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Boy Scout NotesThe Opinion of Prominent Men Regarding Boy Scoot MovementThe Earl of Derby aayt in a letter to the Chief Scoot:M PI ante convey my moit grateful thanka for the assistance the Scout-masters and Boy Scouts throughout the United Kingdom have been ^ ^enough to give in their various localities to those who have been engaged in the recruiting campaign. I hear i all sides what valuable work have done and lt;1 would like to put on record my great appreciation of tbelr patriotic services.”Admiral Sir John Jelicoe: “Themanner in whiph the Boy Scouts arc coming forward to help the Empire m her hoir of need Is magnificent, and ia a most encouraging sign for the future of the Empire and of the British race.“Scouting is already part of the life in tnanv schools through out the land; schools of every type and grade,:lading Elementary or Continua-o Schools in London, Manchester, York sod Scarborough (Sea Scouts) etc, in tie Manchester and other Grammar Schools; and in Preparatory Schools such as the sin at Winches-Folkestone, and elsewhere. These are hut a few UJttst ration* of the educations! endorsement Scouting ihms received.”“A recent article in'the Nineteenth entury confirmed by numerous extract* from the German press has shown how the nation which U governed more than any other by collective discipline—namely —the German—4a coatpicious for want of self-discipline and self-control among its individual citssens; crimes of violence shame being rampant in that liry in addition to the brutalities an in war. General subservience thrqpgb fear of punishment is not a true discipline, it does not come from the individual command of self and from the desire to serye and to do one's duty.The right spirit has to* be and can be inculcated into the boy- -hut not by drill: It is done by t*pending hisindividual sense of responsibility and not by mating him part of a machine. , r ^ x“Lieut. General Sir W. IL Bird-wood says: ”1 have heard how well Boy Scouts, ever since the out-reak of the war, hare acted up to their famous motto, and how well prepared they have been to occupy . and hold the Imag trench line of pub 11 Be duties in Britain and Overseas.” 1Sir Lander B run too, writing in the K Nineteenth Centaly and After ”It b *not merely tmchjng but training tl r I boys need. It ia all very wefi to •loach them that they ought tn be brave, strong, observant, self Trhant, randy to obey the call of dut*. * irtu one and uaaclhsh Merelyip Boy*. l^dndiwpc sgsuj We need a system which makes the1Uyl practice them, and that is whatthe Bov Scoot Movement supplies.”Ii1
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Radville News
Radville, Saskatchewan, CA
Fri, Mar 02, 1917
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