Salt Lake Telegram | 1922-08-06 | Page 13 | Telegram Carriers will Form New Boy Scout Troop

Telegram Carriers Will Form New Boy Scout Troop Stickers Club of Y. M. C A. Hold Organization Meeting to Promote Unit Which Will Be Model With the Intention of concentrating their efforts en boys work, the M members of the T. M. C.-A. Stickers club are promoting a Boys Scout troop, which they believe will etaad out aa a mark for other troops to shoot -at The Initial organisation meeting was held Satunday night In the Keith Emporium building. Scouts for the new troop will be recruited equally frbm The Telegram earlier staff and from the families of the Stickers club members snd their friends. A charter le to "be- applied for Immediately. A list of more than forty boys available for this organisation organi-sation )s at hand, bat membership will be restricted to those whose parents believe In scouting and who are exceptionally ex-ceptionally qualified for the role of boy scout. ' LeRoy E. Wsrthman, former star athlete of the local high school, and more recently the organiser at Pitta-burg. Pitta-burg. Ps-. of one of the most successful success-ful Boy Scout troops in '.be country, Is the scoutmaster named by President Orand Wlrlck of the Stickers club. Mr. Warthman la at present Engaged In tha local Insurance field. Through bis wide acquaintance and from his previous pre-vious experience he has already secured se-cured ths voluntary services of several sev-eral experts to give the boys nf this troop technical training In matters of Interest to boys. Temporary head-1 quarters of ths troop will be at The Telegram Community Kail, 111 Keith Emporium building, but Mr. Warthman Warth-man haa secured an option on what he declares will prove to be the most Ideal scout quarters In the country. I and when the ranks of ths Stickers troops are filled. He hopes to have the new home available, Plans outlined by Mr. Wathman Saturday Sat-urday contemplate selection of membership mem-bership and tha gradual growth of ths troop to full slse. Under this system the boys entering msy develop the qualifications for the higher grades of scouting more rapidly than would be possible Were the roster complete before be-fore training started, Mr. Warthman declares. Ills success aa a scoutmaster In Plttaburg waa predicated on thle principle, turning out the yeungeet Eagle scout on record; a boy of It years who completed the scout work In Just nine monthe. The T. M. C. A. Stickers dub waa organised for boys work by Homer Holsington more than twelve years ego. When the local T. M. C. A. suspended, sus-pended, the Stickers club continued to function and It has held Its membership mem-bership Intact to data. The club le 100 per cent behind lta projected ecout troop, and every effort will be made to put the Stickers troop In the forefront fore-front of local scouting, they declare.