Show PRESIDENT T ENTRUSTS SCOUTS WITH MISSION AS DISPATCH BEARERS nO Boy noy Scout Scouts to D Be Official Messengers of the Committee of Public Information u President Wilson has sent tho the following letter to to to I CoHn Colin II ir Livingstone president National Council Hoy Zoy Boy BoyScout I Scouts Scout of or America I IMy My h dear dar Mr Livingstone I hesire to entrust the tho Boy Scouts of oC America with witha i I a new and Important commission to make them the I government go dispatch bearers In carrying to the homes homes homes' of or their community tho the pamphlets on the war prepared prepared b by the committee on Op public Information Tho excellent I services performed by the Boy Do Scouts in the past en encourages encourages encourages en- en me mo to believe bellevo that this now task will be he cheerfully cheer cheer- I fully and faithfully discharged I Yours sincerely j I WOODROW WILSON t 4 r. r Tho The Boy Doy Scouts of oC America numbering nearly I have responded to the request of oC the President with hearty heart unanimity and will undertake as their first dispatch bear ing service a n. distribution of copies copied of the tho Presidents President s Flag Day address published by b the committee on public Information Information Information tion In pamphlet form on September 15 16 1917 i and re regarded regarded regarded re- re as the tho most moat comprehensive comprehensive compre compre- statement that has been Issued by the government government govern govern- ment meat In regard to the fundamental fundamental fundamental funda funda- mental Issues of or the tho war var It U Is the desire of oC the ad administration administration administration ad- ad ministration that this thin pamphlet lot let have careful stud study by tho the people of the tho country countr and tho the Do Boy Scouts acting as dispatch bearers directly under command com corn I mand of or the tho President will place the document In the hands oC or citizens o of every city town and hamlet of or tho the country countr with specific Instructions that Its contents be carefully considered and that tho the reader then make It his personal re responsibility to see ee that at least one other citizen of at the community also reads the tho cOP copy By Dy these means a minimum of of ot thoughtful citizens will have had this important message message mes mes- sage impressed upon their minds or will have havo been re refreshed refreshed re- re refreshed In memory as to Po t the principles of or the War as e ex expressed cx- cx pressed by tho the President on September 15 The pamphlets will be sent through the mails malls to the in In- In and In each package there thero will bo be a manual manual manual man man- ual for tor the tho guidance of or the these o young oung government messen messen- gers ers Acting under the local Instructions of oC the scoutmasters scoutmasters scout scout- masters the dispatch bearers will deliver dell such printed matter matter mat mat- ter as us may bo be Issued from Crom time to time by the committee commit commit- tee on public Information to citizens carefully avoiding duplication The They will accept accept ac ac- signed receipts from tho the persons visited and also their personal assurance that the they will comply with the requests made particularly to aid distrIbution distribution dis dis- by passing the doc doc- ments to others Each Boy Doy Scout is provided with an identification card bearing his name troop number number num aura ber city and state and declaring de do- daring claring his appointment as asan an nn anaide aide to the committee on public information to serve as ns asa asa a dispatch bearer for the government government gov gov- during the period covered b by his registration under the direction of the national national na na- na- na council Boy Doy Scouts of oC America President Wilsons Wilson's letter requesting the service is reproduced in fac o simile on the he rev reverse rsc side of ot the IdentifIcation Identification card Each scout dispatch bearer hearer I will have havo ta o access to franked postal cards returnable to tho the committee on public In Information In- In formation b by means of oC which an any citizen ma may order mailed to him an any of the various war pamphlets which the tho committee commit commit- tee on public Information has published during tho the war |