[English] THE BOY SCOUT MOVEMENT.

THE BOY SCOUT MOVEMENT.

General Sir R. Baden-Powell addressed a large meeting at Fulham, last month, "on Scouts and Scouting." The Scout movement, he said, was spreading very rapidly all over the world. In Canada he was really astonished at the extent of the movement, not only in the great towns but also in the little out-of-the-way village. Recently when he was in the United States his eyes were opened still more. Already 2,500 commissions had been taken up by Scout-Masters, and there were 250,000 Scouts in the States alone. What struck him most in America and Canada was the tremendous energy the young men put into their scouting. They looked upon a change of occupation as the best rest cure they could have after business, and they did not go in for hanging about football matches like they did in this country. Some people were afraid that they were too military in the Scout movement, but as a matter of fact there was little or no military tendency in the movement. They preferred anything to soldiering, as soldiering made a boy part of a machine, but in the Scout movement they wished not to make him part of a machine but to develop his individuality.

Source:

1. Page 3, "Hong Kong Daily Press", 4th Day, 10th Month, 2nd Year of Xuan-tong

   • 4th Day, 10th Lunar Month, Geng-xu Year

   • Saturday, 5th November, 1910 Common Era