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Show I OF SCOUTS MEET NEW USO HEAD I i Chester I. Barnard, newly elected President of USO, meets-"Boy Scouts in his offices at the Empire State Building in New York City, to give them posters urging support of USO's $32,000,000 War Fund Campaign, Cam-paign, now in full swing and running to July 4. The Scouts are distributing the posters in communities throughout the country. Mr. Barnard, President of the New 4.ersey Bell Telephone Co., now is devoting his full time to USO work, without compensation.-, . J. . ,,. NEW YORK, May USO is "the highest expression of the Bill of Rights that has occurred in the United States of America," Chester I. Barnard, President of the New Jersey Bell Telephone Company, told the Board of. Directors of USO, in accepting the presidency of the service organization. Cooperation of Amer'ins Calling the USO activities now in progress "a perfectly amazing cooperative co-operative effort of the American people as well as of the agencies which actually carry on and supervise super-vise this work," Mr. Barnard, who succeeds Harper Sibley as USO pres- . . ident and who is giving his full time without compensation, said that he regarded the "spiritual aspects" of the USO program as "of fundamental importance." "I think so not only on general grounds'," he added, "but because it also seems to jme the most constructive construc-tive of all efforts now going on to see that American men and women shall not become mere creatures of the state." Mr. Barnard pointed out that the USO, whose War Fund Campaign for $32,000,000 is under way, is regarded re-garded by Government officials as not only "important and indispensable" indis-pensable" but as "the better of the available choices for" the way of carrying on this work.". Stresses the Individual Referring to his conception that USO is a vital expression of the Bill of Rights, Mr. Barnard concluded: con-cluded: "I wonder how long it will be before people realize this, and if we as a group will make it the highest expression of democracy based on a spiritual conception of the individual, without which it seems to me it is impossible to avoid in the complications of the future the kind of totalitarianism which wesay we are fighting against.-mi-m.-inrn.ia.i.i V ,St |