The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-09-23
THE OLD FOLKS"
AND BOY SCOUTS
Colonel Billiard Gives Address to
the Risen Generation on the
Rising One.
(From wednesday 5 Advertiger.l

(Erom Wednesday s Advertiser.)
A boy scout talk to those who are
beyond the joys of boy scoutlsm was
given last night in The X. of P. hall by
Lieutenant, Colonel Bullard, as an ad-
dress preliminary to the actual inaugu-
ration Of this movement in Hawaii.
At the commencement of his address,
he turned to the row of boys who were
sitting in front eager to listen to this
famous exponent of the gospel of scout.
ing and told them that he was not go.
ing to talk to them but 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
Dickey, Professor Wood, Lieutenants
Bowen and Rogers of the Twentieth,
and many others who are in a position
to lend weight to the movement by their
mere endorsement of it.
Colonel Billiard s address was a clean
cut exposition of old.fashioned patriot,
! ism in which the natural patriotic re-
spect of the army man was combined
with 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 it meant
something.
He spoke with quiet bitterness against
these people, and said fatty that it was
| but a cloak to hide their own cowardice
Without equivocation 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 to an unworthy
pursuit of the almighty dollar. The
sentiment, so often repeated, was more
forceful when spoken by him ms there
was no trace of the pedagogue or calam
ity bowler but a simple understanding
of the truth.
He explained that it was this lacl
which the boy movement meant to fill
He did not discuss ii as a plaything Of
the country but as something that wa
vital to the country. The flag, he said
means more than a combination of col
ors and the boy scout learnt that.
He dwelt on the few arguments which
the usual chronic kickers have drummet
up against the scouts; that it take
them away from home and takes then
too far away from home.
"Theyn go any way" he said
"and as for going out in the meadow
and fields-that greatest and mos
dreaded of diseases, consumption, come
to us through, confinement. hear tina
the Hawaiian blood and / know tn
Indian blood on the mainland is suffer
ing with it since they adopted on
ways
The movement, he added, contained
everything that appealed to the boy a
the time that he began TO feel con
scious of his growing strength and be
came imbued with the idea that he mus
exercise il. 1t is all right TO tell hin
that If he is good and doesn't tell lie
and things he'll go TO heaven when h
dies, but he doesn t want TO die TO &c
his reward.
At his age he ism t thinking abOu
dying and little about heaven. Tn
hoy scout is drilled into the understand
ing Of what honesty, truthfulness, thrift
and courtesy mean, not by the rod an
rule, but in the very way that uneon
sciouslv appeals TO him. 1t presents hiI
with its reward right on the spot.
In response to questions he enlarge
on his subject, showing the indueemen
TO betteE work when the boy had t