Scouting, Volume 18, Number 11, November 1930 Page: 279
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Vol. XVIII, No.- 11
NOVEMBER, 1930
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A Magazine of Information for Scout Leaders
Copyright, 1930
ty Boy Scouts
of America
OFFICERS OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL AND EXECUTIVE BOARD
Published
Monthly by the
Boy Scouts of
America
Subscription Price
$1.00 Per Year
Honorary President: Herbert Hoover
Honorary Vice-President: Calvin Coolidge
Honorary Vice-President: Colin H. Livingstone
Honorary Vice-President: Daniel Carter Beard
Honorary Vice-President William G. McAdoo
President: Walter W Head, Chicago, 111.
Vice-President: Mortimer L. Schiff, New York
Chief Scout Executive:
Vice-President: Charles C. Moore, San Franciico
Vice-President: Bolton Smith, Memphis, Tenn.
Vice-President: John Sherman Hoyt, N. Y C.
Nat'l Scout Commissioner: Daniel C. Beard
International Commissioner: Mortimer L. Schiff
Treasurer: George D. Pratt, Glen Cove, N. Y
James E. West, N. Y C.
Entered as 2nd
Class Matter,
January 20, 1928
at the
Post Office at
New York, N. Y.
Under the Act
of March 3. 1870
Office of Publication: Boy Scouts of America, Park Avenue Building, 2 Park Avenue, 32nd to 33rd Streets, New York, N. Y
E. S. Martin—Editor
Milton A. McRae
HE was a charter member of the Boy Scouts of Amer-
ica, having been selected as one of its organizers
soon after its incorporation in 1910. He was, with
Messrs. Mortimer L. Schiff, B. L. Dulaney, George D.
Pratt and Lorillard Spencer, a member of the first Com-
mittee on Finance elected at the first Annual Meeting
of the Boy Scouts of America in 1911
From the beginning his interest was continuous and un-
flagging. He served on many committees and in many
capacities. He not only gave freely of his fortune for
the support of the activities of the Movement, but out
of busy days thronged with manifold enterprises, he al-
ways found time to devote to the Boy Scouts of America,
even though it meant long hours in the night after the
close of the business day All his life he was interested
in boys outside as well as inside newspaper circles, helping
them to obtain education and in many other ways. Many
a lad who felt himself down and out, literally, found new
hope and new promise through the efforts Mr McRae ex-
erted in his behalf.
Mr McRae had made his home in Detroit for many
years. Many of his business enterprises centered in and
around that city He gave a helping hand to the Scout
Movement there, in its early days, and it was largely
through his personal efforts and generous contributions that
the Detroit Council of the Boy Scouts of America was
established. He became its President. Later when he
transferred his winter home to San Diego, California, he
found a new opportunity in organizing and upbuilding the
Boy Scout Movement in that city and in Southern Cali-
fornia. He accepted the post of President of the Boy
Scout Council in San Diego.
Following the untimely death of President James J
Storrow, early in 1926, Mr McRae was elected President
by the Executive Board of the Boy Scouts of America to
complete the unexpired term, continuing until Mr Walter
W Head of Chicago, our present President, was named
in May of that year Mr McRae declined re-election be-
cause of his residence on the Pacific Coast throughout a
considerable part of the year At the same Annual Meet-
ing, held in the City of Washington on May 1, 1926, Mr
McRae received an Award of the Silver Buffalo, the decora-
tion of the Boy Scouts of America for Distinguished Ser-
vice to Boyhood, being one of the first recipients of this
honor, the highest accorded by the Boy Scouts of America.
The citation in connection with the presentation read as
follows:
"Milton A. McRae, author, journalist, newspaper pub-
lisher, originator of the Scripps-McRae Syndicate of news-
papers, President of the Boy Scouts of America, for 15
years Vice President and charter member of its Executive
Board, whose counsel and judgment have helped to guide
the policies of the organization throughout its phenomenal
growth."
Dr James E. West, Chief Scout Executive, commenting
upon the death of the former President Milton A. McRae,
said:
"The Boyhood of America have lost a real friend. Long
before the organization of Scouting, twenty years ago, Mr
McRae identified himself with work for boys and gave gen-
erously of his time and money because of his interest in
them. He was Chairman of the Boys' Work Committee
of the Young Men's Christian Association in the City of
Detroit and did many generous things of which the public
never knew to make it possible for Eugene C. Foster to
develop his wonderful program for boys in that city
"From the very outset he was a staunch believer in
Scouting and there are few men in America who during
my past twenty years have been closer to me and more
helpful. His long experience in the newspaper field and
his unusually large circle of acquaintances made possible
many contacts in our early history of Scouting which
constituted a vital factor in the unusual record of the de-
velopment of this Movement for boys. His interest was
sufficient for him to travel great distances to meet his re-
sponsibility as an officer and on two occasions he made
a trip to Europe as an official delegate from the Boy
Scouts of America.
"While it is difficult to make comparison of the relative
value of men's services in a great Movement such as Scout-
ing, I am confident that his host of friends and intimate
associates would say that Milton A. McRae stands out
among the first few men in America whose cooperation
and support have made possible the work of the Boy Scouts
of America. He, himself, in commenting on Scouting
said:
" 'The Boy Scout Movement does two things vital to
the individual and to the nation. It builds and makes firm
character and makes boys capable of being citizens.'
"The Boy Scout Movement has lost a leader whose service
to Scouting has been so real, vital, continuous and far-
reaching that it is well-nigh impossible to adequately ap-
praise it."
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