The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-10-21
BOY SCOUTS TO OBSERVE
RO0SEVELTS BIRTHDAY

The Boy Scouts Of America through
it's Executive Board, has authorized
the undertaking of a scout memorial
pilgrimage to the grave of Theodore
Roosevelt on October goth, such as was
conducted last year, only or a larger
scale. They also voted to encourage
the celebration, of Roosevelt's birth
day, (Oct. 27) among Scouts through
out the country in cooperation with
local councils and with the Roosevelt
Memorial Association.
The late Colonel was intensely in
terested in Scouts and was himself
an ideal boy hero, beloved and admired
by every Scout and honored during his
life time by the title of Chief Scout
Citizen.
The Pilgrimage to Oyster Bay is to
be an annual affair and will be under
the direction this year as it was last,
of National Scout Commissioner,
Daniel Carter Beard.
R%oosevelt's birthday will be OBJ
served in various ways by Scouts
throughout the country. This observ-
ance will take the form of Scout mass
meetings or general patriotic gather
ings, tree planting and dedication and
so forth but in all cases the detectives
will be the keeping green of the men,
DRY of the Great American and the
%implanting in the minds of the young
er generation the great ideals which
he typified throughout his career.
The National Council has asked the
cooperation Of the Roosevelt Memoir
ial Association and is comforting with
Mr.. Herman Hagedorn, Roosevelt's
friend and biographer in formulating
it's plan for a nationwide Scout OBJ
servance Of Roosevelt's birthday.
William Boyce Thompson, president
of the Roosevelt Memorial Associa-
ton on learning of the contemplated
project sent the following message to
all OF the state chairmen of the As
ISOLATION:
"The Boy Scouts of America are
making preparations for the nation
wide observance of Roosevelt's birth
day, October 9th, and have asked
the counsel and assistance of the
Roosevelt Memorial Association. Theo-
dore Roosevelt believed in the Bow
Scouts of America and the Boy Scouts
looked to him as their ideal. 1t is
therefore most fitting that they should
take the leadership in concentrating
his birth, and it is fitting likewise that
the Roosevelt Memorial Association
should give their endeavor the heart
lest support. The Associations en-
tire program is directed toward per-
petuating for the youth of the coun-
try the memory of Roosevelt's char
acter and achievements. Any assist
ance, therefore, which you may be
able to render the local branches of
the Boy Scout organization i in arrang-
ing appropriate exercises will be a
service to the cause for which the AS
ISOLATION was created"
At the various public meetings con-
Quoted under the auspices of the local
scout organizations on the occasion Of
the anniversary of Roosevelt's birth
day, the biggest men available will be
asked to speak on Theodore Roose-
welt and the virile Americanism of
which he was himself such a splendid
exponent.
In many places the anniversary
celebration will take the form of a din
ner with speeches. 1t may be merely
a Scout function, including all the
troops in a town, or ven a gathering
by individual troops. In some cases
where the big get together is not pos
sible Scouts will be asked to observe
the day in their own homes with their
own parents.
The Roosevelt Memorial Associa-