THE CHIEF SCOUT

Evening Star, Issue 20311, 21 October 1929, Page 9

THE CHIEF SCOUT

■ FREEDOM OF LOHDON FUNCTION AT GUILDHALL (British Official Wiwl«s.) Proas Association-By Telegraph -Copyright RUGBY, October 18. More than 200 Joy Scouts and Girl Guides gave a real Scout welcome to Lord Baden-Powell, the Chief Scout, to-day when he visited the Guildhall to receive the freedom of the City of London to mark the coming of age of the Scout movement. Among those present were Mr Rudyard Kipling, the Archbishop of Canterbury, representatives of the civil, business, and religious life of the city, and leaders- of the Boy Scout movement from all parts of the country. Sir Adrian Pollock (the City Chamberlain), in presenting the Chief Scout with a gold box containing a copy of the freedom, spoke of the good influence of the Scout movement all over the world. He said there had never been a movement which had succeeded so rapidly, and generations to come must decide the great Scout leader’s place in history. Replying to the presentation, Lord Baden-Powell said he realised that the honour was bestowed upon hiip merely as a figurehead of the great brotherhood. It would encourage ard inspire the Scouts to do their best, and ‘‘ it will encourage them to see that not only do they get the best out of life, but that they put their best into it. This presentation means that 1 the Scout movement is recognised as a civic movement, and not a militaristic one.” ITINERARY OF TOUR. LONDON, October 18. Lord Baden-Powell’s finalised programme of his tour is as follows:—Accompanied by Colonel Walton (Headquarters Commissioner) and Mrs Walton, he will leave Southampton at the end of January for Wellington via Panama, and he will spend March in the New Zealand centres. Thence he will go to Sydney, Tasmania, Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide, and Berth, and he will reach England late in July. Lady Baden-Powell will devote her activities principally to Girl Guides, but she and her husband hope to arrange joint rallies of Scouts and Guides in all centres.—United Service.