BOY SCOUTS

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 267, 7 August 1929, Page 11

BOY SCOUTS

NOT KEEPING PACE WITH GIRL GUIDES IN BRITAIN

HELP OF INTELLECTUAL YOUTHS WANTED

INTERVIEW WITH LADY BADEN-POWELL Lady Baden-Powell comments on the fact that there are many more Girl Guides than Boy Scouts in Britain. She says that youths with intellectual gifts who could help in building np the characters of boys are over fond of motoring. (United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Australian Press Association. (Rec. August 6, 8 p.m.) London, August 5. Lady Baden-Powell, interviewed at ,Arrowe 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 a curious fact that the sisters of these young men are with us wholeheartedly. In consequence there are a hundred thousand more Girl Guides than Boy Scouts in Britain. It is noteworthy that Girl Guides are not so numerous in foreign countries, though these are quickly coming to learn that a good man is necessarily a counterpart of a good woman.”

CONTINGENTS FROM DOMINIONS PRESENTED WITH CARVED TOTEM POLES (Rec. August 6, 7 p.m.) Loudon, 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. The Improved weather is making the camp conditions more cheerful. THE CHIEF SCOUT TO VISIT AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND (United Service.) London, August 5. The Chief Scout, Sir Robert BadenPowell ,has definitely intimated that he will be delighted to visit Australia and New Zealand, leaving England at the end of September, 1930, if the Dominions desire a visit.