The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-09-19
To GET BOY SCOUT
PATROLS UNDER WAY
Committee Plans Mass Meeting
to Put Colonel Billiard in
Touch With People.

The committee of FIVE which is insti-
tuting the boy scout movement in
Honolulu will hold a public mass
meeting in X. of 2. hall tomorrow
evening beginning at eight O'Clock
to get the parents of this com
munity acquainted with the objects
sought, the sys tem of training and the |
urgent need of this influence among |
the children and youth of these Islands
where there is such a mixture OF races
and standards. Lieutenant Colonel Bull !
lard, in charge Of the school for ma
tional guard officers at Fort Shafter,
has been invited to tell what he knows
about the workings of this influence
and the edifving results it has had
elsewhere The lieutenant-colon is an
energetic worker for the cause, having
organized boy scout patrols IN Calltor-
MIA, and he has consented to impart all
the information he can on the subject
to enlighten all parents who care to at
tend tomorrow night s meeting,
Lieutenant Colonel Bullard attended
meeting of the local committee last
Friday. which was called to arrange to
| put the lieutenant colonel in touch with
the people here so that they may get
the information direct from one who
has been Intimately identified with the
| cause. At this little session Mr.. Bull
| lard told how the boy scout movement
| originated with Baden-Powell in South
Africa during the Boer war. General
Baden Powell, the Northumberland
said, found the standard of honor
among the men in their relations with
| each other of such a low order that he
conceived it his duty to institute some
movement looking to the social uplift.
| The men there, continued Mr. Billiard
| had sunk TO deplorable state of sell
| fishness and would not raise hand to
| tress. Realizing that it was next to
useless to undertake to remodel those
who were naturally depraved, he start
| ed in with the Young and susceptible
| who could be trained to perpetuate the
| higher civilization TO further advance
ment through succeeding generations.
| Under this broad scope. the colonel
went on Baden-Powel organized boy
scout patrols among his forces in
the military campaigns. These young
sters he taught loyalty, fraternity and
Sirst aid to the injured and gradually
developed in them all the finer instincts
| of man.
At the United States Military Acad-
envy IN West Point, continued Colonel
Bullard. every cadet is on his honor
and any weakling who gets in there
has not alone the masters to shun, but
all the other men with whom he asso-
ciates have got him spotted right off,
and he is boundfto brace up under this
all around influence.
That is what the boy scout movement
is intended to accomplish with the boys
of the cities. to have the stronger ones
continually boosting the weaklngs.
Special warnings against liquor and
tobacco, the colonel said, are entirely
unnecessary, for no man with proper
developed character could ever be
have unnecessary restraints. The col
onel did not advocate sticking to the
letter. "Just inculcate the principal
he said, ''and the boys will do the
rest
The military posts hereabout, the col
onel thought, would fit the boys out fo1
a few days of camping when it was
time to teach the scouts how 10 look
| after themselves. Any soldier, he said
| would teach them enough of the drill
| regulations to give their movements {
semblance of order when they were to
gether on hikes or other forms of ex
| ercises.
| 'sDon't try to raise a lot of money
| and make a big splnrge on the start, }
advised the colonel "Get a few boy:
together, make them earn enough
money to buy their uniforms, show
~ : hon