SCOUT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18223, 17 October 1922, Page 5

SCOUT NEWS.

BY KUAXA. The Scout rally to be held at ston North during the Christmas holidays should have the effect of causing scouting throughout tho North Island to revive I and become a vital force among the youth lof our Dominion. Already there are signs ! of renewed life to be seen in the interest j being taken in the movement loyally. The Labour Day Sports Committee are includ--5 ing a number of Scout events in their pro- J | gramme on Monday at tho Domain, and on the same day at Hamilton a full day's scouting sports programme is to be carried out. Auckland is sending teams to Hamil* ton. Grey Lynn troop and Sfc. Aidan's each sending a patrol ot scouts. The monthly training camp for officers was brought to a cioa® on Sunday evening. I Over 30 Scout officers took advantage of | ! this opportunity for training. All_ j officers speak in praise of the value of the training they aro receiving at these cam pa. | This training they pass on to their troops. ! The syllabus for the present camp included training in a variety of subjects, among those being methods of tenderfoot trainin? and elementary scouting; a lecture and discussion on the iraderlying principles of scouting, especially in the spirit of the; Scout, law , without which no true scouting j can be carried out; aiso practical stalking j and observation and the writing of reports i I of things observed and the value of the; I careful study and observation of all phases j 'of nature. The training in these camps; | ia being carried out on the lines laid down j by the Scant authorities in England, and carried out by them afc Gilwell Park permanent training camp. The Auckland officers are much indebted' to the Defenco authorities for permission to use the Narrow Ncck camp for training purposes.

Auckland Boy Scouts will be sorry to hear that Patrol Leader Oberlin Smith, of the Ley's Institute Troop, mot with an accident in Albert Street on Saturday morning. He was knocked down by a motor-car, and had one of his legs injured. Patrcrl Leader Smith was the recipient of a certificate of merit for life-saving, at the Scout gathering last week. He ia progressing favourably at the hospital.

The London Times, of July 26, in writing of Sir Robert Baden-Powell's address given at the International Scout Conference held in Paris, at which 30 different nationalities were represented, says: "'Sir Robert Baden-Pcfwell'a address was in many ways a notable utterance. He opened a vision of how Tennyson's aspirations might be realised.

Bins out the thousand wars of old, j Ring in tho thoueand years of peace. i Never before has the chief Scout of the j world, explicitly put forward this bold, yet i sound, idea, the realisation of which would ' indeed be the crown and climax of the I Scout movement. It was conceivable, h«» | said, that within a short time tho League i of Nations or other international tribunal, | recognising that peace must rest ultimately on the character and mutual good relations of the different peoples, would decide for an amended form of universal education. This form would involve teaching the rising generation to think of other counj tries in terms of peace and not in terms iof war. If it should be decided to try j internationally a revised form of education i in this direction, a method and a machinery | were already availably in the Bov Scout i and Girl Guide movement which has ! spread in a few years all over tho world, j and has a membershin of two millions. This | movement is the antithesis of militarism, as all must have feft who saw the great " Jamboree " at Olympia two years ago.