Scouting, Volume 8, Number 8, April 8, 1920 Page: 16
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16 TENTH ANNUAL REPORT
to its better nature. It seems fair to say that ten years ago boys
of America for the most part were left to follow wrong bents in
their natures for practically all of their leisure time.
It is also iair just here to remind ourselves that the influence of
Scouting upon boyhood has by no1 means been confined to those
boys who have undertaken to live up to the Scout Oath and Law
and to follow the program of Scouting activities. Every such boy
has unconsciously radiated the wholesome influence of Scouting
among the boys with whom he daily associates who may not them-
selves be Scouts. The fame of Scouting and the lure of it and
even indeed the meaning of it have found their way to the con-
science of millions of boys, I am sure I may say so, and to some
extent influenced their lives for good.
The Changing Boy
This decade has seen aimless play turned into play with a pur-
pose. It has seen energies in boys turned from destructive ends
to constructive. To put it in symbol, the first decade of Scouting
has seen the boy's primitive delight in running to a fire in order to
see something burn up and to tingle with excitement, transformed
into a keener delight in playing his part as a citizen-member of his
community in helping to preserve property and uphold law and
order.
That these and many other interesting and important changes in
the boy's outlook and endeavors have not been at the sacrifice of
his true boyishness and usefulness and jubilance of spirits and
love of fun, is one of the crowning commendations of the move-
ment.
Outstanding Results
Before taking up the year's work in a more or less detailed way,
I would refer to other outstanding results of the first ten years
of Scouting. For one, over 106,000 men are giving volunteer
leadership to boyhood in a program that calls for virile manhood,
love of the outdoors anid 100 per cent patriotism. For another,
properly ordered camping has become an institution for boys and
men in the United States. For another, 270 communities of 20,000
or more population have duly constituted bodies of men repre-
sentative of all community interests, organized to give leadership
to the boys of those communities. For another, the complexion
of the literature for boys put out by the publishing houses of the
country has been almost entirely changed and the change has been
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