"BP"-AN INTERVIEW.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1453, 30 May 1912, Page 4

"BP"-AN INTERVIEW.

THE PAN-SCOUT MOVEMENT. Some critics of the pan boy-scout movement have regarded with some apprehension Licutenant-Gencral Baden-Powell's world tour on behalf of his scout legions. Aro we not, they ask,, putting into tho hands of possible enemies among the nations a weapon which may some day bo turned against us? To this question General Baden-Powell gives an emphatic reply in the negative. "There aro no patent rights for this movement," said the General to a representative of The Dominion' last evening, discussing this point. "All are welcome to adopt it, and tho remarkable spread of the movement is an indication that this method of char-acter-building is recognised to have its value. Further, it should be <i leaven of pence. Patrols of different nationalities exchange visits ,and assist in their small way to promote harmony amongst the nations. .Why, when some German boy scouts came over for the Coronation, we found n place for them in the procession, and thoy cheered cur King as heartily as any of tho British boy scouts standing alongside." In the course of his lecture last evening General Baden-Powell mentioned that, in his recent travels ho had found boy ftout troops established in the West Indies, at Panama, in the United States, in Japan. China, Macao, Siam, Australia, Neir Guinea, and many other places.. It was a great eye-opener, he remarked, to see how tho movement had spread in all these different parte of the world, sonic of which he had never heard of until he got there. The scout movement, he added, was a thing that boys "got" like measles or tho whooping cough, and they wcro all tho better for it.