THE KING AND HIS CAMP [To the Editor of THE
SPECTATOR]
Sia,—May I make a comment on your admirable article on the " King and his Camp " ? You say that the inspiration came 77 years ago when the then Duke of York watched a football match between public school boys and boys from the coalfields of South Wales.
Thirty years ago General Baden-Powell held a camp on Brownsea Island, composed of equal numbers of boys of these same two kinds. There he tried out his idea of Scouting for Boys. The point I wish to make is that the Scout Movement stands for the bridging of the social gulf not only in a yearly week's camp, but all the year round in the work of the Scout Troops. Nor does this work stop at boys, but is carried on into manhood in the Rover Crews, and in the co-operation of Scoutmasters. The fourth Scout Law is " A Scout is a friend to all, and a brother to every other Scout, no matter to what social class the other belongs."—Yours, &c., H. S.
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