The Cairo bulletin., 1912-02-28
With the Boy Scouts


Colonel Theodore Roosevelt who
for two years has been Honorary
Vice President of the Boy Scouts OF
America is now more active worker
IN the organization. He has become
Chief Scout Citizen and, In doing so,
has assumed direction of those activ-
titles In the scout movement pretain-
ng especially to the training OF the
boys in citizenship and social service.
lust az Earnest Thompson Seaton
has charge of the activities pertain
ing TO woodcraft and Clifford Pin
eliot, Chief Scout Woodsman has
cha~gc OF those activities pertaining
to the development of the trees and
other natural resources OF the coun-
try, so the former president of the
United States in his forceful way
will supervise that part of the boy
scout program of recreation and ed
ueation designed to train boys Of the
country in national and local affairs
pertaining to government and thus
to fit them for the sturdy outdoor
life for which he stands
Both Colonel Roosevelt and MI.
Pinchot appreciate the tremendous
possibilities in developing good use
full citizenship through the Scouts
movement and mean to give 1t the
benefit of their hearty. support. The
officers of the Boy Scout movement
are very much encouraged by the
progress which has been made in
the last few weeks In securing the
consent of Colonel Roosevelt and Mr..
pinehot to serve ON the Chief Scouts
staff.
Colonel Roosevelt and James E.
West, Chief Scout Executive have
been very intimately associated IN
other important work. AS secretary
of the National Child Rescue League
Mr.. West persuaded Colonel Roose-
Welt to call the White House Con-
ference on the Care of Dependent
Children which attracted worldwide
attention and resulted in platform
for children's work which will be
followed for years to come. ALI of
details incident to this important
conference were worked out by Mr.
West in conference with Mr.. Roose-
welt. 1t is reported that Colonel
Roosevelt is willing to take up the
work partly because OF his confidence
In Mr. West to whom he once wrote
You are one of those disinterested
and patriotic citizens to whom this
country is under peculiar debt OF
gratitude"
Although Colonel Roosevelt will
only give part of his time to the Boy
Scouts, it is hoped by some friends
Of the movement that eventually the
former presidsat may find the scout
organization as important a field as
his editorial duties and that he
eventually will give still more time
to the Boy Scout work. Concerning
the opportunities offered the former
president in the Boy Scout movement
Albert J. Mock in the January
American Magazine writes:--
"And for leadership-one thinks
at once of Mr.. Roosevelt, that SPLEEN
did natural human force hitherto
content to spend itself upon the
mere outside of all our problems, the
mere machinery Of social physics.
What an opportunity for this mag
| nificent energy, this imperial instinct
Of leadership at last to spiritualize
Itself and become a permanent
world-resource!
| 81 venture to ask Mr.. Roosevelt
whether he might not see his own
| way to permanent place in the
worlds history by leading the sturdy
march Of American childhood
through paths Of real chivalry and
real adventure towards the pure
ideal of childhood's natural
romance.