THE BOY SCOUTS.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19691, 7 August 1929, Page 11

THE BOY SCOUTS.

need for recruits. SUCCESS or GIRL GUIDE movement. (tnrrr» rasas AaaociATiojt BT eliotwc *»uioaA»a - COl'yhiout.) (Received August «th, 8 p.m.) LONDON, August 5. Lady Badsn Powell, interviewed at Arrow® Park, said: "We are not getting all the young men we want for the Boy Scout movement. Youths with intellectual gifts are over-fond of racing madly about in motor cars and on motor-cycles, yet they could help us in framing and building up the characters of boys who are less fortunate. "It is • curious fact that the sisters of these young men are with us wholeheartedly, and in consequence there are 100,000 more Girl Guides than Boy Scouta in Britain. It is notworthy that the Girl (mides are not so numerous in foreign countries, though these ara quickly coming to learn that a good man is necessarily the counterpart of a good woman."—Australian Press Association.

PRESENTATION OF TOTEM POLES. (Seeeived August oth, 7 p.m.) LONDON, August 5. The New Zealand, Australian, Canadian, and Indian contingents of Boy Scouts were each presented with carved totem poles by the Chief Scout at a special ceremony at Arrowe Park. Improved weather is making conditions lit the camp more cheerful. (Arrowe Park, where the Jamboree is being held, has the reputation of being the Urgest public park in England. It is four miles from Birkenhead Town Hall, and covers 450 acres of undulating well-wooded country. The park was bought by the Birkenhead Corpora tlon from Lord Loverhulme, and provided an important lung for Birkenhead and Wirral. Even in so largo a space, however, there was not room to accommodate all the Hcouts, and the West Cheshir# Boy Scouts arranged for 9000 of them to go to Overchurcu, and 10,000 to Upton, close by.] CHIEF SCOUT WILLING TO VISIT DOMINION. LONDON, August 5. Tho Chief Scout, Lord Baden-Powell, has definitely intimated that hj« will bo delighted to visit Australia and New Zealand. He will leave England at the end of September, 1930, If the Dominions desire a visit.—United Service.