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OCTOBER, 1937
Vol. XXV, No. 9
Copyright, 1937, by
Boy Scouts of America
Still Marching On
Recognition Awards for 1937
By DR. JAMES E. WEST
Chief Scout Executive
and Editor of Boys' Life
THE National Jamboree, The World Jamboree, as
well as our vacations are now but memories. We are
mobilizing for our Fall and Winter work. Because of
the unusual degree of prominence given to the Scout Move-
ment, incident to the National and World Jamborees, and
the fine records made by those who had the privilege of
representing the Boy Scout Movement, Scouting enjoys a
higher degree of good will than at any time in our history.
The evidence is abundant that the harvest is ripe. We know
that in all parts of America tests reveal that from 60 % to
90% of boys indicate a desire to be either Cubs or Scouts.
As an outcome of the Jamboree, evidence has come to us,
voluntarily, showing the high regard of those who manage
the press, the radio, the motion picture industry, the leaders
in the field of education, in the field of religion, and the
great business enterprises of America. It would seem that
Scouting can have anything within reason if it ean but in-
telligently present a practical plan.
Our Responsibility
If we will realize this and the record showing that from
60 % to 90 % of youth eagerly await the opportunity to
become Scouts, what do we propose to do about it? Do we
have a vision that is adequate to the responsibility which is
ours?
I have the conviction that our Scouters have that vision;
but more than vision, that through the years we have de-
veloped the skills and technique of translating vision into
actual reality and accomplishment. Our Scouters are well
trained. Through Planning Committees and Growth Com-
mittees many Councils and Regions have carefully charted
their territory and have developed long-range programs for
increased service to an ever-enlarging number of boys.
However, after such a historic event as our National
Jamboree with its whole train of new values, it is vitally
essential that we re-examine and re-adjust, where necessary,
established plans that we may seize the opportunity of the
moment. I am hopeful that quite generally these re-apprais-
als and re-adjustments are under way and that already
there has been brought into operation, because of Local
Council initiative, plans for a Fall and Winter campaign
on a basis that will put to shame the record of any previous
year in the history of Scouting.
A Definite Program of Organization
Specifically, I recommend, indeed I earnestly ask, that tff
it has not already been done, with the help of the President
of the Council and the members of the Executive Com-
mittee, a program for the organization of Troops, Packs,
Sea Scouts, Ships and other units be thought out, based
upon such knowledge as may be available as to proper
meeting places, potential leadership and the number of boys
who really desire to be Cubs and Scouts, and that this form
a basis of a definite program. I hope and indeed I urge that
in formulating this program that the Council leadership
courageously think in terms of such increase in the budget
as will assure reasonable progress in the immediate future
in making effective such program as may be thought desir-
able for any given Council. Why should the budgets of the
Local Councils, especially, now that we have the responsi-
bility of promoting and organizing Cubbing a^ a part of
the Charter of each and every Council, complacently go
along with a budget that has been worked out years ago,
when Scouting was not so well understood and when it did
not have a record of achievement such as it has today?
In some Councils the budget may be determined for the
year by this time. In such cases, the effort should be made
to increase the budget for the year 1938. In such cases
where Community Chest relationships may make it difficult
or involve delays, it is recommended that consideration be
given to securing the approval the Community Chest au-
thorities to raise, by approved methods, supplementary re-
sources. The employed personnel of the Council should be
of the very best and it should be sufficient, but not more
than sufficient, to do that type of executive work which
experience shows can be best and most effectively done by
OCTOBER, 1937
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