| Show shooters scooters oters to meet on birthday birthada y the scouts are anre celebrating a birthday again the this time with it a message that scouting carries on american ideals I 1 aali deals of service and cooperation tolerance and ana religious obligation and hoage to the responsibilities and privileges of participating citizenship I 1 iz ell ellb it Is it a welcome for the future of american democracy that mo more than a million and a quarter men and boys are now act active 1 ve members of 0 a movement w which il ich although founded to capitalize on the love all boys have tor for adventure lu in the lotof doors docs dios not fall to provide practical ways for helping them fulfill the obligations felt by every genuine amerlean scouting has succeeded in becoming a part of the american boys world because it Is it a program of action plus idealism so it has hah a twofold two fold appeal demon by its growth in popularity each cacti year in many sections limited only by the lack of leaders of adequate funds of extension measured in terms of boys who want to be scouts there Is still much lunch room for growth measured in terms of results produced the boy scouts of america amilca has already paid any anny debt dat due the american peaple people for ilie the operating charter grit granted aed it ii by Coil congress gress many years ago in our own community now there are m many any men part iari of the who have been included in tie tae scout family since 1910 who who believe 1 lieve in thie the principle that anc altee a scout always alway a scout and who tire anre doing their best io to extend and interpret in practice the concept of civic and moral responsibility that came to them in their scout troops for this reason diffor no other america has every right to berroud be proud of scouts |