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SIX DIGIT FIGURES —AND JIMMY
ADVENTURE will be spelled out in big numbers this summer. Just
take a quick, cross-country look: 47,000 selected Scouts at the
National Jamboree at Valley Forge — probably the biggest encamp-
ment of boys in American history; all kinds of special Explorer ad-
ventures, with 2,500 Explorers coming from all corners of America
to famed Philmont in New Mexico, hundreds more taking off on wild-
erness canoe trips from Regional bases in Minnesota, Wisconsin and
Maine, and all kinds of high mountain pack trips, ocean cruises, long
tours, etc., involving many hundreds of Explorers.
Keep on looking, and picture the 800 Council camps where 313,000
Scouts will be getting adventure and fun and good Scout training
during these next two months. It adds up to a tremendous picture,
doesn't it? Adventure in six digit numbers.
But six digit numbers don't mean much to twelve-year-old Jimmy
in your Troop, nor to fifteen-year-old Jack, in your Post. No, Jimmy
and Jack aren't much concerned with the fact that three or four
hundred thousand Scouts will get some wonderful camping this sum-
mer — but they are very much interested in your outfit's plans. Be-
cause those plans are the blueprint for their adventure. Here's hoping
your plans do include some good Scouting this summer.
Why no SCOUTING?
Talking about summer plans reminds me of a question often asked:
"Why do you suspend publication of Scouting Magazine in the sum-
mer months, when you tell us they are the most important months and
that we should keep our program going?"
Does seem like not practising what we preach, doesn't it? Here's
the reason in two parts: first, there never has been an August issue,
at least not since I started relying on Scouting for Troop program
ideas back in 1920. But July being dropped is a rather recent develop-
ment. It was done during the war because of the paper shortage, and
when paper was again plentiful printing and paper costs had in-
creased so terrifically that the funds available just couldn't be spread
over more than ten issues.
Faced with this problem we had to decide which issue to drop. It
seemed to us that we could cover the program planning for July and
August in one issue better than any two other months in the year
because, for Boy Scouting and Exploring at least, those two months
are very similar. There is usually a change of pace then from the
concentrated development of an instruction theme, to camping and
more casual outdoor activities.
We do our best to bridge the gap with two-month planning in this
and in the September issue. The latter will reach you in August, to
help you get ready for the fall. In . the meantime, here's hoping you
— Jimmy and Jack — have some wonderful Scouting this summer.
Managing Editor
SCOUTING MAGAZINE is published monthly except August and bi-monthly June-July, and copy-
righted 1950, by the Boy Scouts of America, 2 Park Ave., New York 16, N. Y. Reentered as Second
Class Matter, June 13, 1946, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879.
Scouting Magazine is edited in the Division of Program by the Editorial Service. Director of
the Division of Program, E. Urner Goodman. Director of Publications, Editor. Lome W. Barclay.
Managing Editor, Lex R. Lucas. Asst. Managing Editor, Tom MacPherson. Art Director, Donald Ross.
Production Director, Geo. W. Goddard, Jr. Associate Editors: Gerald Speedy, Cub Scouting;
Ted Pettit, Boy Scouting; Ted Holstein, Exploring.
NATIONAL OFFICERS —BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
Honorary President, Harry S. Truman. Honorary Vice-Presidents, Herbert Hoover, Walter W. Head.
President, Amory Houghton. Vice-Presidents, John Sherman Hoyt, Frank G. Hoover, Francis W. Hatch,
John M. Schiff, Kenneth K. Bechtel. Treasurer, Harry M. Addinsell. International Scout Commissioner,
Thomas J. Watson. National Scout Commissioner, George J. Fisher. Chief Scout, Elbert K. Fretwell.
Chief Scout Executive, Arthur A. Schuck. Deputy Chief Scout Executive, Pliny H. Powers.
EDITORIAL BOARD
William H. Pouch, Chmn., Albert E. Lownes, Wheeler McMillen, E. W. Palmer, Harrison M. Sayre.
JUNE-JULY, 1950, VOL 38, No. 6
CONTENTS
^ FOR ALL SCOUT LEADERS
40 Year Men 2
Forty Years of Growing Young 3
A Tribute and Challenge 4
Jamboree Curtain Raisers 5
Are You A Boy's Man? 6
<#> FOR CUB SCOUT LEADERS
The Valley Forge Story 8
Yard Games 9
Outing, Theme for July 10
Den Doings For July 12
Pack Picnic In July 13
Cub Scout Olympics, Theme for
August 14
Den Stuff for August 16
Pack Olympic Day 17
Olympic Events 18
Sock Ball; Rainy Day Football 19
•fc FOR BOY SCOUT LEADERS
Scouting ALL Summer 20
Safety Through Skill 22
Adventurers All 24
Swim for Fun 26
Shorts 28
Game File 37
0 FOR EXPLORER LEADERS
Nuggets 29
Farm Weekend 30
Hi and Mighty 32
Headin' for Tall Timber 34
Cover photograph by
George Bergstrom
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