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Show coranEEs out. FOR BOY SCOUTS Drive to Raise $800 is Started With Pronounced Success Locals to Affiliate Af-filiate With Salt Lake Council. ' The drive for the purpose of raising $800 for the Boy Scout movement of Bingham Canyon started Thursday morning, and according to late reports much enthusiasm was being shown by all concerned. The different men appointed on the campaign committee report considerable consider-able success ,and it is to be hoped that ere the week is over the entire amount is fully subscribed, as there is nothing noth-ing more essential at the present time than BOY SCOUTS for Bingham Canyon. According to H. R. Atkin, district scout commissioner, the committee in charge of the Boy Scout drive for funds are asked to make the following explanation in order that folks know just why the drive is being made. 1. The Boy Scout Council of Bingham Bing-ham Canyon believes that the Boy Scout movement is one of the most important institutions for1 the development develop-ment of manly qualities and substantial substan-tial citizenship in the lives of the boys of the camp. 2. Unless we raise the fund the purpose for which this drive has been inaugurated it is impossible for us to continue our membership in the Boy Scout organization. - . 3. If we raise the fund our Boy Scouts not only become members of. the Boy Scout Organization of America Amer-ica but also members of the Salt Lake County Boy Scout organizations. j 4. Membership, in the Salt Lake Council entitles ks to the ' following privileges: (a) Our boys will be entitled to use all the Boy Scout equipment belonging belong-ing to the Salt Lake Council. This equipment includes a $15,000 summer home in Immigration Canyon. (b) The Bingham Council and Scout masters would be entitled, to the direction and leadership of the executives of the Salt Lake Council. The chief of these executives is Oscar Os-car Kirkham, who has a national reputation rep-utation in scouting. 4 (c) The Salt Lake Council will hire a man trained in scouting, who will visit Bingham Canyon occasionally perhaps once a month and help organize or-ganize the local troops, keep the local scout masters enthusiastic and familiar famil-iar with developments in scouting (Continued on Page 7.) scntial to the welfare of our young, and it is to be hoped that everyone in the camp will give at least one dollar. The drive for the raising of the $800 will end Thursday of next week, and thos who have been unable to sec members of the campaign committee are asked to get in touch with H. R Atkin, Boyd J. Barnard, John Knnd-sen Knnd-sen at Copperfield, Sid Pregaskis at Highland Boy, Bishop Lyon, Rev. Mitchell, Father Lamb or any other citizens of the camp who are endeavoring endeav-oring to permanently place the Boy Scout movement in Bingham Canyon on a firm foundation. I Committee Out (Continued from Page 1) and in general help to keep the local organization at maximum efficiency. 5. Besides providing the above mentioned men-tioned privileges this fund will take care of the local needs of all Boy Scouts of Bingham Canyon, Copp field and Highland Boy it is estimatedfor esti-matedfor one year. These local needs include such items as the following: fol-lowing: (a) Trips to swimming pools, trips to Salt Lake City for various purposes, pur-poses, trips to Immigration Canyon and elsewhere which arc necessary if scouting is to last. (b) Hikes into the local mountains. (3) One of two summer encamp- incuts at Saratoga oi elsewhere. (d) Literature and supplies and other local needs. All these 'things cost money and yet an efficient Scout organization cannot be maintained without them. Thus it is seen that the Scout movement move-ment for Bingham Canyon is an es- |