Reading Standard Etc 12-1919

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In continuat.ion of our specia.l feport of the
ROUiDlh ft) monda.
• &,reat ~ut ltal1y in Reading le.Bt. week we
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One of ~ho ide.. of th'il &outs was to do.
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go.od ttp'D to aomeone eV4:I!ry day. -They mia'ht
1 A Orand Lot of La_.
tohink that the ordin~ little l'aga.muflin if told
Ono of the .. s~ turns" at the afternoon that thaI; wu hia job would uk what be wu
concert )Was the eloquent a.ddreaa, by tbe Ch.e! gomg to get out of it. But they didn·t f':>l
Scout (Sir R. Ba.den-J!owell), woo WILi received lobey rOBe to the oocuion and loved dOing goud
With tlie utmost cocdlality.
He ~pceased ~u. a.nd derived great bappineu from it.
. .. tho pleuure It 'ga.ve h..ipJ. to 8&-1 a few word. h.
vmg up of a. little tiDul and tNulJle Lebehalf of the movement in th&t dlStrlct. n... c . eo a Ii&bit. land l&ter on tha 8oc5utl gave u.p
had just been · round jpoking a.t the boll, and l!lpney, fisked d8J;1gel'l and even gav~ thell'
he waa ~und 00 say the,. were &. gra.nd lot -of liVe,. And it all began in that one htt19 \hiDe
la.ds. One oould aee m their faces and dil' -doing a &,ood tum daily. SOOutl were enoour:
clpliI}e, ~d thou", dress, too, that they had the a;ged to take up hobbies, end ODce a boy took
right aplfit 10 them, a.ud were gomg to be a I,1P a. hobby or two he W84I never lik.ely to begreat credit to Readine. ~robably there were .!lome a wuter or .. loaf:u-. (Ap,Plauae.) The
mllDy present who ma,ely looked upon Soouts b.adge IllOIt ..-ought. &!tM
that of the mi.
~ aa an ugly lot of little boYI.) with bare beea ~lOner) and the DUIIlOner was F,m e ·who did.
t." and big hats, running about and enjoying . life. good .turn tc? old a.n.d invalid peo.pJe hi. their
. -If thoy' were enjoyin, life, that wui BOmething. nomee. Ba.vmg related tbe narratIve oonoern~
(Appla.u.e.) But. they went f~her "than that .. tug the heroic d&&th of Jack Oornwell, a. Boy
for an ' effort W.&a. made, and the resw nse was Soout, Sir Robert eaid that many more Scout.
wonderful, t.o get them to enjoy life on the hac;l made . their names in the war, p6l"bap'
very highest plano of enjoyment, anil that was lesa oonspiououBly, hut DOne the' l~ honour.Dot in having enjoyment thrust upon them, J.bly. ~t W&8 up to them to try and make a
b\!t in earning it for tbemaeh:ea. By doing targer pl"Opo]tion of their ' bo~lnto good citi.
their duty I~ citizenB q.,pd helping, other people , ~eD8, ~d GOd knew' our couoid badly needed
WJlO were In need bro,,!ght , far greater enjoy. jhemf (ApplaU8e.) It W.8.s curious how little
ment to those boys and to anyone else than by ~hey knew during the 'W&I' &8 to how cto.e they
merely going to look a.t &. cinema. or having .yere to disatlter. It might be tha.t they did
amusement J!r,e sented to ~bem . . (Appl.auee.) tot realise what dangers faood them in th-is
Scou~ ere mauced ito enJoy the1l' ~ tr&lnlng so 'war aftoc the war. There were great dangers
that I~ was no . longer a i;aak ~ut something Just be10w the surfaCA, how g~at they did not
they did beca.use they wanted to do jt. They m~w: One of the things to 8tLve them was the
leMned [or',ltbemselves, and wba.t . they thu8 "ra.1Qln~ . of the neJ:t ·genera.tion into being .
learned stuck to them through life. It was Jood CltlSOruJ.
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from within i.nstead of from without that they
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tOok their educa.tion. Their discipline wu fI'om
Sir
rt alluded to wha.t . the SOduLe did at
within. , They did Dot do their work becau&e ,-Iome when a.r broke out in tbe \vav 01 gu.'dthey
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y. ew I w" l • to egraph.. nd' aaid t~at ov.r 100,000 went +~
•right thing to dO L The,. tried to do- their bit he war
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r "e 11I.. Ime a very a.rge num_
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ber ' forgo~ the Scout promise and told what
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me.,..!Ulight sa.:r was not tru~ when they gave their 11.0'68 as 18.
that UI a very Dice sentiment, a very ' nice (Applau ) T
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theo~', but he Oould .8MU1'e them th~at for a
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never ~me back....-in bodr,' but their spirits
ODg
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t-.en up that <"Work were With UII and the .p end,'d ".-ple they
never realised h a t, won d er f u.I thingB boys, ..w.erese t th e h9Y8 of tbe pr...nt generat'"n.
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and how they w.........
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movement ha d spread very..... rapidly
lh~m out in .pr actice. .
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held in tlie ' Large Town
on Wedneaday afternoon

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last week. i<Je,li,.ed the

":~~::i; 1• .,no- .lI over £4:30, which; we

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fair .to ...y tlit.t this :' I
the whole
the pro- , , ~
orgailiser of the concert..
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point of a.nn~cing ..t the t\18 whol.. of ' the ..._ .
in order that the
of the Reading &lid :pi... .
AlIIOCiatipn migh,t ben...
extent. The ""pe'"i8ll'
a.)t."gel;her ~m'Oullted 'tb barely . £50, a.nd
met priva.1>?iJ' liy j ,friends .
movement. ~
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. Rivera, who· orgamsed
the arrangements ,K(mel-take this "I'por:t~ty 'o f '
of the artIstes who , I!O
theii', "eervicee, -the .muni:",rtho,i!iti'18 for their
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Tha.t 8howe~ that, the boy. bad t.he right
' ipiz:it in them, the f~ling of brotqerhood for
loh6lJ' brother Sooute 10 other countriee. That
would mean IOmething in the near ,future and
'WoU!d be vlIFY helpful to the League of
N~t~n~.. ~t that there would be ..
ipmt m the' 19eople which W&II 10 necei8ary
Jehinq the mere law8 made by the Government
to ~rmg. about tlla.t League. .What he WIWI
. UXlOUB a.bout wu' the progreee: of )"the movee: Wl!,en 100;000 of the old
~neDt ~er~ at
')oY.8 wen to t e front a.nd ...OO~ per oent. of
~h.ell'h Scoutmasten went a.lao. the f movement
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t, have been expected to die out d""'"
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war. '. But they managed to h&Dg on &n
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wor
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creulDg aU the tune;"1IiltDply through ·the spirit
yf the booy8 in it, who carried o~i<wheo the
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:Soou ~_~ers were 8;-way,
In Re ding there
were , about 1,000 SQ.9uta. and th;t number
looked all yery we,ll. nn parade, ut it W . .
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no I t oo,"pared with what tbe~ J:Uld do ,'1
on
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had'
the
meaDS for dea " u w,'th the
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ey had the !lla.chioery bitt not the
~ear ; they wanted more men 'and ' more

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~clal A~I for £1.008. '

It O&me ft'flJll tbe Somme &rea., a.nd the lady
wrote th&t th~ war had destroyed!' 'education
and had even gone further · than. 'that, for
had taught bruta.lity to tbe oomiIig generation.
uver there, the letter continued, ·they had had
no ·guidi.a.g hand to help and the ~oya prom·
l8ed to ~ very aavago and pnreli,ble unlea
iK)meone. t;.pok them in nand. Th&fSi'out movement wa. the' only 'thini they couJ; think of,.
added the writer, 88 likely to· ca~t:!Hhem and
belp in ... the reoonatruction oJ t e r
that
pari of the country. An appea ~ made for
), man and moner and cloth6l. rHe waa glad
'f sa,. that for the past sil: monthe they had
DeeD. doing l':hat that oorrespondent! had a.sk.ed
for.
They. had been lending clot.hee uni~orms, books, and ev.en 'men, but~ the ~oDey
~ad oome out' of: ~lie pOckets Of th&-'Boy Scouts
~er~ who had ·r&ieed over £2,000. J - .

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well. He was in America. in the priaJa &ud
tbere were ' 4OO,1IOO ~ut.a th&8.
nIy ~ha.t
morning be had a letter from . ont4 who .u
trying to reoonatruct" the French Cfuntrylide~

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&lIJ. With .....d , to the mo1l1Ui>eato
raised t.o the ~ of 1hoee who had
th. luprem......14.., ho IhoUihl ~~ ~
memori&l w9J1ld b6 I!>' keep .Iin in their de.oend..,te tho oplrl6 and aumpl. of ~ who
had died for 111, IAppl&uao.)
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appeal to the British Public on behalf
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Middlesex Hospital £200,000 Fund H.R.H.

. The) Prince of Wales (in the ~ord8 quoted above!)
called upon all who' have not alrel)dy 'subscribed to ' do
' So at once, :and expressed a hope that-in view of
extreme nCed-those who have gi~eD will give again.

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