Scouting the Country
★ Buckshot to Memorial
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.
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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. (Not that you’d do it other than nicely.) 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?
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