Evening star., 1923-01-01
PRESIDENT ASSISTS.
BOY SCOUTS DRIVE
Chief Executive Sponsors
Flag Prize Offer to Success
full Regional Chairmen.
D. C. QUOTA 600 MEMBERS
Twenty-Five Troops in Race for
Recruits Before Feb
ruary 15
D. C. QUOTA 600 MEMBERS

That President Harding is deeply
Interested in tn" anniversary round
m" of the Boy Scouts of America.
an effort TO make the scouting pro-
gram available to Il % per cent in
crease of boys, with total OF aoo'-
600 members by the thirteenth ami
versary of scouting in February. is
evident by the announcement that
10 each one of the twelve national
regional Chairmcn whose region
shows they have reached their quota
will be presented on behalf of the
chief executive. the Presidents flag
. In addition. there will be presented,
in the name of the President, a
streamer to each one of the 600 local
councils which reaches it's goal, a
smaller troop peunant to each lnul-
vidual scout troop in the country
that reaches it quota. and perhaps
also an individual arm band to each
scout in the troop which receives
the troop award. At the present time
100000 scouts and $4,000 men ac-
lively interested in scouting are
working toward successful goal.
Local scouts Busy.
Washington scouts are entering
wholeheartedly into the effort to
raise the local quota. which amounts
10 about GOO new scouts. twenty
five troops have already pledged
about 80 new recruits. and 1t seems
assured that the 500 needed Will be
safely registered by February 15.
ScoutmaStcr Ellis :. Middleton. in
charge of the largest troop in Wash
inGtuu which meets in the Fourth
Presbyterian Church. and is known
as The Presidents own" issues the
following challenges:
1T is Imperative that The PreSi-
dents Own should reach more boys
than any other troop in its locality;
and to this extent. | dare any other
ScoutmaSter TO try to catch us. Count
on US for nineteen additional active
members, which will bring our total
enrolment to ninety three. BY Febru-
ary ) we will have not only seventy
active scouts. but thirty associates, to
make the total membership 100"
Troop 100 Leads Contest.
Al the close Of the year Troop 100
of the BOYS department OF the Y. NJ.
&. n still leads in the advancement
contest for the 'oSt trophy cup. This
troop has remained in the lead since
the contest opened in October. and
has acquired 50 heavy a margin of
poIntS as TO make il difficult for any
other troop to pass il. During be
ccmbCr the troop qualified for thirty
twenty leading troops December 81 is
a. follows:
Troop, 100, 3oi90; Troop, u. l;i.1al Troop
l, 1876: Troop 80 HE: Troop az. 1856;
Troop -. ".Si6; Troop. 10, 93l0; Troop ~.
) Ig5: Troop -. S.O.9. Troop IL T.SiG; rrnup
IOl. lbs: Troop 10 7.1T4; Troop 81 G.3IS:
Troop 10. ".S4l; Troop 1I0. 5.602 Troop 81,
;,.4SN: Troop 49, 5.4s5; Troop %, 1856; Troop
.. Ass: Troop 5. i.469.
Scout Robert Smith Of Troop 100
Gordon Webner of Troop - a close
second. The leaders follow: one.
Robert Smith. Troop 100. 80 points;
:. Gordon Webner. Troop Is. -
points: ), Gordon Rule. Troop 100. 40
points; I. Eugene Roberts. Troop 100,
% points: :. Walter McBroom. Troop
l.: John Marquis, Troop 100 and Al
den Smell, Troop 100, 40 points; 6.
Lewis Atkins, Troop 100. and Charles
Merrill. Troop /: 40 points: Z. Carlos
Marcum, Troop 100, 30 points.
scouts Receive Merit Badges.
Seventeen scouts were granted
twenty-five merit badges at the scs-
day evening. as follows: Troop l.
Charles Merrill camping: Harry
Lambcrton, camping: Troop .. Edgar
Eagleston. life saving; Troop Is. Ben
ton Brooks, personal health; Walter
McBroom, horsemanship: Gordon
Webner. camping, craftsmanship,
electricity: Troop 80, Charles Earl,
hiking: Girard Lee, blacksmithing;
Troop %. Clyde E. Sargent. electric
ity; Paul McGee. electricity: Troop
20, James Mcqueen. firemanship, ma
chinery; Carl Tomlin. firemanship:
Troop SO. John Crown, first aid.
scholarship; Troop 100. Lewis Atkins,
personal health, public health; Cor
don Rule, handicraft. leather work
ing, public health; Troop 100, Robert
Smith, first aid To animals, leather
working; Alden Smell, craftsmanship.
At the same court Paul Blackburn
of Troop 10 became life and star
scout, thus obtaining the second
highest award possible in scout ad-
VanCement
At the last session of the court of
reviews the following scouts were
advanced in rank: To first class
Troop l, King Mallory, William Phe-
Ian; Troop Is, Julian Smith. William
Sterrett, Edwin Stimson To second
CLASSROOM 80, Stuart Hawkins;
Troop 81, Jules Rodin, Herbert Shell
ton; TrOUD 81 William RayDor