Scouting, Volume 8, Number 8, April 8, 1920 Page: 15
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15
Report of the
Chief Scout Executive
The First Decade of Scouting
IiT seems appropriate on the occasion of our Tenth
Annual Meeting that there should be included in my
report a summary of our record of accomplishment for
the past ten years. Estimating the number of boys reached
by Scouting prior to the adoption of our record and
registration scheme in September, 1913, we can say that
fully one and a quarter million boys accepted the Scout
Oath and Law and have qualified for one or more Scout
badges.
Scouting as a program for the leisure time activities of boys in
1910 was still to be shaped and fashioned by the hand of experi-
ence into the definite thing it now is after ten years of testing.
Accepted by the public in the beginning largely as a play idea,
now, at the end of its first decade, Scouting is recognized as an
educational factor that not only cannot be ignored by the schools,
but must eventually become a supplementary feature of all our
public school work.
Facts Established
In this brief ten years we have had the great satisfaction of
having been able to demonstrate to> the parents of America that
the gang spirit is a natural spirit in a boy and can be made the
agency of his training in citizenship. In this decade it has been
established that almost all that is needed is right leadership in
order that boys shall obey the better instincts of their natures.
When it is said that, " A Scout is loyal," " A Scout is trust-
worthy," there has simply been announced a truism of all boys.
Scouting has not made boys loyal and brave and courteous, it has
merely given boyhood the opportunity to express itself according
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