in its percentage of bows
who wear the uniform of the Scouts
The campaign that will be launched
on December will give the state a
wonderful opportunity to overcome
this handicap. The Tri-Weekly Jour
ma is keenly interested in the success
OF the constructive plans of the Boy
Scouts and recommends the careful
consideration of it's readers, young
and old, to the movement
This paper will keep it's readers
fully posted concerning the progress
to the present boyhood and the fu-
ture manhood of the state.
FolloW1ng is a statement issued
by A. A. Jameson, Scout executive.
explaining in detail what is expect
ed to be accomplished at the organi-
cation meeting next Thursday:
An exceedingly significant meet
ing from the standpoint of the boys
OF Georgia, is to be held in Atlanta,
December End. At the meeting will
be organized the committee to have
erection and supervision Of the Boy
Scout work in the four southeastern
states, Georgia, South and North
Carolina and Florida. At the same
time, the organization committee
which is to have charge of the work
OF the development In Georgia will
meet. The meeting is called by Mr..
E. R Galloway, of LAGRANGE. chair
man of the organization committee.
on behalf of the National Council,
Boy Scouts of America, and will DE
under the leadership of Mr.. E. r.
Galloway, DR.. George J. Fisher. OF
New York, the director of field work
for the Boy Scouts of America, and
Stanley A. Harris, of Memphis, ma
tional field executive.
Great progress has been made in
scouting within the past few years.
More than five hundred thousand
Scouts and Scout leaders are defi-
nitely registered with the National
Council. Councils have been organ
lied in Georgia, at Atlanta, Macon,
Savannah, Columbus, Rome. Augusta,
Valdosta and Waycross. But still,
| the majority of the boys of Georgia
have not been touched, because Geor-
gia is decidedly rural state. There
are now one hundred sixty-seven
troops outside of these cities, all
| doing more or less effective work.
Still, only one boy in every sixty
one in Georgia Is a Scout, while in
| Florida there is one Scout for every
twenty-seven boys, in North Caro-
| lima, one for every forty-one, in
| Texas, one for every twenty-eight;
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