I wrote:
> Robert Baden-Powell (the founder of the boy scouts) . . . > Correction. The fellow who founded the boy scouts was another member of the family. Here is something interesting from the New York Times, June 6, 1909, indicating there was concern about what we now call "national security," at least among journalists: http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9D03E3D6173EE033A25755C0A9609C946897D6CF HOW AMERICA LOST THE WRIGHT AEROPLANE; Authorities at Washington Let Pass the Opportunity of Getting Exclusive Control -- Other American Inventions That Have Also Gone to Europe. The Gatling Gun, The Hotchkiss Gun, and The Holland SubmarineJune 6, 1909, Sunday Section: MAGAZINE SECTION, Page SM1, 2529 words STIRRED to action by the great energies which other nations are displaying in developing aeroplanes and dirigibles for military purposes, this Government, as was told in our dispatches from Washington a few days ago, is now preparing plans for a airship patrol to guard the entire length of the Atlantic seaboard. . . .
