Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-15
Boy Scout Movement
Spreading.

COlOnel Roosevelt was right,
said General Baden-Powell in speak
| ing on the American boy scout move
| in his letter of acceptance as vice
president Of the boy scouts of Amer
lea that we need to put back some
of the wild man into the city boys
Still, you do not have to put as
much spirit and go into your boys
as we have to into ours In England
But you may very well find room
to teach them chivalry, discipline
and helpfulness. You would do well
to spend a little more of your money
in developing spirit and building
character, teach boys self reliance,
initiative, to do good turns to peo-
pie"
Then Sir Robert congratulated the
boy scout movement Of America on
having brought about such a COM
bination of movements and leader
ships such as to bring together Err
nest Thompson Seton, Dan Beard
and various societies into one ma
tional unsectarian movement to bet
ter boys-a movement which is not
so much an organization in itself as
Mr.. Seton said in introducing Sir
Robert on this occasion, but a
method of work for all organizations
to adopt that can help them to reach
boys
In England" the general said,
the boy scouts did not teach any
fnr Nf toto
boy to have some and stick to it and
make it a part of their religion and
method to help others, and not let
a day pass without having done some
good turn to somebody and not to
tell of it unless asked"
The Boy Scouts of America have
already issued over 1000 scout mas
ters' warrants to men in "A states
and two OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Rico
and the Philippines. These men rep
resent fully 100000 boys. Local
committees are at work in over 800
points and the boy scouts of Amer
lea are working in operation with
boys clubs, juvenile courts, chart
ties associations, public schools,
Sunday schools, church clubs, Y NJ
c. A, young mems Hebrew and Cath
Ollie associations, playground asso-
Citations, social workers clubs, min
isterial associations, medical societ-
les, the national guard, United States
service and the press. 1t is non-sec-
tartan, the religious life Of the boy
being left to his scout master and the
institution with which he is con-
nected. 1t is neither military nor
anti-military. just simply non-mili- |
tary. The first edition $1,000 copies) |
of the Boy Scout Manual was cleaned !
out in 20 days and second of 1900 |
quickly exhausted.
Military and other schools are in !
drills for the scouts This !
has been done at the military school /
at Nautilus New York; and St John 1
(Kansas), and by professor Scudder /
in his preparatory school at New I.
Brunswick. In Canada there are .
fully 100000 boys in scout troops |
These have been recently reviewed 4
by General Baden-Powell in Toronto,
Montreal. Vancouver and other
points.
Colonel Roosevelt, in his recent
letter accepting the vice-presidency
Of the movement, said: The ex-
sive development of city life in mod
ern industrial civilization, which has
seen it's climax here in our own coun-
try, is accompanied by a very IN
healthy atrophying of some of the es-
sential virtues which must be en-
bodied by any man who is to be a d
good soldier, and which especially /.
ought to be embodied by every man
% be a good citizen in the time of
PEACE. This movement aims at coun-
eracting these unhealthy tenden-
les
The boy scouts of America with
National headquarters at 124 East
18th street, New York, should not be