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Thousands in Boy Scout Drive
125,000 Added
To Boy Scout
Movement Here
McAdoo Opens Drive at
Hippodrome in Appeal
to Back Youngsters in
Americanizing the Nation
Praises Record in War
Campaign to Raise Funda
and Obtain Leaders Will
Continue all This Week
H E RE are some?
thing like 125,000
more potential Boy
Scout leaders in
New York this
morning than
there were twenty
four hours ago.
That is esti?
mated to' be the
number of names
of men who, hav?
ing-measured up to scout standards,
hove become associate members of
the greatest boy organization in the
world.
Just how many of these men will
bacome actual scoutmasters nobody
can say. Only those who show the
qualities of leadership?and leadership
of boys especially?will be accepted. It
is far easier to be the head of a great
corporation than of a Scout troop, say
leaders of the movement.
Numerically, the first day of Scout
Week, which is expected to net the
Boy Scouts of America 1.000,000 adult
associate members, was a great suc?
cess. In enthusiasm it surpassed all
expectations.
Most of the members were acquired
at the Hippodrome mass meeting last
night, when every seat was occupied
and aisles were crowded to the doors
by men and women who were eager
to record their approval of the move?
ment to support America's organized
boyhood. Others were supplied through
the guarantees of financial and in?
dustrial leaders who, in anticipation of
the opening of the drive, had prepared
lists of applicants for membershin that
were rushed to Scout headquarters at
200 Fifth Avenue early in- the day.
$63,600 Added to Fund
Actual cash contributed at the mass
meeting totalled $63,600. While the
minimum fee for an associate Scout
membership is $1, contributions as
high as $10,000 were freely given by
men who declared it an honor to asso?
ciate themselves with the movement.
Ed Wynn and Captain Elsie Janis,
fresh from her triumphs as an enter?
tainer of soldiers overseas, aided in
bringing forth the flow of cash to the
Scout coffers. George D. Pratt started
the contributions by claiming a mem?
bership f^r 510,000. The Rockefeller
Foundation expressed its approval of
the campaign by giving a check for a
similar sum. A contributor who
wished his name withheld gave $7,500.
John D. Rockefeller, jr., made an ap?
plication for membership, accompany?
ing it with a $5,000 check. Mortimer j
L.-Schiff handed a check for a similar
amount to Ed Wynn. There were nu?
merous checks for $2,000, many for
$1,000, and several hats full of $1* bills,
contributed by men and women in the
audience.
An early auditing of the moneys
dropped into Scout hats showed that
those in the audience who did not avail
themselves of the membership privi?
leges had given $4,500 to aid the cam?
paign.
Cheers for Leaders
Groups of khaki-clad scouts squatted
about the stage at the Hippodrome and
cheered their able assistants in the
membership campaign, William G. Mc?
Adoo, "Big Bill" Edwards, Father Duffy, I
Rabbi Joseph Silverman, and the versa?
tile Elsie Janis?all of whom pleaded
for the contribution of enough cash to
make it possible to bring every boy in
the United States into the comradeship
of the scouts.
Every speaker indorsed the work of
the scout organizaron. Representa?
tives of every political party and every
religious faith, either at the Hinpo
drome meeting or at the church
services held throughout the city dur?
ing the day, pleaded for united support
of the campaign to bring men and
dollars to the aid of the bovs who did
much to win the war for the Allies.
Mr. McAdoo, who has abandoned all ?
other duties until the close of Scout
Week in order to act as national chair?
man of the Scout membership com?
mittee, declared that the greatest af?
ter-war task of the United States?
that of Americanizing America?was
one that the Scouts would have to
tackle.
"My first contact with the Scout or?
ganization came when these great Lib?
erty loans had to be offered to the pub?
lic and it became necessary to mo?
bilize every available agency in this
coantry and enlist the interest and
tiupport of all citizens, men and women
alike," said he. "Then I familiarized
myself with the Boy Scout movement.
What we did with the Boy Scouts was
th??: Toward the end of each loan,
when the adult workers of the country
had skimmed the cream of subscrip?
tions, we called out the Boy Scouts and
set them to work.
?'In other words, when there was
something almost hopeless to be done
?recalled on these boys, because, know?
ing the training they had received,
the ideals for which they stood, their
passionate love of country, their thirst
for action, their enthusiasm for doing,
we put them on the job and they raised
something like three hundred million
dollars in four Liberty Loan cam?
paign?.
"So, when I was asked to give part
of ?y time for strengthening and mak?
ing more potential this great move?
ment, I felt that if there were no other
xeason than my gratitude to these boys
ipt the great things they had done
f+t their country, I should accept it;
but I did it not for that reason alone,
but primarily because I regard this
Kreat movement as one of the most im?
portant that we can promote to Im
prove the character' of the future
young men of America, and as one of
the most effective way? to thoroughly
Americanize America for the future.
Many Great Lesson? Taught
Tilia war baa taught as a great
pmxer lessons, and it w? ?re intelligent
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B??y Scout Week in City Parks
New York's Boy Scouts are giving a demonstration of their back to nature proclivities these days. They
are cooking their meals in the open air of the City's various parks as a stimulant to their membership drive,
and will continue to do so three times a day this week. '
What Boy Scouts Have Done
W/TIEN the War Department was at a loss to find the necesary black
walnut to cai*ry on its war construction work a conference was
called hurriedly at Washington. Experts said that to find the wood?
men required to scour the country would be almost impossible, and,
if possible, would make the uncovering of the wood too costly even for
Uncle Sam.
"You are overlooking the best woodsmen and the best scouts in
the world," said Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo. "The Boy
Scouts will find the wood if it is to be had at all. I've seen them in
action."
An appeal was made to the Boy Scouts of America. They found
more than 20,000,000 feet of just the kind of lumber the War De?
partment had to have.
I
a result of the war. One of the things
that I think wo have already learned
is that we cannot have a nation made
up of groups of different nationalties,
owing a secondary allegiance to Amer?
ica.
"America is a singlo word of four
syllables and it does not need any pre?
fixes or affixes. It is the duty of every
man and woman who comes to this
free land of ours and expects to par?
ticipate in the benefits of our great
democracy to Americanize themselves.
America will never be America to
them in the full sense of the term un?
less that process is absolutely com?
pleted in every instance.
"Now, I look upon the Boy Scout
movement as one of the most potential
agencies we could employ to American?
ize America. We do not hear anything
about hyphens any moro because that
is one of the things that the war shot
away. I think that the hyphen was the
result very largely of an unthinking
and unconscious attitude about Amer?
ica and that it was, in part, responsible
for the fact that the national spirit
vas not more highly developed before
the war broke out in 1914.
Think More of America
"One of the good things we have
realized already from this war is an
acquaintance with our national an?
them. We also recognize the Stars
and Stripes and take off our hats as
every real American should when that
beautiful banner of liberty goes by in
the line of march.
"It was not because we did not value
those things before, but because we
simply did not think about them. We
never expected to get into a great wai
in Europe, nor anywhere else, for thai
matter, and we thought we were t
homogeneous people and that all thest
various groups and schisms made nc
particular difference. We had not
therefore, a highly developed nationa
consciousness, but the war brought al
this home to us so thoroughly that w<
now realize that what we must do fo
the future is to make that conscious
ness a supreme thing and always thi
expression of the soul of America.
"This Boy Scout movement is a thor
oughly democratic movement. If w
can get enough support to extend it s
that it will embrace the largest part o
the eligible boyhood of America, you wil
interest the descendants of every na
tionality represented in America; yo
will obliterate the lines and distinction
which have characterized America here
tofore, and you will bring about the con
dition I have just referred to?a condi
tion which will mean that America ha
been thoroughly Americanized for a
time. That is one of the aims of th
Boy Scout movement, but it is not th
only one.
Must Develop Character
"Individuals, like nations, must hav
character, and this movement is essei
tially a character-building movemen
In addition to the character it d<
volops, we are teaching the boys pra>
tical things. We are teaching the
self-relianeo and resourcefulness, ar
giving them that interest and ei
thusiusm and love of country whk
make, after all, for the very line
and highest quality of American cit
zenship.
"Every Boy Scout takes an oath 1
do his best, to do his duty to his Gc
and to his country; to help othi
people at all times; to keep himse
physically ?strong, mentally awake ar
morally straight. They are taught '
practice and to live up to this oat
No man who has had this Boy Scoi
training and education could ever 1
an anarchist or ever hurl a bomb. Is
greater service can be rendered
successive generation? than to cxte?
fioy Ser.?it training and education
th( rank and file of American boyho<
i v< i yv. here.
"Now, this Boy Scout Week, whi
has been designated by proclamati
of tho President, beginning June 8 a
ending Juno 14, is for the purpose
securing a million adult Bupporti
memberships, or associate membershi
for the Boy Scouts.
Membership Costs $1
"These memberships are to be s(
at not less than one dollar apiece, ai
of course, we would rather not s
thf-m at the minimum price.
"But if any ono insists upon payi
only a dollar for this great privile
it will be gladly received. The pi
pose is not only to secure the associti
or supporting memberships, so th
mothers and fathers of American bo
may feel that they have an active a
p- ticipatlng interest in this ?gr?
movement, but also to pro-vide t
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To-day9s Events in
Boy Scouts9 Drive
"IVrOON?Patriotic programme on the
steps of the Sub-Treasury
Building. Speakers will include
William G. McAdoo, Colin II. Liv?
ingstone, Martin H. Vogel, William
II. Edwards and Daniel Carter
Beard.
4 p. m.?Boy Scout pageant, showing,
in review, scouting from early pio?
neer days to the present. Line of
march along Fifth Avenue from
Washington Square to Fifty-ninth
Street.
8 p. m.?Banquet of team captains at
Hotel Commodore. More than
2,000 participants in the week's
drive are expected to attend.
All hours?Scout camps in fifteen
parks and public squares, where,
the benefits of Scout life may be
seen by visitors.
sion and field work of the national
organization.
"The Boy Scout movement, as or?
ganized in this country, is so impor?
tant thatit has been chartered by the
Congress of the United States, and you
know that Congress does not often
grant a national charter to any organ?
ization. It must have peculiar merit
to secure a Federal charter."
Father Duffy Tells of Hero
Father Duffy placed his approval of
the Scout movement and his interest in
the Scout work on a par with his in?
terest in the old 69th?and that he
admitted would be one of the chief in?
terests of the remainder of his life.
He told the story of a seventeen-year
old soldier?Edward Kelley was his
name?who went to death with his
membership card in the Boy Scouts
sewed in the lining of his coat.
"His commander asked Kelley to
stand guard at a certain point and pre?
vent the Germans from passing it,"
said Father Duffy.
" 'Yes, sir,' said Kelley, 'and I'm
mighty glad of the opportunity to do it.'
"A few minutes later a German shell
exploded near that spot and blew
Kelley's soul to heaven. When I went
through his pockets for such papers as
he might possess I found that this
boy, one year in. Uncle Sam's service,
still carried his Boy Scout membership
card. That showed how much he cared
for the Scouts and what he cared for
his Scout oath."
Mr. Edwards, who acted as chairman
of the meeting, opend the campaign
with two diminutive Scouts standing
beside him?Scouts who were small
enough to present a marked contrast to
the bulk of the Collector of the Port.
"Wo are here to-night with but one
purpose in view?to help make a suc?
cess of the coming drive of th? red
blooded Americans, the Boy Scouts,"
said he. "It ?3 hard, when I look at
these youngsters, to believe I
ever was a small boy and got into as
small trousers as these boys wear. But
I did, and I have the trousers to prove
it.
"All over the United States thousands
of people have guthered to make the
Boy Scout drive a success, and they
are going to make it a success.
"There have been drives and drives,
each of which has been earnestly sup?
ported, and this week every heart goes
out to the Boy Scouts and is willing
and ready to help them to make their
drive a success."
SHverman Shows Benefits
Rabbi Silvcrman said that the boy to?
day was the greatest agency for Ameri?
canization of the nation.
"My subject is the American Boy,"
he said. "It is a subject to conjure
with to arouse thoughts; awaken the
dominant feelings; to inspiro new
courage, aspiration and hope, to incite
to action, turn defeat to victory and
make of victory an incentive to greater
triumphs. You have to-night applauded
'the American Boy,' his achievements
and his future possibilities, and you
have not yet learned the full meaning
of all his latent potentialities.
"Lord Brougham once said, 'Let the
soldier (he meant militarism) be abroad
if he will, he can do nothing in this
age. There is another personage loss
imposing, In the eyes of some insig?
nificant. The schoolmaster is abroad
and I trust to him armed with his
primer against the soldier in full mili?
tary ?my.*
for to-day I say, 'Let the anarchist be
abroad if he will, he can do nothing in
this age. There is another person,
less imposing in the eyes of some, per?
haps insignificant. The American Boy
is abroad and I trust to him, armed
with his indomitable spirit of initia?
tive and execution, against the anar?
chist armed with his firebrand."
Dr. Royal S. Copeland, Commissioner
of Health, said that the Boy Scouts
of New York had been used in numer?
ous health crusades in the city and
that they had proved valuable aids of
his department in spreading propagan?
da in the interest of sanitation.
Scout Notes
New York has been combed, not only
for the biggest men in the city to con?
vert into Scout leaders, but the small?
est boys in Scoutdom, to be used for ex?
hibition purposes. Two of the smallest
obtainable- will march with "Big Bill"
Edwards to-day in the Fifth Avenue
pageant. Two more will accompany
General Dyer, grand marshal of the
parade. "Scout Cubs" is their official
title.
* * * * *
The words of President Wilson, for
mer President Taft and former Presi
dent Roosevelt are being used by the
Scouts this week in indorsement of the
membership drive. To get all of the
nation's great men together in one
movement is an accomplishment of
which the Scouts are proud. President
Wilson said:
"The patriotic and effective service of
the Boy Scouts in their definitely
worked out programme of war work ac?
tivities is a splendid testimonial to the
value of organized boyhood in helping
our country win the war. Not only is
this of practical service to our coun?
try in these critical times, but it is of
great educational value to the boys in
preparing them for the responsibilities
of citizenship."
* * # * *
Every window of the United Cigar
Stores this week will be given over to
a display of the Boy Scouts' making.
Camps will be shown, posters will run
the full length of the windows, and, in
some cases, live Scouts will be used to
attract the attention of the passerby to
the advantages of scouting.
*****
Before the close of business to-mor?
row evening every New Yorker will be
made aware of the fact that it is Scout
Week. If a personal call has not been
made upon Mr. or Mrs. New Yorker by
a representative of "Big Bill" Ed?
wards, one or more letters will have
been delivered by the mail man.
Wrecks Auto ; Saves Lives
Driver Races Along Ties to
Escape Railway Train
LEONIA, N. J? June 8.-?Harry Lick
er, of Paterson,' N. J., with an automo?
bile party of six men, was on the
tracks of the Northern Railroad of
Now Jersey to-night at the Central
Avenue crossing here when a train
loomed up. There was no time to use
brakes. Licker turned sharply to the
left, guiding his motor car across the
ties of the track next to the one on
which the train was approaching.
The rough roadbed jolted the auto?
mobile against the cars of the train
and it upset, spilling its occupants
down the embankment and away from
the train. One of Licker's legs was
broken. His companions escaped with
bruises. They were his brother Sam?
uel, Charles Rosenblatt and Joseph,
Philip and Harry Sugar, all of Pater?
son.
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Nicaraguans
Ask U. S. to
Send Troops
Want Americans to Stop
Threatened Invasion from
Costa Rica by Army Now
Massed on the Border
Legation Makes Appeal
Spokesman for Costa Rica
Denies War Plan and
Charges Political Plot
WASHINGTON, June 9.?Nicaragua
has asked the United States to land
forces there to cope with a threatened
invasion fram Costa Rica. The State
Department is investigating the situa?
tion.
The Nicaraguan Legation here in a
statement to-day declares that follow?
ing the collapse of the revolution in
Costa Rica President Tinoco has
massed large forces on the frontier.
Tinoco, whoso brother, as Minister of
War, is at the head of the Costa Rican
army in the field, has charged that the
Nicaraguans aided the revolutionists.
The Nicaraguans have denied the
charge, and cited that it was the Lib?
eral party in Nicaragua, members of
the old Zelaya r?gime, that went over
to Tinoco.
Carlos Lara, former Minister of For?
eign Affairs of Costa Rica, scoffed at
the idea that his country was threat?
ening an invasion of Nicaragua. He
called attention to the report late in
May that Costa Rica had declared war
on Nicaragua, which report was later
proved to be without foundation. The
earlier report and the appeal of Nicar?
agua for troops both were designed,
he said, to influence public opinion in
the United States against the Costa
Rican government.
The Nicaraguan Legation's statement
said:
"Notwithstanding that the revolution
in Costa Rica which started about one
month ago has come to an end, that the
defeated revolutionists who crossed the
Nicaraguan border were disarmed by
the frontier patrol, that the govern?
ment of Nicaragua has maintained
strict neutrality from the beginning of
the revolution and has emphatically
denied having given any aid to the
revolutionists, General Tinoco has been
massing a big army on the frontier of
Nicaragua, with lai'ge trains of ammu?
nition and supplies of all kinds.
"It is known that he has in the De?
partment of Guanacaste, and not far
from the frontier, about 6,000 men un?
der arms, with whom he 'expects to in?
vade Nicaragua, or else start a revolu?
tion in that country, headed by Gen?
eral Irias, formerly Premier under
Zelaya; Generals Sediles, Santos, Baca,
Usaga and other Nicaraguan generals
opposed to the present government of
General Chamorro.
"In view of the friendly attitude that
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Nicaragua has maintained toward the
United States in giving this country
the option for building the ?anal
through Nicaragua, and for the cession
of the two naval bases, one on the Gulf
of Fonseca and the other on the islands
of the Atlantic, and also bearing in
mind that Nicaragua entered the war
against Germany in harmony with the
United States and to aid the Allies in
every way in its power, we beileve that
the time has arrived when the United
States should take a hand to protect
Nicaragua against her foreign foes.
"The presence of a hostile army on
our border, composed in part at least
of men of our country who are openly
opposed to our government, is a con?
stant menace to the peace of Nica?
ragua. In accordance with the plan by
which the United States gives us
friendly advice, we think that the
United States should give us in this
emergency the moral and material pro
tection of a sufficient guard on our
frontier to prevent an invasion."
Mr. Lara stamped the report that
Costa Rica was about to invade Nic?
aragua as "a simple canard, absurd
from ali points of view." Although it
might be justified in doing so, the Ti?
noco government of Costa Rica had
not and would not invade Nicaragua,
Mr. Lara ?aid. His government de?
sired nothing from Nicaragua, he
added, but ?o be let alone.
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Child Fatally Hurt by Auto
While crossing Southern Boulevard,
at 172d Street, yesterday afternoon,
Benjamin Gordon, eight years old, of
1505 Southern Boulevard, was knocked
down by an automobile and died five
hours later in Fordham Hospital from
a ruptured stomach. The driver, Philip
de Fino, of 710 Flushing Avenue, took
the child1 to the hospital. No arrest
was made.
Legion to Help Ex-Soldiers
Bureau Will Look After Sums
Due Discharged Men
Major Cornelius W. Wiekersham,
chairman of the New York branch,
American Legion, announced yesterday
the organization of r. bureau to deal
with war risk insurance, allotments,
pay and bonuses for discharged ser?
vice men. The service is free and
open to all men and women in military
service between Apri' 6, 1917, and No?
vember 11, 1918, excepting conscien?
tious objectors and those dishonorably
discharged.
"The American Legion Weekly," of?
ficial publication of the organization,
will issue its first edition July 4. It
wll be published from the headquarters
of the National Executive Committee,
19 West Forty-fourth Street.
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