Arizona republican., 1921-11-29
TUESDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 2e, 1921.
It happens as acith cages; the birds acithout despair to get in, and those aoithin despair of getting out.
 -Montaigne.
The Next America

The Next America
 The America of the next generation is going be better than the America we have known. And ws making reflection upon the present Ameri ca That we have more comforts and refinements than our fathers: that machinery is effect ire. that living conditions better than they a generation ago. is no reflection upon those upon whom the conditions of a generation ago were imposed Even then conditions better than they were anywhere else in the world.
 Our greater progress has not been made in the development of machinery. in improvements in the rnzansr living. in schools in sanitation in the n rfton of iuxuries which have become necessities
 been in the preparation of the youth of
 acitizenshp of tomorrow. In 1851. the
 rica captains of industry, r-clI teachers, inventors will be for the m 6s who are now under eighteen wears cf ake @4 4c now active will have passed ssso retirement or She grave.
 The ner America will be largely the product of the Bcy Scouts movement Thirty years ago the ioy was left very much to his own devices. If he was neglected by his parents he grew up without attention And parental attention was frequently cniy pampering that involved training for demo- cratic citizenship. Boys isolated. There no encoute cement of directed gregariousness Boys could only form themselves into non-directed which likely than not to in the direc- tion oc crimnality.
 
 out of its neglected boys great men--perhaps ss great as any the future will know. It in them ~ 10 become leaders men and thought and indus 1ry- surprisingly large number of the very depths.
 So perhaps the Boy Scouts movement will not produce greater president than Lincoln. greater soldier than Grant. greater philosopher than Frank In. greater captain of industry than Carnegie but st will produce higher average of than any ~xAn hnre constituted American ctizenship
 A few years ago we aspired popular govern znsnt and many of the states. Arizona among them, we set up the machinery for it. Rather brought cut the machinery which the Fathers had provided and polished it. oiled it and set it in motion Nearly everywhere if it has not broken down, its operation been disappointing Our citizenship had been prepared for it. The mass of the people was found ss be incapable of legislation which is the prime function of government .the machinery gave to the people freer hand in the selection their officers than they had had, there is a general belief that officers had been unwisely selected very large proportion of the people took no part either legislation the selection of of xcialx It a great opportunity for demagogues, who could operate without that responsibility which rested upon those who directed worthily worthiy a representative government.
 It has been demonstrated, believe, that sge of The prsent generation ready popular gov ernment whan we boys not trained citizenship. We emerged from neglected boy hood take up the struggles manhood with it's problems the individual. They obscured the csrns which we ought have had in common.
 The Boy Scouts movement is to correct the ti0n's citizenship The boys to be taught some tning of their relations another when they be- come men. In that training only lies the hope of a pure democracy. And in the meantime they will be better boys
 The Boy Scouts movement had its origin in the nineties in England instituted by Colonel Baden Powell After that it made progress in this c0unsry though without much concert of action or direction until comparatively recently. It is now forging ahead rapidly We in the midst of a special intensive local movement which had formal beginning yesterday Within the next two days ss should be given the earnest support of all who feel any concern for the America of tomorrow