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Show BOY-SCOUTS BOY-SCOUTS 2f (Conducted by National Council of the Boy Scouti ot America.) I " ROOSEVELPS BIRTHDAY. The birthday of Theodoro Roosevelt is observed by boy stouts throughout the country at the Instigation of the national council who feel thnt tho Into Colonel specifically represented perhaps better than any American of recent years those quail-ties quail-ties of sturdy manhood, clean, high vlsloned. loyal, virile, which they like to einplinslz and keep before scouts bs a living Ideal, 'iliere was u particularly particu-larly close relation between Roosevelt and boy scouts Innstnuch ns he was vitally Interested In tho movement and was at tho time of Ms death said to have been considering becoming a national leader of the organization In which he was already an honorary vice-president and held the tltlo of chief scout citizen. Last year, under tho leadership of National Scout Commissioner Beard, boy scouts of New York nnd vicinity made n memorial pllgrtmngo to Roosevelt's grave, an event repeated this year on an even Inrgcr scale. In other parts of the country the celebfu. Hon took the form of tree planting, muss patriotic meetings, father and son banquets, etc., nil devoted to tho purpose pur-pose of keening alive the memory of the great American who played so big a pait In our national life and whoso spirit still "goes marching on" among us. |