"Making Men of Them"
Magazine article
By: Thornton W. Burgess
Date: 1914
Source: Burgess, Thornton W. "Making Men of Them." Good Housekeeping Magazine, July 1914, 3–6, 12.
About the Author: Thornton Waldo Burgess (1874–1965) was a well-known author of children's books and a lifelong amateur naturalist.
Introduction
The Boy Scouts were founded in Britain by the highly eccentric Anglo–Boer War hero General Robert (Lord) Baden-Powell. The organization reinforced very conservative social and political values. Swiftly transported to the United States, the Boy Scouts continued to emphasize traditional fidelity to God, country, and morality.
Scouting grew in the United States
because many Americans around 1910 felt anxious over the condition of the nation's youth. With sex, alcohol, narcotics, and other pleasures seemingly all too readily available, scouting was seen...
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