CHIEF SCOUT'S HOBBY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 272, 21 April 1914, Page 6

CHIEF SCOUT'S HOBBY.

"A iLATTKIi OF CIIAKA, VM." London, -ii 0. Lieutenant-General Sir U. lindenPoH'cll is-appealing for £2"iH.v U,r Hie Boy Scouts' Association. In u] ■ '.i;ig his city <-nisa<lc the Chief ficoin • id his hobby was going to be the «...!>by of many others of ! liis fellow-ei-iii:. rvmcn. J lis hobby was to get hold of i"' lads <>; the next generation, aml ! • I hem an asset and a credit to thn.r • i. 11 try; instead of letting them bei-'- .ortlilesH and dangerous members ~i' ' "omliiuuity. The movement was ''it upon more or less by accident. : one

could claim to he its particui; r ..uthor. It had .become national, because i mi> hoys had taken it up for tlhemsi i l ..The elders approved of it they found it was a good thing in it- it', and had got, hold of the boys. Iv pat into the boys of the country one »f the tilings that the educational itsithn-ittc* had not done—character. Individual character was the one secret of > yonth making .1 successful career f«r 'linmelf in life. The ordinary education of the school was all right so far as it went, but it was not that education, it was the character t'liat was in a lad, that came out when lie was tackling ail uphill game. When they, got character in the individual they got it in the nation, and they would Avant a good deal of this in the time to come. He. was not a wssimist, but they saw that other nations were ''coming up," and .we had go( to get ahead of them if we could—all that was a. matter of character.