1958 Bulletin No 4 The Boy Scouts Association Hong Kong Branch

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I wao vis⒒ ed by two scouts the otheF day,and I was par山 cularI夕 pleased pohteness。 Not that s0outs by their ・

are ever impolite when they visit me,

but these two lads were

oughtfulness and unsel£ ishness which is the ossenc0 of real cρ urtesy from the

example they have before theⅡ 1 in o11r ˇ conduct as scouters.

genuinely I Ⅵ厂 as not so pleased to learn in

conCθ rned at taking up ti1ue, a1f)d they

proved their concθ rn by thθ ir

business as briefly

explaining

as

the last month δr so that some of our sea scout Groups no longθ r have

possiole。

When they lef1 they 血adθ a point o£ thanking me, although the advice I had givon then1 was not exaCdy in hne 访ith w讯 h what they themselves had ψantOd when they came to see me。 Ih the Ju「 e issue of“ The scouter∵

thero is 巴n 皮ccount of how a oupporter

of thO Movemont was so pleasedˉ whh thg genuine pohteness of the scouts 访ho v饴 ⒒ed her du⒒ ng Bob a Job week that she more than doubled her usual subscription。 courtesy does not consist in just not being rude, it does not

serviceable boats, despite the fact that

they launched n0w boats with a great ‘ ‘ spIash” only a few二 years a愆 o.I am not suggesting that only sea scouts are guⅡ ty ih this respect, for I am sure that, if I searched ar。 und, I Ⅱ亠 ight find mahy 查roups who have e又 pensive equipment which is no longer serviCeable because of n。 t being prop?

Can it be that some

eFly cared for。

of our gr° ups are given equipment too

all the oohte phrases of any language。 It is a m五tter of active c0nsidθ ration

easny? Perhaps if w。 alwhy§ insisted on our boys working for the equipment they need, the∶ ∶血ight take greater so too wherever posβ ible carθ of1t。 it is bettθ r for equipment t° b0long to

for the feehngs and the comfort of

the Patr° l rathρ r tha△ 1be Tro0o, for

Io this hurried ahd thought1ess age many people do not appθ ar to have any rnanners at a1l。 All our scouts can repeat “A sco讧 t is Courteous∵ but they will Only learn that true thˉ

in this way thore`is a better chq卩 cθ 0f tho boys taking a personal interest ‘ in its carθ 。】A scout is thii壬 ty” does

consist1η

erely in knowing and ushg

others。

,

凵勰

not just mean that he puts the odd dollar into a savings Bank。 We scoutˉ

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