BOY SCOUTS

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 821, 21 May 1910, Page 5

BOY SCOUTS

BADEN-POWELL'S WOBK.By ToleeraDh—Pr«33 Association-OoDyrlsht London, May. 19. Lientcnant-General Sir K.. S. S. Ba-den-Powell, who hae retired from the Army to devote himself to organising tlie Boy. Scouts movement, states that he intends to decentralise tho Boy Scouts organisation as much as possible. Half a dozen counties repiain to bo thoroughly organised. He will go to Canada in July, and later to South Africa. Ho intends to establish employment . exchanges in N London and other centres. SUNDAY SCHOOL ALARM. ANTI-MILITARIST COMMENTS. Sydney, May 20. Tho Presbyterian Assembly discussed the Boy Scout movement in relation to Sunday school attendance. Tho speakers considered that it formed a danger.

Professor Rentonl, while heartily in sympathy with the Boy Scout movement, said they, must resist withdrawing children from religious ■ influence. Ho was glad that tho Labour party had come into power, as it. was distinctly a peace party and was determined to keep the defence force purely for defence, and not to let it become a portion of a great military system ruled from London.

Militarism in history, added the professor, had always.been identified with strongly immoral forces. In view of the dangers as regards the great matter of purity, they must open their e;es to their responsibilities in connection with the new movement of militarism.