THE CONQUERING SCOUT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 13, 31 August 1911, Page 2

THE CONQUERING SCOUT.

The Boy Scout movement groves apace, both in pur.ibers. aiiH, usefulness. ' An English estimate the number in. various parts .of the world as nearly. 1,000,1)00; at the review at Windsor; the other day, .when only a small section ' of the British Scouts . were out < parade, .35,000 were present. According to the London correspondent iof• the Sydney “Morning Herald,” the Scouts are taking “a big part in making the wheels,,of the Empire go round.” Through the Coronation time, the village .festivals -wthankst. t to. ,i the: ..run; much more efficiently than in the past. The boys camped beside the bonfirp and saw that it tygjs not lit pfemftfcjijflly; they set up.,.the ropes sports, measured the distances,,;;and acted as stewards during the .proceedings, and they sold programmes during the concert and theatrical |.performances. The Australian artists who held a reception in London, had Boy Scouts lining the stairs to show people the way.. One pf the most touching sights pi .London on Corpnaf tion Day was an army veteran who had' become faint, being helped along by a Boy Scopt. i When the aviator’s in the great circuit race flew across the south of England, they were guided by beacon fires, which had been mad;? and were being guarded by Boy Scouts. “The English city children have Liken to .the movement like ducks to water; so much so that it looks as il it |satisfied some old primitive baukc-Mug as ancient as the stone 1 m the Ih l ' l life around the camp A re--or at 'any rate the restless vei> /-mtility Af tii<? English race for which ill opportunities have \been squashed ppt, ire this,.modern' city life, but which unquestionably exists in the ;.vo if it gets half,a chance. The Hoy. Scout life in camp gives boys the opportunity, tq.learn a little bushmanj:sjfiip, oi at any rate handiness, which it present ('pipes, naturally in the way m most Anhtralian and Canadian chil:!u n. Tire correspondent was told by ii.;. .wife of ,a clergyman in a poof lvar.l End parish that the Scout sys(u*m had; donp an dminense amount of gpod among!thei,boys. Partly owing to Liio system of education, and partly owing to their up-bringing, the averjage boy was soft and unmanly—liable to cry'at the least hurt. But a Scout troop had been formed, the boys had been taken regularly to camp in Epping Eorest, and an extraordinarj chllnge had been brought about in their characters.