London dinner last month, Mir, Her~ bert Morrison, the leader of the Labour majority in the London Coun: ty Council, paid a tribute to the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides movement for 4is Beneficent influence onthe _adflescent boy and girl. Mr. Morrison was mainly concerned to plead for Volunteers to assist in the work of the children's care committees which perform such valuable auxiliary ser vices to the elementary schools. The jeare committee workers numbered 8,000 in London but that figure was small in comparison with the total the school population of the met~ ropolis—over $00,000. There still mained scope for the labours of volunteers who could help the young people in the diiflcult period of faure een to eighteen years, Mr. Morriison appealed: for ® number, more of cheerful senible" persons by. whove ald entrance fo. tne. Seovts, Guides, and football teama. can be effected and. by whose encouragement the awakening desire for more knowledge and. skill cane Overwhelmed may. be with the experience of "industrial fe," which different from school life where It Is in this spirit that the leaders of the movement here have lately appealed $9 the community for active support of the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides to enable those organizations more freely to develop their practical attention to the need of the youth of Shanghai
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