Scouting, Volume 4, Number 22, April 1, 1917 Page: 16
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16 SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT
Foundations Now Complete.
Because of these laws enacted by Congress, first, in granting
us a Federal charter which restricts the uses of our badges and
insignia to members of the Boy Scouts of America and, second,
the provisions of the law with reference to the use of the uni-
form, and the completion of our Constitution and By-Laws, defi-
nitely covering all of the essential principles and policies incident
to the Boy Scout Movement as promoted by the Boy Scouts of
America, the foundations have been laid for the Boy Scout Move-
ment in our country so firmly as to guarantee its permanency
as a potential factor for the development of the citizenship of
our country.
This has been accomplished not because of claims as to what
the Movement will do in the future, but because of the record
of past achievements. It has been demonstrated to the satis-
faction of our National Government, to the leaders in public
affairs in all of our States, to our educators, and to the citizen-
ship in all of our large cities, that the Boy Scout Movement
substantially supplements existing institutions and has a real
value for all adolescent boys.
Responsibility to Extend Movement.
Because this has been so definitely established, it becomes a
sacred obligation to all of us as leaders in the Boy Scout Move-
ment to do all within our power to make the Movement available
to more boys.
Up to this time it is perhaps well that emphasis has been placed
upon making sure that our foundations were well laid and that
our program and plan of organization were all that they should
be. This it can be well said is now fully covered and henceforth
we should all devote ourselves aggressively to the responsibility
of making the benefits of the Movement available to more of our
boys.
While it is true that the records during the past year, as in
the preceding six years, have shown substantial advancement,
yet it must be frankly admitted that with but two hundred
thousand boys out of a possible six or eight million boys, com-
paratively little is being done for the extension of the Movement.
It is sincerely hoped that every scout official will feel an
individual responsibility to take a definite part during the year
1917 in a program for the extension of the Movement. If the
good that has been accomplished with the. comparatively few
boys who have thus far been reached has merited the substantial
endorsement which we have, certainly it must be admitted that
it is not fair for us through inactivity to deny the privileges of
Scouting to boys who will soon be beyond scout age.
As is clearly shown in the report of the Director of the Field
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