: Scouting Magazine December 1948 Vol. 36 No. 10 by Lucas Lex R Editor - Boy Scouts of America Periodicals

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My Scouting Position

When John M. Phillips began his crusade for conservation less than two generations ago, he was taunted, reviled, threatened, and "accidentally" shot in the legs three times. Sportsmen of that day felt game was public property, and they dealt roughly with "busybody conservationists."

But on an August Sunday in 1948, a new crop of sportsmen met near Glenhazel, Pennsylvania, and paid public tribute to the same John M. Phillips, no longer taunted nor "accidentally" shot. Commonwealth sportsmen now revere him as "Pennsylvania's grand old man of conservation." On the site of the first game lands purchased by the state, they unveiled a huge boulder, bearing a keystone-shaped plaque commemorating the work of Mr. Phillips in developing a state-wide conservation system.

A member of the Advisory Council of the Boy Scouts of America, Mr. Phillips is 87 years old, and one of the few men to have a memorial erected in his honor while still living.

If you'd like to get it off your chest--you know, tell parents a thing or three--here's your opportunity to do it in a nice way. At the request of many Scouters, we are making reprints of Louis C. Fink's "Are We Pied Pipers?" from October SCOUTING. If you'd like a few copies, why not ask your Council for them?

If you, too, have always taken it for granted that delinquency is a crop native only to the teeming metropolis, Albert S. Goss, Master of the National Grange, has a shock for you.

"The farmer," reports Mr. Goss, "is now disturbed about the rapid increase in delinquency. He has finally come to the conclusion that the greatest influence is that of character-building organizations, the results of which he is delighted with."

Among character-building organizations, "Scouting for the country kid," adds Mr. Goss, "is a natural, for he has many things right at his back door that Scouting offers every one of the Granges can sponsor a Scout Unit. There are 7,100 sub-units in the United States, and a special effort is being made this year to push this. The sub-units themselves own about 4,000 buildings."

Mr. Goss was speaking at a meeting of the National Committee on Rural Scouting late last October. The meeting was presided over by Mr. Wheeler McMillen, Committee Chairman. Mr. McMillen, known for his interest in rural youth, is moderator of this month's round table, "Reaching Out," which you'll find on page 4.

The fondest dream of any editor is that you, dear reader, cherish and possess your magazine through eternity. But, no respecters of dreams are the 2,000 Boys' Clubs of Britain. Magazine-hungry, they'll gladly accept any and all back numbers of any magazine, providing it's American. Mail 'Em to E. H. G. Barwell, Peace Haven, 25 Chantry Close, Kenton, Middlesex, England.

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