Show L S. S e ro n a ra raa i a Nose Nose Count Count Made by Boy and Girl Scouts A J I Ii i to Provided Focus for Local improvement By Browne Sampson Built around a year old year old church that served as a recruiting recruiting recruiting re re- station during the Revolutionary War IVar Falls Palls Church Virginia lived in the lie even eten tempo of a small shall independent southern town until the Then folks folls rushed in at lit such a pace that by 1950 the tire population had gone f from roni 2576 to plus 1115 15 to 20 thousand new nelO people mostly families of government em- em MARCH OF DIMES Pl s froin fron nearby Washington ashington who I established residence in the area surrounding sur sur- r- r rounding the tire town which is known as Greater Falls Church The impact of this substantial increase in population po upset both the timer old and the tire new new- con comer cr Once a community where lohere everybody knew eve everybody body else Falls Church became became be be- came a place where nobody knew anybody any any- anybody body very well Ivell Leaders and workers in I community activities no longer knew accurately accurately accurately ac ac- who needed what or how hOlD many J A MII AD v s were Ivere available and willing to J JANUARY A N U A R Y 2 23 31 serve One of the lawyers in Falls Church was loas in a position to know firsthand the necessity o of f finding out who was who and how many there were in Falls Church what i f v needed itt and why This J au u. u lUlU I UHf attorney who is iq IS n f a r 01 nf of J au u. u lUlU I UHf attorney is iq IS n f a r 01 nf of the die executive board of the tire Community Chest chairman of the Fairfax County District Boy noy Scouts a leader leller in church work and the father of four children enlisted the tire aid of a friend who is a II survey specialist Together they worl worked d out an objective plan for a city head count They divided the tire area into blocks s appointed crew leaders lead- lead leaders ers chosen from i adult Scout workers and other groups active in community affairs affair Each Elicit crew leader received with his Iris block assignment a map mlp and both oral and printed Leaders then formed crews from Camp Fire Girls Boy and Girl Scout troops On the appointed day crew leaders ered the crews in their own cars to their assigned assigned as as- assigned signed blocks And between daylight and dusk lusk of one short autumn day Boy and Girl Scouts and Camp Fire Girls allin all in uniform rang the doorbells of o f homes This survey made as a community service by Scouts and Camp Fire Girls under the tire supervision of selected adults gave Falls Church a comprehensive city directory that serves J I as S an accurate estimate of community needs and resources Among the te specific organizations that the tire survey helped materially was leas the public school system The Tire youth survey revealed an In undreamed number of school pre age children This TIis information gave school officials the te opportunity to expand ex ex- educational facilities to meet the need before it became a crisis The survey y brought new members to church and Sunday School In the tits of effort fort to ascertain the number of actual and ami potential Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts families were asked to state their preference in church denominations because church groups sponsor some sonic o of f the tIre troops From the replies to that question it was found that many persons did not attend attend at at- tend the local church that represented d their denominational 0 clIO choice ice After pastors and amI otheir church workers learned that they called on these people and invited them to church sere ices As a result a goodly number joined the church of their choice and sent their children to Sunday School The survey tats ivas valuable not only to organizations organisations but butto butto butto to individuals as well It showed parents the fhe necessity of 01 participation in community organizations organisations that operate for lor forthe forthe the benefit o of 0 f their young along alons with the tire other fellows Parents that the tIre survey revealed to be potential potential po leaders wanted their chil chil- dren to belong to the Scout troops c but tile they did not relish the of working ng with the taw troops I as leaders or in other capacities Such individuals were Ivere told frankly I that their children could not become be b come collie Scouts or Camp Fire Girls unless these organizations organisations found r more adult workers and anti leaders E Expressed in terms 0 of opportunity and Its Gene for their mv own children these parents moved out from rain the ranks rems of o f the tile potential po into the status statu of active leadership in the tIe Scouts and other organizations organisations t |