Show WAR RECORD OF SCOUTS IS TOLD row Col Roosevelt Among Speakers of National Council Meeting l New eW York Tork March 24 4 o of the Do Boy Scouts of America In AmerIcanIzation Americanization Amer Amer- democratization and education education education edu edu- cation of or the youth o of or the tile United States States and and the part they are scheduled to play ii 11 Ir the nations post war recon recon- work were discussed at nt the tho annual meeting here today of the organizations organization's national council Nearly earb delegates representing bo boy scouts attended the conference In reporting reporting- the growth or of the movement movement move- move ment meat throughout the United States an annoUncement announcement nn- nn was made that new permanent permanent permanent perma perma- nent camp sites were purchased last year In Birmingham ham Ala J Los Las An Cal Cat Indianapolis Evansville E and Terre Terro Haute Ind md Montclair N. N J. J Omaha Neb Akron O O. Scranton and Reading Pa and Milwaukee Reports showed that for meritorious work ork merit badges were awarded scouts in in 1918 as against 8 In 1917 and that 66 honor medal applications applications ap up- had been acted upon Including in including In- In eluding the awarding of four tour sold gold old medals medals' to parents of scouts who had forfeited their lives in lit efforts to save others Paying tribute to the wide range of or scout effort and achievement in war Wa work vork In this country countr Ralph Waldo Emerson representing the tho treasury treasur- department declared that ho never neel had seen a more perfectly oiled or more faultlessly sh operating machine and that ho boy scout Scouts had obtained Liberty I rt loan subscriptions totaling Speaking after alter adoption o of a a. resolution eulogizing his hia father who was chief chic scout citizen of or thu th organization Col Cot Theo Theodore none dore Roosevelt declared that the boy bo- scouts of oC America can help in de developing de- de Americanism as the great na national national na- na army of oC this country countr had done Brig Gen Gell William 11 H. Chapin of or theNe tho the New Ne' ew York state military training commission commission com coni- mission entered a plea on behalf of or the boy bov not In iii school |