His honours and titles fill two inches of 'Who's Who.' But when you read this article you will realise why youth's greatest benefactor-81 to-morrow but as active as ever-is still best known as
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY
B.-P.
EIGHTY-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."
doubtless
By Dyke Pearce
when It Was hemmed in by the streets of London that young Baden- Powell first dreamed of the real life a boy might live far from towns, a dream that ended in an organisation of boys and men that stretches from the frozen North to the Far East, an organisation that
once did B.-P's decided to has members even on the lone-
arms, but never
write it speciul- liest island in the world-cheerful courage fall.
Every kind of stratagem was used ly for boys. Tristan da Cunha.
the mislead
besiegers, from From that mo- To his father's house came such lo men as Ruskin and Thackeray, and dure my searchlights to dummy tents ment the move- in B.-P.'s possession is a shilling and ferls. given him by Thackeray to prevent
re-
ment had start-
Boys read book and Baden- formed their own troops of scouts.
Then came relief and Mafeking ed. light and the hero was kim from escaping from the nursery night, England went mad with de- the and joining in
party. But it was not B.-P. had Powell.
He was promoted Major-General, They were called
enough from achieved world fame as a soldier that he made himself Immortally but strangely
what thou- moment his army career was never famous by conceiving
be the greatest spectacular. sands belleve to
In this connecilon, it has been power for peace that the world has known.
Young Leader
As a boy he showed his leader-. ahip. His first taste of "battle" was al Charterhouse. For a long time its boys had been harassed by the activities of boys from the town, who hurled missiles from sate cover. "After one violent attack I found the headmaster beside me. Ho aug. gested that we might go through a small door and attack them on the flank," says B.-P. in describing the
scent,
pointed out that it was *WC locked. But the head only smiled and produced the key from his gown. The attack was a complete success"
To boys B.-P. has said:
this B. P. S. S.-
Baden-Powell Scouting Sadie' ties.
"We must breed in the future a genoration of un- solfish broadmindedness with which to oust the prevailing solf-interest.
"Don't forget to do your I sometimes do. good turn, but that is no reason why you should,
"The highest ambition of the scout movement is to make good citizens."
suggested that
In those days, apart from be- Ing deeply in-
terested, the Chief Scout did
served. They
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thousand ways that the Boy Scout Counell was ments and in
proved their training. formed.
Of those that fought 11 got The first big rally of scouts was heid in 1000, and there were 11,000 V.C.s. scouts present at the Crystal Palace. Six thousand more held a rally lates
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TO-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, one mistake when talking to the no
is one mission finished King.
thon he is off on another. He expressed the view that the In his home is a sultense ready movement was typically British, packed. It is always there as a and would not spread in foreign symbol of his motto "Be Prepared. countries To-day there is scarcely He is always happy and when
"Alexandria-- Hongkong- and a country in the world that has not alone he loves whistling. B.-P. hates "Swank," and the whole of his its scouts organization.
movement is formed so that it can have no place in the mind of any: member.
Baden-Powell in- WHEN he was 10 he joined advertently offended Queen Victorin
the Hussars in India, In over the famous "stamp incident."
During the siege” nidney' Indla he proved, himself to be an stamps had run out, and B.-P. issued outstanding polo player and the his own notes and stamps. 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- an ochlovement.
fortunately many got broad. As To-day B.-P. is a teciotailer 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
It is thought that this way re- abstinence by drinking occasionally with a a glass of cherry diluted bottle of soda water.
B.-P. was, and still is, a reserved fellow. He had few friends, but the ones he had were real. Determined not to cost his parents money. he lived on his pay, an almost unheard of feat umong the hard-drinking, hard-living cavalry officers.
Mess Bills
B.-P.'s mess bills were often little more than half those of the next most economical member of the mess. Strangely enough, his un- usual mode of life did not make him unpopular; rather the reverse.
There are 2,592,832 scouts in the world to-day.
In the British Empire there are 1,011,936; the others are divided among 49 countries.
The chiof countries that have no official Boy Scout or- ganisations are Gormany, Italy, and Russia.
Wils
WHEN the
The simple uniform is typical of, the men and boys who wear it.
His Romance
.
No
Kuli le of Baden-Powell is writin It will be of a man of mystery as much as a founder of Scouts.
What he did in the war is still secret. Even his right-hand men do 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 "hand."
no one knows.
1914
TO-story of the Chief Scout
would be complete with
He Brst saw her walking in a street, and, true scout that he is, he noticed her walk and liked it; he remembered that walk.
What they do know is what his
Two years later he met her again scouts' did.
on board ship and fell in love with When the call came in 1914 there her. were 50,000 eager to answer the The story of Lady Baden-Powell Those that were old and the Girl Guides is a separato cummons. 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 and slaughter their back on a life that has done more
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210 days at Mafcking against 10,000 Boers.
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