BROTHERHOOD IN SCOUTING

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22397, 10 May 1938, Page 7

BROTHERHOOD IN SCOUTING

* ADDRESS BY METROPOLITAN COMMISSIONER A highly organised and non-military method of training boys in good citizenship and international brotherhood was described by Mr F. Maclvor. Metropolitan Commissioner, Boy Scouts’ Association, in an address at the Theosophical Hall on Sunday evening, on "Brotherhood as Depicted in Scouting.” Outlining the various stages of wolf cub, boy scout, and rover scout, Mr Maclvor indicated how in a very happy environment created for them boys were encouraged to develop and express, through the medium of tests, games, and camps, the qualities of self-control, self-sacrifice, self-reliance, and co-operation. Mr Maclvor said that 48 different nations fostered the scout movement

and all undertook to obey the same “scout promise” and “scout law.” In the world friendship badge boys were encouraged and enabled to correspond and become acquainted with boy scouts of other nations, and in the world jamborees, where thousands of scouts from all nations intermingled freely and happily, camped side by side, the finest opportunity was provided for welding together in a great comradeship the youth of the world. The speaker paid tribute to Lord Baden-Powell for the genius be had displayed in creating an organisation that led naturally and simply to the realisation of world brotherhood and peace.