St. Johnsbury Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-1920, 1920-05-19
BE EACO0D SPORT"
lSADVlCE OF DIR.
WILLARD SCOTT
Enthusiastic Meeting at St.
Johnsbury of Cal. Forest
and Stream Club

Almost a hundred that DR.. Willard
Scott of Boston afterwards called
good sports" met at the Pythian
Hall Tuesday evening at the annual
banquet of the Caledonia Forest and
Stream Club and after enjoying a
splendid fishdinMcr and hearing a
speaker Of national reputation added
135 members to the club.
The dinner was the finest of its
kind ever given in St. Johnsbury and
was served by Mrs. S. J. Somervillc
and corps of assistants. A. H. Dins-
more furnished the perch for the
chowdcr and the fried hornpouts,
which were most rleliciously cooked,
and the dessert consisted cf maple
sugar and doughnuts.
After the cigars were lighted, Pres
idcnt Herbert A. Smith raped for
order and presented DR.. Willard
Scott of Brooklinc, Mass, who spoke
for over an hour to the great enjoy
ment and instruction Of delighted
audience. This was ID. SCOTS first
appearance in st. Johnsbury and he
is sure of a royal welcome when he
comes again. His general theme was
the mistakes of Henry Adams, the
man who could not adjust himself to
changing conditions. During the
course Of his address, fine tributes
were paid to Henry Drummond, Rus
sell H. Conwcll, Dwight L. Moody,
Abraham Lincoln and Theodore
Roosevelt. The latter was the speak
cr's ideal of good sport and his tri-
butte to the man that threw his hat
into the ring" brough out prolonged
applause.
DR.. Scott said the academic age
which Henry Adams thought would
always exist was succeeded by the
capitalistic age when individuals be-
gan a wild scramble for wealth and
nations began to gather in the colo
nics. AS result scramble we lad
the world war.
The period of the good sport has
now arrivcd--thc devotion to a task
of universal efficiency. Nothing ven
ture, nothing have, and the man that
doesn't take a chance will have no
thing but heliotropc and ashes at the
end. Lincoln was sport when he
had tho vision of u freed nation and
a united country and the greatest
sport of our day and generation was
the great adventurcr who "threw his
hat in the ring"
DR. Scott intcrspcrscd his optimis-
tic address with personal incidents
and the best lot of stories that has
been heard here for many a day.
MI. Dinsmorc briefly outlined the
objects of the organization and made
a strong plea for stocking the small
streams that big fish might later
grow in tho big streams.
L. H. Baxter expressed his appre-
citation as a Scout leader that boys
would be admitted to the organiza-
tion and said he hoped this banquet
would soon be followed by father
and son banquet.
Rev +. 3. Richards heartily en-
dorscd what Mr.. Baxter had said |
about the interest Boy Scouts would
take in the work and said the re-
sources of the Vermont streams had
never been appreciated.
The membership committee then
got busy and soon reported 135 new
members, Herman Osgood of Dan
vile proposing 81 Of this number.
The bylaws were amended to admit |
boys to the organization from II
years upwards.
Dr.. Scott was made an honorary
of the organization and in
acknowledging tho compliment
spoke cloqucntly upon the advant-
age to the civic uplift of the COM
munity of such wide-awake organ
zation as the Caledonia Forest and
Stream Club.
In closing the meeting President
Smith expressed the thanks of the
for all who had contri-
outed to the success of the meeting,
including Mr.. Osgood of Danvillc,
who came down with large dclega-
Ion and to Elmer A. Darling, who
brought delegation from East
Burke.