Scouting, Volume 38, Number 4, April 1950 Page: 26
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Editor's Note: This page of short Troop meeting features (plots for one or
two Scoutmaster's Minutes; one or two ceremonies; and a handicraft
trick or two), will become a regular program page only if it proves to
be worthwhile, and if sufficient ideas are forthcoming from successful
Scoutmasters or former Scoutmasters around the country. Credit will
be given for usable ideas.
CLOSING CEREMONY OPENING CEREMONY
<▲ Lights out. Scouts by Patrols
in horseshoe formation. Flag
Bearer and Color Guard at open
end. Patrol Leaders with flash
spotlights held on the Flag. Senior
Patrol Leader leads Troop in
Pledge of Allegiance and then
"God Bless America." Flashlights
oooooo
ooooooo
^ Troop lines up in single rank
formation, with Scoutmaster
at head. Each Patrol in turn steps
two steps forward. As each Patrol
steps forward, Scoutmaster re-
peats the three points of the Oath,
omitting "On my honor, I will do
my best," after which each Patrol
gives the Scout sign, says in uni-
son "On my honor, I will do my
best," and steps back into place.
After last Patrol has stepped back.
Scoutmaster gives Scoutmaster's
Benediction, "May the great Scout-
master of all good Scouts be with
you till we meet again."
MOUNTING LEAVES
^ A new product, Dura-seal,
^ available at many stationery
or department stores is ideal for
preserving leaves. It comes in a
roll 12 inches wide and ten to
twenty feet long. It is a sticky,
transparent material, similar to
scotch tape. Cut two pieces each
about 8" x 10". Remove the pro-
tective backing. Place the leaf on
sticky surface of one sheet, and
cover with second sheet, sticky
side down. The sheets will adhere
tightly. Trimming edges with scis-
sors is said to make an airtight
seal. If not available locally,
write to Goldsmith Brothers, 77
Nassau Street, New York, N. Y/
Another method of mounting
leaves is to "sandwich wrap"
them with household waxed paper.
Lay a sheet of waxed paper on
the ironing board. Lay the leaf on
top, then a second sheet of waxed
paper over the leaf. Iron lightly
with warm iron to melt wax and
seal in leaf.
ooooooo
ooooo
out. Color Guard and Flag Bearer
retire. Lights on. (Key: Scouts-o;
Patrol Leaders-x; Color Guard-(-);
Senior Patrol Leader-*)
SM's MINUTE PLOTS
Quick Freeze
A wildlife photographer had
spent days stalking a moun-
tain goat. One morning he was in
the right place at the right time
and was focusing the camera for
a prize shot. Out of the corner of
his eye he saw a huge rattler
crawl out of a crevice and stretch
out near his bare arm. One twitch
or move and the rattler would
strike. Calling upon all his mus-
cular control and will power, he
forgot the goat and "froze" on
that mountaintop. Three hours
later, the hot sun caused the snake
to crawl back in the shade.
Moral: You can't tell when an
easily learned skill (freezing), or
a knowledge of nature (snakes
cannot stand too much heat) will
be important to you. (See page 253
Handbook for Boys.)
Be Prepared
Several years ago a certain kind
of insect was spreading rapidly
in one section of an eastern state.
Not only was it eating the foliage
off some forest trees, it was
spreading to fruit and other culti-
vated trees as well. The state con-
servation department asked Scouts
to collect egg masses during the
winter before the eggs hatched
into leaf-eating caterpillars.
Most Scouts immediately went
to work thrashing through the
woods and brush and collected a
few egg masses. One Scout got
prepared first. He traveled to a
branch of his state college and
read all he could on that insect.
He found that it layed eggs only
in one or two kinds of trees. He re-
turned and searched first for those
two trees — then for the insect
eggs. In two days he collected
more than the rest of his Troop
did in a week. He won the prize
offered by the state, and ultimately
a college scholarship in agricul-
ture.
Moral: Careful preparation and
planning before setting out to do
a job, will make that job easier
and * more successfully accom-
plished.
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