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recognized part of the scout curriculum. A system 

 that embodies, as it does, the practice of some daily 

 act of kindness is not without promise. I have 

 known it to take the form of carrying a washer- 

 woman's basket of laundry through a public park. 



The organization is spreading with phenomenal 

 rapidity, and already numbers 250,000 members. 

 That Canadian voyage was but the first of a series. 

 South Africa, Australia and New Zealand are to be 

 visited in turn. 



Lieut.-Gen. Sir R. S. S. Baden Powell, who retired 

 last May from active military service, is devoting all 

 his time to the development of the movement. It was 

 interesting to learn the Chief Scout's views on the 

 subject. They were in consonance with the honour- 

 able undertaking subscribed by every boy that joins : 

 (i) to be loyal to God and the King; (2) to help 

 others at all times ; (3) to obey the Scout law. 



The General's statement to the Canadian Press 

 was as follows : " I intend to consecrate myself to 

 this cause which is getting beyond all bounds in its 

 importance. One point I wish you to emphasize to 

 your readers is that the practical side of the move- 

 ment, allied to the moral, is supreme. Of course I 

 do not object to our boys entering the Army, but I 

 wish to teach them, above all things, to use intelli- 

 gently the faculties which their Creator has given to 

 them. If I succeed in enthusing Canada somewhat, 

 my work will not have been done in vain. In 



