The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-02-15
RoeseoelKs Appeal
to AmeTicae Boys

this message, not only to the Boy
Scouts, but to all the boys of Amer
lea. The prime lesson that the Boy
Scout movement Is teaching is the
lesson that manliness in its most
vigorous form can be and ought to
be accompanied by unselfish consid-
Grafton for the rights and interests
Of others.
Indeed I can go little further.
wish that / could make the especial
appeal to the American boy to re-
member that unless he thinks Of |:
others he cannot fit himself to do !!
the best work in any great emer- |;
gency.
TIE names in our history to
which we now look back with pride
are the names who have rendered
great service. This service may
have been rendered at the same 1
time that they themselves gained |
glory or reputation. But neither
the glory nor the reputation would
have been gained save as an Incl
dent to the service.
In our history there is now prac-
ally no mention of any greet finen-
cier, Of any great business man,
who merely made money for him
self. II at some crisis in the ma
tons history that fnancier rem
dered a great national service, or
if he identified himself in. useful
fashion with some great movement
for good, whether in art or philan-
thropy or otherwise, then his name
remains. But even under these
conditions it remains as of second
| airy value. Americas contribution
| to permanent world history has
been made by the statesmen and
soldiers whose devotion to the
country equaled their efficiency, by
men OF science, men of art, men Of
letters, by sane and honest reform
ers and social workers, who did
great work and treated that work
as in itself q great reward.
The two greatest men In our his
tory are Washington and Lincoln.
| They possessed great ability, great
intellect, and especially great scni.
ty of mind; but 1t was the fact that
they each possessed the highest
| character, character both very
strong and very unSelfiSh, which
gave them their pre-eminence over
their fellows.
There have been very able and
very INSCRIPTIONS statesmen In our
history. But not one OF them has
ever come within even Measurable
I distance Of the achievements Of
& Washington and Lincoln, or Of the
reputation of Washington and Lin
/ coin; and this precisely because
they were INSCRIPTIONS and lacked
T, character.
h Let me illustrate what l mean by
small example taken from my
own experience:
Il When fifteen years ago | was
helping to raise the regiment Of
Rough Riders, did my best to get
both as officers and enlisted men
those men and those men only, who
believe would make formidable
fighters in battle, rugged men In
a campaign, and men of indomit-
able purpose to see the war
through. would not take any man
who was not strong, hardy, brave,
able to live in the open. able to
handle both horse and rife.
But even il the man had all these
, qualities, If he we're Quarrelscme OF
egotistical, or bent on his own sci
fish advancement, and If | knew
that this was the case. would not
, take him. If he cared only for him
self l was sure that he wouli be
apt to be bad instead of a good
element, in the regiment. There
were some men from the plains
whom l refused, although l knew
that they were formidable fighting
men, because l also knew that they
we're quarrelsome DULLES and would
wish to cxalt themselves at tho
expense of their comrades; and
did not wish any man with me un
less he, was prepared to put the
honor Of the regiment and the army
and the flag first of all.
If man of the wrong type go,
into the regiment and l found thai
though brave he was thinking only
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