The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-09-21
THE OLD Folks"
AND BOY SCOUTS
Colonel Billiard Gives Address to
the Risen Generation on the
Rising One

A boy scout talk 70 those who ar,
beyond the Joys Of boy scoutsm wa
given last night in the X. Of T. hall d,
Lieutenant-C olouel Billiard, as an al
dress preliminary to he actual iraugu
ration Of this movement ia Hawaii
At the commencement of his address
he turned 20 the row Of boys who were
sitting in front eager 10 listen to this
famous exponent of the gospel of scout.
ing and toll them that he was not ga
ing to talk to them bat to the older
people, at least then
The audience Included besides those
who have already evinced an interest
in the movement by organizing patrols.
Judge A. G. NJ Robertson, Senator
Dieley, Professor Wood. Lieutenants
Bowen and Rogers OF the Twentieth,
and many others VINO are in position
to lend weight 10 the movement by their
mere endorsement of it.
Colonel Ballard 5 address was clean
cut exposition of oldfashioned patriot
ism in which the natural patriotic re
speet of the army man was combined
with a scorn Of those who were inclined
to boast of their philosophical indiffer
ence to the emotions that the flag used
TO give to those to whom ii meant
something
He spoke with quiet bitterness against
but a cloak to hide their own cowardice.
Without equivocstion he condemned the
age IN America as lacking in manhood
and all that went to make up manhood,
and said that all that was worthy IN
man was being devoted 10 an unworthy
pursuit Of the almighty dollar. The
sentiment, so often repeated, was more
forceful when spoken by him as there
was no trace of the pedagogue or calam |
ity bowler but a simple understanding |
of the truth.
He explained that il was this lack
when the boy movement meant 10 fill. |
He did not discuss ii as a piaything of /
the country but as something that was
vital to the country. The flag, he said, |
means more than combination Of col /
ors and the boy scout learnt that.
He dwelt on the few arguments which /
the usual chronic kickers have drumme7
up against the scouts; thu =
them away from b. II taEes
INF and takes item
40 ear 4a8y fF5m home:
5sFbbssy.It % any way be SAID
land as for going aat II Ffe meadows
and felds-that greatest and most
dreaded of diseases, consumption, comes
to us through, confinement. hear that
the Hawaiian blood and l know the
Indian blood On the mainland Is suffer
mo with il since they adopted our
ways.
The movement, he added, contained
everything that appealed to the boy al
the time that he began to feel con
scious Of his growing strength and be-
came imbued with the idea that ne must
exercise It. 1t IS all right to tell him
that if he is good and doesn t tell hes
and things he'll 90 to heaven when ne
dies, but he doesn t want to dle TO ger
MS reward.
At his age he ism I thinking about
Diving and little about heaven. The
1rf+.c No mn
ing of what honesty, truthfulness, thrlft
and courtesy mean, not hy the rod and
ruIe. hut IN the very way that uncop-
sciouslv appeals to him. 1t presents him
with its reward right on the spot.
In response to questions he enlarged
on his subject showing the inducement
n better work when the boy had 10
earn his own. living, and the aid 1t was
TO him
cts dead easy to teach them, he
said when asked as to the methods or
handling them. "They teach them
selves
Paul Super, chairman of the commit
tee which is providing scout masters
and advice 10 the organizing patrols,
announced the preparations which the
committee has made and asked for the
cooperation Of all who were there. in
asking volunteers for scout masters he
said:
eve don + want the people who have
plenty Of time. We want those VINO n,
haven Il got the time to do it at all
II YOU can not possible find the time
apply at once and we viii Immediately
assign YOU to a patrol. You viii have
more fun ont Of il than the boys
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