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Character building
From The Scouter (British Boy Scouts Association) May 1940
I AM away in Kenya. Looking on
from this distance I get the im-
pression that people at home
are a little too cocksure about the
war. Thinking and talking too
much about what steps should be
taken to settle the world after it is
over. They are apparently forget-
ting that the war is not over yet by
a long chalk. We have yet to win—
or maybe lose it. It is surely the
business of every adult in the na-
tion, man or woman, to concen-
trate thought and service on fac-
ing the grim struggle, and on en-
forcing victory.
But in the Scout Movement we
are on another footing. We are
dealing with the future; we are
By LORD BADEN-POWELL
Chief Scout of the World
training the next generation to
make the best of life under after-
war conditions. Exactly what these
conditions may be none can tell,
it all depends on whether the
present generation wins or fails to
win the war. But whatever way
our fortune goes it seems to me
that the same foundation which
we Scouters have been laying, viz.,
of character with all its attributes
and unselfish service, will be just
as necessary as heretofore, indeed
even more so with such a proble-
matical future in store.
Recent photograph of Lord and Lady
Baden-Powell with their grandson, Robert.
I am not in a position to know
what our educational authorities
are doing about it, but in view of
the more than disappointing rev-
elations brought to light by the
official evacuation scheme, I hope
that still more intensive efforts are
being made to prove that the aim
of education is to produce good
citizens, not merely proficient
scholars. We have to judge by re-
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National Council Officers Re-elected
President
WALTER W. HEAD
St. Louis, Missouri
Vice President
MELL R. WILKINSON
Atlanta, Georgia
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Vice President
JOHN SHERMAN HOYT
Da rien, Connecticut
Vice President
STUART W. FRENCH
Pasadena, California
Vice President
COL. THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Oyster Bay, New York
Vice President
FRANK G. HOOVER
No. Canton, Ohio
National Scout Commissioner
DANIEL CARTER BEARD
Suffern, New York
Treasurer
LEWIS GAWTRY
New York, New York
JULY, 1940
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