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Show I Remarkable Record I Of Boy Scouts Shown I In Executive's Report Mure than Too boys of Ogden are, now enrolled under the Ogden ooani H of the Boy Scouts t Amerloa. accord-Ing accord-Ing to the yearly report of S u IT . . ntivc G. A. Ooates, wM.'h had been j submitted Co Presldtgr.l George v :..n(iani. Fifty scoutmasters wo Itst-j ! in tl coun.-H while 00 hoop .-.iin n-Uieemrn are n'.so listed. , folio Is the report, -f Scout Ifijscutivc A. Goatps: ir. submitting my annua repuit so the council. I am Impressed with tho value of the Biy s out moi n enl as n i K.prain for boys to oui community, .x; the present t!me it is the only pro- gram that reach! I out to :hc h.ys of svar lass and every re II pre-, -cnts the only movement thai appi al to the natural human instincts of the i hoy and provides him With i .- full of educational actlviti'H thai 1-pval 1-pval to Ms boyish sow. t war rER bi r.ix. The aim of Use movement In Char-, ,, ;rr building: an. I eltlw I ship training. f for the boyliood of Amerk Theodore Roosevelt bid: Hi The prime lew6n tl i scout movement W teaching I the les- son that manliness In its nios Mgor-ous Mgor-ous form can he and ought :o he fcc-companled fcc-companled by unselfish consideration for the rights and Interests of oth l irlsh that I could make the ,,,)K-al to the American boj iH member that unless he thinks of oth- . rs he i .innot fit himself do th '1 1 nork in any greal emergency. The I f names in out history to whn h we now ifH lo0U back with pride are th- names ' ot mm who ha r rendered great 1 LH ' ' service. - The bov scouts musl woi against tne same-toe and vlcea.that most hurt I IH the nation: and thej muH' " '" ''' 1H vr lnr -he a 1 : --.-c t oe he-'ess, slf-in-( .lulgcnt. or wasteful. wi- itirn the boy iOlo a mighty poor kind of a man. ,nwt as the indtilgeii'-e in such Vices bj men of the nation means the ruin j ! nj the nation. ' Any boy s Worth nothing if he bus not the eour--igp courage t.. sl .ji.l up asalnst tl.-torces tl.-torces of evil, and courage l stand jn H Vno right path." m To nHw 0...r boys reach these splen- : thU Ideals, vou men have formefl this i ;i t ouncii. This is as widely represenla- (Xve group of men as Ogr.eil 1 . mi are helping to form the Chai i .rrs and train the boys o' th- t; inunity who will later lake up the fl . work where vou leave off. ORGANIZATION : i i oUr organisation is now composed t ,a J df 28 troops In good Handing, six of l, Which an. affiliated county troops This represents a scoul raembers;nlp of tio scouts, B02 ot which nr. tender-1 tender-1 foot grade. 10S second ols3; 11 Urft; 31 Merit badge; 1 star: with letadeiv B 9ijip of BO scoutmasters and assistants and 90 troop committeemen assisting m the work. H )ur greatest probleni Is Ihul of lead- B . (Ship. Two training courses have been Hr giveo since our organisation. The H courses were Very well attended an. I B have been vers- helpful to the in- them H Special groups hav H vantage of our bead'iuart. r- "round t ble" which is given for the benefit of H new nicn engaging In the worts as pa- H trol leader?, and BCribes have also r - HH ceived training in this way. H It is a conservative estimate thai HHI wc are reaching only aboul half of I Ik H boys In Ogdcn of scoul age. H L'ntil more leaders un l greater Interest shown by ih various H Inutilntinrc tllnt hlVo nor V.-l ;i d.MI id i scouting :is a progntn for hoys. :t Is doubtful thai these hoys will hi. extended ex-tended to them the benef ta of the: program LEADERS ORGAN IZF. During the recent training .'ours' the scoutmasters were organic.! Into' r practical working troo and havel held a regular monthly meeting, and for the sake of training ' are doing; about the same work as is vcqni.ea of j the scouts. Expert Instructors in first aid, i.a-turc i.a-turc Study, mapping. Signaling and Other subjects have been enlisted and' arc available for Instruction In the troop meetings upon request May Jttii. 1W0, a special c iterance tvas held here for the Scoutliyujert oi j T'lah. This nas a splendid sueci s,! :-nd i iJ;d much to strengthen our local r;orl:, Charles N. Miller, national fiebj ex-1 t-cutlve, was present, our executive! committee and other prominent bttl-j tens were alao in att ndance. Owing to a lack of funds and a gtn-! . i.il Inclination on tho pari of many I troops to conduct their own Individ u:J I I roop camps, a summer nn.p . ,n im: . eatabllshed. Most o( the troops spi nt at least three da;, s in a camp during i he i ampins season. Many over-night hike wore oou-du. oou-du. ted by the scoutmaster? . and frequent fre-quent edicatldnal hikes vrtre made iluring the summer. During August Bfi scouts and le.idoi spent n days n Fellowsrone aational pari; The expense i.f this trip, which eras borne by the boys f lu insolvcs. made it Impossible for more boys to go. The trip through the park was made a-foot. There were no sei'lOU accidents occurred and the hi!..' -is otif of gre.it educational as v.- as in r ational value. A motion picture of the scenery and scouts was made during thi trip, the . ost of which has been r funded o the local treasury since is Drsl s);oa-Ing, s);oa-Ing, The Couit Of Honor, ilrdct the direction di-rection of Mr l-'rcd '. Toytor. is exerting ex-erting s splendid Influence upon the BCOUls. The standardizing and coordinating coordi-nating ; the educatlona.1 fee.tu.res "f the program has been difficult. in order that the Court of Honor function properly a corps of 61 special Instructor and examiners is needed for the various Merit badges nov available to first clos scouts. Many of these examiners have been s.-i ure.l and KaVC rendered splendid s. rvi."-. Wo still need nian more in the va- i inns subjects. Thirty-one merit badges have been awarded to scouts who haVe appeared before the Court of Honor this year During the year, scouts have rendered ren-dered service In various wuys to the American Tied Cross, the foi-cst service serv-ice fir" department., public health association. as-sociation. Salvation Army, Children's Aid. Hood rcllOWfl and other organi-zations organi-zations engaged In public welfare. We have urged every scout 10 do the 'dally good turn," the patrol to j do s good turn each week, and the troop a good turn a month The results of Ibis feature of our work Is far reaching and gives the scouts a splendid training fn real perv-icc. perv-icc. For a while the "Ogden Seoul" was published and financed through the patronage of the business houses by the advertising specs sold. The constant con-stant solicitation for ads made the practice undesirable and the further publication of this paper wa.s discontinued, discon-tinued, because of hamg no other funds The local pre-s has given us very helpful publicity lu all our activities which has. materially aided In intei - sling the public in the program for boys. A continuation of the publication of a suitable monthly (taper devoted to scouting generally In whi.-b publicity for our various projects a-id activities js very, desirable, thus affording a splendid man- nf U. 'ping In constant ; touch with the scouting field. We have had splendid Cooperation from the public schools The unity of purpose of the scoutmasters and depute dep-ute cOmmtaslonem 1ms been encnurag-: encnurag-: imr and helpful". The city officials ' have been specially interested In the welfare ..f the boys. The ogden Rotary Ro-tary club has been the big brother" and moving force behind the move-! move-! ihent, having provided all the funds with which to carry on the work. Tho troops having the cooperation nf ao aetiv. troop coininlltee have a.aib iii.. progress ririiiging nocp 1 committees to activity has been I very difficult ta?k and several troops 'have suffered because Of the lack of coo peratlon. i ii" prooirm.oi nuance nas fuKf.js been a serious oiio for seoutlt g. Tliis ! matter siiould hje the careful :.tten- i Hon of a well selected commit! whose only duly is to devifio me i-.s and execute plans for securing K'lffl- clent funds for scouting; Frequent "drives" for Cunrls Is most undesirable and reacts against the success of scouting from a public point of View Tin- present budget of approximately ap-proximately $;ioon annually, (which has not all been raised this year), will perhaps be sufficient under our pr s- J ent methods for several years FIN ( I VL JiLPORT Ogden I ouncll v. r.ut of kmcrlca. Receipts and f U.sbursement. Janu- I ary l, to Dec. II. is:'" KECEIPTS. Balance January 1 . $1,838.6$ Budget committee. Yell.iwj.tone pictures pic-tures 570 Tj Ogden Clearing House Assn 300. no Sale of supplies ... 313. TT i 8,880. SO I irSBtTJlSEM ENTS : Uxocutlve salaries . . $3,000.00 I Clerical and field j salaries s.n", lent, light, heat and Insurance . ... L'8o.i" Telephone ami telegraph tele-graph '"2.26 j Postage ft 4.0 ! Office equipment .. ldl.03 1 Supji.. books, Utera- j ture and printing 1,317.72 i .Scoutmasters' monthly meetings IJO.OO I Seoul lenders' traln- ing 4 1 S . C J Camps, btkefl and rallies 5 76.99 ' T raveling and conferences .... 1 1.00 National CQtinoll fee i 37.00 i Bmerfiency 3 ".. 1 9 Pictures 722.86 .sundry expenses . . . 320.34 S7.2 7 I Balanee S1.60S.34 Our cons-titutlou and Iiv-Iiwh should be changed to cover the needs of tnir growing organisation I, therefon urge that the attached copy of 8 i i constitution and by-laws which is , made a part of this report be adopted substantially as drafted and that t Ii ( original constitution and by-laws bt abrogated. Fne Boj Scouts need a suitable rss-l ervntion of their own where wiselt- end camps may be conducted and out ; floor requirements' may be pVoperly I met Scouting is primarily an out of door program ami to Effectively carri j it oUt some place suitable for the pr -gram should be secured, through p -nation. leaseor purchase. An Ideal camp site not far away without doubt one of the most im- j portant features of our scout pro-! gram. Ogden needs more our-door ao-I Llvity for boys, open swnr.niin;; pools , ami week-end camps during the sum-' iner, winter sports and rccreatlo -With gymnasium for Ihe ' inter ' months will materially aid In leading our boys Into more useful lives and at- tract them from the unsupervised resorts re-sorts of the gangs. The boyhood of this community owes a great deal to you men. the scoutmasters, deputy comniiteslonera and Ogden RptarlaiM With .'L,ili a wide and eplentlld representation i the community's varied Inter. -ts and .. iiu the faithful and Intelligent continuance con-tinuance of this real genuine service to boyhood that you have undertaken gden Is building into the lives of her bjys the traits and character o real American dlizenshlp through a program pro-gram thr't works In Its a-.,,. .1 to boyhood boy-hood which leaches him W keep hlni-i self physic -i I 'y strong, mentaliv av ;iko I and morally straight. oo |