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Wanted, Million
Boys; Apply to
yVm. G. McAdoo
Former Secretary of Treas?
ury Heads Campaign to
Enlist Scouts Because
They Helped Win the War
Drive to Start June 8
Parades and Pageants to
Focus Attention on Move?
ment to Swell Their Ranks
...The Boy Scoots of America, who
?A?? intrusted with confidential work
IJSPthe navy, who sold $300,000,000
worth of Liberty bonds, who found 29,
000,000 feet of black walnut lumber
after experts had failed to uncover it,
and performed many other war-time
tasks, are to be given their reward.
Early next month the nation will
drop other business to do honor to the
Scouts whose war work was carried on
so quietly and effectively that many
knew nothing of it. The period be?
ginning June 8 and ending with Flag
Day, June 14, has been officially set
aside as Scout Week,
njjstensibly, the purpose of the week
is the carrying on of a membership
drive that is expected to add 1,000,000
members to the rolls of the organiza?
tion. But the real object is to call at?
tention to the achievement of the boys
who forgot all personal interest to
serve their country in its hour of need,
thus living up to the highest ideals of
the body to which they belong. Scout
Week will be a seven-day demonstra?
tion of the nation's gratitude to the
boy workers who but a little while ago
were indulgently looked upon as mere
children.
Parades and Pageants
Attention will be focused upon the
movement of the Scouts by parades,
pageants and unique stunts of a thou?
sand varieties. There will be special
movie programmes, speeches and ser?
mons. In every city, town and ham?
let in the United States the story of
the American Boy Scout will be told.
When the United States entered the !
war the Boy Scouts of America, includ?
ing its "reserve corps" of ex-scouts I
who had passed beyond the age limit ;
set for active membership, had a total
numerical strength that was almost
twice that of the United States army, I
Marine Corps and the navy combined.
But their numbers were not counted
at Washington, because the fighting
strength of the nation was numbered
only among adults. It was not con- !
sidered probable that these boys would
be of material service to Uncle Sam in j
war.
Those familiar with the work of the '
Scouts, however, looked at their army j
as an auxiliary organization, a sec- ?
ond line of defence, soldiers who could
do invaluable work behind the lines.
They Were Just "Boys"
They met with numerous objections.
The word "boy" was the stumbling
block. A "boy" was not to be intrusted
with the serious business of supporting
the great American army.
Because of this the offers of Chief
Executive James E. West extended to
the heads of different departments at
Washington were politely but firmly
rejected. They used the Scouts for the
distribution of literature, for ushering
at big meetings and in other capacities
where the chief requisites were nimble
legs.
Then came the liberty loans and the
call for food conservation and produc?
tion. What the boys began to accom?
plish astounded those who were in
close touch with the situation.
During the first four loans, as
"gleaners after the reapers," the
Scouts took 2,000,000 subscriptions,
totalling more than $300,000,000. This
accomplishment presented obstacles
greater than the figures show, because
the Scout salesmen went out only after ;
the adults had cleaned the field, as
they thought, of every possible sale.
Their work was to get only the sub?
scriptions that nobody else could get.
As a consequence, the Treasury Depart?
ment officials credited the Scouts with
making sales of bonds that otherwise
would not have been made.
10,000,000 Possible Scouts
About 400,000 boys took part in loan
drives. There are approximately 10,
000,000 boys of Scout age in the United
States.
Since but one twenty-fifth of the po?
tential Scout strength of the nation
was uied in the loan drives, they argue
that twenty-five times the result ob?
tained would have followed the enlist?
ment of the entire boyhood of the
United States. If this had beer, done,
they say, their loan sales would have
amounted to $7 500,000,000, or more
than twice the first two issues.
The Scouts also sold approximately
560,000,000 worth of War Savings
Marapa.
Then, there came the work that the
government called upon them to do
Jn finding black walnut for the rifle
^ stocks. There was an appalling dearth '
Q of this necessary wood at the begin
W ning of the war. It was known that
?^ walnut was scattered about the coun?
try in small lots; but finding it was a
job too great for any small organiza?
tion.
"What's the matter with the Boy
Scouts?" somebody asked. "Every!
scout is an expert in woodcraft. He
can scent out the kind of wood you
want quicker than any expert you
have."
So it was decided to call upon the
scout?. They found more than 20,000,
000 feet of walnut.
Some of the "Chore?"
Among the little chores they did
between big jobs v/as the collection
of 100 carloads of fruit pits, to be
used in making gas mask?. They cul?
tivated more than 12,000 war gardens
and, when all other tasks wore accom?
plished, they distributed more than
80,000,000 pieces of literature to the
readers the government wished to!
reach, and In a way that the Postofflce \
Department never could have delivered
them.
The enthusiastic "front" of the
ftcout* in all their work, their un?
bounded patriotism, end their energy
probably did as much to keep up the
morale of the population behind the
lines a? any ether agency, They were
always on hand to assist'?ne Bed Cross
in its campaign? at home, they aided
JA th? United War Work drive and
they were able assistants in other less
important movements in every state,
city and village in the United States.
During this period of service the
i boys probably learned more about
| their country and its needs than they
' would have learned in ordinary times
i before reaching manhood. They be
! came a part of tne country, an arm
of the government service.
Value Seen by McAdoo
Nobody had better opportunity to see
? the value of the work carried on by
! the Scouts than William G. McAdoo
! when Secretary of the Treasury. Be
j foro he left the Cabinet he made
! known to the officials of the Boy
I Scouts of America that he would like
an opportunity to show his apprecia?
tion of the work of the boys.
Because of this Mr. McAdoo has been
I made head of the citizens' committee
I that will carry on the nation-wide
?. membership drive. Mr. McAdoo ob
j tained the service of the entire Lib
i erty Loan machinery for Scout Week.
| The loan organization has been turned
; over to the Scouts intact, and it will
i function for them just as it did during
the big loan drives.
The country has been divided into
twelve districts, as it was for the loan
campaigns, and each district has been
? given a quota of members it must ob
j tain during the week. New York is
I asked to find 300,000 adults who will
i lend their brains to the Boy Scout
: movement. Interest already shown
i indicates that that number probably
will be doubled during the first few
: days of the drive.
Other districts and their member?
ship quotas are: Boston, 83.333;
' Cleveland, 100,000; Richmond, 46,667;
? Atlanta, 32,000; Chicago, 14,000; St.
? Louis, 43,000; Minneapolis, 35,000;
Kansas City, 43,334; Dallas, 21,000;
San Francisco, 67,000.
Sure to Put it Over
The presen* drive is the biggest pro?
ject?in fact, the only movement?the
?Scouts ever have undertaken for
themselves. But the interest that has
been exhibited in every quarter has
convinced Chief Executive West that
it will be "put over," just as were the
other task3 the Scouts have under?
taken.
"Never before in the history of the
Scout movement has anything been at?
tempted on so great, a scale," Mr. West
said at national headquarters. "Only
a man of the first calibre, like Mr. Mc?
Adoo, c.ould 'put it over,' and that its
success is assured is seen in the re?
markable personnel of co-workers with
whom Mr. McAdoo has surrounded
himself.
"We want to project the light of
public attention on the Boy Scouts of
America as a movement which has
grown to be the largest of its kind the
world has ever known, a brotherhood
of organized boyhood which builds
solidly for the future, which prepares
the young of to-day for the responsi?
bilities of citizenship to-morrow.
"The present membership of the Boy
Scout movement includes about 472,000
Scouts and leaders. Notwithstanding
this tremendous organization, there are
only 250 paid officials."
-,-o?
Influenza Kills Five
On Transport ; 30 Sick
Three Soldiers and Two Sailors
on Antonio Lopez Victims;
5, ?55 3 Fighters Arrive
Three transports came in yesterday
with 5,553 officers and men. One of
the vessels was hard hit by an epi?
demic of influenza. This was the An?
tonio Lopez of the Spanish line, which
brought 1,174 officers and men from
Bordeaux. The contagion spread
throughout the ship soon after she
passed Gibraltar. Before she arrived
two men of the crew and three soldiers
had died. The sailormen's bodies were
consigned to the sea, but the bodies of
the soldiers were brought to port.
The Lopez brought home the 325th
Infantry, in command of Lieutenant
Colonel Thomas L. Pierce, of Boston,
who was wounded three times. Soon
after leaving Bordeaux the surgeons
on board discovered several cases of
influenza and immediately the patients
were taken to an isolation compart?
ment. Nevertheless the disease had
spread and thirty men were stricken.
The soldiers who succumbed were Pri?
vate Arthur B. Hunter, of Coberg,
Ohio; Private William B. Walker, of
Gibsonburg, Ohio, and Private William
Locke, of Nanticoke, Penn.
The Walter A. Luckenbach from
Bordeaux brought 2,495 officers and
men, chiefly of the 327th Infantry, in
command of Colonel John S. Preston
of the regular army. The men took
part of the Argonne, Meuse and Cha?
teau-Thierry fighting. Many of them
are from Georgia. Three hundred, from
New England, were entrained yester?
day for Camp Devons.
The Noordam from Brest brought
1,869 officers and men, the principal
units being the 125th and the 126th
Infantry, which were in command of
Major John II. Gardner, of Detroit.
Many are from Michigan.
Among the casuals on board the
Noordam was Brigadier General Avery
D. Andrews, vice-president of an as?
phalt company of Philadelphia, who
won the D. S. C, a decoration of the
Legion of Honor and the Order of the
Cross of Belgium.
?-?
Merchants' Association
Demands Housecleaning
The anti-litter bureau of the Mer?
chants' Association has called upon
city officials to start a spring house
cleaning in timo to remedy conditions
which may prov?-? fertile fields for epi?
demics when hot weather comes. The
Mayor, the Police Commissioner and
the Commissioners of the Street Clean?
ing and Health departments have been
asked to cooperate in a general clean?
up of streets, public places and vacant
lots.
"Greater New York," the publication
of tho Merchants' Association, says In
its issue of to-dayi
"Recent photographs made of condi?
tions in various parts of the city show
in what a deplorable and unclean con
dition tho city is at thia time. To give
New York City a good, thorough clean?
ing would be of considerable help in
keeping down and preventing any, pos?
sible epidemics. Something shou??! be
done immediately to improve the sani?
tary conditlone throughout the length
and breadth of New York."
Philadelphia Man Killed
By Hospital Ambulance
YONKERS, N. Y., May 18,-A man
believed by the police to be B. E.
Green, an officer of the Penn Needle
Company, Philadelphia, wh, ?truck ani
killed instantly to-day by an ambu?.
lance from St. Joseph's Hospital. He
was crossing Getty Square when the
ambulance ran over him. Anthony
Cluryk, the driver, waa arrested and
paroled in custody o? the auperin
l tendent of tfaa hoapltal?
Baden-Powell Aims
To Link Nations in
Girls' Organizations
Englishman Says Women
of World Can Maintain
Peace Even if League
Fails; Praises Heroines
"America and Britain together can
keep the peace of the world, even if
other nations fall away from th*
league of nations," declared Major
General Sir Robert Baden-Powell, at
a girls' victory rally in Carnegie Hall
yesterday afternoon.
"If I can get hold of a millionaire or
two I'd liko to take several thousand
; of your girls on a visit to England," ho
continued. "Nothing would go further
to cement feeling between the two
great English-speaking nations, who
! are no longer cousins, but brothers and
: sisters."
Through affiliating American girl or?
ganizations with others in Rumania,
Russia, France, England, Scotland, Ire?
land and Australia, Sir Baden-Powell
hopes to creato an international girls'
organization similar to that of the Boy
Scouts.
Every girle* organization in greater
New York was invited to send eighty
five members to the meeting yesterday.
Among those represented were the Girl
Scouts, with a national membership of
more than 50,000; the Girls' Friendly
Society, Girl Reserves of the Y. W.
C. A., Camp Fire Girls, Woman's Land
Army, Girls' Service Club, Girl Pio?
neers, Jewish Big Sisters, and others.
Lady Olave Baden-Powel and Daniel
Beard, veteran of the Boy Scout move?
ment in America, also occupied seats
on the platform.
Dressed in their various uniforms, a
thousand or more girls, ranging in age
from eight to eighteen, lined up under
banners on both sides of Carnegie Hall
and marched in.
A place of honor on the platform
was given a large detachment of Girl
Scouts, who marched in last behind
standard bearers carrying the Union
Jack and the Stars and Stripes.
Sir Baden-Powell won many bursts of
applause with stories of the work in
England during the war by the Girl
Guides. He also told of a new decora?
tion created in recognition of their
services. This is a bronze "C," sug?
gested by the example of Edith Cavcll,
and standing for "Cavell and courage."
So far, he said, only one English girl
has won this decoration.
"People in England first thought the
training given Girl Guides too man?
like," he said, "but the war showed
that the girls knew what service meant.
Their training told when the crisis
came.
"The first aid to reach the scene of
one of the biggest munitions plant ex?
plosions near London came from Girl
Guides and Boy Scouts. Although the
explosions continued, the girls fitted
up schoolrooms as emergency hospitals
and cared for women and children all ?
night and into the next day before
they were relieved by professional
workers.
"It is the aim of our organization to
make tho lives wo lost in this war
count for something permanent.
"I don't see how women can go back
to card playing, idling and society
pleasures after the war has shown them
how to come forward and bear their
share of the trials of the world." I
Columbia Alumni
To Be Dinner Host
To Its War Heroes
Dr. Butler to Preside at
Luncheon on Commence?
ment Day; Many Other
Features Are Planned
Columbia University's alumni will
extend a welcome to Columbia men
who served in the war at a luncheon
June 4, in connection with "Peace Com?
mencement." Dr. Nicholas Murray But?
ler, president of the university, will
preside at the luncheon, and addresses
will be delivered by Viscount Ishii,
Japanese Ambassador to the United
States; General Enoch H. Crowder,
Edward P. Mitchell and George Arliss,
the actor.
Among those who will attend will
be Colonel William Barclay Parsons,
commander of the 11th Engineers;
Colonel William J. Donovan, of the
69th; Chaplain Duncan II. Browne, of
the 77th, known as "Columbia's Fight?
ing Chaplain"; Major Arthur S.
Dwight, alumni trustee, who served
under Colonel Parsons overseas;
George F. Larner, American ace, and
a host of other alumni who fought with
distinction in France.
The university is preparing for the
biggest commencement in its 165 years
of existence. The programme will open
?Sunday,. June 1, with the baccalaureate
sermon in St. Paul's chapel by the
Rev. Ernest Braithwaite. president of
Western University, London, Ont. Class
day exercises will be held Monday. The
alumni will meet June 3 to nominate
a trustee to succeed George L. Ingra
ham, whose term of six years expires
this year.
Formal commencement exercises will
begin Wednesday at 11 a. m., with the
traditional academic procession from
the library to the gymnasium, where
degrees will bo awarded. This year's
commencement will be marked by a
number ?of class reunions and other
events not ordinarily associated with
commencement week. The class of
1889 will present to the university a
memorial in honor of Major John Pur
roy Mitchel, who was a member of
that class.
The commencement day committee is
composed of Edgar J. Moeller, '95;
Archibald Douglas, '94; E. A. Cardozo,
'99; Ernest Stauffen, jr., '04; W. H.
Brown, jr., '09; Kenneth Watkins, '14;
Robert Mulford, '84; F, A. Peckenthal,
'06; Charles Knapp, '87; Henry Lee
?Morris, M. E.; Frederick Coykendall,
'97; Stephen G. Williams, '81; J. Ar?
thur Booth, '78; Levering Tyson, '11;
Charlea C. Proffitt, '17.
.
Helped Begin Erie Railroad
Garrett Iseman, Forty Years an
Engineer, Celebrates Birthday
PIERMONT, N. Y.f May 18.?Garrett
Iseman, who believes he is the oldest j
railroad man in the world, celebrated !
his rinety-fifth birthday to-day at his ?
home in Sparkhill. He helped lay the
first mile of Erie Railroad track in
1836, and for more than forty of the
forty-nine years he was with that
company he was an engineer, beginning
with a wood-burning engine in 1847.
Mr. Iseman, who retains all his fac?
ulties, attributes his long life to recrea?
tion and exercise. Every day he chops
wood, and when the weather is good
ho spends a great deal of time fishing.
He was born in Sparkhill, where ho
still lives with his adopted daughter.
Dr. Freeman Preaches to
Fifth*?Av. Presbyterians
Pasaden?, Cal., Minister Is Be?
ing Considered as Successor
to Dr. Jowett
The Rc*\ Robert Freeman, pastor of
the Firsts Presbyterian Church, of Pasa?
dena, CaX, preached yesterday at the
Fifth Ai?enue Presbyterian Church as
a possible successor to the Rev. John
Henry Jowett, who resigned to accept
a call 'io London.
"I h.iye not been called to the Fifth
Avenu? church, but the subject is be?
ing cclnsidered," said Dr. Freeman yes?
terday "I am not sure that I would
accept if I were called."
It tvas said at the church that the
pastear committee, of which George B.
Agnehv, jr., is chairman, has been con?
sidering Dr. Freeman for some months.
He [was induced to preach yesterday
and*next Sunday as a candidate.
Dir. Freeman, who was born in Edln
bui?gh, Scotland, is forty-one years old.
He formerly was a Baptist minister.
He returned from France a year ago,
whit-re he had acted as a Y. M. C. A.
dujector with the American Expedi?
tionary Forces.
The "once over" can be
over in surprisingly short
time when clothing is
shown in glass cabinets and
arranged according to size
?even with so varied and
generous a stock as ours.
Spring and Summer suits,
foremen and boys.
The flexible feature of
this year's stiff straws is
marking a great hit. Com?
fort and smartness in the
same hat.
The lower, the cooler!
Low shoes - built on an
all-leather standard.
Rogers Peet Company
Broadway Broadway
at 13th St "Four at 34th St
Convenient
Broadway Corners" Fifth Ave.
at Warren at 41st St.
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