Figure 1.-- Scouts participated in a variety of local public service activities. We note New York City Scouts participating in a campaign against reckless driving. This press photograph was taken May 10, 1926.

The BSA presented the first Silver Buffalo in 1926, of course to Baden-Powell and the second to the unknown British Scout who played such an important role in founding the American Scouting movement. The Silver Buffalo Award is awarded upon action of the National Execuitve Board of the Boy Scouts of America. This award is given to volunteer Scouters and other individuals for outstanding service to youth on a national basis or over a significant period of national service to a youth agency or in actions affecting youth. The Silver Buffalo Award is the traditional award presented to the Honorary President of the Boy Scouts of America sometime during his term of office. Scouts participated in a variety of local public service activities. We note New York City Scouts participating in a campaign against reckless driving. We notice a Boy Scout fishing calendar. A movie "Scotty of the Scouts" is released in 1926. President Calvin Coolidge addresses the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America in Washington, D.C. (May 1, 1926). The President begins, "Members of the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America: The strength and hope of civilization lies in its power to adapt itself to changing circumstances. Development and character are not passive accomplishments. They can be secured only through action. The strengthening of the physical body, the sharpening of the senses, the quickening of the intellect, are all the result of that mighty effort which we call the struggle for existence. Down through the ages it was carried on for the most part in the open, out in the fields, along the streams, and over the surface of the sea. It was there that mankind met the great struggle which has been waged with the forces of nature. We are what that struggle has made us. When the race ceases to be engaged in that great strength-giving effort the race will not be what it is now - it will change to something else. These age-old activities or their equivalent are vital to a continuation of human development. They are invaluable in the growth and training of youth. ...." Congress passed the Boy Scouts Association Act.