The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-09-23
ROOSEVELT APPEALS
FOR SCOUTMASTERS
Points Out That the Country Needs Increase in Membership
Boy Scouts of America Ten Fold-Urges Men Not
Eligible for Army Navy Service to
az Scoutmagters
Serve as Scoutmaster-s.

New York. Sept 22-Colonel Theo-
dore Roosevelt, Honorary Scout Com
missioner. Of Nassau County. New
York. and member of the Troop Com
rni;tee Of the Scout Troop connected
with Christ Episcopal Church, in
Oyster PAY. pitched his tent at Mine
ola, Nasaau County with the 1900 Boy
Scouts of America encsmped there
The Bow Scouts cooked their own
meals fsr four days arr on the la st
6ay had rally with wall-scaling.
stalking" Cowboy race" contest,
and other Scouting activities.
Colonel Roosevelt addressed the
Boy Scouts after their dress patade
and Landed them for having made
the team" that fs Sighting Uncle Sam.
battles He urged everyone to do his
duty as he found It before him. Colo
mel Roosevelt said
Fellow Boy Scoutes OF course 7
have a right 10 say Fellow Boy
Scouts" for I see here as one 81 your
SeoutmAsters the dominic under
whom sit every Sunday am not
only proud Of Nassau County for what
you bows have done in orga nlzing this
body here in this county, but l CON
graduate with all my heart the Amer
lean people on the BOY Scout move
this. Bows Of your age ordinarily
cannot feel as vet that they have done
much for country az citizens but YOU
.boys--the, Bow Scouts--are different.
Because OF the leadership given by
@your organiza tlon you are already
doing your part
You are on the team now--t'ncle
Sans team You are doing your bit,
And ] tell you, ii r worth while
Ar L. ~. Ii
5aalt who has not got the desire to he
Ia part OF the team that counts. and
to do his share In making IL count
THAT ts what every red hlooded Ameri-
can has got to feel, or he isn't worth
being called an American! II Is what
you boys are doing.
We have got ass 900 Boy Scouts of
aAmerica and about $4,000 people like
ESooutmaster Taimadge Council presj
fdent Earle and myself Scout Com
tznissioner) who are in the movement
9ns lea ders, and won't be content I'M
It'll instead OF 2Ss 900 we have $780,
oo6.
NEVER BE NEUTRAL BETWEEN
RIGHT AND WRONG
And now, boys. nothing could have
rDleased me more than what-President
sEar}e said In introducing me, when
fand said II ought TO be the motto on
which the Bov Scouts act It ought
ITO, be the, motto On whaesa All of lis
There act, and also on which every
sssrow-up American cts Never be
neutral between riFit-aHd wrong -
sOne ~ the lessons that II Is most i'm =
sportant TO teach the average Ameri-
Fcan---the men you boys are 10 be-
Ffs that when he is neutral between
fright and wrong ne is helping the
s>wrong. n when your are grown up
iyou see cruelty. iniauity and evil
Irriumphi over decency and justice.
Eaud YOU go by on the other side like
The Levite. you will earn Just the cor
dial memory the I1evite ga rned for
himself under those circumstances. IL
you are not with the right then you
lare against the right And YOU boys
Tfaave got to cultivate NOT only the
shabit Of being decent yourselves hut
OF helping TO make other people de-
2cent Therefore you have got To be
good, decent and efficient
has NO USE FOR
HARAfLTSS' BOYS
have got mighty little nee for the
1yne ~ good man or good hoy ~
swhom all you can say Is that he is
Harmless Boy Scouts ! wa Mt you to
ieount in the game Of life. want you
10 count now when yeu have grown
lup and become men.
have Just come over from the
TROOPS the Sixty-ninth Regin~Nnt
asThey are going abroad 10 do their
fdutT. You are being trained In this
Eorgain2aion SO that " YOU are ever
fneeded IN the future You can do YOUR
duty. apd now YOU can do your duty
in civic life rather than in war
believe in this movement with all
may heart, and also In that constantly
growing belief IN this country tina, all
tof our young men between the ages
tof and % shah have TO have obi.