Show OY SCOUTS S Conducted b by National Council Counell of th tb tb n no hey T of A America merlea SCOUTS BOOST GOOD READING The days daya of th the cheap and harmful novel hovel are numbered So says a metropolitan met Diet a dally In commenting on the tile recent a at t gift of to the Doy COl Scouts 0 of ot America to improve the recreational reer rec ree- r reading of ot American boys bos This big bli Tort the first of Its kind is to be carried out by the mobilization tion In the Interests of boyhood of ot the talents and services of many of the best writers In the country The Idea underlying the whole plan pIon Is Is' Isto to give the boy as nearly as le lethe the kind of stories he likes to rend read under such conditions as to make his reading wholesome as well ell as Interesting Interest Interest- ing and thus crowd out ut trashy and undesirable literature Already writers of ot national prominence hence nence have been engaged to aid in the new project Zane Grey who knows the American out doors end Arthur Reeves es whose detective stories brought approval from the late Theodore Theodore Theo Theo- dore dote Roosevelt are lire among these authors au nu- thors thorn Douglas Fairbanks is another contributor The Ille man man-els of modern science and Invention also are to hethe bethe be he bethe the basis of ot further tales and thrills I We have no Intention of depriving the tile boy of ot literature with romance and adventure says James C E. E West Yest chief scout executive To do so would deprive deprive de de- hi him m of the opportunity to have ve what he wants Scouting very definitely deft deft- concerns Itself in sensing what boys want wont and then undertaking to supply it under wader con conditions laId would wo ul be Le helpful for character building and citizenship training The scout movement mO which exists I I as fin an Influence for well well- well directed lei II leisure sure sure sur time of ot boys has hilS since Its organization organ been vitally Interested std In the promotion of ot good 1 Juvenile literature inasmuch ns os reading enters so largely largel In tn the pastime of the boy |