Scouting, Volume 10, Number 5, May 1922 Page: 7
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SCOUTING, MAY, 1922
WINDOW RACING
PARGO, NORTH DAKOTA, TROOPS
*■ recently raced to San Francisco by au-
tomobile, all in a big store window. The
window was made up to suggest the stretch
of country between the two points, and at
the starting point numbered automobiles
were lined up to represent the troops. The
race started the first week in April and
ended the first in May. Its progress was
watched by crowds daily, and was reported
in the local press. The effect was very
pronounced upon merit badge work and
advance of scouts in rank. We are in-
debted to W. A. Herrick, Scout Executive
at Fargo, for the information and the rules
of the race. The "course" was graduated
so that the cars could be advanced in pro-
portion to the points gained by each troop
from day to day and week to week, as fol-
lows :
Achievement Points
Attendance at meeting 3 per scout
Attendance on hike 5 per scout
Promotions to second class. . S per test
Promotions to first class. ... 10 per test
Merit badge work 25 for each badge
Life scout SO for each one
Star scout 75 for each one
Eagle scout 200 for each one
The patrol system 25 for each patrol
meeting held
10 for each report
of patrol leader
taking part in a
troop meeting
10 for each patrol
leader at Patrol
Leader's Associ-
ation Meetings
Troop meeting visitors 15 for each adult
staying longer
than 30 minutes
20 for each boy of
scout age, not a
scout
25 for each regu-
lar visit of a
troop committee
member
25 for each outside
adult instructor
used in instruc-
tion period
Membership 15 for each new
tenderfoot.
1.0 f o r each
dropped scout
brought back
Uniform 10 for _ each fully
equipped scout
in troop
50 for each boy
subscribing to
scout magazine
Photographs 10 to 100 each, ac-
cording to merit
This is an idea that can be modified and
can be used with advantage in any sized
Scouting community, particularly at a time
when efforts are being made to increase the
membership or the financial support.
FIRE-BY-FRICTION WORLD
RECORD?
"Houston, Texas, April 25, 1922.
"This is to certify that we, the under-
signed, acting in the capacity, of official
judges of the Boy Scout Field events on
April 21st, 1922, at San Jacinto Battle
Grounds, Texas, do hereby certify that
Scout Elwood Fisher, Troop No. 13, Hous-
ton, Texas, did then and there make a fire
with bow and drill by friction in nine and
four-fifths seconds. We were acting in
the capacity of offidial judges, and were
using an official Stop Watch.
(Signed)
John Droeper,
W. T. Allyn,
Charles H. Taylor."
R. A. Adcock, Scout Executive.
In the rich vernacular of boyhood, "Can
you beat it?"
NECKERCHIEF KNOTS
STILL A KNOTTY
QUESTION
\/" OU simply can't help making a little
J- play on that word "knot" every time
you have to use it. There seems to be a
difference of opinion as to the best way to
tie the handkerchief. The almost universal
practice is the four-in-hand. Its advocates
claim for it neater appearance than any
other knot, ease in adjusting the knot
tighter or looser and also in entirely un-
fastening it, which, in the latter case, is a
strong point in its favor in the event of
emergencies requiring use of neckerchief
as a bandage or otherwise. Friends of the
square knot admit that its use by girls with
the middy blouse rather detracts from its
use by scouts, but claim for it some sup-
port in tradition and in appearance, though
making little, if any, claim for it on the
score of utility.
There is an evident desire to have an
official ruling on this matter. The official
ruling is that troops may adopt whatever
mode of tying the neckerchief they prefer;
but it is recommended that all troops of a
community, particularly those under local
council, agree upon the same form, and it
is further recommended that as a distin-
guishing mark of the Boy Scouts of Amer-
ica the neckerchief shall always be tied in
the four-in-hand,—that form being prefer-
able because of its utility value.
CULVER INVITES SCOUT
GUESTS
WE are privileged to make a delightful
announcement by reason of the Ex-
ecutive Board's acceptance of a remarkable
offer from the Superintendent of the Cul-
ver Academy, Culver, Indiana. Through
the courtesy of Brig. Gen. L. -R. Gignilliat,
Superintendent of the Culver Summer
Schools, 10 scouts per week will be enter-
tained as guests at Culver, in the Wood-
craft School, which is under the leadership
of Mr. Dillon Wallace, expert scoutman
and woodsman, as well as popular writer
of boys' stories. The invitation is for 6
consecutive weeks (6 groups of 10 scouts
each), beginning June 28th, and to all
scouts, but the fact that railroad fare to
and from Culver must be borne by the
scout, his troop, or local council, may re-
strict acceptances to the Middle-West
states. This is a splendid opportunity for
patrol leaders, for the scouts will carry
to their troops greatly increased Scout-
ing ability. There is also during the sum-
mer at Culver, a school for instruction in
water activities known as the "Naval
School," for boys older than 14, to which
scouts desiring Sea Scouting training may
be assigned. The boys who go will be
regularly enrolled as scouts and assigned
to patrols and troops, in accordance with
the system at Culver, where the rules and
regulations of the Boy Scouts of America
are "observed in the Woodcraft School.
Scoutmasters who are interested should
take the matter up immediately with their
scout executive if they are under local
council, otherwise write to Mr. Judson P.
Freeman, Assistant Director of Field
Work, for the present at General Forbes
Hotel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
As Scouting goes to press National
Headquarters is favored by the presence
of Scout Executive E. B. De Groot of Los
Angeles, California.
SURPLUS ARMY AND NAVY
SUPPLIES
ANEW bill has been introduced in
Congress, taking the place of one for-
merly announced in Scouting, providing
for the transfer and sale of army and navy
equipment to the Boy Scouts of America,
the new bill being more beneficial to us
than the former. Pending its passage,
which is expected, scout leaders will find
that by direct application to army stores in
their vicinity, surplus property suitable for
camping and other Boy Scout activities can
be purchased at prices fixed by previous
public offerings. This is in accordance
with a recent decision of the War Depart-
ment, and our officials everywhere are en-
titled to take advantage of it.
NEW YORK APPRECIATES
ITS SCOUT MEN
' I 5HE volunteer scout leaders of Greater
-'-.New York will be especially honored
May 23rd at a great "Get-to-Gether and
. camp chow" at the Hotel Commodore,
when District Attorney Joab H. Banton,
Mortimer L. Schiff, possibly John D.
Rockefeller, Jr., and Francis D. Roosevelt,
Chairman of the Greater New York Com-
mittee, will voice the feelings of the citi-
zens of the city for the men who are de-
voting their lives to this Program of char-
acter building and citizenship training of
boys.
SPRING TONIC
CONFERENCES
UNDER this stimulating title, Region 8
scout leaders are closing the month of
May with a series of conferences held in
Iowa City, Iowa; Lincoln, Nebraska, and
Wichita, Kansas. The conferences are for
scoutmasters, local council members, troop
committeemen and executives. The Na-
tional Headquarters is represented at all
the conferences by Judson P. Freeman, As-
sistant National Field Director; Lome W.
Barclay, Director of the Department of
Education; and L. L. McDonald, National
Camp Director.
JUNE "BOYS' LIFE"
CAMPING AND RADIO—both are
featured in the June issue of Boys'
Life, which has a Scout cover and a Flag
Day frontispiece, each painted by Douglas
Duer. "The Game by Wireless 'Phone" is
a humorous prep school baseball story by
Lovell Coombs, Johnnie Kelly returns to
the pages of the Scout magazine with a
funny tale of a youthful inventor in "Nutty
Nat's Weight Reducer," and there is more
fun in Russell G. Carter's "Tale of Two
Hats." Joseph B. Ames contributes a
scout camp story, "The Red Pool." Be-
sides the current serials, "Daniel Boone,
Wilderness Scout," and "Roy Blakeley's
Bee-Line Hike," by Percy K. Fitzhugh,
which is concluded, there is a new serial,
"Wisdom of the Woods," by the famous
naturalist, J. Alden Loring. In addition to
other short stories there are several valu-
able articles, notably one on General Squier,
entitled, "They Told Him He Couldn't,"
by Homer Croy, and "Bill—Wireless Bug,"
by Romeyn P. Benjamin; "How to Pole
Vault," by Alfred C. Gilbert, former
world's Olympic champion; Thomas N.
Wrenn gives clear directions for "Making
a Simple Radio Set" and there are other
radio features and suggestions for camping.
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