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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seeing your letter in TIME, replying to (not answering) that of Kingsley Leeds, about the Boy Scouts, I cannot refrain from saying that if you should happen to meet "little Leeds" as you call him, you would do well to speak to him respectfully. I happen to know "little Leeds" who is quite a youthful Hercules though good tempered. He might spank you and send you home. Truly yours...
Please be kind enough to print this letter in TIME or to forward it to Custis Knapp of New York...
...would like to thank Custis Knapp for agreeing in his letter to TIME (Aug. 8) that an article about Boy Scouts should not be put under your ARMY & NAVY heading...
When some of these narrow-minded, biased men, who claim that the army is "for men only," even he does not deserve to belong to the army. I am a Boy Scout and I object to Reader C. Knapp's letter [TiME, Aug. 8] on three points...
...Besides Fight," an address delivered by Mr. Weeks when he was Secretary of War? He will probably refuse to read it, or, if he does read it, he will do so as superficially as he read that part of the Scout Manual quoted by you in answer to his letter. . . . I feel certain that if ever Kingsley Bleeds, it will NOT be from wounds received in defense of the innumerable benefits he enjoys as a member of this nation-benefits won and preserved by patriots-not by pacifists...