THE MEN OF TO-MORROW.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 June 1922, Page 8

THE MEN OF TO-MORROW.

WHAT PATRIOTISM MEANS. BADEN-POWELL’S REMINDER. London. May 24. i Lieutenant-General Sir Robert BadenPowell, greatly aged, but still bronzed, emerged from his seclusion in the country to attend the annual dinner of the Royal Colonial Institute. If he is bald, : and if his moustache, is grey, he still ; retains his tremendous voice. VigorI ously declaring: “It is the men of toi morrow on whom the Empire depends; i patriotism does not consist in waving flags and* drinking healths and shouting hooray, but in doing things”—he announced that a great meeting of boy scouts would be held in Paris in 1923, attended by five delegates from each country in the world. He hoped that there would be an early repetition of i the 1921 jamboree, at which scouts from distant Australia and New Zealand would again meet brother scouts from : other parts of the Empire. 1 Sir George Parkin, vice-president of ' the institute, illustrating how near to breaking-up the Empire came in the late sixties, stated that the Colonial Office tol(J a certain Governor before he left for Australia that his appointment would probably be the last. Tn those conditions the institute was founded, and though ever increasing' in strength it wanted still more members and money. Sir George Parkin appealed to “the great merchant princes to follow the noble example of giving set by Mr. Hugh R. Denison in Australia, to j strengthen and solidify the Empire.” j Congratulatory cables were received j from South Australia, New South Wales, and Canterbury, New Zealand. Lord Meath, founder of the Empire Day movement, Sir Joseph Cook, High Commissioner for Australia, and many Australian visitors were present.