Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1918 — Dispatch-Bearing Service Boy Scouts of America. [ARTICLE]

Dispatch-Bearing Service Boy Scouts of America.

The Boy Scouts of America, numbering nearly 300,000, have responded to the request of President Wilson with hearty unanimity, and will undertake as their first dispatchjearing service a distribution of copies of the President’s Flag Day address, published by the Committee on Public Information in pamphlet form on September 15, 1917 and regarded as the most comprehensive statement that has been issued by the Government in regard to the fundamental issues of the war. The local troop is in possession of a large number of copies, together with a franked postal card with which you may request other publications from the committee. The Government is anxious to have you read the literature put out by the Committee of Public Information, and the Scouts are glad for the opportunity of doing their bit in delivering the same. The Scouts will all carry Identification Cards as directed by the government. asa McDaniel. Scoutmaster of Local Troop. E. C. Maxwell, Assistant S. M.