Evening star., 1926-12-12
boy SCOUTS AIM
AT $4,000 BUDGET
Council viii Conduct Quiet
Campaign to Finance
Activities for 1927.

Forty thousand dollars is being
: sought by the District Of Columbia
Council of the Boy Scouts Of America
for the conduct of the Scout organiza'
ton in Washington during 1927.
This figure is the conservative esti-
mate for the Scouts budget for the
. ensuing year made by group of the
citv's business men and represents
the amount that will be souEf'
through a quiet, personal solicitatloA
rampaign" instead of the usual "hlgn-
powered drive" that the members or
the Scout executive hoard declare i
often expensive to engineer.
Washington'S business houses
merchants, bankers, realtors anu
others-will be appealed to as Wei
as the public at large 10 contriouts 20
the fund which. it is said. VIII enapie
the Washington organization OF boy
Scouts to carry on for a wnoie yeai
It's work of teaching growing poss'
through the medium of 125 troops 10
keen themselves physically strong.
c,entallv awake and morally straight.
Maintain Two Camps.
To facilitate the accomplishment OF
mis- aim. the District Councils actiVr
ties include the maintenance OF wv
camns where the boys o. " asn'isoo''
rarticipate in an extensive recrea'
uonal and scoutcraft program Two
10 roo tracts of land are owned oy the
local council and they are ldentlneo
os the Woodrow Wilson ana the
poosevelt camps. The former Is inc
rift of Robert s. Brookings anu -.
is located at Burnt Mllis' Mu;,
miles northeast of the Dlslric' ,iie.
II is an all-year settlement WIZ
Scouts study their lore IN aii I.a
and is the reservation tnal uahie .n
frict Council hopes to make aVaiiauS
- y;siting Scouts from other STATES
through the cooperation or otner
councils. .as .+ cal.
,ert cliffs on Chesapeake Bay, Wnlch
bv virtue Of its geographlcai sllua
tion affords ideal means OF recIea
zion for the young troopers. re
cent,y an intensive program VI
80 swing for Scout leaders has been
conducted at Camp Roosevelt.
900 Volunteer Workers.
The executive affairs of the DIS
trice Council are handied Iol .ns
most part by corps OF 'vo "o.u ~
,rorkers in addition to its staIi ol
,nraid officers. Only two members
af tho entire council staff are run
,,a;d workers and these are the
scout executive and the assistant
scout executive. Two clerks ana d
STAFF Of six field executives are palo
nm half-time basis. All otnef
workers including the executive
hoard the council, deputy conmis-
sioners and their assistants. mem
hers of the court OF hohor' hetll
badge examiners, members Vi .ne
courts OIL review. troop committee
men. suoutmasters ana assiseah.
scoutn.asters. WORK without any pa!
In the interest OF the DiSsrlct o'ooo
Boy scouts.
II - ror the carrying out OF the
actual program OF Scout WoTk .iieii
that the 4I.s>.. .ct Nt.-.i~.A =. $500
so 600 Tor its 1927 budget. the
execu i've bcara. III anhouiic.As tug
campaign Yesterday. said that con
tribu,,ons by check gan pe inace
pavable 10 George hewitt Myers
treasurer of the councn, 10y scout
headuuarters. ll05 Vermont Buiiu
ing.
The executive board is composed
of l.. A. Snes.d, president; Huston
Thompson, honorary president, AT
thur j. .aay hrs, v-cc y. csident'
I,loyd NJ. Brett, second vice presi-
dent; julius Garfinckel, third vice
preSident; re-u4 A,s.. LScil, IUufsn sicS
president, George Hewitt Myers,
treasurer. ana barry Monun, Scout
commissioner. and Henry p. Blair,
L. Whiting Estes, Issac Cans, j. H.
Hanna, l.. Lee Jones, Roy l.. Neu.
hauser. H. L. Rust, George r. Wales,
Myron w Whitney and Luke |.
Wilson.