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Identifier: reviewofreviewsw59newy (find matches)
Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto
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es of litera-ture for the Government andvarious war agencies. Of course, the bulk oftheir work could hardly bethe administration was sold on the po- interpreted in terms of figures. Yet the en-tentialities of the Scouts and the call for big thusiastic front put up by th^ boys in allnational service w^ent out to thousands of they were asked to do, their services in be-troops and leaders throughout the country. half of the Red Cross, the United War^ The Scouts rose en masse; there was no Work Drive and other war agencies, en-hitch, no delay. True to their slogan, they deared these Scouts to the thousands ofwere prepared. Job after job was workers who came in contact with them, andtackled and each seen through to success- brought forth a commendation of the move-ful completion. Even Washington was ment, that, unfortunately, was lost duringamazed, for the Scouts were making history the heat of the times, but is just beginning tothat dealt in stupendous figures, in astonish- come to light.
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SCOUTS TAKING A TREE CENSUS FOR THE GOVERNMENfT ing deeds The Scouts War Record* Let us briefly summarize their warachievements: In the first four Liberty Loans, as Glean-ers after the Reapers, they secured close to2,000,000 subscriptions, totalling over $300-000,000. This accomplishment, great as itis intrinsically, stands out all the more amaz-ing in the light of the doubly diflicult task towhich the Scouts were put in this connection. The heart of the boy is a simple thing, yetwell-nigh unfathomable despite its simplic-ity. Few men have sounded it as thoroughlyas has the Chief Scout Executive, James E.West, who has been with scouting since itsinception in this country in 1910. In thewar-achievements of the Scouts he sees farmore than the historical record they havemade, as enviable as it is. How They Found the Black WalnutAfter all (says this big-hearted man), it is 1 hey were asked to comb the ground after it not the vast amount of work done by Scouts in had alread)^ been thorough
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