RANDOM REMINDER
THE LONt VIEW
At the risk ot being over-original, it Jan be claimed here afll now that the chants in the modem wofa are getting too tnucM for a man to keep uf with. Hard on the fills of the news of thi first manned flight through space comes anj even more drastic chuge in our way of life.' The Boy Scouts are, it ‘is announced on the highest authority. cc sidering going into . lor pants. Sociologists, psy kiatrists and the Natipi 1 Association of Garment Manufacturers an be left to figure out he possible effects on he national economy fed way of life of this iprecedented switch, it the . average man. < ce he has recovered f m the shock, can be ■ p -doned for wondering v at the world is coming o. Not only photograph i bat the world in genefel may
apparently now face the prospect of not seeing again the sight of all those knobbly knees of middle-aged scoutmasters. The mothers of small boys may perhaps be saved the chore of seeing that young Egbert's knees are clean before he goes along to the weekly troop-meet-ing, and have to face another job—seeing that the long pants worn for State-occasions are kept neatly pressed. The change might have been taken more slowly. They might have taken the example of the 2nd N.Z.E.F. and had a transitional change first, by switching not all in the one quick move from shorts to longs, but by transferring, briefly perhaps. to the Bombay bloomers which were once the fashionable garb prescribed by all efficient quartermasters. The Boy Scouts may never look the same again. It may well be
that prudence will win the day and before so drastic a change is embarked on the matter will first be discussed by Parliament Has no-one thought of asking the views of our women M.P.’s on this, before it is too late? Tradition should not be lightly abandoned. Even for the sake of keeping those knees warm the pipe bands are unlikely to abandon kilts for tartan trews, and some may see this new Boy Scout development as another sign that the younger generation is not as tough as its predecessors. The United States armed forces have never taken to shorts, as pur soldiers know, and there are those who think that this may well be one of the reasons for the Soviet lead in the space race. It is to be hoped that so serious a decision will be given the most earnest consideration before a change is made.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29500, 29 April 1961, Page 17
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427RANDOM REMINDER Press, Volume C, Issue 29500, 29 April 1961, Page 17
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