Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1937-07-22

could not live and if he did live
would be a hopeless invalid.
But DR.. West was made out Of
the same mold from which came
the founders of our nation and from
whom, as founders, the traditions
and the methods known now as the
American way have grown.
It was DR.. West who devoted,
indeed, dedicated his life to the or
ganization and development Of the
Boy Scouts of America. 1t is now an
organization of more than two mil
lion boys and there are some six
million who can be called alumni
because they have grown too old to
remain in the ranks of active Boy
Scouts.
mentioned earlier that this was
an army of peace, an army devoted
to the maintenance of American
traditions. No better proof of this
need be given, if any were needed,
than the notorious fact that rep
resentatives from the three total
iarian states-Italy, Germany and
Russia-are missing from the en-
campment. In two Of those states
the Boy Scout movement has been
superseded by a dictator's decree
which forces RECOMMENDATION and mil
itarizing Of the youth. They are
being trained for war. Happily most
countries still pin their faith to the
virtues summarized in the Scout
law-the boys promise not to die
but to live, not to cringe but to
blossom, by holding themselves ev-
er trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friend
ly, courteous, obedient. cheerful,
thrifty, clean, and last but not
least to maintain a reverence for
God.
So, think / can be pardoned for
the feeling / have that in this en-
campment lie the seeds of con-
tinued free America, waiting the
time to take root and bloom into
manhood. It is from these and from
these alone that we can hope to
maintain in our beloved nation a
political system which warrants
neither Communism nor Fascism;
which desires liberty and peace and
which challenges the cockeyed theo-
ries that government must care for
the people rather than the people
care for their government.
It seemed to me, therefore, to be
something of sour note that the
National Youth administration
which set up a hideous looking, box
like structure near the center of
the capital city from which itera-
ture could be distributed to the Boy
Scouts. This structure looked for
all the world like soft drink stand
at cheap carnival and /, per-
sonally, resented the action of Ma
tional Youth administration officials
who ordered its construction. felt
this way because the National Youth
administration is predicated upon
the very theory that I have Just
condemned-a theory that govern
ment must serve as a father for
everybody and that it must lay
down rules to which all must sub
scribe. It is the nearest thing to
the RECOMMENDATION that is going on in
nations under dictators that exists
in our government today.
Cabled dispatches from Russia in
dictate again that the dictator, Sta
HeaOy Hand to rid the Soviet
of Stain Of anyone and ev-
|. eryone who m y
be opposed to him. The official an
nouncements of the so-called Soviet
| government tell of the liquidation"
Of numerous individuals who have
objected to Stalin's tactics or who
are seeking to revise the Soviet
system. Liquidation" in Russia
means that those individuals were
executed by firing squad. A dead
man can cause no harm to the as
| pirations of a dictator.
The Stain administration ar
ranges for the liquidation of its
opponents by coercion of confess
sions and this is followed up by
what the Soviet calls a trial in a
court of justice. The courts of JUS
tice are owned and controlled by
Stain; they decide as they are told
to decide and there is no such thing
as an impartial court in Russia be-
cause the government owns t h Q
courts and names the judges who
are to do the governments bidding.
Private advices from abroad seem
to show that there is very serious
uprising underneath the surface in
Russia. Thousands Of Russians have
grown tired Of having one man de-
termine whether they shall live or
die and they yearn again for q
system Of courts which will de-
termine their guilt or innocence in
accordance with honest evidence
presented and not in accordance
with the way the governing clique
wants justice administered.
As the Russian judiciary Is con-
structed under the mailed fist of
Stain, courts are a farce. Without
such q court structure, however,
dictator could not perpetuate his
own power. He must have control
of the courts in order to carry out
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