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Warren G. Harding
Awards stimulate growth
"Harding Awards" were earned
by 5.058 Boy Scout troops in 1923.
Authorized by President Warren G.
Harding, these went to troops hav-
ing increases in membership by the
end of the year. Harding wrote to
all of the 302 presidents of Boy
Scout councils that earned the
awards.
When he accepted the Honorary
Presidency of the Boy Scouts of
America, Harding said, "I am with
the Scout movement heart and soul.
It is an organization teaching the
spirit of service and honor which
we must always have in our citizen-
ship. It is a school of democracy be-
cause in it standing is won only by
taking the equal opportunity given
all individuals to show their own
merit, capacity, and worth.
"I wish every boy in America
could have the advantage and the
honor of being in the Boy Scout
organization."
Calvin M. Coolidge
His sons were Scouts
President Calvin M. Coolidge's
two sons were Boy Scouts, and he
had many opportunities to see the
Scouting program at work.
Writing about the Boy Scouts, he
said, "The more I have studied this
movement, its inception, purposes,
organization, and principles, the
more I have been impressed. Not
only is it based on the fundamental
rules of right thinking and acting,
but it seems to embrace in its code
almost every virtue needed in the
personal and social life of mankind.
"It is a wonderful instrument for
good. If every boy in the United
States could be placed under the
wholesome influences of the Scout
program and should live up to the
Scout Oath and rules, we would hear
fewer pessimistic words as to the
future of our nation."
Herbert Hoover
Keenly interested
During his term in the White
House, President Herbert Hoover
showed keen interest in Scouting.
He appointed Chief Scout Execu-
tive James E. West as chairman of
the Committee on Youth for the
White House Conference on Child
Health and Protection in 1930.
Hoover also launched a develop-
ment program for the Boy Scouts of
America at a dinner commemorat-
ing Scouting'stwentieth anniversary.
Speaking of the American boy,
Hoover said, "The Boy Scout move-
ment has opened for him the portals
to adventure and constructive joy,
by reviving the lore of the frontier
and the campfire; by establishing
contacts with the birds and some-
times with the bees; by matching his
patience to the deliberate character
of fish; by efficient operation of
the swimming hole; and by peeps
into the thousand mysteries of the
streams, the trees, and the stars."
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