The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-12
USE BOY SCOUTS
FOR The COMING
imp ERIALIST WAR
Baden-P Powell Leads in
SANDER of U.S.S.R.

Scout Jamboree opened at Birkcn-
head on July 80. Parties of Scouts
from India, Egypt, South Africa, the
Gambia and other parts of the Brit
ish Empire arrived.
The Prince of Wales and George
Lansbury, commissioner of works in
the labor government and noted
renegade, attended.
The occasion of the Jamboree is
the "21st birthday" of the Boy
Scout Movement.
TIE Boy Scout World Jamboree is
being held from July 80 to Aug. IA
at Arrowe Park, near Liverpool.
This dreary pcrt-a city of riches
and poverty, notorious for It's slums
a n d unemployment - overshadows
the Jambcree as q. mighty denial of
the doctrines Of the scout leaders,
who paint dazzling pictures of the
glories of the Empire and conceal
the horrors of capitalism.
All the financial resources Of the
heavily subsidized scout movement
are being used to guarantee success.
The bourgeoisie take no pains to
disguise that they are fighting hard
to save the youth from the "insidi-
Gus efforts of the Communists TO in
veigle the youth of the world"
(Baden-Powell)
About 10000 scouts are taking
part, including $4,000 from foreign
countries and the Empire.
Army. of 10000.
The programme includes camps,
relay games, gymnastics, bridge
building, hut building, cinemas, ex-
hibitions, clog, morris and sword
dancing, open-air displays and pa
geantries. Scout masters are much
too cautious to organise an open
military display; the army and ma
val officers at the head of the move
ment are quite capable of instilling
a subtle daily militarist and i'm
perialist propaganda and training
without blazoning it forth to the en-
tire world.
What is the real purpose of the
big Jamboree The facts show that
it is to consolidate the scout move
ment within the British Empire and
to prepare for the coming imperial
list war.
The scout movement is to be found
chiefly in two parts of the world,
the British Empire and America. In
America, the scouts and leaders
number no fewer than $4,000, more
than half the total number of scouts
and leaders in the entire world. In
the British Empire, the total num-
Der, including "Rovers" and "Wolf
Cubs" is 654,130.
Thinking Imperially.
In recent speech, Baden-Powell
declared that "he looked to the JAM
boree to consolidate and complete
the work of the past few years and
to set the movement on a really
sound and widespread foundation,
both imperially and for ultimate in
ternational friendship of new and
hopeful type"
Here the Chief Scout frankly
states that consolidation within the
Empire is the first task. The Brit
ish bourgeoisie, faced with the ris-
ing tide of colonial revolt, realise
what an excellent weapon it has IN
the Scouts for the purpose of dis
guising the monster of imperialism
and corrupting the minds of the
young generation.
There is a growing naval antag-
onism between America and Britain.
So Baden-Powell has inaugurated
the Deep Sea Scouts" which will
enroll young workers, and even
adults, who work on ocean-going
ships. That this new development
meets with the full approval Of the
British Government is shown by the
announcement that Membership
will also be open, under. certain con-
ditions, to sailors, stokers, artisans
and others in the Royal Navy or
the Merchantile Marine who have
not already been Scouts on shore"
In America, troops of Air Scouts
have been formed, development
which has not so far taken place in
England.
The role that the scouts will play
in the next war is amply demon
strated by their record in the last.
Immediately upon the outbreak of
the last war, Baden-P Powell issued
the following instructions:
'In this time of national emerg-
ency comes the opportunity for the
scouts organization to show that it
can be of material service to the
Just as the boys of MAIZE
king were utilised to take the lighter
work of men in order to release men
for the more arduous duties of war,
so can the scouts now give valuable
assistance to the State at homeland
for this their training and organi-
cation has already to great extent
fitted them"
The scout leaders mobilised the
scouts for the last war and are pre-
pairing to mobolise them for the next.
One form of this mobilization is
the vicious an dying campaign be-
ing carried. on against the Soviet
the vicious and lying campaign be-
found in almost every organ of the