Scouting, Volume 25, Number 4, April 1937 Page: 33
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"Flashing Sticks" brings to the front
and center a game that was old when
Columbus landed. A game played by
the Aztecs and later by the "Chera-
qui." And how easily Strong can write
of just this type of material! He paints
a vivid picture of La Crosse that would
have pleased even the Cherokees when
this game was a sacred tribal tradition
to them. But it has a lesson. Win
clean or don't win. Good character
building stuff but withal very excit-
ing.
"Adventure is wherever a group of
Scouts gets together, and when you
have thousands of them together for
ten days Adventure will be all over the
place." So runs a bit of "The Big
Chance" article on the Jamboree. Page
15 BOYS' LIFE April. "Twenty-
seven years of Scouting experience is
being pushed into this Jamboree."
The Sea Scout Display—the Water
Circus, the Scoutcraft Exhibits from
all over the world are for your Scouts
and you to enjoy at the Jamboree.
Here is good material to help in de-
veloping Jamboree interest.
I appreciate that the Jamboree isn't
the only thing in a Troop's life but
it can be used as a lever to raise your
Troop into an outdoor camping-hiking
Troop. Capitalize on the Jamboree.
Root through BOYS' LIFE for plenty
of ammunition. It's all live program
material.
We're only sending two Scouts from
our Troop and eight from our Dis-
trict but we're sure building Jamboree
Tents, packs and a host of things our
Troop needs. All done under the spell
of the Jamboree.
Now for the Cubs. In "Movies of
the Month," page 20 BOYS' LIFE
April, there's "Penrod and Sam" as
Junior G-Men. Quite a thriller for
Cubs and also Scouts.
"The Man Who Could Work Mir-
acles" will give just the right amount
of magic plus character growth which
will make boys think.
"The Holy Terror," otherwise
known as Jane Withers, is General
Nuisance at the Air Base.
"The Bold Caballero" gives plenty
of Indians, Spaniards and some history.
"Be Prepared" explains how to be
ready each day and each moment to
meet emergencies. Floods, fires, panics
cannot demoralize the Scout who has
thought things out before. Dr. West
in his Editorial, page 16, gives you the
material for a good Scoutmaster's
Minute.
The OUTLOOK
By THE CHIEF SCOUT
Scouters, Take Note!
THE Report got out by a special
committee for the consideration of
the Council of London on the recent
decline in Census figures, is one which
every Scouter would do well to read. I
Why? Because it is full of sugges-
tions. I don't suppose there is a single
Scouter who will not find in it some
new idea or inspiration for himself.
Part I specifies the amount of de-
cline, and gives among the reasons for
it the flattering one that modern edu-
cation has adopted many features of
Scouting and supplies them without ex-
pense to the boy. It also suggests that
there is some lack of imagination in
devising variety and new forms of ad-
venture in Troop programmes, which,
in the present unrestful age, are such
essential aids to the maintenance of
keenness among the boys. In addition
to these, other correctable shortcom-
ings in organisation and training are
indicated.
In Part II, some 45 practical rem-
edies for the shortcomings alluded to
are suggested in the spirit of helpful-
ness rather than of criticism. In very
many cases the committee shows how a
closer study and practice of the ideas
given in "Scouting for Boys" will sup-
ply the desired solution. It points also
to the danger of the essential spirit of
energetic progress becoming doped
through self-satisfaction or staleness on
the part of Scouters.
Synthetic Scouting and Its Remedy
Personally I fear there is the danger
that a kind of synthetic Scouting may
creep into our training in place of the
natural article described in "Scouting
for Boys."
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By "synthetic Scouting" I mean the
Scout system obscured by overclothing
the natural form with rules and in-
structive literature, tending to make
what originally was, and should be, an
open-air game into a science for the
Scouter and a school curriculum for
the boy.
A shortcoming that I should like to
see corrected is the small percentage of
First Class Scouts in the average
Troop.
I hope that Scoutmasters will devise
schemes to inspire their boys in antici-
pation of that event to pass their First
Class tests.
Patrol Leaders' Responsibility
Another point that I should include
in my inspection of a Troop would be
to see how far real responsibility is
given to the Patrol Leaders. The Pa-
trol System is the key to success in the
Scout scheme of character training, and
the success of the Patrol system de-
pends on the Patrol Leader having a
real responsibility on his shoulders. The
question is—does he get this in all
cases ?
A call to the Scouts and a real push
in these directions will raise the whole
standard of Scout effectiveness and loy-
alty.
(Reprint, THE SCOUTER, August, 1936)
fcAovl ENERGY
Baby Ruth
RICH IN
DEXTROSE
APRIL, 1937
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