it was to secure the help of an army of people and have each one of them do a share of the calling. That is what is called organization-a lot of people, each doing his own little share of one big job.

But there was no time to build up a whole new organization for selling Liberty Bonds. The only thing they could do was to use organizations already in operation -simply ask them to stop whatever they were doing for the time being, and sell Liberty Bonds.

The Secretary of the Treasury, through the Wall Street men and the other financiers, asked Boards of Trade, Chambers of Commerce, college classes, women's clubs, and all sorts of organizations to help. Almost without exception they said they would. They held meetings, read the instructions sent out by the Treasury Department and went to work.

But that was not enough. Naturally, all these business men and college people and club members went to their friends first. There were large numbers of people who were being overlooked. These could only be reached by a house-to-house canvass.

What organization had members enough, in all parts of the country, to make a house-to-house canvass in every town and city? That was a big question. The Wall Street men guessed the answer. It was "The Boy Scouts of America." One of them hopped into his car and drove to the National Headquarters of the Boy Scouts of America as fast as the traffic cops would let him.

BOY SCOUTS TO THE RESCUE

The Chief Scout Executive listened to his story. "Our Scouts have just been starting a few gardens-about two million," he said. "Every Scout to Feed a Soldier,' is their slogan. But I believe

they would be willing to let the weeds grow for three or four days while they help Uncle Sam with this new job."

In a single day the whole thing was started. A group of scout officials gathered at Headquarters and prepared a plan; a circular was written up and the copy presented to the Wall Street men for approval. Then it was set up, electrotype plates were made, and a few sample copies printed.

With samples and a set of plates, the Chief Scout Executive went to Washington. The Treasury Department agreed to pay the printing bill for 10,000,000 if the Government Printing Office would do the work.

The Government Printer scratched his head. It was a big contract. Then he pushed a button, called some of his superintendents, and put his men on the job. They made forty sets of plates. As each circular was printed on both sides in two colors, there were four plates to a set. Within twenty-four hours after the Government Printer took the order, he finished half a million circulars, which shows that the Government is not so slow as some people think.

As fast as the circulars were printed, they were mailed to the troops of Scouts. National Headquarters had already notified Scoutmasters to be ready for them and had sent instructions as to how and when they were to be distributed.

THEN THE SCOUTS STARTED THEIR BIG

DRIVE

Each circular had an application blank for use in ordering a bond. The Scout delivered the circular and went back later for the signed application, which he took to his troop headquarters and then to any bank or trust company or store named on

the application. The banks, stores and other agencies made it easy for everybody to buy a Liberty Bond. They made it possible for purchasers to pay at the rate of a dollar a week if they could not pay more.

To make a long story short, the Scouts called on everybody who was overlooked by the other canvassers. They sold nearly $20,000,000 worth of Liberty Bonds in four days, although other people had been working right in the same places for weeks before the Scouts started.

One Scout in Philadelphia called on a man who had already purchased $50,000 worth of bonds, and who said he would not purchase any more. The man gave him an order and a check for $25,000. In Montclair, N. J., in their house-to-house canvass, the other people allotted the Scouts only one-seventh of the town. Other organizations were supposed to canvass the rest. The Scouts took their seventh and sold $120,000 worth of bonds, while all the other people sold less than $100,000 worth.

A New York City troop secured 245 subscriptions, totaling $218,000. Kenneth Livingstone, of Washington, D. C., the son of the President of our National Council, secured 39 applications amounting to $14,400. At Hardwick, Vermont, a generous friend loaned a Scout his "tin lizzie" (what's that?) and straightway that Scout went out and sold 25 bonds.

In Omaha a boy appeared with a bunch of applications thirty minutes before the closing time on the last day. The official remarked that he looked very tired. "Yes," the boy said, "I just got up from being sick yesterday. I could not stand Dad telling me I was not patriotic because I had the German measles, so I got up to sell some bonds." A few minutes afterwards the father came in, the mother having missed the Scout from his bedroom,

and took him home to get any remnant of Teutonism out of his system.

Dakota Scouts did their work in true western fashion. A half dozen of them in one town mounted their ponies and rode nearly a hundred miles, selling Liberty Bonds at all of the few houses along the way. They secured applications to the amount of $6,000.

"I am rearing to go," said a Scout in Dunn, North Carolina, just before the campaign opened. Then he tore around and sold sixteen bonds. One troop in New Orleans took orders amounting to $109,000. A St. Louisan took out ten blank applications at noon of the first day of the drive and at one o'clock brought them back to headquarters all signed.

Secretary McAdoo of the Treasury Department was travelling in the middle west. at the time. The Scouts caught him twice -once at Cincinnati and once at Louisville, and sold him a bond each time. Mr. Frank A. Vanderlip, President of the National City Bank, one of the leading financial institutions of the country, was coralled in the wilds of Wall Street. Mayor Mitchel of New York City was captured the same way. A descendant of General Israel Putnam, of Revolutionary fame, went into the office of Mayor Trout of Lancaster, Pa., as his great-great-grandad did into the wolf's den, and the Mayor gave in much more good-naturedly than the wolf.

THE BANNER CITY

The largest amount raised by Scouts in any one city, so far as is known, was in Cleveland, Ohio, where the total was $1,401,900; then came Chicago, with $597,800; then Seattle, Washington, a close third, with $563,000. In many communities the Scouts secured from thirty to fifty per cent of all the subscriptions made.

WE

ELL, fellows, here we are around the camp fire for the last time this year. Why isn't this a good time to size ourselves up?

"We go to school to get knowledge, and we go to camp to have fun. We learn at school to improve our minds, let us see if we can't learn by our experience in camp how to improve our fun.

"At school we have reviews at the end of the session, let us review our two weeks in camp and see if we have learned anything, and if we know we have learned it. Now, translated into average boy talk, I'm going to 'hand it to you straight.'

"Some of our friendly visitors have given you some good talks and I agree with much that they say, but they saw you on dress parade, with your hair brushed.

"I have heard you called, 'Fine, manly little fellows,' 'Splendid examples of young