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Show Scout Executive Anderson Reports On Timp-Council Any drive, to be successful, must be well organized. A close t'ollow.up maintained by Uaily comae-: with each worker until the drive is over the top. The Tinipnnogos Council needs jour Supiiort ! Timpanogos Council Has Grown. From A Few Members To Largest. Council In United Slates: Joseph; H. Storrs, Finance Chairman, Heads Scout Drive. j ! The Timpanogos Council, Boy Scouts- of America, is the largest Area Council, having more than 1900 registered Scouts in the 12S com-, munity organizations sponsoring scout troops. This council covers aj territory in area of over 50,000 j square miles, comprising Utah, Was-i atch, Carbon, Emery and. San Juan counties, Scout Executive Anderson reported. To serve this immense area with but one paid man demands loyal and energetic work on the part of a large organization of volunteers, 5SS men in all, 'divided among 17 district committees, each district functioning function-ing as a miniature local council, contacted monthly by the Scout executive and functioning continually continual-ly through the troop committees of each o the 128 troop sponsoring institutions. in-stitutions. : Council Shows Growth ; In the nine years since the Tinip-: Tinip-: anogos council was organized it has L grown from 480 scouts to 1946 reg- istered scouts, with an increase in the organization of active adult workers, known as scoutmasters, assistant scoutmasters, troop committeemen, com-mitteemen, district committeemen, commissioners and executive board members. The council organization consists I of J. Wm. Knight, president; Henry A. Gardner, first vice-president, ni-, ford E- Young, second vice-president; Clayton Jenkins, secretary and treasurer, treas-urer, and A. A- Anderson, scout executive. exec-utive. Department Organized The specific functions of the executive ex-ecutive board are divided into 17 departments, de-partments, each department headed by a chairman, who is a member of the executive board and who has representation in each of the 17 districts. S. (L. Mendenhall, chairman of the troop organization committee, through his department represents fives, one in each district, has the responsibility of the organization of troops. Joseph H. Storrs, chairman of finance, fin-ance, and his department have the responsibility of the budgeting, allocating allo-cating aittl collecting of funds for council operation. Ralph G. Smith, chairman of edu-, cational publicity, has charge, with his department, of the council publicity. pub-licity. Preston G. Peterson is chairman of camping, and responsible with his department for the council camping activities. Dr. Franklin S- Harris and his de-. de-. . iho for the partment are leadership training program. Joseph Nelson, chairman of civic service, with that department is responsible re-sponsible for the civic service program. pro-gram. Court of Honor Active The court of honor department 1 under leadership of Dr. George II i Brim-lu 11 as chairman, have awarded: 270 SeconVl class badges; 130 first I class Ian ires; Co star badges; 22 life badges; 15 eagle badges; 23 palms. The department of rural scouting j.-. under the leadership of Dr. Thos-L. Thos-L. Martin. ! The reading department has Prof. WiKord Poulson for its chairman. ; " The health and safety department is presfded over by C W. Booth. -It is of vital importance that the Scout drive for 1920-30 go over the top. Not only is it necessary from 'a financial standpoint, but from a i standpoint of patriotism. The people 1 at large should be loyal to a cause that was organized solely for the purpose of making bet'er American citizens. Mr. Storrs, h"ad of the Seont drive, stated that, years ago, he beeame convinced that the easiest (lrivc !n the world was the one for Scout work. It seemed to him that there was more in evidence to drive for Che boyhood of America), and that the Scout drive would certainly be ; a success if the people took the right attitude- Believing it is far cheaper to pay out a few dollars to provide , for the leisure time guidance of the i boy than to spend enormous Bums for his correction. In reformatories. |