. A story of the war and family war service record, 1914-1919. BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA. The Boy Scouts movement in the United Statesis not the outgrowth of the original idea of any oneman, but is rather a composite representation ofthe ideas, stud}^ and training of many pubHc-spirit-ed men working with and among boys along socialand moral lines, among whom may be mentionedErnest Thompson Seton, the naturalist; Dan Beard,the illustrator and author of boys books; Byron , Ph. D.; Edgar M. Robinson, Thomas Chewand many others. In England, in 1907, Lieutenant-General Sir Robert S. S. Baden-P
. A story of the war and family war service record, 1914-1919. BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA. The Boy Scouts movement in the United Statesis not the outgrowth of the original idea of any oneman, but is rather a composite representation ofthe ideas, stud}^ and training of many pubHc-spirit-ed men working with and among boys along socialand moral lines, among whom may be mentionedErnest Thompson Seton, the naturalist; Dan Beard,the illustrator and author of boys books; Byron , Ph. D.; Edgar M. Robinson, Thomas Chewand many others. In England, in 1907, Lieutenant-General Sir Robert S. S. Baden-Powell, K. C. B., or-ganized the Boy Scouts of England, although hegraciously gives credit to Mr. Beard, Mr. ThompsonSeton and others in America, as having been theorigin and inspiration of his work. The Bo3^ Scouts of America was incorporatedunder the laws of the District of Columbia in Feb-ruary, 1910, and in 1916 was incorporated underan Act of Congress in which the objects and pur-poses of the Association are stated to be: *To promote through organization
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