Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 13826-h.htm or 13826-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/3/8/2/13826/13826-h/13826-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/3/8/2/13826/13826-h.zip) A GUNNER ABOARD THE "YANKEE" From the Diary of Number Five of the After Port Gun (Russell Doubleday) The Yarn of the Cruise and Fights of the Naval Reserves in the Spanish-American War Edited by H. H. LEWIS, Late a S.N. With Introduction by W. T. SAMPSON, Rear Admiral U.S. 1896 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA Honorary President, THE HON. WOODROW WILSON Honorary Vice-President, HON. WILLIAM H. TAFT Honorary Vice-President, COLONEL THEODORE ROOSEVELT President, COLIN B. LIVINGSTONE, Washington, D.C. Vice-President, B.L. DULANEY, Bristol, Tenn. Vice-President, MILTON A. McRAE, Detroit, Mich. Vice-President, DAVID STARR JORDAN, Stanford University, Cal. Vice-President, F.L. SEELY, Asheville, N.C. Vice-President, A. STAMFORD WHITE, Chicago, Ill. Chief Scout, ERNEST THOMPSON SETON, Greenwich, Connecticut National Scout Commissioner, DANIEL CARTER BEARD, Fishing, N.Y. NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS THE FIFTH AVENUE BUILDING, 200 FIFTH AVENUE TELEPHONE GRAMERCY 540 NEW YORK CITY FINANCE COMMITTEE John Sherman Hoyt, Chairman George D. Pratt Mortimer L. Schiff H. Rogers Winthrop GEORGE D. PRATT Treasurer JAMES E. WEST Chief Scout Executive ADDITIONAL MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE BOARD Ernest P. Bicknell Robert Garrett Lee F. Hanmer Jobe Sherman Hoyt Charles C. Jackson Prof. Jeremiah W. Jeeks William D. Murray Dr. Charles P. Nell Frank Presbrey Edgar M. Robinson Mortimer L. Schiff Lorillard Spencer Seth Spreguy Terry July 31st, 1913. TO THE PUBLIC:-- In the execution of its purpose to give educational value and moral worth to the recreational activities of the boyhood of America, the leaders of the Boy Scout Movement quickly learned that to effectively carry out its program, the boy must be influenced not only in his out-of-door life but also in the diversions of his other leisure moments. It is at such times that the boy is captured by the tales of daring enterprises and adventurous good times. What now is needful is not that his taste should be thwarted but trained. There should constantly be presented to him the books the boy likes best, yet always the books that will be best for the boy. As a natter of fact, however, the boy's taste is being constantly vitiated and exploited by the great mass of cheap juvenile literature.