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ROUNDUP?
not doing summertime Cubbing. Let's you and I work
on them next summer, O.K.? I reckon just getting the
pack back in operation is a roundup.
Conitz: The New Salem pack uses P.R.P. and the troop
used T.R.P. (Editor's Note: If your pack or troop isn't
using these recruiting plans, ask your commissioner or
district executive about them.) They do a good job and
have recruited one or two boys a month, usually around
the boy's birthday. What good will a roundup do?
Metzger: I'm glad to hear New Salem is using the re-
cruiting plans. Some units aren't. Actually P.R.P. and
T.R.P. fit right into the roundup. If we can get all packs
and troops to use them now, more may keep on using
them for the rest of the year. New Salem's roundup can
concentrate on turning up boys they may have missed
and getting back some boys on the unit inventory that
are absent—there's always some of that in the fall.
Taylor: Quite a few boys in my units have already re-
cruited a boy to meet the requirement for the Fiftieth
Anniversary Achievement Award. Isn't that enough?
Brown: I don't see how. All the surveys we've made
show there are lots more boys to recruit. A boy who's
been successful in recruiting is experienced—he'll re-
cruit the second and third boy more easily. Besides
there's a lot of Scouts who still need to get their recruit.
Miller: I believe you said every unit should hold an
open house in December. My Cub packs practically have
an open house every pack meeting. I know the Explorers
will have a party in December, and the December pack
meeting is a Christmas party, too. How can they have
an open house besides?
Metzger: I'm glad you brought that up. The open house
idea is to invite other boys and parents-—boys invite
boys and parents invite parents—to attend a meeting. A
party sounds like the best time to invite them, and every
boy in town should be invited. It's not a separate affair.
New boys are invested, recruiters are recognized, Fiftieth
Anniversary Achievement Awards are made, but the
rest of t'he program is the party; and the way is paved
to sign up some of the guests as members.
Urban: Isn't there danger we'll get so many boys in a
good roundup that we can't handle them in the units?
Besides, it'll boost our membership so high our advance-
ment, camping, and Boys' Life percentages will be cut
way down. And the council will expect us to do it every
year.
Brown: I think District Chairman Waechter would like
that. So would I. I know many new boys bring new in-
terests and new men and women to help. Let us worry
about that, will you?
Ray: You fellows make it sound like the roundup fits
every unit, and you've convinced me that all of them
should be in on it. Now what's the commissioners' pro-
gram that makes it happen?
Metzger: We do it the same way we do everything else
—roundtables and unit visits. It's a team job. The coun-
cil roundup chairman and the district committee will
help, but you're personally responsible for each of your
units. Now, at the August roundtables, here's what we
do. . . .
It is apparent that Christianson District will be 100
per cent in the roundup, if the commissioners can do it.
If a boy stays out of Scouting, it will be because he and
his parents decided it—not a unit leader, a committee, a
commissioner, or anyone else.
For all boys? Yes, if they're invited—urged—enticed
to join. That's why a roundup.
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