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Show Local Scouts Prepare For National Meet . I To participate in the nation-wide mobilization of Boy Scouts who will convene in Boy Scout Week on Saturday, February 10th to receive; by radio an assignment to national service from President Roosevelt in Washington, the Boy Scouts of tire Alpine District will be called together to-gether with their leaders at the High School here. What service the President will request of the Boy Scouts still remains a mystery and will be a secret until his voice Is heard on the air. The Presidential broadcast will go on the air at exactly 10 o'clock, Mountain time. Eagle Scouts will be with the President at the White House together with Walter W. Head, the President of the Boy Scouts of America and Dr. James E. West, the Chief Scout Executive who will participate in the program President Roosevelt's Boy Scoui Call to Service will be broadcast tc the Nation over two of the grea' national coast to coast networks that of the Columbia Broadoastins System and the Red (N. B. D.-WEAF) D.-WEAF) network of the Nationa Broadcasting Company. The plans for the local mobiliza tion in American Fork are in charg of Charles B. Walker. The partic pation of American Fork Boy Scout is part of the greatest gathering c boyhood brought together at on j.- 3 nnnca tViat. It fl LUI1C iUlU. 1U1 "lit .ij ever been known in this country. Last year more than 1,300,000 men and boys were members of the Boy Scouts of America making it the greatest youth organization in the world. The President has let his advisors know that the great national project pro-ject which he will ask the boys to perform will be in the nature of a service of relief. He has asked Federal Fed-eral Relief Director Harry L. Hopkins Hop-kins to suggest several lines of activity ac-tivity among the many things which yet need to be done. From the Director's Di-rector's suggestions one task for the Scouts will be selected and they will have the period of the following two weeks in which to carry out the task. ' i Boy Scout Week, February 8-14, in which President' Roosevelt will! broadcast, celebrates the 24th anni-i versary of the founding of this great Movement in America. Since its establishment, nearly six million boys have been Boy Scouts. There are some two million Scout parents in the nation. President Roosevelt will address his message to them as well as to the boys themselves. |