The Ideal Scout

The original statue stood in front of the Cradle of Liberty Council at 22nd and Winter Streets in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from 1937 to 2013.

In 1915, he gave the executive board an 18-inch bronze figure, together with rights to the royalties resulting from sales of copies.

The hatchet held by the scout is a symbol of truthfulness and the hope it would never be unsheathed for wanton destruction, but "applied unceasingly to the neck of treachery, treason, cowardice, discourtesy, dishonesty, and dirt.

"[4] McKenzie's life-sized version of the work was unveiled at the Philadelphia Council's office at 22nd and Winter Streets on June 12, 1937.

The Ideal Scout was removed in 2013 after the successor Cradle of Liberty Council vacated the building.

The original statue in Philadelphia
President Calvin Coolidge receiving a copy of the statuette, outside the White House, 1927.