New-York tribune., 1920-11-27
Col. ROOseyelt's
CraveIs Visited
By l,500 Scouts
Picked Troops From New
York, Connecticut, New
Jersey Strew Flowers and
Pay Impressive Tribute
Burnett Delivers Address
Beseeches Youths to Emulate
Late President in Standing
Stanchly for America First

Boy Scouts from greater New York
Nassau and Suffolk Counties, anu from
Connecticut, New Jersey and upstate
took part yesterday in the First Roose-
Welt Memorial Pilgrimage to the grave
Of the former President at Oy"ter Bay
There were about 1900 of the Scouts
representing ten divisions os the ma
tional organization, who travelled to
the grave in trucks and motor buses
and each placed a flower on it,
1t was one of the largest assemblies
of picked Scouts ever held. Daniel
Carter Beard, national scout commits
sioner, was in charge of the pilgrimage
and while the Scouts stood OF atten-
tion he laid a wreath Oh the grave.
Bugles blown by the Scouts preceded
an address by Theodore E. Burnett, in
which he appealed to them to conse-
crate themselves to the ideals of Amer
icanism presented to them In the life
and career of the former President He
said:
'In coming down here to-day at the
very kind invitation of Coiopcl and
Mrs. Roosevelt, you are the first and
only organization of your kind to have
such q privilege and honor conferred
upon you.
Urges They Fight Unrest
"As I look into your faces, I am
wondering if you realize what t means
to be so privileged and honored to be
here on this ground. consecrated by
greatest democrat and Americas fore
In fC
know this great man better.
81 want you to go out and preach
the Rooseveltian doctrine to the world
to ward off Bolshevist unrest, to pla-
cate labor, to keep capital amenable
to reason, to preserve industrial peace;
to act as emissaries, as missionaries
to scatter and diffuse that practical
Rooseveltian religion among all men
of all creeds, color or race; to stamp
out once and for all Bolshevism, the
same as the American Legion is doing
II would not be doing the square
thing either by you or by him who
sleeps here If simply ran over q few
thrilling experiences of this brave
mans life, all Of which you, through
your Boy Scouts history and Boys
Life of Roosevelt. are already fully
acquainted with. He was the biggest Boy
/ AoSOUt NC CNCA IicN AZ PuOliC NV. iAcl
isn't side to your life as a Scout that
he didn't practice in his larger, fuller
public service. His direct manner
sometimes of speech, sometimes of &C
tion, left you with no possible doubt as
to just where he stood on this or tha
issue, for he was not given to speak
ing in that insiduously dangerous ane
evasively seductive way. but rather il
that free, open-hearted. forceful way
that left no room in the minds OF
hearts of his people as to just what ht
meant"
Pleads for Americanism
Denouncing present-day tendencies
which are the antitheses of American
ism, he asked the Scouts to dcdicat,
themselves then and there to combat
ing them, and added:
You fellows will see service, leagu,
or no league, unless we, as a nation
are prepared to resent an insult t.
protect our resources. Keep your
selves hard and in fighting trim dom
be misled, be practical. A League Of Ma
tons or an association of nations O
any such agreement, no matter by wha
name, is as worthless as the paper i
is written on unless backed by tha
! force which commands a wholesome re
! spcct for that force"
after the ceremonies at the grave tn
Scouts were guests at reception give
by Colonel and Mrs. Roosevelt at Saga
more Hill