The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1923-03-22
WHY MONEY FOR
BOY SCOUTS?
local Committee Explains
Aims and Purposes Of
First Class Council

BY way of further explaining the
purpose of raising $500 in Kennewick
for the Boy Scout program, the local
committee has issued the following
statement:
The territory of Garfield, Columbia,
Walla Walla, Franklin and Umatilla
counties will be organized into four
districts, with Walla Walla as head
quarters. The combined districts will
make up the council which will have
full charge of every branch of scout
ing.
District No. 1, Walla Walla, Milton
and Freewater; No. 2, Dayton, Waits
burg, Prescott, Pomeroy; No. 8, Pas
co and Kennewick; No. 4, Pendleton,
Athena, Weston.
Scouting in each district shall be
carried on under the direction of a
district committee. The members Of
the four district committees will make
up the council. These district COM
mittees will be made up of men who
represent the different religious ele-
ments, the business, professional, ed
ucational and so far as possible, ev-
cry element of the life of this terri
tory. This council will be divided into
nine departments: executive board,
sub committee court of honor, depart
ments Of finance, field, leadership and
training. publicity, civic service and
camping. The department of finance
will draw up years budget to take
care ofsthe administrative and over
head expense, which will be about $5,-
900 for the whole territory.
The council will employ trained
Scout executive. A man who has been
commissioned by the national coun-
Gil under the terms of the charter they
hold from congress. This man will
have to meet the national require
ments and will maintain the work
here up to the national standard. His
duties are too numerous to give in
detail but briefly they are: first, he
is primarily a mans man and does
practically all Of his work thru the
men of the different communities.
Working with and thru the different
of his council he recruits
and trains volunteer leaders who in
turn apply the work to the boys. He
is an executive and thru his council
one man is enabled to make this pro-
gram, with its many branches and
activities available to all of the boys
of a large territory. He trains the
leaders, maintains standards, plans
and directs inter-troup activities. He
is director and responsible for the
summer camp, which shall be open to
all Scouts. In brief, he is in charge
of all the work, under the direction of
the council of local men.
There are the present time 13 coun-
ellis in the State of Washington, with
enough more being organized to COW
er the state, as practically the whole
country is covered today.
This $1,000, of which Kennewick
shall pay $500, will pay the overhead
for the necessary organiza- |
tion, training of Scoutmasters and of
older boys for junior officers. It will
bring all the Scouts of the district |
together periodically for inter-troop
contests of scouting efficiency. It
will mean that inside of a year at
least Is per cent of the boys from u
taking this training. 1t will make a
camp available, where each
and every Scout may receive from one
to six weeks of outdoor recreation
and training. It will mean that the |
leisure time of at least 1870 Of the |
boys will be filled with interesting,
.haracter-forming things to do. With al