can take the strategic position of asking the churches, the schools, the unions, industries, etc., to cooperate in a community boy inventory. It This is at once sound strategy and sound sense. economizes the scout leader's time and is in reality the most effective way of getting the churches and schools and other organizations awakened to boy facts and interested in doing something about them. General City Comparison 1) One of the early things to be done is to ascertain how one's community compares in growth, wealth, education, etc., *2 with similar communities throughout the U. S. This can be done by getting a group of scout executives of towns of your size to run parallel surveys and pool the data; or one can write to these cities to the officer corresponding to one's local sources of information. II) The Boys in Schools The natural way to secure information about the boys in Public, Parochial and Private Schools is to seek the administrative officers of those Schools. Probably the tactful approach is not to ask them to "please secure the facts indicated on the enclosed sheet" but rather by letter or telephone or personal conference to tell them that the Local Council is very desirous of knowing about the boys in the city and desires to know if this school officer would not aid in the making of a simple survey. Consent once given to be a member of the "Survey Committee," either in a meeting or in personal conference, he can be asked to take charge of compiling facts about the boys who are in his schools. It will be seen clearly that thus may the seeds of future cooperation be tactfully sown. *2-(This list could be expanded indefinitely or modified. It will be observed that the facts suggested above are on a %, per capita, number of inhabitants, per pupil-basis which makes them comparable directly with those of other cities). *1-(In the selection of the cities of same size, get fair geographic distribution). % Homes owned Per Capita Charities Gifts, Chests raised locally Give name of each and amount raised can take the strategic position of asking the churches, the schools, the unions, industries, etc., to cooperate in a community boy inventory. It This is at once sound strategy and sound sense. economizes the scout leader's time and is in reality the most effective way of getting the churches and schools and other organizations awakened to boy facts and interested in doing something about them. General City Comparison 1) One of the early things to be done is to ascertain how one's community compares in growth, wealth, education, etc., *2 with similar communities throughout the U. S. This can be done by getting a group of scout executives of towns of your size to run parallel surveys and pool the data; or one can write to these cities to the officer corresponding to one's local sources of information. II) The Boys in Schools The natural way to secure information about the boys in Public, Parochial and Private Schools is to seek the administrative officers of those Schools. Probably the tactful approach is not to ask them to "please secure the facts indicated on the enclosed sheet" but rather by letter or telephone or personal conference to tell them that the Local Council is very desirous of knowing about the boys in the city and desires to know if this school officer would not aid in the making of a simple survey. Consent once given to be a member of the "Survey Committee," either in a meeting or in personal conference, he can be asked to take charge of compiling facts about the boys who are in his schools. It will be seen clearly that thus may the seeds of future cooperation be tactfully sown. *2-(This list could be expanded indefinitely or modified. It will be observed that the facts suggested above are on a %, per capita, number of inhabitants, per pupil-basis which makes them comparable directly with those of other cities). |