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a little it seems the very avenue a loving comprehension human nature, and I climb it with a strange overpowering, mystical sense of the wonder of existence. There comes after that a long and, splendid passage of description. The view from the hill-top is evok ed-Bursley and Turnhill to the north-Hanbridge, Knype, and dis- tant Longshaw to the south- Hanbridge and Bursley uniting their arms in the west.'

And 80 the climax:

"Railway stations, institutes, temples. colleges, graveyards, vel of life."Mr. Arnold Bennett. parks, baths, workshops. theatres,

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In a message home, Lord Baden- Powell, the Chief Scout, who is in Australia, recalls an earlier visit when he was a guest of Dame

Nellie Melba.

Lord Baden-Powell says: "Many Scouts who had had the good luck to see her and to hear her sing to read of the death of Dame Nellie Melba at her home in Australia.

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"LABELS" FOR SCOUT CAMPS.

Visitors to Boy Scout campa this year will find many of them flying a large sized "label" either from a tree trunk or the flag pole, or, perhaps, pinned to the camp notice board.

The new "label" is a certificate

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which will shortly be published by the Boy Scouts Association (price 6d.) and declares that the camping Scouts their camping shall come up to certain standards. The standards are set out in a booklet, "Camp which ing Standards," which will be pub (price lished by the Association 3d., post free 41⁄2d from The Scout Shop).

more than a year ago the Dean and Chapter were confronted with

will have been sorry the necessity of providing for ur- gent repair work upon the fabric of the Minster and, convinced that it was impossible to raise the

"I was particularly sorry, as I funds required by further public had been looking forward to see appeals, were obliged to considering her again in her lovely home the expediency of parting with a

(trom near Melbourne few of the valuable books in the

place she took her singlag name). Chapter library. Before taking

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"I can never attend a gathering of Scouts without thinking of the founder of the Movement," said Sir Edward Holland, when ho opened the ninth Handicraft Ex- hibition of the Kingston and Dis- trict Boy Scouts Association.

It was a real touch of genius and insight into character that led Lord Baden-Powell to bring the Movement into being and it was not given to all founders of great movements to live to see the fruits

of their labours,

used the

The Scout Movement natural activities of young people in really good and useful direc- tions, helping them to develop Into useful citizens. It helped them to develop what some people con- sidered to be most important, per-

hapa more important than mere learning, that number of virtues and qualities which together went to the making of that indefinable thing called character.

Courage, initiative, enterprise and service were developed in the

Hardy the work of no writer has received such tributes as have been puid to the memory of Mr. Arnold Bennett, who died recently. An Incident recorded by Lord Beaver are they, as they undalate below "the library books must be regard- Movement by giving concerts for colour sketch by Lord Baden-young Scout, and with them

is

brook, in the Sunday Express typical of Arnold Bennett's fear-

lessness and Integrity. Lord

Beaverbrook writes:-

"He came to lunch with me at my house in London at my urgent solicitation. I wanted to meet

him because I admired his books so much. He came on time, ac- cording to his life-long habit,

"He stood up. I asked him to He said he would not aft down. alt until he had spoken. He solemnly took a manuscript from his pocket and read out an attack en me and my politics. -

"""That," said Arnold Bennett, Is going into the newspapers to

morrow."

The certificate, which is water cularly of Boy Scouts, and more than once she had helped our proof and has for background a

In London was at a concert at

A

Bense of discipline, but. he believ- us. One of her last appearances Powell of a Lone Scout camping, ed it was not a too dominant dis-

has been so reproduced as to al- cipline. low it to be autographed by the campers, thus providing an Inter esting souvenir for the Scout Troop's clubroom.

tended by the King and Queen and Princess Mary, which she gave in order to raise money for our Development Fund.

you in their complex unity, but ed as part of the corporate pro- the natural, beautiful, inevitable perty of the Chapter." After Bay- manifestation of the indestructibleng that the "need of the Minster Force that is within you?" That

seemed to Justify the step." is the assertion of faith. The

the Dean adds: "The Dean and moral follows.

Chapter, in full assembly, decided

"Last time I was in Adatralia- to part with some books, including

in 1912-I visited her home, a long, five Caxton volumes which had

low house with a flat roof which high marketable value, but only a bibliophilic interest and no intim forms a terrace shaded over with a trellis work on which grew ate association with the life work of the Cathedral or diocese.alt and enjoy the view over park- Here she used to -grupo vines. The sum of £20,000 was paid for

like paddocks and forest-clad hills the books."

; all round.

"If this prospect is not beau tiful under the high and darken- ed sky," wrote Arnold Bennett, then flowers are not beautiful, zor the ways of animals! The beauty concealed much ugliness, and it was in many ways an ugly story that he was setting out to tell, but listen-

"If anything that happens in this arena of activity seems to you to need apologising for, or slurring" over, or concealment, then you have climbed to the top of Toft End in vain!'"

"That, in sum, is the spirit of Bennett's artistic achievement.

"I asked him to sit down. He did sq.

We had lunch, We never referred to the newspaper stack again. It was not serious, nor was it nemalble, in my oplafon. | He did not desire to apologize, or But it appeared next day just the slur, or conceal, His search for same." Mr Gerald Gould, ppet, |Deauty was made through the novellat and critic, concludes his patient and aurelenting examina- Atribute in tha. Observer by say- | tion of the facts-physical dis

ing

ease, social injustice, the hurts "In the first chapter of "Whom and terrors of the heart. But, God Hath Joined," a novel that however close the scrutiny, he -for some reason has never had the knew the need of a high place for -recognition due to its extraordin wider vision. He had climbed fary merits, Bennett revealed his | Toft End, which some have called

philosophy more fully than in his Olympus, and not in vain." didactic writings. He began

When I was young the road

roadArnold Bennett, on another oc- leading out of the heart of the casion, sald:

Five Towns up to Toft End was Until's man can look upon nothing to me save a steep paththe drunkard in his drunkenness, towards fresh air and far horl and upon the wife beater in his

but now

have lived | brutality with pure and calm com-

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abandoned the presumptions prac»

tie of judging and condemning--

he will never attain real content ..

devised The scheme has been further to improve the standard of Boy Scout camping, which is recognised as the key activity of the Boy Scouts Association.

LEPER BOY SCOUTS' DAILY

GOOD TURN.

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Bir Porcy Everett, Home Com- missioner of the Boy Scouts Asso- ciation and County Commissionerz for Hertfordshire, attended "The Trappers' Trading Post" organie- ed by the 1st Harpenden Troop of

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Boy Scouts, to augment their 3|63|12|||||[¶¶162181251TED funds. In an address on the value of the Boy Scout Movement he maintained that the perfect boy There would be a terrible prig. was no doubt, as any parent would tall, that Scout training made a boy a bit more cheerful, helpful and considerate than he was, be-

"What do you think she was. doing when we called upon her-

West Africa announces that:- this wonderful lady who had sung.

"Among the more noteworthy before kings and emperors, and whose voice has charmed thou- events of the year has been the sands and thousands of people information of a Troop from the leper boys at Itu, and for their almost every city of the world?

She was digging weeds in her dally good turn these 20 lade take and chart twice daily the tem- garden and enjoying it!

In Britain alone, 2,000 Scouts "At the door of her house when peratures of the thousands or so we arrived, was drawn up a smart lepers residing in the camp-surs--had obtained medala for life sav- pose of Roy Scouts, the lat Cam-ly as great a good turn as is per-ing, 40 of the medals coming to

berwell (Melbi's Own) Troop. The badge of this Troop was a sprig of wattle, the Australian tree which has that pretty little sweet-smelling yellow flower, often to be seen in the London streets."

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THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK.

There is nothing like brood- ing over troubles to make them hatch out.

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formed anywhere in the world.”

CZECHO - SLOVAKIAN INVITATION.

The Boy Scouts of Czecho Slovakis have invited a party of thirty Scouts from Great Britain to take part in their camp at Prague, from June 27 to July" 4. The total cost of the trip I not expected to exceed #par head for those under 18, and £10 per head for those over 18.

fore.

Hertfordshire. The Movement. knew no distinctions of class or creed and was well-worth support- Ing because it was going to make something for the happiness and peace of the world.

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