Show SCOUTING AND AMERICAN IDEALS the scouts are arc preparing to celebrate a birthday again february 8 to 14 the this time with a message that scouting carries on american ideals ideals of service and cooperation tolerance and religious obligation and homage to the responsibilities and privileges of participating citizenship it is a welcome portent for the future of american democracy that more than a million and a quarter men and boys are now active in a movement which although founded to capitalize on the love all boys have for adventure in the out of doors does not fail to provide practical ways for helping them fulfill the obligations felt by every genuine american scouting has succeeded in becoming a part of the american boys world because it is a program of action plus idealism so it has a twofold two fold appeal demonstrated by its growth in popularity each year in many sections limited only by the lack of leaders or adequate funds for extension measured in terms of boys who want to be scouts there is still much room for growth measured in terms of results produced the boy scouts of Ar america has already paid any debt due the american people for the operating charter granted it by congress many years ago in ili our own state there are many men part of the who have been included in the scout family since 1910 who believe in the principle that once a scout always a scout and who are arc dong doing their best to extend and interpret in practice the concept of civic and moral responsibility that came to them in their scout troops for this reason if fo for no other america has every right to be proud of its boy scouts |