New Britain herald., 1922-12-28
|BOY SCOUT COUNCIL | HEARS 1922 REPORT
Arthur C. Kimball Chosen PreSi-
 dent for Coming Year

merit badge tests were passed dur. Ing the year as compared to l46 last year and 60 the year before, accord ing to report by the committee on court of honor, made at the annual
 meeting of the Boy Scout council Of
 New Britain last evening,
 Number of tests passed in 1920
 1921, 1929.
 Second class tests-39 45. 41.
 First class tests-31, 21, 20.
 Merit badge tests-6a. 146, 22S.
 There were 10 regular sessions of the court of honor throughout the year at which an average of two members were present.
 | All awards made by this commit tee were in accordance with the | standards sets by the national court of honor and only after the commit tee members by personal interroga- | ton, were satisfied as to qualification of the applicant.
 A. C. Kimball President. The following officers were elected fer the coming year: President, Arthur c. KimbalI; vice-president, administration, Edmund l.. Warren; vice-president, recruiting and train ing, Louis r. Slade: president, standards, Rev. J. l.. Sullivan; treas- urer, Leon A. Sprague; secretary, Lo- gan Page; commissioner, James P. Rogers. The officers named and John H. Fellows and Fred k. Gilpatric con- stitute the executive committee. Di- rector of education, Frederic l.. Fay.
 Members: w. c. French, Robert B. Skinner, F.. w. Peyton, Frank L.. Wilcox, r. H. Afford, Rev. Samuel s. Fiske. A. N. Abbe, George P. Spear, w. L. Damon, Joseph R. Andrews H. l.. Platt, r. s. Chamberlain, J. w. Marsand, W. c. Hungerford, Charles R. Sherman, w. w. Bullen, w. J.. Noble, E. W. Pape. Rev. John L. Davis, Oscar Marsh, Rev. Dr. J. F. Klingberg, A. r. Corbin, Edward c. Connolly, M. s. Hart, Peter Crona. E. w. Eddy, Carl s. Neuman, R. c. Twichell, c. w. Traut, Morris D. Sake, F. M. Holmes, William Fay, A. A. Mills, F. O.. Kilbourne, Rev. Gustave F. Pihl, Rev. L. Bojnowsky, Rev. Thomas Laden and Dr. J. w. Bush.
 As the membership of the council is becoming cumbersome it was thought advisable to reduce the membership by 30. The recommendation as made provide for membership of 45.
 Report of Executive.
 Walter o. Cook, Scout executive, made the following report of his ac- tivities for the past year:
 Under instructions from the ex- ecutive committee the executive at- tended seven day conference of the executives of the United States at Ashville, North Carolina, in Septem- Der. This conference was both prac- tical and inspirational in character. | The keynote of the conference which was sounded by St. Elmo Lewis, a l business expert was how to obtain l the net result in scouting. In other l words how best to utilize every dollar contributed to Scouting to the best expressed in terms of boys.
 Executives came to this confer ence from the Pacific coast and even Honolulu. We had three guests from foreign countries. The cost to the country of sending these men such a
  many thousands of dollars. Our chief | Scout executive believes that if we are justified in expending this vast amount of money for the exchange of ideas and experiences that the re- suit of such a conference should man. ifest itself in terms of more boys reached by the movement. Our chief has asked every first class council to increase it's membership 25 per cent by February IS, 1928. This council has pledged itself through me to do so. This will not be difficult as we were credited with only 245 scouts crease is but 61 scouts.
 Leadership Big Problem.
 Our greatest problem here in New Britain is that of leadership. The turnover is very high due to re- from the city and other causes beyond our control. It is also very difficult to get the boys to register be- cause of the fifty cents year regis tration fee. Very few troops but what have a considerable number of scouts in their membership who are not officially registered in New York. Unless they are so registered the The elimination of this evil of course, must come about through the educa- ion of the scoutmaster. The idea must be sold.
 1.-Two weeks ago the scout execu- ives of Connecticut met here in New Britain for a one days conference nd conferred with Ray Wyland of he national office. A very profitable vening was also spent between MT. Vyland and the local scoutmasters.
 "On October l the Boys club di- ectors requested the rooms which ave been used for our office for the f the executive committee a two ear lease has been taken of room 10 D l thes Hallinan building for scout ffice. The rent is $1S0 per year and lectric light service about s20. The lore central location for the office ill more than warrant the additional xpenditure.
 "The little scout paper known as The Scout Duffle Bag is just a year Id this month. I believe that it is cry helpful to the movement and so that it might be improved some- hat. This has been published for a ear without a cent of cost to the ,uncil so far. The proceeds from Ie advertisements and special con- 'ssion from the state trade school ake it just break even each month. Realizing that the volunteer work
 constitutes the backbone of scout-