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THE HONG KONG DAILY
BADEN-POWELL PRESS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1929.
THE SCOUT
MOVEMENT.
IDEAS DRAWN FROM MANY NATIONS.
REMINISCENCES OF S. AFRICAN WARS.
How
has the times Day Chizi Scout, Sir Robert Baden-Po well been asked the question, What made you start the Boy Scouts (Bays a London paper).
And as might have been expect, was like ed, Sir Robert's answer that of Topsy in Uncle Tom's Cabin "spects I growed," so the story as to how the movement grew can go on from here in his own words.
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"I suppose I can say that I first became interested in Scouting away back in 1585, when I was soldiering cut in Zululand. I learned then how to keep my eyes about me and to learn from what I saw, Later or, still in South Africa, I was in the company of the celebrated American Scout, Burnham. He
was better than I was at spotting
tracks and marks, but I think I was better at deducing what they meant, and he used to call me Sherlock after Conan Doyle's fam ous character.
Development. of Character, "Then when I was serving with the Thirteenth Hussars I realized that the training of the men was not sufficiently individual and prac tical,, so I put my methods inta practice with my squadron. Then when I commanded the Fifth Dragoon Guards I carried on a similar training, but improved so as to develop character-uanliness, reliability-in conjunction with military eficiency. The lectures which were given to the men were embodied in a book called Aids to Scouting.'
self-reliance
and
During the South African war in 1898-1000 the boys in Mafeking were organized as a general utility corps on what are now Scout lines, and the result was very successful. When the South African Constabul- ary were organized, the same ideas were employed; eniulation between the patrols produced a good spirit and a higher standard of efficiency; The uniform was the familiar cowboy hat, shorts, khaki shirt, green tie; badges were awarded for proficiency in different lines of work. We were getting pretty near to the Boy Scout, weren't wel
Book Used by School. "When I got back from South Africa in 1904.nabody was more sur- ptised than I was, to find that my book, Aids to Scouting,' which had been written for young soldiers, had been adopted by schools for teach- ing children the elements of obser- vation, deduction," resourcefulness and the other attributes of a good scout.
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children, scouting gives them an in- terent in life which was formerly denied to them.
In 1910, when the movement had swelled to 124,000, I felt I had to devote my entire time to it, and in 1912 our aims and methods were inquired into by the Privy Coun eil and we were officially recognized by the grant of a royal charter.
SCOUTING IN DIFFERENT
LANDS.
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And so His Majesty the Emperer WIFE'S STRATEGY WINS SETTLEMENT
was pleased just after his enthrone- ment erremeny to inspect 213 troops and 4211 Sequters and Scouts repre- senting the present aftength of 44,848 on December 6, 1928. The Scout movement in Japan ia-very Prosperous.
PERSIAN SCOUTS WİN. RECOGNITION, "
MOVEMENT SPREADS.
Boy Secuts Association was estab
Teheran, Persia-The Persian shed at Teheran by Ahmad Amin (Zadeh) toward the end of 1924.
Fortunately the movement received the assistance of the Ministry of
Education and the various schools gave it special encouragement.
class and prepared a substantia! Ahmad Amin started a training
number of scoutmasters. In 1923 the Scoas gave a praiseworthy de
dignitaries and the then Minister GREAT FROGRESS AND MANstration before the Government ACTIVITIES IN U.S. of Education, Nassir. Eddevleh. presented medals. The movement spread to other important cities such as Mazendran, Khozestan. Gilan, Hamadan, Ispahan, Kir
manshshan,
Kerdistan. Sistau. Estrabad, Irag, Tonequaben, and Khorossan, under the respective supervision of Messieurs Bazorgan, Sepehran, Raseghi, Khalily, Aram, Moeyedzadah, Saban, Waarciat Tara, Ebolkheyr, Rahey, Alare, and Freotan.
New York. While 1500 of their! brother Scouts are sailing, for Eu; rope to take part in the World Scout Jamboree at Birkenhead, the nearly 625,000 Boy Scouts and their leaders of America who are staying at home are plan- ning to celebrate the twenty-first birthday of the Boy Scout move ment by making the gear 1920 the mest outstanding, in point of pro- gress, in the history of Scouting insidentship of Ahmad Amin, and the
the United States.
To make possible a still more rapid growth of the Boy Scout movement and to make the Scout- ing probramme available to every boy in the Nation, Scout officials say that special emphasis will be put this year and during the next five years in the development and train ing of volunteer leaders.
The acciation is under the pre-
internal management in Teheran is carried out by Mr. Jahnoosty.
Students of various schools daily perform scouting operations and on holidays perform other crafts in the suburts of the town or even travel from one town to another. The association was recognized by
the International Bureau of Boy
Scouts Associations in 1928 and has been duly registered.
FROM HUSBAND'S ANGRY CREDITORS.
Shanghai-Pressed by numerous creditors, to whom he owed nearly $100,000, and being unable to meet his obligations, Hsu Chi-liang, until recently a prosperous" pro- vision merchant, attempted to end his life in a Nantno hotel, recently. The man's life was saved bow ever, and he was able, through his suicide gesture, to bring his eredi- tors around to a more sensible way of settling his debts,
Mts. Est and her creditors arriv ed. here they found Hsu's hotel room besieged by a horde of angry would-be collectors
Hsu vas distraught. He told his creditors shat he would pay half of his debt to each one of them.. hut they wouldn't listen, despite the fact Han insisted that ho couldn't do any better. They threa tened him with lawsuits, that pro- bably would have lasted a year,
Being unable to cope with the situation, Esu tock a dose of poin wife discovered the shortly
afterwards
His
and saved
* doctor, who
Mrs. Hu then
Hau resided in Changchow, where he had his business, but recently he came to Shanghai and while here son. became interested in speculating on fact the gold exchange, which resulted | entled" in financial reverses. At first he Hau's life. was lucky and made about $10,000, employed a piece of clever strategy in solving their problem. She call- but this didn't last long and after a time, Hsu not only lost the grea- ed in all of the creditors and let them see her husband in his weak- ter part of his wealth, but ran into debt to the extent of some ened state, 880.000.
Meanwhile Mrs. Hsu in Chang chow had incurred several thou sands of dollars worth of debts and when pressed by her creditors, re-i ferred them to her husband in Shanghai. She also came to Shang hai, expecting her husband to straighten out her affairs. When
IS A WOMAN A
PERSON"?
APPEAL TO THE PRIVY
COUNCIL.
For addressing her as a wor man," M. Bob Sawyer drew upon himself the bysterical repreaches of his landlady in the Borough.
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The crowd immediately hecame voluble announcing that they would take. what they could gut on their debts rather than get nothing
Hau killed himself. The arrangement not only cleared Mr. and Mrs. Han but left them about 99,000 to make a fresh stärt in busi-
ness.
· HONG KONG POLICE RESERVE.
[ORDERS BY HON, ME T. H. KING
ACTING CAPTAIN SUPERINTEN-- DENT OF POLICE]
Chinese Company,
SQUAD DRILL
All recruits of the Chinese Com-- pany will attend at the Company's Headquarters on Tuesday, August 6,
SIGNALLING.
There are five women in Western at 5.30 p.m. sharp for squad dril Canada, however, who are so de- under L/Sergt. R43 To'o Chi On. termined that members of their sex Dress: Mufti. shall, for constitutional purposes, aspersons, that they are bring- ing an appeal upon the matter to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London.
These leaders, most of them from the ranks of Scouting, will be train-
As the result of their meriterious ed to further the activities of the performances His Majesty Reza three great branches of Scouting Shah Pahlavy has kindly accepted i be described not as women," but troop scouting for the city boy, the patronage of the Scouts and mural and lone scouting for the HRH. the Crown Prince has_ne- country boy, and sea seating for erpted office in the Persian Boy the older boy, who is still seeking Scouts Association.
adventure.
Younger Boy Programme, “
In addition to the expansion of SCOUT IDEA WANES SLIGHT-
LY IN BURMA. thes three programmes preliminary work has been started on a Younger.
Rangoon, Burma.-At the end of Boy programme to bring under the character building and citizenship June, 1928, the Burma Scout roll training influences of the move-numbered 3430. The experiment is ment, boys ranging in age from 8 being made of extending scouting
into the villages.
to 12 years.
The number of Scouts is, actually The training of volunteer leaders under the auspices of the educa less than in the three preceding tional and camping departments of years but the report states that the Boy Scouts will, it is hoped, in scouting in Burma has been under a period of five years, bring to the geing a change as the initial en- movement enough leaders to give thusiasm bas waned somewhat, but every boy of Scout age an oppor-itis hoped that a deeper and truer tunity to be a Scout. The educa Scout idea is growing up which tional department is sponsoring will give a surer foundation.
Scout masters the training of
IN MADRAS. ·
Madras is divided into 27 districts Madras, India-The Province of
and other Scout volunteer SCOUTING SPREADS RAPIDLY leaders. The camping depart- ment is training men in the specialized activities having to do with Scout camping-swimming life-saving, camp sanitation and every other phase of outdoor ac- with a total of 12,408 Scouts of all ranks. To meet the growing de mand by Scouts for vernacular translations of "Scouting for Boys in India" translations have been made in Malayabam and Tamil.
tivities.
Increase of Sea Scouts. ·
At present there are more than 5000 Sen Scouts. The movement is open only to those boye over 15 years of age, who have had previ ous Scout training and who are especially adapted, both physically and mentally, to take part in sea- upmanship activities.
"Miss Charlotte Mason, head of Ambleside Teachers' Training Col- lege, was recommending it for those who had to train children, and this gave me the thought that the appeal of Scouting to boys if adapted to non-military purposes might be of value as a training for citizens. This led to the first Boy Scouts camp
in од Brownsea Island Poole,
"You ask why Seguts shake hands with the left hand. Well, just to make it different and a sort of secret sign which boys like. And the salute with three fingers for Scouts and two for. Cubs is for the three points of Scout law.
"But to return to Brownsea Ia- land. We had boys from every kind of school and a few good men in charge and a patrol leader for each group. We all lived like cider and younger brothers, and the ex- periment was such a success that I was encouraged to go on.
Through the Rural Scout pro- gramme Boy Scouts of the farming areas of the country are given an opportunity to participate in Scouting activities, both recrea- tional and vocational, under the leadership of adult Lone Scout guides.
One of the encouraging features of the work is the rapid spread of Scouting in the villages. Six Cub Packs have been started in fishing villages in the Malabar districts. Only those who know what Indian village life is like can appreciate what Scouting will do for it.
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ROYAL PATRONAGE IN SIAM.
Bangkok, Siam.-The Boy Scout organization of Siam was founded These Rural Scouts, living in por-1911 by His inte Majesty King tions of the country where it is im Rama.VI., who served as president. possible to organize a Boy Scout His Majesty was very keen on troop of 23 members because of the
Spread to 12 Countries. "The training of the South Afri-working hours of the boys, can, at
an Constabulary mixed with some ideas culled from the Zulus and
other African tribes, some methods of the Spartans, the ancient British and Irish training of boys, the Bushido of Japan, and various more moders methods, all these were culled upon and reduced to an elastic system through which the boy might develop himself into a useful citizen. "It was realized, too, that a separate movement was "re- quired to deal with the ever-grow- ag number of boys who were tak ing it up.
And the movement has gone on, ever growing, until to-day it has spread to 42 countries and numbers early 2,000,000, and is still grow ing. It is not confined to any one class, but appeals equally to the boys of Eton College and those of Loudon slum and to the lame, blind and even mentally deficient.
their own convenience carry on a programme of Scouting, under the leadership of their Lone Scout
guides.
JAPAN'S SCOUTS MAKING
BIG HIT.
HONOURED BY EMPEROR.
scouting and wrote many texts dealing with it.
Scouting in Siam has been in cluded in the syllabus of all the Siamese schools, and His Majesty the King. Prajadhipok, who now serves as the president of the asso- ciation, is no less interested in it than was his late brother, King
Rama VI.
Siam now possesses 37,194 Boy Scouts, besides the auxiliary Boy Scouts, numbering 3813.
LEGION'S REPRISAL.
Tokyo. In 1921, when the present Emperor, as Crown Prince, was in England, he had the opportunity of seeing the Boy Scouts in various centres. His interest in the move- SEQUEL TO SLIGHT ON LADY meat was aroused and he ex- deavoured to study the training methods.,
HAIG.
A sensation was caused in Belfast by the announcement of the local
The question to be determined is whether, under the British North Ameries Act, women are entitled to be considered as persons" who are qualified to sit in the Canadian Senate the Upper Chamber of the Dominion Parliament.
The question has been agitating leaders of the Feminist movement in Canada for some ten years.
The Signalling Squad will attend at the Company's Headquarters for practice in Morse and Semaphore under Cr.-Sergt. R15 Ow Yeung Kin Heng on Wednesday, August 1, at 6 P. sharp.
Indian Company. PARADE.
All ranks of the Indian Company are reminded of the parade to be. held at Police Headquarters on Tuesday, August 6, at 6.30 p.m.. sharp.
Flying Squad.
After the War the British North The fortnightly patrol of the Hong America Act was amended so that Kong Section will take place on women were entitled to vote in elec Thursday, August 8. Fall in at the tions, and to become eligible as Central Police Station at 8.15 p.m. members of the House of Commons.
The next fortnightly patrol of The point as to whether women were sharp. Dress: Khak uniform entitled to be appointed by the Governor-General as members of the Kowloon Section will take place. the Senate remained more or less on Tuesday, August 13. Fall in at in abeyance until some three years the Taimtsatsui Fire Brigade Sta- back. An appeal was then made on tion at 5.30 p.m. sharp. Drees the subject to the Supreme Court Khaki uniform. of Canada In April of last year this Court ruled that women were not to be reckoned among those, qualified persons" who may sit in the Senate.
Although the Federal and certain of the Provincial Governments are upholding the negative side of the argument, they have offered no ob jection to the matter being referred to the Judicial Committee of the Frivy Council. It would have been open to the Dominion Parliament to make such amendment to the British North America Act as would have ensured the eligibility of women for membership of the, Senate. In such ад event the amendments would have had to re- ceive the sanction of the Imperial Parliament,
The actual appellants all reside in Alberta. The Hon. Irene Farby was the first woman in the Empire to become a Cabinet Minister. She was given this rank in the Alberta Legislature in order that she might have the special oversight of women and children's interesta Mrs. Louise McKinney was the first wo- man to be elected to a Canadian Legislature, and Mrs. Nellie Me Clung is known throughout Canady as a writer and lecturer in the movement. Mr. Alice feminist Jamieson, of Calgary, was one of
the two first women in Casada to be appointed to the magisterial bench. None of the ladies figuring in the appeal will attend the pro ceedings before the Judicial Com
mittce.
PERAK TRANSPORT CO.
TUJOH TIN MINE DREDGE ARRIVES.
As a consequence of the Crown Prince's European tour, the Scout naval branch of the British Legion It is understood that Mr. Boyd movement in Japan received a great that they would take no part thie Walker, of Messrs, Aylesbury and impetus, and on April 13,1922, when Work Taken to Prisons.
year in the civic ceremony of lay- Nutter, Ltd., has joined the board the Prince of Wales was coming to "In Ceylon und India, scouting visit Japan, a conference was held mg wreaths at the Cenotaph, on of directors of the Perak Transport the anniversary of the Battle of Co., Ltd., which has just completed has been introduced into the jails at Shizuoka, resulting in the form-
transporting the first shipment of and is working with valy hopefuling of the Association of Boy the Somme.
This is a reprisal for the alleged the Tujoh Tin Mine dredge which results. The Toc H journal recent Scouts in Japan ly had a description of a visit to At the time of the great earthelighting of Lady Haig, widow of arrived at Port Swettenham on the a prison, where the superintendent,quake of 1923 the boys proved their the famous Field-Marchal, who City of Tokio. The dredge materi- Toc man, is Scoutmaster of a merit, and their useful work at during her recent visit to the enpials were sent by rail to Kampar troop composed of prisoners serv- tracted much attention from the tal of Northern Ireland was not Station, and from there transport- ing sentences of two years or more. general public, who had occasion to accorded the civic reception which, ed by motor lorry to the dredge
resourcefulness and One patrol leader was serving a 20-note their
in view of the Legion, was her due. site.
Belfast was the only city visited' Also several picces of heavy ma- THE GENERAL ACCIDENT FIBE AED LIFÉ ́ASSURANCE CORP., LTD. year sentence. The patrols alept ability."
Every time that the Internationa! by Lady Haig which did not accord chinery have been moved for the together in their Rover Den.'
Kampar Malaya Tin Dredging Co. They maintained discipline by Conference or Jamboree was held her an official welcome," For information apply
The contract for Messrs. Fogden a Court of Honour and on one occain Europe the delegates and the sion went off on a first-class hike contingents of Japanese Boy Scouts
and Brisbane for, Cameron's High- without warders. And, as in the were represented to co-operate in
lands, and all materials for the case of moral defectives, so with promoting the idea of a world-wide
P.W.D. has been commenced. An office has been opened. mentally and physically defective' brotherhood.
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As her tour was undertaken on behalf of ex-Servicemen, the Legion feel very keenly what they regard as a lack of courtesy on the part of the authorities.
Sharpshooters' Company.
ARMS. LICENCES. Members are again reminded of the urgent necessity of being pro- vided with arms licences.
EHAKI HELMETS ....
Khaki helmets may be drawn from the Police Store on any Saturday morning.
(Sd.) T. H. KING Captain Superintendrut' of Police. Hong Kong, August 5, 1920.
TUBE RAILWAY FOR CALCUTTA.
£4,000,000 SCHEME.
Calcutta.-There is every likėli- hood that Calcutta may, in future, have a tube railway. Mr. C. H. Lydell, of Mears. Merz and Part- ners, consulting electrical engineers to the Government of India, came to India in March to study the problem here, and after making the bulk of his inquiries in Calcutta. in collaboration with Mr. E. Wat- son, Deputy Agent, of the East In- dias Railway, returned to England
a short time ago.
It is understood that Mr. Lydell has already worked out proposals for running a tube railway from Howrah into the heart of Calcutta in conjunction with the project of electrifying the suburban lines on the East Indian Railway and the Eastern Bengal Railway,
The scheme, which would cost about £4,000,000, includes the erec tion of a central station somewhere near Dalhousie Square. During rush hours arrangements will be
made to deal with, 16,000 passengers
per half hour.
Trains will draw up at the plat- two minuter. At form every Howrah the rail level of the tube will be approximately 100 feet he Tow that of the station.
Passengers will be carried to and: from the ground in escalators and tickets will be issued by automatic" machines. Details regarding the air supply in tubes have yet to
be worked out.
Mr. Lydell's report will be madə" to the Railway Board and it can safely be prophesied that in the acxt few years Calcutta will be able to boast that she is the first city in the Empire outside the British Isles, to be provided with a tubo railway.