Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-03-25 | Page 3 | Scouts to Help in Great Work

SCOUTS TO HELP I GT IRK Boys to Aid in Post-War Reconstruction; Plans . Are Discussed. ofX,hV'RK- MarCh "Achievement. of the boy scouts of America in Amert-vanlsation. Amert-vanlsation. democratization and education of the youth of tho United SUtos and the naUon a? 'B,:hedul!l o play the nations post-war reconstruction work were discussed at the annual meeting here today of tho organization's national coun-cll. coun-cll. Nc4irly 370 delegates, representing 4..O.00O boy scouts, attended the conference. confer-ence. In reporting the growth of tho movement move-ment throughout the United ytito an lout . amp sites were purchased last vear n U.rnungnam, Ala.; Los ngeles Cal-ndlat.apol.s Cal-ndlat.apol.s Kvansviilo and Te'ne Haute! -o lalr' N- J '' Omaha, Neb.; AU-Mil60'110" AU-Mil60'110" Reading, Pa., and workPm ?,.. BfTCd lhat for mcrltous woik meiit badges were awarded 30 160 scouts In 191S, as against 26.72s In 1917 and that sixty-six honor medal applications applica-tions had been acted upon, including the awardmg of four gold medals to parents of scouts who had forfeited their lives In etforts to save others. Paying tribute to tho wide range of scout eftort and achievement in war work in this country, Ralph Waldo Emerson representing the treasury department, declared de-clared tnul he never had seen a more per-tcolly per-tcolly oiled or more faultlessly operating machine, and that boy scouts had obtained ob-tained t,Sr6.906 Liberty loan subscriptions subscrip-tions totaling 5276,095.000. Speaking after adoption of a resolution eulogizing his father, who was chief scout citizen" of the organization, Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Colonel Theodore Roosevelt declared de-clared that the boy scouts of America I "can help In developing Americanism as the great national army of this country had dune." Brigadier General William H. Chapin of the New York state military training commission entered a plea on behalf of the boy not in school. Wilson Is Honored. President "Wilson was elected honorary president of the organization at tonight's session of the Boy Scouts of America. Former President Taft and Daniel Carter Car-ter Beard of Flushing, N. Y., an originator origi-nator of the bov scout idea, were made honorary vice president. Among those elected members of the organization's national council were Secretary Sec-retary of "War Baker. Secretary of the Navy Daniels. Secretary of the Treasury Glass. General Pershing, Major-Genera! John F. O'Ryan. Lieutenant-Colonel The-I The-I odore Roosevelt. Charles Evans Hughes and Luther Burbank. The following officers were elected; President. Colin H. Livingstone, Washington: Wash-ington: vice presidents, Mortimer L. Schiff. New York, and Arthur Letts, Los Angeles: national scout commissioner, Daniel Carter Beard. Flushing, N. Y.; treasurer. George D. Pratt, New York.