A TRUE BROTHERHOOD MOVEMENT.

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 175, 11 August 1937, Page 4

A TRUE BROTHERHOOD MOVEMENT.

; :Yesterday a cable messsige gave us some. quoifcations from Lord Baden-Powellfs farewell address to 28^000 South African Boy Scouts — some of them doubtless Springboks o|. fhe future. At the same time our mail brought us papers cpntaining ^c^punts of anofher j^^bo^ %t W^sbj^tgton» eQual nuruber of Aiuericaii. Bpy Scouts had bpen assemMed early (ast month. Hpjland to bp.the_s.cene of an internatipnal jamboree at which. many. more thpusands of boys of nearly all races, colours and castes will forgather from all qu,arters of the earth ht the glose contact that" begets true knowledge c>f gog ^ojfelaen andjn '^e comp|ete dgppndence 011 mutual setvice %?.t §ngen(|ers, |,nd jprogiot|s trqe friendships. How the Boy Scout movement has spread since it first origig^|^ ift. ^ Utt^ .egperirg^iita,! gjpip, ph a,n island ngar BQ^rae^ou|h tjprty yeayrs ago is gyidggced by the fact that'ho ie§§_ thaj tfef &' million boyi. in shyehty-thr^h Bifferent'cquntrie§, s^g^be,' to th^_ ^out la.yTrequ^hig '1?ustwo;thiii|sh", loyalty, helpfulness, courtesy kindness, obedience, cheerfulness, thr^ft, courage, cleanliness and reverence." For this wonderful spread of the gospel of friendship, probably as greatly needed now as at any time in modern history,* the \ world is y^ry"grgatty."indeb|pl'/ tq Lord Baden-Poi^ell for the le^de|shi|t in* it tp wh,igji k.as \atey years .of a lpjtigjife^he is ^pw Si^ol many ind'varie.d ^ctiyities. % spl^r h^ yfOQ g^t ffur^, bqt W th^ summing up of his life he counts that as but a' poor achievement compared \rith th.q success that, as he p^ts i|, ydth th^ blessi^g of God apdi the hejp qf hinhherlesh gpod friends, has attended his efforts to establish the Boy Scoqt movement as an internationa| iiistitution making for a bqtter .understanding among the peqples qf the world. It is yyorfhi while recalling that among , thq South African bpys who, in h^s old age, greeted him with loud acclamations qf affection qnd admirati°n a very big spptiqn, probably the grqat majority, \yere tfe offspring of those iyhq early in the ceqtury, iinbned \yith the, bitterest of feelings, fought dourly and tendcipusjy thppgh ip the end un- . successfully, against him pn fhe bippd-sprinklpd fields of Mars. All memory of this waq seeniingly lpst ajnpng fhe lusty youngsters who, only a genefation pc tvyp remqvecf from those embittered days, flocked round him to Usten to his message of peace and to whit he, tFipught niight \yell he his last farewell to them. " fhprp can be no roorn for ^Qnb.t as to the sp|encUd \vork "P.-B-" apd his many help'efs thcqnghqut the vvorld have. d°ne, j •t)ut he himself has emphhsisep the pafni fhat it is a wofh that has only" just begun ahd, if its full phrpo^e is to be acpomplished, must not be reVaxeh hecausp qf ihe initial ^uccess that would appear to4 have sj,i|epdeh if. It is fuliy worthy of the greatpst possibje encqu^.ageinent fro,p3 alj ' gpod pitizens, an4 §hqu|d ge't a gopd 4eal more thap it doe.s fr,oni gqve^n-., . jpqt§. " * It is, in hirtiehJ^:,"'|pr" thQ's| S.cqilts whp gfqw to manliqod to see thaf the gpp'h wqrk js cnrriecl o.n ^nd is pot y gfo^M tp languish fpr waht pf shqyang. ^opie ' pnthuMasin fpr lU " " " ' " : As an American vvritec pn the Pnshingfpn. j^inhpfee says: ^ "These boys a|p "jearping" hb.W' Ave; and poi" only to iet live but to help iive. * Tiiis"'organisation is not military ngr tnihtarit, ypt it inguk|tg| h,p|t pj., the military virtues, ofde'r, self-reliance, and true patriotism. It does ,,mot regiment helpiess, trusting boyhood intp cannon fodder; but gives play to boyjsh initi^tiye in ways thp| aye, cpn§tfnptive pnc| pgfgU' Theie }s jpuch'nee^ iust npw''fdf/,kpme cq^ter |p the dpptf ips* tiat tpach no hetterment fpf the^prld except . ihlPh|h ahfl forceful feyqfnliqn," pr/ evep ' thrbugh Jeg^i|tjve h%p|sfph. "fhg ''prpihefhpoh'p^ Man,'': jf e'ver it is to" be atfameH, is mucn more likely of acppniplishnient through organisations such as the Boy Sppnts Srpugh fhq^e-whigh set pfoss agaihsf cjass ahd gtoup agamst group, ■ Sl^H m spepiaT advantage.