The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-01-20
BOY SCOUT FOUNDER
TO TOUR THE WORLD
General Sir Baden-Powell Will Go Out
In the Interests of Solidifying
the Movement In Many
Countries.


defender of Mafeking during the South
African war, and the founder of the
boy scout movement, to advance which
he retired from the army, has, started
OH tour of the world in the interest
of the organization.
The central idea of the tour is to con-
solidate the movement throughout the
empire, to coordinate it as a great inn
perial organization and to standardize
the method of management as far as
possible As the tour necessitates Sir
Robert passing through America and
other countries, he will attend meetings
in the interests of the scouts in those
countries.
Sir Robert proceeded first to the West
Indies to visit the Barbados, Trinidad
and Colon, and while in Panama will
visit the canal works. New York will
be reached about January 81, and thence
the tour takes him to, among other
cities Boston, Philadelphia, Washington,
Cincinnati, Chicago, San Francisco and
Seattle. From the latter port the gem
eral will take steamer for Japan. where,
under promise made to Generol Nogi,
an effort will be made to start the boy
scout movement in Japan. General Bad
en-Powell has previously visited Can
ada. The scouts have made wonderful
progress in England and the colonies.
In the United Kingdom alone there are
a million members, 10000 having been
enrolled last year, The royal scouts
association has just been Incorporated
under royal charter.
There are still a few "Old Masters"
left in England's homes despite the oft
repeated cry that American and Ger
man collectors are depicting England
of the works Of art that an earlier gem
Grafton brought together.
The exhibition arranged by the eoun-
ell of the royal academy bears testi-
mony to this. There are some pictures,
loaned from private collections, which
might almost be said to have been re-
discovered, they have been so long hid
den away, and long list Of master
pieces, none OF which were seen at the
previous shows.
Among those that American collectors
might look upon with envy are two from
the private collection Of Miss Driver, the
"St Francis of Assist, standing with
arms outstretched. by Giovanni Bellini
and the Descent from the Cross by
Gerard David. Both these pictures were
last seen at the Manchester exhibition
in 1857, and their whereabouts were I'M
known until sent by Miss Driver TO the
present exhibition. Others that Amer
leans might bid for, if there was
suggestion that they were for sale, are
a small panel by Mantegna and a group
of three Rcmbrandts, sent by Mr.. A. r.
Boughton- Knight The Rembraudts rep
resent the famous painters earliest and
latest work.
Because of a misunderstood army
form. 10000 reservists We're on the point
of modelling at Aldershot recently, and
a London newspaper added to the ex
citement by publishing news item to
that effect.
The situation was due to general
misunderstanding of Army Form y 46l
which was announced by the military
some time ago as the medi
INN by which the resevists who would
in the natural course OF events be called
on for service on the first call were APP
prised Of that fact. In order that there
should be the least possible delay when
the order was given, it was announced
that the form would be accompanied by
R railway warrant to pass the reservist
to his allotted station and a postal or
der for subsistence money during the
journey.
Every preeaution was taken by the
war Office to instruct the men tina
the orders We're to- be cashed only IL
case of mobilization. but some of tbs
rcservists failed to read or UNDERSTAND
their Instructions, and a number of thi
orders were cashed and attempts Were
made to get railway passes to Alder
shot The affair has kept the war of
Zee busy explaining the mistake and
lenymg sensational rumors of impend
ne war.
One of the strongest points in tho
argument against the grant of the suf
rage to women is the fact that in the
United Kingdom women outnumber
would mean handing the government OF
Inc country over to them, a revolution
hat anti-suffragists say would be too
erious to contemplate
An official estimate of males and fe
males of twenty-five years and over in
he United Kingdom. excluding aliens
,aupers and other persons disqualified
or enrolment as parliamentary voters
,laces the number of males at l0l07.-
100 and that of females at ll,3l9.00
Il 1912, and by 1916 it is estimated
hat the numbers would be l0,4So,000
nd ll,729000 respectively.
The professional London heggar can
arm more every day than the average
british workingman. This is the con
fusion of w. Fitzgerald Arbuthnot
ecretary of the London Mendicity So
iety. which is completing an investiga ;
ion into the subject. The secretary es-
mated that the average talings of the
treet beggar amounts TO one dollar and
quarter a day
II is said that begging is not so well
rganized as formerly. A few years
60 the beggars met and ARRANGED their
espective stations so that their terri
cries should not overlap, but the com
etition has now become so keen that
title attention is paid to these former
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