The Scoutmaster's conjuring trick.

The Scoutmaster

The idea of Scouting thus seemed all right so far as the boy was concerned, but eager though he might be, to carry it out there was the all-important question of getting adult leadership to organize its administration in practice.
To a very considerable extent this question was settled by the boys themselves. They had the sense to recognize that grown-up officers were necessary, and they went around among the men of their respective neighborhoods until they found those willing to become their leaders.

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Scouting is not soldiering

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Uniform
For the boy a uniform is a big, attraction, and when it is a dress such as backwoodsmen wear it takes him in imagination to be directly linked up with those frontiersmen who are heroes to him.The uniform also makes for Brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.The Scout uniform, moreover, is simple and hygienic (a step now much in fashion) approximating that of our ancestors~Lord Baden-Powell~