CHIEF SCOUT’S TOUR

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 148, 19 March 1931, Page 2

CHIEF SCOUT’S TOUR

Talk to Young Australians , Sydney, March 17. The Marama, with Lord BadenPowell aboard, arrived to-day, aud the Chief Scout was met informally by the leading Scout officials and motored direct to Government House, where he and Lady Baden-Powell will be guests during their stay. The Council of Control and the Scout Commissioners called on the Chief, and the rest of the day was free. Friday will be the Scouts’ great day. Contingents are arriving from all parts of the State.

“There are a few old things about Sydney, and one is the idea that scouting is military,” said Lord Baden-Powell in a broadcast address to Austarlian scouts, delivered iu Sydney last evening. “This,” he continued, “is entirely wrong. I suppose because I am an old soldier myself they think I am trying to make the scouts a military body. An old soldier can be a good civilian as an old circus horse could pull a baker's cart or a plough. People who have never seen war abhor it, and those of us who have seen it hate it still more. The aim of the scout movement is to secure universal peace. People say ‘well why do the scouts wear uniforms?’ I say 'uniforms are to make all boks look like one another, and hide the differences between rich arid poor, for they are all brothers together.” . I Lord Baden-Powell expressed his pleasure at being back in Sydney after 19 years ,7md commented upon the growth of the city.