Evening star., 1922-02-12
THOUSANDS OF BOY SCOUTS
PICK UP HARDING'S GREETING
Birthday Congratulations Sent From
White House Are Received by Amateur
Radio Operators All Over the Land.

Forty thousand scout wireless en-
thusiasts throughout the country
picked up President Harding's birth
day congratulations to the Boy Scouts
| OF America on the twelfth anniver-
! sary of the founding of the movement,
sent from the White House by radio
last week.
! Word of its coming had been sent
broadcast by national headquarters,
and all amateur radio operators were
primed to receive it. The message
read as follows:
This anniversary Of an organiza-
ton whose ideal is peace and friend
ship quite strikingly comedies with
the birth Of new hope for world
peace and friendship. at the recent
conference of the nations here IN
Washington. The responsibilities dis
closed by that conference must De
met by the men who come after U.S.
and 1 look with growing confidence to
that steadily increasing number OF
boys, who are. effectively trained to
do their duty to God and their coun.
try and help other people at all
times. as are the Boys Scouts OF
America and throughout the world.
WARREN G. HARDING.
Many Interested In Work.
1t is estimated that fully 10 per cent
of all enrolled scouts are Interested
in radio work. This means that thou
sands of scouts have receiving sta
tions and many of them sending out
fits as well. The plan aims to make
the Boy Scout body the messenger
service of the government. BY virtue
of the number Of amateur stations
70 fr01 he
possible for them to pick up messages
Of local and public interest and pass
them on to the remote rural districts.
They may be used to circulate
weather forecasts issued by the De-
partment of Agriculture and in trans
mitting information regarding forest
fires from the forestry department.
The scouts will stand ready to warn
their community of fires or food or
even to send warnings Of danger In
individual emergencies.
Washington has a great many in
terested. At present. Maj. Evans is
conducting a class of twenty scouts
in radio. meeting weekly at the Boys
Y. NJ. c. A. Signaling by either sema-'
phore or Morse is one Of the re-
terest in radio has grown out of this.
and the marvellous romance of modern
accomplishment in wireless communi-
cation. Interest is now country wide.
National headquarters is at present
working out plans with the govern
menf whereby knowledge and equip
ment of Boy Scouts in this field may
Dc put at the disposal Of the nation.
Mount Vernon Pilsrimaxe.
Plans are shaping for a large at
tendance of scouts at the first an
nual pilgrimage to Mount Vernon,
Washington's birthday. February 22.
the one-hundred and ninetieth an
niversary of the birth Of the father
of our country. In honor of the
event, scouts will place a wreath at
the tomb. These exercises. with
an address by prominent speaker
noon scouts VIII prepare their
own meal. and in the afternoon a big
treasure hunt will be held. in which
all will participate. The Mount Yer
non Association has granted free ad-
mission to the grounds for the scouts.
and special rates have been secured
for the round trip by trolley.
Scouts Honor Soldier.
At the funeral Of Sergt. John Wes-
ley Raezer at Arlington last week
ten scouts of Troop 81, with Scout
70, with Assistant Scoutmaster NJ.
Chaire, and two scouts of Troop 81
acted as guard of honor. Sergt.
RaeZer was formerly an assistant
scoutmaster in Texas, but enlisted in
the great war and was killed in the
battle of Belleau Woods, June "a.
1918.
Scout Training Effective.
In an editorial the Boston Globe
relates an incident that recently hap
pened in Quincy. Mass. as follows: