Show BIG INCREASE IN BOY SCOUT RANKS an increase of 46 per cent in membership during last year was announced today at the annual meeting of the national council of boy scouts of america the increase to boys and scout masters made the year the most prosperous in the six years history of the movement among the significant items of the chief scout executives report were that scout troops have been organized in almost every church denomination in the country that tha t troops met in churches and an troops met in school buildings armories and community institutions and that the scout masters included clergymen aymen physicians lawyers teachers and other professional men all of high character the membership shows that there is one boy scout in every of population in maryland one in in delaware one in in connecticut one in in pennsylvania one in in massachusetts and one in in utah among the features reported were A department of education provided by two special gifts training courses in several universities and colleges budgets provided in 40 cities and a library injo arm department nt concerned with the influence of books on boys late today president wilson received the members of the national council at the white house and spoke to them of his high regard f for lor the work they are doing |