New Britain herald., 1919-12-06
|. P. SHADE HEADS
 BOY SCOUTS HERE
High School Principal Elected at
 Annual Meeting

At the annual meeting of the New Britain council, Boy Scouts of Amer ica, held last evening the following new officers for the ensuing year were elected:
 President-Louis P. Slade.
 Vice-President-E. l.. Warren, in charge of administration.
 President--Steven Lynch, in charge Of leadership
 Vice-P resident-William c. French, in charge of standards and court of honor.
 Secretary-J. B. Comstock.
 Ireasurer-F. G. Vibberts.
 mmlssioner-Earne W. Pelton.
 The executive committee will con- slSt of the above named officers
 The nominations for mem bership on the local council for the ensuing year were adopted, making several changes from the council of last year.
 Commissioner Pelton made a re- port outlining the work perform ed by the council for the past year and made recommendation for the com ing year. The treasurer's report was read and accepted. The recommen- dations of the committee in charge of drawing up a new constitution were adopted unanimously.
 Expects Good Year.
 Scout Executive Walter 0. Cook made a report of conditions in New Britain and gave brief outline of the work performed since he took over the office three weeks ago. The plans for scouting, as outlined by Mr. Cook, will place New Britain a place near the top of the list among the other cities of Connecticut where it ETJJo v,ost l,nn every confidence that under this new leadership the scout program for the coming year will be a huge success.
 R. P. French, deputy national field scout com missioner for the New Eng land district gave a talk to the coun- cil explaining the cooperation from the council members necessary to carry out the program. He said in part:
 R. P. French Speaks.
 ''Thc other day I walked up to the top of your Walnut Hill park and from the highest place looked around at your city. It is a wonderful pros pcct from that hall-a challenge to the i'm a agination-an inspiration. There were your great, magnificent indus trial plants. not one or two but l should think dozens of them, shoul- dering up out of the crowds of houses and shops. challenging the eye-the very incarnation of America the Big, America the youthful and the vigor- ous and the hustling, America the producer and the maker of things America the land of opportunity. And no less conspicuously, right in among them-not proudly and coldly and distantly off by themselves, !, ,aYSH shoulder to shoulder with the factor ies, right down on the street and III the thick of the hustle of life-the churches. l think that also is sym bolic. I hope it is.
 And then everywhere clustering close to the temples of work and the temples of prayer-the homes. No whare have I seen so compact a city; no where have I seen a city where all the things which go to mstke up Am erica stand so closely shoulder to shoulder.
 "The shop rubs elbows with the church. and the church rubs elbows with the home, and the store and the bank and all the other things that go to make up city are right down there, in the midst.
 "In that it seems to me you have here i'll New Britain wonderful symbol Of what America ought to be, everywhere. I know that your popu- lation is from all the lands of the ; earth-and that also is America. You are America in one valley, surround 1. ed by your quiet hills; America with ] it's hopes, with it's fears, with it's problems, and with it's possibilities. ! Here you may work out if you will in a city of neighbors, the future of America;-the future of a greater ex- tension than our fathers ever dream ed of the great idea that was in their hears-the idea of government of all the people--the idea, of co-opera- tion-the idea of the essential broth erhood of mankind.
 And ] say to you that that co" operation, that brotherhood, that true democracy of America will not be achieved alone by machinery, either of government or of industry or or religion. It will not be saved by laws, nor by institutions-but by the spir it in the hearts of men. To put that spirit into their hearts you must be- gin when you are young, when they are impressionable. You must edu- cate them for it, you must mold them into 1t. It must become part and parcel of their lives, that they are brothers.
 And that Is the very thing that the Scout program, under capable and consecrated leadership, will do. Scout ing is a spirit. Most of you men know it; most boys know it already It is the soul of that boy that Scout ing reaches; it is from within. and not from without, that 1t works It's miracles Into his soul 1t puts the spirit of service--and by skillful means 1t keeps it there, and makes 1t