1920 "THE COUNCIL FIRE" LONE SCOUTS OF AMERICA BOOKLET 6" X 9" BROOKLYN

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1920 "THE COUNCIL FIRE" LONE SCOUTS OF AMERICA BOOKLET 6" X 9"  BROOKLYN 8 pages. Published by NEW YORK CITY WIGWAM. LONE SCOUTS OF AMERICA
(
LSA
) was a Scouting
organization for American boys that operated from 1915 until it merged with the Boy Scouts of America
(BSA) in 1924. The LSA was founded by W. D. Boyce
, publisher of the Chicago Ledger and the
Saturday Blade
and one of the founders of the BSA. Boyce felt that the program of the BSA did not help the rural boy who could not find enough other boys to form a troop or a patrol. James E. West
, the first Chief Scout Executive o
f the BSA, disagreed with Boyce's concept, believing that the 4-H
program was fulfilling the role. After Boyce left the BSA, he started the Lone Scouts of America and incorporated it on January 9, 1915. Boyce became the executive officer
or
Chief Totem
and Frank Allan Morgan became the editor of
The Lone Scout
.
The Boy Scouts of America strongly defended their right to the usage of the term
Scout
, and West wrote to Boyce voicing his concerns, but the BSA never brought litigation against the LSA. In 1916, the BSA created the Pioneer Scout program in direct competition to the LSA, but it was never very successful. In April 1924, Boyce finally accepted James West's persistent offer of a merger with the BSA. On June 16, 1924 the merger was formalized. About 65,000 Lone Scouts transferred to the BSA, and membership peaked at 108,000 in 1926. The BSA ran the program unchanged for about a decade as the Lone Scout Service and then the Lone Scout Division. The unique program features were then eliminated and the Lone Scouts transitioned to the standard
Boy Scout
program. Lone Cub Scouts were added after the
Cub Scouting
program was introduced in 1930.
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