The Place of Scouting in a Modern Society
By THE CHIEF SCOUT THE OUTLOOK I have just received a request to bring to the notice of all Scouts an Of course I know that some of you were sending in your stamps to appeal which is being made for funds for the Trans-Antarctic other organisations before this was suggested. If you were, then Expedition of 1955-58. As you have no doubt read in the papers, please don’t change, but I would like particularly to impress on the this expedition, to be led by Dr. Fuchs, intends to cross this last Colonial Territories that although the stamps they receive with their great unexplored Continent from sea to sea. It is a great adventure regular mail may not appear of any very great value to them, there which will thrill every Scout and rouse memories of Captain Scott are lots of boys at home and in other parts of the world who collect and Edward Wilson and others of his gallant band, whose names stamps and are willing to pay for them. I do hope you will help Dan will for ever be associated with the Antarctic. And we in Scouting Spry as much as you possibly can. The money is needed and the must never forget what a thrill it was to all connected with the more we collect the more we can do to help those countries where Movement when they heard that Scout Marr of Aberdeen was to Scouting is still struggling. accompany Shackleton on one of his expeditions. Then, too, for many years Scouts everywhere derived inspiration from our Sea I paid a visit, since my last “Outlook,” to Cleckheaton in West Scout Headquarters ship Discovery, and although she is no longer in Yorkshire, to present the prizes at the Whiteliffe Mount A Grammar our possession we shall never forget our connection with her and her School which is, I believe, unique, in that it was founded on public connection with the Antarctic in which so much of her life was subscription in 1908.
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