Scouting, Volume 8, Number 15, October 14, 1920 Page: 8
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SCOUTING, OCT<
320 men from 42 States.
8 days with a hundred addresses.
For new executives a school with 50 registered
and with a dozen sessions.
Round Table discussions . by metropolitan,
county and city groups.
Exhibits, Life Saving, Seascouting.
A session with the National Executive Board.
A Sunday afternoon " Fellowship Hike" to a
mountain top where with 20,000 acres of God's
trees and hills and lakes spread out before them
and merged into the distant sky—these men were
addressed by outstanding Catholic, Jewish, and
Protestant prelates of rank who joined hands in
a fine consecration of all to the service of boy-
hood.
THESE are a few of the cold facts of the
conference, but they reveal nothing of the
vital atmosphere and sense of personal spiritual
uplift, to which there was unanimous testimony.
In spite of the busy camping season, in spite
of financial need in many councils, in spite of
distance and expense—it is noteworthy that these
executives have obeyed the urge of their desire
to better serve their scout-
masters and the boys, and
came almost as a man to this
first national conference. Mr.
West in reporting to the
National Executive Board
said, " There has been no one event in the history
of our Movement so largely attended and so full
of practical value as this conference."
As Executive W. W. Brundage of Buffalo,
said in speaking of its technical and spiritual
values. " i consider the First National Confer-
ence a mile stone in the growth of the Scout
Movement."
PROBABLY the outstanding note of the con-
ference that the scout executives must be an
searched within their own lives and thoughts to
see if they were worthy to serve.
It was a definite thought, that no leader of
boys could give something he didn't have.
The character of the boy worker is clearly the
fundamental on which his value hinges, and those
unwilling to live the Code they set for the boy
were accorded short shrift by the judgment of
the conference.
This is a real measure of the success, as the
outcome was deliberate in that it was planned
and hoped for—though actually made possible
by the fine quality of spiritual vision of the exec-
utives.
IT WAS the undoubted judgment of the con-
ference that the scout executive must be an
actively religious man—though broadly tolerant
and respectful of other's convictions—that he
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