MEN SCOUTS

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 132, 7 June 1930, Page 17

MEN SCOUTS

POSSIBLE NEW MOVE Almost double the usual number of Scout workers attended Birmingham recently to hold their bi-ennial conference. In all, 1100 Scouts from all over the United Kingdom were present. Industry, mingled with jollity, has been the keynote of the conference. Peers, national heroes, citizens, and workers of every kind literally cheerfully took off their coats and pulled u» their sleeves, and inaugurated a great forward scheme for the development of the Boy Scout movement. The possibility of a men's branch of the Seout movement was hinted at by Sir Alfred Pickford, a chief commissioner. Two successful experiments to deal with unemployment —an overseas training scheme at Witney, Oxfordshire, run by Miss Mason, and a new scheme afc Hedingham, Essex, for which Misa Hajendie was largely responsible—weredescribed. At work Durham boys, she majority not Scouts, are being trained as gardeners, houseboys, and chauffeurs by two Kent Scoutmasters. The total cost for 12 weeks' training, including the erection of huts, was £75. So successful has this scheme proved. that another batch of boys will bo taken on this month. The Chief Scout (Lord Baden Powell); appeared at the last session, and sketched plans for an immediate development movement.