E X PLANATION OF F RONTISPI E C E

T h is p i t c u e c
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h art o f yo u r v oyage to s u c ce s s s h o ws s om e
of bi gg
th e er r o k
h v t lo k t fc s t h a t yo u a e o o ou or .

T h y m y loom up d k b t d t f g t t h t th un y
e a ar ,
u on
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or e a e s n
sp t f w hi h y
o or i m i g li b y d t h m i f y u g t
c o u are a n es e on e , so o e
ro d t h m th y h v g t t h i b i gh t i d t
un e e a e o e r r s e oo .

Y u w ill fi d i t i f o l y y d t l t yo lf b i d nt ’
o n n ou on e u rs e e c arr e o o
th m b t
e vi g t
, y o l f wi l y p t t h m
u na a e u rs e se as e .

By thi I m tw
s o m fo t i g t h i g
e an o c r n n s .

Th i b i gh t i d t th d k t k ! d t h i
ere s a r s e o e ar es ro c an ere s a
re w d f ar b i g ti v i wo ki g yo w
or e n ac i t d
e n r n ur o n s u c ce ss n s ea
o f p i v l y d i f ti g t
ass e —
i yug i r h tn y
o ru n o a n c a ra c e r as ou

ro d un h o k d y g i y o g l o f H pp i
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T O S U C C E S S
B OO K OF L I FE S P ORT
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P O WE LL OF
GILWELL
WI T H 60 I L L U S T RA T I O N S BY T HE A U THO R

A N EW E D I TI O N
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MA RI T R T RI AI
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DE AN D P N ED m G EA B T N BY

P U R N ELL AN D SON S, P A UL ON ( S OM E R SE ) AN D L o s oo s
 C O N TE N TS
P A GE
P R E F AC E
H OW TO BE HAPPY —
TH O UG H R I C H OR
P OO R
ROC KS : YO U AR E L I KE LY TO BUMP O N
I . HO R SE S
II . WI N E
III: WO M E N
IV . C UC K OO S AND HU M BUG S
V . I R R E LI G I O N

S UMMAR Y
R OV E R I N G
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AN OTHE R E d i t i on P
Well I AM glad that there Shoul d b e this further deman d
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for the book .

As I said in my former preface i t was Wi th a fee ling

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of great thankfulness that I received testimony that the

b ook had been foun d helpful by so very many .

I only hope that this fresh edition may prove equally

so especially S ince two things have developed themselves
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in Ro vering S ince the book first appeared .

One is the Rover Branch of Scout i ng which after steady, ,

evolution has now established i tself on a sound an d per

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man ent foot ing This has necessitated the t e casting of

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the final chapter dealing with Organisation and Rules

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in accordance with suggestions received from the Rover

Scouts themselves .

The second result has b een the adoption of Rovering

by the Scouts of other nations to an extent wh ich already
supplies the nucleus of a World Brotherhood of young -

men working under a common ideal of Service and under ,

a common bond of F riendship and Understanding .

This to my mind is a definite step forward in the

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direction for which we all aim viz the promotion of God s
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Kin gdom of Peace on E arth and Goodwill among m en .

B ADE N POWE LL
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P AX H I LL .

S ept 1 9 3 0
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 P R E FAC E

THI S gives you an outline of what the b ook i s ab out

an d of what is meant by Success .

How To B E HA PP Y P THOU G H —
RI C H OR OOR .

A o t i p i li k th vo y g o f li f
c an e r s e e a e e .

A o l d u o gh t t h n d p iloti g h int
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n n u o a on n s.
Th o l y t u S
e n i H p pi
r e u c c es s s a nes s .

Tw t po to H pp i
s e s : T k i g li f a ag m n ess ar e a n e s a a e
d g i vi gan t Lov n ou e .

Th B m e ur x m p l f h ppy p o p l
es e are an e a e o a a e e .

H pp i a i tmn es s pl ns not h o t om o f w l t h
ere e as u re or e u c e ea .

I t i th s l t o f t i v wo k t h t h n t h p i v
e re s u ac e r ra er a e as s e
j oym t o f p l u
en en e as re .

Yo d p d n y o u wn i d i vi d u l ff o t i n
u r s u c c es s e en s o r o n a e r
th vo y g of li f
e a e e,

A d th n v id of
e t in d
a o g o Ro k
an c e c er a an er us c s .

S lf d e ti-
e i o ti u t i on f wh t y u h v l n d
u ca on , n c n n a o a o a e e ar e
t h ol i n
a sc y o , s e ce ss ar .

G o f o w d wi t h o fidr ar c n e n ce .

P dd l y ou wn
a e o ! r o c an e

WHA O H R F E LL WS HA V S AI D O N TH S U J E T
T T E O E E B C .

S NG
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B K
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OO S RE D
To A .
 HOW TO BE H AP P Y THO UGH R I CH
—OR P OOR
HIS Preface explains the O b j ect of the book .

THE V OY AGE L I FE OF .

I was once caught in a g al e when paddling

in a birch bark canoe across a lake in Upper C anada It
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was a pretty exciting experience while it lasted but well ,

wo rth while .

We had voyaged al ong rivers and streams sometimes in ,

the smooth sometimes through the rapids but always

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amid the ever changing glories of forest scenery

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It was a new experience to come out of our stream on to

the wider expanse of the lake and after starting out in ,

sunshine to find ourselves presently under a darkening sky

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i nvolved in a rising gal e and a choppy sea .

The frail little canoe which before we had merely looked

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upon as a vehicle for carrying us along the river was now ,

our one hope of life If she Shipped a sea or if Sh e touched

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a s n ag ( and there were plenty of them about ) we were

done for .

Our paddle i nstead of being looked on as a mere propeller

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became our one means for dodging the attacks of waves and
of keeping us going All depended on the handling of
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that one implement .

In a four hour run across an open bay you will em

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counter over a thousand waves no two of which are alike , ,

and any one of which can fill you up only too easily if it ,
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is not correctly met writes Stewart E White in that
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delightful book of his The F orest ! and he proceeds to

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tell you exactly how you deal with them .

With the sea over one bow you must paddle on the
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leeward side When the canoe mounts a wave you must
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allow the crest to throw the bow off a trifl e but the moment ,

you start down the other Slope you must twist your paddle
s harply to regain the direction of your course .

The careening tendency of this twist you mu s t counter

act by a corresponding twist of your body in the other
direction Then the hollow will allow you two or three
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strokes wherewith to assure a little progre s s The double .

twist at the very crest of the wave mu s t be very delicately

performed or you will ship wat er the whole length of your
craft .

With the sea abeam you must paddle straight a ead h .

The adj ustment is to be accomplished entirely by the poise

of the body You must prevent the capsize of your canoe
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when clinging to the an gle of a wave by leaning to one side .

The crucial moment of course i s that during which , ,

the peak of the wave slips under you In case of a breaking .

comber thrust the flap of your paddle d eep in the water

to prevent an upset and lean well to leeward thus pre
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senting the side and half the bottom of the canoe to the
shock of water .

Your recovery must be instant however If you .

lean a second too l ong over you go , .

Jumpy work !
The author goes on to tell successively in similar detail , ,

how to deal with a sea coming dead ahead from a quarter ,

or from dead as tem .

In every case all depends on your concentrated atten

tion pluck and activi ty The slightest slackness and down
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you go But the contest has its compensation

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ably nothing can more effectively wake you up to the

last fibre of your physic al intellectual and nervous bein g , .

You are filled with an exhilaration E very muscle s trung .

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tight an swers immediately and accurately to the slightest

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hint You quiver all over with re s trained energy Your

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mind thrusts behind you the problem of the last wave as

soon as solved and leaps with insistent eagerness to the
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next It is a species of intoxication You personify each

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wave you gr apple with it as with a personal adversary

you exul t as beaten and broken it hisses away to lee
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ward Go it you son of a gun you shout Ah you ’

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would woul d you P think you can do you ?

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the roar an d the rush of wind and water you crouch like
a boxer on the defence part ying the blows but ready at
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the slightest opening to gain a stroke or two of the paddle .

You are too busily engaged in slaughtering waves to con

si der your rate of progress T he fact that sl owly you are
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P D DL
A E Y O UR WAY THR O U GH IT W I TH H E A D , E
H A R T AN D S I N EW .

pull ing up on your obj ective point does not occur to you
until you are within a few hundred yards of it Then .

don t relax your e fforts ! the waves to be encountered i n

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the last hundred yards are exactly as dangerous as those

you dodge four miles from S hore .

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Yes and it is j ust the same wi th a b usy li fe .

THE I N TE N T I ON OF T HI S B OO K .

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The whole thing the early voyage through the easy
running stream and then coming out on to the broad lake
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the arising of di ffi culties the succession of waves and rocks

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onl y avoided by carefu l piloting the tri umph of over ,

coming the dan gers the successful sliding into a sheltered

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lan di ng place the happy camp fire and the sleep of tired
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men at night is j ust what a man goes through in life but

too often he gets swamped among the di fficulties or tempta
tions on the rough waters mainly becau s e he has not been
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warned what to expect and how to de al with them .

I have quoted a few of Stewart White s practical hints ’

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in the foll owi ng pages to offer you similar p i loting h i nts
from my own experiences of dealing with the di fferent “

snags and waves that you are likely to meet with i n

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Among these rocks and breakers are those that can be

l abelled ”in the terms of the old toast Horses Wine and , ,

Women with the addition of C uckoos and C ant You

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are bound to come across most of them in your time In .

the following C hapters I propose to Show you there are good

as well as dangerous points about these rocks and also how ,

by rovering you may not only get round them b ut ,

als o derive advan t age and make your way to success .

H AND I N G ON A DVIC E .

It al ways seems to me so odd that when a man di es he

takes out with him all the knowledge that he has got in
his lifetime whilst sowing his wild oats or winning successes .

And he leaves his sons or younger brothers to go through

all the work of learning it over again from their own ex
i Why can t he pass it on so that they start with
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p er en c e .

his amount of knowledge to the good to begin with and so ,

get on to a higher scale of e fficiency and sense right away

It Is with that sort of idea in my mind that I feel induced
to j ot down a few of the di fficulties that I have come across
in my time and tell how I have found it best to deal with
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them I don t say how I dealt with them

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because ,

sometimes I went the wrong way to work but I saw ,

afterwards through my own mistakes what I ought to have

done .

So this b ook i s not in tended for experienced men to

read I warn them off It is for you young men that I
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write you who have got the sense to look ahead anxious
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to see where you are going and what you are to do in life .

And I must say I think that you of the new generation are
a bit more level headed in this di rection than your prede
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cess ors in the past You don t propose to be the goslings ’

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described by B B Val entin e in the negro b all ad in 013

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M arster
D ere is so me w h at
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se mbl es go sli n s i n d e w ay d ey m arc
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h b hi e n
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De o n es w at h g
o es b f e o d e m d o h d ey d o n
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n o w w ar e k’
h dy gi ’
s o n
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g k f th g d
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s t ep p i n i n d e de
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J es o o se -
t ra c s o a er oes e so n ,

An h e
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ne v d er oes do n o thi n
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d at h i s d ddy di d t d
a n
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on e .
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I suggest that we c al l this b ook Rovering to Success .

You will see the fur ther reason for the term i n the last
chapter .

By Roveri ng I don t mean aimless wandering I me an

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finding your way by pleasant paths with a definite obj ect

i n view and having an idea of the di fficulti es and d angers
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you are likely to meet with by the way .

You must expect a good many of these snags .

I have myself tasted some of the bitters and many of

the sweets of life i n most parts of the world so you need
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not suppose that I am t al king entirely through my hat i n

putting these ideas before you .

Life woul d pall if i t were all sugar salt i s bitter i f taken

by itself b ut when tasted as part of the dish i t savours ,

the meat . Di ffi culties are the salt of life .

Goethe s mother gave a good principle for life when Sh e

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said ,I seek no thorns and I catch the small j oys If the .

door i s low I stoop If I can remove the stone out of my

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way I do so If it is too heavy I go round it

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In other words Sh e didn t butt in looking for trouble

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b ut took things as they came and made the best of them .

And that i s the way to reach success .

THE O N LY T RU E S UC C E SS Is HAP P I NE S S .

What is success ?
Top of the tree Ri ches ? Positi on ? Power ?
Not a bit of it !
These and many other i deas wi ll natur al ly occur to
your mind They are what are generall y preached as
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success and also they generally mean overreaching some

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o ther fellows and S howing that you are better than they
are in one line or another In other words gai n ing some.
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thing at another s expense ’

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That is not my idea of success .

My belief is that we were put i nto th i s world of wonders

an d beauty with a special ability to appreciate them i n ,

some cases to have the fun of taking a h an d in developing

them and al so in being able to help other people i nstead
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of overreaching them and through it all to enj oy li fe that

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IS , TO B E HAP P Y .

That i s what I count as success to ,

be happy . But
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Happiness i s not merely p ass i ve ! that is you d on t get i t ,
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b y sitting down to receive it ! that would b e a smaller

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thing pleasure .

But we are given arms and legs and brains and ambi
tions with which to be acti ve ! an d it is the active that
counts more than the passi ve in gaining true Happiness .

Two K E YS To H AP P I N E S S .

The rich man has his limitat i ons He may have two .

or three houses an d dozens of rooms in each but he can ,

only occupy one of these in turn S ince he onl y has one ,

b ody .

He is no b etter off than the poorest in that way He .

may look at and admire the s unset enj oy the sunshine or , ,

th e view but the poor man can do that j ust as fully

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If the poorer man has the sense to do two things in life

he can enj oy i t j ust as we ll as th e m illi onaire and probably ,

better .

The first is
too s eri ous ice the b es t of

Life is
the greatest of all games b ut there is the danger of treating
i t as a trivi al game The C hief end i s to win through
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honourably and splendidl y ”

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The second is :

Love wi th a capit al L I don t me an falling in love and ’

s o on I mean the use of the kindl y spirit which you Show

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when you do good turns to other people when you are kind ,

and sympathetic and when you S how gratitude to others for

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kindness done to you That is Good will And Good will

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is God s will ’
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A H AP P Y P E OP LE .

The happiest people I know as a nation ar e the Burmese

their brightness and cheeriness are proverbi al Kindness .

to anim al s is one of their greatest weaknesses no

Burmese will kill an animal even if it i s to put it out of pain .

He will not eat flesh ! and he generally treats animals

almost as pets Men women and chil dr en all seem to
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was there where they ch ose to do g o od for others in their ,

own home .

If you think out and apply the i nner me aning of the

legend it is a help to finding happiness within your reach
when you thought it was in the moon .

Lots of fell ows look on their work as drudgery and even ,

their daily j ourney to and from their work as a grind .

And they keep looking forward to their holidays as the

time when they will be havin g some real enj oyment Too .

often when the holi day comes it is rainy and cold or ,

they ve got the fiu and the long looked for outing turn s
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out a frost .

The truth i s it i s no use putting off happiness for som e

future day but the way is to enj oy your life all the time
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The wise man does not bank only on a vague Heaven in

the dim future He re al ises that he can make his own
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Heaven for himself here in th i s world and now ! and that

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the better Heaven he makes now the b etter is he building ,

for the future So eventually he w ill enter into the true

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Heaven prepared for h i m the haven of rest and peace and

th an ksgivmg .

P LE AS U RE I S N OT H AP P I N E S S
Many people th ink that pleasure i s the same thing
as happin ess That s where they take the wr ong
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turning .

Pleasure i s too often only a distract i on You may take .

pleasure in looking at a football match or a play or in ,

reading a good story or i n criticising your neighbours or

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in over eating or getting drunk But the e ffect is only

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temp orary it lasts but for a time Indeed in some c ases .

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the reaction is anything b ut pleas urable there is the
hea dache next morning !
Happiness is another thing i t st i cks by you and fills ,

your life You find that Heaven is not j ust a vague some
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thing somewhere up in the sky but is right here in thi s ,

world in your own heart and surroundings

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Ar nold Bennett defines happin ess as satisfact i on after

full honest e ffort .

But there is more in happiness than that F or one thing

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as he admits himself when he says that almost any

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marriage is
better th an no marriage there is intens e ,

happiness in the loving comradeship of a mate an d th e

e ager trusting companionship of your C hildr en .

The J ate Sir Ernest C assel who most people woul d

point to as a success in life confessed to failure i n the ,

end He had gained great riches and power and position

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and had achieved successes beyond the ordinary in his

commerci al industri al and sporting activities But at .

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the end of his life he admitted that the great thing happi
ness — was missing He was as he put it a lonely man
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Most people he said put too much belief in the

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theory that we al th brings happiness Perhaps I b eing .

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well to do may be entitled to say that i t is not so The

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thi ngs that a re mos t worth havi ng are the thi ngs that money
cannot b ay .

There is at an y rate S ome comfort and encouragement

i n that remark for the m an who is poor .

SO there is al so in the C ingalese proverb which says , ,

He who is happy is ri ch but i t does not foll ow that he,

who i s rich is happy ”

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THE P OO R R I C H .

My wife and I did a queer k i nd of trip once We went .

for a walking tour on the edge of the Sahara Desert where

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it breaks up into the arid stony wil derness of the Aures

Mountains We had with us our two mules to carry our
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camp equipment and two armed Arabs as gui des and

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guards .

In the course of our j ourney we crossed the road made

b y the French which runs to the desert town of Biskra and ,

here in place of the usual strings of camels meandering

al ong we saw motor cars tearing across the plain
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I nside were tourists in goggles and veils being rushed

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to their destination the big hotel in Biskra without
kn owing anything of the j oys of tramping it of finding ,

your own food ( even to the spotting of tiny cracks in the

soil which told of tru ffles underneath) and cooking it in
the Open an d bedding down at night under the stars .

As we saw them with one i mpulse we both ej aculated

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Poor millionaires
Yes if you have riches you m i ss a terrible l ot of fun
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A C T IVE W ORK B R I N GS H AP P I N E S S .

But even the happiness of a home would not ent irely

fill the bill becau s e it does not extend su ffi ciently far beyond
self an d therefore risks being selfishness And selfishness .

is the root of discontent .

True happi n ess is like radium It is a form of love that

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i ncreases in proportion to the amount that it gives out ,

and that is where happiness comes within reach of every

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one even the very poorest .

The Rev C anon Mitchell wrote Don t ask God to ’

make you happy ask Him to make you reasonably us eful

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and I think I really think that happiness
will then come of i ts own
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accord .

Happiness seems to me
partly passive but largely
active .

Pas sive becau s e the appre ,

ci ati o n of the beauties of

nature of the glory of the ,

sunset of the m aj esty of the

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mountains of the wonders ,

of a n imal life of the scent ,

of the camp fire coupled -

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with the j oy of a happy

4 home produce a sense ,

of gratitude to the
M OT I O A S C O U T I S AC TIVE I N
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C reator that can only be
D O I NG G O O D N O T PA S S IVE I N
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s at lS fied by S O m e active
B E I N G G O OD
expression of it ! the
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e ffort to be helpful to others largely supplies the want .

It is th e active doing of good that counts .

A j oyful home coupled with ability to serve others

gives the best happiness .

A boy was brought up before the bench as bei ng i n ,

corrigible he urged as his excuse that it was God s fault ’

If God didn t want me to be had He would save me

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and make me good
It reminds me of one of the Boer commanders w
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h o when ,

he was captu red by our troop s inveighed bitterly against

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Pre sident Kruger for not having supplied him with

sufficient arti llery .
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He said that when he asked for it the Presi dent gave

him the characteristic reply If God wants us to win the
war we shall win it whether we have artillery or not .

To this he had replied That is al l very well God h as

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gi ven you a stomach with which to enj oy roast goo s e but ,

He expects you to do the plucking and cook ing of that

goo s e for yours elf .

There is a truth underlyi ng this God has given us i n .

this world all that i s needed to make life enj oyable but it ,

rests with us to make the most of i t or to make a mess of it .

But we only have a short time to live and it is essential , ,

therefore to do things that are worth while an d to do them

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now One step is not to b e content to have your life and

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ideas wholly wrapped up i n bricks and mortar trade and ,

politics money making and other m an made transient

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things that do not matter .

But look round and learn as much as you can of the

wonders of nature see all you can of the world and its varied
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beauties and the interests that God o ffers you You will .

soon realise which are worth whil e and which are not to a
life of happiness .

In my own case I had for years past said to myself In ,

three years t i me I shall be dead I must therefore get

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this and that in shape an d fin ished or it will be too late , .

This habit has led me on to hustle and get th i ngs done

which might otherwise have been put off till to morrow -
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Incidentally and I am very thankful for i t i t led me to
visit various parts of the worl d without that fatal waiting
for a better opportunity .

In a sort of day dream I once saw my arrival after I

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had done with this life at the Gate and St Peter questioning
, .

me He said to me i n a ki ndly way

. And how did you ,

li ke Japan
Japan ? I l i ved i n England .

But what were you doing with all your time i n that ,

wonderful world with all i ts beauty spots and interesting

,

places put there for your edificati on Were you wasting

‘

your time that God had given you to use So I promptly

went to Japan .

Yes the thing that troubles very many m en at the end

,

of life is that only then do they see things in their right

proportion and too late they recognise that they have
,
22 ROVE RIN G TO SU CCE SS
wasted the ir time that they have b een doing things that
,

were not worth while .

PADDLE YO U R OWN C AN OE .

Th ere is a tendency for you as a young man starting

out into life to feel that you are but one of a crowd and so ,

can drift along with the rest and you will be all right like ,

the lady who when remonstrated with by her spiritual

,

adviser with the warning that her present life would lead
her to hell replied : Well other people have to bear it
, ,
.

So must I .

We ll that i s a rotten b ad tende ncy Rememb er you are

,
.
,

M M
QKLN G A H EAD IF Y OU LE T Y O UR
E LF E“D W
.

ROW E O TH R S , WI TH
G E T WR E C K E D
D KN GE R ,
’

S BE BY
«q ua -
w W It
it
“ m m W M W M M

MWA Y
A‘OHE
we ”
Y OU
I

.
M mW m

y ou You hav e your own life to live and if you want to

.
,

be successful if you want to be happy it is you who have

, ,

to gain it for yourself Nobody else can do it for you . .

When I was a youngster a popular song was Paddle your

”
own C anoe with the refrain
,

Th is was meant as givi ng gui dan ce to going through life

—and very good too .

In my picture of you you are paddli ng your canoe n ot , ,

rowing a boat .

The di fference is that i n the one you are looking ahead

HOW TO BE —
HAPPY THOUGH RI C H OR P OOR 23

an d sending yourself along all the time while in the other ,

you are not looking the way you are going but trust ing
to the steering of others and consequent ly you may b ump
,

i nto Snags before you know where you are .

Lots of fell ows try to row through life in that way Lots .

more prefer to sail passively and to be carried along by the

wind of luck or the current of chance ! it is easier than
—
rowing an d quite as fatal .

Give me the fellow who looks ahead and act i vely paddl es
—
his own c anoe i e shapes his own course
. . .

Paddle your own canoe ! don t rely upon other people ’

to row your boat . You are starting out on an adventurous

voyage from the stream of childhood along the river of ,

adolescence out across the ocean of manhood to the port

,

you want to reach .

You will meet with di fficulties an d dangers shoals and ,

storms on the way But without adventure life would be

.

deadly dull With careful piloting above board sailing

.
,
-
,

and cheery persistence there is no reas on why your voyage

,

sho ul d not be a complete success no matter how small ,

the stream i n which you make your start .

S E LF E D U C ATIO N I s N E C E SSARY
-
.

Remember that on leaving school you have not

educated fully to become a m an Mainly you have .

shown how to l earn .

If you want to win success you must now finish ,

education by educating yourself I suggest that .

should take three main directions viz ,

of your profession or trade .

To make yourself capab le as a future father of children .

for the responsibilities as a citizen an d leader of other

men .

When I left school I found that I was as i t were in , , a

dark room and the education I had been given was as a
,

lighted match which showed how dark the room was but ,

that a can dle was available for me to light with that match
and use for my future gu idance in the room .

But it was only one room in this world of many ro oms .

It is we ll to look into the other rooms that is into other ,

24 ROVE RIN G TO S UC CE SS
lin es li fe in
neighbouring centres or other countri e s
of ,

an d see how people live there .

Y ou may discover that though your own room seems

d ark and dismal there are ways of letting in more sunsh ine
,

an d better outlook i f you C hoose to use the m .

But in making your life a success in this way you will ,

be doing a bigger thing than bringing about your own

—
persona l happ iness you will b e doing somethi ng for th e
nation !
It may seem odd to you that one single fe ll ow and one ,

wh o i s not a big hug can help the nation , But it i s a .

fact a ll the same .

God made men to be men .

On the other hand civilisat i on wi th its t own life b uses , , ,

h ot and cold water laid on everything done for you

- -
, ,

tends to make men soft and feckless bei ngs .

That is what we want to get out of .

You often see it said that the Public School educat ion
which th e more well to do boys get is no good It I S good
- -
.
,

but not so much for what is taught in the C lass roo m as -

for what is learnt on the playing field and out of school -

.

A boy there learns that clean play and true sportsman

ship straight dealing and sense of hono ur are expected
, ,

of him by his comrades They discipline him Until he . .

has earned the right to make his voice heard he gets ,

very defin itely put in his place In other words h e is .

,

licked into Shape There is a considerable harden ing

.

process about it which is all good for him in the end .

In the old days the Spartans put their boys through a

very rigorous training i n hardness and endurance before
they were allowed to count themselves as men and so do ,

many savage tribes of the present day .

In C entral Africa in the South Sea Islands among the

, ,

aborigines of Australia one still sees it in full swing I

, .

have kno wn it too with the Zulus and Swazis and Matabele ,

where the training took the form of sending a boy out

alone into the bush when he arrived at the age of young
,

manhood in order to prove himself

,
.

He was painted white with bismuth which C o uld n ot be ,

washed off and wh i ch l asted for some weeks before it wore

off .

He was gi ven an assegai or short spear and that was ,

26 R OVE R IN G TO S U CCE SS
But th i s I can te ll you for your comfort that I have been ,

up against a good many ugly looking rocks in my time -

,

but in every case I have found that as one got round

there was a bright Si de to them .

Over and over again I have had something bad in pro

spect but when I have gone i nto it the results have bee n
,

very much better than I expected .

This has happened so o ften that now I rather welc ome

a b lack outlook as I feel certain that it is going to turn
,

out much better than i t appears at first sight .

I have got a little totem hanging over my wri ting tabl e -

.

I have it there because it is an inspiring little figure .

It helps to tune one up when there s an ugly or a di fficul t ’

j ob on hand .

When we were a ri ch country an d used to have real

sovereigns to spend that same figure was to be seen there
,
.

It is a man on a horse tackling an ugly look ing dragon

,
-
.

St George is his name

. .

I have got a lot of drawings both ancient and modern , ,

of him .

There is one I like better than the rest not because ,

it is a better picture for it isn t ! but because in it St

,
’
.

—
George is shown with a devil of a grin on h e is tackling
the dragon wi th a smile C heerily and he means to win
,

.
, ,

An d that is the way to tackle any di fficulty however ugly

i t may look .

So don t be content merely to defend yourself and to

’

ward off the worst of what you may be facing but go at ,

it with a determination to defeat it and to get advantage

out of it some old how .

To sum up this intro duct i on to my subj ect I can t do ’

better than quote a paragraph from the Clari on written ,

by R Blatchford :
.

I say that i n human sympathy and in human servi ce

wil l man find the most perfect and end uring happiness .

And to sympathise wi th mankind and serve them you must

be j ust an d not selfish All the warfar e all the crime all
.
, ,

the oppression all that is hideous and hateful and accursed

, ,

comes from the unj ust deeds of selfish men All the .

delights an d the ble s sings of ar t of poetry of literat ure , , ,

of friendshi p of peace and of love are contributed by

, ,
HOW —
T o BE HA PP Y THO UGH RI C H OR POOR 2 7
—
those who serve and love their fellow creatures b y the -

sages and the poets and the painters by the fai thful
, , ,

friends and loving parents and husbands and l es

, , ,
.

A P O RTA GE . 6,
Hum p yo ur o wn p ack,
as a man .

WHAT OTH E R F E LLOWS HAVE SAID

Th e best way to succeed i n this world is to act on the
advice you give to others ( Anon ) ( Sounds rather l ike
‘

a hit at myself ! )
The great thing i n the world Is not so much where we
stand as in what direction we are moving ( Holmes) .

Success does not depend so much upon external help as

on self reliance ( Ab raham L i ncoln)
-
.

Be not a shrub but a cedar i n your generation ( S i r Thomas

B rown e) .

We are n ot what we think we are but what we think , ,

we are ( A n on )
The world is so full of a number of things ,

I m sure we Should all be happy as kings

’
.

( R L S teven s on
) . . .
28 ROVE RIN G TO SUC CE SS
He who is happy is rich but it does not fo llow that he ,

who is rich is happy ( C i ngales e P roverb ) .

Hump your own Pack ( C anadi an say i ng) .

Happiness is more than a grin on one s face it is the ’

glory in one s heart It is the consciousness that one s

’
.
’

machinery is working perfectly at the j ob for wh ich it was

designed ( R P a rlette) . .

PADDLE YOUR OWN C ANO E

F or a man t i s absurd to be one of a herd

’
,

Nee di ng others to pull him through !

If he s got the right grit he will do his own bit
’

And paddl e his own canoe .

He ll look without dread at the snags on ahead

’

Wine Women and Highbrows too !

,

He won t run aground but will work his way round

’

With a smile in hi s own c anoe , .

C horus : So love your neighbour as yourself

As the world you go travelling through ,

And never sit down with a tear or a frown ,

But pad dl e your own canoe .

! P a rody]

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Stoughton ) 6d , 23 . .

F ri endshi and Ha p
i n ess pp
Arnold Bennett ( Hodder .

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. i , . .

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. . . .
R O C K N U MB E R ON E

HO RSE S
 H ORS ES

i
THE d ark s d e o t s R o c i s t h e lo afin g and f hi k b tti
e n g at race s
an d f b ll
oot a an d r z e figh ti n g , pi -
.

Th e b g
ri h t s d e t h e i
a c t ve e n o m e n t o i j y f true s po r t an d

ho bbies i y
a n d e a rn n g
,
ou r o wn i v n l i g .

S PORT A D FA L E S P
N S O RT .

Ho th i v l
rs e s , d th i h m e r a ue an e r ar .

B x i g i p o t p i figh ti g i m o y g bbi g
o n s s r r z e- n s ne -
ru n
—
.
,

F oo t b ll g ad g m f
, t h a p l y b
ran t b d f a e or e a e rs , u a or

o l k n oo e rs .

M o y g bbi g I k lli g t u
ne -
ru
p o t n s i n r e s r .

H lp d by P
e e d v ti m t re s s a er se en .

Th h m o f b tt i g
e ar e n .

Pl yi g th g m i b tt t h n p yi ng f th g m
a n e a e s e er a a or e a e .

WHA Y UT O D I N EADC AN o ST

D t lo f 1
.

’
on a

G i o f nl t p t
o r c ean , ru e s or .

T k p h bbi
a e u o es .

E y
a rn w li vi g i t d o f h
o ur o i g i t h oo you
n n ns ea c an c n ,
C se r

p f i o w ll ro e s s n e .

L e ar n p ibili t y re s o ns .

B th i fty i g oo d tim
D o vi f o t h
e r n e .

s er d y u will g t ll th
ce or j o ym n t ers , an o e a e en e

y o u w an t .

HORS E S EN E S .

K EE P S M L N G I I

B K
.

OO S R ToD EA .
 MY HOR S E C O MRADE S
was not bad at heart He was a great fri end
IC K .

of mine and I taught him lots of little tricks

,
.

F or one thing he would stand for hours without

,

moving away i f I l eft him with orders to stop

there On one occasion on the North West F rontier of
.
,
-

India this was j olly useful to me One of the hors es of

, .

my squadron had broken away from the camp in the

night and disappeared This horse A44 was one of the
.
, ,

best i n the regiment ,

and was ridden by the

regimental S e r g e a n t -

maj or so everybody
,

was in a great stew

about his disappear
ance especially the
,

colonel .

So I started off on
Dick to try and find
him . It had been
raining and snowing
al l night so I soon ,

found his tracks and

followed them some ,

times in mud some ,

times i n snow They .

led me off into wild

country amon g th e
mountains o ften over ,

IC K
rocky stony ground D
where tracking was
.

most di ffi cult .

After some hours of work and after going over some ,

31
3 2 R OVE R IN G TO SU C CE SS
miles of country the tracks led straight up a mounta in ,

where it was much easier for me to go on foot So I got .

o ff Dick and told him to wait there and o ff I went scramb ,

ling up the rocks and gullies until at last I was rewarded by ,

finding Old A44 shivering with cold b l eeding from m an y

, ,

cuts having evident ly been terrified out of his life It

, .

took a long time to get him down the mountain s ide again -
,

b ut when at last we reached the foot there was Dick

—
,

calmly awaiting us and I was soon riding home i n triumph ,

l eading my prize
—
.

Poor A44 never got over i t h e was never the same

horse again and at last got a bad fever and died But
, .

the colonel was very pleased with what Dick and I had
—
done in getting him back and i t was j o lly l ucky for me
l ater on .

It was in this way .

Dick was my first C harger That i s al though he ,

was my own property I was not all owed to us e him for ,

any purpose except for riding on parade or j ust quiet riding

about I must not drive him in harness or ride him hunting
.
, .

Well one day when I was riding him near our camp
, ,

I saw a fine wild boar scampering across the fields This .

was too much for me I called to my Indian groom t o .

hand me my spear and off I went on Dick forgetting all , ,

rules and orders to catch that pig After a great gallop , .

we got close up to him and I reached forward to lunge the ,

spear into him when Dick stopped short and stood up on

,

end He very nearly sent me flying to the ground by

.

doing so The reas on for this was that among other

.

tricks I had taught him was that whenever I made a low

bow to anybody he was to re ar up on his hind legs and paw
the air So when I stooped over to stab the boar Dick
.
, ,

thought I was bowing and played his part accordingly ! ,

and s tood up .

The pig might easily have escaped us while Dick was

playing the ass but the pig was C lever and he said to
hims elf “ ,

Now 5 my time to kill those two so instead of

’
,

, ,

running away he turned and came for us .

As he rushed at us I prepared to receive him on my

S pear but as I had to lean over to do this up went Dick
,

again my spear missed and the boar got a good cut with
, ,

his tusks into Dick s hind legs fortun ately mi s sing his ’

,
34 R OVE RIN G T o SU C C E SS
They have been good fri ends to me whether campaigning , ,

huntin g playing polo or racing

, .

Racing is a truly attractive sport It stirs the b l ood to .

see those sp lendid animals the best of their breed trained , ,

to the minute putting forth all their powers to win under

,

the direction of masters of the art of race riding -

.

But like everything e lse watching races can pall on one ,

by constant repetition j ust as eating good roast beef

,

continual ly would pal l if there were not some salt to

savour it .

There are not many regul ar race goers who do not savour -

their racing by having a bit of money on the race In .

fact a fellow who attended meetings without betting would

,

be looked upon as a bit of an e ccentric .

It i s the chance of winning or l osing one s money ’

that supplies the constant attraction rather than S imple

admiration of the horse .

In fact a very considerab l e portion of the racing sports

,

men do not bother to attend the meetings but do their ,

betting comfortably in their own armchair and the tele

phone .

They thus make themselves the playthings of C hance

i f not the dupes of something worse They do no good .

—
to anyb ody unless it is the bookies .

P RI! E F I GHTI N G I S B E C OM I N G M O N E Y GRU B B I N G

- -
.

Akin to the so called national sport of horse raci ng

- -

comes that of boxing .

A good boxing competition gives one the Sight of fine

men in their prime trained to the ounce showing the
, ,

highest skill pluck and endurance in carrying out their

,

attack and defence under strict rules of fair play and

good temper .

I must confess however personally to having enj oyed

, ,

a boxing tournament of Boy Scouts far more than that

of a big and much advertised fight of champions at the
Albert Hall .

One was the re al sport ing e ffort for the sake of sport ,

the other being a money making scheme on a large scale -

.

In the Albert Hall case each of the performers received ,

a huge fee of some thousands of pound s for a few minutes ’

hard punching ( and a good de al of clinching) while the ,

 HORSES 35
onl ookers pai d heavily for the pri vil ege of seeing them do
so the man who really scored being the financial promoter
,

of the S how The s o called revi val of the n oble art i s

.
-

rather the awakening of pro

fiteers to the money that can
be made out of the pub lic
—
through a well advertised fight .

And if ever there was an hi s

torical example of this it was
the great fight in America b e
tween Dempsey an d C arpen
tier where umpteen thousan d
,

peop le paid umpteen

thousands of doll ars for
a few minutes display ’

of nothing very great in

the fistiC line while the
,

promoter Of l t made a B O X I NG GR AND EXE R C I S E I N

I TS E L F N OW U S E D A S A M O N E Y
.

handsome fortune after

M A K I NG D O DG E
, ,

deducting u m p t e e n
thousands of dollars
paid to the Press in advertising the show .

Th i s does not compare well with the good ol d days

when Tom Spring fought Jack Langan for the C hampionsh i p
belt of Great Britai n at Worcester i n 1 82 4 .

The fight ran to seventy seven rounds before Langan was

-
-

finally knocked out .

Some sport and not much money grubbing about i t !

,
-

FOOT B ALL G RAND G AME B UT

A ,

F ootbal l was for many years like cricket and boxing , ,

considered a partic ul arly clean sport This was before it .

became a professionals game ’

.

As an old football er myself I l ove the game as I expect , , ,

you do : you and I l ook U pon it as one of the finest

in the world There is nothing like it for giving he al th
.

and strength activity and pluck discipline and good

, ,

temper and above all the great lesson of playing the

, ,

game un selfish ly for your S ide and not for your own
glo rification .

A grand game ! and an exciting one to watch and for ,

this reason it has fallen into the C lutches of the profiteer .

3 6 ROVE RI N G T o SUCCE SS
C ompanies now run footb al l grounds buy an d pay the ,

players excite the public enth usiasm through the Press

, ,
”
and draw enormou s gates .

Instead of playing the game for themselves our young ,

”
men are sucked in with the
rest of the crowd to become
lookers on .

Looking on becomes tedious

without some of that salt of
which I have been talking in
reference to racing and so ,

betting becomes the feature of

the game .

You wil l see crowds

outside the gates not
bothering to go in to
even see the match so
PLAY D O N T L O O K ON
— ’
long as they can get the
latest news of its progress
.

and the variations in the bett ing Many more don t even .
’

trouble to go near the ground but do their football i n ,

comfort by betting on it from home .

And they call that sport !

MON E Y GRUBBING IS KILLIN G TRU E SPORT

-

Then there is card playing Nobody would think of

-
.

playing cards for the sake of playing It has to be for .

money .

Golf is fast being l owered i nto another means of money

grubbing and there are even S igns that cricket may foll ow
,

suit .

Professional runn ing and sculling have practic all y

gone under because men who provided the funds found they
”
could not get a straight run for their money .

The j ournal Cycli ng commenting on betting said

, ,

It is rampant at nearly every country cycling meeting .

The inevitable result is that the sport has become tainted

with discreditable practices .

Thus the look out for the future of our national sport
-

is generally bad .

Still i f betting and looking on give pleasure to the

,
 HORS E S 37
maj ori ty let them enj oy it It may bring pleasure and
,
.

distraction at the moment but it certainly cannot bring,

Happiness ! and therefore it is not time or money well

5 pent
.

I don t know why i t S hould be so but when you get

’

mixed up with horses honesty doesn t seem to have the

,

same val ue that it has elsewhere So be on your guard .

,

whether in betting or in buying a horse .

I can remember buying a horse from one honest seller ,

and he tol d me exactly its faults and its good point s ,

how much he had paid for it and that he was now C harging ,

me a profit on this b ecause he had since trained and

perfected the animal .

AS he had the best hands of any rider I know that ,

training was worth something ( I am talking of C olonel

Jabber C hi sh olme who was killed leading the C harge
,

at E landslaagte) So much so that after I had bought the

.
,

hors e at h is price and had ridden it I realised that it was ,

worth more to me than I had paid so in my turn I followed ,

his example and was honest too and I sent him a fur ther ,

C heque .

TAKE WARN I N G
You may say What does i t matter whether sport i s
,

clean or not so lo ng as one can have a flutter E verybody

does it It is human nature to gamb le and you can t al ter
.
,
’

human nature So why worry ?

.

I know there is sati s faction in winning whether by luck ,

or by study of form but personally I hate to see what used

,

to be true sport prostituted into a money making concern -

for a few profiteers who do it at the expense of the mass

of young fellows These are cunningly led on to become
.

gamblers while they are made to believe they are great

S port s men Under this camouflage a very big number
.

gets s ucked in to ruin AS one who has s een a good lot

.

of this humbug I only want to sound a warning to you .

It i s then your look out if you are fools enough to be

,
-

taken in .

As you get older you can j udge better for yourself

whether you need that form of distraction whe n so many
other good things ar e open to you .

Many a man has made himself rich through b ett ing ,

38 R OVE RIN G T o S U CC E SS
that i s b y b eing a b ookie or a moneylender but no m an ,

has ever done it to my knowledge by betting that is by

, , ,

being the dupe of the bookie or moneylender .

The book makers who have retired into opul ence on

-

what they have been pleased to call their earnings ,

have reall y done so because they traded on the fact that

most men are fools .

! That remi n ds me of an address I once gave on What

”
every woman knows the theme of ,

which was to indicate that she

knows that ninety per cent of men .

are fools and the rest are damn

fool s ]
So too at mi nor race meetings
, ,

much of the money of the gullible

public goes into the hands of those
who are i n league with masters of
their craf t among the j ockeys .

WHAT IS THE H ARM O F B E TT I N G ?

That i s a question you may
naturally ask Well to begin with
Y
.
, ,

apart from its eating like a di s ease

THE R E A L A N D O NL
into the Vi tals of true sport it is
W I NN E R
a fools game for the bettor b ecause
.
’

i t nearly al ways means throwing away money in the

end .

V ery few men if any ever made betting pay i n the l ong
, ,

run So unless you are very we ll off it is a dangerous

.
, ,

game .

The S ight of someone winning a p il e tempts a fellow to

C huck S logging and to try for a turn of luck it looks like
a new way for getting rich qui ckly but too often it proves ,

to be the way to get rapi dl y broke In al most any case

—
.
,

it breeds in you a nasty trait i n character cupidity The .

S O call ed sportsman wants to win for the sake of the money

-

he is going to get out of the other fellow Where cupidity .

comes in honesty goes out There is precious little of

, .

true sport about that greasy hankering after some other

fell ow s money
’
.

Loads of fellows have thought it was an easy way to

make money an d have plunged deeper than they could
,
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afford then has come the worse cri me an d they have then ,

had to ste al or embezzle their employers or other moneys ’

to pay their debts or have committed suicide to escape

,

the consequences .

That is the wretch ed story that one sees repeated over

and over ag ain in the papers but the warning is never ,

heeded by other young fools .

Here is a record comp iled of the results of betting l osses

for the twelve years previous to the war in London alone
Suicide or attempted suicide
E mbezzlement and thefts
Bankruptcies
It has been estimated that over 5 0 million po unds have
changed hands between book makers and their C lients in -

the United Kingdom in twelve months and that the large ,

percentage went to the bookies .

THE P OWE R OF A D VE RTI S E ME N T .

F or the unhe althy deve l opment of b ett i ng a certa in

section of the P re s s is largely to b l ame .

A newspaper can t ake the stand either of leading public

opinion on to right lines or of foll owing the taste of a
,

public and this may run on to wrong lines

, .

Unfortunately there are more who foll ow the public

,

in our Press of to day than there were a few years back

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.

Sunday papers that cater to the morbid taste for mur

ders intrigues horrors and di rt are rivalled by evening
, , ,

papers that extol profession al football and racing etc ,

to an exaggerated degree as being of higher importance ,

than the things that really matter to the welfare of the

nation .

It is true as the late E ditor of The Ti mes Mr Wickham

, , .

Steed pointed out t h at to hold independent views a

, ,

paper must be independent financi al ly : but it is r egret

table that in ord er to do this many of them have to succumb
to the fees that are o ffered by promoters of prize figh ts -

and cinema stars so that the publi c inflamed by the

, ,

Press notices go quite dotty on performers whom in their

,

own b etter j udgment they wou l d consider very ordinary .

B ut and there is no get ting over i t the crowd is too

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often an ass : it doesn t think for itself nor does i t b other
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to look at both S ides of a question If it did it would not .

pour its money into the hands of bookies football company ,

di rectors and prize fight profiteers who are trading on i t ,

—
,

—
but woul d go in for s port t rue sport for sp ort s sake and ’

for the enj oyment and health of it .

I enj oy a good story Shown on the film at the cinema

s in em ar but ki n eem a
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( not ,
I m told
, is the correct way ,

to say it ) and some of the acting in those dramas is really

,

wonderf ul where the actors convey their ideas by expres

sion and gesture .

At the same time their art good as i t is cannot come

, ,

up to that of the stage actor who in addition to these , ,

gives life and soul to the part when he puts it to you in

real flesh and blood with human voice and tears E ven .

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the talkies with their canned voices and music
f

cannot put real life into the picture .

And yet Molly Mi ckb oard is known to mill i ons for her
pretty face and charming acting on the screen as is Charlie ,

for his funny clowning The arrival of either of them

.

in a C ity is foreshadowed days beforehand by carefull y

prepared paragraphs in the Press and these gradually ,

boil up in intensity as the day and hour approaches .

Advanced greetings are vouchsafed to the nation from the

heroine or even from her husband the hour and place ,

of arrival are full y announced so that the climax of ,

advertisement is reached when the mob surges to the

station to receive the star They don t do it for an
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actor however good he may be But if you ask any one

, .

of the crowd why he does so not one in a thou s and can tell
, .

Yet into the same city through the same rai lway station
, ,

have come so ldiers and sailors back from hell who fought
, ,

for uS and saved their country but who were allowed to Slide
,

in practic ally unnoticed and unpraised .

I don t conde mn the heart and good will of the people

’

b ut the fact that they are so easily sucked in by Press

advertisement .

T RU E S P ORT .

After reading all this you will think me an awful spoil

S port. Years ago bull baiting was put a stop to by a l ot
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of peop le who drew up a petition to Parliament against it .

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game b y the individual i n place of being merely one of the
crowd looking on or having yo ur sport done for you or
even helped by a paid hand As a golfer for instance I .
, ,

would not employ a caddie to carry my clubs It may be .

that I c an t afford the high fees of modern times it may be

’

that I reali s e that my language might stun him ! it may ‘

be that I fear h is criticism of my fooz ling it may be that

’
I don t like encouraging boys to take up a work that leads
to nothing for them in the end ! but my main obj ection
is that I prefer to do my o wn playing of the game I t is .

j ust the same with stalking a stag or landing a s almon I , .

don t want a g ill ie to do the j ob for me Why I don t

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,
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even have my h air cut by another man I do it for myself

—S o far as I have hair !

HOW TO GE T F UN AND MON E Y HON E STLY

You will s ay It is all very well to criticise l ook ing on
at sport ! but
What is a fellow to do with his spare time ?
How is he to make money ?
How is he to get enj oyment if he doesn t go to races and ’

football
Well it is a bit of a conundrum to lay down any pro
,

gramme that will suit every kind of young man whether ,

he is rich or poor or of moderate means and whether he

, ,

lives in a town or away out in the country for winter or ,

summer singly or in company indoors or out day or

, , ,

eveni n g .

C ould you suggest an answer you rs elf ?

I guess not B ut here is a sugges tion in broad principles
.

that may be helpful .

The great secret is to have as your motto these words

D O N T L O AF
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.

To float over a dead calm sea is uninteresting but it is ,

a very di fferent thing in a nice breeze when there i s a bit

of a sea on and you always have a wave in front of you to
be negotiated and no sooner are you over that one th an
,

an other ri s es before you .

In paddli n g your way through life you will find the j oy

of it in al way s having a fre s h wave of work or act i vity
ahead of you to tackle .
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S o i n answer
,

To your question of what My suggest i on is go i n for,

to do in the matter of
S P ARE TIME ,
T RU E S P ORT AN D H O B BIE S ,

M ONE Y , S U ITABLE P ROFE S S IO N AN D

H AP P I N E S S . T HRI FT ,

S E RV IC E FOR O THE RS .

S P ORT .

By true sport I mean any kind of game and act i vity that
does you good and which you play yourself instead of look
ing on I know that pl aying fields are scarce at many
.
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centres and they won t accommodate all the fellows who

,
’

want to play Still there is room for thousands more than

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,

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those who use them to day and also there are playing fields ,

of a di fferent kind which so far have been little made us e of .

I could suggest a good many games to meet one condition

or another but I allow it is hard to fit them in to suit all
, .

The main thing is for you to think out for yourself which
sport would best meet the conditions and surroundings
in which you find yourself .

B ut if you can t hit o ff a line for yourself I can suggest

’

one at any rate that will meet all the above conditions and ,

you will fin d it described in the last C hapter on Rovering , .

A T RU E S P ORT .

Under the head of a tru e sport and one which i s Open to ,

all alike without much expense is mountaineering , .

Mountaineering ? you may say A lot of moun

t aineerin g you can do in E ngl and .

Well you can do a good de al and I will S how you how

, , .

To climb a twenty thousand foot mountain is a glorious

achievement but you are not hanging on by your eyelids
,

all the while the di fficulty that test s the C limbing powers
of your fingers and toes only comes once in a while If .

you fal l there you go down two or three thousand feet

,

before you bump You can get an equ ally e ffective fall
.

at two or three hundred feet in C limbing an equally di ffi

c ul t rock face at home in your own country You can get .

j ust as much ex citement out of C limbing on a small moun

tain which needs j u s t the same nerve endurance and skill
, , , ,

an d the same good comradeship on the rope .

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At the same t ime it is a very dangerous practice i f you
have not been carefully trained for it and have not an
experi enced climber to lead you .

It isn t the height of the mountain that counts so much

’

as the difficult bit to be overcome That is what General

.

Bruce the leader of the expedition to Mount Everest said

, ,

to me in talking of the possibilities of rock climbing for

young men in the British Isles The only wonder is that
.

it is not better known and more practi s ed as a sport .

This is largely because fellows don t reali s e that they can

’

carry it out in almost every part of Great Britain .

If you can t get a ’

m o u n t a i n you can
generally get a group
of rock s a quarry or , ,

cliffs These all give .

S plendid practice for a

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team of th ree or four

mountaineers with a
climbing rope Occa .

s i on ally you hear of a

man climbing alone ,

as in my little outing
in the Andes on page
181 but this is all ,

wrong Once is enough j us t .

to give you confidence in

yourself but it does not do ,

to be left helple s s from a fal l

or a sprain C limbing ought .
,

indeed must be don e in

EVE RE S T—EVE R C LI MB I NG teams and for that reason
,

N EVE R RE S T
,
,

it is good E ach man on the

.

rope has to make himself e fficient so as to be helpful to ,

the others That is a good practical lesson in itself

. .

C limbing is the best possible physical developer of ne rve

and muscle and endurance A good rock climber cannot
.

be a weakling And it is ripping good sport

. .

—
Then it needs observation eye for country and resource
fulness .

I once accompanied the Italian A lpini troops campaign

‘

ing in the high Alps These men are trained entirely for
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m ountain work being al l of them recruited from the i n
,

habitan ts of the mountains We S ighted the enemy on .

the great snow slopes on the other S ide of a gorge some two
thousand feet deep and two or three miles across The .

o fficers were given the general plan of attack Then they .

S pread themse l ves out at intervals in a long line and sat ,

down and gazed at the opp os ite slopes and cli ffs They .

studied them through their glasses each seeking out a ,

p articul ar line for his detachment to C limb and noticing ,

the l andmarks by which he should find it as he worked

upwards from below .

The selecting one s line and picking it up as you climb is

’

what gives rock and mountain climbing a never ending -

variety and intere s t and helps one to be succe s sful or to be

merely a moderate C limber according as you become good
at ob s ervation .

Then there is the moral e ffect of learning to face a

di fficulty even when it looks like an impossibility with
, ,

calm determination and good C heer .

You thus get to face the di fficulties of life in the same

spirit and by sticking to it and trying the different ways
,

round or over the ob s tacle you get there in the end .

Lastly there is your soul A funny thing to find in rock

.

C limbing but there it is

, C limb in company but when you
.
,

reach a glorious summit with its vast unearth like outlook -

,

sit down alone apart and think .

And as you think drink i n the wonderful inspiration of

,

i t all
.

When you come down to earth again you wil l find your
se lf another man ih body and mind and spiri t .

H OBBIE S AN D THE I R V AL U E .

I find that the habit of doing things for oneself grows

upon one and spreads into all branches of one s daily ’

occupation And a very heal thy habit it is !

.
“if you
want a thing done do it yourself becomes the order of
,

the day .

E ven little odd j obs about the hou s e begin to have a

fascination and they teach you a tremendous lot You
, .

get to hammer the nail instead of your thumb with a

l ittl e practice and become neat fingered with the knowledge
,
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of the act i on of electri ci ty when you t e fit your el ectri c
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ligh t plugs .

When the Great War came and deprived us of our S upplies

of vegetables and frui ts it brought a ble ss ing in teaching
,

many of us to become gardeners and to grow our own food .

Allotments have done more harm to the public houses -

than any temperance reforms in Parliament and at the same ,

time more good to the health and contentment of men

than any amount of sanitary or political reforms Your .

own garden is a grand hobby ground for any man and the ,

best rest cure that a hard worker can have It gives to

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very many their first real taste of the open air and it has
brought to them their first introduction of the growth of
plants as well as of bugs and
—
gr abs Lo Nature Lore
. .

It is the natural bent of every

boy to make things
with his hands So .

many men lose the

a ttraction as they
grow o l d e r b u t ,

where they keep it

up this natural form -

of self expres s ion

and the fulfil ment
of the natural desire
to produce becomes
a habit and one
H AVE A H O BBY O F S O M E S O R T
.
which fills many an
em ty li fe A man
p .

wi th hobbies never has time to waste t i me never hangs ,

heavy on his hands and he is not easily dragged away to

,

other attractions that are boosted in the Press Hobbies .

are a safeguard to him .

Hobbies and handcraft lead to Skill for a m an who puts

,

his whole thought and spare energy into making things

cannot help developing a considerable amount of perfection
i n h is work ! and where the mind is applied to the hand ,

im agination and resource step in and from hobby work a

,

man often goes on to be an inventor .

When you look around your room or your o ffice or your

workshop you will find a hundred articles Wi thin sight which
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have been the outcome of invention by one man or another .

So it comes in your power if you are a hobby man to evolve

some invention which may not only h elp you financi al ly ,

b u t which may be a ble s sing to your fell ow men

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.

Often too through the practi ce of ho b bies a man has

, ,

found one which al though entirely apart from his present

,

p rofession has proved to be the thing for which he was by

,

n ature best fitted and it has shown h i m a new line and a

,

re al career for him to take up ! and if he had previously

been a round peg in a square hole he has now found the
round hole in which he is properly fitted .

But hobbies at any rate very frequently if not generally

, , ,

can bring in money where a man is in need of it and ,

al though I do not advocate pursuing money for money s

’

sake I quite recognise the need of a certain amount of it

,

to enable you to carry on an d not to be a drag on other

people .

In the ol d hunting book jorrocks there is a celebrated , ,

character J gg
o
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l eb ury C rowdy whose great hobby was ,

cutting sticks i n the hedgerows and woods with a View to

making them into w al king sticks I too have that hobby .

amongst my many others and though it doesn t sound a ,

’

very exciting one yet when you come to practis e it it is

,

su fficiently attractive to l ead you mile after mile i n the

hunt for a good stick which would otherwise be untol d
wearin es s ' and the satisfaction of securing of straightening ,

and curing a good stick is very great I only mention this .

as sh owing how the very Simplest hobby one that could be ,

practised by anybody has i ts attraction , .

Moreover it has its paying value and many a boy I

, ,

know of who has taken up this particular line finds himself

able to earn many an honest S hilling by it .

But a man who finds out his particular line in hobby

can often make it pay well and thus in s tead of trying the , ,

imp ossibility of making money out of betting you can take ,

the more certain line of doing it in the equ al ly attractive

pursuit of hobbies And the money gained by your own
.

efforts is very much sweeter than that filch ed from some

b ody else .

Apart from hobb i es that bring in cash there are loads ,

of them to choose from accordi ng to what happens to b e

your taste .
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Musi c picture s scul pture and drama these are all easily
, , ,

available for men in towns and there is no need for ,

loafin g where there are municip al galleries museums and ,

concerts etc , .

But it is not merely the passive enj oyment of these that

I recommend It is your active self expressio n of them
.
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that pays .

By self expre s sion I mean such work as writing poetry

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carpentering playing the fiddle C lay modelling sketching

, , , ,

an d so on Al s o there is interest in collecting stamps coins

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fossils curios bugs or any blooming thing

, , , .

Nature rambles In the country for studying bi rds plants , ,

or animals You can go in for chicken rearing fruit grow

.
,

ing j am boiling rabbit keeping or making moccasins or

, , , ,

any old thing that you like There are hundreds of things .

to choose from and when you have found the one that grips
you it will repay you not perhaps in cash b ut i n life fill ing ,
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satisfaction .

S U ITAB LE P ROFE SS IO N .

As regards money for most of us an assured i ncome is ,

necessary to save us from bein g a drag on others and to ,

put us on the road towards enj oying life an d helping others

to enj oy it .

So instead of throwing your cash away on the chance of

getting more back out of some less lucky fellow let us use
the time in making a sure income in return for honest work .

And this means as a first step preparing oneself for a , ,

profession in life .

I have said I don t like using caddies at golf be cause i t ’

l eads the boy on to take up a j ob which pays him for a

time but holds no future prospects for him He has to .

drop out when he grows to be a man and finds himself ,

then not fitted for any special profes s ion And so in very .

many cases he becomes a loafer and a waster .

Well it isn t only the caddie who makes a wrong start in

,
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life in this way A good many boys see a chance of getting

.

a well paid j ob or are urged by their parents t e take it but

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they forget to look at the other end and to see how it is

going to benefit them later on .

Too many of these well paid boys j obs lead to nothing -

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and leave the lad stranded j ust at the important moment

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are meantime gai ning character and a character such ,

as will enable you the better to take up a career when you

see one O pen to you .

Similarly should you be contemplating l i fe in one of the

,

overseas Dominions by far the best way to gain local

,

experience and friends i s to serve for a time in t h e C on

s tab ul ary of the country This similarly is educative and .

we ll paid and C haracter bui l ding .

THRI FT .

Since the Great War our cri t i cs tel l us that the nation
has gone very much to the bad Well I don t know I .
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see that the Headmaster of the City of London School says _

that the boys of to day are more energetic than those of

-

yesterday and are getting better every day That is a

, .

promising Sign at any rate .

C ertainly there are more people who save money now

’
and fewer who spit I don t know that the two points
.

have any connection but they j ust happen to be facts

, .

I have suggested in the coming pages that by practice of

self restraint you gain character ! but you also gain another
-

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thing at least sometimes and that is money Through .

c hecking your use of liquor or tobacco or extra food and of

not indulging in things you can t afford you save the cost ’

of these and mind you in the l ong run that s not a thing
, , ,
’

to be sneezed at .

I never suggest to peopl e to do what I woul d not do

myself and I have done a bit of this thrift in my time that
,

I am recommending to you .

I was the sixth of a family of ten and my father was a

clergyman who died when I was three So I was not .

brought up in what you might call affluence and when I ,

got into the Army I had to live as best I could on my pay ,

which was pretty small .

It was a bit of a struggle It meant among other things .

no breakfast or midday meal at the Mess no smokes no , ,

liquor and it meant earning what I could outside my

,

military duties by drawing and writing .

But I worked hard and enj oyed the struggle And I .

got there in the end I had any amount of luck but .

,

I must add that I snatched a good deal of this for mys elf .

What i s commonly called luck is really largely the power to

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spot your Opportunity and to j ump at i t and seize i t Too .

many fellows sit down and wait for luck to come to them
and then complain b ecause it never does so .

The curious thing was that I got on faster than I wanted

to I had no real ambition to do anything more than be
.

able to keep myself without drawing on my family to help .

If I could do something to help them so much the better , .

And I loved my work because it was among the men and

horses I was perfectly content
. .

But when promotion came to me and I was moved up

to higher standing although the pay was better and the
,

prospects great I did not like the idea and I only wanted
, ,

to be left where I was I remember well asking my

.

colonel whether I coul d not decline the promotion but

—
,

he laughingly pointed out that that was impossible and

up I had to go I got on ! but i t was largely thanks to
.

practising thrift in the beginning .

I was amused a day or two ago in looking through some

of my early diaries of j ourneys and Visits to friends h ow
religiously I kept account of every penny I spent and how ,

triumphantly I recorded every penny that came in to be

available for sp ending ! I coul d speak if anybody could , ,

to the truth of the saying Take care of the pence and

,

the pounds will take care of themselves .

And I was not only ab l e to help myself i n this way b ut

was able to give advice from my own experience and a lead
to a lot of my friends among the men in my squadron in
the same direction AS a consequence canteen profits
.
,

went down but savings bank balances went up The men

,
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.

were healthier and happier and on leaving the Service , , ,

had money in hand with which to set themselves up in

business or in private life .

So too it can be with you who read this If you have no .

,
—
money make it somehow ! b ut make it A rainy day .

may come and you ought not then to be a drag on other

people s resources Think of that rainy day too many
’

.
,

fe llows forget about i t and suffer in the end for their neglect .

If you already have some money that is no reason for ,

chucking it away freez g to it If you have to spend it at .

all S pend it on other peop l e and not only on your own

,

amusement .

You may b e ri ch but there is one th i ng you can t a fford

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—
that i s i f you are a good sort you can t aff ord to spend ’

money on your own luxuries while there are people around

you wanting the necessaries of life .

But look here when I talk o f thriftiness I don t mean

,
’

meanness Be as mean as you like towards yourself save

.
,

from your own expenditure but not from What you would
spend on other people .

F or myself I enj oyed l ife j ust as much as my fellows .

I hunted I played polo I enj oyed pig sticking and big

, ,
-

g am e hunting but I did not buy high class priced animals

,
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for the sport I bought unbroken untrained ones at little

, ,

cost and had all the fun and intere s t of training them mys elf .

Some people buy things almost because they are expen s ive
’
others don t One man will buy a new coat the moment
.

hi s previous one shows any Sign of dirt or surface wear ,

another when his coat is worn has it turned and uses the
other S ide of it and so makes it last twice as long There .

ar e ways of getting along with small means quite as en j oy

'

ably as wi th big ones if you only exercise your ingenuity

an d thrift Indeed it is a bit of adventure that appeals
.

to a sporting mind Poor millionaires ! .

S E I! E YO U R O P P ORTU N ITY .

A man who had been in my regiment as a soldier came to

me not long ago complaining that he was on his beam ends .

He said he had served his country faithfully for the best

ten years of his life and this was the way a grateful country
treated him letting him down into the gutter He had
, .

no particular trade training but his brother in C anada was ,

willing to take him into partnership if he went out there .

But for his part he didn t think it right that he should ’

be banished because he had served his country nor had ,

he the money to take him if he had wanted to go .

I asked him how much he had saved during his S ervice .

He smiled ironically and said You don t save much as a ,

’

private soldier But my experi ence was that most of my

.

ex men had l eft the Service with a very fair balance In the
-

savings bank and I was bound to say

-
, You got your
food an d lodging and C lothing and doctor and fuel and light
an d water al l good and all free and you also had at least ,

1 s 6d a day clear to spend on yourself

. .
— i e £2 7 a year It . . .

would have been possible therefore i n your eight years to , ,

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have put by £2 1 6 or even allowing yourse l f b eer and baccy
,

and entertainments well over £ 1 00 which with interest

, ,

would yield £ 1 5 0 in eight years This would have fixed you .

up in Canada and C anada is not a place of banishment

,

but a j olly good land of promise But he was one of those .

who had not used the opportunity when he had got it The .

moral of this story is Make hay whenever your s un sh i nes

,

don t wait for it to Shine later on clouds may get worse

’

and rainy times may set in .

AS John Graham said to his son Don t play with the ’

spoon before taking your medicine ! putting off an easy

thing makes i t hard ! putting off a hard one makes it
impossible .

Old Dick always kept putting th i ngs off When I las t .

heard of him he was ninety three and j ust about to die

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.

—
That was ten years ago and I ll bet he s living yet ’ ’
.

The thing is to save your money from the very first ,

especially while you are young and hefty Mr Pound . .

,

writing on Boy Wage earners says that formerly a worker

-
,

gradually earned higher and higher pay till he was over

thirty years of age Now a lad of eighteen gets good pay
.

and realises h i s highest at twenty five and h i s earning -

,

capacity dwin dl es rapidly from thirty five to forty five — -

.

He gets more at twenty than his father did but very much ,

less at sixty .

Why save up ? Well you may some day see your

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Opening to better things if you could a fford to go overseas ,

or had a little capital to set yourself up in business But .

what is still more certain to come is that one day you ll ’

want to get married you will have to think of setting up

house with a wife but there is something more than that
,

which too many men forget There will be the children. .

It is playing a low down trick on them to bring them into

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th e world if you have nothing then to bring them up on .

How ToS AVE UP

The Post Office Savings Bank is as simple a way as any .

The postmaster at your post o ffice wil l take your s avings as

you hand them in and give you a bank book Showing the
amount you deposit from time to time and this money wi ll ,

draw interest and gradually increas e of itself .

Another method is to b uy National Savings C ertificates

34 R OVE RIN G T o SUCCE SS
at a post office or bank wi th saving enough to b uy a few
stamps each week to be attached to your savings card .

These savings stamps can be bought at any money order

post o ffi ce .

But another and very popul ar way is to j oin with a few

other people in forming a Savings Association under
the Nation al Savings C ommittee Under this system you .

pool your savings each week with the other members and
thus they begin to earn interest much sooner than they
“
would do by lone saving .

E very 1 6s thus collected goes into the Bank and begins

.

to earn at once F ull details can be got from any post

.

office on your asking for a Savings Association Leaflet .

As you get larger sums you can of course invest them

in stocks and shares which will bring bigger return though
at greater risks Investing in these requires a certain
.

amo unt of knowledge of the game and you Should get expert ,

advice But in the National Savings and Post O ffice

.

banks your money is absolutely certain and you get a very

satisfactory return for it in interest .

C HARAC TE R F OR C ARE E R .

I wrote a recommendation once for a man for a good busi

ness appointment and I gave a short list of his qualifications .

When I came to look over them after I had written them

down it struck me that if the people who had asked about
it had given me a list of the points they wanted in him it
would have been j ust about the same as the list I gave them .

You may take it that these qualities are what most em

l
p y o ers would like to find in a man The point for you is .
,

have you got them yourself If not hie i n and get them ,
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and you ll be safe for a good j ob in any line that you may
’

find best suits you This i s what I said of him

.

He is very capable and energetic reliable in every way ,

—
and resourceful a tactful leader of men and has a hefty
laugh This last is alone worth his salary since it comes
. ,

at the time when things are looking most di fficult and

infects everybody around him .

We ll that is a good enough character to take you any

,

where . C apable means skilled and e ffi cient at his work .

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E nergetic means active and keen i n the enj oyment of it .

Reliable means sober punctual truthful and to be , ,

trusted with money and confidential work and is not lik ely ,

to do anything fooli s h or wrong ! that he i s loyal to his

employer as well as to those under him and will ca rry on ,

his work whether under observation or not Re s ource .

ful mean s that he will find a way of carrying on whatever

the di fficulties may be A tactful leader of men .

means that he is courteous and human that he leads and ,

does not drive And the fact that he l aughs and takes
.

thing s cheerily and makes others do the same is a very

valuable point in his favour .

R E S P O N S I B IL ITY .

One day in the times when I was the usual silly ass care
, ,

less young fellow my colonel suddenly called me in and

,

told me he was going to make me adj utant of the regiment .

Adj utant ! I was appalled .

The adj utant was the man on whom the whole of the
well being and well doing of the regiment to a great extent
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—
depended A glorious work but what if one failed
.

I couldn t face it
’
.

But the colonel s imply said he trusted me to do it Well .

,

in a few minutes I was a C hanged being I was now a man .

with a b ig responsibility thrust Upon him in s tead of being

a devil m ay care feckless boy with no special aims beyond
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enj oying him s elf .

I found my s elf with a new and serious outlook with great ,

Visions of what I might bring about for the good of the

men and for the name of the regiment I plunged into .

my work with heart and soul ! and I never looked back .

That interview with the colonel short as it was was the , ,

real starting point of my career

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And fro m that le s son in responsibility I was able to go

on to higher step s of one bigger re s pon s ibility af ter another .

If you are to do any good toward s m aki n g a career for

yourself you must be able to t ake re s pon sibility .

To be able to take respon s ibility need s confidence in

yourself and knowledge of your j ob and practice in ex er
C i s i ng responsibility .

In the Royal Navy this fact i s fully recognised and they

b egIn it when young A Midshipman is given respon s ible
.
5 6 R OVE R IN G T o SU C C E SS
management of a boat with its crew and he gets the whol e
!

of the blame or praise according to its doings .

So too in the Boy Scout s The Patrol Leader is the .

one authority answerable for the e fficiency and behaviour of

his S ix Scouts ! and so it is among the Rover Scouts (see
final C hapter ) with the Mate .

Once you are accustomed from early practice to take , ,

responsibil i ty it makes a man of you It strengthens your

, .

character and it fits you for the higher steps in your

profes sion .

Then too i t strengthens your influence for good with

, ,

others .

IMHLALA -
P A N! I .

Here is a helpful suggestion from one who has carri ed

it out himself with success .

It is from the late Marshal F och one of the greatest of ,

the French generals in the war .

Y NG E FU L D FF L J
ob
LA I C AR AIM FOR A I IC U T OB .

N . B . Th e kn
- s in th e water p
re re s en t h o f h pp
th e ea d a i o.

He says : Wh en you have a tas k to perform con si der

i t carefully .

I See that you understand exactly what is wanted of

.

you or what it is you want to e ffect .

2 Then make your plans for bringing it off

. .

3 Have
. some good reason for the plans .
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skin the beast ( and if you have no gloves i t is wonderful
how soon a hunting knife can raw your hands when you are
in a hurry with a great tough loose hide to deal with ) .

Wh ile one man S kinned the other kept a sharp look out in
,
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every direction with the acute feeling that they were

l ooking for U S all the time .

Lucky we did s o ! As we got the skin off the enemy ,

di scovered us and we j u s t had time to bundle it U p and

,

mount our horses before they got within reach of us .

Ho w To P RE P ARE FO R A C ARE E R .

A scheme was once made out of what a young man

should go in for when educating himself for his career in life .

The main points that he should aim at were pu t in di agram

form ( s ee page
I was asked to crit i ci se th i s so I added another di agram
as Part I I to it .

H O W TO LIVE
HA PP N E
I SS

I A
Throug h H i g her I deals Throug h S ervi ce
,

N at u re L o re Se lf -
s acri fic e for ot h ers

D v l p m t f th
e e o en o e
i
R e al i s a t o n o f D ivi L th t i ne o ve a s
G o d th e C r e at o r w i th i n us

With regard to Part I ( page 5 9 ) the qualities Shown

in italics all go to form what is known as C ha racter ! and
it is C har ac ter as much as e fficiency or S kill that will help
, ,

you t o s ucce s s in your career But I would specially .

dr aw attention to en ergy on the one hand and p ati ence

on the other .

E nergy comes partly of good bodily h ealth but mainly ,

of genuine intere s t in your work Some fellows never .

seem to get interested in their work because it s eems to be

very limited and running perpetually in the same groove .
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It would be better if they looked around and saw where i t
fitted in the complete work of the whole and if they looked
ahead and saw the ul timate value it was going to have
when it comes into use beyond the w al ls of the workshop
or ofl i ce
. The best workers like the happie s t livers look
, ,

upon their work as a kind of game the harder they play

the more enj oyable it becomes H G We lls writing on the
. . .
,

Peace C onference at Washington s aid : I have noticed ,

t h at s o called great men are really boys at heart that

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,

is they are boys in the eagerness of their enj oyment of

their task They work because they like to work and
.
,

thus their work is really play to them The boy is not .

only father to the man but he is the man and

,
”
does not disappear at all .

Ralph P arlette says truly : Pl ay is LO V I N G t o

do things and work is H A VI N G to do
,
”
things .

There is a good deal in i n di spens a

b i li ty
. I was asked once why I ad
mired my Indian servant s o parti cu
larly
. The reason was quite s imple :
it was because he put mas ter firs t and
—
self second i f self ever came into it at
all which I doubt Absolutely loyal
, .

and to be trusted always there ready , ,

for any j ob silent and hard working

,
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.

He was a treasure But in that country .

such a C haracter was not exc eptional ,

whatever it might be el s ewhere

M AK E S U R E TH AT
.

Without knowing it he was i ndi s ,

ens a ble and I can tell you this that

T A K I NG
TH E JO B Y O U A R E p ,

ON I S ON E
if you make yours elf indi s pen s able to
ifggs f fiigffic iifi
r c
your employer he is not go i ng to part

C AN MA N A GE
,
with you in a hurry no matter what it
costs him .

Another point that is missed in the foregoing list is that

of b ei ng q ui ck in your work It may to some extent come
.

in under energy but it is improved all the more by practice

,
.

If you are quick in all that you do in your play and in

your personal actions so that it becomes your habit you ,

will be equally quick in your work and there it will count ,

in your favour .
 HORS ES 61

As a matter of practice carry it out in your daily dressing .

D on t dawdle have everything in its place and ready to

’

your hand time yourself at it and go on and beat your own ,

record .

Other points that Should have special attention and re

cei ve too little notice in the list are p luck and cheeri n es s .

I won t dilate upon them here but will sum them up in

’

the words S poken by Mr B B V alentine s old negro . . .

’

which I quote at the end of this chapter p 62 And , . .

there is another asset that you should have for making

your career that is Hop e Don t think that because you
, .
’

st art l ow down that it is therefore imposs ible for you to

get up Hundreds of the big men to day started at the
.
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very bottom of the ladder But as I have said before .

, ,

you ve got to do your own C limbi ng Don t stay in the

’
.
’

mud because the others stick there ! l ook for your step
pi ng stones and make your way out of it Get your foot
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.

on to the lowe s t rung and up you go .

I have seen so many men start well in life with all the
equipment necessary for making them successful who ,

then went and failed owing to their lack of p ati ence w hen
things went against them at the moment they chucked
Up everything and tried something else and if once you
get into the habit of chucking up and trying again it
becomes a habit and remains a habit so that your wh ole ,

life becomes a series of chucki ng ups and never getti ng -

up .

As regards Part II of the diagram the question of How ,

to Live that is how to enj oy life with true happiness and

,

n ot merely pleasure is of equal importance with the problem

,

of making a living and the two parts into which I have

divided it are almost of equal importance with each other ,

Vi z havi ng High Ideals and Serv

. ing others But I think .

that serv i ng others is the more i mportant of the two b e

cause i t largely includes the High Ideal and is the main
step to Happiness .

That is why I Shall go into i t m ore full y in an other

C hapter .
62 R OVE RIN G TO SU C CE SS
HORS E S E NS E

Wh en C upidity comes in honesty goes out , .

A pound in hand is worth two on a horse .

—
If you are a square peg make for a square hol e an d
don t be content till you get there
’
.

A coat like a question has two S ides to it , . Both shoul d

be expl oi ted before you have done with it .

How your work can b ecome pl ay for you : Play i s

L OV I N G to do things ! Work is H AV I N G to do things
( R P. a rlette) .

So live that when you die everybody will be sorry—even

the undertaker ( M ark Twai n) .

Let us al l be happy and live wi thin our incomes even

”

if we have to borrow the money to do it with ( A rtemus

Ward) .

Most Vice is due to suppressed persp i rat i on ( Dr .

W . Dawson) .

Self reverence self knowledge self control

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,
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,

These three alone lead life to sovereign power .

( Tenny s on ) .

K EE P SMILING
When you feels a mighty mis ry an yer stomach s kinder ’ ’ ’

bent ,

And do doctor starts to projec with the cutting instru ment ’

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When he lays you on de table an a standin by yo S ide ,

’
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’ ’

He s a twi tchin an a i tch i n ter be whi ttlin up yo hide

’
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DE N remember bout the possum who was S ittin on de limb

’ ’ ’

Wid de gun a p i nti ng at him an de dorgs a treein h im

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,
’
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How he holler to de hunter an he holler to de houn ’ ’

I s e gwi ne ter keep a gri nni n

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— doh I spec you ll fetch
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”
me down .

Ole M ars ter by B B Valenti ne ) , . . .

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BOOKS TO R EAD
F acts of Gamb li ng J M Hooge
.
( Hutchinson
.
) 2.3 , .

M on ey H Withers ( Benn s Sixpenny Library)

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. . .

F i rs t S tep s to C li mb i ng G D Abrahams ( Mills Boon)

. . .
,

5 3

W
.

M ountai n C raft . G . . Young ( Methuen ) .

 WI N E
TH E d ark s i d e i R o k i th t mpt ti on to ruin o
of th s c s e e a ne s
’

r ea l h pp i
a t h o gh
nes s l f i d ul g r u se -
n en c e .

Th b i gh t i d i t h f t t h t t h o gh o v
e r s e s om i g d i
e ac a r u er c n e s re

yo u g i n
a t g t h o f
s re n h t d h i gh j o yCm t o f li f
arac er an a er e n en e .

S E L F I N D U LG EN E
-
C .

Th b t w e m l ni p i
e ee n d g -
lu x y ea s s a an ero u s ur .

Th t m p t t i n t g o d f ll o w h i p l d t fi t t p i n
e e a o o o e s ea s o rs s e s

d i ki g r n n .

Th li t y o k b om w t
Di k
e so ar s a er ec es a a s er .

r n d g to t h S t t
e rs are a an er e a e .

P o h ibi ti o wi ll t b n d d wh th n t io on i t
r n no e
'

ee e e re e a n C s s s
of m of h t en C arac er .
Th f o e of mpl
rc e ex a e .

O v m o k i g i d g t h lt h
e r- s n l o oth f o m
s a an er o ea , as are a s er r s

s i c al fit n e s s bi r n gs se lf -
c ontrol an d lo ng li f e.

S w e ar i g n 1s a S i gn o f weak c h ar ac er t .

SELF C -
O M MAND .

h
S treng th n C aract er i s t h e an t ot e to s e n u ge n c e id lf i d l
-
.

x pl f G l gi
e

Th e e am e o e n e ra No .

lf bi gg i
S e c o n t ro i s t h e
-
es t l h
t em i n c ara c t er .

bi h gh d d
H a t an d t o u t c a n b e co m m a n e .

L y ly y lf i h i
o a t t o ou rse i s as m p ort an t i n c aracter form ng -

l y ly
as i s h
o a t to ot ers .

lf p b d
S e r e s e ct
-
p f
r e e s r e s e ct hro m ot ers .

h k
S am e m a e s a m an an o u t c as t .

A to gg ti o t m p t ti on t l f i d ul g n
d f t d D th
u -
su es n c a n c u re e a o se -
n e ce .

H w T o mm y T om k i
o ns e ea e ea .

WH O H E F E LL W HAV E A D
AT T R O S S I .

B U H AWA Y T E M P A ON
R S T TI .
 WI N E
IN E
C olonel Y ervers
never attempted to be with
out wine or some sort of alcohol inside him .

On one occasion when no liquor was to be

,

got he drank some furniture polish When the doctor

, .

said to him ,But do you mean to say that you could

get no water ?
The colonel replied My good s i r you can t have ever
, ,
’

had a real thirst on you or you would know that that s not ’

the time for th inking ab out having a wash ”

.

THAT THIRD G LASS .

Wine —
I like a glass of good wi ne for i ts flavour i ts ,

colour and refreshment .

And equally I like a glass of beer or C ider in i ts turn .

Somehow a second glass seldom appeals to me so much as

the first because the flavour no l onger strikes one with
,

its novelty and the first edge of appetite has worn off .

AS for the third glass the man who is wise knows that
,

there is poison in the cup that the sugars and other

,

C hemicals contained in the liquor don t in the end do you

’

great good I suppose for instance that few people realise

.
, ,

how a fair amount of beer drinking b rings on corns j ust as

-
,

port wine helps to develop gout .

— —
It is the third glass if not the second that puts you
out of condition for running and exercise ! and a young
man will keep his eye on it accordingly .

In my regiment we worked on the principle that o fficers

an d non commissioned officers l ed their men by example
-

rather than by command and on this principle I held that

,

one or two of the sergeants were too large round the waist
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to b e able to nip on to or off their horses as qui ckly as they
should do in showing their men the way .

So I gave out the warning that in three months time ’

any o fficer or N C O whose circumferen ce made him too

. . .

S low for his position would be likely to

lose it and that in the ,

meantime he would
do well to lose some
o f h i s S Uperfluous
tissue .

But my criticism
was also constructive ,

as I sugge s ted that

the trick might be
a c c o m p l i s h e d by a
little more exercise
daily and a good
S TO U T TH E C A U S E — S TO U T TH E E FF E C T deal 18 8 5 porter .
.

The results were

surprising and entirely satisfactory It was that third .

glass that had done the harm But third glasses do worse .

than this they lead to fourth and fifth and

, S i ss s th

glass —and then the trouble begins an d the i mbiber , ,

clinging to the lamp post asks -

Is this Christmas Day
, ,

or Piccadilly
THE B E TWE E N ME AL S G L AS S
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.

I knew a won derfully capable engineer indeed a genius ,

i n his way ! he would have been famous by now had he”

not been as he expressed it a twenty minutes man
, ,
’

— —
t h at is he was never l ess and never more than twenty
,

minutes bet ween his drinks .

Which reminds me of a dear old American admiral of

my early days who when I o ffered him a glass of something
, , ,

said ,
N 0 S i r ! I never drink between my drinks
, .

And this brings me to my point that it is the drinking ,

between your eats that does the harm If fellows only .

drank liquor at meal time I believe that there would be no

-

such thing as drunkenness and certainly they would be ,

twice as he althy .

Reverting to my regiment again ( I warn you you will be ,

.

awfully bored b y me and my regiment before you h ave

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done with this book but I only want to give you actu al
experiences towards navi gating those rocks so you ,

must forgive me) I al lowed the men again s t all the regu
, ,

lati ons to have beer with their dinner and with the hot
,

suppers which were a regimental institution .

As a consequence dri nking at the canteen bar died down

,

to such sm all proportions that on one occasion I had to

present a pair of white gloves to the canteen steward
because he had had a blank day when not a man entered
the canteen .

TE MP TATI O N To G O O D F E LLOWS HIP THE F I RS T S TE P .

A well wisher was tryi ng to get a drunkard to see the error

-

of his ways and to make a better man of him but old bottle ,

nose suddenly interrupted him with the rem ark You talk ,
”
as if you had never been drunk yourself .

”
Drunk ? I sho ul d hope not indeed .

Then what do you know about it Don t talk to me ’

.

Go and get drunk yours elf and learn something of the

—
temptation and the j oy of it And then talk ! .

Well there is a certain amount of temptation about i t

, ,

particularly if you let yourself become one of a herd I .

suppose half the men who take to drin k get drawn into it i n
the first place by companionship and suppo s ed good fellow
ship with a lot of other fellows A lad first coming out into
.

the world feels that he must do as others do in order to Show

that he is one of them one of the b h oys !
Nine out of ten boys b egin smoking for that reason
l argely out of bravado .

If a boy grew up say on a ranch where the men happened

, ,

to be ab s tainers but where tobacco and whi s ky were avail

,

able if he w an ted them I don t believe that he would take

,
’

to them of his o wn accord Both are very nasty to the .

begi nner and taking to either is largely a matt er of

,
”
becau s e the other C haps do it .

And it i s mighty di fficult when you are in the company of

others round a bar not to j oin with them in being given
drinks and in standing the m in return and this leads to ,

th at S i s s s th glas s and to hilarity and row

, .

Goodne s s knows I don t obj ect to high spirits and occa

’

sio u al rowdine s s These are natural to young men even

.

without the help of alcohol I h ave enj oyed them myself

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7 0 R OVE RIN G T o SUCCESS
most heartily and played the fool to an extent that I
,

shoul d be ashamed of now if I did not recognise that it was

all part of the nature of the lad growing into manhood .

To think that I ever played the game of The Bounding

Brothers of the B osph orous ! Do you know it ?
Well you pile all the furniture in the room into a pyra
,

mid legs of the chairs upwards for C hoice and place a good
, ,

solid table well out in front of it Then each competitor .

takes it in turn to run at the table turn head over heel s on ,

it landing on the pyramid and not

, ,

forgetting to shout as he doe s so ,

I am a boun ding Brother of the

B o s ph orous .

F or the life
of me I can t see the ’

—
fun of i t now but I did then .

But that is j ust the

sort of ass a young
fellow is .

The j oy of b eing a
B ounding Brother is ,

however e n t i r e l y ,

di fferent from the

false hilarity brought
A B O U ND I NG B R O TH E R
about by drink and
.

drink is not therefore

necessary to make a young man enj oy himself Indeed he .
,

can do it j ust as nois il y and far more e ffectively without .

THE S OL ITARY S OAK E R I s A WASTE R .

Apart from the good fellowship temptation to dri nk

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there is also the more potent in di vidual one that of trying ,

to forget personal miseries of mind or surroundings by

”
drowning your troubles in the flowing bowl .

C ontin ued bad l uck in your dealings depression from ill ,

health or disappointment an unhappy home and drab ,

surroundings al l tempt a m an to the easy refuge of a

,

warmed Up thr oat and s tupefied brain

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But it is not good business The tOper may say It is

.
,

all very well to t al k but what Is a m an to do

, After all ,

if it is a good way out and if it does give h i m a spell of

,

some sort of contentment or at least obli vi on for a short

, ,

t ime why not let him take his dr am

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We ll the obj ection is that i t is b ound to mean ruin in

, , ,

mind and body to the poor C hap He loses all control of

,
.

his will and he loses his energy an d these two points are
”
the mai n things in character .

Once he h as got the drink habit or What is wor s e

—the drug habit his C han ce of happiness in this wo rl d
,

is done for ! wi th wrecked he al th and le s sened capability

for work he give s in to other temptations as they come
,

to his weakened character an d he descends to meannes s ,

and crime since he no longer has any hold over himself

,
.

He Sinks lower into a sodden existence as a waster and

outcast till death comes and puts h i m out
,
.

THE D AN GE R To THE S TATE .

The hard headed fellow who has character in him will not
-

be carried out of his depth by the herd he will know when

to stop It is the fools who form the mass and let them
.

selves b e drifted along by the rest or by their ills ! they

have not the grit to take arms against their sea of troubles .

—
Where there are numbers of these and few of our slum
- —
public houses are without them the example spreads and ,

it becomes a h erd disease It diminishes the heal th and

.

earning power as well as the temper of a proportion of the

, ,

population and so reduces the general happiness and

,

prosperity of the whole .

It makes miserable hovels of the homes for which the

men are responsible ! it destroys their individual self respect -
,

—
their manliness and thinking powers in a word their ,

C haracter .

That means danger to the State .

A community that contains a numb er of u nthinking

feeble minded fools is prone to be a prey to Wild cat schemes
- -

of agitators who can lead such a herd by the nose .

To make a strong nat i on you must have men of C haracter

to form i t .

P ROHIB ITION N OT N EE D E D F OR MEN O F C HARAC TE R .

In certain countries this danger to the State is recogn i sed ,

and prohibition is brought in to stop liquor altogether .

C onsidering the enormous waste of money time and , ,

health and lost prosperity that is brought about by drink

, ,
7 2 R OVE RIN G T o SUC CE SS
there are few people barring topers who do not agre e that
, ,

the temptation should be done away with though they do

not agree as to how it shoul d be done .

In Mahommedan countries it is suppressed by a reli gion

that holds the mass of the people In some countries it is .

smashed down by law The worst of this is it l eads a l ot

.
,

o f people to dodge the law .

This no doubt will die down as the new generation grows

U p untempted but a certain amount of harm will have been
,

done s ince breaking laws in one direction will presumably

,

encourage their disregard in others .

But prohibition mainly o ffends the sense of free and

manly people who would prefer to reform themselves from
wi thin and who resent the remedy being pressed Upon them
,

by reformers however well meaning from without

, , .

When Sir Robert Stout recently de s cribed liquor as a

luxury that we could very well do without Miss Gaunt ,

replied Yes I suppose we could j ust as the Bolshevists

, ,

consider night Shirts an unnecessary luxury

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.

The reform will come and I believe is coming with greater

e ffect and with greater dignity in many countries through
,

the self respect and character of the people themselves

-
.

They are not to be ordered about like C h i ldren but when ,

they realise it is unmanly un fitting them for work or play

, ,

and that there are plenty of better ways for enj oying life ,

they won t be such fools as to drink to excess

’
.

If one looks back a few years in one s own lifet i me one ’

sees a very big di fference .

When I first j oined the army it was quite usual for the
men and even o fficers to get drunk on festive occasions and
nothing was thought of it To day if an o fficer were to .
-
,

exceed the limit in a good regiment he wo uld be told pretty

forcibly that it is not done and wo uld find himself fired
out if he went on with it .

One sees regiments nowadays embarking for foreign ser

vice with every man pre s ent and sober j ust as if turning ,

out for an ordi nary parade where a few years ago numbers ,

wo ul d be absent and half of those present had to be helped

, ,

if not lifted into the train or aboard the transport

,
.

Saturday nights in manufacturing towns used to mean '

streets full of rowdy fighting drunkards where now one ,

s ees nothi n g but orderly crowds of happy s o ci able p p

e o le ,
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settlers and gave them land and helped them to bu il d the ir
homes .

Then they found that these men instead of being grateful

and helpful to others were helpful to themselves They .

took the native cattle they promised payment but gave it ,

more in the form of kicks than halfpence They imported .

whisky in liberal quantities for their

own use and trade gin for the benefit ,

of the natives .

The old queen told us how her war

riors had asked leave to kill off
these insidious destroyers of the
nation and she was inclined to ,

grant it She had no belief now .

in a religion which profes s ed one

and did the opposite .

We could not help

sympathi s ing with her ,

but possibly rather over

did it for when she was ,

leaving U S she turned

TH E F O R C E O F EX A MPL E
b ack and begged once
TH E
S WA ! I QU EE N
more to know whether .

b
.

we really s eriously felt

Mi io i p h o i ty b t wh i t
p —ti d—i ki g W ppo t th Mi
ss nar es reac s r e u e
m IOI her and When we '

o
en rac se r n n e su r e s
gv m j t
.

i i b t strenuously a ffirmed this

’
ld t y
of gi f my l ?
s o nar es u c u n ou i e e us o ne
ca s e n se f ” ,
or
she asked us to make
good our w o r d b y presenting her wi th a case of gin !
Such i s the force of example .

S MO K I N G .

I have harped a b i t on drink b ecause it h as proved to b e

the cause of so much crime disease and misery and is ,

therefore the greatest danger to both the individual and

the State and as we are out to S eek happiness and success
, ,

i t is a rock most strenuously to be avoided .

But there are some other forms of self indul gence that -

a young man will do well to guard against for the re as o n

that they too han dicap him in gaining happiness .

There is for the boy the danger of smoking I should b e .

afrai d to say how many letters I have had from lads or

their parents thanking for the warnings that I have given
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from time to t ime of the poisons an d other evils that exi s t
for growing lads in tobacco .

Here is one of my latest notes on the subj ect .

Someone as ked me What is the order against Scouts

smoking P My reply was that there was no order at all ,

but every Scout knows that the boy who smokes is a fool ,

an d we have an understanding i n the movement that A ,

Scout is not a fool .

Why is a boy who smokes necessarily a fool Well I ,

have given the reasons in a chapter in S couti ng f or

Boy s .One of the reasons is this :
Wh en a lad s mokes before he is ful ly grown up i t is ,

al most sure to make his heart feeble and the heart is the
most important organ in a man s body It pumps the ’
.

blood all through him to form flesh bone and muscle If , .

the heart does not do its work the body

'
,

cannot grow to be he al thy and strong .

No boy begins to smoke because he

likes it : he hates it at firs t but he does ,

it out of swank in order to l ook manly

, ,

as he thinks whereas really he only looks

a little ass .

I have had a letter from a man

Who has studied the question from
a worker s point of View and he
’

“M
,

says this ore than half the

present day discontent laziness and
-
,

unm anliness on the part of our

young workers is caused by excessive smok ing especially ,

of cigarettes .

If they could be persuaded not to smoke or drink unti l

they are over twenty years of age we should have a better ,

race of men I can prove to you that nearly every growing

.

lad that smokes IS discontented laz y will not settle to any

, ,

wo rl has no interest or amb i ti ons is nervous an d h as no

plUCi:
,

This 13 what the country 15 su ffering from at the present

time and causes nearly all the unemployment among the
,

young workers .

What I have b een telling you shows why a fellow sho ul d

not smoke— becau s e of himself
”
.

B ut there is another reason aga inst smoki ng even for ,

7 6 R OVE RIN G T o SU C C E SS
grown up men which a l arge number of them forget and
-
, ,

that is how their s moking affects other people .

Wh en you are going to light your pipe ( I have no opinion

—
of cigarettes they are what women and little boys smoke ) ,

if you are in a room or in a train or the like be sure first ,

that it is not going to worry your neighbours .

Many men and most ladies hate tobacco smoke and , ,

more especially the smell of it that hangs about their

,

clothes after being in the company of smokers Nat ural ly .

they are shy about obj ecting to it and have to bear i n ,

S ilence what is hateful to them A man with any chivalry .

TH E C AD AN D HI S C A BB GE P E F M NG
A ,
R U I TH E C A RR IA GE .

in him will let his pipe wait for a more favourable Oppor

t un i ty .

C igarettes are to my mind the smoke of the herd of ,

fidge ty fl igh ty people while the pipe is that of the i n divi

, ,

dual who q uietly Sucks at it and calmly thinks for himself .

If you mu s t smoke cigarettes because they are C heap ,

remem b er that to be cheap they have to be made of Vile

stu ff .

Here is what a tobacco dealer has said about i t :

Out of every 6d paid for ten cigare ttes he says
.
, ,

about 2 5d go es to the Government as duty and about

.
,

L j d i s the re tailer s gross profit With the remaining 2 d

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t h e m anufa c tur er h as to p ay the co s t of tobacco cutting , ,

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mak ing packets carri age advertising and selli ng expenses
, , , ,

etc and still Show a profit

.
,
.

I was a bit of a smoker myself that IS a smoker of pipes

A
, ,

when I came to be associated with some Americ an frontiers

men who had served as scout s in wars with the Red Indians .

None of them smoked and they smiled at me indulgently

as a tenderfoot for doing so when I thought that I was ,

really Showing my manliness They explain ed that sm ok .

ing was apt to play Old Harry with your eyesight wind , ,

and sense of smell ! and sense of smell Was invaluable to a

scout for his work at night So I chucked smoking then .

and there and have never taken to it again and I am all

, ,

the better in health and certainly in pocket for the ab s ten

tion .

O VE R FE E D I N G
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.

Wh en I was besieged in Mafeking we all had to live on a

very reduced ration of food and it was interesting to see ,

how this affected the di fferent people in the garrison An d .

it affected them in remarkably di fferent ways Some .

remained much the same many were visibly reduced and

, ,

I do believe that one or two got fatter on it But the test .

c am e at the end of the seven months when I called for ,

volunteers to make a sally against the enemy I asked for .

those who felt themselves capable of marching five mile s ,

and though everybody wanted to j oin in it we very soon

, ,

found that only a small proportion of them could stand

’

even this mild te s t But it was quite evident that the men
.

who were most capable of doing the required work were

those who had been all their lives temperate in eating ,

drinking and smoking .

The same results were found during an expedition in

which I took part on the West C oast of Africa through the
—
swamps and forest of Ashanti a region that is popularly
known as The White Man s Grave Tho s e men who had
’

li ved fatly and well in their ordinary life went down like
ninepins It was the moderate feeders and the active m en
.

who survived Incidentally on that trip one discovered

.

’
that meat was not a necessary part of man s food F or a .

long time I lived on nothing but bananas and plantains ,

and though one was buried in a deep dank forest where

, ,

you seldom saw the light of the sun and the scent in th e ,
7 8 R OVE R IN G T o SUC CE SS
atmosphere was like that of an old cabbage garden from ,
-

vegetation rotting in the swamp I was never fitter in al l ,

my life and averaged my twenty m il es a day marching with

,

a light heart if a thin tummy .

OVE R S L EE P I N G
-
.

Over sleeping is another indulgence which people se l dom

-

take into consideration b ut the Japanese have a theory

,

that every hour of Sleep above what is essential for resting

,

and restoring the energy of brain and limb is harmful and ,

encourages the growth of fat So if a man finds he is .

getting corpulent he knocks an hour off his S leep each night

, ,

and per contra if he finds himself too s kinny he sleeps an ,

extra hour or two for a few weeks until he has attained a

satisfactory amount of sleekness If you want to rest .

your body read a good book if you want to rest your mind
, ,

play football or go fishing .

OVE R -
S T RE N GT H
LAN GU AGE
IN .

Another very common form of se lf indulgence for that is -

,

what it amounts to is ,

s wea ri n F r it shows
g o .

want of s elf control and -

,

though it may
relieve the feel
ings for the mo
ment ( and I have
found it do so
m y s e l f) it is ,

none the
l e ss a
weakne s s
which is
apt to
grow worse the
more you allow
TH E S O LD I E R F U LL O F S TR A NG E O A TH S I t a free rein. It .

does you no
good and if employed against others it does harm It
, .

arouses bad feeling on their part and in any case it knocks ,

chunks off your own dignity Pett Ridge suggests swear

.

ing is too good a relief to be wasted and shoul d b e kept ,

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for t imes of crisi s Napoleon once sai d of General Lannes
.
,

one of his most promising leaders That devil of a

Lannes possesses every quality which makes a great sol
dier b ut he never will be great because he gi ves way so
,

much to his temper in rebuking his o fficers I consider .

that one of the greatest faults that a general can have .

Lannes was privately told of this by General Marb ot ,

who was a great friend of his and an aide de camp of - -

Napoleon L an nes was eager to be a good general and

.
,

from that day on he took himself in hand and kept control

of his temper and his tongue He rose to be a Field Marshal .
-

of France .

How many Lannes i n b usiness may have failed to get

promotion because they were known to have this failing ?
A swearer can never hope to be a l eader of men though he ,

may try to drive .

O VE R WO RK I N G is another form of self indulgence which

- -

some people go in for .

Some I said not all !

, ,

The publisher of this book the late Herbert Jenkins was , ,

one of the some I have a note of his before me as I

.

write in which he said that he was working thirteen hours

a day and could get away from London for a night I had .

’
known him some years and I don t remember when it was
otherwise with him He always worked thirteen hours a
.

day He died young mainly from overwork

.
, .

I was a bit amused to hear that a newspaper recently

held a competition on the question of who were the three
bu siest men in the country and I found that I was bracketed ,

with Mr Lloyd George and the Prince of Wales

. .

I no more deserved such implied praise than my hat

( indeed less for my ,
hat has done a lot of overtime in these
days of post war prices) -
.

It is true that I am writing this at a quarter past five -

on a bitter winter morning but if I had not got up early ,

all my life I should never have had time to get half the
enj oyment that I have had out of it .

Mind you if you only take an hour extra per day it

,

means three hundred and S ixty five hours per an num or -

,

three weeks more of wakin g time than your average neigh

b our gets .

Personally I reckon to get thirteen months of life i nto

80 ROVERIN G TO SU CCE SS
each year instead of twe lve Some people put in ex tra
.

time at the other end of the day when body an d mind are
tired There is nothing like the early morning for getting
.

over your work .

A man who takes a pride i n his work gets a b ig measure

of enj oym ent out of it .

I once spoke to a young engineer whom I found working

when a strike was on I asked him how it was and he said
.
,

with pardonable pride : Well look at that bit of work

, .

Isn t it nobby ? I coul dn t leave that

’ ’
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He s tuck to it for the love of the thing What a di fference .

i t makes when you work for love of the thing .

The only danger i s for an over keen worker that -

he should become a slave to

his work and not give himself
the right amount of recrea
tion and rest .

By rest I don t mean idle ’

ness but change of occupa

tion My own change of .

occupation varies pretty con

s iderab ly Once for instance .
,

it took the form of wading in

M KY
UC JO B , A I N ’
T I T, M AT E?
82 ROVE RIN G TO SU C CE SS
on wh i ch his pay and promotion depend If he kept .

self bodily in condition at all times he would do his work

and enj oy his leisure twice as well .

He would take care to keep clear of those between meals -

sips and he would l ive to a hundred

, .

U N C LE J O HN S HELL .

Last year Uncle John She ll returned home to find

his wife dead Her relatives took charge of the funeral
.

arrangements and decided to take his little son aged seven

, , ,

to live with them Uncle John protested strongly but they

.
,

took him away Uncle John thereupon went into the house
.
,

got his old fiin tlock rifle which he had himself made more ,

than a century ago and mounting on his mule went in , ,

purs uit He overtook his father ln law on the road and

.
- -

”
with his gun forced him to give up the boy
“One hundred and thirty two years old— and hard
.

b oiled !
Yes It is not a misprint According to the authent i c
. .

account published in the L andmark in 1 9 2 0 old John Shell , ,

was born in Knoxville on September 3 rd 1 7 88 and was ,

alive and hearty The son who figured In the cas e was
.

only seven but his eldest son was over ninety and he had
, ,

twenty seven children in between these The old boy

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.

was a farmer and gave as his recipe for living long :

,

Work hard but don t over work Too much work is

,
’
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.

as bad as too little Take the food and sleep that your body
.

needs and a little fun besides every day

, , .

But he had never drunk anything stronger th an water .

A M U S E ME N T S .

One little form of fun in which I sometimes indulge

myself when I have had too long a day in office or at com
—
mi ttee work is to go to for goodness sake don t tell any
’

,
’

—
one a music hall or a C inema
-
.

I know that I Sh al l be told by respectable folk that this is

most degrading Well I can t help it No m an expects
.
,
’
.

to be perfect .

I have been urging AC TIVE C hange of occupation as your

best recreation I have no defence for this occasion al
.

l apsing into being passively amused by others .

At a C inema I get i nto a restful half asleep condition ,

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wi th a story put up in pictures before my eyes and if i t is ,

a rotten story as too often it is I go quietly to sleep

, , .

That is the di fficulty with the newfangled type of C inemas ,

they won t let you go to sleep now that they talk so much
’
.

F or a music hall S how I prefer one where there i s a

-

tramp cyclist or the champion smasher of plates or the

,

fellow with a spring necktie A good dose of laughing is .

to me like a bath for the brain .

At the same time I don t deny I get dreadfully b ored

,
’

wi th three quarters of the S how wi th the arch brazen

-
, ,

voiced half stripped lady S inger and the old chestnuts

,
-
,

about smelly fish and gin drinking mothers in law and - - -

,

the nasty little meaning sometimes put into their words

by actors who cannot raise a laugh on their meri ts as
humorists .

If it were all clean fun at the halls I believe the audience

would like it all the better and i t would pay the manage ,

ment all the better .

It is true that ladies can now come to musi c halls where -

,

a few years ago it was impossible for them owing to the

indecent songs and words employed .

Men of to d ay are C leaner minded than they used to be ,

and it is Up to you the rising generation of young men

, ,

to continue that improvement if only for the sake of your

own self respect
-
.

There are many other weaknesses and points of self

ind ulgence which I have not referred to here but which ,

you can find for yourself by carefully examining your own

ch aracter and habits Many of them may have been .

unsuspected hitherto but when you find them for your

,

self instead of having them pointed out by others you may

, ,

look on them as already well on the way to being cured .

I have indicated some few of these in the last chapter ,

together with their antidotes .

THE WAY R O U ND R OC K THE .

So you see that this rock labelled Wine that crops up

in your fai rway is really t hat of s elf i ndulgen ce By that -
.

I mean letting your inclination run away with you whether ,

it be in over drinking over smoking over eating or any

-
,
-
,
-
,

other form of luxury Self indulgence may s pell ruin to

.
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the individual and harm to the community It is largely .

84 ROVE RIN G T o SUCCE SS
the resul t of drifting with the herd around you wi th your ,

back to the danger But by looking ahead an d paddling

your own canoe for yourself with s elf control you can
.

n avigate yourself safely round to the sunny S ide of the rock ,

thereby acquiring strengthened C haracter that will make

you secure against other temptations to weakness .

And so it will help you on your way to success .

S E L F C O N TROL
-
.

The re are various ingredients that go to make C haracter .

The kind of C haracter I mean that practically makes a m an

a man or better a gentleman
Of these the first is s elf control A man who can control
, , , .

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.

, ,
—
himself his anger his fear his temptations everything , ,

—
i n fact except his conscience and his shame that man is
,

well on the way to being a gentleman .

By gentleman I don t mean a to ff wi th spats and eye

”
glass and money but a White Man a fellow whose
, ,

honour you can rely upon through thick and thin to deal
straight to be chivalrous and to be helpful
, .

Self control is the point in which B riti s hers are parti cu

-

larly strong as a rule Indeed we are inclined to hide our

.

feelings so thoroughly that foreigners often think we are

unobservant and unsympathetic but they allow that we can ,

be relied Upon to keep our heads in an emergency .

Well that is something at all events ! but I believe

,

that we can do a lot more through self control It certainly -

.

enables us to stand up again s t temptation s successfully .

It is a thing that can be cultivated and o ught to be

cul tivated by everyone who means to have C haracter .

People often laugh at the Law of the Scout which says

t h at when a boy i s in trouble danger or pain he should ,

force him s elf to smile and to whistle and this will i mm edi
ately alter his outlook .

Yet I do not know anyone who has not approved the

i dea when once he has t ried it for him s elf .

It undoubtedly has the desired e ffect and also the more ,

it is practi s ed the more self control develops itself as a habit

-
,

and therefore as part of one s C haracter ’

.

I once had to crawl into a patch of thick thorn bush after -

a lion which I was hunting I was in a mortal funk all th e

.

time but my Zulu tracker was keen on it and planned that

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if the lion C harged he would cover me with his shield .

Though I funked the lion I funked still more the contempt

,

.
—
of my Zulu So I crawled i n and I can tell you I was ,

mi ghtily Telieved when after poking about for a time we

, ,

found that the lion had bolted out another way .

I t came about that later on in India I was obliged to , ,

repeat the performance with a wild boar We had been .

hunting him on horseback with Spears and had severely , ,

wounded him when he got into a thick strip of j ungle from

which the beaters could not dislodge him .
They went through the covert making lots of ,

noi se but came out at the far end saying that

,

he was not there .

Well we knew
,

that he was
there as we had
,

watched all the

exits
.

THE PL N A WA S QU I TE SI MPL —
E ES PE C IA LLY F OR TH E L N
IO .

So havin g cheaply earned the reputation for that kind

of game I had to dismount and go in with the beaters to
,

encourage them in their second attempt .

—
We found him right enough or rather he found me In .

t h e middle of the thickest part of the j ungle I suddenly

heard a crash and a roaring grunt as the great beast C harged
out at me from his hiding place I had my spear levelled -
.

for him so that in h i s rush he charged straight on to it and

,

got it full into his chest But the force with which he came
.

threw me over flat on my back Keeping tight hold of the .

spear I was able to hold him j ust sufficiently far back to

,

prevent him from ripping me up the wai s tcoat with his tusk s .

This he was pretty eager to do an d he went at it with ,

86 R OVE RIN G TO SUCCE SS
great zest trying to push me farther down but I j ammed
,

the butt end of the spear i nto the ground behind me and
-

so managed to hold him .

The beaters stout fellows vied with each other in getting

, ,

outside the j ungle to tell the other hunters how I had b een
killed ! These presently came crashing along with their
spears and soon put an end to Mr Boar and relieved me .

from his attentions .

,
—
But do you know after a time nasty as we had thought
,

—
the j ob at firs t we actually got to rather like the excite
ment of this method of finishing the fight and so whenever ,

we had a boar badl y woun ded we dismounted and went at

him on foot .

I expect that had there been more dragons around i n

’
St George s time he would after getting over his first fear
.
, ,

of them so successfully have probably taken to dragon ,

slaying as a regul ar pastime .

Yes If you take yourself in han d and force yourself to

.

face a di fficult or dangerous l ooking j ob it will come all -

,

the eas ier the next time .

Self control not only enables you to master bad habits

-
,

b ut also gives you command of your very th oughts .

And this is a point of vital importance for your happiness .

F orce yourself always to see the bright lining that lies

b ehind the d arkest cloud and you will be able to face a
black outlook with full confidence .

Anxiety is depressed thought and once you have mas ,

tered this by being able to substitute bright hopefulness

, ,

you need never have recourse to drink to give you either

Dutch courage or oblivion .

A great boon that comes of the practice of self control -

i s the ability that you gain to switch your thoughts off any
un pleasant subj ect and to th ink of something satisfying
and j olly .

If you take trouble you can cultivate this habit of

switching off a brain cell that is harbouring bad thoughts
-

and Opening a fresh cell with good ide al s in it .

In t hi s way you may make a new man of yourself .

S E L F D I SC IP LI N E O F G E N E RAL N OGI
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.

The celebrated Japanese general General Nogi once , ,

ex plain ed in my presence how he had trained hi mself t o

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sel f control and courage It was a matter of self discipline

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.
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.

He had begun life as a weakly youth with a nervous dis

position but his will power was such that he recognised his
,
-

weakn ess an d determined to overcome it

’

Whenever he had to face some ordeal which he did not

like or which he feared he forced himself on prin ciple to go
,

through with it and repeated the perfo rmance wh enever

,

he coul d get an Opportunity in order finally to subdue hi s

weakness .

He eventually freed him s elf from the tyranny of fear .

He became the boldest leader and the most intrepid

soldier of his time .

Wh en his son was killed in action he made no S ign lest

grief on his part Should cause depression among others .

But none the less he felt very deeply .

When his Emperor died he felt as a faithful servant that

he hims elf should no l onger live and he killed himself by
cutting him s elf open with his own hand A wonderful .

example of s elf command over fear and pain

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S E L F C O N T ROL MA KE S THE G E N TLE MAN

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A London crowd is exceptionally well mannered It -

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will stand for hours and watch in silence a large safe be i ng , ,

haul ed U p to the top of a high building .

In Silence mind you wi thout o ffering a word of advi ce

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”
to the men at the j ob A great example of self control -
.

That is what Pett Ridge has to say on self control and -

how it contributes to good manners .

Old William of Wykeham declared long ago that Man

ners makyth Man ”
and he was right A real man is
, .

courteous ! that is he shows deference human sympathy

, ,

and unbreakable good hu mour -

.

It makes him a gentleman and I have seen it very truly

,

said that it is j ust as hard for a duke as a bricklayer to be

a gentleman .

I used to play polo against a certain team who had a very

good black player ! but he had his weak spot he was not ,

a gentleman he had a bad temper

, .

So one only had to bump into him once or catch h i s stick

j ust as he was about to hit the ball ( both allowable In the
game) and he lost his temper and with it his head for the , ,

rest of the game and was perfectly useless to hi s side It

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i s much the same in discussion or debate if your adversary
cannot control his temper you have him at your mercy a

that is if you can control your own .

One often see s it in the acrimonious correspondence in

the newspapers It is generally the S ign of a small mind
.

when an angry man rushes to write to the pap e rs He .

shows the C hildish spirit of I shan t play in your yard any ’

more I ll go and tell mother of you

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Remember this If you are in the right there is no need

,

to lose yo ur temper ! if you are in the wrong you can t ’

afford to .

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Go ahead on that behave like a gentleman with pol i te
ness and self control and you will win ever y time where
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,

your opponent lacks these qualities .

LOYALTY .

Another p o int that tend s to make C haracter ( which i s

the b est ant i dote to drink) i s l oyal ty to others and more ,

especially loyal ty to oneself .

Dan Beard the veteran backwoods boy man of America

,
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,
”
has instituted the order of the Buckskin Man namely , ,

a man that you can absolutely rely upon as one to turn

to in any di ffi culty a man ful l of courage resource and
, , ,

above all of loyalty .

Loyalty is an outstanding point in C haracter Sir .

E rnest Shackleton before he went on h i s la s t cruise in the

,

told Arthur Mee of the C hild en s N ewspap er that

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u es t ,
r

once in the Antarctic when things were at their darkest

, ,

and death by s low starvation seemed certain Shackleton ,

overheard the following conversation between two of his

men
I don t think we ll get through said one voice
’ ’

, .

That s the Boss s look out came the rej oinder

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, .

It brought home to him afresh not only the re s ponsib il ity ,

of leaders hip but its loneliness, .

Leadership he said is a fine thing but it has its

, , ,

penalties And the greatest penalty is loneliness

. .

You feel you mu s t not tell your men everything !

”
Y OU often have to hide from them he s aid not only , ,

the truth but your feelings about the truth You may
,
.

know that the facts are dead against you b ut yo u mustn t ,

’

say so One thing only makes Antarctic leade rs hip pos

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ri s k those men whom he loves and who are trust ing h i m , ,

for the sake of the greater consideration the safety and ,

welfare of the nation .

The s e are things that have to be thought on when you

are con sidering what is meant by loyalty and how you are
to train yours elf for leadership .

But then there is also loy al ty to yourself Temptation .

”
comes along conscience says ,
No Inclination says .

Y es .

You either rise or let yourself down according to which

you obey If you are loyal to yourself you go up one If
.
.

you funk it and give way down you go and down goes y our , ,

respect for yourself .

T RUTHF U LN E S S .

It was my j ob at one time to try an d detect spies Of .

cours e a very common way of finding out a suspected man s

,
’

nation al ity is to stamp on his toe and hear in what kind of

language he expresses himself But a forei gn spy catcher .
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once told me that if he suspected a man of being a British

officer in di sguise he had one infallible test he would get
him in conversation and take the first opportunity of calling
him a liar Although the o fficer might be marvellous at
.

generally concealing his true C haracter if you call him a ,

liar he can t help flaring up at the insult and so gives him

’

self away .

Yes it is true That word Liar has a stab in it for

, .

an honourable man I hate to hear the word used as it

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,

often is by boys or men in an unthinking way when in argu

, ,

ing some ordinary question they say You re a liar ,

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.

From hearing it often I suppose they get accustomed to ,

it but the man of honour can never accustom himself to

,

it To him it i s always the worst possible insul t

. .

S E L F RE S P E C T
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Self respect is an important ingredi ent in C haracter and

-

a man who cannot respect himself ( and no drunkard or

I dler or liar or beggar can do this cannot expect other
)
people to respect him .

It is here that a common little failing comes in namely , ,

t i ps A Scout is expected to do his good turns to people

.

out of courteousness and goodwill and not to accept rewards .

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The man who accepts tips lowers himself and puts him
se l f on the level of a beggar accepting charity .

I have been awfully sorry of late years to see tipping

creeping in with taxi drivers hotel porters waiters and , ,

others hungering for a few pence from their patron s .

And yet as men they wo ul d be ashamed of being patron

ised and receiving C hari ty Tipping leads the way in .
,

better paid positions to s o called perquisi tes and in

!

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still higher places to bribes and corruption .

Hitherto our men have been too manly and self respecting -

to lower themselves to this long may it be said with truth

”
that a Briton c annot be bribed .

Samurai are a fifteen hundred year old brotherhood of

- - -

Knights in Japan much on the lines of our own mediaeval

,

knights Their guidi ng i deal i s Bushi do which encourages

.
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among its members

Poverty in place of we al th ,

Humility in place of ostentation ,

Reserve in place of advertisement ,

Self s acri fice in place of selfi shnes s

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Interests of the State i n place of those of the i ndivi du al ,

coupled with personal c ourage fortitude loyal ty self , , ,

restrain t and C hastity .

If a Bush i disgraced h i mself he was invited to commi t

—
kara kiri that is on parade with strict ceremony to kill
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, , ,

himself by ripping his stomach Open These knights were .

intensely touchy on the subj ect of their honour and dignity .

One c al led Gorgorro i n the middl e of a b attle got an arrow

, ,

into his eye This did not stop him he went on fighting and
.
,

leading his men in actio n till the battle was over A friend .

then tried to get it out and had to put him down on his
b ack to do i t but finding that ordinary pull ing was not ’
successful he put his foot on the patient s head to get the
,

necessary leverage When at last he had successfully

.

priz ed it out Gorgorro instead of being grateful sprang to

, , ,

his feet and ch al lenged him to mortal combat for having

lowered his dignity by placing his foot on hi s head .

S HAME MAKE S A MAN AN O UTC AS T .

Do you know what i s one of the m ost tragi c sights i n th i s

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It is the sight of a man who is ashamed One feels alm ost .

ashamed oneself to look upon it .

I saw it once for a few moments only many years ago

, , ,

but it has haunted me ever since .

I was travelling on a railway extension In the jungle In ,

a far off s pot overseas Our train pulled up at a point

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where a white ganger and his native crew were at work .

Instead of coming up as these men generally did full of j oy

, ,

at s eeing the train to get the latest news from the outer
,

world an d to speak if only for a few moments with other

, ,

W hite men this ganger

,
withdrew himself aside and turn ed
h i s back upon us only waiting for the train and its white
,

folk to leave him again .

I asked about him and learned that he had been a cavalry

o fficer well kno w n in London and generally about the
,

country as a cheery spo rtsman and a pop ular fellow .

But the craving for drink had gradually got hold of him
and had ruined him and he was now what we saw him an
, ,

outcast a man who was ashamed

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Y O U N G F E LLOWS ARE F U LL OF Go B UT E MP TY OF ,

G U MP T IO N ”
.

Young fellows are full of go but empty of gumpt i on , .

That is what someone has said of some of you I t t e .

minds me of an occasion when I was out reconnoitring in

South Africa with a party of 7 th Hussars and in crossing ,

a dry river bed we came across a lion .

One of us had a shot at him and severely wounded h im ,

but he managed to get away into a patch of thick reeds and

rushe s into which it was impossible or at any rate very
, ,

un s afe to follow him as he had all the advantage of lying

, ,

hid and had the pull of hearing and scenting anybody

co ming near his hiding place -
.

So we rapidly po sted men on the look out at di fferent -

p oi n ts round the covert to give information if he should

c o m e out Our pl an was when all preparations had been
.
,

made and men with rifles had been pos ted at likely spots ,

to s et fire to the grass and drive him out .

The re was con siderable delay about this as the reeds to

the wi ndward Side were green and would not take fire .

I had a good place on a rock for seeing him should he

come out in that direction and was straining my eyes to ,
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catch a glimpse of him in the reeds Suddenly my vigilance

.

was rewarded I saw a movement among the rushes and

. ,

as th ey waved to and fro I perceived that the animal was

coming in my direction .

My heart thumped with excitement I S pat on my

c artridge to bring it good luck and I waIted with my rIfle
ready at full cock to give him what for the moment he
showed his nose
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.

On he came closer and closer , ,

till he was within a few yards of

me I felt he was mine I could
. .

not miss him at that

distance .

The reeds parted .

was on the point

firing when instead
,

a lion th ere stood before

me a farrier sergeant
One of th e duties of a
farrier serge ant i s when a
hors e ge tS b adl y damag ed P EE P B Y O U TH I S FU LL O F G o
o !
B U T E MP T Y O F G U MP TI O N
O
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to take h l s revolver and .

put It out of its p ain .

So this fellow having seen that the lion was wounded ,

suppo s ed that It was his duty to go in and finish it off .

He did not refl ect that his revolver would have been
about as much good as a pea Shooter and that the p oli sh ing
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off would have been done by the l ion and not by the f arrier .

As it was he nearly got it in the neck from me But he

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was young in the ways of lions They didn t come his way
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in Tooting He had shown splendid go but little gumpti o n !
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and that is what many young fellows do in taking on the

lions of real life for which they have had no preparation or
warning .

A UTO S U GGE STION

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Self control or self mastery has now become a scientific

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s tudy ,
and many doctors have established a wonderful
record of healing people from pain and illness through the
e ffort of their own mind .

In various directions you will have heard of remarkable

cures being e ffected through faith healing that is by the ,

patient believing that the evil will go from him .

I suppose that most of us have at one time or another

worked it to some extent upon ourselves .

Say you have a wound in the leg It hurts all over the .

limb you feel likely to faint you can scarcely put your
foot to the ground Ouch ! How it hurts ! .

Let s sit or lie down for a bit and groan

’

Well there is another way of dealing with it

, .

Wound So it is quite a small hole and the pain can

, ,

onl y be j ust round the wound No not all up the leg that .
, ,

is imagination No it is j ust at that one little spot quite

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a small place and therefore small pain Hold yourself

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together walk on and keep the leg movi ng so that it won t

,
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get sti ff Warm it Up and i t won t hurt That s right

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’

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better already .

The idea is that in order to cure yourself of your ailment ,

you must use your imagination rather than your wi ll .

Dr C ou e once explained the di fference thus If you put

.

an ordinary plank on the ground you can walk along it ,

with perfect ease .

Put the same plank as a bridge b etween two house tops -

,

a hundred feet above the street and you cannot cross it , .

Your will wants you to go in order to get to the other side ,

your im agination makes you think you will fall and defeats ,

your will And that is their usual relationship to each

.

other Imagi nation wins the day

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So if you are suffering you must concentrate your thoughts

and im agine to yourself what relief you desire imagine then ,

that you are gradually getting i t and you will present ly find
that you have got it .
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Ninety nine people out of a hundred are i n pain or il l or
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even helpless because they believe that they are It is

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their imagination But if you can get them to employ the

.

reverse imagination and imagine that they are getting

all ri ght and finally are all right they wi ll in almost every ,

case b e all right .

And Dr C oué proved the truth of his theory every day i n

.

results among the crowds of patients who came hobbling in

to him and went away rej oicing .

And he didn t do it for money or reward ’

.

But the great thing is that not only can auto suggestion -

cure illness and pain it can equally cure bad memory or

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nervous fear and more especially and here lies its impor
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tance for young men i t can do away with the desire for
al coho l or tobacco sex temptation and other forms of , ,

self indulgence
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How T OMMY TO M K IN S D E FE ATE D D E ATH .

That awful scourge of Indi a chol era b roke out i n the , ,

regiment Tommy Tomkins a tough old soldier in my

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,

squadron went down with i t In a few hours he was in a

, .

bad way .

Poor Tommy i s for i t was the verd i ct of the hosp i t al ,

’

sergeant .

F or the next forty eight hours however he held on -

, ,

between life and death and finally to the surprise of every , ,

b ody he turned the corner

,
.

Later on when I went to see him convalescent in hosp i tal

he told me the secret of how he conquered death .

He knew he was dying the doctor had as much as sai d

so but told the native attendant that there was j ust a
,

chance of his living if he could keep his extremities warm .

So hot bott les or b ricks were to be put to his feet at once .

The doctor went out and the attendant instead of bother , ,

ing about hot bottles pulled out his hookah from its hiding ,

place and squatted down in the com er to have a quiet

smoke .

This mightily enraged poor Tommy who though unable , ,

to move or speak understood all that was going on He , .

swore to himself that if he could only get well again he

would give that native such a rousing Up as he would not
forget in a hurry He busied himse l f th inking what form
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of thrashing the punishment should take and how soon he
would be able to get out of bed and administer it He put .

all thought s of death on one side in the more absorbing

idea of getting a bit of his own back on that fellow .

And s o he came to life again .

It was the force of will and imagination that pulled him

through .

I had j ust such another experience in my own case I .

was pretty bad in ho s pital with dysentery when the news

came that if I could only be well by a certain date I should
get command of a column that was going off after the enemy .

It seemed a hopeless task but still I hoped And I , .

imagined to myself what I would do when in command and ,

I planned plans while at the same time I tried hard to

, , ,

get better .

The harder I tried the better I got Day after day

, .

passed by and I was convalescent but when the eventful ,

’
date arrived I j ust wasn t fit enough to be allowed to go .

Two days later another man came in al so seriously ill ,

with dys entery My bed was wanted for him As I gave

. .

it over to him he moaned that he was coming in to die I .

—
told him Ro t I was much worse when I came in Think
, .

”
of what you are going to do when you get out again .

Next day I started out with an escort of three and after ,

a ride of eighty miles through a risky country I caught up

, ,

the colum n and took charge of it .

Meantime my succes s or in the bed imagined himself

dying He got worse and worse and eventually did what
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he thought he would do h e died .

SELF -
C U RE .

Well this is really the art of auto suggestion by which

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a m an can if he i s determi ned cure himself of many an

, ,

illne ss and almost any weakness .

If a man can defe at death by it s urely he can defeat ,

drink or any other temptation Don t forget it If things .

’
.

at any time look di fficult for you or even impossible think , ,

of a way by which you might have won su ccess and then

figu re to yourself your winning it and when your mind
t ell s you that it is imp os sible reply to it N 0 not i mpos, , ,

sible I see what might be I can try I can win it I

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Wh en everything goes crooked

And s eem s inclined to rile ,

Don t kick nor fuss nor fidget

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— —
Just you smile

Wh en someone tries to do you

By taking more than half ,

Be patient firm and pleas ant !

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,

—
Just you laugh .

But if you find you re stuffy ’

( Sometimes of course you will

, ) ,

And cannot smile nor grin nor laugh ,

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, ,

—
Just keep still .

BRUSH AWAY TE MPTATION

When de drink holler to you I m yo fri en ! ,
’ ’ ’

Bresh it a way !
When it tell you You s as strong as other men
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!
B resh it away !
E fo you stumble an you stutter
’ ’ ’

E fo you s flung into de gutter

’ ’ ’

E fo you lose yo bread an butter

’ ’ ’ ’

B res h it away !

Ef temptation come an ask you How you does ?

’

Bres h it away !
Wh en it say I se b een wondering whar you wuz
'
, !
Bres h it away !
Tho a soft sweet talking critter
’

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Dat s a mighty powerful hitter

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I t s de devil s own man gitter,

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B res h it away !
Ole M arster , B . B . Valenti ne )
.

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. .

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, . .

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. Norgate) ,

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R O C K N U MB E R THRE E

WO ME N
 WOME N
THE d ark s i d e of t hii o t f o g t th
s R oc k i s t h e te mp t at n o r e e

re v ere n ce d t w m ue o o en .

Th b i gh t i d i t h
e r sf g d i g o l f g i t t m pt
e s e sa e u ar n n es e a a ns e a

ti o t h gh th
n ro u l ti v t i o o f h i v l y d o f m l y p o t ti v
e cu a n c a r an an r ec e

gth
R K
t
s r en .

S EX IN N S TI D HE
C TS AN T IR IS S .

Th p i d f y
e er o t h i th h m o u t ti g
ou o wh i h
s e u an r n s eas n, c

o cc u rs l l y i th o f im l
a n n ua d pl t n e c as e an a s an an s .

Th mi g f m h d
e co n ox l t m p t ti i than oo c a u s es s e ua e a on n e

l d It a m f m p f tl y
. co t l es — m ly
ro er e c n a u r a c a u s es na e ,

th p d f m e s re a p i t h y t
o m se en or s a n e s s e .

Th m l e d f m l a e an d j o i fo m i g th g m f e a e s ee in n r n e er o

w h i ld
a ne c .

Th i d i
s s ee d t u t h n d d d own to y u f
s a s acre r s , a e o or
yi g c a rr th n on e ra c e .

Th i m p t e f o r a n ced ti n th t i o f n t
c ar e an co n ne ce , a s, O o
gi vi g i t t m p t ti n n o e a on .

T m p t ti i m h i
e a on d b y th h d b v d o o f
s uc n c re a s e e er ra a

y g f ll w t l ki g
o un l l y m g th m lv
e o s a n ca re ess a on e se es .

I f t m p t ti e i yi ld d t a m
on lo h i lf p t
s e e o, a an s es s se -
re s ec .

H l ik v
e a so l di
r s wh i h i
s d g
e n ere a d s eas e , c s a an er a n a .

t ib t i
Di
re r u on .

i l g ly d
sease t
s i g o n wh i h h b o gh t
ar e ue o n ra ce, c as r u
bo t m y t g di
a u an ra e es .

MA N L NE I SS .

I mu hix alry t w d w m n p v n t o m f om
ar s o a re e s a an r

f l l i g f m t m p t i g wo m
a n or ro e n a
. an .

It p t
18 u y i d
o vi d u l t m
o u as ant y u l f d t n i a o as er o rs e an o
t k th ai gh t li e e r ne .

Yo m t h ur i fl o h lp y u
er s
’
n ue n ce c an e o .

I vi g y
n sa l f y w ill b h l p i g t p
n o u rs e v th
, ou e e n o r e s er e e r a ce .

H w t g t h l th
o o d te g t h t h gh f h
ea l
an li s re n ro u re s ai r, C e an
b th i g
n ess , o f t th x i
rea t
n , c are ee , e e rc s e s , e c .

Be a MA N .

MA RR I A G E .

L et o ur y
l v dv t b l n o e a e n u re s e C ea .

How to c h th i gh t g i l oose e r r .

W i g f m p kb t h
a rn n s
g t t i grog g d a or -
u c er o n e n en a e .

I omnc i m p t t d t il
e an o r an e a .

A m o w d ti to h i w i f n g tti g m
an es d u es s e o e n arrI e
Th j y f h il d
.

e o o C re n .

Th p ib i li ti f p
e re s th o d
o ns d h w to t i f es o are n o an o ra n or
th m
,

e .

H pp i a f th h m i m d
nes s om p l t b y
o d i e o e s a e c e e ren er n g
it y
,

v t th
s er mm i ce o e co un .

WH O H AT H VE S D
T E RS
H SU J E A AI ON T E B CT .

H E L PF U L B OOK S .
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which then come out on top In the combats that follow .
,

with the rattle and d ash of antlers and the grunting of

struggling combatants the weaker give in and are pressed , ,

backwards by their more powerful Opponents until they ,

are driven off in craven flight leaving to the vi ctor the ,

C hoice of wives as lord of the herd .

And he takes his responsibilities ready at all times and — ,

able—to protect his hinds and fawns against all aggressors .

The defeated weaklings can then only sne ak about

trying to get what j oy they can among the outcasts of the
herd These poor under sized creatures overdone with
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rutting are not thought much of by stalkers who val ue

, ,

rather the finer

animals with their
g r e a t e r strength
and activity .

The same kind of

thing goes on in a
greater or lesser
degree among other
animals of the
j ungle among the ,

birds in spring and ,

even among the

fishes in winter .

E ven plants trees ,

TH E C E N T R E O F THE P I S TI L m
and flowers come
( F le)

l l
e a

g d ti o ] wi th
under the same law
po ll f ll i g I om t t m (A t ) i to th
!d wra n on d ie n ar e s ca e an n s ec n ,

Of Nature and III

,

o v t y mgg g g i tI i tsl g m l ) whi h th el r m ttl n 8 6 3 8 011

en a n ne s a en a a n e

b l l
' ,

yo d Th b h m f
ar or e a 0 le s e u e c

b y th m p o l
,

C o n aIn s e r s ee s. ese g co e er ,
e ae en.
the spring the sap ,

rises and S preads

itself through every branch leaf and tendril and the , ,

flowers blos s om out so that the female pistil can receive ,

the pollen dust from the male stamens which is a sm al l ,

germ that unites with the female germ and t hey j ointly ,

make the young seed for a new plant .

E ven the throwing out of beautiful flowers by the plants

in spring time is S imilar to the habits of animals and birds ,

which put on their brightest plumage in the mating sea s on ,

and th i s we see reproduced again among the young mashers

with their bright socks fancy tie s and well oiled hair , ,
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 WOME N 1 03

MAN HOO D .

It is the impul se of Nature and i t therefore occurs al so ,

with man .

But here the di fference comes in that though the unrest ,

comes to him i t does not do so every year but once in his

—
,

lifetime that is when he is j ust growing from boyhood

into manhood And as with the stag in some cases he
.
,

comes out of it a strong Virile Lord of the Herd while , ,

i n others he deteriorates and becomes the weakling or even

the outcast .

This rutting season i s a very upsetting t i me and i t ,

troubles some fellows to an alarming amount of depressi on

or excitement which often lasts for several months
, .

Indeed in occasional cases it goes on for a few years I .

get lots of letters from young fellows who have never been
told what to expect when they are growing into manhood ,

and consequently they have felt worried by finding it an

upsetting time for them They get nervy and unsettled in .

their mind without knowing why They can t settle do wn .

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properly to their work they get shy of other people and feel
,

mi s erable and often think that they are going off their head
, .

I am only too glad that in their trouble they have thought

of writing to me becau s e in many cases I have been able
,

to reassure them and to help them to take it calmly and ,

to get over it j ust as they woul d get over the measles or

any other youthful complaint There is nothing in it to .

be Upset about I t all comes from quite natur al causes

. .

Psychologists that is men who study the mind and

, ,

writers will give you reasons for it that are connected with
the mind b u t it i s quite enough for most of us to know
,

that there is al so a very clear reason for i t connected with

the body .

When a boy grows into manhood his whole b ody under

goes a gradual change which anyone can see for himself .

’
His voice becomes deeper hair grows where it didn t grow ,

before his muscles become set and hardened his organs

, ,

develop , and so on .

S E X U AL TE MP TATION C O ME S F ROM PE RFE C TL Y N ATU RAL

CA USES , V I! . SAP .

This change is brought about b y a fluid forming with in

h im and ri pening from his childh ood upwards and which is ,
1 04 R OVE R IN G TO SU CC E SS
now
spread i ng throughout h i s body j ust as sap does i n a

tree It gives the vigour of manhood to his frame and It

.
,

builds Up his nerves and courage Then it has a further .

and special use .

It i s called s emen a Lat i n word meanIng seed because In

, ,

thi s fluid when it goes into the sex organs a number of

,
,

tin y germs or seeds are developed .

THE A C T IO N O F G E R M S E E D S I N M A K I
-
N G A N E W C HI L D .

The val ue of these seeds is that wh en mixed among the

fem al e seeds that are possessed in a S imilar way by women
they fertilise them that is ,

the two seeds become j oined

together and between them ,

grow into a larger germ or

small egg which in its turn ,

gradually takes form and

life until in the end a ,

miracle is b rought about

G Th g m bo i th h d f b
YY and it comes i t eing a
b l er
Il O s
en an
o o o
e er rn n e

y k k f
l
.

d h m i g a C hild n
t
h o o o
r
ti h e c c
se
g f g
l
.
. .

B a an ce r s o r an c i d or n t c r s s r n

t t
e j l
e y .A A .p ir s ace . It I S ] ll S t the same
miracle that you see car
ried out daily when a hen
lays an egg T h a t e g g .

contains in its yolk an d

white the future live
chicken and is a result of ,

the seed of the cock bird

being j oined to that of the
hen .

5 0 in th e case o f th e »
. .

TH E M I R A C L E O F T H E E GG
human b el n g from the ,

germ there emerges a lIV

.

ing breathin g creature of flesh blood and bones with

, , ,

eye sight br ain and mind and even with many points of
, ,

li kene s s in appearance and charac ter to both of its parents .

THE G E RM I s A S AC RE D T RU ST F OR C ARRY I N G ON THE R AC E .

An d this young creature ca rries within it ag ain the germ s

for rep roducing further children in its turn when i t has ,

gro wn to the riper age .

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brain j ust at the critical time when you would otherwi se be
gainin g the height of manly heal th and intelligence .

H E RD B RAVAD O .

Young fellows in this rutting stage are apt to get together

and to tell s mutty stories and look at lewd pictures and
they think i t very fine and manly to talk on the subj ect
when they are re al ly dangerously ignorant about it .

They generally get all sorts of wrong notion s into their

heads an d with thi s t al king and thinking about it is brought
,

on a feeling of desire that often seems to the weaker

,

charactered fellow almost impossible to fight down .

In the ordinary course the rutting period would pass off

,

in a few weeks or months but by giving way to temptation

, ,

and by keeping up the thought of it in talk and loose com

p an i o n s h i p many,
a fellow gets into the habit of immorality
with women or self abuse with himself which then goes on
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,

after the rutting season is over and when he has grown to

manhood .

Once established the habit is then very difficult to break

down but it can be done if the fellow makes up his mind
—
to i t i f he tackles the j ob and sticks to it E ach time
, .

he succeeds makes success all the more certain .

Sunday is the worst day in the week for vice because ,

youn g fellows have nothing to do and aimless loafing ,

encourages loose talk If you carry out Rovering (s ee

.

final chapter) you will find lot s to do in the way of hiking

,
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and enj oyment of the out of door and manly activities
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.

To get rid of the bad you must put in something good in

its place .

VE NE RE AL D IS E AS E .

One almost invariable result from l oose t al k among l ads

is that they get to tal k filth and in this way lower their
,

ideal s and thoughts to a beastly standard and one which ,

they will be ashamed of later on when they have grown to

be men .

It puts them back on their road to happiness because ,

they will have so much leeway to make up in getting out

of the mud into which they have floundered And mud .

always s ticks to some extent .

Then l ad s are apt to j oke airily about venereal diseases ,

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which are sure sooner or later to overtake those who

, ,

indulge their sex desires unwisely .

But these disea s es are no j oking matter however slight

their first e ffect s they are despera tely dangerous to a m an
,

—
.

They are very easily caught even from a ki s s or from

drinking out of a C Up used by an infected pers on .

There are two principal V enereal Diseases :

Syp hi li s Poisonous infection that can be
caught by connection or by touch of lips on a cup p i pe etc , , .

The disease s hows itse l f in a sore at first thi s develops in

a few weeks into other sores then in from one to twenty ,

ye ar s it causes disease of parts of the body or of bones an d ,

frequently of the heart .

Gonorrhcea C l ap —
C aught by connection or from ,

infected towels etc Shown by discharge of matter from

, .

the organ and inflammation of the organ itself F urther .

inflammation likely to follow in the bladder etc , .

Syphil is i s often inherited by children from diseased

parents with the result that they are blind or deaf or
, , ,

par al ytic or i n s ane It has been estimated that twenty five

, .
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per cent of p eople who are blind from infancy are so as

.

the re s ult of parents syphilis The sins of the fathers’

.

are indeed Vi sited on their children .

When once syph ili s has got hold of you none of the ,

quack medicines as advertised will save you The only .

way is to go at once to a good doctor and tell him straight

out what h as happened If he takes you i n ti me he will be. ,

able to cure you .

But the danger i s not one wh i ch anyone will j oke about

once he know s the depth of it is it A vi s it to any Lock ,

hospital will give you such examples of venereal di s e ase as

will persuade you better than any words of mine to avoid
, ,

having anything to do with women of the street if you

would s ave yourself in body as well as soul .

Remember too that a man who has once been infected

, , ,

even tho ugh apparently cured is liable to carry the germ ,

of the di s ea s e In him for years and later on to p ass it on to ,

his wife and future C hildren ! and this makes i t a crime on

his part to marry for he wi ll ruin innocent lives through his
,

own folly .

The folly of taking such a risk i s l argely the result of

being carried away by the weaknesses of the herd .
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—
It is l ike dri nking or gambling a di sease which you
pick up from letting yourself drift too far without think
ing in the company of a lot of other un th mkmg young
,

fellows .

Many men come to grief from supposing th at if they go

with a gi rl who is not a regu lar pro s titute of the streets ,

there will be no danger of being infected with the disease .

But the reports show that the danger is actually greater .

The gi rl who has once been deceived by some blackguard of

a man los es her sense of shame and is willing occa s ionally
to go with other men But in her ignorance she is more
.

liable than the professional to harbo ur disease from not ,

knowing what precautions to take Therefore Sh e is all the .

,

more d angerous to herself poor creature an d to others with

, ,

whom s h e comes in contact .

A m an may be continen t and resolve to remain so He .

may then by C hance or by boon companions be led to

, ,

take that fatal si x s sth glass and with brain and senses , ,

C louded do the very things he meant not to do

, .

That is where so many a good fellow has come to grief

and ruined himself not only morally ( in his character) ,

but physically ( in his body) as well .

THE T RAGE DY OF I GN ORAN C E .

Last year a young soldier was condemned to death for

murdering a woman He confessed that he had done it
.

with intention She h ad infected him with syphilis Sh e

.
,

had wrecked his life and he was de termined that even

, ,

tho ugh he were hanged for it no more m en s hould suffer as

,

he had done through h er in s trumentali ty and that th rough ,

t h e notoriety of this case they would be warned of t heir

d anger in time .

La s t ye ar a young officer committed s uicide and left ,

this note behind him addressed to his sister ,

Gertie dearest of sisters try and forget what you will

, ,

never fo rgive I should have done what I am about to do

.

three years ago The disgrace of it all has driven me

.

i nsan e .

If you Should ever have any sons of your own for

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,

I t
p y sake instruct them fully in the perils surrounding
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1 10 R OVE RI N G TO SU CCE SS
woman as well as for the man But it has also its very .

bright S ide if you only man oeuvre your canoe aright .

The paddle to us e for this j ob is C HIVAL RY .

Mo st of the point s which I have s uggested as being part Of f

the right pa th are comprised un der C hivalry .

The knights of old were bound by their oath to be chiv al

rous that is to be protective and helpful to women an d
,

C hildren .

This means on the part of the man a deep respect and

tender sympathy for them coupled with a manly strength ,

of mind and strength of body with which to stand up for

them against scandal cru elty or ridicule and ev e n on
, , ,

occasion to help them against their own failings

,
.

A man without chivalry is no man A man who has this .

chivalry and respect for women could never lower himself to

behave like a beast nor would he al low a woman to ruin her
,

self with him by losing her own self respect and the respect -

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of others It is U p to him to give the lead and that a right
.

one ! and not to be led astray .

I have known such chivalry on the part of a man to give

further than this even to the point of raising a woman who
,

had fallen ! where she had expected him to j oin her in

debauchery his courteous respect for her which overlooked ,

her faul ts and was given b ecaus e she was a woman caused ,

her once more to think of her own self respect and so -

restored her to her place .

C hivalry like other points of C haracter must be deve l oped

, ,

by thought and practice but when gained it puts a man on a

,

new footing and a higher one wi th himself and wi th the

wor1d .

To be chivalrous he must put woman on a pedestal and ,

see all that is best in her he must also have sympathy for
the weaker folk the aged and the crippled ! and he must
,

give protection to the little ones .

For thi s he must use his self contro l to swi tch o ff all that
-

i s impure from his mind and ensure that his own ideas are
C le an and honourable that his sense o f duty is so high that
,

ridicule and chaff wil l mean nothing to hi m .

N OT M YJ OB .

Not my j ob is usu al ly the camouflage under which

a coward endeavours to conceal hi s want of chivalry But .
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for a man anything that can be helpful to anyone is his

Job .

I don t mean by that that he should therefore poke his

’

nose into other people s business or ask them Are you

’

, ,

saved ? and so on .

But if he can lend a hand to a woman who i s down or ,

help a young fellow who is trying to keep up and clean then ,

he can do a great good through his C hivalry And more .

,

over h e can be of service to others by the very example

,

he sets of lead ing a C lean upright life and b y showing , ,

that he is not ashamed of s o doing .

IT IS UP M ASTE R OF Y O U RS E L F
To Y O U To B E .

The thing is to rememb er as I have said before that , ,

you are Y O U and you have got to make your own road for
,

yourself if you mean to gain happiness C ome out of the .

herd and take your own practical steps towards fighting

down the desires that come upon you in the course of Nature .

Keep away from loose companions whether men or girls ,

take on l ots of other occupation and healthy exerci s e s uch ,

as boxing walking hikes football rowing etc Keep your

, , , , , .

thoughts off lewdness by taki ng up hobbies and good

reading i n your spare time keep off drink and over
smoking over eating sleeping in too warm or soft a bed
,
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, ,

since all these help to make the temptation worse .

Keep yourself clean i nside and out by daily washing ,

an d swi mming i f you possibly can C onstipation and .

neglect to keep the racial organ cleaned daily are apt to

cause slight irritation which leads to trouble .

The temptat i on has to be fought down mainly duri ng th e

few months of your changing from boyhood into manhood .

If you are past that stage and have unfortunately con

tracted bad habits i t is not too late You can overcome .

them if you really try I t is never too late but at the same
.
,
’
time you can t be too early in curing yourself .

Above al l don t be alarmed by the awful penalties which

’

quack doctors hold out to you They do it in order to make .

you buy their rotten me dic ines that i s one of the tricks of
their trade But go forward wi th good hope and trust i n
.

yourself .

It will b e a struggl e for you but i f you are determined to ,

win you will c ome out of i t all the b etter for the experience !
1 12 R OVE R IN G TO SUC C E SS
you will have strengthened your character and y our se l f
control ! you will have come through clean m i nded and -

wholesome and you will have fortified your body with the
full power of manhood .

Remember al s o th at you have done th i s not only for your ,

own sake but because you have a duty to the nation to the
, ,

race that i s to beget strong he al thy children in your turn

, , ,

and to do this you have to keep yours elf pure .

Some fellows seem to think that if they don t l et them ’

selves go now and then they will not be able to perform

,

when they get married later on This is absolute nonsense . .

C ontinence does not weaken your p owers quite the

Opposite ! it strengthens you in every way .

I have had so many letters from young men on the subj ect
that I q uote a reply that I have sent them as it may meet ,

th e anxie ty of others :
I am very glad indeed to hear that you have managed to
keep yoursel f straight in spite of the continued temptation .

In reply to your que s tion I don t think you need have any
,
’

fear about being able to marry provided that you go on as ,

you are now doing Lots of fellows have to my knowledge

.
, ,

been afraid to marry thinking that they might be impotent ,

because of their having ind ul ged in self abuse when young -

.

But they found that they were al l right after all an d so I ,

h Ope and expect it will be in your case .

A UTO S U GGE STION

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Imagination runs off into day dreams and these m ay b e -

,

sugges tive ones which bring on temptation .

Yet imagination is the important part of auto suggestion -

or self cure an d therefore the lad who is given to day

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dreams is really the one who has the be s t power for curing
him self if he only sets about it on the lines that I have
suggested .

THE M OTHE R S I N FL U E N C E
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A large proportion of the men who have risen to eminence

in the world admi t that they have owed very much of their
character and s ucce s s to the influence of their mother .

And this is natural since in any case Sh e h a s been the one

,

wh o cared for him and watched over his upbringing from his
earliest C hildhood She has given of her best for him
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II4 R OVE RIN G T o SU CC E SS
be get he al thy C hildren An d part of your responsibility as .

a parent will b e to teach your children how to grow up

healthy .

Well there is an awful lot of happiness mi s sed in our

,

country through ill he al th and mo s t of that ill he alth could -

,
-

be prevented if fellows o nly t ook r easonable care of them

selves .

M AN — A WO ND E F L R U CO O -
PE RA TI VE
M H E
b
AC IN .

A . N erve Tel ephone E x c ha nge e twee n difieren t

par ts o f th e b o d y and th e b rai n .

B . B rai n recei ves i

of th e bo d y d di
.
eas and rects th e ac ti ns o
C . Gullet carri es food f om mo h r ut to st om h ac .

p i fi d bl ood t ll p t o f
p
E
bod y d b k th l g
Hea rt um ps ur e o a ar s

bl
.

an ac to e un s .

F L p if y th ood wi th o xyg f om
f h i
.
g u n s re ur e en r
res a r .

G S m h i food f om th g ll t d
to ac rece ves r e u e an
mi x d p
.

d g ti ji i t i ve n o t
o u c es an
es i es ass es

h l xp l o l
i t int th e i n tes ti nes .

H L . i
an d
ver
to e
e od j i f om food
ps to c l ec t go
th e b ad
u ces r
e

b
.

foo h h wh h
I I n tes ti nes
.

foo pd
h h l
ass es w i e
ta kes t r ee to fo h o
g d
ei n d
z o-
h
ig es te
oo T he
t tub e t ro u g
.
ic
T is
d
f o m foo p d
ur urs g

o bl
.

jui ces are tak en d an d

p of
r as s e
in t th e o o d : th e w as te a rt th e
food p d o
i s ass e m
i nt th e rec tu .

J K id ney: e trac t water x and was te ma tter

bl d
.

fr o m the b lood and pas s i t i n to th e

l bd
ad er .

K .

p
o
Bladder c l ec ts was te water f om
r the o y
an d asses i t o ut .

L Rectum pas ses was te food ou t of b od y .

DO you kn ow that only one man in t hr ee is really he al thy ,

and that one in every ten i s an invali d ?

—
Out of eight mi llion young men young men mind you ,

—
,

not the old worn outs called up for army se rvice in the -

Great War over one mi llion were found to be medicall y

,

unfit for se rvi ce !

A large pro po rtion of th ese were born he al thy but were ,

all owed by their parents or they al lowed the mselves to

become weak and feeble .

A further propo rtion were b orn defective because of the

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—
defects in their fathers or mothers very l argely from
venereal diseas e .

If you added up all the working hours that men lose

through sickness in Great Britain every year it would ,

am ount to fourteen million weeks Just think what this.

means in trade an d wages and yet that loss is largely pre

,

ven tab le if fellows only knew how to take care of them

selves and had the sen s e to do it .

If you are an engine driver or a car driver you know what

tremendous care is necessary in keeping the machinery
properly lubricated fed with adequate head of steam or
,

petrol gentle us e of levers thorough cleaning of al l its

, ,

parts constant care and attention are nece s sary together ,

with a close knowledge of each particular bit of the

machinery if you are to have it in good working order
, ,

running smoothly and e fficiently .

But in your own body you have a machine more wonderful

than any man made engine and one that needs st ill closer
-

attention and better understanding if you are to keep it

well An d what is more you can by taking care of it
.
, , ,

improve it and make it bigger and stronger which is more ,

th an the engineer can do with his engine .

Yet how few fellows understand an ything about their

inside and its wonderful mechanism they try to drive an
engine that they know nothing about they gi ve it all ,

sorts of wrong treatment and then expect it to keep sound

a n d to work wel l !

How TO H E ALTHY AN D S T RON G

KE E P .

When I was serving in the fever j ungl es both on the ,

east and the west coasts of Africa I noticed that m any of

,

us were healthy enough so long as we were on the march

every day but that whenever we had a day s halt and
,
’

rested some of us were sure to get fever .

I argued it out in my own mind that our blood got

cleaned and freshened every day through the daily re ar and
sweating out of waste stu ff in one s system ’
.

A day of rest meant less perspirin g and more fee ding

'
than usual and therefore less drainage of one s inside .

8 0 I al ways made a point of going in for a good bit of

exercise on a re s t day and sticking to one s usual small
,
’

amount of food and drink .

1 16 R OVE RIN G TO SUC C E SS

I never had a day s sickness and at one time averaged

’

twenty miles a day marching for over a week i n a pretty

soggy atmosphere Never felt fitter . .

I had one white officer with me but he had to be replaced ,

five times by fresh men owing to S ickne s s .

Well I put it down to keeping my blood clean and pure

,
.

It is pure blood that makes your body muscle and fibre ,

grow and keep strong .

And the heart that pumps i t thr ough the b ody i s the
mo st import ant organ that you have You ought therefore .

to take the greatest care of it but fellows who don t think ’

or who don t know are very liable to over strain their heart
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by too much exertion at athletic sports and games or by ,

forgetting that the heart is liable to be poisoned to a serious

extent by over smoking or too much al cohol The Scout s
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Pace i e alternate running and wal king for short spells of
, . .

twenty or thirty paces saves men from the hear t strain ,

of long di st an ce running
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.

F RE SH AI R .

— —
The blood needs l oads of oxygen that i s fresh air to
keep it fresh Living indoors without fre s h air quickly
.

poisons the blood and makes people feel tired and seedy
when they don t know why ’
.

F or myself I Sleep out of doors i n winter as well as

summer I only feel tired or seedy when I have been
.

i ndoors a lot I only catch cold when I S leep in a room

. .

The B ri ti sh M edi cal journal of February 1 9 2 2 reports , ,

that living in the open ai r improved the metabolism

’

( There s a word ! It means getting the best chemical

val ue from the food we eat) of patients in one hospit al to
the extent of 4 0 per cent above the average . .

CLE AN LI N E S S .

I have said clean yourself from inside b ut al s o it is im ,

port an t to clean yourself outside if you want to be healthy .

C avalry soldiers are noted for their cleanlines s the truth ,

is they have learnt from grooming their horses and cleaning

them up at least twice a day how very important it is to
h eal th an d freshness to have the skin and parts properly
,

0lean ed

A bath cannot always be got every day ,

b ut a wet and
1 18 ROVE RIN G TO SUCCE SS
which go down with your food and give you cont inual
small doses of poison which gradually make you seedy and
depres sed without your knowing the rea s on .

If you want to see what you have in the way of germs

in your mouth it is an interesting experiment to put some .

hydrogen peroxide with water in a glass and di p a clean

toothbrush into it Nothing happens . .

Bru sh your teeth over with the toothbrush and di p I t

again into the glass and you will see myriads of bubbles
ri sing in the water which means so many germs being
,

knocked out .

I have spoken to you elsewhere i n this book on food ,

on temperance and smoking and drinking and Sleeping

, , , .

So if you would be strong and well stick to regular

daily habits keeping yourself C lean inside and out give
, ,

yourself plenty of exercise in the Open air a plain food and ,

not too much of it moderation in smoking and drinking

, ,

—
breathe through the nose and you will thank God you re ’

al ive .

E X E RC I S E .

I was asked once by a high authori ty in education whether

I did not think th at the cost of erecting gymnasia in every
—
town though it might amount
—
to millions woul d be money well
spent becau s e it would develop
the health and strengt h of man
hood .

I replied that the two s trong ,

est healthiest race s I happened

,

to know were the Zulus and the

Bhutani peasants of the Hima
layas but in neither country
had I ever noticed a gymnasium .

W HE N I TA L K O F W A L K I NG
There was plenty of God s fresh ’

I M E A N S P R I G H T LY W A L K
air and lot
, s of walking and run
n Ing and cl i mb i ng to be done In
I N G ' N 01 S L O P P Y s m uc m
.

me ,
the daily work of these people !
and I beli eved that these were
good enough tonics for any man .

But both fresh air and exercise are absolutely e s sential to

health both when you ar e growing and when you have
,
 WOMEN 1 19

grown up I always begin the day wi th a little bi t of

.

, ,
—
body twisting i n the op en when I tumble out of bed but
that is only as a start .

Some men go in for physical dril l and s ome for dumb ,

bell and other muscle developing exercises till they come

-

out all over lumps that look fine in a photo when you brace
them up but are not Of the slightest practical use to you
,
.

And this work is generally done indoors .

Your exercise must be out of doors in the fresh air and ,

the very best you can get is at the same time the easiest and
C heapest namely walking Week end w al king tours are
, , .
-

the very best thing for heal th of mind as well as of body .

THE R UK S AC K .

I know nothing more enj oyab l e or more C heering and

health giving than a good old tramp every wee k end A
-
.

knapsack on your back makes you absolutely free and

independent You l oad i t with only the.

es s ential things and no luxuries It is not .

merely every poun d but every ounce of

weight that tells on a long march Nothing .

can beat the Norwegian type of ruks ack

A HI KE ENT T WE I GH T 2 LBS MY R UK S AC K , W I TH W O O DE N
MPLE F RA M E P EVE N T
. .

B K
CO TE . TO R C A LL IN G
TH E AC .

wi th i ts light woo den or metal frame wh i ch holds it securely

in position without galling or overheating your back It .

will take in addition to your cl oth ing a light littl e tent that
can be set up on your staff or on a tree s tem an d your S leeping ,

quil t and waterproof Sheet Thus equipped week end b ikes

.
-

are possible and what is more enj oyable a ll the year round
,
you you get so hardened by practice of the out of doors
,
v m u h n d
hat you really don t notice the weather er y c
a
’

t
you mind it le s s Wh am or S hi n e
O

.
atever it is
,
hot or cold r , ,

you gai n strength vitality an d cheeriness by it

,
.

sights of the country I a s ked ,

them what had struck them

as the mo s t wonderful of all
that they had seen .

( They were incidentally

, ,

wonderful Sights themselves ,

having discarded their fine

native dress for top hats and
frock coats ! )
They unanimously agreed
that the finest thing in E ng
land was the Lon don omni
bus They were s o taken
.

with its brilliant colours and

the idea of its being entirely
for j oy riding !
-

The next best thing in

their j udgment was the
troupe of gymnastic i nstruc
tors at the Gymnasium at
A WH I T E M AN A N D A M AN
.
Alder s hot .

When they saw these men

p erforming their various exercises they were tremendously
taken w ith them but they were not fully sati s fi ed unti l
,

they had had the men stripped and had examined for
thems elves their muscular development .

And I must say these gymnasts were magnificent

1 22 R OVE RIN G TO SUC CE SS
Sometimes h e likes to Show her off before the others as
a S ign of his manliness in other cases he prefers to get her
,

all to himself Don t think .

’

this unnatural It is all in the

.

course of Nature AS I have .

said above it i s in ac c ordance

,

with the law that governs ani

mals as wel l as man .

But in the case of man there

is this difference He has a .

mind and intelligence which

the animal does not possess !
he sees romance i n selecting
a mate to whom he can give
hi s admirat i on love and de ,

voti on These are far above

.

the mere animal in s tinct .

They form human love instead

of animal lust and the higher
TH E R E WO M E N AN D he raises himself above the ani
WO M E N
mal instinct the less he i s of
.

the beast and the more he is of the man .

A main s tep to happines s in this di rection is to select

the right kind of girl There are women and there are dolls
. .

C AL F L OVE
-
.

As a very young man you will of course go entirely by her

face and figure and you may fall in love with one girl after
—
another desperately in love ! and sometimes will have
perhaps two or three on your string at a time .

Probably you may think it the most glorious adventure

and most probably a few days later the most disastrous
tragedy that ever happened to anyone It comes to most
.

young fellows about this period to feel like committing

—
suicide over a love quarrel but they don t do it ! ’

You may comfort yourself by knowing that all this is

what comes to every lad and is known as calf love
,
-
.

There i s no harm in it and noth ing to be ashamed of nor

,

to be depressed about Indeed in a short time when the

.
,

re al ly right girl has come al ong you will laugh at your

,

first ide as of love making

-
.
 WOM E N 1 23

But i n that cal f l ove period don t forget you are a man
-
’

and not a beast Behave like a man Play fair and square
. .

with the girl and remember your future son whose germ
i s in your keeping Don t tempt her and don t be tempted ’ ’
.
,

by her an d then you will have nothing to feel ashamed of

\
,

i n your after years .

And you will be on the right S ide if you only take on with
a girl whom you can bring to your own home wi thout
shame among your mother and S isters
, .

'
Remember that whoever she is she is someone else s ,

sister think of him and behave to her as you wo uld wish

him to behave to your sister .

How To R I GHT G I RL
GET THE .

T h e right girl will come along sooner or later— i f you

have kept your head Your calf love will have disappeared
.
-
.

Y o u_w i fi
g n d a gi rl w l s e h ar c ter yo u admire and r
ip g a ect
w
v

esp
n m ,

whose tastes are li ke your own afi d whose fi fii fé défsh i pjyn u
a
‘

son that attracts

d deeper form of love that

—
links and binds you to her one which if you are wise , ,

will never grow le s s .

And you will expect her to come to you pure and clean ,
’
won t you But what about yourself P Are you going to
expect of her what you cannot o ffer in return yourself ?
That would neither be manly nor fair No if you are .
,

going to enj oy real happiness in life that is the supreme

j oy of being married to a really good woman from whom
you hope for love and respect you ve got to keep yours elf ,
’

C lean while a young man in thought and word and deed ,

—
, , , ,

so that you will have nothing to hide nothing to be

ashamed of .

Don t begin your married life with a lie else you will be
’

lying all through it and there will be an end to trusting

,

each other .

WA RN IN G F ROM A P O R K B UTC HE R O N G E TT I N G E N GA GE D
-

If you have never read a book call ed A S elf made M ar

.

chant s L etters to hi s S on you ve got a treat in s tore for you

’ ’
.

It is a most amusing bit of reading but at the same time ,

f ull of j olly sound advice .

12 4 ROVE R IN G TO SUCCE SS
The merchant is an American pork packer writing -
,

to h i s son who holds a j unior post in the bus iness He hears .

that h is son is hanging about after a certain young lady .

So he says I s uppose I am far ming the air when I ask

you to be guided by my j udgment in thi s matter because ,

while a young fellow will con s ult his father about buying a
horse he is cocksure of h imself when it comes to picking
,

a wife .

Marriages may be made in Heaven but most engage ,

ments are made in the back parlour with the gas S O low that
’
a fellow re ally doesn t get a square look at what he s taking
’
.

While a m an doe s n t see much of a girl s family when he is

’ ’

courting he is apt to see a good deal of it when he i s

,

hous ekeeping .

Your Ma and I set up housekeeping in one of those

cott ages you read about in story books but that you want ,

to Sh y away from when it is put up to you to live in one of

them There were nice C limbing roses on the front porch
.
,

but no running water in the kitchen there were plenty of

ol d f as h i oned po s ie s in the front yard and plenty of rats in
-

the cellar ! there was half an acre of ground at the b ack ,

but so little room inside that I had to S i t with my feet

out of window It was j ust the place to go for a picnic
.
,

but it s been my experience that a fellow does most of his

’

picnickin g be fo re he is married
“
.

But one way and an other we managed to get a good

d eal of sati s faction out of it becau s e we had m ade up our
,

min d s to get our fun out of everything as we went along .

With mo st people happiness is something that is always

j u s t a day o ff but I have made i t a ru le n ever to put of b ei ng
,

happy ti ll to mo rrow -
! I have italicised th.a t ]
Of cours e when you are married you ve got to make ’

an income and this i s going to take S O much time and

,

thought that you won t have a very wide margin left for ’

golf I Simply mention this in passing becau s e I S ee in the

.
,

C hicago pape rs that you were among the players on the

links one a fte rnoon a fortnight ago Golf s a nice foolish .
’

g ame and there ain t any harm in it so far as I know but

’

a young fe llow who wants to be a boss butcher hasn t ’

I h daylight to waste on any kind of links— except sausage

lk
'

In s .

Of course a man should have a certain amount of pl ay ,

126 ROVE RIN G TO SU C C E SS
Success in business is not a matter of luck or favour or
interest nor even of learning S O much as of ability an d
, ,

character E xpert Skill in your work is bound to tell but ,

—
.

for promotion to higher grades character that is absolute ,

,
—
tru stworthiness tact and energy is essential ,
.

Thi s applies practically to every trade or profession I .

was a sked the other day what I meant by tact and I coul d ,

only reply by quoting the old example of the tactful plumber

wh o on entering a bathroom which had carele s sly been left
,

unlocked by the lady using the bath promp tly said I ,

beg pardon S i r I di dn t know you were here

, . and
’

strolled out again .

I was in a Rovers Den ( fi al C hapter ) when

’ “

s ee n
congratulations were being showered on one member on
his engagement to be married .

Who is the girl ?

Oh She s a Girl Guide
,
’
.

Splendid What a good idea You couldn t do better ’

.

But immediately two other men chipped in for part of

the congratulations saying that they also were engaged
,

S imilarly to Girl Guides .

I s ee promise in this .

You get wives in this way who can be better pals because
they have got the same keenness on camping and the out Of
doors wi th all the necessary handiness and resourcefulness ,

health and good temper that comes of such life I feel .

certain that if I came to visit you in your home later on ,

when thus mated I Should find not only a happy home b ut

,

a clean one for ,the premises of campers who were accus ,

tom ed to leave their camp grounds as n eat as they found

them would not be lumbered up with piles of old tins scrap
, ,

iron and other rubbish that are a disgrace to so many of

,

our back gardens and waste lands .

A M AN S D UTIE S ON G E TTI N G M ARRIE D

’

Someone once told me my fortune by looking at the lines

on the palm of my hand and he said Your line of head
,

is s tronger than your line of heart meaning that I should ,

not be carried off my legs by the first beautiful girl I saw ,

but that I Should think as much about the character of the

gi rl I ad mired as about her appearance and that i s I am ,
 WOM E N 1 27

certain the way to make your choice Take care lest in

,
.
,

making your choice you think too much of what you would
,

require in your future wife and forget her point of view

and what she would li ke of you as a husband Think of .

that .

When I got marri ed an ol d fri end on giving me his

, ,

congratulations also gave me a new vi sion of my future

,

state when he said My dear fellow I have been married ,

over twel ve years and it is still a hone ymoon with us Life

has gone on getting happier and happier for us .

And in my turn I too have since found the truth of this .

I S houl d hope that it will be the case with you who read
this but it means using your l in e of head as well as
,

heart ! it means getting the right girl to start w i th .

Mind you it is only a little step to ask a girl to say yes

, ,

but on that word depends a life long sentence to both of -

you consigning you both to happiness or hell

,
— .

Then as I said above Be wise

,
that i s in tak ing the
, ,

gi rl t o be your wife for b etter or worse you are rather

apt in the rosy sunshine of it all to forge t that worse .

C louds may come and you ve got to b e prepared for them

’

—that s What I mean by being wi se

’
.

Have no secrets from your wife and Sh e wi l l have none

from you— and all will be plain sailing .

There may be times of trouble little difficul t i es i n the ,

’
home which you don t foresee at first Before you married .

you only did things for yourself now that you are married
you ve got to C huck your s elf and do things for your wife
’

and later on for your children You have got to catch .

yourself up in little bits of selfishness on your part such , ,

for instance as grousing at the food b ecause it isn t exactly

,
L ’

to your liking and that sort of thi ng L ook at things from

, .

her point of view .

Grousing won t mend matters G i ve i ns

’
.

l ittle love gifts of your court ing days of ,

praise ! give and take and S MIL E all the

especi ally at that time
their usual line j ust before the fi
,

got to Show your manliness and

and protector then .

If S h e is a little fractious it i s
1 28 R OVE RIN G TO SU C C E SS
are not only more grateful than men but their ch aracter ,

shape s itself according as it is led by their man .

If h e be nas ty she will nag if he be nice then sh e

will be n i cer and then there s love an d laughter in the
’

home .

C HIL D RE N .

Have you ever read R udyard Kipling s story They I

’

read it long before I was married away out in the bush in ,

Africa The point in that story that went home to me was

.

not the delightful description of E ngli sh scenery of the ,

old world home and garden etc

- it was where the man , .

imagined that he fel t the clinging Of little C hildren s fingers ’

in his h and ! he only imagined i t but it thrilled him to ,

the core .

And I had that i magination in my mind for years as

vividly as in the story But when it came to pas s that I
.

actually felt a tiny hand in mine the hand of my own little

—
,

child it gave me something more than a thrill a feeling

,

that h as never worn o ff with custom for it still does S O ,

the heart filli ng j oy of it never grows less

-

But there ,
Try it for yours elf in your own home of , ,

—
your o wn making and you will know what happiness is .

There is nothing like i t and i t cannot be described at -

,

least not by me .

So as I have al ready sai d before Heaven is not j ust a

, ,

vagu e something somewhere up in the s kies .

It 18 right here on earth in your own home It does not , .

depend on riches or position but re s ts with you to make it , ,

in your own way with your own brain and heart and
, , ,

hands An d you can do i t if onl y you like to use these

.

RE S P P ARE N T HO OD
O N S IB I T IE S OF .

But the oy of being a father brin gs with i t a big re

C hil dren learn mainly by the example of

not be surprised if one

his own way the father
to day Trai n your
-
.
1 30 RO VE RIN O T o SU C C E SS
an island of his own in the Indian Ocean i n a glorious
climate of suns hine amongst beautiful and healthy sur
roundings One might well have thought as he did at
. ,

first that this was going to be a heavenly haven after all

,

his strenuous wanderings but he had now come to discover

,

a fly in the ointment .

He reali sed that he was living comfortably merely for

him self This conviction had now brought him to give up
—
.

that Ex i stence and exchange it for L ife that is for act i vity ,

in doing something for others .

I had myself gone through much the same ex perience

when I finished my career as a soldier It had been a .

pretty varied and strenuous one bringing a good deal of ,

the rough along with the smooth and I had loved every ,

minute of it .

At the end my ambition was to settle down in a little

farm in some out o f the way corner of the world
- - -
.

I planned it out but then the second thought arose

,

which made me realise that idleness and indulgence of self

—
did not mean happiness that true happiness co uld only be
got through Service .

So there i s another chapter to this b ook .

WHAT OTH E RS HAVE SAID ON THE SUBJ EC T

Men ought to be mighty good to women for Nature gave ,

them the big end of the log to lift and mighty little strength
to do it with ( Ab raham L i ncoln) .

Have a heart that never hardens and a temper that never ,

tries an d a touch that never hurts ( Charles Di ckens)

, .

Whoso findeth a wife fin deth a good th ing and the favour

of the Lord ( P roverb s xviii .

He al th is w orth more than we al th .

C leanliness is next to Godliness .

A G entlem an is a bloke wot keeps even 15 toenails

c lean .

F e ar of a father does not neces sarily mean re s pect for hi m .

 WOME N 13 1

The cane O ften makes the coward and the liar .

Men With the he lp of God be ME N ( Heard at S t

! , .

Gerva i s C hu rch P ari s) , .

AS man was created for Health so was man created for ,

Happiness ( M aeterli nck)

Let not thy fancy b e guided by thine eye nor let thy
“ ,

will be fo rmed by thy fancy ! let thy understanding

moderate between thine eye and thy fancy (F Quarles) . .

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 C U C KOOS AND HUMBUGS

TH E d ar k s i d e o f t h i s ro c k i s th e d an g er o f b ei n g s u cke d
in by k cuc o os , c ran k h um b u g
s, s, or e xt re i
m s ts .

Th b i gh t i d
e r s e i th d v l p m
s e e e o en t Of se l f du
-
e ca ti on an d

s er vi fce th or e co m m u it y wh i h n c c o u n t eract th e l u re of
c u c koo i s m

K
.

C UC OOS
k bi d h i t im i t t o i h m n u k oo
.

Th e cu c oo r as s a rs n u a c c s .

p l i ti l u k
Th e o p ca iv h d l d
c c oo, a e rs u a s e er ea er .

i d ti l
Th e n w us r a s ee s a -
.

W d E v l uti o
e n ee t R vo l u t i o no n, no e .

Ed ti u ca b dly d d fon ll a n ee e or a .

Th d eg f b mi g an er o m bi t i o u u koe co n an a s c c o.

O r b a k osno cuc o .

O gu h p ig
r a s r .

S E LF E D U
-
N C ATI O .

Th f gu d g i n t b i g w k d
e sa e ar a u k da s e n re c e or s c e

k i t du t y
cuc o os lf s o e ca e o u rs e .

B k dh wt
oo s d th m
an o o r ea e .

T vl ra edu ti as an e ca on .

S l f xpe -
i ni
e t re ss o n ar .

S l f xpe -
e —
i i p h wi t h om h ints
re s s o n n s ee c s e .

SU J E
B C TS S LF E D U IN N E C V -
SE V E C A TI O FOR I IC R IC .

S vi er h ld b y
ce S im i t ki g p
ou
y peu b l i w o k
o ur a n a n u an c r .

C i vi vic d h w t
s er p p f it
ce an o o re ar e or

lg v m t h w
.

O ti
ur n a o na tit ut d
o ern en , o co n s e .

Th E m p i e d tw id t i t
re an o s es o .

W h t t h K i g i t t h E m pi
a e n s o e re .
’

I t ti
n e rn a l l ti o na re a ons .

Th p i vil ge n d o pp o t un i t i
r e esof iti n h ip o p n t
a r es c z e s e o
al l .

FO OD F O R TH O U GHT
Y
.

TH E GL OR OF TH E G A RD E N .

B K OO S To REA D .
 C UC K OO S AN D H UMBUGS
How A C UC K o o I M P O S E S I TS W I LL O N O T HE R B I RD S .

AVE you ever watched a cuckoo at her j o b She

seems partly profiteer partly communist When
, .

she wants to lay an egg She doesn t go to the ’

trouble of making a nest Sh e goes about looking

,

for some other birds nests preferably that of the harmless

’

little meadow pippit Wh en Sh e finds one Sh e goes into it

.
,

regardless of any protests on the p art of the owner and Sh e ,

takes Up one of the pippi t s eggs in her beak and drops her
’

o wn egg in its place Then Sh e flies off to a neighbouring

.

tree and eats the egg that Sh e has stolen The pippi t on her .

p ar t meekly accepts this dictation and does all the work of

hatching out the cuckoo s egg among her own The result
’
.

is a big ugly nestling which even before its eyes are open at
once begins to bully its nest mates and finally heaves them
out one by one till it has the ne s t to itself and the ful l service
of the parent pippi ts for its feeding etc , .

We all know the insistent voice wi th wh i ch the cuckoo

goes about proclaiming himself above al l other birds .

But it is not only In bird life that all th is happens ! we

have human cuckoos too , .

THE H U MAN C U C K OO .

The human cuckoo i s generally a superi or sort of person

who sees his own side of a question but nobody else s He ’
.

is the self interested man who wants only his own way in the
-

world he makes use of the work of other humbler fo lk for

his own benefit or he pushes others out who may be in th e
,

way of his getting the things he wants You find the human .

cuckoo in various forms such as cranks political tub thum ,

-

pers intellectual highbrows and social snob s and other

, , ,

extremists .
1 36 R OVE R IN G To SU CC E SS
There are two dangers about these cuckoos .

One i s that you may be sucked in to follow their l ead .

The other is that you may become one yourself .

THE P E RS U AS IVE H E RD LE AD E R
-
.

H ave you ever seen wild ducks bei ng decoyed into a trap
It is done by sending a trained dog to pl ay ridiculous antics
along the b ank of the stream
which le ads into the netted
tunnel that forms the trap .

The whole flock of otherwise

sane birds cannot resist follow
ing the lead of this novel
an imal and so they willingly
,

and quite unwittingly Swim to

their doom .

Have you ever been to

the C aledonian M arket in
London on a F riday ?
You will see there on every hand
experts selling goods They are .

not ordinary s hopkeepers they ,

are professors at the game They .

talk and they hustle they catch your ,

ear and then your eye and finally , ,

your mastery of yours elf j ust as the ,

dog does the ducks .

I was all but taken i n their net

more than once as I wandered
thro ugh that bu sy community .

I was in point of fact merely looking

out to find a brass can dle stick for my
mant elpiece AS near as a toucher
.

1 NG
5? i isi fii i I was let in for L o t N O It had
.

n o th l ng to do w1th candlest i cks b ut

.

I was Simply hypnotised by the auctioneer to bid for it .

Thi s lo t contained nothing nearer to my needs than an

old s ad dl e a file and a pair of partly wo rn s tay s
, , .

B ut s u ch was the power of the tub thumper that I only

-

e sc aped by the S kin of my teeth and as it was I ran i nto

, ,

an o ther persu asive m an round the corner who was selling a

p an of l ace curtains And here I very nearly fell again n ot
.
,
1 3s R OVE RIN G T o SU CCE SS
E ve ry one of these cuckoos and snakes has his particular aim
gettin g hold of promising young men Sometimes th e .

ai m is harmless but more often

,
tha n not there 18 some V i ce
un derlying it .

THE SE E SAW -
.

The s e are the extreme views that people are apt to give
you from opposite ends of the see saw That is they are -
.
,

the cuckoos that make the noise in the world and so attract
attention of the general flock of birds .

But fortunately for the nation there is a quiet common

sense middl e lot of men in between the extremists who ,

JO H N B LL G M E P L BY
U
’
S A S OI T TH E EX TR E M I S TS AT EAC H EN D OF
THE S E E -
SA W .

’
though they don t talk loud think quietly for themselves : ,

sen sible workmen human employers and public spirited

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benefactors ! in other words a citizenhood that is out for ,

fair play and mutual forbearance for the good of the whole .

It i s this solid element that serves to keep the balance

between the extremes .

E V OL UTI ON R E V OL UTIO N
AN D .

The right kin d of evolution is a very big question affect ,

mg every branch of public and private life needing the ,

careful study and careful handl ing of di sinterested men if it

is going to be a blessing instead of a curse to the mass of the
p aople .
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The older men who have had more time in their live s to
look round the world to see what has gone on are inclined
to ask what extremi sts would put up in place of the exist
ing form of government They recognise that progress
.

in the right direction is qui etly going on al l the time that

is evolution a natural development ! but a new consti
,

tuti on built up al l in a hurry could only be a j erry built -

affair .

Young bl oods are too impat i ent .

Once on a time I lived with a missi onary in an unhealthy

spot in West Africa He was the fourth incumbent of the
.

place in four years His predecessors had died there or

.

EX TR E M I S TS AT B O TH E ND S A R E D R O PP E D A N D J B IS SE T ON HI S
LE GS A G A I N BY M U TU A L C O O PE RA TI O N A N D G D LL
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,

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been hurried off to he al thier climes I asked him whether

.

he re al ly thought it good enough when one looked round and

saw how little real e ffect the C hristianity had upon the
native s into whom it had been inculcated at such sacrifice .

And he explained that he never expected to see tangible

results in h i s time but that he felt that the seed sown in the
,

present generation though it remained undergroun d wo ul d

, ,

gradu ally take root and come up in the next generation an d

pos sibly blossom forth and bear fruit several generations
lat er on .
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Well that was a fine s pirit in which to tackl e the j ob
,
.

If more of it were developed in our e fforts to bring about

better conditions for the country the e ffect wo uld probably
be all the more succe s s ful in the end .

But extremi st s generally prefer to be U p in the limelight ,

instead of working in Obscurity at making foundations .

F RE E D OM THO U GHT OF .

F reedom of the individual is only right so far as it doesn t

’

interfere with the good of the community as a whole .

E very fellow i s welcome to have his owr opinions but there .

,

h as to be a limit s omewhere We are all in agreement with

.

—
true hone s t s ocialism in trying to do away with the dis
grace which at present hangs over civilisa tion in almost
every country ! where human beings through no fault of ,

their own are condemned to live through an existence of

,

mi s ery and squalor through bad organisation and faulty

conditions We al l want to ensure that every human being
.

who is put into this world by God Should have his fair chance
of enj oying and making the best of life with out being
handicapped from the first by man made circumstances of -

poverty But no amount of cuckoo work will put an end

.

to this any more than will all the Acts of Parliament that
,

may be made It i s a matter for the good will and co

.

operation of all classes to help our worse off brothers out of -

the mire mainly by giving them a proper education in

,

character towards career making -

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N ATI ON AL G OVE RN ME N T .

I have been in Russia and i n most other civilised coun

tries o i the world It doesn t seem to make much di fference
.
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to the happiness of the people whether the count ry is

governed by a King or a President In fact the President .
,

of the United States has far more autocratic power in his

own hand s over his country than our King has in Britain .

During the Peace negotiations when President Wilson ,

was in France telling the Allies what was the American View
of the situation the story went that he received a cable
,

from Washington saying C ome back soon or they will be

, ,

proclaiming a republic in the United States .

The King by our constitution does not rule but keeps

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1 42 RO VE RIN O T o SU C C E SS
It is al ready in the course of being brought about by
mutual good will and C O Operation an d in those two qualities -
,

lie the key to prosperity and the peace of our people in the
future .
0

But it is well not to Si t down and wai t for un1vers 1t1es

to come to you nor indeed to expect a university to do
,

everything for you when it doe s come A very consider .

able portion of that educ ation can be and can best be , ,

carried out by every man for himsel ( if he only sets his

mind to it .

That is why I am b othering you wi th th is book .

THE A M B IT I O U S C UC KOO .

As I have said before apart from the danger of being ,

sucked in by highfal utin t al kers there is the danger of ,

becoming a highbrow oneself .

Such a lot of fellows while they are young think no small

, ,

beer of themselves as politicians or poets thinkers or , ,

orators artists and the like I was a real cuckoo myself

, .

equally intent on becoming a red hot Socialist or a devoted -

Mi s sionary and I wore a green tie with forked lightning

,

o n it

In E nchant r N g ha
e s i hts de—’
which please read if you want
a delightful walking tour amusing philosophy book J B - — - - -
. .

Morton writes of a tourist meeting with a commercial

traveller on the road The C T says : I am contented . . .

with my work ! there is more in it than touting and

brayin g my wares in the market place The market place -
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i t s elf i s sometime s worth seeing I go about a lot see new .

,

pl aces meet new people

, I don t want to be bounded ’

c aged by my work I am a traveller and I O ften forget

.
,

t h e commercial part of it I shall be sacked one day and .

,

then I sh al l probably play the piano in a picture S how .

I ve no ambition All I want is to see life and to live i t

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, ,

to s ome extent .

Ambition is a mixed blessing said the touri st , .

Have you got ambi tion ? asked the C T . .

I have s aid the touri s t !

, my pals have We all .

w ant to m ake our n ames by writing .

The C T smiled as a parent might smile at a bright

. .
,

little boy .
 C U C KOOS AND HUMBUGS 1 43

It i s a phase he said I have had it I thought I

, . .

was Paderewski ! wore my hair long ! never

out my nails ! starved ! read morbid books !
pined for love But I got over . I got
Older .

And now you are

happy ?
I am .

And h e was right A

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man who has the cheap

ambition to make himself
famous or to exalt him
self amongs t his fellows
is laying out for himself
di sappointment mingled ,

with envy hatred and ,

m a l i c e against those
,

who pas s him in the race .

Ambition to do the right is

the only ambition that counts ,

an d that helps towards happi

ne ss.

But the personal ambition to

be thought great or excepti onal
makes prigs .

F or instance it i s not di ffi ,

c ul t to become a F uturist artist .

You only need to have a col

lection of strong colours and
a touch i n insanity and to
fling the result on to canvas S E L F EX P E
R S S I O —
N S O ME -

TI M E S R U N S T O BL O W I NG
.

If you have some sanity in

you you can only keep up Y O U R O W N T R U MP E T .

thi s form of amusement for a time ! it eventuall y palls .

WAN T OF H U MO U R .

G K Chesterton pointed to the fact that the average

. .

cuckoo h as little sense of humour .

F ew p eople s aid he seem to unders tand the fan

, ,

tas ti c when it is used logically upon the principle of the

redu cti o ad a b su rdum F or inst ance a man s ays t here
.
,

ought to be no pri vate property of any kind tha t there are

1 44 R OVE RIN G T o SU C C E SS
none of the things that men have that they should not share .

You t h en say to him Your proposal abou t a communal ,

toothbru sh or a communal pair of trousers and he

, ,
’

replies that you are simply making a j est of the discu s sion .

The point to in sist upon i s that he is the man who has made
the ab surd remark He is the man who has made the j oke.
,
’
but the di fference is that I can see the j oke and he can t .

Do not think I give you that example merely as indicating

partisan ship on general political or other matters Just the .

same ab surdities are uttered on what may be called the

reactionary side F or instance when the ordinary j olly old
.
,

maj or or man in the C lub tells you as a man in a C lub told

, , ,

me I always like to fight the enemy with their own

,

weapons I say to him How long does it take you to

.
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,

sting a wasp or How do cannib al s taste or something

of that sort In these circumstances the man in the C lub is
. ,

liable to accuse you of fantasy but as a matter of fact it is , , ,

he who is fantastic .

WAN T OF R E VE RE N C E .

In The Ti mes of F ebruary 1 8 1 9 2 2 Lord Morley has ,

l amented the decay of reverence In modern democracy and ,

Lord Bryce in his rece ntly published work expresses the

same anxiety th ough he believes that reverence may revive
,

in the future We trust that such revival will take place

. .

F lippancy conceit and cynicism render men selfish and

,

contemptuous They ask Who will Show us any good

.

and finding no answer to their minds they cease to believe

, ,

in goodness When this happens reverence dies and in its

.
, ,

death all hope of moral and S piritual progress is destroyed

”
with it The cuckoo has no respect for the Views of
.

other people .

I agree with Lord Bryce that reverence may revi ve for I ,

am sure it will revive among the improved breed of young

men who are coming forward in future It lies with you .

fellows to bring it about .

THE N THE RE ARE THE S N OB S .

The snobbishness of class against C lass is one of the causes

of the present s ocial unrest that is damaging our country .

You younger fellows can put a stop to it if you only have

the will to do so .
1 46 ROVE R IN G TO SUCC E SS
Public Schools now run soci al and athletic clubs for the ir
worse off brothers an d the more they can develop better
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,

personal acqu ai ntance with the members of these clubs th e

better it will be for both parties and for the country .

It is not enough for them to give their subscription they ,

must give their friendship This step ought to be made by .

the masters an item of very much higher importance i n

Public School education to day -
.

E very young m an ought to make i t part of h i s bit o f

service for the community .

a Good wil l and co Operation on the part of rich and poor

-

al ike is as I have said elsewhere the key to the prosperity

, ,

of al l and to the peace of the country .

THE H U MAN E LE ME N T .

I once took a very smart young officer of the L i fe

Guards down into the purlieus of South east London to -

show him something of the other side of life from that of

drawing rooms and clubs I had myself when a youngster
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.
, ,

g one into the life of those parts as a plumber .

I thought it would be a bit of an education for h im .

It turned out to be a bit of an education for me .

I was glad to see at all events that he was not such a sno b
, ,

as to come with his usual S pats and starch and when we got ,

in to the bit of a club that I know of down there he fished out

a di rty old pipe ordered his beer and in a few minutes had
, ,

the chap s round him roaring with laughter at the yarns he

was telling .

On our way home later on I lost my way in the labyrinth

of alleys and back streets and when I confessed at last that
, , ,

I was out of my reckoning for Waterloo Bridge he at once ,

took the lead and said This way up this alley

, , .

I then learnt that my friend was quite accustomed to

coming to these part s He had pals there j ust as he had
.
,

in Society circles .

He took people for what they were not for what their ,

clothe s made them .

It was not condescension but human feeling o n his part .

And that is good medicine as Red Indians say for all

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of us .

Supe rior pers ons often seem to think that if a man

is in a di fferent line of life from themselves he therefore
 C UC KOOS AN D HUMBUGS 1 47

h asnot a human heart inside h i m . A superior person IS

a snob .

THE G U S H P RI G .

A Gush Prig is a fellow who lets h i mself go in gush .

By gush I mean something that you produce thinking it ,

brilliant but which is not the outcome of knowledge or

,

experience .

It may be t al k it may be poetry or prose writ i ng Self

, .

express ion is a good thing but when it breaks out into ,

—
gush well too O ften it goes to the head and swells it
, .

A good many young men find at twenty two that they -

—
know practically all that there is to know and t h ey want
'

other people to kn ow that they know it .

When they get to thirty two they find that they have -

still got one or two things to learn at forty two they are -

learning hard ( I am still doing S O at seventy three )

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.

Politicians especially those of very pronounced Views

, ,

generally become disappointing to their original supporters

as they become older The reason for this is that they .

have meantime been learning a lot their outlook has become ,

broadened by experience and they have realised th e great ,

fact that there i s more than one side to a question .

I used to think wonderfully fine thoughts when I was

young and I wrote them down with a poet i c fervour that I
,

felt was inspiratio n My word they were tosh when I came

.
,

to read them later I have to day received a letter of eight -

S heets from a young man evidently in the same stage

—
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"

He talks o f well it is hard to know what he is talking

,

about when he says People like myself suffered because

they saw in the spirit of Scouting a religion and a poetry
more dynamic by far than myriads of golden sermon s pro ,

m 1s e s and laws and because they were willing to follow over

,

the thorny valleys of convention and through the bu ffeting

seas of intolerance and un imagination that roll and seethe -

from shore to shore of ordinary mob psychology -

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F ine
It re m inds me of Browning the great poet When he .

was as ked what exactly was the meaning intended in one of

h i s e arlier poems he replied When I wrote that poem I
, ,

a t any rate knew what it meant — and God knew

, .

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Now God o n ly knows
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1 48 R OVE RIN G TO SU C C E SS
I once heard a S al vation Army o fficer giving ad vice to a
party of emigrants as they were starting for one of the Over
sea Do minions He said : Before you have been there
.

many weeks you will be Showing the people there how much
better they might do their j obs and you will be writing
home to tell your people that you never saw such a God
forsaken country and such a rotten lot of people .

My advice to you is Wri te your letter but do not pos t

,

it for six months or so Then re open It and see what

.
-

nonsense you have written and b e thankful that you did

not send it .

I think the same advi ce might be useful to many a young

man going out into the world namely to write his gush b ut
, , ,

to keep it for a few years and then look it over again and ,

he will doubtless be glad to tear it up before anyone else can

see it .

The safegu ard is to get your learning first before you let ,

yourself go so that you start on right gro und and so don t

, ,
’

have to retract or tear up lat er on .

S E LF -
E DUC ATION

S E L F E D U C AT ION A S AFE GU ARD A GAI N S T C UC K O OI S M

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.

I have tried in the above paragraphs to S how you the

dangers of the cuckoo rock namely those of being led ,

astray by the persuasive call of the cuckoo or of becoming

a cuckoo yourself .

The next point is what to do to get past the rock in safety .

E ducation is one great safeguard By education I don t ’

.

mean improved scholarship but education of mind and soul .

The one enables you to pass by the danger education of

soul raises you far above it If you expand your mind by
.

giving yourself wider knowledge through travel and read

ing through learning from the experiences of others and
, ,

from the study of nature you will be safe against the call of
,

the cuckoo and if you expand your soul by giving yourself

higher ide al s and by giving to others your sympathy through
good will and helpfulness you can never be much of a cuckoo
your s elf or a highbrow as it is called in America and
,

y o u will find yourself a better and a happier man .

A prig i s generally a prig because he thinks he knows

everything when in reali ty he has often a great de al to learn .
1 30 ROVE RIN G TO SUC CE SS
with good stories and see beauty i n th ought through
,

poetry .

Books are the best friends a man can have You choose .

those that you like ! you can rely on them at all times ! they
can help you in your work in your leisure and in your , ,

sorrow You have them always around you at your beck

.

and call in your home .

They are not nowadays very expensive if you only buy

one now and then to make up your collection At any rate .
,

the nearest public library will bring almost any book to

your hand without expense But books of your very own .

are the better friends and companions Don t buy a book .

’

b ecaus e it is cheap for very cheap books are often equally

,

n asty Go for the best while you are about it

. .

If you have al ready read book s then you know what sorts ,

you like If you have never done much reading let me

—
,

—
.

advi se you to begin at once you will never regret i t and

begin with something that interests you .

If you are out to instruct yours elf an encyclop ae dia in a ,

public library is as Profe s sor Adams says a good first

, ,

aid to a subj ect and general ly gives the names of other

,

books i n that particular line If you are out to read for .

amusement you can t go wrong in starting with a book

’

like Robert Louis Stevenson s Treas u re I s land or K i d ’

napp ed and Shakespeare s plays are mighty good reading

’

whether for amusement or in s truction The F ores t by .

,

Stewart White and The F ri endly Road by Grayson are

, ,

delightful books in the direction of Roveri ng .

But when you read read don t S kim and if you study
, ,
’

while you read that is if you worry out the meaning care
, ,

fully i n your own mind it will stick by you al l the longer and
,

be the more useful to you in the end .

If you read with the intention of remembering you w il l

remember .

This is Bacon S advice : Reade not to contradict and

’

compute : neither to Beleeve and take for granted : nor to

fin de Talk and Di s cours e but to weigh and C onsider
. .

Some B ookes are to be tasted Others to be Swallowed and , ,

Some F ew are to be C hewed and Digested .

R eadinge maketh a F ull Man C onference a Ready Man , ,

an d Wri ti ng an E xact Man .

If a Man Reade little he hath need to have much C un

 C U C KOOS AND HUMBUGS 151

n ing so that he may seeme to know that whi che he doth

”
not.

I have found it a j olly useful practice to note down in my

diary any good thing that I have read or heard that day .

Some fellows do it now on a card index system so that you -

,

c an look up any subj ect under its al phabetic al letter .

At any rate it is as well after storing as much as you can

,

of good stu ff into your mi nd to back it up with a written ,

reminder of this sort .

But reading without outlook i s no good You must .

balance literary knowledge by knowledge of the world of ,

men and things Travel 1s a valuable step to this but an

, .
,

observant sym pathetic man can get as much knowledge of

,

his fellow men in a walk of a mil e or so as a stodgy one would

-

get in a thousand miles .

TRAVE L As E D U C ATI ON .

I was walking through Southampton Docks one day when

I struck the scent of spices and co ffee coming from one of the
warehouses on the quay I felt impelled to go inside to ask
.

their origin When the man told me that they were the
.

cargoes of ships sailing from Monte V ideo Rio Janeiro and , ,

La Plata my m ind went back at once to the great book of

”
my youth the Voyage of the Adventure and B eagle
, .

The temptation was too great I then an d there took a

t i cket for South America though I had to borrow to do it
,
.

A few weeks later I was on my way The voyage the .

,

variety of C haracters on board the new countries visited , ,

the insight into new peoples and a new atmosphere coupled ,

with the S ight of the vast pampas and the glorious Andes ,

opened out my mind and ideas ! They did for m e in a few .

weeks what years of study could never have accomplished .

E ven if one can t manage to get abroad there is ever S O

’

much to see in your own country and so many sides of life ,

to be investigated when travelling with a push bike or -

,

even on one s own flat feet In one s own town or neigh

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’

b ourh oo d if one cannot go farther afield there are bound to

, ,

be relics of ancient history of the place and people whose

experiences are worth hearing But travel of this kind if .
,

c ar ried out with the Vi ew to ob s ervi ng and finding out all you
can of men and things all comes as an i nvaluable s tep in
,

y our course of self education David Grayson in The

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F ri endly tells how he left his farm and went for a
Road ,

tramping tour without money an d without definite plans

, ,

merely to drink in the beauties of the countrys ide and to

meet with other people and to find the best in them And .

so it came about that he found g reat courage in the Village

mini ster human s ympathy and s implicity in a millionaire
, ,

an awaken ed spirit in a hopeless farmer and large outlook ,

in a soci ali s t orator .

I mention this book not merely on account of its charm

,

and interest but because this venture of the aut h or gives

,

exactly an example of what could be done by anyone desir

ing to educate himself through the open road method It -
.

is a method that is available to everyone j ust as the book , ,

at 3 3 6d . is not beyond the means of most

.
,
.

I have s een a further system of s elf education carried out -

by students of univers ities in C anada and America The s e .

l ads are not ble ssed with overmuch money with which to pay
th eir college fees They did not on that account give up al l
.

h o pe of a V ars ity training but during the s ummer vacation

’

they took s ervi ce as steward s on board the river steamers ,

and thu s earned enough money to pay their term expenses

and at the same time extended their knowledge of men and
things and spent their leisure time at work instead of loafing .

S EL F E X P RE SS I ON
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.

Also if a fellow feels moved to express his thoughts and

ideas whether in poetry or writing or spe aking or in paint
, , ,

ing or sculpture most certainly let him do it I would only

, .

s ugge s t don t be tempted like s o many to ru sh to extreme

’

Views before you have seen something of the world Good .

self expre s sion is a virtue and a virtue of the highest kind

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, .

E very m an h as what is known as a gift of some sort .

One of you m ay be an arti s t or an actor by instinct though ,

he m ay be working in a grocer s shop or as a carpenter ! ’

anot h er may be a C lever conj urer or a singer although ,

p ossibly earning his money as a waiter or a stoker there

are va riou s gifts hidden away in almost every man .

Wh y i s it called a gift
,
—
Well becau s e it is a natur al quality a gift from God .

That being s o the pos s essor of it ought to make use of i t

for God He can do this by giving out again of that gift to
.

others let his singing or his acting be employed to cheer

15 4 ROVE RI N G TO SU CCE SS
him down and out he may have yet another weap on up
,

his sleeve .

I have a memento of the lesson in the shape of a fl i nt

lock of a native gun on my table at this moment and this ,

is how I learned my lesson .

The King contemplated making a bolt for the j ungle

during the night when he saw we were likely to arrest him .

This I had expected of him so I had an ambush of my men

,

laid be side the path that he would probably follow .

I hid myself in the ditch a few yards ahead of my men

so that I could see outlined against the stars anyone who
, ,

came along and could give the S ignal to my men whether to

,

arrest or let him go by .

After a time one of the King s scouts came tiptoeing ’

al ong very cautiously and quietly and when he had arrived

,

opposite to me he stopped and peered hard into the darkness

ahead .

Something had made him suspicious and I feared lest he ,

S hould turn back and give warning of our presence So .

being within a yard or so of him with his back towards me I

ro s e up and suddenly grappled with him .

We had a fine old scurry He got his gun round pointing

.

into my tummy and I caught hold of the lock The gun

, .

must have been a very cheap one the lock came off in my
hand We then embraced each other not exactly in affec
.
,

tion and as we wrestled and rolled over one another my

orderly C hipped in like a third dog in a dog fight and j ust
gra s ped m y opponent s wrist in time to prevent him from
’

pu shing his knife into my liver .

You see he had another argument besides his gun with

wh ich to press h is Case .

Incidentally it is worth while noting that P rempeh on

hi s return from banishment has become the President of
a local association of Boy Scouts and his son a Scoutmaster
,

I once knew a millionaire who had been a clown in a

circus but even when he had made his pile he continued to
,

work In his shirt sleeves In his factory His factory was a .

wine m aking one in one of the South American States an d

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,

I s aw him working there He explained the reason for his

.

s ucce s s was that he insisted on manufacturing the pure

j uice of the grape Where the people had previously had

chemical decoctions foisted upon them He had learnt his .
 C U C KOOS AN D HUMBUGS 1 55

l esson in the circus ring He had found there that second

.

h and j okes culled from the comic columns of the p apers or

from j est books did not go do wn with the public ! they
wanted genuine original humour And S O i t was with wine . .

Directly he produced pure unadulterated s tu ff he was over

whelmed with orders and qui ckly made his pile .

In public school s and V arsities and young men s C lub s

’ ’

there are debating societies for training young politicians .

But the danger about them is that they are rather liable to
train prigs because the members are only imitation politi
c i an s speaking What they have read or heard from other men s
’

lip s an d not the pure outcome of their own understanding .

The imitation article takes no one in Many of the .

famous st at esmen only began their political careers when

they were mid dl e aged that is when they had seen some
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,

thing of the world and of life Many notorious politicians .

began theirs as boys in debating club s and never got beyond

.
—
b eing prigs ( N OT E There s a di fference between being ’

famous and notorious ) .

But if when you have got experience you find yours elf in
a position to help the community by taking a part in public
a ffairs you should do all you can to train yours elf for it AS
, .

I have said before rather as a statesman than as a politician

, ,

for the good of the community rather than of a section of it .

One step is to be able to grasp a point readily and its

di fferent facet s another is to be able to express yours elf well
,

in words F or young fellows who fancy themselves in

.

debate the late Lord Bryce gave a sound word of advice

when he said looking back on his past life
, I can see my ,

teacher in the class room at school He stands before me

-
.

now addressing his class of boys and wh at h e tell s me is

—
, ,

this 4 Once you have got a good argument for a cou rs e of

action one good and sufficient argument never look for a
, ,

second ! a second woul d only weaken the firs t .

’

F or learning how to express yourself well in public there

is nothin g like taking a part in theatricals it gives you at
once the best practical training in elocution and in getting ,

magnetic touch with your audience It teaches you how .

to express yourself by voice and gesture and it takes away

your self consciousness Joseph C hamberlain once told me
-
.

that he owed much of his early success to his practice as

an amateur actor .
 R OVE RIN G TO SU C CE SS

L I ST E N I N G .

Now after al l this talk about talking remember always ,

there i s great value and great art in keeping s ilent Often .

you m ay feel inclined to butt in with your ideas in a dis

c u s s i o n but it is generally best to keep quiet and let the
,

others do the chin wagging You learn in thi s way Talk

-
. .

ing give s away many a man to the S ilent watcher On every .

committee there are the men who do al l the talking and who
get lit tle attention .

It i s the silent man the one who only speak s when he

,

h as got s omething really important to say who is the one ,

they li sten to .

He i s the Sphinx to them .

It is the silent men who do things .

S E RV IC E .

AS you train yourself in C haracter and e fficiency let ,

your aim all the time be not merely the attainment of posi
tion or prospects for you rs elf but ,

of the power to do good to other

people for the community Once
, .

you have put yourself in a posi

tion to do service for others you
have stepped on to the higher
rung of the ladder that leads to
—
real success that is happiness .

Service includes not merely

personal little good turns of
courtesy and kindne s s to other
people ! these are right and good !
they are what every Boy Scout
does every day ! but I mean
something higher and bigger than
—
thi s s ervice as a C itizen of your
country .

It does not mean gener al ly that

P L A y A C TI N G
_
GIVE S THE you want to pu sh yourself as a
1313 5 1 P O S S I BLE TR AI N I NG
F O R p uB LI C S P E AK I N G leader in civic affairs or to force
.

your particular political ideas on

other people but to be a good reliable C hap and a helpful
,

ci t12 en In the State a brick in the wall F or that you

, .
158 R OVE RIN G TO SU C C E SS
needed in the knowledge of Local Government and i ts aims .

methods and re s ponsibilities .

There is a useful little book on C i ti z en ship by E dward

J . S Lay
.
( Macmillan ,

It deals with many of the questions that I touch upon

i n this book and others besides all in a simple clear and , ,

popular way with lots of illustrations A most useful book .

for a fellow beginning to study C itizenship that is s uch ,

questions as Wages Labour Thrift E ducation Heal th

, , , , ,

Government League of Nations and so on

, , .

Wh en you come to the age of twenty one you have as -

,

a citizen the privilege of voting for the member to repre

,

sent your district in Parliament You ought to make .

yours elf e ffi cient to be able to take this responsibility

an d to play in your place in the great game of C itizen

s hip .

The first steps to making yourself e fficient have al ready

been suggested to you as those for avoiding the di fferent
rocks namely
,

Character and Inte lligence .

Handcraft and Skill .

Manly Health of Mind and Body .

Now comes the fourth thing V iz Servi ce that i s playing

, .
, , ,

the game as a C itizen .

In educating yourself for this a great point is to learn the

history of your own town and country both past and pre ,

s ent . Much can be learned by reading but mo re by travel ,

ling and visiting historical points Then in order to be able .

,

to understand or give a hand in local public affairs you will

need to learn all you can about the way in which Local
Government i s carried out Study for instance .

—
P a ri sh C oun ci ls how appointed and what are their duties
in C hurch and other matters .

Urb an an d Ru ral Di stri ct C oun ci ls and how they deal wi th

pari she s under their direction .

B orough an d C i ty C oun cils— how their Officers are elected ,

such as Mayor Aldermen and C ouncillors and what

, ,

are their duties in administering poor relief he al th -

,

regulations elementary schools liquor control

, , ,

police and fire services etc .

—
,

C oun ty C oun ci ls its o fficers departments and i ts duties, ,

over the Borough C ouncils ! how rates are collecte d

 C U C KOOS AN D HUMBUGS 159

and expended from duties licences and taxat i on upon

, ,

education lighting roads and bridges hospitals h ous

, , , ,

ing libraries markets parks waterworks sewage etc

, , , , , , .

P ARL IAM E N T .

Apart from the Loc al Government of C ountie s each Par

li am en tary district sends a representative chosen by the
people to speak for them in the House of C ommon s There
“
‘
.

are thu s 6 1 5 representative Members of Parliament and ,

these men have the power of making the laws for gove m
ing the country Thus nearly every man and woman over
.

2 1 has a voice in the management of the country .

The House of Lords has over 600 members who sit there ,

by right of succes sion but a fair proportion are men who ,

have distinguished themselves above the average in busi

nes s or in national service and are appointed by the King
, ,

i n con sultation with the Government .

The duty of the Lords is mainly to discuss any measure

proposed by the House of C ommons They have no real .

power to down a question though they may send it ,

back to the House of C ommons with suggestions for amend

ment The question thus gets thoroughly ventilated and
.

discussed before it becomes law .

The House of Lords pass it on to the K ing for his consent .

Thi s is a formality since the King has practically no power

,

to refuse his assent to what the House of C ommo ns has

decided U p on .

The di fferent sections of political feeling thus come to be

represented in Parliament under such names as Liberals ,

C onservatives Labour and so on

,
The party which is , .

strongest in votes carries on the government and i s criticised

in all it does by the weaker parties not in power This is a .

good thing so long as it doesn t run to excess and break up ’

national unity A country divided against itself cannot

.

stand .

The C a b i n et consists of Ministers under the leadership of

the Prime Mini ster and is the E xecutive that carries on the
administration of the country under the general direction
of Parliament E ach Minister h as a department of the
.

Administration under his re s ponsible charge such as Navy , ,

Army E ducation Home O ffice F oreign O ffice Dominions

, , , ,

and C olonial O ffices Mini stry of Health etc The whole , , .

1 60 ROVE RIN G TO SU C C E SS
sys tem h as gradually grown up from early days when kings ,

were autocratic rulers till 1 2 1 5 when under the Magna , , ,

C arta the power came more into the hands of the people
, ,

and was increased by the Habeas C orpu s Act 1 67 9 the Act , ,

of Se ttlement 1 7 0 1 and the Parliament Act 1 9 1 1

, , , .

S O Parliament has grown up by s te ady evolution on good

foundation s and as such has earned the title of th e Mother
,

of Pa rli aments When you travel in other countries

.
,

whether republics or monarchies or e mbryo States you will ,

find that they regard the Mother of Parliaments as the

nearest app roach to the ideal of Government of th e People
by the People that is of pure democratic rule
, , .

A N EW RE P U B LIC .

I was once in a newly established republic talking to

the C hief E xecutioner He was lamenting the fact that .

executions were now done away with I asked him whether .

they now gave long imprisonment instead of execution .

”
Oh no,
he replied we are a democratic republic now
, ,
”
pris ons are done away with .

Then is there no crime ?

Y es there s plenty of that still
’
.
,

Then what do they do with the criminals ?

The soldiers take them outside the gates and sho ot
—
them till they are dead ”
.

( This evidently was not his idea of an execution S ince he ,

had been accustomed to do it with a chopper ) .

But what about a small crime Suppo s e a man stole a

pocket handkerchief what would they do with him ?
-

“Take him outside and shoot him till he was dead ,

( I found later that there was a meaning underlying this

till he was dead because the soldiers being trained , ,

democratically i e on their own in ti tati ve only fired from

, . .
,

the hi p and not from the S houlder so it often took them a ,

long time to hit the obj ective ) .

How awful And what about women who do wrong

Surely the soldiers don t shoot them till they are dead ’

Oh no no We s houldn t do that
, , .
’
.

What i s done then to women criminals , ,

Ah ! they are sent to me and I cut them up into ,

hundred pieces ! but we have no executions for men .

This was where a young nat i on was endeavouring

1 62 R OVE RIN G TO SUCC E SS
The only re as on why we turn been equ ally acquisi
have not gr as ped the riche s t tive It was the fashion in
.

part of the w orld South ,

old d ays If force or even
.
,

America is that though we

,
b rutality were employed, ,

made a most dishonest they we re gener ally counter

attempt to do so we were ,
b al anced by benefits in the
chucked out by the s tout end to the countries and
coloni s ts who preferred to
,
people conquered .

g ove rn them s elves . In the ca s e of British

That too was the case in depende n cies we have to
No rth Am e rica . some extent atoned and ,

E verywhere we wrested our col oni al standing has

l and from the native i nh ab i lasted b ec au s e the Briti sh
t an ts by force and pl anted rule h as been generally
ou rs elves over them and ,
humane and has brought
,

developed our wealth and about the greater peace and

trade at their expense . prosperity for the natives
We have the j ingo s pirit of as well as for the colonists .

aggre ssive co mmercialism , The s upp res sio n of the

which expre s sed its elf a few S lave tr ad e by Britain cost
years ago in the very arro the coun try vas t sums of
g ant pop ul ar song : money with no material
,

We d on
’
t w an t t o t, figh return and was accom
,

B ut by i g J o !
n if
w e do p li s h e d en t i rely on the score
hi p
,

We ’
ve g o t th e S s, w e ve g o t
’
of humanity .

th e m e n
Of l ate years the sup
y
,

We ’
ve g o t t h e mo ne to o .

pre s sion of h uman sacrifice

Th i s is the militarist spirit and S l avery all over C entral
wh i ch is exploited by the Africa has b een carried out
c api tali s t cl ass to keep their side by s ide with the intro
o t a b o iling by O pening up duction of peaceful indus
p
-

new marke ts for themselves . try No one who has seen

.

it can deny the wonderful

benefit done to the people .

In In di a as in Africa we
, ,

have in s i s ted on peace b e

tween warring tribes an d
given protec tion for the
weaker and have introduced
,

education and commerce .

Under B ritish protection

vast countries have been
 C UC KOO S AND HUMB U GS 1 63

developed wildem es ses have

,

been tu rned into fruitful

lands and new nations have
,

arisen to become great like ,

those of Australia New ,

Zealand South A f r i c a
, ,

C anada etc ,
and as they .
,

become self sufficing they -

are given freedom an d se l f

government .

THE F RY I N G B E TT E R THAN THE F I RE

-
P AN IS .

When I was promoted to command a squadron i n my

regiment it happened to be my own squadron that I was
,

posted to instead of being transferred to another .

—
The men did an unauthorised thing they had a meeting
to celebrate the occasion and the sergeant maj or in address ,
-
,

ing me in their name said We all feel it is better to have

, ,
”
a devil we know rather than an angel we don t know
,
’
.

I m not quite sure which way this remark might be taken

’

to mean Anyhow it applies equally well to fancy forms

.
,

of government which young h ot heads sometimes clamour

,
-

for .

But they find that the solid lump of Brito ns prefer the
devil of a Government that they know to an ange l Vi sion -

that they don t know ’

WHAT THE K I N G I s To THE E MP I RE .

General Smuts was one of the Boer generals who fought

against us with the greatest persistence for his own nation
, ,

in the Boer War This is what as a man who sees both

.
,

sides he has since said to the British peop l e about the

,

British E mpire .

You talk about an Imperial mission It seems to me .

that this Briti s h Empire has only one mi s sion and that i s ,

a mi s sion for liberty and freedom and self development .

Your s is the only system that has ever worked in ,

history where a large number of diverse nations have bee n

,

living in unity T al k about a League of Nations You are

. .

the only real League of Nations that ever existed

All E mpires of the past have been founded on the i dea
.
1 64 ROVE RIN G TO SU C C E SS
of as s imilation of trying to force the di fferent nationalities
,

into one mould to form one nation Your whole idea and
.

basis i s entirely di fferent You do not want to standardise

.

the nation s of the British E mpire you want to develop

,

them into greater individual nationhood .

Thi s B ri ti sh C ommonwealth of nations does not stand

for a ssimilation or denationali s ation but it stands for a ,

fuller a richer and more various life among all the nations
, ,

that compo s e it ( under mutual protection and goodwill ) .

The que s tion arises how are you going to keep this
,

C ommonwealth together ?
You have a potent factor in your hereditary kingship .

The King i s not merely King of E ngland but he represents ,

every part of the whole C ommonwe al th of nations If his .

place is to be taken by anybody el s e as President acceptable

to the whole of that great republic then that somebody ,

will have to be elected by a process which I think will , ,

pass the wit of man to devi se

We have a kingship here which i s really not very
di fferent from a hereditary republic .

So though some people obj ect that monarchy is only

,

retained from sentimental reasons there is also solid good

, , ,

democratic reason for keeping i t up .

I N TE RN ATI O N AL .

In developing our patrioti sm we must not forget the

dan ger of getting it perverted into a narrow nation al ism .

It is right to be proud of your country but not to gas about ,

it to th e di sparagement of others or to boost it on to

,

a higher pedestal than it actually deserves Your best .

patrio ti sm is to help to raise your country s e fficiency so ’

that it can take i ts place adequately in the team of nations

of the world The Great War has demonstrated a thing
.

to which people were formerly blind an d that is that all ,

countries are now very dependent on each other in the

details of their trade and commerce that only by mutual,

good will and co operation can the world be prosperous

-

and happy .

One country may have the raw materials but another ,

h as the mean s of manufacturing them while a third can ,

do the finishing process and a fourth can best utilise the

,

article s when finished The cotton grown in India is manu

.
1 66 R OVE RIN G TO SU C CE SS
If you then find that you have a gi ft that way go on ,

and take your part in civic affairs .

BE WI DE MI ND E D
-
.

Wh en I am Prime Minister I will make it obligatory ,

that before a man can be elected to Parliament he should

have travelled round the world at least once ! and also
that his education should have taught him to look at b oth
s ides of a question in every case and al so that he should
have learnt leadership which means as a first step complete
,
’
mastery of himself and sinking to day s minor party or
,
-

class ideas for the nobler outlook the greater good of the ,

whole community in the coming years .

So in preparing yourself keep the right obj ect i n your

mind s Visage to start with If you think of taking up
’
.

public life with a View to making a great name for yourself

or to getting pay and position by it then I ll have nothing ,
’

more to do with you !

This is out of my line You will be getting among a lot
.

of others who are pushing themselves in the same direction ,

full of j ealousy hatred and malice towards each other I .

—
, ,

want you to go on towards Big Happiness not towards

Big P otiness
—
.

No i i you go into public life with the humble desire to

serve the community to help the whole S how al ong for the
,

good of the greater number it is a very di fferent thing , .

Your reward will not lie in seeing yourself go up but in ,

seein g those around you go up on to a better standard of

livin g as a result of your work And this will give you more .

satisfaction than any decorations or awards that can be

he aped upon you .

To fit yourself for the team work that is involved in

service as a C itizen whether as worker or leader you will
, ,

do well to educate yourself as I have suggested above by

, ,

developing your character and opening your mind especi ,

ally in regarding both sides of a ques tion and upholding

j ustice and fair play and secondl y by practising good will ,

towards your opponents as well as your neighbours and

t rying to see their point of View since they are your fellow ,

men .

If th e maj ority of our men and women woul d really

pract i se these two points as well as personal thrift that
,
 C U C KOOS AN D HUMBUGS 1 67

would put them in position to have time to devote to

such work it would largely help to brin g about that co
,

operation and good will in place of friction that is so meces

sary for the pro s perity of the whole community and on ,

the larger scale for the peace of the world

, .

I hope after reading this dissertation on the cuckoo

rock dangers and how they s hould be avoided you will not ,

say that another s pecimen of a cuckoo is the retired general ,

whose young days were very long ago an d who now sets ,

himself up as a law giver on what a young fellow should do

-

and what he Should not do .

Well you may see it in that l ight but as a matter of

,

LE N F M B M
l good l op o ll bl l fl
A SSO RO UR AH

l og
.

Onl ym u tu a wi l an d
-
c o -
erati n wi en a e you to tack e th e b i g s u cces s u y
.

fact the old fellow has this one point of di fference from other
—
cuckoos h e has no personal aim of his o wn he has no ,

iron s in the fire or fish to fry but he has a great love for ,

his fellow men he has a very good memory of what he

-
,

went through as a youngster without a father alive to advise

him and he has a very close sympathy with young men
,

coming out into life All he wants to do is to o ffer them

.

any hints from h i s own experiences that may be of use to

them in preven ting them from being lured away on to
treacherous Shoals an d in helping them to li ve a happier
,

an d a fuller life .
1 68 ROVE RIN G TO SUC CE SS

F OOD F OR THOUGHT

S O ME A N T I -
C RAN K M AX I M S .

To take yours elf too s eriously as a young man is the first

step to becoming a Prig .

A s en s e of humour will pull you through this danger as

well as through many a bad time .

Let your ambition be not to see how much you can get
out of work but how much you can put into it
, .

Ambition to do the ri ght is the only ambition that c ounts .

C heerfulalacrity in doing a thing that is put up to you

is the best of recommendations .

A fellow who boosts himsel f is generally the fellow who

ne ed s boo s ting .

Remember you are a brick in the wall or a player whose ,

j ob is to play in his place in the team

'

A balanced C itizen is worth half a dozen cranks .

Lots of fellows demand their rights before they have ever

e arned them .

Re adiness to serve rather than to dictate shows the best

soci ali s t .

Joy cometh to him who serveth through his brother m an , ,

h i s Father God .

Get out of your own narrow rut i f you would wi de n your

mind .

We never fail when we try to do our duty—we always

fail when we neglect to do it .
1 70 R OVE R IN G TO SU C C E SS
’
Th ere you ll see the gardeners the men and prentice boys
’

Told off to do as they are bid and do it without noise ! ,

F or except when seeds are planted and we shout to scare

,

the birds ,

The Glory of the Garden it abideth not in words .

And some can pot begonias and some can bud a rose , ,

And some are hardly fit to trust with anything that grows

But they can roll and trim the lawns and sift the sand and
loam ,

For the Glory of the Garden o ccupieth all who come .

Our England is a garden and such gardens are not made

,

By singing Oh how beautiful !

,
and sitting in the
,

Shade ,

Whi le b etter men than we go out and s tart thei r worki ng li ves
A t grub b i ng weeds f
ro m gravel p aths wi th b roken di nner
kn i ves .

There s not a pai r of legs so thin there s not a head so

’

,
’

thick ,

There s not a hand s o weak and whi te, nor yet a heart
’
so
s i ck ,

B ut i t can find some n eedful job that s cry i ng to b e done,

’

F or the g lory of the ga rden glorifieth every one .

Then seek your j ob wi th thankfulness and work ti ll further ,

.

orders ,

If it s only setting strawberries or killing slugs on borders

’

And when your b ack s to ps achi ng and y ou r hands b egi n to

ha rden ,

You will find yourself a partner in the Glory of the Garden .

Oh Adam was a gardener and God who made him sees

, ,

That half a proper gardener s work is done upon his knees ’

So when your work i s finished you can wash your hands ,

and pray
F or the Gl o ry of the Garden that it may not pass away !
A nd the Glory of the Garden i t shall n ever p ass away !
( Rudy a rd K ip li ng) .

( By special permission ) .
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 IRRE LIGION
TH E d ark s i d e of th i s ro c k i s th e d a n g er o f a t h e i s m an d

i li g i
rr e on .

I t b i gh t i d i i t
s r li ti o f G o d d S v t B
s e s s re a sa n o an er i ce o ot h er
r

M en .To t h i th t d y o f N t i
s d i t h lp
e s u a u re s a re c e .

IRR EL N IGIO .

At h i m i b i g p
e s d y g mns e n re ss e on oun e .

I li gi i p v l t
rr e on s re a en .

R li g ie i ti l t
on H pp i s e ss en a o a n es s .

NA U E L
T R ORE .

S f g a e d g i t th i m
u ar s a a ns a e s .

G d w k i N t gi v th li t t h i t
o
’
s or n a u re es e e o a e s s.

N t k wl d g i
a u re t p t no li i g G d e e s a s e o re a s n o .

H m ili t y
u d R v ti d t
an t C t e e re n ce are an o es o an .

Th b
es e g i d by mm
c an wi t h N t
e a ne co une a u re
O n t h e S e as .

I n t h e F o re s t .

g
A m o n t h e M o un t a i ns .

TH E H U M A N BE N G I .

It is n o t n ec e s s ar
y t o w a n d er f ar afie ld in ord er
i n t o uc h ih w t N at u re !
Th e H u m a n F ra m e a n d i t s Won d ers .

M i c r o s c o p i c N a t u re
i l Worl d
.

Th e A n m a .

Th e Mi n d .

TH E D V NE
I I .

Th e S o u l .

T h es e all l ead t o th e re ali s ati on th at Go d Is Lo v e .

G U I D I N G T H O U G HT S F R O M V A R I O U S S O U R C E S
K
.

B O O S T HA T M A Y B E H E L P F U L .
 I RR E LI GI O N
A THE I S M .

H E R E are a good many men who have no religion ,

who do n t believe i n God ! they are known as

’

atheists .

In Great Britain alone there are nine societies

of these They are welcome to have
.

their own opinions in this line but ,

when they try as they are always ,

doing to force these ideas on other

,

people they become enemies of the

,

worst sort .

Some of these societies di rectly

attack the religious belief of Others
in a very o ffensive way but I b e ,

lieve that by doing so they are as ,

a matter of fact doing more good ,

than harm to the religi ous con

cerned since it makes people buck
,

up and sink their own di fferences in

order to combine together to repe l
these attack s .

Here is a specimen of the gratuitous

kind of insult which they o ffer to the
C hristian religion It is one among
.

others which have been quoted in

the public press during the last few TH E H I G H B R O W .

years .

The chief religious ceremony of C hristians known as ,

the Mass or C ommunion which consists of eating the flesh

, ,

and drinking the blood of this Jew called Je s u s is a di sgust ,

ing and degrading super s titio n an d s ugge s tive of a canni b al

,

feast which in all probability was i ts origin

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C hrist i anity h a
lowered and perverted the standard of
s

truth in every di rection It is not too much to say that .

it has debauched the world with falsehood .

This to every C hristian who believed in his re ligion i s an

indecent insult At the same time it is a direct c al l to him
.

to action But I am not going into that here

.
.

Apart from the anti religious there are lots of fellows

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who though not violently Opposed to religion are not

, ,

particularly interested in it In some cases they have .

never been s hown what it is in others it has not proved

very attractive or in s piring and they have let it slide .

Mark Twain said he was averse to discussing religion S ince

it de al t with Heaven and Hell and he had fri ends in b oth
p laces .

On the other hand I have known in the backwoods more

,

than one strongly religi ons man who as a boy had had no
home teachi ng in religion but who has re al i s ed God for ,

him s elf thro ugh what he has seen of His works and His
wonders in the world .

Such a man has come to see that he h i mself was a part

and a member of that wonderful creation but equipped in ,

higher degree than other living animal s by having a mind ,

the power to appreciate beauty and the sense of good will ,

towards others which meant al s o that he had some thi ng

,

of the s pirit of God inside him .

God the C reator i s recognised by most denominations of

religion but their di fference s arise over the actual ch aracter
,

of the connecti on of the C reator with the human soul .

In the Chri s tian belief it was held that Jesus C hrist

came to live among men to interpret and bring home to
them the fact that God is Love and that the s acrifices of ,

o fferings to God as practised in the old SUpersti ti ous re

ligi on s were not what were wanted so much as the sacri fice
of self and Service for God
, .

RE LI GION I S E S SE N TIAL To H AP P I N E SS .

If you are re al ly out to make your way to success—i e . .

—
happine ss you mu s t not only avoid being sucked in by
irreligious humbugs but you must have a religious basis to
,

your life .

Thi s i s not a mere matter of going to church of knowing ,

Bible hi story or understanding theol ogy Many men are

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I h Ope I Shall not be misunderstood I do not suggest .

Nature Study as a form of worship or as a substitute for

religion but I advocate the understanding of Nature as a
,

step in certain cases towards gaining religion

, , .

This way is one that may appeal where other methods

have failed e s pecially to tho s e who are incline d to be
,

atheists or tho s e who have no religious ideals in particul ar ,

or who have had them and have lapsed from them It may .

help them by a new path to find their C hurch again

, , .

The following words by David Grayson describe what I

fancy mus t be the experience of a very large number of men
in the present day .

I have been a botanist for fifty four years When I -

.

was a boy I believed implicitly in God I prayed to Him . ,

— —
having a vision of Him a person before my eyes .

As I grew Older I concluded that there was no God I .

dismi ssed Him from the universe I believed only in what .

I could see or hear or feel

, , .

I t alked about Nature and reality .

— —
And now i t seems to me there is noth i ng but God .

N ATU RE K N OWLE D GE A S TE P T OWARD S R E ALI S I N G GOD .

The Bi shop of Winchester held an enquiry during the

Great War among a number of C haplains at the front which ,

in the end showed that a very large proportion of our men

had little gras p or practise of religion .

Then I have read that in some cases F aith has been in

danger of becoming superstition and for remedy it was ,

s ugge s ted that something tangible is needed by the C hild

for b uilding F aith otherwise he imbibes supers tition This
, .

h as b een l argely the result of trying to teach religion on an

im agin ative bas i s On the other hand I know that among
.
,

our young men of to day there is an earnest de s ire for

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—
reli gi on a religion that they can grasp and act up to .

D uring the war I had hundreds of young soldiers

anx i ous to S ign on to carry out the Scout s Promi s e ’

and Law ( s ee page 2 2 0) as something tangible in that

d ire ction .

Recently I was told of a group of young working men

wh o h ave become Rovers ( s ee page There
we re s o me thirty of them and they asked their leader to
,

hold a Sunday meeting to teach them something of religion .

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So for such fell ows I hope that my suggesti ons may b e

helpful .

The spirit is there right enough but the form 1s needed ,

when once they have come to realise something of the

Divine nature and of His Service .

In the Indian epic Mahabharata there Is the legend that

, ,

an energetic priest was dissatisfied with the amount of faith

in one of hi s flock When charged with irreligion the man
.

explained that he had tri ed hard but had found that

religion was not in his line .

The priest thereupon seized him and plunging his head ,

u nder water held him there until he was nearly drowned .

By dint of Sheer strength and struggling he managed at

last to break loose When he remonstrated agai nst this
.

violent treatment the priest replied

,
.

If you only strove in a world of di fficulties to find God s ’

help half as hard as you have been struggling to get breath

when in the water you woul d soon find Him
,
.

H U MIL ITY AN D R E V E RE N C E .

One antidote to the cocksureness of atheism is Humili ty

coupled with Reverence as hard a thing to learn as i t is
—
to teach Let me give you an instance or two of how it has
.

been brought about by contact with Nature .

Temple Thurston in one of his writings said that he had

, ,

been looking at a beautiful View so glorious in fact that , , ,

he thought to h imself What would some city dweller say

,

if he were suddenly taken up out of his grey surroundings

and plumped down to see this wonderful sight ?
The chances were that he would be so taken by surprise
that he would let out some pretty bad language no
ordinary words would b e adequate to express the shock of
his delight .

Well that is j ust what actually happened in the case of

, ,

a soldier in the South African War when after long and , ,

weary marching across the veld he came suddenly on the ,

tremendous View that spreads itself below you at a point

called the Devil s K an toor in the E astern Tran s vaal
’ ”
, .

My God he cried and some blinking fool said there

,

was no God .

The wonderful glory of it caught even his stolid imagina

tion and drew from him an expression which as Thurston
, ,
1 80 R OVE RIN G T o SUC CESS
suggests even if blasphemous woul d fbr the reason of it
, , , ,

be acceptable to the Almighty .

Anyway it is not a bad reply to the atheist

,
.

A sailor is often a deeply religious man as a result of his

communing with Nature especially where he has risen to
,

the position of being responsible for his ship AS his vessel .

surges over the seething mountain of green grey death -

,

holding sea— in a howling gale of sleet and s pitting spray

h e knows the power and appreciates the awesomeness of the
forces of Nature against which he is pushing his way .

Standing there alone on his bridge directing things for the

safety of the S ouls committed to his C harge he cannot help
feeling himself at times in closest touch with the Higher
Power on Whom it all depends .

That touch is mainly the acknowledgment of and rever

ence for a greater Power than himself He puts himself in .

the hands of that Power and works with confidence in

co Operation with Him
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THE WOND E RS OF THE F OR E ST

If you have never j ourneyed through the forest of Brazil

or West C entral Africa you can hardly imagine th e curiously
haunting sensation that comes of trudging through scenery
which on first acquaintance di s plays the beauty and wonder
of a tropical j ungle It recalls to the most unfeeling mind
.

all the grace and maj esty of a C at hedral But despite its .

attractiveness it hides horror within its dim twilight and

soggy vegetation Through the tangled undergrowth one
.

pushes one s way with trees overhead shutting out the sun
’

—
shine and the air And high above these the giant cotton
.

trees and other monarchs of the forest rear t h eir heads two
hundred feet above the ground But you seldom see the s e .

heads when you are groping your way in the ooze and leaf
mo uld amid the creepers reeds and bush As you tramp
, .

day after day and it may be week after week through this
, ,

same gloom its beauty is forgotten in continu al repetition

, ,

and the confinement becomes a horror from which you know

there is no e s cape and no relief A sick depres s ion holds .

you in its C lutch ! in some cases even melancholy and

madne s s come to men .

And then at night as you lie out in the dark in the soft ,
1 82 R OVE RIN G TO SUCCE SS
I kept climbing as it continually kept receding Look ing .

backward behind me a S imilar horizon was but a few yards

below leading down into the gloom I had left One writer .
,

describing the same climb has compared the climber to an

,

ant going up a water butt And that s what one felt like
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.
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.

Then above the shoulders of the cli ffs that surrounded

me there began to arise the crests of higher crags and
mountain tops like giants standing clearer in the morning
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,

light but all cold and hard peering at me over the shoulders
, ,

of their lower neighbours I was the only moving obj ect in

.

all that immensity of rigid rock and peak I felt an intruder .

,

and so puny in that solemn domain .

Here the strata and variegated rocks spoke of thousands

upon thousands of years from the time when our earth was
,

being fashioned in the melting pot -

.

I was but as a Short lived insect among them

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.

I climbed higher and higher and breathing became more ,

di fficult while the sense of loneliness and smallness grew

,

upon me in that intense S ilence and among those vast gables

of the roof of the world .

Suddenly above one of them I saw a great greenish white -

peak of etern al snow stark and C lear cut agains t the sky
,
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and soon another and yet another on the di fferent sides .

It seemed as though the greater giants of the range on ,

whose steep facets the foot of man had never trod were ,

—
standing up to overlook me cold stem and pitile s s The , .

stupendous heights and the ghastly silence and the loneli

, ,

ness and the immensity of it all seemed to appal me I

, .

was scarcely myself There came upon me almost a desire

.

to scream out to break the spell Yet the loudest human .

Voice would have sounded there as feeble an effort as the

piping of a wren as I once heard it among the vast ruins
of the C oliseum at Rome .

I tried to shut my eyes to i t when suddenly a strange ,

glow seemed to come in the air above me Lookin g back .

over my Shoulder I saw that which made me gas p One of .

the great peaks which a moment before had been al most

grey blue now suddenly gleamed at its topmost points a
-

daz z ling orange pink m ass with its lower parts in Opalescent
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,

shadows of violet and blue and tinted green the whole ,

mass standing out with startling distinctne s s of outline and

detai l against the darkened sky behind it .
 IRRE LIGION 1 83

And as one looked around peak after peak took up the

rosy radiance of the dawn .

One felt it was too much for one little mortal mind to
grasp — on e was a trespasser in a holy place It was s ome .

thin g uncanny and beyond one s ken to be up here watching

’

the morning toilet of Nature herself There was nothi ng

.

to connect the divine scene with the life of men that I had
left down below there in the gloom .

I stumbled on awed almost to horror by it all when at

, , ,

the moment j ust when I mo s t n eeded some touch with the

human world over the next ri s e
,

there stood up before me a figure

—the figure of C h rist
the Redeemer .

It was not the usual

pathetic body h anging
from the C ross but a ,

big generous Being

,

with wide flowing robes

an d with welcoming
protective arms out
spread .

A fin e s tatue h appily
,

placed for its purpo s e

of marking the boun
dary and a sign of per
p etu al Peace between
the States of Argentine
and Chile but even
,
C H R IS T ON TH E A ND E S .

more happily placed

than its sculptor had designed in giving at that spot a , ,

tangible link between the human and the Divine the —

link which C hrist in His time had come on earth to
g 1ve .

I read somewhere lately :

One becomes a kind of Yoga in the moun tains where ,

you can only walk and sleep and think .

I do not know what it is : nine tenths of the people

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who l ive higher than ft are Buddhis ts The moun

. .

tains almost t al k you into it .

In the quiet of the night you listen to their voices you

are drawn i nto the broodi ng immensity all round yo u .
1 84 ROVE RIN O TO SUCC E SS
Then as the slough of immediate cares and preoccupat i ons
,

S lips away the spirit expands and wider cycles of conscious

,

ness are opened out In warm cities where men huddl e

—
.
,

together one must have something to cling to a personal

,

Saviour a lantern in a sure and kindly hand comforting

—
, ,

voices in the dark But here you do not seek you know . .

Self vanishes There is a mystic purpose in Nature wi th

—
.

which you are concerned remotely not individually .

You may dream apart but you are one with all the seeds ,

of the grasses an d the li ttle round stones unprivileged ”

, .

THE G RE AT F ALL S .

Abraham Lincoln as he stood and gazed at the Fal ls of ,

Niagara said : It calls up the indefinite past ! when

,

C olumbus first sighted this continent when C hrist su ffered ,

on the C ros s when Mo s es led the Israelites through the Red

,

Sea nay even when Adam first came from the h and of his
, ,

Maker then as now Niagara was roaring here

, ,
Older , .

than the firs t man Niagara is as strong and fresh to day as ,

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ten thousand years ago The mammoth and the mastodon .

have gazed on Niagara that long long time never , , ,

still for a moment never dried never frozen n ever S lept , , , ,

”
never rested .

John We sley Hill in recordi ng this writes These reflec , ,

tions on Niagara embraced the whole subj ect of creation ,

the exi s tence of God the Mystery and the power of the ,

univers e the history redemption and fate of man

, , , .

F rom th i s recognition of God in Nature it requires b ut a step

”
to a realisation of the Divine in the affairs of men .

It is very true you will understand it if ever you stan d

on the edge of that stupendous gorge that constitutes the
Victoria Falls in South Africa Here the Zambesi half as, .
,

wide again as Niag ara hurl s its waters do wn 3 00 ft into , .

the dark swirling depths below .

R emote from power stations tram s and tourists restan

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, ,

rants this mighty cataract catches with even greater

,

i mpressivene ss one s imagination

’

That roar which one hears some miles away has never
ceased since time was to shake the air The zigzag passage
, , .

3 00 feet deep which the river has cut for it s elf for forty miles
through s olid rock speaks to a grinding process not of thou
san ds but of many thousands of years One learns here .
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drumming snipe the blue flashing kingfi s her these and
, ,

other Nature mates become your companion s .

But there are other scenes than this Shackleton had a .

di fferent View when he said that country side scenery was -

all ve ry well .

That i s all right for getting your butter and roast

mutton ! but there s another kind of scenery th at ch al
’

lenges the best in a man s soul I can t tell you what

’ ’

i t means to an explorer
marching through a fog in
a new land when suddenly
the fog lift s and he finds
himself looking at moun
tains no human eye has
ever seen .

Well there I agree ,

with him too I love th e .

homely beauty of the

E ngli s h country side as I -

do the va s t openness and

freedom of the rolling veld
in South Africa .

I love th e rush n
waters and the nodding
forests of C anada ! but
I have been more awed
by the depths and heights
of th e Himalayas and by
the grandeur of tho s e
K A N C H I N JU N G A eternal snows lifting their
U N T R O D D E N B Y M AN peaked heads high above
.

the wo rld never defiled by ,

the foot of m an but reaching of all thing s worldly the

,

neares t to the Heavens .

H IK IN G .

You may say yes but I can t get to mountains oceans

,
’

and p ri m v
e l fore s ts How then am I to see and under
a .
 IRRE LIGION 1 87

,
With your pack on your back and a staff in your hand or
W i th y li t t l
o ur t l t d b tw y k e s ee s ee e ee n o ur n e es
Y ou j ll y w ll g w h v y p l
c an o e o ere er ou e as e ,
”

tak ing wi th you your little canvas home your blanket or ,

—
your cooking pot and F RE E D O M Out in God s open
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.
’

air preferably hiking

,
— that is taking tramps about the
country— and drinking in the glories of sky and earth and
sea seeing the colour in the woods and fields scenting the ,

flowers and the hay hearing the music of the brook s and
,

birds and the whispering wind getting to know the animals ,

and their ways till you fee l that you are a comrade with
,

them all and find yourself as a part of the great scheme

of Nature .

Davi d Grayson writes in The F ri endly Road : F rom

time to time it is the custom of these Samurai to cut ’

themselves loose from the crowding world of men and with

packs on their backs go away far to places in the deserts or
on Arctic ice caps I am convinced that every man needs
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.

such a change as this an opportunity to think things out to

, ,

get a new grip on life a new hold on God But not for, .

me the Arctic ice cap or the desert

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I choose the Frien dl y .

—
Road and all the common people who live along it ”
.

Hiking is an o l d E nglish word an d still survives in

many loc al dialects One meaning i s to move with a
.

H U MAN BODY AS AN ITE M IN NAT U RE STU DY

Apart from woods or fields you need not go farther than ,

your own self for a beginning in Nature study Wh at did .

you come from A tiny seed no bigger than a pin s point ’

yet giving you a body formed of flesh and bone and sinew
with a likeness to your own father and mother strong and , ,

able to obey whatever the mind tells it to do .

It has wonderful mechanism in all its parts Look at .

your eye a most delicate and marvellous apparatus beyond

,

anything that man could devise It gives instantaneous .

information to the mind o f things near or far away of their ,

ugliness or beauty their colours and shapes It read s th is

, .

page and from the printed letters Upon it puts thoughts and
1 88 R OVE R IN G TO SUCCE SS
ideas into your brain which the brain packs away into store
for us e later on when needed .

Touch this book with your forefinger and think simple as ,

the action i s yet how wonderf ul

,
.

E ye telegraphs to brain there is the book at such and

such a di stance from you brain tells sinew to move arm
, ,

hand and finger to the spot at once Nerves in finger .

tip telegraph back at once to brain that the j ob has been

done and that the book is cold or hot rough or smooth and , ,

S O on .

As k Mr Atheist who it was who invented and m ade that

.

wonderful machine ? And not merely one specimen but

mi llions throughout this wonderful world alike in minutest ,

details yet no two exactly alike in mind body or appear

, ,

ance Put your finger on your pulse that is the artery on the
.
,

front of your wris t directly below your thumb Or feel your .

heart in the left centre of your C hest There you find the .

wonderful performance going on of fresh warmed up blood ,

-

being steadily pumped through your arteries .

The s e lead to all parts of your body and the blood ,

is then brought back dirty by the veins to the other side

, , ,

of the heart to be cleansed by the lungs with fresh oxygen

,

from the air .

And that work is going on regularly all the time without

your taking any trouble about it yourself ! whether you
are sleeping or waking that g al lant heart goes on unceas
,

i ngly at his j ob .

If he were to go on strike and stop work even for a minute , ,

you would be dead He has his telegraph wires in the

.

shape of nerves which give him messages from the brain the
moment that your eyes or ears telegraph something out of
the way to the brain Thus if there i s a sudden loud bang
.
,
'

near you or your ear tells you in the night that someone
l s creeping U to stick you with a knife ear tell brain and
p s ,

brain tells heart and heart at once increases his rate of

,

m m
O

p u p g .

Al s o if you go running or doing extra work Uphill more ,

fre sh blood is demanded and you suck in greater gulps of

fre sh air to replenish the blood and heart has to get on to
.

the ] 0b with redoubled vigour .

You owe a great deal to him ! your health your ve ry ,

11fe depends on heart doing hi s duty to you ! and yet

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9 0 ROVE RIN G TO SUC CE SS
of valves that goes on working in your heart once every
second
I have copied it from Dr S h elley s book L ife and Health
.

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, ,

which you should read if you care to see full information

put in mo s t interesting form about all the di fferent organs of
your body and the work that they do It is really good .

reading He doesn t tell you there but I can tell you here
.
’
,

that an awful lot of fellows who distinguish thems elves as

young men at running and rowing die before they are
very old through heart disease brought on by the strain
of their early exertions .

Then there is your ear Have you ever seen a model .

of the human ear and the marvell ous machinery that it

contains for telephoning every sound to your brain ?
It would take too long to go
into that wonderful apparatus
here but this diagram of the ,

section of an ear wi ll give you

some suggestion of what it is like .

I think if
every fellow
studied a little
of his own
body and how
i t works he
would quickly
gain a new
idea of the
miraculous
handiwork of
God and
would realise
S E C TI ON TH E I N TE R I O R O F TH E H U M A N E AR
A W O ND E R F U L A N D D E L I C A T E I N S T R U M E N T
h OW H e i s

l b b l l
. .

So o T tn a11 ac tl V e
b vi l b y
d
C
un t e n ers a t h t A d i t th i t t d m B
Th h o
g n ve u e an ra e s e e ru
C k k
b In your b Ody
.

t
i s se s mm i g g i t D
o o d
a er o ne no c n a a ns an ne
p t k
i l h ll G f ll o f fl i d b
,
an d h gi t t ti E wh th d mF
o o
e a

th
a es s rru ne o s ri es e s ec n ru

m F t p g t ti o o f th i fl i d wh i h i th l o w p t
f as W 11
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,

H ere t f
e re IS a s o r Th vi ti 6 I n
th d
o s na s e u u e ra ns

ot f i t tthb tov h w i l t of mi t h i Th wh gi t t d
.

e ru se u a i a n s u
your m n d c n e er ar

h h t l p ho th o d t th b i
,
l ‘
s u e uc

o h
es a o nu e a rs es e en a a e
And when
.

uc e ne r e s , c e e ne e s un o e ra n .
,

as some of
you have done you see these wonderful bodies of His wi th
,

all their compli cated beautiful ly fitted living mechanisms ,

sma hed de s troyed or maimed by man made bombs an d

s , ,
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 I RRE LIGION 19 1

Shells i n man made battles over man made villainies you

- -
,

wil l feel that there is somethin g wicked and profane about

war .

Look at the grain of the S kin of your finger tips with its -
,

many circles and turns take a print of those with ink

,

upon paper and examine them with a magnifying gl ass

,
.

You may get thousands of other people to do the same ,

but you wi ll never find one who has them identically

like your own C on s ider any part of your body and its
.

wonderful make sensation and what it does at your

, ,

command You begin to realise what a wonderful living

.

machine has been given to your charge to use properly

and you gain a reverence for your own b ody .

M IC RO S C OP IC N ATU RE .

Take one drop of moisture from your mouth and put it on

a gl ass S lide under a microscope and you will see that it
contains hundreds of little living animals or germs of del i
cate form and likeness to each other endowed with life and ,

action and with powers of feeding and reproduction

, .

Go out into the garden or the nearest park and see those
p lants ,
pick a S ingle leaf of the thousands on the tree and ,

stu dy it through a magnifying glass compare it with another ,

of the S ame tree or of a tree of the same family a thou s and

miles away Both will be exactly alike in form and texture
.
,

yet each will have its own little minute di fference of

individuality. Also each has its own power of breathing
and feeling of feeling warmth or cold health or illness
, , .

E ach plant has its birth life reproduction and death j ust
, ,

as any other animal on earth .

THE P OSS IBIL ITIE S OF THE E LE C TRON .

Do you know what an electron is It i s a t i ny part i cle of

electricity that comes to us from the sun millions and
millions of miles away It i s di fficul t to describe how sm all
.

it is Take an atom An atom i s the smallest particle of

. .

matter that exi sts It is much too small to be seen but a

.
,

bubble of hydrogen about the S ize of a printed l etter 0

contains many millions of atoms .

And an atom is a thousand time larger than an electron .

In the Outli nes of S ci ence by Profe s sor Arthur Thomson

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192 R OVE RIN G T o SU C CE SS
where this is all explained the author shows that if an atom
,

could be magnified so much as to be th e si z e of St Paul s .

’

C athedral each electron in it would be about the siz e of a

sm al l b ullet
That begin s to make you think there are some small
things in this world that you had not noticed before !
Yes and they are pre tty wonderful th ings too
,
.

An elect ron s ays Sir William Bragg

,
can only ,

maintain a s ep arate exi s tence if it is travelling at over 600

miles a s econd O therwi s e the electron sticks to the firs t
.

atom it comes acro s s It may travel at from

. to
m ile s per s econd or in other words it could go
, , ,

round the wo rl d half a dozen times i n a second That is a

wonder in i ts elf b u t another wonder is how the men of
,

s cience have m an aged to discover all this They have gone .

furt h er and fo un d that a s eventieth part of a grain of

radium will give out thirty mi lli ons of electrons per S econd
Th ere is all thi s immen s e amount of force and energy
around us It has only been di s covered lately It remains
. .

for s omeone to harness it for the use of man and it will ,

make an immen s e di fference in our conditions of living .

A few ye ars ago we knew nothing of el ectricity That .

has been di s covered and used with marvellous results It .

h as already made possible things that our gr andfathers

would have s aid were uncanny works O f the devil s uch as ,

wireles s tel egraph y and telephones But there they are . .

The discovery of electrons has S hown that even our

ideas of the last few years are now out of date as to the
nature of electrici ty S O who can tell what the nex t few
.

years m ay b ring about ?

Sir W B ragg s ays Atom energy will supply our future
.
,

needs A thousand years may pas s before we can harness

.

the atom or to morrow may see us with the rein s in our

,
-

hand s That i s the peculiarity of Physics : research and

.

accidental di s co ve ry go hand ln hand - -

.

What a tremen dou s C hance for a fe llow who make s

atom s and mole cules and electron s his hobby He would
be at once the biggest benefactor to the human race that
the world h as ever s een .

The wonders and mysteri es of Nature are unlimited .

There are big C hances before you fellows of the next

generation 5 0 there is material value in studying them
.
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same shape and size slightly tilted up when they are to
,

hold honey how the honey bees come and fill them with
the honey from the flowers for the feeding of the community
how the q ueen bee lays her eggs in the breeding cells where
they ar e fed by the nurs ing bees ! how the far ming bees
placed in regular lines keep the hive ventilated with their
wings ! and how the sentries and guard bees keep out
intruders at the door .

THE M IND .

Then among the greater animal s you find them sagacious ,

whether wild or tame whether seals or panthers horses or

, ,

dogs They all have minds and memories for directing

.

their powers .

It is not only the human mother who loves her children .

The tigress is equall y fond of her cubs or the partridge of ,

her chicks .

And so too the male wil l protect his female whether he ,

be a monkey or a wild boar or even a fish j ust as bravely , ,

and as chivalrously as any knight of olden days .

One has seen anim al s sacrifice their lives to protect their

young as pluckily as any soldier fighting for his home and
country .

You have probably owned a dog who would defend you

and your pos sessions with his life if need be for no reward , ,

but because he loved you .

And you can see from his actions how he enj oys express
ing his affection for you It makes him happy to carry out
.

your wishes and to do little j obs for you .

Man too h as all these attributes of the animals He h as

, , .

the mind and the memory the pluck and the chivalry the
, ,

a ffection and the happiness that animals possess ! but he

has them on a far higher scale He can use them al l to .

greater advantage .

THE S OU L .

AS a man you have this pull over the animal—you can

rec ognise and appreciate both the wonders and the beauties
of Nature You can enj oy the golden glory of the sunset
.
,

the beauty of the flowers and trees the maj esty of the ,

mountains the moonl ight and the distant views

, .
 IRRE LIGION 1 95

But more than this you can make th i ngs which is more
, ,

than animals can do and a good many of you can make

,

pictures or poetry or render music for yourselves That is .

an addi tional pull that you have towards the enj oyment
of life .

But there is bound to come i n the thought that something

more is expected of you than is expected of rooted trees
or animal s who have limited powers something more than ,

merely enj oying the sun s hine as they do .

You have all this extra inte lligence with the ability to ,

apply i t But it is wasted if you don t use i t or if you

.
’

spend it badly as for instance in quarrelling with your next

,

door neighbour over some potty little question of politics

or creed when all around you is the vast un i verse and God
,

for you to work for .

The funny thing is that there has been more fighting and
quarrelling in the world over religion than for any othe r
cause I t is worse than funny it is ridiculous but at the
.
, ,

same time true that the more we care for our own religious
beliefs the more narrow minded we seem to become towards
-

the religious ideas of other people .

We forget that we are al l sons of the same F ather and

that we are all striving to do His will though it may b e in ,

di fferent ways .

There is one thing however that I feel sure of myself

, , ,

and that is that God is not some narrow minded personage -

,

as some people would seem to imagine but a vast Spirit ,

of Love that overlooks the minor di fferences of form and

creed and denomination and which blesses every man wh o
really tri es to do h i s b est accordi ng to h i s lights
,
in His ,

servi ce .

C O N SC IE N C E .

How can you best serve Him with the intelligence

and power that He has given you ? If you are in doubt ,

ask your C onscience that is the voice of God wi thin you

, , .

He will tell you at once what is ne eded of you And it i s .

generally to give of your good will and to give it freely , .

Animals can quarrel and snarl dogs delight to bark and ,

bite i t is their nat ure to but th ey cannot as a rule rise

, , , ,

to being large minded charitable helpful and k in d Men

-
, , , .

can do th is when they really mean b us in ess That i s .

 1 96 R OVE RI N G T o SUC CE SS
where a man attains his proper footing namely when h e
exercises the Divine Love that is in mm In servi ce for others
, ,

L OV E .

In India you will often see a fakir who for a vow holds , ,

one arm aloft and never uses it That arm withers away .

an d dies In the same way that spark of Love that exists

.

in every man if not exercised wastes away and dies

, ,

but if put into practice it grows bigger and stronger and

more exhilarating every day .

Service is giving up your own pleasure or convenience to

lend a hand to others who need it Well if you practise .
,

service to others day by day in litt l e thin gs as well as big ,

you will find yourself developing that spark of Love within

you till it grows so strong that it carries you j oyously over
all the little di ffi culties an d worries of life you rise above
them ! you are filled with good wi ll towards men ! and
C onscience the voice within you says
, Well done ! ,

That Love is like Mercy which Shakespeare describes as

,

havi ng a twofold quality it blesses him that giveth as well

as him that receiveth That Love is the b i t of God wh ich
.

—
is in every man that is h i s Soul .

The more he gives out of Love and Charity to h is fell ow

men so much the more he develops his Soul .

Profe s sor Drummond in his work N atural Law i n the

S p i ri tu al World has suggested that it is there that lies
,

,
’

man s C hance of what i s known as everlasting life ! he

develops his s oul from being a little bit to being part of God .

It is there that he finds the happiness of being a player in

’

God s team It is there that he finds the j oy of heaven

.
,

here and now on earth an d not vaguely somewhere later

on in the s kies .

There is no S uperstition about all this as suggested by ,

your atheist It is a direct fact and it lies Open to every

.
,

m an whether he be rich or poor to enj oy provided he

,
, ,

paddl es his way towards it .

A s tep to thi s end is to read the Bible and trace the history
’

of God s will among men and to carry that will out by your
own good will and helpfulnes s to others and you will be
—
,

i
the better man for t and safely past the rock of atheism
on your voyage to happiness .

Now don t thin k from al l that I have said in thi s chapter

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precepts It is easier to keep Holidays than C ommand
.

ments (F rankli n) .

C hrist s Death and Resurrection were a call to us to

’

—
die to our S ins and to rise again to a new li fe here in ,

this world and now .

The study of the Bo ok of Nature i s the true key to that

of Revelation ( Bacon) .

Though I bestow al l my goods to feed the poor

an d have not Love i t profiteth me nothing
,
Love su ffereth .

long and is kind Love envieth not Love vaunteth not

,

it s elf is not pu ffed up doth not behave itself unseemly

, , ,

seeketh not her own is not easily provoked thinketh no

,

evil rej oiceth not in iniquity but rej oiceth In the truth !
beareth all things believeth all things hopeth all things
, , ,

endureth all things ( I C or xiii ) . .

God i s not a friend who thinks only of our religious S ide

on the contrary we should find it a help and an encourage
,

ment i f we looked upon Him as a keen friend intere s ted ,

alike in our games our work or our stamp coll ecting ( The
, ,
-

Heart of a S choolb oy) .

Reverence promises freedom from hasty j udgment ,

friendship towards men and obedi ence to the go ds ,

( M a rcu s A u reli us ) .

I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down

upon earth and be an atheist b ut I do not see how he can ,

look up into the heavens by night an d say there is no

God ( Ab raham L i ncoln) .

THE STORY BOOK -

And Nature the old nurse took

, ,

The C hild upon her knee

Saying, Here is the story book -

The F ather has written for thee .

C ome w an der with me she sai d , ,

Into regions yet untrod ,

And read what is still unread

In the manuscript of God .
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The man who is blind to the b eauties of Nature has

missed h al f the pleasure of life .

Be a player in God s team ’

.

Natu re is a school where di fferent minds l earn di fferent

things one will express his Nature lore in poe try another -
,

in pictures but all in peaceful Love

, .

Lord Avebury says in his introduction to M arvels of the

Un i vers e : We live in a wonderful and beautiful world
a world which it is most important to understand ! and
dangerous if not fat al to m Isun derstan d There is no
, , .

animal or plant which would not we ll repay I do not say ,

merely the attention of an hour but even the devotion of ,

a lifetime I often gri eve to think how much happiness our

.

fellow men l ose from their ignorance of science If anyone .

is ever dull it i s his own fault E very wood every field .

, ,

every garden every stream every pond i s full of interest

, , ,

to those who have eyes to see .

Two thin gs fill my mind wi th ever renewed wonder the

more often and the deeper I dwell upon them the starry
vault above me an d the moral l aw wi th in me ( I mmanuel

Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with al l thy heart and ,

with all thy i soul and w th al l thy

, mind This i s the first
.

an d great C ommandment .

And the second is lik e unto i t :

Thou s halt love thy n eighb ou r as thyself .

On these two commandments hang all the l aw and

the prophets (M att x xi i . .

H E LP F UL BOOKS TO R E AD
The Wonder of L ife J A Thompson ( Hutchinson
.
) 5
1 3 . .
, .

Weekday C hri sti ani ty P B Clayton and L G Appleton . . . . .

( Routledge ) 6 d , .

j es u s of N a z a reth Bishop Gore ( Home University

.

Li brary ) 2 3 6d , . .

The jes us of Hi story T R G l over 6d

“

23 . . . . .

Outsp oken E ssay s F irst Series Dean Inge ( Longman)

. .
,

3 s .6d .

God s P lan Bishop of St Al b an s ( Student C hrist i an

’

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Press ) , 3 3 .
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TH I S Part s h ows d l
h o w t h e i e a s a n d t eo r es p u t f orwar h i d
i n th e f o re g i g h p
o n c a ters c an b e p ut n t o ac t u a p rac t ce i l i by
an yyo g m un an .

O JE
B C TSH R VE M V E M EN
OF T E O R O T .

R l M ea d d i n th n t i on
EN n ee e e a .

Th b k woo d t h b t
e ac h ool f M n m ki ng s e es sc or a -
a .

ME H DT O S .

E x m p l of
a R ov S o ut T i n i n g H i m lf i n
e a er c ra se Man
li n e s s .

Th e a i m o f t h e R over rot er B h h oo d i s S erv i ce f or O th ers .

i ki g
H n a n d C am n g pi .

b
H o w t o eco m e a R over .

f
S om e o t h e arts o R o veri ng f .

O R G A N I S AT I O N .

l
R u es fo r R over S co u t s
Th e ect O bj .

Th e I n ve s t tu re i .

Th e L a w .

H o w t o S tart .

U if n or m .

di i
C on t o ns o f A m ss on d i i .

C o n t on s di i b
et w e e n A m d i ssi on I nves t i tu re .
b
S u s e q ue n t ra n nT i i
g .

R o ver B dg
D
a es .

R o ve r
D p
en s .

ee S ea S co uts .

A C tl V I ti es
S erv ce i .

R e c re atl o n .

T e a m R e cr e a t i o n s .

li bi pl
C m n g as a s am e re creat on i
p
.

id
A n A c c e nt C o r s an d s o m e s am e a ct v t es
p i ii l
y f Li f
.

E n jo m e n t o
.

e .

p ibili y
R es o n s t o f a R o ver i n re -c o n s t ru c t n o u r m an h oo i g d
k id d gi i g x p l
.

S o m e w e a n e ss e s t o b e avo e i n v n e am e
i gh i h f i i b y
.

AH S e rv c e f o r R overs i s t a t o t ra n n u n

B K
g y o g o s .

OO S R E F E EN E
OF R C F OR R O VE RS .

SON G A S U D OU GH
S OF O R .
2 06 ROVE R IN G TO SUC CE SS
are led to be traitors to their country at the i nstigat i on of
agitators.

I know that in the Great War our men showed up as true

m en in a remarkable degree Where they were good . they ,

were s plendidly good To read any one of the hundreds of

.

case s of Victoria C ross and Distinguished Service awards

is a fine tonic for anyone who feels depressed about the pluck
of our race But as I have constantly said before in this
.

book one has to look at both sides of the picture .

We have splendid material an d results that Show what

men can be if they are only brought up to be manly and
we have on the other Side the evidence to S how what curs
they can be if left to drift among drink Shops and rotten
surroundings .

F or my part I feel that living in towns has a great deal

to say to the want of manliness Go out into the b ush .

of Australia or the veld of South Africa or the backwoods

of C anada and you find a di fferent breed The New .

Ze al ander is the bravest man I know In those lands a .

man has to fend for himself If he cannot track the spoor .

of animal s or read signs from the flight of birds he is going ,

to die of thirs t or hunger .

Water isn t laid on in the desert nor is there a baker s

’

,
’

round the corner .

To light his fire an d to kill C lean and cook his food ,

for himself is his every day j ob -

.

He has to stand up to the lion or the wolf with the same

readine s s that he would use to catch a train or to step on
to a tramcar at home .

With his axe he does all his carpentry from Sharpening ,

a pencil to felling trees and notching them to interlock

in a weatherproof log house -
.

I remember away back in C anada the call going round

the di strict that a lady had come to settle there The .

next day from ranches twenty mi les distant in di fferent

di rections no less th an forty cow punchers lumber men -
,
-

and others turned up ! and two days later they rode off
their di fferent ways leaving a fine log house standing a -
,

free gift and ready for the marm s occupation ’

Though self sufl i cin g the backwoodsman is not self

-
,

sufficient He is a rough di amond but a gentleman as

.
, ,

chivalrous as the knight of olden t imes .

 R OVE RIN G 2 07

Deeds that in E ngland would be sent up to the Royal

Humane Society for med al s pass out there as everyday
matters and excite no comment .

One lI ttle incident told by Stewart E White i s typica l .

A j am of floating logs had formed in the river and held

them up for about three miles back The men with their .

peavies were working at the breast of i t to brea k it up and

get the logs moving again .

Presently the j am broke a bit and pulled down stream -

a hundred feet or S O and then plugged again , .

Then it was seen that only a small section of the j am

had moved leaving the main body S till blocked so that
‘

, ,

between the two sections lay a narrow stretch of open water .

Into this open water one of the men Slipped and fe ll .

Before he could recover the second or tail sect i on of the

,

j am started to pull .

Apparently nothing could prevent him from being

.
—
crushed A man called Sam I don t know his last name ’

ran down the tail of the first section ,

across a lot of l oose logs bobbing on

the open water seized the Victim of
,

the accident by the collar desper ,

ately scaled the face of the moving

‘

j am and reached the top

,

j ust as the two sections

ground together wi th the
brutish crash of wrecking
timbers .

It was a magnificent
rescue Any but these men
.

of iron would have ad

R E S T O R A T I O N O F TH E A PP A R
j o urn ed for thanks and con
E N T LY D R O W N E D
gratulations Still retaining
.
‘

his hold on the other man s collar Sam twisted him about’

and gave him a vigorous kick There damn you said .

, ,
’

he That was all They fell to work at once to keep

. .

”
the j am moving .

A somewhat S imilar case was reported in the papers as

”
A Lumberman s Gallantry ’
.

A teamster was dri ving across Lake Larson wi th a load

of logs when the i ce broke and horses and load plunged ,

into the water The teamster instead of thankfully

.
,
2 08 ROVE RI N G TO S U C C ES S
making good his escape dived into the i cy water to a depth
,

of fifteen feet and after a long and desperate s truggle

,

succeeded In rescui ng both horses .

Wh m
0

en I spoke of townies above don t th k that I ’

therefore despise them I st arted life as a townie myself

. ,

and some of the best fighting Scouts I have known in

South Africa and in F rance were cockneys They had .

with grit and intelligence adapted themse lves for their

work .

M ETHODS
A R OVE R B AC KWOOD S MAN .

As I wri te these lines there i s camp ing in my garden , ,

a li ving ex ample of what I hope may b e th e outcome of

this book on a wi der scale
,
.

With al l my heart I hope i t .

He is a hefty Rover Scout about eighteen years of age , ,

that is a fellow training to be a man He has tramped .

from a distance with his pack in which were his light tent , ,

his blanket cooking pot and food

,
.

He carries on him his axe and lariat I n his han d a . .

serviceable staff wi th a weirdly carved head hi s own ,

handi work .

In addition to this load he c arries a still more important

—
thing a happy smile on his weather tanned face -
.

He S lept out l ast night in bitter win d and rain although ,

I gave him the C hoice of living under a roof He merely .

remarked with a laugh that it had been a hot summer

, , ,

and a little cold wind was a change and would do him good .

He loved the open He cooked his own meal and made

.
,

himself all snug wi th all the resourceful ness of an old

campaigner .

To day he has been showing our local Scouts how to use

-

the axe with best effects and he proved to them that he

,

could rope his man unerringly with his lasso He knew .

the trees by their bark and the birds by their note And .

he could climb any tree or crag that he came across Alto .

gether a he al thy cheery skill ed young backwoodsman

, , .

Yet this C hap is a Townie b ut one who has made

”
,

himself a Man .

AS he ad mitted to me he is in his ordi nary li fe an

,
2 10 ROVE RIN G TO SUCC E SS
a herd You have been taught the general elements of
.

knowledge and you have been taught how to lea rn .

Now it is up to you as an i ndi vi dual to go on and learn

for you rs elf the things that will strengthen your character
an d help you to success in life by making you a man .

I will Show you one way at any rate by which you may
, ,

do i t It is by becoming a Rover Backwoodsman

.
.

THE AIM O F TH E RO V E R BROTH E RHOOD

Rovers are a Brotherhood of the Op en A i r and S ervi ce .

They are Hikers on the Open Road and C ampers of the

Woods able to shift for themsel ves but equally able and
, ,

ready to be of some service to others They are in poi nt

—
.

of fact a senior branch of the Boy Scout Movement young

men of over seventeen years of age .

The four main aims of the Scout training in Woodcraft

are to develop these points :
C haracter and Inte lligence .

H andcraft and Skill .

Health and Strength .

Service for others and Ci t izenship .

If you compare these wi th the Antidotes gi ven on

”
page 2 01 as the bright side of the rocks you will S ee how ,

Rover Scouting comes in to help you They are identical

-
. .

The Rover brotherhood has been organised all over

Great Britain and in the British Oversea States It has .

also s pread to many foreign countries .

It is not only a brotherhood but a jolly brotherhood with

its camp comradeship its uniform and its dens or
, ,

meeting places al l the worl d over

-
.

Since it is a B rotherhood of wanderers you can as a , ,

member of it extend your travels to foreign countries and

,

there make your friendships wi th Brother Rovers of other

nationalities .

Thi s side of our Movement is not only interesting and

educative but is going to make a real step in ensuring th e
future pea ce of the world through mutual good will .

If you have al ready been a Boy Scout you will know

pretty much what there i s to know about it .

If you have not been a Scout the first things needed are
a pair of stout shoes and a stout heart Then beg borrow
—o r get hold of—a copy of S couting for B oys from the .

,
,
 RO VE RIN O ! II

nearest Scout Group or at 2 3 6d from our Headq uarters at

, .

2 5 Buckingham Palace Road

,
This will give you the details .

for hiking and camping for you to go upon .

In a series of C amp Fire Yarns it gives the detail of

H Scoutcraft and Scouts work
’
-
.

N C ampaigning .

U
J
C amp Life .

- Tracking
-h .

U
l
Woodcraft and Nature Lore .

N
O Health and Strength .

\
I
C hivalry .

O
O
Life Savin g and de alin g wi th acc idents .

O Duty as C itizens .

An dyou learn that important duty of a camper namely

\

When quitting your camp ground leave two things behind -

.

( )
1 Nothing to S h ow that you have been there ( )
2 You r .

thanks .

C AMP E RC RAFT .

I have had the luck to camp out in a

good many di fferent p arts of the world
-
i n the C anadian backwoods C entral ,

African j ungle E gypt i an desert Nor

, ,

wegi an ri vers South Afri can veld

, ,

Him al ayan mountains etc al l have , .

-

their own particular delights ! but all

the same your own country has a
,

beauty and C harm of i ts own wh i ch is

hard to beat however far you may
travel .

You have there the j oys of camping

al most at your door at the least ,

possible cost i n money t i me and ,

trouble .

Out of the stu ffy smoke and second

hand air of the noisy town you have
stepped out into the freshening breezes
of the open downs and drinking deep
of the pure air you gain new blood O N T H E R O A D
T O H E A LT H A N D
in your ve ins and new l ife in your H A PP I N E S S
”
brains
.

And as you swing al ong wi th the unt i ring stri de of perfect

212 ROVE RIN G TO SU C C E SS
fitness you know the j oy of l ivi ng Over hill and dale with . ,

changi ng beauties of scenery at every step you feel a free ,

man The Vi ew i s yours to gaze upon you re free to go and

. ,
’

free to stay and free to pitch your lodging where you feel
inclined .

Wh ether you prefer solitary hik i ng or tram pl ng In com

—
pany depends on your personal temperament and temper .

In the han dbook of the Ramblers Association one enth usi ’

as ti c tram p says that he believes in going alone to drink in

the wonders of Heaven and earth He says From idle .
,

prattlers improving talkers serious students of their

, ,

fell ow men politicians golfers and all observant natural ists

-
, , ,

— Good Lord deliver us ,

.

THE J OY OF THE O P E N R OA D .

There is no pleasure that comes near to that of preparing

your own meal over your little fire of wood embers at the
end of the day and no scent like the smell of that fire
,
.

There is no View like that from your lair on the woodland

hill Side And there is no Sleep like that in the Open with
-
.

a warm blanket or a good thickness of paper beneath you

“
.

( More under than above you is the tramps secre t for ’

lying warm 0 nights ) ’

.

The sound of the night and the companionship of the

beasts and th e birds make you feel a comrade of them all
in the Brothership of N attI re
'

Rain C old Yes I suppose they come but you

, ,

really get to disregard them when you are in the regular

s wing and habit of week end camping -
.

Whether you are a lone hiker or whether you camp with

a co n an i on or in company with a Patrol of pals — i t is all
goo g
p ,

There is nobody under thirty so dead but hi s heart will

stir at the sight of a gypsy camp there is some life in
humanity yet and youth will now and again find a brave
,

word to s ay in disprai s e of riches throw up a S ituation to ,

go s trolling with a knapsack ( R L S tevens on) . . .

Then the quaint brethren of the road that you meet and ,

—
the freemasonry among out of doors men give you many -
,

new ideas and a fresh and widened outlook on life from many
a new standpoint .

With thi s Opening up of a new and human S ide to your

2 14 ROVE RIN G T o SUC CE SS
We have in the Rover Movement a fine camping centre
,
,

pping orest and a Scouter s training school at Gil

’

in E F ,

well Park Chingford Quite han dy to London and a

,
.

ripping place to visit .

There are other camping societi es w1th very all uri ng

names and prospectuses Several are on the lines of the .

Scout Movement but intended as traps to catch the unwary

and lure them under the camouflage of Woodcraft Red
, ,

Indianism and Hiking into political adventures of a very

,

questionable nature They have seen the success which has

.

attended the development of the Scout Movement and the

Rover branch of it and have naturally endeavoured to use
,

the same methods for gaining recruits for their own ends .

Keep your eyes open !

AS a Rover Scout you will have the j oy of picking up the
m an y and varied details that help you to enj oy life and
C amp comradeship of the Brotherhood .

Among these will b e

Tracki ng of men anim al s wheels etc and the reading of
, , ,

information therefrom .

F i re maki ng in the way that a tramp or Red Indian does it

-

and not as you woul d do for a j ubilation on Guy

F awkes Day A mere handful of red hot embers will
.
-

do all the cooking you need .

( By the way I had letters

,
from more than one ex Scout -

who during the war escaped from a Germ an prison

an d managed to subsi s t and keep himself concealed
largely thanks to what he had learned as a Boy Scout ,

especially in the matter of hiding his tracks and of

cooking his grub over a diminutive fire ) .

C ooki ng with what the Red Indians call a ch iploq u organ or

, ,

bent osier to hold your billy over the fire and a

, ,

mul q uagan or forked stick round which you can

, ,

twist your dough for bread and upon the points of

which you fix your s labs of meat for roasting .

Tent not a canvas tabernacle but the light weight bivouac

, ,
-

that is now used largely by practical campers and can ,

almost be carried in your pocket .

K not ty i ng like the use of needle and thread is a necessary

-
, ,

bit of knowledge for a camper

The ax e and kn owm
.

, g not only how to use it but how to

take care of it is another necessary adj unct
, .
 ROVE RIN G 2 15

M air readi ng and finding your way b y map land marks

- ,
-
,

compass stars direction of winds etc Is as Interest i ng

, , ,
.
,
-

as it is essential .

The Ru ks ack and its l oad teaches you how litt l e you can
do with and have to do with when hiking .

Ey es ight .
By practice your eyesight is strength
ened to a notable degree especially if you ,

are town bred and have never had occa

sion to look more than fifty yards ahead of
ou
Hcaring is strengthened b y practice in listening
.

to sounds by night ! and sense of smel l

i s also invaluable for find
in g your whereabouts or
the p r e s e n c e of other
people at night .

ud
j g g i n di s tan ce is an
art developed by
practice when hiking .

Weather knowledge is in
valuable to a hiker ,

who soon gains

it by continual
observation .

N ature L ore becomes

I ND I A N C OO K I NG F I R E A N D M U L QU A G AN
a second nature - .

to the out door -

man and gives him a new i nterest and j oy in life .

C amp utens i ls and apparatus have to be improvised and ,

this teaches one much handiness and resourcefulness .

Our young men helped to save Britain and E urope in

the war by an exercise of their primitive instincts : the
appeal was to the worst rather than to the best in their
natures ! to anger pugnacity to the will to slay
, ,

The finest work of all remains to be done .

They can help to save Britain and E urope in the peace

by subj ugatin g those same instincts and exercising the
highest gifts that civilised man possesses those of Reas on , ,
”
Tolerance Amity and C o operation
, .

So wri tes Trevor All en in The Young M en who Won the

War .
216 ROVE RIN G TO SU CC E SS

I would add to that that al so by using their pri mitive

,

instincts of Open air living camping and scouting they can

-
, ,

develop their health their intelligence th eir ski ll and

, ,

their helpful ness and so become better men and better

,

citizens .

WOODC RAFT .

There is a lot in the lore and tradition of the backwo ods

which naturally comes to be adopted by Rovers .

The gypsies whether in Britain Southern

, ,

E urope or the E ast all have their customs , ,

S igns and language s .

The Red Indians have their picturesque tradi

tion and ceremonial and so too have the Arabs , ,

the Maoris the Zulus the Mas ai an d others

, , ,

all of them interesting and worth studying since ,

they give romantic suggestions .

I have had to do with most of these peoples !

and though the Red Indian has been the most
imitated the present day specimen is not as a
,
-

rule the inspiring figure that his forefather was .

E xcepting the few Indians who still go trapping

in the wood s the Arab ( of the right kind ) is the
,

greater gentleman the Zulu the braver warrior,

the Indian gypsy the better hunter the MaorI ,

the better sportsman and the Australian ,

black the better tracker All of them .

have their points until they come under

the deadening influence of c i vi li sat i on
and gin
"
I
.

A true Woodcrafter loves and adopts

A R E D I ND I A N much of the picturesque meaning of the
T O TE M p o m. savage arts and crafts of al l such tribes .

The histo ry and world wide Significance -

of Totems Is a study in itself and the practic al usefulness ,

of the Signs makes a universal language that is adopted

and understood t hroughout the brotherhood of out door -

men .

BE P RE P ARE D .

Be Prepared is the motto of Scouts .

I have only briefly sketched these points in camping an d

2 18 R OVE RIN G TO SUC C E SS
is that which comes from freedom from the desire with in ,

each man to play the game for his side and the admin
i s trati on is mainly in the hands of the Rover Scouts them
selves .

RULE S F OR RO VE R S C OUTS
OBJE C T : THE AI M OF R O V E RI N G I S B ROT HE RHOO D
AN D S E RVIC E F OR O HE RS T
( N B —I
. t S hould be noted that the Rules gi ven in this
.

chapter are liable to alteration from time to time and ,

Rover Scouts must therefore keep them s elves informed

through our newspaper the Scouter and Book of RuleS )
,
1
.

The obj ect of the Rover training i s to enable young

men to develop themselves as
Happy
Healthy Ci ti zens
Useful
an d to give each his chance of making a useful career for
him self .

It gives the older boy an aim for remaining under

helpful influences at the di fficult time of his li fe when he
is j ust entering on manhood .

It provides Scouting for young men with i ts j oys of

B ackwoo dsm an sh i p an d Nature craft ( So many men have -
.

asked me how they could get the fun of Scouting and th is ,

gives a way for doing it ) .

It helps young men of over eighteen years of age who ,

may desire it to train for warrant rank of Scou tmasters

,

or Instructors in the Scout Movement .

It gives young men the opportunity of doing u seful

servi ce for others on a recognised footing .

A D MI S S I O N AS A R O VE R S C O UT
Rover Scouts are organ ised as a C rew under a Rover
Leader .

A C rew con sists of two or more Patrols of hal f a

dozen Rover Scouts under a R over Mate .

1
Co pi es canbe o bt i d f
a ne ro m Th e B oy S co u t s A s s oc i ati on,
25 , B uc k gh in am P a l ac e R oa d , L on d on , S . W . I .
 ROVE R IN G 2 19

In order to b e admitted to a Rover C rew you must be

1 7 but preferably 1 8 years of age and if you are not already
, , ,

a Boy Scout you have to be willing to take to the open

ai r life of camping or hiking and to carry out the Scout
,

Law
You ] ol n on probat i on to see whether R overing suits
you or whether you suit Rovering .

You are expected to study the Scout Promi se and Law ,

and Scouting as it i s given in the handbook S couti ng for

B oy s and in this book R OVE RIN G To S U C C E SS
, .

After this you will if approved by the Group Scoutmas ter

,

an d the Rover Leader be invested as a Rover Scout

, .

The investiture is a ceremony of admission It is carried .

out according to the custom of the C rew and the wishes

of the candidate .

It is meant to S how that you mean to take Rovering

reall y seriousl y and to do your best to understand its
,

obj ects and methods and to carry them out .

F or this reason you should think the matter over very

carefully to yourself beforehand .

The general i dea of the ceremony i s contai ned in a

pam phlet called The P resentati on of a Rover S cout obtain ,

able at Boy Scouts Headquarters .

The ceremony includes your mak ing the Scout Promise ,

which i s as follows :
On my honour I promise that I will do my b est
“

To do my duty to God and the King ,

To help other people at al l times ,

To obey the Scout Law .

ON THES C O UT LAW .

During the Great War the Boy Scouts subscribed for

and maintained s everal Recreation Huts at the F ront for
the benefit of soldiers .

On the walls of these the Scout Law was hung up It

, .

happened that when men were going up the lin e to

the trenches at the Front they felt that they were up
,
”
against it .

Many a man realised then for the first time that , , ,

though he had been taught at school as one of a herd ,

preached to in church as one of a herd drilled in the army ,

2 20 ROVE RIN G TO SUCCESS
as one of a herd he was really a singl e being having hi s
,

own existence his own consciousn ess and his own soul
, , ,

and he might now at any moment have these taken from

him by Death .

It di s turbed him to feel that he had no exact spiritual

comfo rt to turn to and to take hold of He knew little .

—
of religion or of God yet he wanted something of the sort '

—h e knew not what .

Then he saw the Scout Law and he read it over and again ,

he read it over and tho ught it out ,

.

Here was something that he could carry out and it l o oked

like doing him good
“
.

So he came and asked i f he could S ign on to that .

He felt that if he carried out its instructions as far as he

could he would at least have the comfort of knowing that
before he died he had tried to do his best and no man ,

could do more than that .

Well we made it possible for him to Sign on ! and th e

,

consequence was that he whom I describe proved not to

be merely one man but men i n their hundreds who came ,

and gave their pro mise that they meant to the best of
their ability to carry out the Scout Law .

It is much the same with you fellows who read this .

You have largely been educated as one of a herd you ,

are going up the line into the battle of Life you will ,

—
be called away by Death one day i t may be soon or it
—
may be late but when that moment comes your one
thought will be Have I tried to do what i s worth whil e
, ,

or have I idled away my time ?

So I suggest to you do as those men did at the Front , .

Read the Scout Law think it over and then S ign o n to , ,

it as Rovers .

Here it is .

THE S C OUT LAW

d
Th e t e rm R o ver S c o u t s t an s f o r a tru e man an d a ood ci ti z en
g
di g pi
.

T h e L a w fo r R o ve rs i s t h e s am e a s fo r S c o u t s i n w o r n a n d r n
df dp i h f
,

C l le
p ,b u t h as t o b e v e w e i
ro m a n e w s t a n o n t— t at i s ro m
h b h p i i p l d lyi g
,

t a t o f a m an In ot ca s e s th e r nc e u n er n th e S co u t
k k lf h d ill lpf l
.

L aw noc s o ut S e a n d s o ves i n G o o -w an d H e u n es s t o
th Do n t ta k thi i ti P i ty b t d i ti
’
o e rs .
e s as n s t ru c on i n e , u as re c on
to Ma n h n es s
O

.
222 ROVE RIN G TO SUC CE SS
th i xie r t n e ill t t n n imal
s e ce To -
re a a a

i th f
.

s di
e r e o re a vi t th C t s - s er ce o e r ea o r

bi g h t d
.

”
A R v h t b
o er as o e -
e ar e .

A S cou t f
ob ey s orders o A s R v a y u d io i p li er y u l fo an d sc ne o rs e

hi s P aren ts P a trol p u t y u l f o d il y d
rs e w illi g l y
re a t t h an n a e

vi n ti tu t d u th i ty f t h
,

L ea der or S cou tmas ter s er f ce o co s e a or or e

wi thou t q ues ti on m in g d
a Th b t d i i p li n d m
oo e es sc e co

m u n i t y i th h pp i t m mu n i ty b u t
.
.

s e a es co

d i i p li n m u t m f m wi th i n
,

th e sc e s co e ro

l y b i m p d f m wi th
,

a nd n t m o ere e o se ro »

o ut H n th g t v l u f th
e ce e rea er a e o e

x m p l y u gi v t t h i n t h i d i
.

e a e o e o o er s s rc e

A S cou t S mi les an d As a R over yo u w ill b e l k d

oo e t o as th e
Whi s tles u nder all m an h d to k pyik ee o ur ea a n d to s t c it
h h y p k
,

fl
di i culti es t i i i w
ou i t n l a d
cr s s c eer uc an
p ti m i m
.

O s
k p y h d wh ll
.

If y ou can ee ou r ea en a
b ty a ou ou
A l i g th i re d bl m i g i t
os n y e r s an a n on ou
y ll b M m y ou
’
e a an , so n .

A S t i th if ty
cou s r A R v y w ill
s a l k h do d weril l ou oo a ea an
t f i tt w y ti m y p
.

no mr er a t a e or o ne on re s e n

pl b t th m k
eas u res , f p tu ra er a e u se o res en

PP N E wi th vi w t l t i
O O RTU I TI S a e o u er o r

Y d th i
s u cc e ss wi t h t h i d f
ou o s e ea o

t b i g b d b t h l p t th
.

no e n a ur en , u a e o o e rs .

A S t i Cl
cou is eanA nR v y s a xp t d t o b er, t o u ar e e ec e o e no

Th g h t W d
ou d or anly l mi d d b t l
on c e an w ill d n e u c e an e
d
, ,

D d ee bl t t l a y e t o i co n rod an s ex en e nc es an
i t mp giv x mp l t
.

! t n e e ra n c e s o e an e a e o
th f b i g p o d b v b
e rs o d in e n u re a n a o e o ar
ll t h t y t hi k a y da d ou n , sa an o .

Th i t th S t d
ere s o e l v th L w
co u co e an e e w i tt en a an u n r en o n e ,
m ly f l B t th i I h l d h p w l d
,
”
na e S t i a t co u s no a oo u s s ou o e ou
y d f R v h
, .

b e u n n ec es s a r as a c o S t ill
e or R v o y ers v as a o er ou a e
th t i i g th t h h l d f m b yh d i t b i g
.
,

to rem mb e er a n cro ss n e re s o ro o oo n o e n
a m an
y l g
o u a re n o l i g t
on er ye a rn nt t h S t L w b t
o c arr ou e co u a u
lly i g i t f g i d f y d t i li f M
,

a re tac u a us n or u an ce o o u r co n uc n e o re
th t hi p p g g
.

an y s, w ou i t h
ar e no ibln i t i e f i
res v i ons e os on o n an
e x mp l t th w hi h m y l d th m t g d t vil
a e o o ers , c a ea d e o oo or o e ac co r
i g t w h th d y d
,

n o e
y m
e r or n o l ou to teh L w d h
ou r c on w uc on e a an o
y t t h t p m i whi h y h v m d yu
,

f ar y ou c a rr ou a ro se c ou a e a e, on o r
h R v
o n o ur , as a S t t gi v
o er t g
co u , d will d h lp t ll
o e ou oo -
an e o a .

How S TART
To .

The unit of Rovers is the C rew No minimum numb er .

i s fix ed for a crew whi ch is subdi vided into Patrols as may

,
 ROVE RIN G 2 23

be sui tab l e The Rover Scout C rew is normally a part of

.

a Scout Group which consists of all three sections of the

—
Scout Brotherhood C ub Pack Scout Troop and Rover , ,

Scout C rew .

Rover Patrols form part of a Scout Troop but in special ,

circumstances a District C ommissioner and Loc al Associa

tion can recommend the registration of a separate Rover
Troop .

It i s at all times a good thing for Rovers to meet together

for their activities ! especially is this valuable where the
numbers in each Rover Section are small .

Where there is no Scout Group to which Rovers can b e

attached a new Group can be registered with the Local
,
‘

Association commencing with a Rover Section only but ,

it should always be borne in mind that by starting C ub

and Scout Sections as soon as possible there will be a
splendid opening for Service for a number of the Rovers .

The P atrol — E ach Patrol will be under a Rover Mate

elected by the Patrol an d approved by the Rover Scout
Leader He will act as its leader in al l games club arrange
.
,

ments studies public activities etc He wil l be assisted

, , , .

by a Second Mate selected by himself .

The Patrol is a gang and a gang is the natural band of

,

pals into which young men fo rm themse lves in all grades

of life
.

There i s however this di fference in the Patrol that

, , ,

through the spirit of comradeship runs the thread of higher

aspiration and mutual ambition to do good both to oneself ,

and to others .

E ach Patrol sho ul d as far as pos s ible have its own

, ,

room or particular part of the C rew Den It should form .

the team for games recreation and work Where fellows

, .

are al l working for the honour of the team the standard

of achievement is bound to be raised .

E ach member of the Patrol or the C rew should as far as ,

possible have his own special duties in the work of the

,

Patrol such as Keeper of C amp Stores the Scribe the

, , ,

P urs eh older Hike Manager Study Leader Social E nter

, , ,

t ain m en t Manager and so on ,

Also where po s sible each
.
, ,

member S hould be assigned a certain day in the week on

which he would be on duty — ready to take up any
specified service or to answer any call .
2 24 RO VE R IN O T o SU CCE SS
When the aim of the team is not merely that of wi nning at
games its members will realise that Rovering is not merely
,

taken up as a pastime for the individu al members but for ,

the opportunity that it gives them of qualifying themselves

to do good work and for doing service for their fellow men
f
.

—
Un i orm The uniform of a Rover is the same as for
a Scout ( s ee P oli cy Organi sati on and Rules) with the
,

following di fference s
—
Hat A Bar with R S thereon worn i n front on the . .
,

strap .

S hi rt or jers ey with green shoulder strap with the

,

Scout Badge and the letters R S . .

S houlder K n ot — Red green and yellow , .

Ga rters — Re d .

Thumb sti ck — May be carried in place of staff

. .

S ervi ce S ta rs — On red cloth .

B uttonhole B adges for use in mufti special R S pattern , . .

for plain clothes

—
.

If a Scout j oins a Rover C rew he will wear until he is ,

—
pre s ented hi s Scout uniform with a shoulder knot of
yellow and green
S ea Rovers Un iform as for Rover Scout but
.

C ab — As for Sea Scout with ribbon in s crib ed Rover

Sea Scouts .

S hi rt or jers ey — Blue with green Shoulder straps .

Hats and S tocki ngs — As for Sea Scout .

The cloth Scout Badge described in R ul e 2 3 must be

worn by all Rovers when in uniform .

SP E C IAL BADGE S
Ramb ler s B adge To earn this badge a Rover Scout
’
.

mu s t walk an aggregate of 1 00 miles or go a distance of ,

4 00 mi l es by pedal cycle outside towns during week end , ,

-

or holid ay hik es ! must keep a log of his j ourneys to be

hand ed in on completing the total of 1 00 miles ! this
log S hould give dates places and di s tances and Should , ,

p re fe rably give information that would be of use to other

hikers s u ch as places of interest to be vi s ited en route
, ,

good c am pi ng place s inns hint s for finding the way at , ,

di ffi cult point s S ketch map s and nature notes S ho ul d be

included The Badge i s worn on the left shoulder strap
. .
2 26 ROVE RIN O TO SUC C E SS
tion to non Scouts j oining provi ded that they are enrolled
-
,

by some Scouter on shore in the presence of other Scouts

’
and make the usual Scout s Promise Their names should .

then be sent to Headquarters for e nrolment in the usual

way .

C I V ICS E RVIC E .

I don t want to alarm you with a b ig looking ] Ob but

' -
,

this chart ( see Appendix) is merely to explain to you the

various direction s into which you can explore if you want ,

to as a Rover Scout ! and these lead directly to good

,

citizenship and service .

You are not expected to do them al l but they are ,

al ternatives so that you can take up some or others whi ch

happen to suit your circumstances .

A C T I V ITI E S .

Servi ce is the practical outcome of Scouting for Rovers .

All Rovers should be encouraged to help in every pos s ible

way in the running of their own ( or other) Troop s or Wolf ,

C ub Packs thus gaining the practical experience in traini ng

Scouts which helps to fit them for becoming Scoutmasters
and fathers in the future they should be given responsi
b il i ty for definite dep ar tment s in helping the Scouters of
the Group .

C o operation and inter patro l activ i ties by means of

- -
,

conferences game s and work are necessary so that Groups

,

m ay get to know one another thus encourag ing fri endships

,

and emulation .

Activities naturally fall under two heads

( )
a Scout Se rvice ! b
( ) Public Service .

( )
b Patrols can be formed and trained as Loca l Aid
Detachment s for service s uch as the followi ng :
,

Accident F irst Aiders ( for dealing with accidents of every

kind crowds, ,

Assistant Welfare O fficers in factori es play centres etc , , .

C o as twatch ers or Assistants to C oastguards .

C yclist Despatch Riders and Motor .

As sistants or Instructors in Scout Troops Play C entres , ,

Boy s C lubs etc

’

, .

F ire Brigade in village town fact ory h osp i t al etc

, , , , .

Rocket apparatus men .

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228 R OVE RIN G TO SUCC E SS
Lifeboat men or launch ers .

Special C onstable s or A s sistants to Police .

( )
a S ervice in their own Groups as C u b
,
m as ters Secre ,

tarie s Game s O rgani s ers In s tructors Badge E xamine rs

, , , ,

C ommittee Men As s i s tant Scoutmas ters etc

,
service i n,
.

helping other Groups ! Sea Scouts ! Scouts i n hospitals

and homes ! helping at Rallies Sports C amps etc
, , , .

TEAM R E C RE ATIONS

( C orp oratePhysical and Moral Health )

, .

It i s important that camping and outdoor games S hould

be carried out to the utmost ( and appropriate recreation
an d re s t for Sundays S hould not be lo s t sight of Par
) .

lour Scouting to be avoided The following are examples

.

Outdoors
Athletics C rui s es on C an al s and
Walking Tours Rivers
C oa s ting V oyage Hockey
F oo tball H are and Hounds
C ycling Swimming
Sco uting Nature and Hi s tory Rambles
Bas eball Vi s it s of Instruction to
Gymnas tics Display Municipal O ffice s C ourts ,

Bo ating of Ju s tice Mu s eums , ,

Tree and Rock C limbing F actorie s etc , .

C amping Tours abroad to visit foreign

Tracking Rovers etc , .

—
Indoors for mutual improvement such as ,

Lectures by experts on Gymnastics and F ree Ex er

any s ubj ect vocational
,
ci s es
or s ocial Judo
C horal Society Orchestral Society
D ancing Scout s Own
Deb ating Society Sing s ong s
-

D am atic Troupe
r So cial evenings
F olk D ancing Sketching C lub
Indoor Games Study C ircles ( for C ivic
Instruction etc ) , .
239 ROVE RIN G T o SU C C E SS
city I believe it is a voluntary organi s ation that exists
.

in other parts of Denmark al s o of which we have no exact ,

counterpart in Britain It is in the nature of the F ire .

Brigade and St Johns Ambulance combined and it o ffers

. ,

to R overs a partic ularly valuable form of public service

both in town s and villages .

A good in s tance of the value and variety of i ts dutie s

occurred at the time when I was visiting its Headquarters
in C openhagen A call came by telephone to say that a
.

man had been run over by a tram car and was badly -

inj ured They had not been able to extricate him and
. ,

the car was partly derailed Within a minute three .

detachments had left the Headquarters for the scene of

the accident on motor cars equipped with all the necessary
-

apparatus for dealing with the situation including a gin for ,

hoisting the tram car amb ul ance equipment for dealing

-
,

with the man and including such details as a wire basket

,

into which to put his remains if he were too far mangled

for the ordinary stretcher to be of use .

Also there were the necessary implements and insulating

,

gear to enable them to work safely where electric currents

had to be de al t with .

The C orps was trained to deal with accidents arising out

of e xplos ions of the various kinds of gases chemicals etc , , .
,

suicides by poison strangulation and so on ! ability to

,

track murderers by the smallest signs knowledge of s ecur

ing d amaged aeroplanes and dealing with railway accidents, ,

coll aps e of houses falling trees and the many m inor

, ,

ac ci dent s to which men are liable through machinery in

facto rie s or agricultural work mad dogs bulls etc In , , , .

fact the range of their activities is almost unlimited varying

, ,

largely accor din g to the locality and the nature of industry ,

etc .

But th e field for work is wide and the training for it ,

involve s various kinds of study and activitie s which are ,

not only inte resting but u s eful to the men who take them
,

up He would be a str ange man who could not find

.

amon gs t the s e varied activities one which at leas t woul d

prove to be a hobby for him when once he had acquired it .

A fello w with hobbies is never likely to find tim e hang on

his hands or to feel that life has not got some enj oyment
,

i n it .
 ROVE RIN G 23 1

P OLIC E S E RVIC E .

At the recent tragic fire in Newhaven C onnecticut in , ,

wh i ch seven persons lost their l i ves and more than seventy ,

five were inj ured Scout s did noticeable servi ce

, .

At three separate street crossings Scouts saw conges

t i on of traffi c with no traffic police o fficer on duty and in ,

each case stepped out into the street and directed the traffic
i n the pouring rain for more than two hours .

Other Scouts did good serv i ce in aiding the orderli es i n

th e hospitals i n quickly transferring
the patients from the emergency
wards to the beds mak i ng quicker ,

h an dling of cases possible .

This suggests a form of service for

which Rovers or Scouts would do
well to prepare themselves in c o
operation with the police o fficers and
the Hospit al Authorities in their
districts .

They can l earn the work of con

trolling the traffi c and of dealing with
, B OWL I N E F O R
crowds where the Scout uniform will
,
S E C U R I TY .

give them the necessary authority .

Scouts are not allowed to use pol i ce wh i st l es for the

Scout work f or fear of creating confusi on b ut there is
, ,

nothing to prevent them from carrying a police whistle as

part of their equipment so that on an emergency where , ,

police help is needed they can at once call for it ,

.

A cyclist scout must of course be al ways ready to act as

o rderly or messenger to police o fficers .

S AM P LE O UTLI N E O F A C C I D E N T F IE L D DAY F O R
R OVE RS . 1

Hike or b ike map reading and obse rving for several

,

( )
1 Halt near railway Imagine railway accident col li
.
,

sion and train smash Detail patrols to various dut i es . .

E ach Mate to state how he would carry them out with

materials on the spot Improvising gins to raise wreckage
. .

E xtinguish fire R escue and F irst Aid inj ured P ol i cing

.
-
.

thei r property Sen di ng for help

. .
2 32 ROVE R IN G TO S UC CE SS

( )
2 Imagine aeroplane crash on landing in so uth west -

gale Overturns Aviator pinned underneath and i njured

.
.
.

Petrol tank takes fire Rover Scout Leader gives duties .

to patrols E ach Mate describes how he would carry them

.

out with the material available on the spot Orders Shoul d .

incl ude reporting the accident and after righting the ,

mach ine securing it properly etc etc , .

, .

E N JOY ME N T L I FE OF .

A C Benson s ays in The Hous e of Qui et

. .

A life to be happy must be compounded in due degree

of acti vi ty and p leasu re using the word in its best sense ”
,
.

I draw from Nature ever more and more the most unfail , ,

ing and the purest j oys I have proved by experiment .

that a life beset by many disadvantages need never

”
drift into being discontented or cold or hard .

He does not mention there though he implies i t ,

elsewhere that service for others makes happiness

,

complete .

I agree wi th the writer of the above that for sheer ,

enj oyment give me the open air and the country Side ,
-
,

even if you cannot get the backwoods and the mountains .

Unfortunately most of us are restricted as r egards our

,

holidays and cannot all go far afield None the less there .

are week ends giving the opportunity for hikes and walk
-
,

in g tours which though they may be S hort can yet be , ,

arranged to include a great deal of solid enj oyment .

The Right Hon H A L F isher Warden of New C ollege . . . .

, ,

Oxford has stated some rules for those about to arrange

,

a holiday :
I Pl y an h li d y
o ur f lly b t b
o dy t b d y p l
a c are u u e re a o a an on o ur an

NA h gg f wth wkhi ity lf h glid y th

li ght t p v ti
.
,

th
on e s es ro oca on .

2 e ver o nor en o u ca n o sou

N vid d iv wh y
. .

3 c an e o or s se a o a
w lk w l k wh
. .

4 . e er r e d v en o u can
y a , an ne er a en o u can
r e

t y w lk th ld m tim f h t t
.

5 I n a c ro s s -co u n r i a e re s se o e or s or cu s
A g d h li d y i li k i ty—th i k i g f tim
.
.

6 oo to a s e e ern e re s n o rec on n o e
f th b t f i t h li d y i w f i d hi p
.
.

7 O ne o fe es ru s o a o a s a ne r en s
S t y wh h ppy
.
.

8 a y e re o u ar e a
ky l f i th tm ph w pl b f
. .

9 S oa o urs e f n
y e a os ere o a ne ac e e o re ou
t dy t h d t il
.

s u e e a s
Th b t h li d y i th t whi h th l g t m
.

10 e es o t ia s t a c co n a n s e ar es a oun of
w xp i
.

ne e e r en ce .
2 34 ROVE RIN G T o SU CC E SS
—
To b e good i s noble but to teach others how to be
—
good is nobler and much less trouble That is what .

Mark Twain says but I am doubtful about the last phrase

, ,

S ince the teaching is largely through personal example !

so you have to be careful .

Be careful if not on your own at least on their account

, , .

You can see for yourself that you have here a tremendous
Opportunity if you like to use it for doing a great good for
your younger brothers You can set the line for them to .

follow by your own behaviour in the direction of cheery

and manly friendliness and straight living and clean talk .

Think for yourself whether you have any failings which

you woul d not wish others to copy and try and replace ,

these with somethin g better Here are a few instances of .

the more usual weaknesses .

S HO RT TE MPE R Do yo u g e t ann o yd e F o rce a sm il e an d t h en

w h en hi g
t n s go w gro n l u gh t th m p
a a e co ara
or p pl eo e p i n - pik r c ti v m lln
e f th
s a es s o e

y o u ? i it ti n
rr If y u
a o o

i gh t y u v
.

i n th
’
a re er o e
dt l yu
,

n n o ee o ose o r
t em p er If y o u a re
g
.

in th e wro n y o u
dt
,
’ ”
c an t a ff o r o

M K NG
.

S O I R em em py D t m
b er b y m g
o s Co on
’
s o k wh e en a on

y dou,m ki g ianth m s o n s e
th i h l th
.

b d f a or e r ea .

B AD L A NG GEUA D y
o w w d
o u u se sT y whi t li g— d e ar or s r s n f a n
i m m t
n f i ito d p iten s o rr a ro
d i ty
.

ti on , or i r o n es n
m m t f th
o ght en s o ou
l e s s n es s

S L KNE Are i n lin d l l d

K NG
AC S S AN D u to S e eves u p a n d th e
y o c e ea
SHIR I l ea ve i t t o G eo r e g ”
w ay Loo k
a t th e
hy
, .

as t e s ay i n A m er w o rs t b u t s ee t h e
m ? a l k To o o o n at b es t ll
F o o w S ai n t
th d i g k G g kl
.

o ers o n th e w o r eo r e and t ac e
or p l yi g t h g m a n e a e, th e j ob
ti i p t d i ffi
.

or t o an c a e
culti bf th y
es e o re e
a rr ve i
B AC KB NG
ITI gi v t t l ki g
A re y o u en o a n Go onth e r n c e t at p i ip l h
f th p p l f il h
’
o o er eo e s a t e r e i s 5 p e r c en t
g d i g ly g d
.

in s an s ee n on of oo i n t h e w o rs t
th i b d p i t
.

e r a o n s T h e f u n i s t o fin d i t .
 R OVE R IN G 2 35

I MP A TI ENC E Do y o u c atc h at So tf l y f tl y t h so ca c ee

d h k k y I t d gg d
,

s un b ea ms an an er m on e
’
s o e

d it
.

fo r th e m oon -
an d as o es

y b d l k S ti k t i t d y
.

cu rs e our a uc c ll o an ou
’

w h en t hi g d
n t g s on
'
o wi th n gh ro u
”

wi h
.

as y o u s P i
at e n c e i s t h e s e c re t
to s u cc e s s in an y

caree r .

S TO D NEGI SS Wan t of h u m o ur As t h er e is at l eas t 5

g d i
.

p er c ent of oo n
v yt h i g th
.

e er n so er e

th
,

i l 5 s a so an o er

p t f f er cen o un
g it i f thi
. .

R ec o n on o s
w ill y y th gh c a rr ou ro u

m y th w i h p an o er se o e
l t bl Sh w es s ro u es o

y b y h w t
.

ou r o s o o
l gh w h il y w k au e ou or .

I N LE N
TO RA C E A y
re p ibl
ou a y v Th d
oss i t i t i o er ese s nc ons a re
k ph l d f y
e en u ok i t h b ther o o ur sun n e ro er

wo p ti l
n i l
ar h d i S ti g
c u ar soc a oo o co u n
p liti l p ty P t i t l
.

lc ass , o ca ar ra c se o e ra n c e

orf m f li g i
or to h y re b y t
on ea c our o s o
t dy b t h id f s u o S es o

y q t i b f an u es on e o re

m ki g p th i m i d a n u e r n
on it

SE LF D E ER
- T Thi s ft
t erm i s o e n u se d D eve o l p p ibili ty res ons

MN NI A TI O t v di b di
o co er so e en c e , and l f d i i p li se -
sc ne
w t f l y lty
an o o a an d i th
n f p i it f
e re e s r o
l k f d i i p li
ac o sc ne p l yi g t h g m f
a n e a e or
y id
.

o ur t f S e, no or
y lf
o u rs e .

S E L F IS H N E S S I s t h e w o rs t f ili g f
a n o P i
ra c t s e s el fle s s n es s i e
h t h d
, . .

o u r rac e , c a u s e s s or ot e rs fir s t s el f s ec o n
i gh t d u k d k id
, .

S e n o tl oo a L oo w e
t p
.

n t ib u t
co r n es o l ers o a
as w ll n u
e as i d ti l s r a
d i nt nt
s co e .

D IS C O N EN
T T G n lly th
e era ul t f e res o Ma k th
e h ppyo ers a
lf nt dn
se -
ce nd re es s a an dy w ill b h ppy
ou e a
t k i g li f
a t o s i
n e o er y lf R g i
o u rs e eco n se
th g d i wh t y
.

o u s ly e oo n a ou
h v g t th f i
.

a e o e un n
li f th g l i w
,

e, e o r es , on

Nt
d
sona
e rsd b
a u re
ti
Si k p
l
an

am
f
.

bit i
e au

on
n
.
es
er
o
2 36 R OVE RIN G T o SU C CE SS
P ES S I M I S M D o y o u l e t t h e d i fficu l S e e t h e w o rst b u t oo l k
d g
,

t i es or an ers o f a at t h e es t
”
b
hd pi i f
.

ven t u re o ve rs a ow O t m s m i s a o rm o f
i ts p ibili ti
o ss es g h
c o u ra e t at g i ves co n

h
fid e n c e t o o t ers an d
l d
e a s t o s u cc es s

N
.

A RR O WN E SS Do y o u p id y lf r e o urs e L oo k w i d er an d
— t h en

ony iw f o ur V e o a l k wi d
oo er S till
q t i h pp i g t
.

u es on a en n o

b th e i gh t e r one

KN OW A L L A rey v i d
ou cont h t nce a —
Ta k e i n i n b tho s en ses
k i g —
d th e
.

y ou w S t no co u n of th e w or
f mAt !
ro o S co u t er
”
.

Think out other weaknesses for yourself and also their

antidotes .

A H IGHE R S E RVIC E FOR R OVE R S C O UTS .

Amongst the various forms of service that have b een

suggested that of helping to run Scouts or C ubs may seem
,

at first sight to be rather a small one But when you .

come to look into it it is really one of the greatest if not

, ,

the greate s t among them all It is the most easy of al l to .

take up S ince the Opportunities for it lie close to your hand

,

as a Rover but at the same time it is one in which you

,

can obtain big results in making men out of boys results ,

which are visible to you as they grow under your han d .

And those resul ts can be of the greatest value to your

country .

As I have before Shown the Nation badly needs volunt ary ,

help for its E ducation There is so much outside the .

actual reading writing and arithmetic that is necessary

,

for the boys of to day to know if they are going to make

-

s u c ces ses of their lives ! and the shortage of school time

an d of schoo l teachers is a great handicap to them in

le arning these things ! so the help of voluntary elder

brothers is therefore urgently needed .

Rovers who will lend a hand in the training or manage

,

ment of their Scout troops or Wolf C ub packs and especi ,

ally 111 their camping will be doing an immensely valuable,

0

servi ce It is one at the same time which will bring

.
, ,

honest satisfaction to themselves E veryone who has .

trai ned a dog or a horse to be obedient and to perform

238 ROVE RIN G T o SUC CE SS

RE C ON S TRUC TION .

In all the after war unrest and unempl oyment i t was

-
,

ju s t the leaven of those best men that was needed to pull

things through successfully and to b ring prosperi ty and ,

happ i ness to our people .

Still these di ffi culties are not without their bless ings !
they open a tremendou s Opportunity and a field for young ,

men who are now coming on You have the glorious .

opening before you for taking a strong hand towards

reconstructing the country on a new and better footing
than it ever had before But it can only be done by the
.

practice of Service and not through selfish partisan strife

,
.

We old unS who in our time have tried to do our bit

’

for the country we love we look to you young uns with

,
’

every hope to c arry on We believe that you are going to

,
.

do the right thing for her and forgetting your own per , ,

sonal case you will do your best for her too

,
.

A H OLE I s O N LY M AD E To B E M E ND E D .

Now if you who read this are one who has b umped on
one of the rocks already I want to tell you that I was ,

once voyaging across a lake in C anada in a birch bark ,

-

canoe with another fellow when we bumped on a snag , .

It was not a very serious bump but birch bark is very ,

thin and the water began to come in through the hole ,

and to save ourselves we had to paddl e for dear life to the

nearest islet having plugged up the hole as b est we coul d
,

with an old hat .

It was a pretty close race We pad dl ed for all we were .

worth and we j ust got there in time as our craft was S inking
, .

We hauled her up on a flat sm ooth rock and got our , ,

gear out of her and rolled her over bottom upwards , .

We then s et to work to rep ai r damages by getting some

of the natur al gum of some fir tree s and made a little fire -

in which we melted it Then havi ng patched the hole

.
,

with s ome old rag and a bit of fresh bark and the hot gum , ,

we very soon had the boat pretty nearly as sound as ever

and before long we were on our way again but with our ,

eyes more cutely on the look out t h is time to avoid snags ,

and rocks in future .

 R OVE RIN G 239

Well that i s the same wi th you wh o may have run on

, ,

a rock i n your time .

Don t think that on that account you are done for

’
.

Hurry in before you sink and get your bark repaired It .

may b e hard to do but put your back i nto i t and you will
,

probably succeed Use the remedies I have suggested in

.

the foregoing chapters according to the type of rock that

you have run upon mend your ways and resume your
,

Voyage with stout heart and a good l ook out Having .

once touched a snag you will kn ow al l the better how to

,

avoid them and you can make your voyage j ust as big a
success as any of the other fellows .

E ve n if you have b umped on more than one Rock ,

remember how General F och at the battle of the Marne , ,

i n the Great War reported to Joffre his C ommander in

, ,
-

C hief : My right has been thrown back ! my left is

in retreat I am attacki ng wi th my centre And he .

Won !
And so can you Your right may have b ee n smashed
.
,

your left may b e in disorder but you still have your centre !
,

attack wi th that and you ll pull through ’

.

ON E WORD MORE
Now I can picture to mysel f you who are reading thi s
b ut you are not the fellow that I want !
You have al ready b een taking an interest in your own
”
future and you want to know how to Rove to Success
, .

So my ideas will onl y come on top of others that you may

have al ready formed Mine may corroborate yours or
.
,

they may be disappointing to you In either case I hope .

you won t feel any the less of a friend to me

’
]
.

But if you have al ready prepared yourself for your

future you re not the fellow I re all y want as a reader of
,
’

this book !
I w ant the chap who has never th ought for h i mself or ,

planned out his future .

There must b e many an d many a fine young fe ll ow i n our

nation b e ing dragged down by bad influences around him ,

because he has never seen the clearer way he has not

known th at by a little effort of h i s own he can rise ab ove
hi s surroun dings an d paddle h i s way to success .
2 4o R OVE R IN G T o SU C CE SS
And that is wh ere you come in Will you help me to get
'

hold of that other fellow You must know several of him

in your C i rcle of acqua i ntances If you can get him to.read
this book I S hall be grateful .

Possibly y u o might even go further and get a study

circle of three or four of your friends to
go through the book chapter by chapter ,

one for each evening and discuss among ,

you the questions I have suggested .

I don t say that you need agree with me

’

but I do say that the consideration of

these ideas whether you agree with them,

or not will at any rate make you think a

,

bit about your future though I hope it may ,

do more than that And if you lead others .

on to j oin in their study you will be

—
,

doing a bigger thing you wil l b e do ing

S ervi ce f or Others .

If you S houl d like to wri te and ask me

or the Headquarters of the Boy Scouts
Li k Ffi d h ip
hv lpf l lloop p th t en
Association a few questions at any time we
e S i
,
a e u a

S hall be only too glad to do our b es t , t o

o m do
ne er s i s nor
c es un ne
respond
.

If you elect to j oin the Rover Scouts as suggested in this ,

chapter we S h al l naturally be in closer personal touch !

,

but in any case I S hall be glad if you consider that we are

,

linked by a common bond of sympathy and good will .

So far as those who are already members of the Scout

—
Brotherhood are concerned and others too for that matter
—I wo uld lay stress on the possibility and necessity of
service in the ordinary surroun di ngs of the R over
’
Scout s life and to point out that he must first of all try
to apply his ideal s in his ordinary life This seems t o me .

to be a better crown of Scouting experience than sending

the fellow on to find new special fields in which to function .

In this way I hope we wil l consolidate the whole idea that

lies behind Scouting and emphasise what we really want ,

which is to bring the ideals of Scouting into our everyday

life and thu s to bring it to pass that other people are
,

touched by its magic and helped by its ideals .

F or me it is nine o clock in the evening of life It will

’
.

so on be bedtime F or you i t is eleven o clock in the mom

.
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2 42 ROVE RIN G TO SUC CE SS
SONGS OF A SOURDOUGH
By R OBE RT W S E RVIC E .

They ve cra dl ed you in custom they ve pri med you wi th

’
,
’

their preaching ,

They have soaked you i n convent i on through an d

through
They have put you in a S how case you re a cre dit to their
-
,
’

teaching
—
,

But can t you hear the wild

’
i t s calling you ’
.

Let us probe the sil ent places let us seek what l uck betides
,

us ,

Let us j ourney to a lonely l and I know !

There s a whisper on the night wi nd there s a st ar agl eam
’
-
,
’

to guide us
—
,

And the wild is calling c al l ing Let us go .

Have you suffered starved an d triumphed gr ovelled down

, ,

yet gras ped at glory ,

Grown bigger in the bigness of the whole ?

Done things j ust for the doing letting babblers tell ,

the story ,

Seeing through the nice veneer the naked S oul ?

Have you seen God in His splendours heard the text that ,

Nature renders
( You ll ’
never hear i t i n the family pew)
The simple things the true things the s il ent men who do
, ,

thin gs
n o —
Then liste t the wil d i t s Calling you ’
.
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S C O UT A S T E R S HI P
A H n d b oo
ak f r S u t m s ters o n th e o co a

Th o y of S out Trai n i n g b y L o d
e r c r

B d en P ow ll
a C row n 8 V O
-
2e n et . 3 . .

RE VI S E D E DI TI ON
S co uti ng is n o t an ab s tru se o r difficul t
i
s c en ce ! b u t r a t e r a j y g
o ll am e i h
f
y o u t a ke i t i n th e r g t l g t A t t h e i h i h
i d i i
.

s am e t m e i t i s e u cat ve an d (l ke
h
,

Mercy) i t i s apt to b en efit h i m t at

gi v et a hs w ell a s h i m t at rec e vet h i h
i
.

Th e t erm S co ut ng h as co m e to
m ean a s ys tem Of tra n n g i n c t z en s p i i ii hi .

It i s co mpl em en tary t o th e m o re
h i i i
s c o l as t c tra n n g i n t h e s c o o l s h
i i h
.

Th e pr n c pl es are t h e s am e fo r b o t
Bo y S co u t an d G rl Gu e m o vem en ts i id
d i h h
.

I t i s o n l y i n th e eta l t at t ey vary
d i
.

Th e b oo k o es n o t c o n t a n a s e t o f

d efin t e i s tepp n g s to n es to i c o m pl e t e
-

kn o wl e ge d
b u t s ugges ts th e l n e w c i hi h
h as b een fo un s u cces s fu l d
an d g ves i
i
,

th e reas o n s fo r i t S ugges t o n s are m o re

h h
w ol e earte l y c arr e o ut w en t e r
-
d i d h hi
ai m i s un ers t o o d d
K Y K
.

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H RB RT J EN I N S , LTD .
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T, S T . J MEA S S, S
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.
P E TE R A N D V E RON IC A
B y MA R GA R E T B E E C H .

Wi t h a F orew o d b y r

L O RD BA D EN POWE LL O F G I L WE LL
-
.

I llu s tra ted . 23 . 6d . n et .

b k i n w h i h h il d m y l
A oo i m pl y d
c c ren a e arn , s an

b t i f l l y th l w f f t h
ea u u , d m t h h oo d
e a s o a er an o er .

I id t ll y th
nc en ato y i v y j ll y
, e s r s a er o on e .

Ti m Will b es u .f ul g i d t p t e a se u e o are n s .

S h lm t c A h l pf l b k f p
oo a s er . t e u oo or aren s

h m i g t y boo k f y g t
c ar n s or - or oun s ers .

S h fii ld I d p d t
e e V y tt n t iv e en en . er a ra c e
w ml y
ar mm d d r eco en e .

T bl t a C t i n toe pp
. l t g i l er a d b y a ea o r s an o s
ali k e .

T h W ld
eac er s D li gh tf ll y d i m p l y w i t
’
or . e u an s r

t en

A b k
oo w hi h c ever y y ou g G ui d n er

Th e boo k is i n va u a l bl e f as c n i

P E TE R THE C UB
B y MA R GA R ET BEE C H .

Au t ho r of P eter an d Veron i ca . 23 . 6d . n et .

P eter h i h l t th f t h d v tu
the C u b , w c re a es e ur er a en r es

of P t d V
e er a n i i h il d b kp d
e ro n c a , s a c re n s
’
oo u re an
si m p l v y j ll y d b i gh tl y w i tt t l f hi gh
e, a er o an r -
r en a e O

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g m a It i
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s no a a oo -
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u s c e er

f l wh l
u m n t b t h v it
o es o ff t up n
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it ys g d o un re a ers .

It i n id l h il d n gi ft b k
s a ea c re
’
s oo .
 P
RO E S P IN N IN G
By D W P I N K N E Y
. . .

With a special C hapter by

DON P OTT E R Assis tant C amp C hief Gi lwell Park
, ,
.

I llus tra ted i n li n e and hal ft one . 28 . 6d . net .

The Art of Rope Spinning is becoming more and

more popular with Boy Scout s and Girl Guides and
many others This book was written in close
.

c oll aboration with Don Potter and it has been ,

approved by the Headquarters O f the Scouts

A s sociation Don Potter is exceeding well known
. ,

both in and outside the Scout movement as a ,

wonderful manipulator of the rope .

A THLETIC S FOR BOYS

By G R R E N WI C K
. . .

With a F orewo rd by D G A L O WE
. . . .

I llu s trated i n li n e an d f
hal ton e
-
. 23 . 6d .
o

net .

Thi s isa s plendid book for all those who par

ti ci pate in their school and other sports and who ,

wi s h to t rain properly and to gain re al practical

kn owl edge of th e events in which they take part .

Th ere are valuable chapters on tr aining outfit , ,

an d sport s organiz ation as well as tho s e devoted

-

to each branch of r aci n g and fi el d even ts .

 REMINISC E NC E S
O F THE N AV Y
THE ADVEN T URES OF A N AVA L P AYM AS TER
PA A T R AR AR TI M
o ly p of o p o d
W By
b YM RE A D M TRA L E R M C G
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g d h o
n
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h o o g
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