Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-05-22 | Page 20 | Gemmell to Feast Scout Loan Workers

ROBERT C. GEMMELL, president of the Salt Lake Council of Boy Scouts, wlio directed the workers work-ers in their Victory loan campaign .V " J x x 1 ' K . t 3 : W v v h v r r ifr 1 1 i i Tmr-- , n nrrfld " II . . V wy W K JS GEMMELL TO FEAST SCOUT LOWERS Salt Lake Council Head Will Show Appreciation of Recent Effort. Unflagging zeal and unremitting effort ef-fort by Boy Scouts in the Victory loan campaign will be rewarded at 1 o'clock Saturday afternoon at the Commercial club, when the 100 Scouts who sold twelve or more bonds will be banquet guests of Robert C. Gemmell, president of the Salt Luke council of tho Boy Scouts of America. At the .beginning of tho campaign, Mr. Gemmell, in order to give the Scouts an incentive for greater effort in soliciting subscriptions lor ino ue-tory ue-tory loan, promised all members who succeeded in obtaining twelve or more subscriptions a dinner at the Commercial Commer-cial club. Members of the executive committee of the local council huj o also been invited as guests. All previous reeords were smashed by the Scouts in their Victory Joan campaign, cam-paign, according to results determined from tho final report, the compilation of which was completed yesterday. The totals show the following results: Three thousand forty-two subscriptions were taken, 324 boys sold one or more bonds, and $278,700 was the total ot subscriptions. This sum eclipses al previous records, Oscar A. Kirk wood, Scout executive, says. The total subscriptions sub-scriptions laken on the fourth Liberty loan by Boy Scouts was $85,000. Moreover, Scouts to the number ot 194 have qualified for bronze medals, . , . . . . i. I I... KQ Fnitod wnicu vcre oiiuicu. u.. States department of the treasury to all members of the Scout organizations who sold ten or more bonds. One boy sold $1(3.000 worth of bonds. "We are more than pleased with the results of the drive," Mr. Kirkham said yesterday. "The record made by the boys in the drive is a potent illustration illus-tration of what the Boy Scout organi-t organi-t he city and nation. "In this campaign we desired to show them how the individual must work for the benefit of the masses. Thus we gave our members an apt lesson in true democracy. More than ever, as a result of the work dona in the drive, I believe the boys realize real-ize what service means." Scout Harry Harper of Troop 51 sold forty-eight bonds, the highest number num-ber of subscriptions; Cecil Oakley of Troop 33, twenty-seven subscriptions; William Thome of Troop BO, twenty; John B. Freeze of Troop 112, thirty, and Joseph Ottenheimer, Troop 43, thirty-two. thirty-two. . , . ., -V report of the districts showing the names of deputy Scout commissioners who were in charge of the campaign in j the districts and tho amounts subscribed follows: - A. Rov Heath, Liberty district, )d9i,- 830- E. B. Heisler, Wasatch district,, $76,900; C. II. Spencer, Jr., and Henry iihler, Granite district, $40,150; John D. Giles, Ensign district. $41,So0; J. H. Xeilson, Pioneer district. $11,500, and V . Cutler, Salt Lake district. $4150. 'Charles X. Miller deputy national field Scout master, who is visiting Og- i den for the purpose of organizing a local lo-cal council there, will address the Scoutmasters' meeting which will be held at the Salt Lake public library at 7:30 o 'clock tonighl .