There are fifty boys associated with the movement here now, and the limit of the field is only every boy between 12 and 18 in the community. If the help is not secured, the work must be limited to 32 boys only, as that is all that one leader is allowed to care for permanently. If this becomes necessary, the remaining boys will have to be dismissed, and all hope of the many others yet on the outside of getting it will be closed. Shall we shut the door through which the energy of the "difficult" age is crystallized into manhood to all but a few of our boys?

It is the ambition of the present scoutmaster to see every boy of scout age in Moscow a member of some troop and his plan is that three troops be formed now under the leadership of three men of character, and that a local council of ten or more citizens be chosen. It is his desire to have the general supervision of the work, under the direction of the Council, that the whole organization may proceed uniformly with the plan he has mapped out. The plan is essentially that of the official handbook, interpreted from his several years' experience in scouting and Y. M. C. A. junior work. He has hesitated to call a meeting for the formation of a local council until the troop leaders are secured, for it is primarily upon them that the success of the movement will depend. 