Show ai nat national 1 1 anal topics interpreted by william wilh afa bruck press Dull building ding Wan hington neton D C washington this article shall tx 6 devoted not to politics nor to affairs of the gov future of the na leaders leader t i 0 n exclusively but to the future the future leaders it shall be to that extent a discussion of fundamentals about which I 1 think there can be no controversy first let us take a quick survey in the capitol building of our own nation there is raging a bitter debate between two schools of political thought the question is whether there shall be a law passed that will give five to the president of the un united led states the power to appoint additional justices to the bench of the supreme court when and if present titling sitting members reach the age of seventy five and refuse to retire from rom active work in spain a bitter political warfare moves on apace it is over the question whether communism of the russian sort or fascism of the italian brand should be the dominant influence in the government of that bation in the far east along the russian rusian 1 border troops of the japanese emperor and of the russian dictator stalin glared at each other their controversy also involves political bases that controversy also Is complicated by economic conditions it is a powder keg back in europe we find a dictator hitler by name persecuting citizens of germany almost without end A political question there is is involved and it is complicated deeply by religion and race hitler and his minions seek to destroy first the catholic church and second the jews somewhat set off by the great alps although woven intricately into the whole picture is another distorted and disturbing condition in italy mussolini having most of his people under his steel boot boat is now preparing for new crusades he has ordered all steel producing units in italy to increase their production to the maximum so that war material will be available mussolini wants more territory he wants to expand the influence of F fascism as cism end and he wants to build a gig gigantic a antle world power in a military way with rome as the center and with shim him as the head many through many years residents of washington and visitors to the capi tal of the ri nation tion building D have gloried in in a for or future greensward t that h a t borders the potomac river within the district of columbia it is a justly famous park made more beautiful by such stately structures as the monument to george washington and the great citadel of beauty erected to the memory of abraham lincoln and to add to this beauty is the vista across the river where stands in grandeur the beautiful home that was the residence of robert E lee maintaining throughout the years the respect that a nation has for a great military leader it reposes or seems to repose in peace and quiet as do the thousands of men who rest in the hillsides hill sides of arlington national cemetery in this peaceful setting for ten days more than twenty six thousand boys the leaders of the future were congregated in a national jamboree of the boy scouts of america tents were everywhere uncounted boys in the khaki shorts which is their uniform flitted flirted about the city or held various maneuvers or staged dramas of the ages in in a great arena among them was a sprinkling and the number was not more than a sprinkling compared to the boys of the scoutmasters scout masters and mature men who constitute the leadership of this great army of youth I 1 hope I 1 may be forgiven for interjecting here an expression of my personal feelings it has been my lot to work hard from the time I 1 put off swaddling clothes the work I 1 have done and the experiences I 1 have met had a tendency to make me callous somewhat cynical but I 1 must confess that on half a dozen occasions as I 1 wandered through this tented city I 1 gave thought to my own boyhood and to two boys for whom I 1 am responsible I 1 felt a swelling of pride a satisfaction of heart that I 1 live in a nation which has given me the right to liberty and progress moreover there came to me the thoughts of the future of my own two boys and the millions of others just like them future leaders of 0 f a nation that holds forth such possibilities as are best evidenced by the encampment of those twenty six thousand then within the ra range of my vision 0 then no tribute to these future leaders of our nation and to the nation which bred tribute them can or will to 0 o west ivest be complete without mention of dr james E west chief scout executive dr west was an orphan boy worse he was a cripple and to add to these handicaps there was a period in his early life when the keenest keene st medical minds said he could not live and it if he did live would be a hopeless invalid but dr west was made out of the same mold from which came the founders of our nation and from whom as founders the traditions and the methods known now as the american way have gro grown wn it was dr west who devoted indeed dedicated his life to the organization and development of the boy scouts of america it is now an organization of more than two million boys and there are some six million who can be called alumni because they have grown too old to remain in the ranks of active boy scouts I 1 mentioned earlier that this was an army of peace an army devoted to the maintenance of american traditions no better proof of this need be given if any were needed I 1 than the notorious fact that representatives from the three total aarian states italy germany and russia are missing from the encampment camp ment in two of those states the boy scout movement has been superseded by a dictators decree which forces regimentation and mil itar izing of the youth they are being trained for war happily most countries still pin their faith to the virtues summarized in the scout law the boys promise not to die but to live not to cringe but to blossom by holding themselves ever trustworthy loyal helpful friendly courteous obedient cheerful thrifty clean and last but not least to maintain a reverence for god so I 1 think I 1 can be pardoned for the feeling I 1 have that in this encampment camp ment lie the seeds of a continued free america waiting the time to take root and bloom into manhood it is from these and from these alone that we can hope to maintain in our beloved nation a political system which warrants neither communism nor fascism which desires liberty and peace and which challenges the cockeyed theories that government must care for the people rather than the people care for their government it seemed to me therefore to be something of a sour note that the national Y youth 0 u t h administration which set up a hideous looking boxlike structure near the center of the capital city from which literature could be distributed to the boy scouts this structure looked for all the world like a soft drink stand at a cheap carnival and 1 I personally so resented the action of national youth administration officials who ordered its construction I 1 felt this way because the national youth administration is predicated upon the very theory that I 1 have just condemned a theory that government must serve as a father for everybody and that it must lay down rules to which all must subscribe it is the nearest thing to the regimentation that is going on in nations under dictators that exists in in ou our r government today 0 0 0 cabled dispatches from russia indicate again that the dictator sta lin is determined heavy hand to rid the soviet of stalin of anyone and everyone who m may a y be opposed to him the official announcements noun cements of the so called soviet government tell of the liquidation of numerous individuals who have objected to tactics or who are seeking to revise the soviet system liquidation in russia means that those individuals were executed by a firing squad A dead man can cause no harm to the aspirations pi rations of a dictator the stalin administration arranges for the liquidation of its opponents by coercion of confessions and this is followed up by what the soviet calls a trial in a court of justice the courts of justice are owned and controlled by stalin they decide as they are told to decide and there is no such thing as an impartial court in russia because the government owns t the he courts and names the judges who are to do the governments bidding private advices advises from abroad seem to show that there is a very serious serious uprising underneath the surface in russia thousands of russians have grown tired of having one man determine whether they shall live or die and they yearn again for a system of courts which will de termine their guilt or innocence in accordance with honest evidence presented and not in accordance with the way the governing clique wants justice administered As the russian judiciary is constructed strutted ted d under the mailed 11 fist of stalin courts ore are a farce without such a court structure however a dictator could not perpetuate his own power he must have control of the courts in order to carry out under the guise of law all of the whims and fancies and hatreds that he possesses A nation of free people does not long remain free after its courts cour ts become subjected to the direction and control of one man judges who can administer justice without fear or favor are the first perquisite to liberty 0 western newspaper union |