Evening star., 1923-12-02
DISTRICT SCOUTS
Boy Scouts.

dress a mass meeting of all Boy
Scouts of Washington on the east
front of the Capitol next Saturday
morning at 1890. Col Roosevelt will
publicly award the streamers given
IN the name of the late President
warren G. Harding to fifty-four
washington Boy Scout troops, which
increased their enrolment 25 per cent
curing the roundup contest, which
ran from November 1, 1922, to August
l. 1923. This will be the biggest turn
out OF Boy Scouts ever held in Wash
inston' and every one of the 1000
scouts In Washington or vicinity IS
expected to be present.
The following troops will be award
eo the streamer and will bring their
american and troop flags, with a color
guard or Scouts in uniform: Troop /.
Church of the New Jerusalem: 4.
Feck Memorial Chapel; 6, st. Mar
sarets Church; 7. ST. COLUMBIA Chanel:
., douglas Memorial Church: 10,
Ninth Street Christian Church. 70.
sherwood Presbyterian: IL. v nj TT
a. 10, Cleveland Park Conversational
\
ohurch; 20, Epworth NJ. E. Church; "a,
Epiphany Chapel; 26, GEORGETOWN
fresoyterian; 81. Ludlow School; 81,
FHth Baptist: 80. Church of the
Irahshguration: SO. Takoma Park
rresnyterian: 35, Rhode Island Ave-
nue. VI. p: 3S, Reformation Church:
~ fowell School: 43, Pierce School:
4o' Mount Vernon NJ E. Church: 46,
foundry NJ. F.; 4S. Anacostia NJ. E.
Church: 50, All Saints Church. 81 F.
'. Brown School; 5s. Fifteenth Street
Chrlstian Church: 63. Calvary BAPTIST
! church; 81. Central Presbyterian
ohurch; &c. 81, Trinity NJ. Z. Church:
o. Garden Memorial Church. 20.
rourth Presbyterian Church: 20. Y.
M. H. A: II, st. Paurs Church. 80.
orookIand NJ. E.; SO. Emory NJ. E.: 85.
Boys Club; 80. Church of the Blessed
sacrament; 81. st. Paul's Catholic
Church: 90. SO, Holy Comforter
Church; Sc, Chapel of Nativity. Catho-
nc 100, Y. NJ. c. A; 1O1, Ballston. Va;
lo2' NJ. T.. Church South: 107. Mary
iand Park Christian Church; los. Seat
Pleasant Md: ia, Berwyn, Md: l15,
Laurel. Md; III, Rosslyn. Va; 126.
Alexandria; 127 First Baptist Church.
Alexandria. Va.
LIT. raul Bartsch, curator of Mol
lusca of the Smithsonian Institution
VIII give an illustrated lecutre or
How to Make Nature Study Interest
ing to Scouts" before the next meet
ing of the scoutmaster's training
course, at George Washington Uni
versity, 2017 G street northwest. or
Wednesday evening, December :.
Following their annual custom OF
remembering the less fortunate or
Thanksgiving day. many Washing
ton Boy Scouts provided poor families
with a good Thanksgiving dinner
A typical case was that of Troop 73.
of the Fourth Presbyterian Church, of
which Ellis S. Middleton is scout
| master. The scouts of this troop, of
their own volition, hunted up five
needy families and out of their own
funds purchased all the necessaries
for good Thanksgiving dinner,
which they took and quietly delivered
at these homes on the night before
Thanksgiving.
AT the October meeting of the ex-
ecutive board. the following recon-
mendations was adopted. and made ar
| official procedure of the Boy Scouts
of America:
THAT new and distinct badge be
provided by the Boy Scouts of Amer
lea to be awarded to scouts duly
/ registered, either as active or as
sociate- members of a troop, or as
pioneers, who, because of apparent
permanent physical disability, are
unable to pass all of the tests pre-
scribed for the award of the second
and first class badges
when such a scout has passed all
those requirements prescribed for the
second-class scout that this physical
condition permits, he will be entitled to
a badge or certifcation to this effect,
which shall be acceptable as evidence
of achievement when he presents him
self for tests in qualifying for the
achievement certificate or badge.
Scouts earning this special achieve
ment certificate or badge shall be en-
titled to qualify for any other of the
merit badges in the program Of the Boy
Scouts Of America, without any modi-
f1cations. The achievement badge is to
be metal and cloth and the cloth badge
Is to be worn on the sleeve with any
merit badges subsequently awarded.
THE procedure in qualifying for
these special achievement certificates or
badges shall be the same as is now pre-
scribed for second and first class scouts,
except that the scout shall also present
a written application addressed to the
local court of honor or examining COM
mittee setting forth i'll full the apparent
physical disability which makes impos-
sible his meeting of the prescribed re-
quirements for second and first class
scouts. This application shall be sup
ported by the evidence Of a duly regis
tered physician, based upon thorough
personal medical examination.
This evidence shall definitely cover
the question as to whether the ap-
parent physical disability actually
makes Impossible full compliance
with the requirements of either sec
ond or first class scouts or involves
such hazard as to make an attempt
inadvisable.
Further, as to the probability OF
the permanency of the disability as
set forth: 1t is recommended that
scouts making application for these
special achievement certificates or
badges be encouraged to exercise
their own initiative and judgment in
devisins and passing some test with
in their physical capacity as evidence
Of their scout spirit and their eager