Scouting, Volume 18, Number 5, May 1930 Page: 131
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THE WEEK-END OF THE
TROOP
Without trying to be humorous I think
it might well be said that the weak end
of the Troop is its week ends.
Few, Troops take advantage of the late
Friday afternoons and Friday evenings for
their fullest usefulness. It is true that
many leaders by virtue of their occupa-
tions find it difficult to be on Saturday
morning hikes, but with the increasingly
large number of men who are employed
on a basis of a five-day week, certainly
the fuller utilization of Friday night and
Saturday in camp is going to be a coming
policy.
We face very frankly the problem of
Sundays in camp. Occasionally, perhaps
once a quarter, the church is happy to
adapt its program to make possible this
outdoor experience for their boys, but
certainly they are not willing and will
never become willing to lay aside the
nrogram of religious education for which
Sunday morning has been used for a
century, except at infrequent intervals,
for even so rich a series of experiences
as a Scout hike afford him.
The week-end of the Troop program
has too often been its very weak end.
Now with the foregleam of a fuller utili-
zation of Friday evening and Saturday
in camp, perhaps the time will come when
the week-end will be the strong end of
the Troop program.—Walter MacPeek.
W A TCH
YOUR TROOP,
MR. SCOUTMASTER!
1. Make it SECOND to none.
2. FACE the facts and then profit by
them.
3. SPRING something new every
meeting.
4. Lots of MOVEMENT necessary in
a peppy Troop of Scouts.
5. RUN DOWN any misunderstand-
ings and correct them.
6. HAND your Patrol Leaders all the
real jobs.
7. Be parTICKularly careful in plan-
ning meeting programs.
8. In every CASE open and close on
TIME.
9. Cram every MJNUTE with mean-
ingful activity.
10. And lastly, WIND UP every meet-
ing with a Patrol Leaders' confer-
ence. If you do all these things
you'll have a STEM-WINDER of
a Troop.
—The Concho Cactus.
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Executive
Scoutmaster
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