How many American institutions do you know of that are a hundred years old? A very fine organization for youths reached its 100th anniversary of excellent, idealistic, character-building service — and fun — last Monday. It’s the Boy Scouts of America!
Scouting began in Britain in 1907-08, when Gen. Robert Baden-Powell, a 50-year-old hero from the Boer War in South Africa, had the idea of organizing “peace scouting” for the development of boys.
The good idea fortunately spread to the United States in 1910.
Millions of young Americans have enjoyed moral, inspirational, educational, physical and wholesome outdoors activities together through the Boy Scouts of America.
Boy Scouts learn to recite, and live up to, the Boy Scout Oath: “On my honor, I will do my best to do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout Law; to help other people at all times; to keep myself physically strong, mentally awake and morally straight.”