Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-26
GEORGE CALLED
KAISER OF1776",
Baden-Powen Says English
Sympathized With Ameri-
can Colonists

Characterizing George III as the
kaiser of his time" and maintain
ing that the English people in ITO
were who1e-heartediy with the
American colonists in "their asser-
ton OF their rights when an un-
constitutional and autocratic mon
arch tried to impose on them hts
puny will" Sir Robert Baden-Pow-
ell, head of the Boy Scout Associa-
tion in England. who was feted in
this country during hts recent visit
here, has returned to Great Britain
with a new plea for international
brotherhood, which he feels VIII be
effected through the development of
Boy Scout organizations throughout
the world.
In message to his scout leaders,
Sir Robert says:
''It is all very we'll to cali Amer
lea foreign country. but one has
only to be there for an hour or
less to discover that It is not q for
eign country.
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totally different from England. If
you are in city. the marvellous
great buildings, like sections of
honeycomb put up on end in the
great hives OF industry, are grand
compared with the tortuous little
alleys and squalid buildings in which
we are content to do our business.
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Of the dignified English elm trees
with their old-world farmsteads
nesting below them; all looks much
more experimental and temporary
with the wooden doll houses set
down on the grass fields, and never
a hedge or garden to them.
But among the people it is diff
ferent. You begin by being polite
and standoffish ,as is the stupid Brit
ish way with foreigners: but you
very soon forget when you are talk
ing the same language and have the
same ideals, and when both parties
possess the same kind of character;
you can't help dropping into ia
miliar way.
"At least 1 know that was what
happened in my case; now and
again 1 remembered and tried to
pull myself up, but it was no use.
Their live keenness and their
warmth of hospitality carried one
along so that one felt at home
among them. And why mot?
I'VE are of the same kind, of the
same breed. For $50 years out of
the 400 of their history the Ameri-
cans were British. The two peo-
pies. as such, were never at war
with each other. History books i'm
ply that they were; but history books
are written by individuals, and the
individual is not always quite i'm
partial or truthful. Were he SO we
should know that instead of the
English people trying to bully their
own colonists into paying the Eng
lish taxes, the English people in
177G were whole-heartedly with their
fellow-subjects in their assertion of
their rights when an unconstitu-
tional and autocratic monarch tried
to impose on them his puny will.
THAT war was rightly described
by one of our statesmen at the time
as the darkest page in British his
tory and George III might well
have been styled the kaiser of his
time
The great war. with all its ruin,
has at least and at last brought us
the opportunity Of re-establishing
our good relations with our Ameri-
can cousins IL we only take steps to
insure that the comradeship of the
battlefields be continued in the fields
of peace by the next generation. and
those cousins are willing and
anxious to meet us half way.
Through the ut-brotherhood,
we have, fortunately, a means to that
end If we only take 1t us and use 1t.
That is the reason why in the scout
movement we urge upon our scouts
to get into touch with their Ameri-
can brothers by opening up corre-
spondence by post and eventually
arranging for interchange of visits"