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Show National Scout President Dies; Organization Deeply Effected Recent news is received of the death of Mr. James J. Starrow, president presi-dent of the Boy Scouts of America. This occurred on the evening of Saturday, Sat-urday, Ma;ch loth, at the Plaza Hotel in New Yo. k, where he had been living temporarily. Mr. Starrow had been ill for some time, but had not allowed thia to interfere with his devoted attention at-tention to the interests of the Boy Scout movement, even despite a recent re-cent injury to his spine, which had aggravated his illness. Mrs. Starrow partner in the banking house of Lee, riigginson & Co., Boston, and at the time of his death was its senior member, mem-ber, as well as chairman of the board of the Nash Motors company and a member of other business corporations. corpora-tions. Last May, at the annual meeting of the national council, Mr. Starrow, who had served as chairman of the regional committee for the New England Eng-land states and was a member of the national executive board, was induced to accept the presidency of the Boy Scouts of America. In the few months that have intervened Mr. Starrow typified typi-fied in his close attention to the interests in-terests of the Boy Scouts of America the spirit of service to the 'movement which he epitomized in his splendid New ear message published in January Janu-ary Scouting: "Giving counts more than getting." He proved that he : appreciated "that this Boy Scout ad- : venture holds out the greatest promise prom-ise for the future welfare of our ; country of anything brought forward , during the last fifty years." He demonstrated his conviction "that stinginess of our effort and i mediocrity in our results have no i place in the Boy scout program, and : you and I should get the spirit and ! the steam for the job, if we would ! If ' y I w ? ? i ' ! " ' ' ' ' ? I i J ' 'I 1 j ' - i: : . V..-- .y& fciv iv.v.v::.. truly serve boyhood. The estimate of his immediate associates asso-ciates on the national executive board and their sorrow at his loss to his country and this movement were expressed ex-pressed in the following tlegram sent to Mrs. Starrow by Mr. Milton A. McRae, vice-president ' of the Boy Scouts of America: "I have just learned of the passing. I of your noble husband. Please ac- . cept my sincerest sympathy in your great sorrow and bereavement. His devotion to and affection for the boy-! boy-! hood of America was beyond description. descrip-tion. Eight hundred thousand Boy: Scouts and leaders in the United , i States have lost not only a personal friend but a president who gave of ; himself and his substance to incul-cate incul-cate in the mind of every Boy Scout ; in America the principle that it is not: only a privilege but a duty to serve . his God and his country." James J. Storrow I Late President of the Boy Scouts of America j and their son, James J. Starrow, Jr., were with him. Mr. Starrow was sixty-three years old, a native of Boston, the son of James J. Starrow, a noted lawyer. He was a graduate of Harvard and of the Harvard law school, and for eleven years practiced law, then became a |