27 April 1910: General Baden-Powell deals with objections about his organisation’s directionMajor General Sir R.
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S. Baden-Powell visited Liverpool yesterday in connection with the organisation of the Boy Scouts. Addressing a large meeting of scoutmasters,military men, clergymen, or others in sympathy with the Boy Scouts,he said the movement had grown up of itself at such a tremendous pace as to surprise everybody connected with it, and none more than himself.
It needed careful direction whether it was to become a permanent institution with a really wide influence over the lads, or which he thought was what was wanted. They must decentralise authority and administration as much as possible,and space it in the hands of capable local councils and committees. Let the officers be responsible to their own authority for their work, and the movement with increased vitality would be able to adapt itself all the better to different local conditions as they arose.
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