Our little men and women; modern methods of character building; . fore in historical times. Remarkable changes have takenplace in the last seventy-five years and evidences on everyhand indicate that progress is to go on at an ever-increasingrate. Chapters to follow will deal with a system of boy train-ing which is new in the world. It is spreading in all landsand the significant thing about this educational movementis that its foundation is race patriotism. Heretofore it has been the custom to teach national orprovincial patriotism. Apparently the idea prevailed that 20 THE BOY WORLD SCOUTS ar
Our little men and women; modern methods of character building; . fore in historical times. Remarkable changes have takenplace in the last seventy-five years and evidences on everyhand indicate that progress is to go on at an ever-increasingrate. Chapters to follow will deal with a system of boy train-ing which is new in the world. It is spreading in all landsand the significant thing about this educational movementis that its foundation is race patriotism. Heretofore it has been the custom to teach national orprovincial patriotism. Apparently the idea prevailed that 20 THE BOY WORLD SCOUTS ardent love of home and the home nation called for distrust,disrespect, and often hatred of countries in which other men,women and children have their homes. As a result the earthhas been drenched in blood. Men have hacked and shot oneanother to death and still are doing it, leaving thousands ofwomen and children in distress and without protection. Perhaps the most grievous fault of war and of a nationalpatriotism is that the strongest men, the men of the noblest. A NEW BOY SCOUT PATEOL Boys Take Kindly to The Scout Movement and Its Outdoor Features Appeal to Their Love of Adventure ideals, the most courageous men, and the most determined menhave often been killed, leaving men of lesser strength and char-acter to be the fathers of the race. Napoleon, with his wars,caused the average height of Frenchmen to decrease severalinches, because all the tall, strong young fellows went to warand many were killed, leaving the small men at home. THE BOY WORLD SCOUTS 21 Thoughtful men everywhere now see the evil of war, ofphysical competition between men and nations, of race hatredand provincial patriotism. Among the movements to bringabout a better day is that included in The World Peace BoyScouts, The Boy Knights, or The International BoyScouts. These organizations have grown out of a splendid ideaoriginated by General Sir Robert Baden-Powell, the notedBritish defender of Mafeking in the Bo
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