Pueblo chieftain. (Pueblo, Colo.) 1889-current, 1921-10-26

The teams carrying on the cam
paign for Boy Scout funds for the
coming year, reported that they were
receiving from those canvassed, about
rs per cent OF the quota assigned to
the different teams.
A injecting at the Vail this noon will
give the percentage of the quota sub
scribed up to that time.
John II. Piper, Regional Executive
of the Boy Scouts of America, and
whose headquarters are in Kansas
City, is in Pueblo assisting in putting
over the Boy Scout budget for the
coming year.
Yesterday he told The Chieftain
that the most recent of advances in
the program of the National Coun-
ell has been that of developing the
employment of the Local Scout Exc
cutive, and now there are 400 such
officials in the United States. Up un-
til three years ago there were but
, few such officials, and the result was
that there was no working to stan
dards and no promise of permanence
Of the troops. Now there is essential
TO every troop, troop committee
whose work is to have charge of the
activities of each troop under its own
Scoutmaster.
Each member of that committee is
supposed to be especially responsible
| troop. This takes the place of the
old style of procedure, when n group
of BOYS wanted to be Scouts, and got
together bunch. then skirmished
round to find a man who would act as
Scoutmaster and that procedure kill
ed more troops than 1t gave life to.
Now the interested ones in town
go to the church or school or other
organization Interested, and get them
to appoint board of managers to
| adopt the Scout program as part
of the regular work OF the organiza-
| ton. They ask the board to appoint
not, three but five committee men.
who appoint the Scoutmaster.
Then comes in the Scout Executive
who has been taken on by local
| council having n dozen or moro troops
in their town. and his work is not to
| train the boys but to train the leaders
of the boys. and help them to put
over a genuine Scout program.
The Rotary clubs of the United
| States have for the third objective, to
help conserve the boy power and life
OF their cities. They have a commit
tee on work with boys. and they have
in many cities backed the Scout fl
nances and helps to furnish the ma
chinery for the operation OF Scout
Council. The Lions and the Kiwanis
clubs also help in many cities.
All of this has brought about a
higher type OF men to act on troop
committees and volunteer as Scout
masters. 1t has also increased the Of
ficiency of tho great majority of the
troops. while it has lessened the turn
over, meaning that more boys stay
with the work until a later age than
when the hand-to-mouth. go as you
please, methods were tolerated. In
the last year merit badges have been
given to Scouts at the rate OF 5000 a
month. And where there is no first
class council as is in Pueblo, there is
one badge given. out of fifty given to
Scouts under local council. Which
illustrates the value OF leadership.
There are thousands of pioneer
Scouts in the country. boys who live
in isolated places where there is no
chance to form a troop or patrol
These Scouts are dealt with directly
from tho national headquarters in
New York City. And then there are
50, 900 veteran Scouts. men who have
had ten years experience as register
ed Scouts.
A Judge OF court in Chicago re-
Gently said that in his experience he
had $4,000 boys before him for trial
OF that number only five claimed to
have been Scouts. Three OF these
claimed to have been tenderfoot
Scouts. and he charged them to re-
member the oath they had taken and