Arizona republican., 1921-01-22
BOY SCOUTS TO HAVE ASSISTANCE IF ROTARY CLUB
First Step Taken With Ap- pointment Of Commit tees-Scouts' Work Topic Of Weekly Meeting

Deciding by unanimous vote to get behind the Boy Scout movement fin Phoenix and vicinity as the best means of handling the boy problem, the mem bers of the Rotary club yesterday at their weekly luncheon made a start by ratifying the appointment of the following committees:
 General Boys Work Committee Dean William Scarlett, chairman; w. c. Hornberger, Claude Decatur Jones, Wallace c. Button, Mel Fiekas.
 Sub. Committee on Scouting - Mel Ficxas, chairman; Harlan J. Cray Dwight B. Heard, Percival Salisbury w. w. Lawl on, E. Power Conway Dr. John Dennett Jr., Lee N. F1tzhugh, Ralph Murphy, Charles W. Wartman.
 Sub Committee on Bib Brothers - Wallace c. Button. chairman; Howard L. Aller,. L. w. Coggins, Robert c. Metzler.
 Sub Committee on School Work = w. c. Hornberger, chairman; John D. Loper Daniel F. Jantzen, Dr. Robert R. Brownfield, James M. Stewart, Rus sell Freeman.
 These committees were named on the recommendation of committee head ed by Dean Scarlett, who made a re- port at yesterdays meeting.
 No organization is better fitted than the Rotary club to take up this boys work, declared Dean Scarlett Tn an address which was given the closest attention he outlined the great need for such work here in Phoenix and told how much could be accomplished by the Rotary club if that organization went into 1t whole-heartedly.
 What the Scouts Have Done
 It required the corning of the world war to demonstrate the value of the Boy Scout organization, he stated. Boy Scouts were used to unold advanage as naval parols, as messengers. as guards. and in many other ways. Eng land, France, Italy, all learned how valuable the Boy Scouts were.
 When the United States entered the great war the Boy Scouts was the largest uniformed organization in America, Dean Scarlett stated. The strength of the Boy Scouts was twice as great as the army, twice as great as the National Guard, four times that of the navy, and eleven times that of the marine corps.
 There was a call for beans to feed the great army and immediately Boy Scout gardens sprang up everywhere. In the first Liberty bond drive the Boy Scouts sold s2s.0O0O0O worth. In the second drive they sold $102, ,OOO. 900. A cry went up that the Boy Scouts were 'hogging' the glory in selling Liberty bonds and they were then limited to only the last two weeks of the remain ing drives. Nevertheless, in the third Liberty bond drive the Boy Scouts sold sS0.O00,00O worth, and in the fourth they sold s92.O00.O00. Tn the Victory loan drive they sold more than $100.- O00,000 worth. In all, the Boy Scouts sold more than S400,00O,0o0 worth of Liberty bonds
 Want More Boy Scouts Here
 There was a call for black walnut for gun stocks and the Boy Scouts hunted out black walnut amounting to 21,000. .OOO feet They wanted car bon for gas masks and the Boy Scouts found carbon enough for 500. 900 masks
 The Boy Scouts. declared Dean Scar lett. take the traditional boy gang and weld it into a useful organization
 He described the three classes of scouts and the requirements for each
 There win be II .0OO boys in Arizo- ma of Boy Scout age." stated Dean Scarlett. "and less than one-third arc Boy Scouts. We want an organiza- ton in Phoenix to get behind this movement. There is no more usefu thing the Rotary club can do than tC help this organization.
 The report made by Dean Scarlet was approved by the Rotarians ana the committees were appointed by President John Brown.
 It was announced that there would be no regular monday luncheon nexi Friday. Instead, the Arizona Rotary conference will be held Friday eve. ming. Jan. 2S, at the Y. M. C. A. The meeting will be called at 6.30 o'clock preceded by a dinner
 P. R. Helm. a new Rotarian. wal formally introduced yesterday by Capt A. c. Taylor.
 Mel Fickas was chairman of the day