Scouting, Volume 8, Number 17, November 11, 1920 Page: 3
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SCOUTING, NOVEMBER 11, 1920
Boy Scouts on Armistice Soil
TODAY is Armistice Day. Two years ago today the sun
rose as it had been rising for four years in blood, but
when it went down that night the world slept in peace
for the first time in that number of years.
In a piece of woods since called Le Carrefour de 1'Armistice,
a train of cars had brought the great Marechal Foch and his
staff. Another had brought representatives of the German
forces. The end of the war had come.
In all the Allied countries, perhaps most of all here in
America where con-
ditions were more
favorable to it, Boy
Scouts had contrib-
uted immensely to
the hastening of the
ending of the war.
President Wilson has
just issued a con-
gratulatory letter to
the scouts in the
United States who
during 1918 made the
best State records in
the selling of War
Savings Stamps. The
selling of $45,000,000
worth of W. S. S. in
1918 was but one of
the many services
which the Boy Scouts
of America rendered
their Government
from the time this
country entered the
war.
The Jamboree dele-
gation with its leaders
was escorted to that
historic spot in Le
Carrefour de 1'Armis-
tice by distinguished
The American Delegation of Jamboree Scouts with their leaders, and accompanied
by President Colin H. Livingstone, at the scene of the signing of the Armistice, escorted
by a group of distinguished Frenchmen among whom were: M. Fournier-Sarloveze,
Deputg d'Oise et Maire de Compeigne, Le Colonel Commandant de-XVe Chasseurs
Cheval, L'Officier d'Etat Major 54e Reg. d'Infanterie, M. Decosse, Sous-Prefet de Com-
piegne, Le Maire de Choisy an Bac.
Frenchmen. M. Fournier-Sarloveze, Depute d'Oise et Maire
de Compiegne, was the spokesman of the party. He described
battle scenes to the scouts. He described the meeting of the
delegates to sign the terms of the Armistice. " The Germans,"
he said, " admitted that they could not go on—that they were
beaten." He praised the American boys for their scout train-
ing, and assured them that they had already done much to
stimulate Scouting -in France where the boys as yet know
but little of its activities. He closed his remarks by appeal-
ing to scouts to help
place a monument in
Le Carrefour de
l'Armistice.
To these remarks
President Livingstone
made fitting response,
and seconded the
wish that scouts
could help erect a
monument in com-
memoration of the
signing of the Armis-
tice.
But President Liv-
ingstone and those
closely identified with
him in leadership
were already build-
ing the greatest of
air monuments to the
signing of the Armis-
tice, a better boy-
hood throughout the
world knit together
in a brotherhood of
endeavor to attain
ideals of manhood
and citizenship in
which war has no
rightful place.
High Awards to Scouts
PRESIDENT WILSON, on November
4, signed personal letters of con-
gratulation and commendation to the
fifty-three Boy Scouts who made the best
record in the sale of Thrift and War
Savings Stamps in their various states
during the 1918 Savings Campaign.
These tokens of personal recognition
were delayed first by the President's trip
to France, and later by his campaign in
behalf of the League of Nations and his
serious illness. However, the President
never forgot his agreement with the
Scouts to supply these prizes for their
efforts and he dictated and signed the
letters at the- earliest possible moment his
duties and his health would permit.
Appropriate ceremonies will doubtless
be arranged upon the occasion of the pre-
sentation of the letters to the winners in
each of the states:
Over $45,000,000 worth of Thrift and
War Savings Stamps were sold by Boy
Scouts in the 1918 Campaign. The best
record was made by G. Schuyler Tarbell
of Ithaca, New York, who disposed of
stamps aggregating $77,215.25. James
Campbell of Lorain, Ohio, was second
with sales of $49,425.25, and Edward
Stevenson of Newark, N. J., third with
$41,551.75.
The boys to whom the letters were di-
rected were:
The President's Letter:
"My dear young friend:
"It gives me pleasure to tell you of my deep
appreciation of the intelligent and conscientious
manner in which you, as a member of the Boy
Scouts of America, have secured subscriptions
for Thrift and War Savings Stamps.
"You have won the distinction of having se-
cured more such subscriptions during the 1918
War Savings campaign than any other Scout in
your state.
"You have exercised courage, courtesy,
thought and untiring effort and in so doing have
set an example for all boys—an example that
will surely aid in the growth of valuable quali-
ties of mind and heart.
"I thank you in the name of the whole coun-
try, and I wish to convey to your parents, your
community and your Boy Scout Organization,
my appreciation of the training that has devel-
oped in you such a fine spirit of wholesome and
loyal citizenship.
"Cordially and sincerely yours,
"WOODROW WILSON."
Cooper . Wadsworth, Gadsden, Ala.;
Ted B. Miller, Clarksdale, Ariz.; M. E.
Newbern, Marianna, Ark.; Sheppard
Berkowitz, Los Angeles, Cal.; Laurence
Black, Pueblo, Col.; Carl T. Chadsey,
Stamford, Conn.; Frank D. Lackey,
Wilmington, Del.; S. G. Lichtenberg,
Washington, D. C.; V. Grant Barnard,
Tampa, Fla.; W. H. Young, Jr., Colum-
bus, Ga.; Joseph McCarthy, Wallace,
Idaho; Robert Clover, La Grange, 111.;
Rudolph Stempfel, Indianapolis, Ind.;
Francis Hobart, Rockwell City, Iowa;
George D. Hanna, Clay Center, Kans.;
Gruaman Marks, Georgetown, Ky.; Don
Norman, Patterson, La.; Orland Sweeter,
South Windham, Me.; Howell C. Lowell,
New Windsor, Md.; Harold White,
Lowell. Mass.; John Carlisle, Detroit,
Mich.; Bernard Silverstein, Duluth,
Minn.; W. L. Brown, Poplarville, Miss.;
Robert Martin, Craig, Mo.; Ellis Dutton,
Butte, Mont.; Edgar Mathers, Falls City,
Neb.; Edward Maxwell, East Ely, Nev.;
Clifton Danforth, Warner, N. H.; Ed-
ward Stevenson, Newark, N. J.; Clarence
Home, Carlsbad, N. M.; G. Schuyler Tar-
bell, Ithaca, N. Y.; John F. Blair, Win-
ston-Salem, N. C.; Gordon Reeder, Wah-
peton, N. D.; James Campbell, Lorain,
O.; L. L. Atkins, Muskogee, Okla.; R.
Otterheimer, Portland, Ore.; Ralph Wil-
liam Stanley, Lewisburg, Pa.; Harry
Wetherald, Providence, R. I.; Milton
Littlejohn, Belton, S. C.; Clarence Moran,
Armour, S. D.; Eugene Eager, Knox-
ville, Tenn.; Erwin Speckels, La Grange,
Tex.; Lawrence Dunkley, Salt Lake City,
Utah; Charles E. Peck, Montpelier, Vt.;
Clarence Arnett, Saltville, Va.; Willie
Bridges, Hoquiam, Wash.; Sam Hanauer,
Wheeling, W. Va.; Arthur Gruhl, Mil-
waukee, Wis.; Kenneth McKenna, Lan-
der, Wyo.; Raymond Hunter, Balboa,
Canal Zone; Philip Zane, Honolulu, Ha-
waii; Charles Harding, San Juan, Porto
Rico; Norman Russell, Fairbanks, Alaska.
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