The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-25
HIGH PRAISE
FOR YANKEE
BOY SCOUTS
Excellent Influence for Making
Better Americans
GOLD MEDALS AWARDED
Boys Obtain Liberty Loan subscrip.
tIons Amounting to s276,.
$4,000

New York, March 24.-Achieve.
ments of the Boy Scouts of America
in Americanization, characterization
and education of the youth of the
United States, and the part they are
scheduled to play In the nations post
war reconstruction were discussed at
the annual meeting here today OF the
organization's national council. Near.
ly $40 delegates, representing 1885,
600 Boy Scouts, attended the confer.
eHcc.
N reporting the growth OF the
movement in the United States an.
nouncement was made that new per-
manent camp sites were purchased
last year in Birmingham, Ala; Los
Angeles, Cal; Indianapolis, Evans
vile and Terre Haute, Ind; Mont
clair, N. j.; Omaha. Neb.; Akron, O.:
Scranton and Reading, Pa, and Nil.
waukee.
Reports showed that for meritori-
Gus work merit badges were awarded
30.160 scouts in 1918. as against 26,-
72S in 1917, and that 66 honor medals
applications had been acted upon, In.
cluding the awarding of four medals
to parents Of scouts who had forfeit.
ed their lives in efforts to save others.
| Paying tribute to the wide range OF
scout effort and achievement In war
work In this country, Ralph Waldo
Emerson, represent the treasury de-
partment, said that he had never seen
O moro perfectly oiled or more fault
lessly operating machine" and that
Boy Scouts had obtained 1,s56,90t
Liberty loan subscriptions totallina
$2T6,S95 900.
Speaking after adoption OF a resolr
tion euloglzing his father, who was
chief scout citizen" cf the organiza
ton, Lieutcnant Colonel Theodore
Roosevelt decIsred that ths Bo,
, Scouts Of America 'tun help in de
| reloping ricanism as the. grea
national army OF this country har
doneP ( 3t' 81.
Britadier General William II. Chap
lin Of he New York state mllitar,
training commissilp, citered ole
on behalf OF the boy not in school.
There are 100000. boys OF the agi
of l6, II and is years in the state o
New York, and more than 100000 ar
not in school, he said ''Of these s.
per cent. are employed, but they nee'
guidance"
John NJ. Phillips, scout executive o
Pittsburgh stated that 1t cost Ale
gheny county, Pennsylvania, $4,000
a year to care for its bad boys,
1900 Of whom are behind prison bars
while 1t costs only $4,000 to care 10
5000 Boy Scouts, not one OF whom
he said, had ever been In the courts
Colin II. Livingstone OF Washing
ton, president of the national council
delivered the opening address.
President Wilson was elected hor
orary president OF the organization O
tonight's session.. Former Presideh
Taft and Daniel Carter Beard q
! Flushing, n. Y. an originator OF III
Boy Scout idea. wore mare honorar
vice presidents. U
Among those elected members {
the organizations national eounc
were Secretary OF War Baker, Seer,
tary of the Navy Daniels, Secretar
OF the Treasury Glass, General Persl
ing, Major General John +. O'Ryal
Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Roos
welt, Charles Evans Hughes an
Luther Burbank
The following officers we're elected
President, Colin II. Livingston
Washington; vice presidents, Mort
mer L. Schiff, New York city; Milto
A. McRae, Detroit; B L. Dulane
Bristol, Tenn. Arthur Let's, LIZ
Angeles; national scout commission
er, Daniel Carter Beard, Flushing. .
Y; treasurer, George d. Pratt, Ne
York.
The following were elected to II
executive board:
John Sherman Hoyt, New Yor
; city; William d. Murray, Plainflel
~ j.: Milton A. McRae, Detroi
a George d, Porter, Philadelphi,
Frank Presbrey. New York; c. Ba
: rett Rich, jr, Buffalo; Bolton Smlt
, Memphis. Tenn.