Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-07-24
S Building Armies of
Future Rulers of
America
TALK TO BIG CROWD
Baptist Church Turned
Over to Him for His
Address


ceoIa District Council, Boy Scouts of
America, embracing six Florida coun-
ties, delivered an interesting address
from the pulpit of the st. James M.
! E. Church of Palatka, to a very large
congregation Sunday night. The pro-
gram was in charge of J. D. Points,
President Putnam County Committee,
Boy Scouts of Palatka, who eulogized
the Scout movement, what it meant
in the better training of boys, and
paid THANKS and appreciation to the
good old Methodist Church for hacing
turned the service over to the Boy
Scouts; said it was the first time he
had been brought Within the pulpit
and that the occasion which had
brought him within the pulpit had al
ready made him feel a better man, ev-
en- though he had always tried TO live
as near right and honorable as he
could. In the absence of the orches
ira and regular church choir the sing.
ing and musical program was in
charge of and lead by Mr.. w. G. Til
gilman, with Mrs. Tilghman at the
piano, Mr.. J. H. Hickenlooper, cor
neteSt and George Stelts, claronetist,
which was excellent-some more good
scouts. The reading of the first
Psalm and invocation was given by
DIR. Sibert, the able and faithful pas
tor of the church-another real good
Scout, when the speaker for the might
was introduced by President ]. D.
Points, who handled the purposes and
principles for which the Boy Scouts
of America was founded upon and
stood for effectively, that their first
duty was to God, country, obey the
Scout laws, help other people at all
times, not themselves, but others, you
and l, in time of trouble, sickness,
etc, to keep themselves physically
strong, mentally awake and morally
s5raight-now isn't that better than
the opportunities you and l had back
when we were boys-of course it is.
The speaker explained in detail the
various fundamental principles for
which the Boy Scouts of America
stood for in cultivating and training
the boys mind. We can be a hypo-
critic in church and in ways too nu.
merOus to mention, but there are none
in the Boy Scouts of America, and did
you know they stand for the protec-
tion of your church, as well as all
other churches of their respective |
denominations The speaker appeal !
ed to the fathers and mothers to put !
their boys in the Scout organization !
and their girls in the Girl Scouts or
ganization, that every father and mo-.
ther was vitality. concerned in the bet
ter welfare and right training Of their !
boys and girls and they could make ,
no better step and contribution to
their children than to bring them up a
boy scout and a girl scout; that of the
S. boys now in the Boy Scouts organ
izatior of our beautiful and wonderful
little city, he had been able to look
into the eye and life of each boy very
and that being a good judge
Of nature with his many years exper-
.ences in employing departments un-
isr his jurisdiction, as well as his
travels and upon the jurors bench in
the large cities, that he was proud to
say that not a one of my 65 Boy
Scouts have I found in their life that
which would or might lead into cri-
ninal life; he appealed to the pro-
lection of the girls; that he would
much rather see a girl upon the
streets than to know she was being
aiken out upon the highways in an
luto by some unknown or untrust-
worthy 2 X 4, for on the streets you
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