ent points of view is
well shown by the following excerpt from a daily newspaper:

A DEADLY PARALLEL

THIS IS THE WAY GERMANY TALKS | THIS IS WHAT THE SCOUT
TO YOUNG BOYS OF SCOUT AGE | ORGANIZATION TEACHES AMERICAN
| BOYS
|
| From the "Handbook for Boys,"
| 17th edition, page 454.
|
"War is the noblest and | "The movement is one for
holiest expression of human | efficiency and patriotism. It
activity. For us, too, the | does not try to make soldiers
glad great hour of battle | of boy scouts, but to make
will strike. Still and deep | boys who will turn out as men
in the German heart must live | to be fine citizens, and who
the joy of battle and the | will if their country needs
longing for it. Let us | them make better soldiers for
ridicule to the utmost the | having been scouts. No one
old women in breeches who | can be a good American unless
fear war and deplore it as | he is a good citizen, and
cruel and revolting. No; war | every boy ought to train
is beautiful. Its august | himself so that as a man he
sublimity elevates the human | will be able to do his full
heart beyond the earthly and | duty to the community. I want
the common. In the cloud | to see the boy scouts not
palace above sit the heroes, | merely utter fine sentiments,
Frederick the Great and | but act on them, not merely
Blucher and all the men of | sing 'My Country, 'Tis of
action--the Great Emperor, | Thee,' but act in a way that
Moltke, Roon, Bismarck are | will give them a country to
there as well, but not the | be proud of. No man is a good
old women who would take away | citizen unless he so acts as
our joy in war. When here on | to show that he actually uses
earth a battle is won by | the Ten Commandments, and
German arms and the faithful | translates the Golden Rule
dead ascend to Heaven, a | into his life conduct--and I
Potsdam lance corporal will | don't mean by this
call the guard to the door | exceptional cases under
and 'Old Fritz' (Frederick | spectacular circumstances,
the Great), springing from | but I mean applying