On the thirty-first anniversary of the incorporation of the Boy Scouts of America, President Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed members of the organization, praising their qualities of character and citizenship while emphasizing their importance in the struggle to preserve democracy in an uncertain time. The Boy Scouts movement began in England in 1908 with the publication of Robert Baden-Powell's Scouting for Boys, a nonmilitary field manual for teenagers interested in the outdoors. After leading several successful youth expeditions in which he taught camping and nature skills, Baden-Powell founded the Boy Scouts, and soon after the Girl Guides. The American version of the Boy Scouts has it origins in an event that occurred in London in 1909. Chicago publisher William Boyce was lost in one of the city's classic fogs when a Boy Scout came to his aid. After guiding Boyce to his destination, the boy refused a tip, explaining that as a Scout he would not accept payment for doing a...