https://www.kiakimamuseum.org/files/original/cefcc9338c9896715ddb3a62b6dbd15b.pdf 5f940e78452330db0c06cd526b7533bf PDF Text Text I giue lua a powerfal statistic,Tbere are about one million Bry Scouts in tbe United States,There is raw material fo, ten milliun rlttre" - 11E RBE Rr H o ovE R " T \ t/ Z 1 I L Addras of vxESTDENT HoovuR, AT THE DINNER COMMEMORATING TFIE T\TENTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA, \TILLARD HOTEL, \TASHINGTON, D.C.,MARCH r o, rg30 ��Address o.f HERBERT HoovER Presiderut of tbe United Sr.ites wB vrB,r this evening under the cloud of deep sadness. since many of you started your jour:rcr- ro washington, the most beloved of Americans has passcd into the great beyond, and in determining nor ro carcel this occasion your committee has acted in the spirir of William Howard Taft, the first honorary president of rhc Bov Scouts, who with a life-long, open-hearted devorio, ro boys would have insisted that your work should qo forward, had he been here. This occasion comrnemorates the nr'"-rtieth anniversary of the Boy scours, and it is indeed in kceping wirh the true tribute to his great spirit whosc n,rme graced your first anniversary. You have met in the special interusr of boys. r am a willing ally in that interest. There is no feeling of exclusion of their sisters from our concern but rheir similar problems are to be considered elser,vhcrc. Together with his sister, the bo1- is rhe mosr precious possession of the Amedcan home. I sonrcrimes think thar one of the sad things of life is thar rh*- rvill grow up. Literature and lore have established our boys in varied relations to life ; as a growing animal of superlative promise, to be fed and watered and kepr \\'arm ; as a periodic nuisance; as a joy forevef ; as the inc:r.ration of destruction; as rhe father of the man; as the child of iniquity; as the problem of our times and the hope of rhe nation. �In anr- e\rent he is a complcx of ccils tccming with affecrion. trlled with curiositr- as io c\-cr\- mortal thing; tadrating sunlight to all the n-orlJ: cndou-ed rvith dynamic energ\- and the impellinq j;sirc ro rake exercise on all occasiorts. He is a perpetual problcm to his parents, and rhe rvis.lom in his upbrirlgi::-l consists more often in the dererminarion of what ro Jo $-irh him next rather than in 1-har he shall do g-hc: hc gocs out into the cold u'orld. The problem that \\-c arc considcring here is not primarilr- a svstem of health or education or morals' It is rr-hat to do n'ith him in his lcisurc rime that will, of course, contribure to his health and his cducation and his morals, bur in the main what u-ill dirccr his interests to constructive lof ir-rstead of destrucrir-c qlce and will yield him construcrir-c iov for the balance of his life ' The Dcclaration of Indcp.r'rdencc calls special attention to him and his sisrer in th. rcfcrcnce to the inalienable right to libern' and pursuir of happiness. At least in the practrcal u-orkings of thc rcpublic \Ye hnd it easier to realtze chcsc rights for bor-s rhan s-e do for the grown-up, tax-par-ing citizen. As cir-il tzauon becomes nlor. complex, and as the number of human beings per aCrc increases:, as rve live more and more in ros-ns and cities rhan irr the Countryside, and as the necessitr- of submitting to all forms of mechanical device carries us further and furrher from the simpler and more primirir-e forms of 1ifc. \\-c are unconsciously decreasinq libertr- for bovs and dimipishine the opportunities for pursuit of happiness. because the bor- is a primitive �anrmal and :zkes to primitive life. His rrue life should be one of discoverl, adventure and grear undertakings not to be found in either the squalor of rhc renemenr house or the drawing room of palatial aparrmenrs. The Boy Scout movement has opene J for him the portals to adventure and constructive ioy br- rer-iving the lore of the frontier and rhe campfire; by establishing conracrs with the birds and sometimes with the be e s; by matching his patience to the deliberative character of fish; by efficient operation of the swimming hole, anJ br- peeps into the thousand mysteries of the streams, arrd rhe rrees and the stars. And, it is more than this. Bv the promotion of sense of sportsmanship it builds char acter. Contest and competition with zeal btt without unfair advantage and wirhout bitterness; restraint that remarks nothing of others which cannot be at once forgiven; rvillineness to subordinate one s self into the team work for rhe common aimthat is sportsmanship. There cannot be boy scours withour organization and leaders. And by leaders I include particularl.- rhose devoted men who as troop leaders become the inspiration and friends of boys and upon whom resrs the responsibility of auually administering consrructive jov. Through its organtzatron our bor-s learn of discipline, they learn the unity of effort, cooperarion and rhe democtacy of play and work, the)' learn of rhe duties and satisfactions of service. All of these are rhe foundations of life, the basis of liberty and happiness, the safeguards against destructir,,e jov in the grou-n-up life here after. �Thc priceless treasure of b'or-hoo,-l is his endless enthusiasm. his store of high idcrlism ;rnd his fragrant hopes. His is the plastic period u'hc:: in.lclible impressions must be m;r.lc if \ve are to continu; ;1 succcssful democracy. We assurc ourselves that the cur,- of illitcracy and the fundamentals of education is ths :h:.-c Rs-readin', rightin' and 'rithmcric. To this we mus:;rJJ onc more R and that is rcsponsibilin'-responsibili:r- io thc community-if we zrc oor to have illiteracr- i:: j(r\-;rnntcnt. The conviction that c\-crv person in the Rcrurlic o\\'es a service to the Rcpublic;that the Republic i;SiS solclr- upon the willi.g':;:: iris ness of cr-crr- one in it to fart of the duties and obligations of citizenship is .'-s intFortant as the ability to read and u-rirc-that is th. .r::1r- patriotism of peace. The i,.lca that the Republrc \\'as created for the selfish beneht of thc individual is.1 :tt)ckcrr- that must be eradicated at rhc hrst dau,n of u1J;:si.l:tJin,,f . Ir is rruc that many of our schools have recoiniz;J :his oi.ligarion. It is true that our rcachers are guidin,- .rur chiiJrcn in the first steps of democr;lc\-. but I knos- rrf ::o ;lScilc\- rhat can be more porverful in supoort of this purF\osc rhan the Scout Movement. If s-e look over th. R;pui.lic todar- u'e find many failures in citizenship-u-c :,::.1 ntaltr betrayals of those rn'ho har-s bccn selected to ls;rJcrship. I cannot conceive that thesc failures would r:rk; placc if cvery citrzen who went ro the polls was a goo.1 scout and evety ofr,ctal who u'2S clcCtcd had ever bccr-t ;r rc;rl Bo)- Scout. I eir-e )-ou a powerful sr;rrisric. Thcre are about one million Bo)- Scouts in thc Urrircd States. There is faw material for ten million morc. a �Resolution adopted b7 fom bundred giliit.; tt tbe Twentieth Anniaersary Dinner of the Bo7 Scouts of Atnrric,t, tt,/to repre.rented eueryt state in our country, and consisted ,,f leaders in industrry, clmmerce, education and the professions Wbereas, the Boy Scouts of Anrcrica has for twenty yearc had arecord of distinquished achievement in behalf of American bo1-hooJ. n hich has cleaily demonstruted the need for rhc conrinuance and expansion of its program , and has also demonstrated the justification for its claim upon the citizens of the counrry for coopcrarion and supporr, therefore, Be it resolued, that this conferenc. heartily approves the action which has been raken by the National council and the Execurir-c Board of the Boy Scouts of America in planninq an appeal to the Am erican people for the sum of ren million dollars, ro provide additional resources for the supporr of its activities, to pro'i.lc a national training center and to provide a re rircment fund for those professionally engaged in scouting. Be it further resolued, that this conference requests the president of the Boy Scours of America ro appoint a national campaign commitree of fepresentative citizens to cooperarc in such ways as may be determined, so that prompr action may be taken to caffy this pro gram into effect Headquartery TEN MTLLTON DOLLAR FUND BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA LEFCOURT NATIONAL BUILDING, 52I FIFTH AVENUE, NE\T YORK �� Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Chickasaw Council Publications and Papers Description An account of the resource Contains miscellaneous publications and papers by and about the Chickasaw Council. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document " I giue lua a powerfal statistic,Tbere are about one million Bry Scouts in tbe United States,There is raw material fo, ten milliun rlttre" - 11E RBE Rr H o ovE R Addras of vxESTDENT HoovuR, AT THE DINNER COMMEMORATING TFIE T\TENTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA, \TILLARD HOTEL, \TASHINGTON, D.C.,MARCH r o, rg30 T \ t/ Z I L 1 Address o.f HERBERT HoovER Presiderut of tbe United Sr.ites wB vrB,r this evening under the cloud of deep sadness. since many of you started your jour:rcr- ro washington, the most beloved of Americans has passcd into the great beyond, and in determining nor ro carcel this occasion your committee has acted in the spirir of William Howard Taft, the first honorary president of rhc Bov Scouts, who with a life-long, open-hearted devorio, ro boys would have insisted that your work should qo forward, had he been here. This occasion comrnemorates the nr'"-rtieth anniversary of the Boy scours, and it is indeed in kceping wirh the true tribute to his great spirit whosc n,rme graced your first anniversary. You have met in the special interusr of boys. r am a willing ally in that interest. There is no feeling of exclusion of their sisters from our concern but rheir similar problems are to be considered elser,vhcrc. Together with his sister, the bo1- is rhe mosr precious possession of the Amedcan home. I sonrcrimes think thar one of the sad things of life is thar rh*- rvill grow up. Literature and lore have established our boys in varied relations to life ; as a growing animal of superlative promise, to be fed and watered and kepr \\'arm ; as a periodic nuisance; as a joy forevef ; as the inc:r.ration of destruction; as rhe father of the man; as the child of iniquity; as the problem of our times and the hope of rhe nation. In anr- e\rent he is a complcx of ccils tccming with affecrion. trlled with curiositr- as io c\-cr\- mortal thing; tadrating sunlight to all the n-orlJ: cndou-ed rvith dynamic energ\- and the impellinq j;sirc ro rake exercise on all occasiorts. He is a perpetual problcm to his parents, and rhe rvis.lom in his upbrirlgi::-l consists more often in the dererminarion of what ro Jo $-irh him next rather than in 1-har he shall do g-hc: hc gocs out into the cold u'orld. The problem that \\-c arc considcring here is not primarilr- a svstem of health or education or morals' It is rr-hat to do n'ith him in his lcisurc rime that will, of course, contribure to his health and his cducation and his morals, bur in the main what u-ill dirccr his interests to constructive lof ir-rstead of destrucrir-c qlce and will yield him construcrir-c iov for the balance of his life ' The Dcclaration of Indcp.r'rdencc calls special attention to him and his sisrer in th. rcfcrcnce to the inalienable right to libern' and pursuir of happiness. At least in the practrcal u-orkings of thc rcpublic \Ye hnd it easier to realtze chcsc rights for bor-s rhan s-e do for the grown-up, tax-par-ing citizen. As cir-il tzauon becomes nlor. complex, and as the number of human beings per aCrc increases:, as rve live more and more in ros-ns and cities rhan irr the Countryside, and as the necessitr- of submitting to all forms of mechanical device carries us further and furrher from the simpler and more primirir-e forms of 1ifc. \\-c are unconsciously decreasinq libertr- for bovs and dimipishine the opportunities for pursuit of happiness. because the bor- is a primitive anrmal and :zkes to primitive life. His rrue life should be one of discoverl, adventure and grear undertakings not to be found in either the squalor of rhc renemenr house or the drawing room of palatial aparrmenrs. The Boy Scout movement has opene J for him the portals to adventure and constructive ioy br- rer-iving the lore of the frontier and rhe campfire; by establishing conracrs with the birds and sometimes with the be e s; by matching his patience to the deliberative character of fish; by efficient operation of the swimming hole, anJ br- peeps into the thousand mysteries of the streams, arrd rhe rrees and the stars. And, it is more than this. Bv the promotion of sense of sportsmanship it builds char acter. Contest and competition with zeal btt without unfair advantage and wirhout bitterness; restraint that remarks nothing of others which cannot be at once forgiven; rvillineness to subordinate one s self into the team work for rhe common aimthat is sportsmanship. There cannot be boy scours withour organization and leaders. And by leaders I include particularl.- rhose devoted men who as troop leaders become the inspiration and friends of boys and upon whom resrs the responsibility of auually administering consrructive jov. Through its organtzatron our bor-s learn of discipline, they learn the unity of effort, cooperarion and rhe democtacy of play and work, the)' learn of rhe duties and satisfactions of service. All of these are rhe foundations of life, the basis of liberty and happiness, the safeguards against destructir,,e jov in the grou-n-up life here after. Thc priceless treasure of b'or-hoo,-l is his endless enthusiasm. his store of high idcrlism ;rnd his fragrant hopes. His is the plastic period u'hc:: in.lclible impressions must be m;r.lc if \ve are to continu; ;1 succcssful democracy. We assurc ourselves that the cur,- of illitcracy and the fundamentals of education is ths :h:.-c Rs-readin', rightin' and 'rithmcric. To this we mus:;rJJ onc more R and that is rcsponsibilin'-responsibili:r- io thc community-if we zrc oor to have illiteracr- i:: j(r\-;rnntcnt. The conviction that c\-crv person in the Rcrurlic o\\'es a service to the Rcpublic;that the Republic i;SiS solclr- upon the willi.gness of cr-crr- one in it to ':;:: iris fart of the duties and obligations of citizenship is .'-s intFortant as the ability to read and u-rirc-that is th. .r::1r- patriotism of peace. The i,.lca that the Republrc \\'as created for the selfish beneht of thc individual is.1 :tt)ckcrr- that must be eradicated at rhc hrst dau,n of u1J;:si.l:tJin,,f . Ir is rruc that many of our schools have recoiniz;J :his oi.ligarion. It is true that our rcachers are guidin,- .rur chiiJrcn in the first steps of democr;lc\-. but I knos- rrf ::o ;lScilc\- rhat can be more porverful in supoort of this purF\osc rhan the Scout Movement. If s-e look over th. R;pui.lic todar- u'e find many failures in citizenship-u-c :,::.1 ntaltr betrayals of those rn'ho har-s bccn selected to ls;rJcrship. I cannot conceive that thesc failures would r:rk; placc if cvery citrzen who went ro the polls was a goo.1 scout and evety ofr,ctal who u'2S clcCtcd had ever bccr-t ;r rc;rl Bo)- Scout. I eir-e )-ou a powerful sr;rrisric. Thcre are about one million Bo)- Scouts in thc Urrircd States. There is faw material for ten million morc. a Resolution adopted b7 fom bundred giliit.; tt tbe Twentieth Anniaersary Dinner of the Bo7 Scouts of Atnrric,t, tt,/to repre.rented eueryt state in our country, and consisted ,,f leaders in industrry, clmmerce, education and the professions Wbereas, the Boy Scouts of Anrcrica has for twenty yearc had arecord of distinquished achievement in behalf of American bo1-hooJ. n hich has cleaily demonstruted the need for rhc conrinuance and expansion of its program , and has also demonstrated the justification for its claim upon the citizens of the counrry for coopcrarion and supporr, therefore, Be it resolued, that this conferenc. heartily approves the action which has been raken by the National council and the Execurir-c Board of the Boy Scouts of America in planninq an appeal to the Am erican people for the sum of ren million dollars, ro provide additional resources for the supporr of its activities, to pro'i.lc a national training center and to provide a re rircment fund for those professionally engaged in scouting. Be it further resolued, that this conference requests the president of the Boy Scours of America ro appoint a national campaign commitree of fepresentative citizens to cooperarc in such ways as may be determined, so that prompr action may be taken to caffy this pro gram into effect Headquartery TEN MTLLTON DOLLAR FUND BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA LEFCOURT NATIONAL BUILDING, 52I FIFTH AVENUE, NE\T YORK Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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