The Fairmont West Virginian

JUDGE LINDSEY, OF DENVER, COL., CALLS BOY SCOUTS HIS IDEAL.
Ben B. Lindsey, judge of the Juvenile Court of Denver, Colorado, who has become famous the country over because of his enthusiastic work in behalf of boys, sees great possibilities for good in the Boy Scout movement. He is closely in touch with the Boy Scout activities in Denver and is advising the Scout Masters there as to the methods of handling the boys.
He has observed the appeal that the activities have for the boys and has perceived how, through the spirit of fun and play, the characters of the boys can be molded. He likes the Boy Scout organization because it does not preach to the boy. It unobtrusively appeals to the boy's sense of honor.
For these reasons, Lindsey, who is a member of the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America, is convinced that still greater things can be accomplished through the organization. "I am enthusiastic," he writes, "about the Boy Scout movement as it is doing tremendous good all over the country and is just the thing that we have needed and bids fair to fulfill a dream I have had for a long time, namely, a practical scheme through which we can impart ethics and rules of moral conduct that differ from our methods of preaching that have never taken and never will take with boys. I only wish I had the time to write an article upon what I mean, and how the Boy Scouts are taking care of the idea, that I hope can do even more than they are doing in that direction."