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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...proclamation of the President of the United States, this week is to be observed as Boy Scout Week throughout the nation. It is desired to obtain one million new associate members of the Boy Scouts of America. There is no greater investment than in providing the means for developing the youth of the nation, upon whom the whole future of America so obviously depends...
During the war, the scouts established an enviable record. They were found prepared to help whenever called upon, obtaining no less than three hundred million dollars in subscriptions during the Liberty Loan drives, fifty million in the War Savings Stamp campaign, and similar commendable records in other drives...
More than one million books have been shipped overseas by the American Library Association's Despatch Office since its establishment under Dr. C. O. Mawson in the basement of Widener Library last June. Fully three-quarters of a million more books are still needed, for which purpose a campaign for the collection of reading matter will shortly begin...
...Victory Liberty Loan campaign is two thirds over but subscriptions have been reported for little more than one third of the Loan. Our sons gave of their health, of their strength, and of their lives, that freedom might not perish. There are one and a half million American boys in France and Germany. Now that the war is ended it would be as reasonable for them to dishonor the nation by deserting the flag as for the nation to dishonor itself by deserting them. Is it a large thing that we are now asked to lend our money...
...laid on contributions of fiction works, magazines, and other literature. This is in accordance with a recent cable message from Herbert Putnam '83, Librarian of Congress, now in France, which reads as follows: "Urge everything possible to stimulate book and magazine donations--need never greater than present--at least million more fiction and miscellaneous books demanded within next six months to maintain army morale...