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OTHER MOVEMENTS FOR SOCIAL BETTERMENT 405Association of China have difficulty in coping with the taskof organizing new troops, and supplying information tothose whose interest has been aroused. At present inShanghai alone there are under control of the localAssociation some six hundred Chinese Boy Scouts, whilelocal Scout Associations have been formed in Canton,Hankow, Peking, Tientsin, Soochow, and Nanking.The headquarters of the National Association are inShanghai. Here the control is in the hands of a NationalCouncil, elected by members of the Boy Scouts Associationof China, which in turn elects an Executive Committee tocarry on the various forms of detailed work. Althoughsimilar in most respects to the Boy Scouts Association ofEngland, the parent body, under the immediate control ofGeneral Sir R. S. S. Baden-Powell, the Association of Chinahas not refrained from making changes where these seemcalled for. The Executive Committee has recently issued ahandbook (revised edition) in which the general principles,organization, ranks, rules and lists of badges are mentioned.At a recent meeting of the Executive Committee of theBoy Scouts Association of China, it was resolved afterweighing carefully the opinions of supporters of the movement throughout the country, that the name in Chinese ofthe Association should henceforth be q* -^ jg ^ !p. This isthe name adopted by the Boone Boy Scouts, the first troopof Boy Scouts formed in China. Application for theregistration of the name at Peking has already been made.