Lord Kitchener, who inspected 1,000 Boy Scouts at Leiceater on
Tuesday, paid a very handsome and, in our opinion thoroughly well-deserved tribute to the movement. "The, more he knew of the Scouts' organization, the more admirable he thought it to be, and the more fully persuaded he was that it should appeal strongly to every father or mother who desired to bring up their sons well. It broke down class prejudice, and it promoted comradeship, discipline, resource- fulness, self-reliance, and sympathy. Its ideals were the highest Christianity and patriotism. Again, they would find the Scout law and the Scout training very useful through life. So let them never allow scouting to be looked upon as a game that was over. Let them keep it going as long as they were alive." If the movement is kept on sound lines for another fifteen or twenty years, Lord Kitchener's ideal of a million men and boys imbued with the spirit of the Scout ought to be realised. The only serious difficulty at present is with parents; but none of the boys who are now scouts will make difficulties when they have sons of their own.
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