Scouting, Volume 8, Number 9, April 22, 1920 Page: 11
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SCOUTING, APRIL 22, 1920
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Brooklyn 2 added the scout
laws to the Pine Tree Con-
test Bridge and did its act
in 7 minutes for the guests
at the annual dinner. The
two patrols building the
bridge included boys of
twelve nationalities.
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God knows, we need improvement in that
quarter. (Applause.)
I hope, therefore, that your gathering
here this evening, and the inspiration
that you have received from the confer-
ences and discussions you have had, is
going to give a renewed vitality and
stimulus to the Boy Scout Movement.
I could go forward and tell you per-
haps in a little different phraseology, _ but
not half so eloquently or so forcibly,
about the Boy Scout Movement, in the
language of those distinguished scouts,
Mr. Livingstone, Mr. Schiff and Dan
Beard; but what is the use of my repeat-
ing it to you? ou have the lesson
already.
Your presence here tonight testifies to
the fact that you have that message,_ and
that you are going back to carry it to
your constituencies throughout this coun-
try and that you are all the more deter-
mined that this Boy Scout Movement
shall not lose any of the great momentum
which has been given it in the last few
years, but is going to be carried forward
with greater velocity and greater success
in building that character of citizenship
which is going to make America realize m
spite of the politicians of America those
great and noble deals for which America
has always stood. (Great applause.)
President Livingstone
Sounds new Call
Extracts from Opening Address
at Tenth Annual Meeting
HOW can we get the thought down
into the heart of the people of this
country to get more profoundly be-
hind the idea of Scouting than they have
done in the past? We all realize
that we actually have only touched
the edge of this great Movement
of benefiting the American boy and
through him to benefit the peoples of all
lands. Since the entry into the war and
its conclusion, we have been the focus of
the attention of the entire world. So
that whatever we do here in any of the
progressive movements and especially in
a movement which takes a grip on the
boy life of the country, we become the
exemplar, as it were, for the whole world.
That puts upon us a tremendous bur-
den of responsibility which we cannot
shake. We are endowed by Congress
with a charter which gives us the right
to go forth in this country with the mo-
mentum that a National Government can
give to an organization, and deal with
the development of boys' characters.
When you think of that power, you real-
ize what a responsibility is placed upon
us through that national charter.
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I was on the train for Washington
about two months ago and was very
much interested in just that sort of an
exhibition. The boy's mother and father
sat opposite me and there was an old lady
four or five seats down in the car, lame,
and she wanted a drink of water. She
called the porter and the porter forgot it,
but this little boy had overheard it. He
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