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Roosevelt, Hoover
Approve Training
Plan of Bov Scouts
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Both the Honorary President,
Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Hon
orary Vice-President, Herbert C.
Hoover, of the Boys Scouts of
America have just recorded com
plete support of the Boy Scout
emergency service training pro
gram. It is “admirably timed and
Suited to the needs of the hour’’
said President Roosevelt in a let
ter sent to Dr. James E. West,
Chief Scout Executive after a
study of the plan of action pro
posed by National Boy Scout
leaders and now being put into
effect in all sections of the coun
try.
The President who, in accord
ance with custom, has served as
Honorary President of the Scout
Movement since his inauguration
in 1933, and was an active lead
er for many years prior to that
time, said further;
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
My dear Dr. West:
I am most favorably impress
ed with the scope and mganitude
of the emergency service train
ing program now being develop
«d throughout the Nation by the
Boy Scouts of America and out
lined in Bulletin No. 11, for;
which please accept my thanks.
At no time in its history has
our country had greater need for
this kind of serious work and
preparation. Your plans for pro
viding it seem admirably timed
and suited to the needs of the
tvour and within the scope of the
regular program of training for
t>oys of Scout age.
I am proud of the achieve
ments of our Boy Scouts. The
movement’s record of service in
distress, disaster and every type
of emergency, as well as its
achievements for character build
ing and citizenship training, com
mauds universal respect. The pre
sent emergency will afford an ex
cellent opportunity for our
Scouts to assume new responsib
ilities and to gain practical ex
perience through patriotic ser
vice.
Very sincerely yours,
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
Dr. West, in making public the
texT. of the President’s message,
■♦mphasized the pertin.ance of Mr.
Roosevelt’s statement on action
“within the scope of the regular
program of training for Scout
age” and pointed out that what (
is being developed is an intensi
fication of the established and
time tested Scout program rather
than the adoption of new and
untried methods and activities.
At the same time Dr. West
invited attention to former Presi
dent Herbert Hoover’s statement
of complete agreement with the
basic premise of Scout prepared
ness — that today’s paramount
need is “the strengthening and
invigorating of democracy in the
United States.”
Mr. Hoover, now Honorary i
Vice-President of the Boy Scouts!
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of America, whose two sons are
former Scouts, has endorsed the
new Scout training campaign,
calling on all Americans to sup
port Scouting at this time more
than ever before.
Mr. Hoover said:
Dear Dr. West:
I am glad to learn that the
Boy Scouts of America is going
forward aggressively with a pro
gram of action based on the pre
mise that while military prepar
edness is necessary for our coum
try the paramount need of na
tional defense is the strengthen
ing and invigorating of charac
ter and resolute moral fibre in
1 the United States.
I rejoice to learn that you I
have planned no change in pro
gram and will continue to em
phasize the fact that the Scout
Program, without technical mili
tary training, is ideally suited for
boys of Scout age in the devel
opment of character and training
for Citizenship.
The record of Scouting over
the years is outstanding, and I
am hopeful that in this inten
sive development of your pro
gram and the extension of the
movement to more boys you will
have the support not only of all
now identified with Scouting but
of all the American people.
Yours faithfully,
HERBERT HOOVER
The Chief Scout Executive,
just returned to New York from
attendance at several important
regional conferences of Scout
leaders from nearly a dozen im
portant mid-western states, add
ed a report that his personal ex
periences demonstrated unmls-t
takably that local Scout Councils
everywhere have accepted the
program enthusiastically and
that Troops and Senior Scout
units in each Council are com
mencing immediately to carry
out preparations for intensive
training in preparation for what
President Roosevelt listed as "dis
tress, disaster and every type of
emergency.”
WAR DEPARTMENT IS
AFTER VOLUNTEERS TO
ENLIST; NEW TACTICS
By Jack Stinnett
WASHINGTON, Oct. — Just
what the Army is up to, the
Army isn’t telling these days, i
But it certainly has reversed it
self by going in for voluntary en
listments in a big way in the face
of the impending draft.
The recent order making it
possible for young men to enlist
; for one year, and making those
enlistments count on selective
service quotas, is exactly oppo
site to what the Army did in the
World War. Then it suspended
I entirely the privilege of volun-1
tary enlistment.
Although it’s off-the-record
talk, some Army officials al
ready have said that the result
will be that in many districts
not a single young man will be
called on the first call and pos
sibly in some not in the first'
quota.
A quick survye of the figures
will explain why this is a cer
tainty.
The first quota, between No
vember and January, is 400,000
| men. This means approximately
one-fortieth of total estimated!
number of registrants from 21 to}
35 years old.
In other words, if one young j
man in your neighborhood en-j
lists, that eliminates 40 from the'
j first quota, and more than one in
200 from the first call due within
a few weeks after registration.
_
CHANGE OF OPINION
The Army issued its recent or
der without explanation. The or
'der not only represents an about!
jface from World War draft theo- j
tries but also a reversal of opin
j ions given before congressional
committees during hearings on
l the selective service bill, when
Army officials told congressmen
that voluntary enlistment would
not fill requirements of an army
of nearly a million men.
What has happened, however,
is just what the men behind the
selective service anticipated.
Once the “threat” of a draft me a
sure became a reality, voluntary
enlistments jumped sky high.
In New York City, police had
to be balled out to keep the
would-be soldiers in line and pre
vent their snarling traffic around
recruiting stations.
The applicants went through
at the rate of 100 an hour.
New York is not a typical
city by any means, but if every
young man applying for enlist
ment were found to be physical
ly, mentally tand morally fit for
service (which they couldn’t pos
sibly be, of course) New York
City could fill the first quota for
the entire state in a little more
than eight weeks.
The trouble about voluntary
enlistment, according to Liet. Col
Victor J. O’Kelliher sometimes
referred to around here as ‘dad
dy of the draft,” is that it moves
in irregular tides.
Today it may take a battalion
of police to handle th eapplicants
Tomorrow, the most persuasive
recruiting officer won't get a re
cruit.
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TROUBLE IN WORLD WAR
About one-third of the more
than 4,000,000 men in all military
forces during the World War en
listed before enlistments were
cut off in the closing months of
the war.
But the trouble was that they
came in waves and so upset the
selective service mechanism that,
before 1918 was well along,
Army officials had no way of es
timating what they would get on
a draft call.
This situation, however, did
not arise until Class 1 was near
ing exhausted and probably
could not arise under the Burke
Wadsworth bill, unless some
need arose for greatly increasing
the armed forces beyond a mil- J
lion. -
In the eantime, say the side
line ex*.. s. the Army is going
to have . throw at the psycho
logical effect of letting the boys
enlist under requirements and
for a term of service that are no
more stringent that if they wait
ed for their selective service call.
SIGNIFICANT HISTORY
MAKING DATES
The middle of this month —
October presents several dates
vested with exceptional signific
ance in American and world af
fairs.
Last Wednesday, Oct. 16, Am
erica's significant embargo on
exports of scrap metals went in
to effect with possible far reach
ing consequences.
October 16, last Wednesday,
peace-time conscription went in
to effect, with its clarion call for
the cream of America’s young
! manhood to enroll with the col
i ors—with a goal of 1,500,000 by
the first of the year.
Yesterday, October 17, the Bur
ma Road opened, the possible pi
votal event that may bring about
major alignments of the powers,
possibly swinging A m e r i ca,
China and Britain into new at
titude bearing on the shaping of
the destiny of nations.
Watch for the effects of these
moves on the world’s checker -
i board. They may have a vital
bearing on the fate of untold mil
| lions.
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Funeral Ira Rank
Is Held Yesterday
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The Masonic Lodge conducted
the funeral services yesterday
for the ’ate Ira M. Rank. The
large number of people in attend
ance and many beautiful flowers
were a tribute to the esteem in
which Mr. Rank was held in the
community.
Mrs. O. S. Weaver rendered
two vocal selection with Mrs. W.
Boucher at the organ. Rev. Wil
| bur Wood presented a short ser
| mon. The pall bearers were: Dan
I Camp, O. S. Weaver, James
Panos, Leo Seidenverg, Alfred
Lomen, and A Polet. -
Ira M. Rank was born 73 years
ago at Massillion, Ohio, and for
a time lived at Wichita Kansas
and Seattle. From Seattle he
came north in 1898 and packed
in over the Chilkoot Pass. At
Dawson he sold merchandise for
the firm for which he later es
tablished a store here in Nome.
In 1905 he bought out that store
and went into business for him
self.
With his partner Billy Thomp
son, he owned and operated a
trading post at Blubber Bay or
Hooper Harbor in Siberia, until
1919 when the Reds came into
pow’er and they confiscated every
thing. Rank escaped on the Trad
er and the Reds offered a price
on his head. The Trader is still
active in the trading end of his j
business, the U.S. Mercantile Co.
On his trading trips, Rank has
been as far into the Arctic as
Vankaram on the Russian side
and to Hershel Island on the Can
adian side. The schooner Trader
has made an annual trip to the
Yukon and Hooper Ray to the
south and to Pt. Barrow to the
North.
He owned or was interested in j
practically every schooner that \
landed on the Nome beach. For
mail years he carried the coast
wise mail in this section.
He was unwell when he left J
on his last trading trip to Bar-!
row, the Trader running into 1
head winds and bad weather
throughout the entire trip. After;
reaching Barrow the schooner j
continued to the eastward 350
miles to Humpheries Point, near |
the Canadian border.
On the stormy southbound trip j
three hours out of Barrow, the
engine broke down and the Trad
er was sailed to Wainwright
where repairs were made. From
Wainwright to Teller, Rank was
never able to leave his bunk in ,
the forecastle. From Teller he
was flown to the Nome hospital
where he was found to have an
intestinal disturbance, and died
Monday morning of a hemorr
hage.
He is survived by a widow,
Mrs. Rank in Nome, who has
been hospitalized for three years
suffering from paralysis; two
nephews, Kenneth Rank at Nome
managing the store here, and
Carrol Price Rank of Cashmere,
Washington, who is flying to
Nome to assist Kenneth; two bro
thers, Otis E. Rank of Cashmere,
Wash, and Levit Rank of Priente,
Calif.; and a sister Mrs. G. H.
Hambright of Seattle.
Lyons & Orton
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Seattle, Washington
Thos. R. Lyons Ira D. Orton |
Federated Church
Wilbur P. Wood, Pastor
11:00 a.m.—Church School
7:45 p.m. — Worship service.
Sermon topic: “The Fool” — A
dramatic book sermon based on
the play of the same tiitle by
Channing Pollock. A vocal duet
by Miss Mae Walton and Miss
Edith Hafolutzel.
ESKIMO METHODIST CHURCH
Sermon topic: “The Sacredness
of Personality.” W. P. Wood
will preach.
11:00 a.m.—Church School
5:30 p.m.—Worship service.
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