The BSA didn't even exist until 1910. This country existed without the Boy Scouts for a longer period of time than it existed with them.
It was a beneficial organization for most of its history, that was my only point.
The noted songwriter, Irving Berlin, assigned all the royalties from his popular song, ‘God Bless America’ to the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts. Over the decades it has earned millions for the Scouts.
Berlin said it was not just a song but “an expression of my feeling toward the country to which I owe what I have and what I am.”
He lived in abject poverty in NY after escaping Russian pogroms. He was self-taught and went on to write hundreds of songs......some of them still popular today.
God Bless America quickly became a second National Anthem.In 1954, Berlin received a special Congressional Gold Medal from President Dwight D. Eisenhower for contributing the song. (WIKI)