THE BOY SCOUTS
AND XT-IK TOOTH CADET FUST). Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON. November 16. /Received November 17. at 9.10 a.m.) In a letter io the. Press, Major-general Sir P>. S. Baden Powell, pays that tho Boy Scouts' movement is unable, conscientiously to participate in the Lucas tooth fund. It.is not. thought desirable to inculcate ideas of soldiering" beyond those of self-defence. ii:t-> the hoys before, thev are able to see. things in their 'proper proportions. Cadet equipment is too expensive for the poorest, to whom the, Scout movement specially devotes attention. Drill tends to destroy a boy's individuality, and to make him part of a, machine that is dependent upon others.
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Evening Star, Issue 15342, 17 November 1913, Page 6
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