Arizona republican., 1922-02-28
ROOSEVELT IDEA OF
SERVICE EMBODIED
IN SCOUT MOVEMENT

7 tell you with absolute truthful
ness, am not thinking OF my own
hfe, am not thinking OF my own
success. ! am thinking Of the suc-
cess or this great CAUSE
:. sounds like Roosevelt? It is
roosevelt. The great American
pounded out HIS loyalty to the Amer
lean scheme OF popular government
as only he could. The cause he re
TERED to was the American idea of
government. or democracy: cause
which needs all the Roosevelt fight
ing spirit today.
throw pebble into a placid lake.
watch the ripples! They increase
l4Hter than the tick of a clock radi-
atinF circles larger and larger. Every
rspple effects each other until its
E4otlon IL lost in the waves of the
gvach. The whole lake ID affected
~ the pebble.
Scatter a handful OF pebbles in the
Sara lake and see what happensl
Ent q Boy Scout in a community.
He soon makes ripples in the pool of
pubic Improvement. But put d troop
Of Boy Scouts in that town and folks
riding by In the train will stop read
ing their magazines to get q second
glimpse Of 1t. The town will be the
gamer, and every boy will be the
gamer for helping to make his town
safer, happier and cleaner. Every
mothers son of them will grow a
little n1anlier, more earnest. more
considerate Of others. more jealous
OF the reputation OF their city, state
and country. Scoutcraft is another
word for civic responsibility. The
oarnlncn aus ftrrto -, y, otf.fA -.
ne becomes a scout c0rrects his faults
IN his endeavor to be a true scout,
and with no less zest and pep. the
we'll bred boy who comes from a
home OF refinement and culture grows
A new sense OF reIatedness to the
community in which he lives--the
object nearest and dearest to the
heart Of his parents, his teachers,
his pastor.
Theodore Roosevelt said pointedly:
III you are going to do anything per-
u1anent for the average man, you
have got to begin before he is a man.
The chance Of success lies in work.
lTig with the boy and not with the
man. That Is the Roosevelt way,
and the Roosevelt way Is the Scout
way. The viewpoint Of the boy is en-
iarged through the expansive action
OF the Scout idea. Everyone OF the
nearly 500, 900 scouts IN the United
States Is intimately related to all of
the machinery Of American govern
ment. The president Of the nation
IS the honorary head Of this great
brotherhood Of boys and Is affection
ateiy regarded as such by every Boy
Scout. They look upon him as the
Big Brother at washington. They
take a personal interest in the work
which he has to do and the way III
which he does it. When they study
the details OF the American system
OF government In connection with
some Of the prescribed tests Of the
Boy Scout program, they apply them
selves with the zeal of being inti-
mately and actively connected with
the interesting but somewhat COM
plic4ted processes they are studying.
That is why those charged with
lMe development OF scouting in Mari
Sppa county, when 1t came time to
choose d name for the council, choose
the name OF Roosevelt. It typifIes
the sort Of citizenship scouting stands
for: it will perpetuate and vitalize
R0oSeyelt's ideals Of citizenship
among the Boy scouts Of this coun-