Setting Aside Saturday, February 22, As Boy Scouts Day

MALACAÑAN PALACEManila BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES Proclamation No. 39 SETTING ASIDE SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, AS BOY SCOUTS DAY Whereas, reposing special confidence in the devotion and efforts of a great number of patriotic volunteer leaders of the Boy Scout movement who are developing the youth of the Philippines to become men of character trained for citizenship; Whereas, this great movement, with its affiliated programs of cubbing, scouting, sea scouting, and roving, is being promoted effectively among thousands of boys all over the Philippines for the purpose of developing Filipino patriotism and national unity in the citizens of the future; and Whereas, the Boy Scout movement has developed a ten-year program coordinating its aims and objectives with those of the Commonwealth of the Philippines; Therefore, I, Manuel L. Quezon, President of the Philippines, do hereby publicly commend the efforts of this movement and proclaim Saturday, February twenty-second, as Boy Scouts Day, and call upon all officials of the Philippine Government and the citizens of the Philippines to lend their active support in the development...