THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH,
TUESDAY,
FEBRUARY 22
1938
His honours and titles fill two inches of 'Who's Who.' But when you read this article you will realise why youth' greatest benefactor-81 to-morrow but as active as ever-is still best
known, as
h's
B.-P.
FIGHTY-ONE years ago to-morrow was born the man who, despite all the high honours and titles that have been bestowed
on him, will always live in the heart of every boy as B.-P.
It was in the middle of Victorian London that the man whose life was
to be spent in glorifying the open air was born.
He was born plain Robert Baden-Powell, eighth child of a clergyman; to-day his honours and titles fill two inches of "Who's Who."
It Was doubtless
when
hemmed in by the streets of
· London that
young
Baden-
Powell first dreamed of the real life a boy might live far that dream д from towns,
ended in an organisation of boys and men that stretches from the frozen North to the Far East, an organisation that has members even on the lone-
By Dyke Pearce
urms, but never
once did
to
re-
B.-P.'s decided
write it special- llest Island in the, world-cheerful courage fall.
Every kind of stratagem was used ly for boys.
from besiegers, Tristan da Cunha.
mislead the
From that mo- To his father's house come such to men as Ruskin und Thackeray, and during searchlights to dummy tents ment the move- ment had start- is a shilling and forts. possession in B.-P.'s
Then came rellet and Mateking ed. given him by Thackeray to prevent
Was and the hero
him from creeping from the nursery night. England went mad with de- the
Ng
and joining in a party,
B098 read book and Baden-formed their own troops of scouts, called But it was not till B.-P. had Powell.
He was promoted Major-General, They were achieved world fame as a soldier
enough from this B. P. S. S. that he made himself Immortally but strangely famous by conceiving what thou- moment his army career was never Baden-Powell
be the greatest spectaculur. Bands bellove to power for peace that the world has known.
Young Leader
As a boy he showed his leader- ship. His first taste of "battle" was at Charterhouse. For a long time its boys had been harassed by the from the town, activities of boys who hurled misalles from safe cover.
"After one violent attack I found the headmaster beside me. He sug gested that we might go through a small door and attack them on the dank," says B.-P. in describing the
scene.
that it
We pointed out
WOR locked. But the head only smiled and produced the key from his gown. The attack was a complete success,"
In this connection, it
Scouting Socic-
has been tics.
To boys B.-P. has said: "We must breed in the future a generation of un- selfish broadmindedness, with which to oust the prevailing self-interest,
do your "Don't forget to
Isometimes do, good turn, but that is no reason why you should..
"The highest ambition of the scout movoment, is to make good citizens."
In those days, apart from be- ing deeply
in- terested. the Chief Scout did
nothing to organise the movement. niso
served. They
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It was not till some years later coasts, nssisted Government depart- that the Boy Scout Council was ments and in
proved their training. turmed.
of those that fought The first big rally of scouts was held in 1909, and there were 11,000 V.C.S. scouts present at the Crystal Palace. Six thousand mere held a rally later in the year at Glasgow,
From now
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O-DAY at the age of 81 this amazing man is still as active as most men of half his years. The Chief Scout admits he made Indefatigably, he travels the world. finished one mistake when talking to the no sooner is one mission King.
than he is off on another. He expressed the view that the In his home is a suitcase ready that Baden-Powell in movement was typically British, packed. It is always there as a Auggested advertently offended Queen Victoria and
spread in foreign symbol of his motto "Be Prepared." countries To-day there is scarcely He is always happy and when THEN he was 19 he joined over the famous "stamp incident." W
In During the Hussars in India.
the siege money and a country in the world that has not alone he loves whistling, B.-P. hales and the whole of his "swank," India he proved himself to be an stamps had run out, and B.-P. issued its scouts organisation.
movement is formed so that it can outstanding polo player and the his own notes and stamps.
have no place in the mind of any member. best pig-sticker, and among the men
Both these were intended only for
of those days the latter was indeed use in the besieged town, but un- fortunately many got abroad. As an achievement.
To-day B.-P. is a teetotaller and there was no picture of the Queen non-smoker, but then he smoked and available, the head of Baden-Powell.
the bounds of was used on the stamps. kept just outside
that this was, re- abstinence by drinking occasionally It is thought
a glass of sherry diluted with a
boltle of soda water.
B.-P. was, and still is, o reserved fellow. He had few friends, but the
There are 2,592,832 scouts, ones he had were real. Determined in the world to-day. not to cost his parents money he Ilved on his pay, an almost unheard of feat among the hard-drinking, hard-living envalry officers.
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B.-P.'s mess bills were often little more than half those of the next most economical member of the un- Strangely enough, his usual mode of life did not make him unpopular; rather the reverse,
mess.
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The chlof countries that have no official Boy Scout or- ganisations are Germany, Italy, and Russia.
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full Ife Baden-Powell is written It will be of a man of mystery as murit as a founder of Scouts.
What he did in the war is still n secret. Even his right-hand men do
His TO story of the Chief Scout No
would be complete with-
not know. There were rumours that out mentioning the woman who is he had been seen at the front, but his wife and right-hand "hund." no one knows.
1914
her He Orst saw
walking in a street, and, true scout that he is, he liked it; he noticed her walk and remembered that walk,
her.
What they do know is what his
Two years later he met her again scouts did.
When the call came in 1914 there on board ship and fell in love with were
60,000 eager to answer the The story of Lady Baden-Powell
Those that summons.
were old and the Girl Guides is a separate enough fought and faced a terrible story that will some day be told. problem. Must they renounce their At the age of 81 B-P. can look brotherhood ! rand slaughter their back on a life that has done more fellow-scouts who happened to be to benefit the youth of the world than any other of all time. He con- Queen opposed to them?
They appealed to the Chief Scout ceived an organisation and out of it As a schoolboy he had been keen Victoria. on scouting and woodcraft, and his Actually B.-P. was completely and his answer was firm. He pointed rose a religion of youth.
out that they must do their duty and Baden-Powell is to-day greater carly training
him in good innocent, as he had no idea that his make certain that such horrors than kings, for his faithful followers
head was to be used; Indeed, when should never happen again.
are not bound by boundaries but stead.
he saw the stamps he was horrified. The scouts did their duty.
only by allegiance to "The Chief Those that were too young to Bght Scout."
stood
THE ellmax of B.-P.'s mili-
tary carcer made him the
Harded unfavourably by
I was 'n 1907 that the Boy.
Scout movement dawned.
hero of every man, woman and child I was not a sudden idea. Indeed,
in the Empire."
the whole thing was more accidental With any force he held out for than intentional..
210 days at Mafcking against 10,000 Boers.
He had written a book on scout- ing which had been Intended for
They lived on horse soup and coldiers, but he found that it bad sausagen, suffered
bem- become a favourite with children.
ceaseless
bardment. They lacked adequate Having considered the matter he
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