The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-02-06
DADEN-POWELL CALLS WAR
ORGANIZED, LOCALIZED
MURDER SHOULD CEASE
Would Speed Day When Resort
To Arms by Civilized Nations
Would Be Impossible
SOLDIERS ARE FOR PEACE
Hero of Mafeking Entertains Big
Audience With War Stories
and Pictures

With anecdotes and pictures OF the
stirring scenes through which he had
been, Lieut.-Gen. Sir Robert Baden
Powell held an audience OF 1000, in
GLIDING large contingent OF Boy
Scouts. intensely Interested Monday
evening, during his lecture in the
Light Guard armory. which was the
climax OF busy day. which the hero
Of Mafeking spent in Detroit.
There are a great many people"
said the general. who do not under
stand what scouting means. and what
u has TO do with the problems of edu-
cation. In my opinions our educa-
tional system, in England at least, Is
pretty much upside down. We Judge
lis success rather by its methods than
rs results. We spend millions to
keep up an extensive educational sys=
TEN for the purpose OF turning out
good citizens, and we are forced TO
spend millions more for the mainten-
anCe OF police and prisons to take
care OF the citizens who should have
been reached through the educational
system, but turn out to be bad.
In the training If character war
scouting is excellent. have seen the
results In soldiers, but In the end the
character training that peace scout
ing lnculcates 10 far better.
Il hope that we are fast approach
ing the time when war will be NO
LONGER possible among civilized ma
tons. Il Is nothing but organized,
legalzed murder Some seem to be-
lieye that the soldier wants war TO
continue. Ask any man who has seen
the horrors OF modern warfare his
opinion, and you will find that he IL
strongest In opposition TO the prac
tics
"A good deal OF our trouble is
caused by GENERALIZATION. We have
too much done for us and we do not
have to do enough for ourselves TO
build up the qualities of character
which are desirable. We are too apt
10 be merely spectators at the hard
games, letting those we can hire do
the playing for us. The scout move
ment ie intended TO develop the quail
ties that can only be developed by
learning 10 do things for oneself"
The lecture consisted of running
comment. frequently interpreted
with bits OF dry humor, describing the
series Of pictures thrown upon the
screen. Scenes from the siege OF
Mafeking, showing how the town was
defended by a force Of LOCO men
against the enemy numbering from
5000 TO 10000, some OF them photo
graphs, some OF them rough soldier
sketches, were shown. They gave IN
intimate notion of the actualities OF
life under siege. There were other
pictures of the work OF the scout in
peace and in war, the frontiersman
the explorer and the settler of waste
places
Throughout 1t all one could almost
feel the intense interest OF the 500
Boy-Scouts present In the hall. Upon
occasion this interest broke out into
cheers and shrieks that were quite
7irrepressible. The big noise came
when a moving picture OF work OF
some English Boy Scout in trailing
and capturing pair OF bold bad rob-
bers was thrown on the screen, but
there were big noises to greet the
pictures OF President Taft and Theo-
dore Roosevelt.
Previous to the armory meeting
Gen. Baden-Powell addressed an audi.
Jrce or Boy Scouts in The Light Infan-
try armory. The boys represented not
only Detroit patrols but a large num-
Der OF cities nearby. Many came from
across the border The general was
entertained at dinner by the Detroit
Teachers association and the Detroit
Schoolmens club in the Hotel Pont-
chartrain. Mayor Thompson extend.
&c the greetings of the city to Sir
Robert and several others spoke In.
formally. The general left for Chi
cago late Monday night.