SCOUT CENSUS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 4, 28 September 1937, Page 14

SCOUT CENSUS

During the past two years the number of Scouts in the world hns increased by 340.060, and it is now 2,81*2,074. With the Girl Guides it is over four millions. It must be remembered also that behind these there now exist approximately some ten to flfteen millions of men who have been in their time Boy

Scouts and - who have thus the same sjjirit : of comradeship with those of other nationalities. This means a eonsiderable leaven of peace-minded . people already in the world as a result of , the experiment which has almost automatically evolved itself without State help of any kind. It is an experiment of sueh peculiar origin and with sueh fruitful results that it should be watched by all who are interested in the promotion of world peaee. If one-tenth— or one-hundredth — part of the money spent on armaments for war were "devoted to sueh a ' training for peace, war scares would be a thing of the past. With this month 's Crusade as an example, the fact that theso boys in their tuousands should perform sueh pilgrimages of their own free will, and at their own expense, is surely pregnant - of meaning and suggestion — and of promise, if only the leaders of the different nations would get together round a table for a personal talk, instead of seowling at each other with hands on the hilts of their swordo.