How did Green Bar Bill get his nickname?

Bill Hillcourt went on to write a Patrol Leader Handbook, a Scoutmaster’s Handbook, and the Field Book; then updated them from 1929 until he retired. In 1932, while writing the various handbooks, Bill started to enliven the pages of Boys’ Life with his famed Scoutcraft features, leading generations of boys into the outdoors. For four decades until he retired, Bill wrote his feature column under his pseudonym of “Green Bar Bill”, with a logo of “Bill” hand-written on top of the two green bars of a PL.

William “Green Bar Bill” Hillcourt’s Totem became a circle with”WILLIAM HILLCOURT” as it’s circumference; “Bill” was handwritten at an angle over a PL’s two green bars inside the circle; at its bottom, two leather thongs came out of a WB Woggle; the left one held three beads and the right one, two beads — Bill was a “5-Beader”!