Scouting, Volume 8, Number 2, January 15, 1920 Page: 2
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Every Tenderfoot Second Before Summer, and First by September
Tvoo
It is always fair weather for Scouts.
Feb.-March will be no exception. Wear
your heavies and carry your poncho.
Give the boys a good time. If they
learn something, also, FINE ! Give your-
self a good time. If—ditto !
FEBRUARY 16-21
19. Ohio admitted to Union.
Opening :—Separate patrol
meetings in four corners of
room devoted particularly to
knot tying and including in-
struction in the whipping of
four-foot knot ropes. Hand-
book for Boys, page 80.
Game:—Square Knot. Pa-
trols in relay formation, single
file, facing scoutmaster, short-
est boys in front, each boy
equipped with rope. At call of
"Square Knot" each is to tie
ends of rope in square knot
and hold above his head. Patrol
leaders to be judges of other
patrols as to grannies. Scout-
master to allow a decreasingly
short time for tying the knot
and reducing the number _ in
each patrol who can tie it with-
in that time until several are
doing it in six seconds. Before
this becomes monotonous, put
the patrol leaders in charge of
their own patrols but not as
competitors. Explain that at
the word " Tie," a square knot is
to be tied around each ankle, then
the belt of the scout ahead to be
grasped with right hand, and un-
der the patrol leader's guidance
the patrol to make the best pos-
sible time across the room, ante-
lope fashion, touching the wall
and returning to its original posi-
tion on the same line at which it
started. Command " Tie." Ex-
plain that a square knot is to be
tied around the right ankle of the
scout ahead and at the patrol
leader's word " Go," the patrol
is to drive again across the room
and back, each scout holding the
loose end of rope tied to the ankle
of the boy ahead of him. " Tie."
" Clear the ropes." " Shut your
eyes and tie square knot." In
this the patrol leaders return to
other patrols as judges and the
score is kept by the senior or the
scoutmaster, and entered in the
scribe's records. " Tie square
knot 'behind you." " Tie square
knot in front of right ankle and
behind left ankle." Give this
command only once and see how
good the attention of the scouts is.
Instruction : Teach fireman's
lift and the resuscitation of the
apparently drowned. Boys' Hand-
book, pages 370 and 373.
Entertainment : Tell or read
a story. It is suggested that the
collection, " The Boy Scouts'
Book of Stories," edited by the
Director of the Library Depart-
ment, Franklin K. Mathiews, will
be useful for this period, and that
the O. Henry story, " The Ran-
som of Red Chief," page 108, has
a lot of fun in it for this meeting.
This is available in any O. Henry
set. ' The story hour can be
handled with the general lights
out and a candle light to read by.
Closing: Troop formation.
Colors. Oath. "Great Scoutmas-
ter Benediction " ; " May the
Great Scoutmaster" (all make
gesture toward heavens) " of all
good scouts" (inclusive gesture
from right to left at height of
shoulder) " be with you till we
meet again" (right hands being
brought to hearts and heads
bowed).
FEBRUARY 23-28
22. Washington's Birthday,
Opening: — Formation by
patrols on four sides of room.
Inspection for personal neat-
ness, location of badges, but-
tons, condition of shoes, hair,
fmger nails, by scoutmaster ac-
companied by all patrol leaders.
Close the patrols to a solid
square facing inward about the
Colors in center of the room.
Allegiance. Oath. Laws. Form-
ation of entire troop for
semaphore signal instruction,
see January 15, 1920, Scout-
ing. Fire by friction contest
for patrol points, see February
2 program.
Game : — Cracker Eating
Contest. Let two smallest
scouts choose sides. Eliminate
all boys who cannot whistle.
Pass one soda cracker to each
boy in the formation, each
team facing the other six paces
apart. No crackers to be
moistened until turn comes.
At the word "Go", the little
fellows who captain the teams
start on their crackers of
which they must not drop any
crumbs, each whistling as soon
as possible after finishing his
cracker. As each whistles his
team-mate next to him starts
eating, whistling as soon as he
can. Continue until the relay
is ended.
Contest :—Fire by friction
as announced Feb 2-7.
Note:—It is recommended
that instruction in all subjects
be delegated to suitable boys
in advance of the meetings and
given by them to the troop.
State birthdays may fittingly be
celebrated by a report on the
founding of the State made by
one of the patrol leaders.
Hikes :—Reports on com-
rade hikes, not : more than two
boys in the party, can be used
for patrol competition, award-
ing points for the ten best such
reports during the month of
February. These reports
should cover the information
which the scoutmaster wants re-
garding the availability of the ter-
ritory covered for future troop
hikes, and should be accompanied
by sufficient sketch maps. This is
particularly useful in February
to encourage individual hiking at
a time when the fire hazard is at
a minimum and the weather In-
terferes in many cases with over-
night hikes.
Note: — Business meetings?
Parliamentary practice ? Some-
time, possibly, but only the " irre-
ducible minimum." Have the
scribe keep contest results and
records of program to read over
at some distant pow-wow.
MARCH 1-6
3. Florida admitted to Union.
4 Vermont admitted to Union.
Opening :—Same as Febru-
ary 23-28.
Instruction : — Review re-
suscitation and fireman's lift
as taught February 16-21. Be
critical of the position of the
hands. The wrists should be
very close to the spinal col-
umn. The elbows should bear
the weight of the body and
carry the pressure of the body
instead of the pressure being
the mere squeeze sideways of
such power as is in the arms.
Be critical of the rhythm which
should be twelve or fourteen
to the minute.
Game :—Repeat patrol quiz
as February 9-14, making it
short but bringing out the
amount of study done by the
various boys since their first
failures.
Bowline Game. Each patrol
is to go to its own station with
its knot ropes, and at the word
" Go" is to stack chairs mak-
ing an arch from which a boy
can be suspended in a sitting
position in a bowline on a
bight. The several knot ropes
are to be fastened together
with square knots or sheet
bends and the whole rope used
for a bowline on a bight, one
loop of which is to go under
the boy's arms and- the other
under his thighs, the boy being
swung from the floor by the
improvised trestle made of
chairs. Obviously the smallest
boy should be the movie star.
Time and workmanship to de-
termine award.
Semaphore Practice :—Sec-
ond lesson in semaphore, see
article in this issue.
MARCH 8-13
Opening Start by playing
" Swat 'Em" (Scouting, Janu-
ary 1st; February 9th pro-
gram). The use of popular
items like this game and the
Cracker Eating Contest occa-
sionally for the first thing on
the program, helps eliminate
tardiness without making it
necessary to say a word upon
the subject.
Instruction, Bandaging:—
Seat troop by patrols, facing
scoutmaster. Have two patrol
leaders or other scouts demon-
strate the use of the triangular
bandage, page 376, Handbook
for Boys. Announce review
of this work in which each
scout will be examined, for
next meeting.
Semaphore Signaling : —
Third lesson, see article in this
issue.
Story: — Troop seated in
circles either on chairs or on
floor. Candle light. An-
nounce that a progressive story
is to be told by the boys in the
circle; that each participant
must leave the heroes of the
story in a critical situation so
that the next man will have to
get them out of that situation
and into another; that all situa-
tions should be fairly probable
and as far as possible show
uses of Boy Scout training in
extricating the heroes from
their difficulties.
Closing:—Troop formation.
A rapid inspection by the
scoutmaster. Report of the
night's attendance and dues.
Announcement of hikes. Re-
minder of duty of the quietly
done daily good turn. Pledge
of allegiance. " Great Scout-
master " benediction.
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