Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-03
personal and social life of mankind.
1t is a wonderful instrument for

1t is a wonderful instrument for
good.
"If every boy in the United States
between the ages of IL and II could
be placed under the wholesome in
f1uences of the scout program and
should live up to the scout oath and
rules, we would hear fewer pessi-
mistic words as to the future of our
Nation"
Recognizing the training the Boy
Scout and kindred movements give
for community life. Mr.. Coolidge ex-
pressed the opinion that 1t has been
necessary for society to discard
some of it's old individualistic ten
denotes and promote larger liberty
and a more abundant life by CO.
operative effort"
"This theory" he said, "has been
developed under the principle OF
the division of labor, but the d.
any one of the division ceases to
function.
1T is we'll that boys should learn
that lesson at an early age. Very
soon they will be engaged in carry
ing on the work of the world Some
will enter the field of transportation.
some of banking, some of industry,
some of agriculture: some will be in
the public service. in the police de-
partment, in the fire department, in
the Post Office Department. in the
health department.
1.-THE public welfare, success. and
prosperity of the Nation will de-
pend upon the proper coordination of
all these various efforts and upon
each Loyalty performing the service
undertaken. 1t will no longer do for
those who have assumed the obliga-
ton to society of carrying on these
different functions to say that as a
body they are absolutely free and
independent and responsible to no
one but themselves.
1.-THE public interest is greater
than the interest of any one of these
groups, and it is absolutely neces-
sary that this interest be made SUI
preme. But there is just as great IA
necessity on the part of the public
to see that each of these groups is
Justly treated. Otherwise. govern
ment and society will be thrown into
chaos. On each one of US rests a
moral obligation to do our share of
the worlds work. We have no right
to refuse.
1.-THE training of the Boy Scouts
fits them to an early realization of
this great principle and adapts them
in habits and thoughts and life to
it's observances. We know too well
what fortune overtakes those who
attempt to live in opposition to
these standards. They becoNe at
once rightfully and truly branded as
outlaws.
"The Boy Scout movement has
been instituted in order that the
youth, instead of falling under the
domination of habits and actions
that lead only to destruction, may
come under the discipline of a
training that leads to eternal life.
They learn that they secure free
dom and prosperity by observing
the law.
"This is but one Of the many
organizations that are working for
good in our country. Some of them
have a racial basis, some a denom-
national basis. All of them in their
essence are patriotic and religious.
Their steady growth and widening
influence go very far to justify our
faith in the abiding fitness or
things.
1--WE cannot deny that there are
evil forces all about us. but a
critical examination of what is go
ing on in the world can not fail to
justify the belief that wherever
these powers of evil may be located.
however great may be their APP
parent extent, they are not realities.
and somewhere there is developing
an even greater power of good by
which they will be overcome.
I'VE need a greater faith in the
strength of right living. We need a
greater faith in the power of right
eousness. These are the realities
which do not pass awaY."