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Show SCOUTER CURTIS ADDRESSES NATIONAL EXECUTIVES IN ANN ARBOR LEADER MEET Elbert R. Curtis, Sugar House j businessman and financier, this week was chosen, along with a Jewish Rabbi, a Catholic priest and a Protestant minister, to address the national training conference of Boy Scout executives at Ann Arbor, Mich. Curtis who is general superintendent superin-tendent of the LDS Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association, returns this week; his address reprinted re-printed in part, was presented September Sep-tember 4. "The Church of Jesis Christ of Latter-day Saints is grateful for scouting; for the noble men who lead the movement both as volunteers vol-unteers and professionally. My limited associations with you have been choice experiences, and have served to increase my respect for you and my regard for the movement. move-ment. Your lives are dedicated to a work which we sincerely feel was inspired in its conception and its continued operation. "Because the high ideals set forth in the scout oath, the scout law, and emphasized repeatedly by its leaders, are in line with the ideals and teachings of our Church, and because we recognize in the movement a definite aid and tool to advance what we are striving for, we are able to give wholehearted whole-hearted support to this program. "It seems to me, fellow-scouters, that we have need to remember that, and go not in our own strength, relying on our own schooling, our training, nor any of the strengths of man. "He is an egoist indeed who thinks he can mold and shape a boy's life in his own strength, without the help of the Almighty. "... I think being rich is not of great concern to professional scouters or school teachers you did not choose your life's work hoping to become millionaires. But many of you will testify that you reap dividends such as no millionaire million-aire will ever experience from his worldly wealth. "May I humbly venture the thought that IF all professional scouters would from their hearts recognize and honor just a few fundamental thoughts, that it would greatly advance this movement move-ment we all love: Thought No. 1. Recognize that God lives, that we are his children, chil-dren, and hence brothers. He loves us and we should love each other. Think , it cannot be more than ten years ago when the AAA and I don't mean Automobile Association Associa-tion of America, but the Atheistic Association of America), boasted four million members. Thought No. 2. Recognize that our Father in Heaven is in the saving business, not the damning business. It is our privilege to help Him. Thought No. 3. Parenthood is Continued on Page SCOUTER CURTIS ADDRESSES NATIONAL EXECUTIVES IN ANN ARBOR LEADER MEET Continued from Page One. partnership with God. Parents have an obligation beyond merely providing pro-viding the child they have brought into the world with shelter, food and clothing. They are charged with bringing that choice spirit back into the presence of God, the father of the spirit. Thought No 4. Parents need help, and that is where we come in. Scouting is auxiliary to the home, to the church, to the schools, but all high-minded men and women are striving for the same thing. "In scouting, we need the help of the parents, of the church and ministry, and of the schools. We will get this help, if we give it, and if we help advance the things they are dedicated to. "I have sometimes told the story of an ancient king who said to his servants, 'make me a man.' Anxious to please the monarch, they went out, employed the best artisans of the land and carved from wood a man. The king would not have it. 'No!' he said, 'Make me a man.' "They tried with clay; they tried with stone, and with oils on canvas. can-vas. Nothing pleased him, and finally fi-nally in desperation they found one of the dregs of humanity in the gutter, a tramp and they bathed him, clothed him, fed him, and .brought him before the king. The king was highly pleased and said, 'Next in importance to the God who creates is the man who saves.' "That's scouting! To make of these boys men men of God. men of character. That is the whole essence of the program, and it is in harmony with home and church. "We all recognize that you grand men are not merely leaders of boys (some of you have little direct contact with boys), you are leaders of the leaders of boys. It is an accepted fact that a council will take on the tone of your attitude towards religion, reverence, rever-ence, faith and prayer." |