At the annual foregatheriny of Shanghai's Boy Scouts Council and its sympathizers and_suprorters last week, Mr. W. C. Cassels happily confessed to a discovery. Shanghai's problem was that "Shanghai's Youth", to which other problems such'as the "Outside Roads" and the "Shanghai Mind" were subsidiary. Mr.
Cassels might have added that ne and his associates in the Boy Scout movement here were really helping to solve all three problems bby one stroke of social endeavour. They were giving the "Shanghai Mina" an opportunity to escape t the free alr of the "Outside Rowds by encouraging the young men-tobe of this hemmed-in urban expanse to embrace the comradely mysteries of scout-craft, which essentially brought them into tunren with humanity and nature Itself. Sir John Brenan forcibly brought out the valuable message which the Scout' movement had for Shanghai's youth ax for the youths of other cities of even less importance. He also showed how the Shanghai Boy Scout or Girl Guide can command advantages denied to him or her elsewhere, The contact with different nationalities contact which is consistent and art of everyday life—helps the Scout or Guide enormously to appreciate the basic universality of the Scout's creed and to bring those proper virtues of patriotism and racial self-respect into decent focus. Sir John Brenan pointed out that, in Shanghai, Scouts could Understanding of other nationally ties and' that friendly tolerance of views and. customs other than their own which is ax important
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