A NEW BOOK ABOUT THE SCOUTING CENTENNIARY

SKAUTSKE STOLETI ( 100 YEARS OF SCOUTING)

by Roman Santora, Vaclav Nosek, Slavomil Janov and Vaclav Dostal, published by Mlada fronta. It has 256 colored pages, hundreds of photographs and drawings, many stories, documents, reports and biographies of important scout personalities, It contains a history of the movement, talks about its founders Robert Baden-Powell and Ernest Thompson Seton. In the Czech lands scouting was founded in 1912 by Antonin Benjamin Svojsik, a physical-education teacher and member of Sokol. Scouting teaches very important life lessons: to be truthful, devoted to ideals, helpful to others, be a friend to all people of good will, be courteous, obedient to parents and other authority figures, to respect and protect nature, be of good cheer, economical, clean in mind, speech and actions.