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His honours and titles fill two inches read

of 'Who's Who.' But when

you this article you will realise why youth's greatest benefactor-81' to-morrow best but as active as ever-

is still

known as

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

TUESDAY EPBRUARY 92,

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."

It

when.

By Dyke Pearce

doubtleas WMS hemmed in by the streets of;

that

Baden- London

young 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 oven on the lone-

write it special- liest Island in the world- cheerful courage fail.

Every kind of stratagem was used ly for boys.

From that mo- Tristan da Cunha.

the besiegers, from mislead To his father's house came such to men na Ruskin and Thackeray, and furry searchlights to dummy tents In B.-P.'s possession is a shilling and forts. given him by Thackeray to prevent Then came relief and Mafoking

but never aring,

!

re-

ment had start

ment the move-

ed

him from escaping from the nursery night. England went mad with de- the

light, and the hero was

and joining in a party.

But it was not till B.-P. had Powell, achieved world fame as that he made himself

Baden-

He was promoted Major-General, a soldier

enough from Immortally but strangely

this

famous by conceiving what thou- moment his army career was never

greatest spectacular. sands bellevo to be the power for peace that the world has known.

Young Leader

Lown,

As a boy he showed his leader- ship. His first taste of "battle" was long time at Charterhouse. For a its boys had been harassed by the the town, activitica of boys from who hurled missiles from safe cover.

"After one violent attackt I found the headmaster beside me. He sug gested that we might go through

door and attack them on the says-B.-P. in describing the

scene.

wo pointed out that it was locked. But the head only smiled and produced the key from his gown. The attack was a completo success."

In this connection, it has been

To boys B.-P. has said:

Boys repo read book and

formed their own

troops of scouts, They were called

B. P. 5. S.

Scouting Socio- ties.

Baden-Powell

In those days,

apart from be

2

ing deeply · in-

terested,

the

"Wo must breed in tha future a generation of un- selfish broadmindedress with which to oust the prevailing

off-interest.

"Don't forgot 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 citizāñs”,

Chief Scout dia

nothing to organise the movement. also

served. They patrolled

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Of those that fought -11 got The first big rally of acouts was held in 1909, and there were 11,000 V.C.. scouts present at the Crystal Palace. Six thousand more held a rally later ith the year at Glasgow.

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than he look on another ends .King.

.He expressed the view that the. In his home is a quittase suggested that Baden-Powell in movement was typically British, packed. It is always there a

Ho-la always happy and when WHEN he was 10 he joined advertently offended Queen Victoria and would not spread in foreign symbol of his, motto "Be Prepared.'

Countries To-day there is scarcely over the femous "stimp incident."

and the slege money the Hustars in India. In During

a country in the world that has not alone he loves whistling, B.-P. Duter "swank, and the whole of his India he proved himself to be an stamps had run out, and B.-F. issued its scouts organisation:

movement. is formed so that it can outstanding polo player and the his own notes and

have no place in the mind of any member. best pig sticker, and among the men

Both these were, I only for

Ás

of those days the latter was indeed use in the besieged town, but un-

fortunately many got abroad. an achievement.

To-day D.-P. 15 a tectotaller and there was no picture of the Queen non-smoker, but then he smoked and Evaliable, the head of Baden-Powell outside the bounds of was used on the stamps. kept just

It is thought that this was re- abstinence by drinking ecensionally a glass of sherry diluted with a bottle of soda water.

B.-P. was, and still is, a reserved fellow. He had few friends, but the ones he had were red: Determined

not to cast his parents mouicy he lived on his 'pay, an almost unlicard. of feat among the hard-drinking, hard-living cavalry officers.

Mess Bills

There are 2,592,832 scouts in the world to-day.

In the British Empire there' are 1,011,936; the others aro divided among 49 countries. :

The chief countries that have no official Boy Scout or- ganisations are Germany, Italy, and Russia.

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WITHEN

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it will be of a man of mystery as much is a founder of Scouts.

What he did in the war is still a secret. Even his right-hand men do

The simple uniform is typical of the men and boys who wear it.

His Romance

:

.

N

TO story of the Chief Scout 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 "hand." no one linowa.

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What they do know is what his scouts did.

When the call came in 1914 there her. wero. 50,000 eager to answer the

The story of Lady Baden-Powell Those that wero old and the Girl Guides is a separate. summons. 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 fellow-scouts who happened to be to benefit the youth of the world The Steamship.

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B.-P.'s mess bills were often little more than half those of the next of the most economical member mess. Strangely enough, his un- usual mode of life, did not make him

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THE climax of B.-P.'s mili- Atary career made him the

was in 1907 that the Boy Scout movement dawned.

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on horse soup and soldiers, but he found that It had sausages, suffered craneled bom- become a favourite with children. bardment. They jacked adequate Having considered the matter ho

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