3. Arrange for meetings in all High Schools for Boys. 5. Scouting and Industry. a) Call meeting of all representatives of firms having boys in their employ. b) Arrange for presentations before various labor groups or Councils. 6. Scouting and the Schools. a) Invite the School Board and Superintendent to meet at luncheon and discuss Scouting as it relates to the School. b) Hold Conference then with Superintendent and Principals. c) Have a mass meeting of the teachers called and Scouting presented to them by an address and demonstration. d) Brief address at School Assemblies. 7. Scouting and the Church. a) Hold a luncheon for all ministers at which time the value of Scouting and boys' work will be discussed.. b) Arrange for special Scout services in all Churches where there are Scout troops. V COMMITTEE ON DEMONSTRATION 1. Arrange to have specially selected groups of Scouts give demonstrations in public places. 2. Demonstrations in all public schools on Safety First Methods. 3. Cooperation of School Board and Safety First Society. 4. Arrange details for the Hub's entertainment of the 5. Scout parade on opening day. 6. In conjunction with fire and police departments. 7. Talks by Scouts themselves. VI COMMITTEE ON PUBLICITY 1. Enlist the active cooperation of newspaper men, photographers and advertising managers. 2. Have editors write editorials regarding Scouting and good citizenship. 3. Have photographers follow up all events and have entire page of the Sunday Sun photo section filled with Scout pictures. 4. Secure appropriate cartoons. 5. Arrange for window displays of Scout Work. Animated if possible. 6. Special signs and bulletins including street banners and flags and car cards. 7. Arrange for all motion picture places to show slides or Scout reels. 8. Small scout cuts and slogans to use with "ad" in paper or in spaces in all advertisements. 9. Signal "greetings" to mayor from house tops. 11. Secure a number of business men to pledge themselves to sign their mail with a boost for Scouting or use pasters. Have merchants place on their packages pasters about Scouting, also on large pay rolls. 12. 13. Provide articles to appear in the local publications: VII COMMITTEE ON EXTENSION 1. Carefully plan so as to permanently interest churches, schools, clubs, in the formation of a Scout Troop of their boys. 2. Plan and announce and enroll for the training course for the newly enlisted Scoutmasters and Assistants; also Training School for Patrol Leaders. 3. 4. Survey places available for organizing troops and present to them the opportunity for service for boys. Make plans for additional enlistment of Scouts, including leadership provision. 5. Make an award to the troop enlisting the most Scouts with leaders. 6. Arrange District Competitions on material objectives. VIII COMMITTEE ON INVESTITURE 1. Arrange to hold public investiture for all Scouts enlisted 2. Arrange for a public reception to all new Scoutmasters BOY SCOUT CAMPS By L. L. McDonald, Director Dept. of Camping I The Scout Executive's Relation to Camping Problems Camping is one of the most tangible evidences of the need of council organization and is commonly used as a convincing argument at the first presentation to the community of the new council's appeal for funds. The popularity of the camping idea and its publicity value alone would lead every executive to consider carefully his own personal relation to this form of Scout activity. But the intimate and vital part which the Scout camp plays in the life and growth of actual troop work demands that the Executive, even though he be an expert camper, give much attention to the camp as a measure toward efficient Council administration. The Choice of a Committee on Camping is important.* (See Model Constitution Scoutmasters' Handbook, Page 582.) Its plans and policies affect directly every scout troop and eventually every Scout in a more direct and impressive manner than those of any other standing committee. The combined personnel of the Camping Committee must reflect actual experience in Organization of leaders Preparing of work and play programs for boys Sanitation and Health Inspections Building plans, materials and construction Camp equipment,-selection, purchase and care of Provisioning; choice, purchase, storage, cooking Wood craft, Nature Study, Forestry Engineering It is not expected of course, that a specialist will be found on each but the list can be kept in mind in choosing the five or more men best suited to serve on the committee. An influential spokesman who can present most forcefully to the council, the committee's best advice and recommendations makes a good chairman. It is often difficult to secure prompt council action on committee recommendations especially if they involve expenditure of large sums of money on a subject so little understood as camping. The spokesman for the committee should therefore be chosen with much care. b. The Executive must cultivate in each member of the committee through interview, correspondence, literature, enthusiasm for sane Scout Camp Methods. "Hobbyists," you are sure to have, but prejudice must be offset by a general knowledge of camping, as interest is created in other important branches of the subject. The man whose hobby is "roughing it" will profit by the information he gets from the "health and sanitation" expert. The "no paid help" enthusiast will learn by questioning scoutmasters who have reached the limit of independent leadership with their boys and must depend on professional advice, and so on through the list of "Camp must pay its own way" the "all canvas," "all cabin," "military drill," "initiations" and the "Indian Ceremonial" hobbyist each will profit by knowledge that the other man's method sometimes brings success. C. Assignments of definite tasks to each member for study and report with recommendations is most effective in creating and holding interest. Assignments are usually made by the chairman of the committee after conference with the executive, the latter using all his professional skill to make the best of the opening thus created. Reference to the experience of local scoutmasters can often be used to advantage in working out such assignments and keeping committeemen away from merely theoretic conclusions. 2. Discover local needs. What boys go to camp at all? To what kind of camps? When? If possible |