Scouting, Volume 47, Number 2, February 1959 Page: 2
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Do you remember Noah Webster's famous cartoon
called, "Hardin County—1809?" Two old-timers in
coonskin caps and homespun clothes are talking.
One of them is standing knee-deep in snow, with a gun
over his shoulder. The other is mounted on a horse with
a bag of provisions behind the saddle. In the background
is an old rail fence. Let's listen in:
"Any news down t' the village, Ezry?"
"Well, Squire McLean's gone t' Washington t' see
Madison swore in, and ol' Spellman tells me this Bona-
parte feller has captured most of Spain. What's the news
out here, neighbor?"
"Nuthin' a tall, nuthin' a tall, cept for a new baby
down t' Tom Lincoln's. Nuthin' ever happens out here. '
But something had happened that February 12. Now
we know that the birth of Abraham Lincoln was the big
news event of 1809.
The Boy Scouts of America joins the rest of our na-
tion in celebrating the sesquicentennial as a feature of
Boy Scout Week this year.
The most sincere tribute we could pay is, "What a
Scoutmaster Lincoln would have made!"
Imagine him instructing his troop in axemanship, hik-
ing with them through the woods, or sitting on a log be-
fore the campfire spinning yarns about a Scout's duty to
God and country.
Dead almost a century, Lincoln lives in the hearts and
lives of millions of boys and men. He is better known
outside the United States than any other American.
If it existed then, Lincoln might have been in Scouting
as a boy; busy as he was in law and politics, he would
have been chosen for Scoutmaster in Springfield.
Lincoln lived and practiced the ideals of Scouting
without knowing it. "On my honor" would have meant
as much to him as to any Scout. He knew about duty to
God and his country, for which he gave his life.
He believed in helping other people, at sacrifice and
inconvenience to himself. Lincoln had the common touch.
He was a man of the common people. The common peo-
ple, he said, God loved so much because He made so
many of them.
Abe kept himself physically strong. With John Hanks,
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