Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-09
HOOVER TO SPEAK
AT SCOUT SESSION
Plans for Expansion Program
Will Be Discussed To-
morrow Night.

More than 400 leading business and
professional men of the Nation will be
addressed by President Hoover in the
Willard Hotel tomorrow night at ban
uuet meeting, called to confer on the
launching of an extensive f1ve-year eX-
pansion program for the Boy Scouts OF
America, and to commemorate the
twentieth anniversary of the founding
of the Boy Scouts in this country.
The banquet meeting is scheduled to
begin at Z o'clock and at 8 O'Clock
President Hoover will speak, his address
to be broadcast by Nationwide radio
hook-up.
The affair has been arranged for by
sponsoring committee headed by Vice
President Curtis, and includes Speaker
of the House Nicholas Longworth, Sec
rotary of the Treasury Mellon, Secre.
tary of the Interior Wilbur, Secretary of
War Hurley, Secretary of Agriculture
Hyde, Secretary of Commerce Lamont,
Secretary of Labor Davis, Judge John
Barton Payne, president of the Amer
lean Red Gross; William Green, prest-
dent of the American Federation OF
Labor. and William Butterworth, presi-
dent Of the United States Chamber OF
Commerce.
Others on Program.
Besides President Hoover, other
speakers are to be Walter w. Head OF
Chicago, president of the National
Council of the Boy Scouts of America;
Mr.. Butterworth, president OF the
United States Chamber OF Commerce;
Secretary of the Interior Wilbur, Nor
timer l.. Schiff, vice chairman OF the
national committee of the Boy Scouts
of America, and James E. West, CHIEF
Scout executive.
The Boy Scout expansion program
under consideration Is the result OF an
intensive survey which was recently
completed by Mark M. Jones and was
financed by the Laura Spelman Rookie
teller Memorial, it is stated. The sur
vey showed, according to James e.
West, chief Scout executive, that the
Scout organization "is inadequate to
meet the demands necessary for future
development and recommends that 1873
new projects be undertaken by the
Boy Scouts OF America within the next
i've years.
Among the immediate projects to come
under consideration will be the eStab-
lishment of a program for boys under
Scout age. Accordingly. program for
boys between the ages of and IL years
was decided upon by the National Coun-
ell of the Boy Scouts, after consulta-
tons with eminent psychologists and
educators all over the world. The jun-
Tor organization is to be known as the
Cubs 1t is also proposed to include
another division for boys over 16 years
Of age. The program for the older
boys, it is believed by Scout executives,
viii be Of great Importance as a means
Of preventing much juvenile delin-
Quency.
To Consider Training School.
Another recommendation to be con-
sidered will be the need Of the eStab-
lishment of a national training school
with adequate facilities for training
executives, camp leaders and volunteers.
There are now more than 1000
Boy Scouts and Scouters in America. 1t
is stated, and more than 100000 per-
sons have been Boy Scouts in this coun-
try since the organization of the Boy
Scouts Of America, 1t is stated. The
Scouters include executives and others
connected with the Boy Scout organiZa-
ton other than Boy Scouts. A
Both the National Broadcasting and
the Columbia Broadcasting Systems will
link together their chains for President
Hoover's talk ARRANGEMENTS have been
made for Boy Scout groups In towns
and cities from coast to coast to
listen in.