SCOUT NEWS

Waipa Post, Volume 42, Issue 3269, 7 March 1931, Page 8

SCOUT NEWS

FIRST TE AWAMUTU TEOOP.

(By " Scouter.")

The Te Awamutu troop is now settling, down; to hard training after the excitement of the rally, and members 1 are working!hard for their proficiency badges." .".' It is intended to hold a camp-fire night as soon as Troop-leader G. Dal- ■. ton returns from hospital. "Scouting is a game," says Lord ■; Baden-Powell, the Chief Scout, "but •sometimes I wonder if we do not ap- ; pear to be making it too serious a -game. When-you come to look on it as something formidable, then you miss the whole spirit and the whole , joy jof it; your boys catch the depres- < sion from you, and scouting having .. lost its spirit, is no longer a game for •"•' them. ;■■'.• "It- becomes like the game of polo •. which was/suggested to me by a gen- ;■'-■■ eral under whom I served. - A melancholy occasion had arisen when the , tfoops in the garrison were ordered to go • into mourning. This happened oh the'very, day an important polo ' match, was to be played. So -I was sent'as a deputation to the general to ask whether the match would have to be'cancelled. The general, with .. ■; a twinkle in his eye replied: 'I think S if you played very slowly and used ; . a black ball it might meet the 6c- '? casion.'" - '

5 'Lord t Baden-Powell is a figure unique in: the history of the world. He. has been called the " Piper of Pax," because he has piped, such an alluring tune oF fellowship, jollity, r and good-will to'the world's boyhood, that boy's from every nation and of every colour and creed under the sun -.' have followed him dancing. The chief .is one of the world's great Men—indeed, his greatness will " probably be appreciated by the his- .', .torians o£ the future rather than by - those who write about him at present. It is a human trait to take fox granted men and things as they are found; nearness inevitably obscures, • the intrinsic greatness and grandeur of those who loom large in the eyes of affairs of men. Real proportions are no.t realised-until a far-sighted view, is obtained. So it is that posterity assesses the real Value in the vforjd'. affairs of men and movements, /.; for 'i a •lapse of years givef;;{a truer .perspective. : -» What history will say of Lord ■Baden-Powell: the distant future will unfojli; but there is no doubt that he 'Wilt /.figure as a unique Character , among those who added something to the progress of humanity toward.the •''.'.heights.,;;:. ./:;.", ■-.•.: :'■'.;■'.■ As a soldier Lord Baden-Powell has '■:, claims to fame; some bard no doubt will One day sing the song of Mafekihg, and boys will know it as they ' know the march of Havelock, and the Piper of Lucknow. But as the apostle of 'peace' and good-will in a strife- :?. tossed world, B.P. has attained a glory greater than . the martial's cloak could have brought him. His /warrior fame will stir the minds of Empire/members only; his leadership : of the boyhood of all the world will be Judged by the men who knew him ;.-.; not at'all as a soldier. V WOLF; CUBS TO THE FORE. - The Te Awamutu Cub pack have beeh fortunate enough to secure the seryices. of" Miss Mensforth as Cub Mispress.;. Now, boys, roll up and giye her a.real welcome m Wolf Cub ■ ■'.' style.'/" ; included in the 4000 scouts and . rovers whd were present at the grand rally to the Chief Scout at the Basin Reserve in Wellington last Saturday were! 1100 woK cubs, the junior boys Of the movement, and this interest • by*the cubs augurs well for the future J T of the inpvement in Wellington. Two wolf cubs from Napier handed in to the cubmaster in charge of the ; .',.-. Hawke's Bay cubs a note to the effect that, they had been looking forward ,to : seeing their big chief for months, and being 1 refugees at present in Wellington hoped to be allowed to take part in the rally. . The father of the two small boys stated in the note that he hoped the cubmaster would. :: do what he could for these brave boys I , of his, as a few minutes after the " earthquake they made brick fireplaces .'.-■ and lit fires for water to be boiled for ..operations and soup outside the Napier Hospital. The father attributed their splendid behaviour to the teaching of the -mdvemeht. .'.'• '*