Scouting, Volume 6, Number 8, April 15, 1918 Page: 57
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BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
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The Boy Scout Movement is distinctly an asset to our country for the develop-
ment of efficiency, virility and good citizenship. It is essential that its leaders be
men of strong, wholesome character, of unmistakable devotion to our country, its
customs and ideals, as well as in soul and by law citizens thereof, whose wholehearted
loyalty is given to this nation and to this nation alone.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
American Forestry Association Praises Boy Scout Movement
The following resolution was passed by the thirty-seventh annual meeting of
the American Forestry Association in Convention at Washington, D. C., January
18-19, 1917.
Resolved, That the American Forestry Association recognizes the Boy
Scouts of America as a movement from which great good has already resulted
in planting trees and in the prevention of and fighting forest fires, and that
under proper direction the Boy Scouts may become one of the great factors
in the cause of Forestry and Conservation.
And it recommends to the Board of Directors the appointment of a com-
mittee of three to consult with the officials of the Boy Scouts of America to
formulate a proper working plan which the Boy Scouts can put in operation
in all parts of the United States, said plan to cover all matters in forestry and
conservation that a boy should know.
Endorsed by Labor Organizations
It is very gratifying to report that the United Mine Workers of Amer-
ica, by action of their leading officials, have removed the ban which had
been previously placed upon the Boy Scouts of America, thereby permit-
ting the sons of laboring men to become members of our organization.
Likewise the United Mine Workers of Alabama passed strong resolu-
tions endorsing the Boy Scouts of America.
The Illinois State Federation of Labor adopted a very strong endorse-
ment of the Boy Scouts of America, based upon a comprehensive report of
many pages, showing that the Committee had carefully gone into the sub-
ject and was well informed.
Endorsement of Catholic Church
It is very gratifying also to record the specific endorsement of Scout-
ing by Cardinal O'Connell of Boston, who, on January 17, 1917, wrote as
follows: j
"I have received your communication of January 16th and I wish to say that
I am glad to endorse the Boy Scout Movement under the conditions you mention
in your letter—namely, that in the organization there shall be distinctly
Catholic troops under a Catholic Scoutmaster, and that there shall be a
Chaplain appointed by the proper ecclesiastical authority for each Catholic
troop."
Archbishop Prendergast, of Philadelphia, definitely endorsed Scout-
ing under date of April 12, 1917, as follows:
"Your letter of the 11th inst., with the Bulletin enclosed of 'suggestions re-
garding the formation of Roman Catholic Troops' is quite satisfactory to me
and I hereby give my cordial approval of your proposal to organize Troops of
Boy Scouts exclusively Catholic with Scoutmasters also practical Catholics and
acceptable to the pastor of the parish in which the troop is formed, or to me.
"I wish you success in everything you undertake for our Catholic boys, in
accordance with the suggestions of the above mentioned Bulletin, and I take
pleasure in commending you to the favorable consideration of the clergy in.
the Catholic parishes in this city, hoping that they may be able to co-operate
with you.
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