Scouting, Volume 28, Number 10, November 1940 Page: 29
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Scouters' Round Table
By AL ANDERSON
Using Scouting, Boys' Life
and Other Periodicals
THE Silent Assistant Scoutmas-
ter—I wonder how many times
you have heard this phrase and
whether its full meaning has ever
come to you.
Today I met a troubled Scout-
master on th« street, one with
whom I have had interesting dis-
cussions about Troop problems of
one kind or another. Today he said
to me, "Al, I had to take over my
Troop, and I am running it all
alone without any assistance. I
think I will have to call on head-
quarters to help me get an Assist-
ant at once." I did not have the
answer to his problem then and
there, but as I came back to my
desk I happened to glance at the
latest issue of Scouting and there,
staring at me from one of the
pages, was that all-familiar phrase
—"The Silent Assistant."
Boys' Life magazine is very
widely read in Brooklyn. Can it
be pure coincidence that most
Troops which operate on the Bud-
get Plan, in which is included a
subscription to Boys' Life for
every Scout, are good Troops—
Troops which have fewer prob-
lems, better tenure, more ad-
vancement, higher percentage of
attendance and other qualities for
which all Scoutmasters work? I
think not.
I thought of my friend and his
problem of help in the Troop, and
I wondered if he was making use
of the material which is made
available by our National Office
every month. I got out my last
copy of Boys' Life and laid it
alongside of Scouting. On the
desk with them I brought out The
Sea Scout Log, the Health and
Safety magazine, the Cub Lead-
ers' Round Table, The Lone
Scout and our own local Council
Ring.
With these publications before
me, I timed myself to see how
long it would take me to prepare
an interesting program for a
month for a Scout Troop. It took
a little over an hour, and granting
that Scoutmasters continually ac-
tive with their Troops can do the
job much better than I, I esti-
mated that with the use of
Scouting and Boys' Life alone,
the Scoutmaster without help
could develop "the best show in
town" for his Troop from month
to month. I do not infer that we
can do without Assistants. Every
Troop should have one or more,
according to its size, but even with
such a Staff, including perhaps
some junior officers, Scouting and
Boys' Life should still be a most
valuable help.
Scouting, of course, is a lead-
ers' magazine, carrying informa-
tion and helps on leadership ma-
terial. Pages 18 and 19 of the Sep-
tember issue carry the highlights
for a Troop Program from Sep-
tember to February!! Pages 10 to
17, all eight of them every month,
are full of source material for
a Troop's program.
Boys' Life is a magazine for
boys. Its great help to any Troop
is its regular appearance in the
Scout's home. If it is there it is
bound to be read. No Scout can
look over the pages full of pic-
tures from the Scout world with-
out being thrilled and filled with
ideas. No Scout can read "Hiking
with Green Bar Bill" without get-
ting all pepped about his next
Patrol hike. Your Patrol Leaders,
casting about for a new and differ-
ent project, will find one each
month; and apart from Scouting
subjects, even your oldsters will
sit back for a thrill as you read the
feature stories and articles.
Scoutmasters, as we go into the
increased activity of the fall sea-
son, dig out your latest issues of
these publications—those last few
which you glanced through and
made a mental note to read "when
you got the time." You will find in
them big dividends.
—From Council Ring,
Brooklyn, N. Y.
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NOVEMBER, 1940
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