Scouting, Volume 8, Number 9, April 22, 1920 Page: 9
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SCOUTING, APRIL 22, 1920
Commends
Scout Work
Dinner Address
and that arose from a realization of the
necessity of our entirely inadequate
Americanization of our population.
We have talked about Americanization,
but I do not know of any form of
Americanization that so produces a real
American citizen as the Boy Scouts.
(Applause.)
I am told that there are eight million
boys of Boy Scout age and that there are
some four hundred thousand Boy
Scouts.
If we could have eight million Boy
Scouts for one generation, we would no
longer have an Americanization problem.
(Applause.)
It is not alone of the service of the
Boy Scouts that I speak—and I claim to
have a little observation of that service,
not only as a Government official, but
also as the father of a Boy Scout trying
to resist his efforts to push me into
service (laughter)—but there is that
great army of devoted men who are
guiding the up-bringing and education of
these same boys, in service and character.
They teach an education in spirit, a sense
of loyalty, and men who so teach also
create these ideals of service in them-
selves. One hundred thousand men
guiding the Boy Scouts make a contribu-
tion and are inspiration to the community
no less than the boys themselves. (Ap-
plause.)
During the next five or ten years we
will probably see many great movements
among the American people; but there
can be no change in our views of the
training that our boys require. There is
one institution to which we require no
readjustments, but to which we owe one
thing only, and that thing is encourage-
ment.
To bring that one word of inspiration
to greater effort on the part of the great
body of men that have this Movement
in charge we have gathered. I would
give it to them now. (Great applause
and cheers.)
master, thrilled the Birthday Dinner gathering with unpack-
ing and packing drills, breaking their own previous records.
sibility for Scouting to slip back in any
way. It is here to stay and to grow and
the way that growth can be accomplished
is to send out to the newer fields men fa-
miliar with the Scouting program, to in-
form the people of these centers what
they can do to help the boy. Men for the
field must be paid.
I personally believe that this compen-
sation should be made enough so that we
are able to secure the highest type of men.
I am sure that the West will co-operate
absolutely in this extension work and do
its share in every way. I wish to thank
most heartily the Chicago Council for
appointing me to represent it at the Na-
tional Council meeting. It was the great-
est pleasure that I have had since my con-
nection with Scouting.
By George Barrett Rich, Jr.,
Buffalo Delegation.
The Meeting was noteworthy because of
the enthusiasm and inspiration given the
volunteer workers and the strong endorse-
ment given by them to the policies of the
Council.
The most notable and impressive part
of the whole program was the presentation
of the work already accomplished and what
it is proposed to do in the field. This was
in no small part due to the strength and
character of the men of this department
led by Dr. Fisher, who showed the possi-
bilities of Scouting for the next five years.
I am more than ever proud to be a part
of an organization which has done so
much and is in a position to do so much
more in making leaders.
The Significance of the
Annual Meeting
By L. W. Sackett, Austin Delegation.
To say that a distinct step forward was
made during the Tenth Annual Meeting
of the National Council would be putting
the matter inadequately. It seemed more
like a triumphal march. We celebrated .
the victories of the past, but in the light
of the problems inaugurated for the fu-
ture the achievements of the past look
small. The national officers are men of
vision and called for a large assignment
and liberal support. The only factor of
discord was that the assignment was not
greater end the support asked for more
liberal. Every one went away with the
feeling that a new era of American boy-
hood was here and that a new spirit cf
democratic manhood was approacning
when church, school, lodge and social
agencies of every description can make
creed, race and partisan beliefs of every
character secondary to the making of
Americans out of American boyhood. The
success of the Movement is assured. Such
were the pledges of the meeting that
every man was reconsecrated and every
organization rededicated to this construc-
tive Movement for Americanism in its
fullest sense and its highest ideals.
By L. Marshall Baker,
Winchester Delegation.
The splendid spirit manifest at the Na-
tional Council Meeting was in itself a real
inspiration and could not have been im-
proved upon. Certainly the practical value
of the meeting was at once apparent to
those in attendance and it will ultimately
influence the entire field. The whole spirit
and tone of the meeting was one of gen-
uine interest and voluntary work; even the
faces of the men showed plainly that lack
of professional interest so common to
most similar organizations. The nation-
wide participation will mean a national
harvest. The program of the banquet was
one to catch the eye and win the heart of
all present. The reports of the field men
were decidedly good and clearly reflected
their fitness, earnestness and scout-like
dispositions. The coming into contact
with the officers of the National Council
makes us realize that Scouting is in safe
and thoroughly competent hands and
leaves us no room to wonder at its past
success. It makes us feel certain of even
greater progress in the near future.
By H. W. Newton, Spokane Delegation.
I brought from the Annual Meeting a
deeply implanted idea of the highly patri-
otic principles of the Movement. These
will surely appear in the individual scout
at voting age; they will be a perfect anti-
dote for the virus of Bolshevism and
augur well for the Americanism of the
future. I was deeply impressed with the
standing in public affairs of the fathers
of the B. S. A. who pioneered it through
its dark financial days and nowsee their
reward in the five-year extension work
agreed upon. The class of men who as
delegates participated in the deliberations
bespeaks the permanency and practical
value of the Scouting program.
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