Scouting, Volume 60, Number 1, January-February 1972 Page: 1
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MAY THEME
BEAUTIFUL AMERICA
Your cub scouts see America every time they
look out the window. What they see may be
beautiful, depending on where they live.
Through the Beautiful America theme, we
can show them that our country has great natural
beauty. We can teach them how to enjoy it and what
they can do to conserve it.
This is the centennial year of our National Park
Service. Beginning with Yellowstone, back in 1872, our
national park system has developed until now there
are more than 300 national parks, monuments, historic
sites, battlefields, military parks, lakeshores, sea-
shores, scenic riverways, memorials, cemeteries, and
scientific reserves. These are all maintained by the
U. S. Department of the Interior for the citizens of the
United States. We share equally in owning these moun-
tains, lakes, underground caves, icy glaciers, spouting
geysers, boiling volcanoes, rivers, roads, and other
places of interest that have been set aside by the
federal government.
Most communities have one of these reserved places
within easy driving distance. This is the month to
show "Beautiful America." Contact your nearest Na-
tional Park Service office ahead of time.
Plan den and pack trips this month to explore one
of these places of natural beauty, historic sites, or
memorials. Trips don't necessarily have to be long.
Plan to visit a state or county park or forest bursting
with the beauty of nature.
If you are planning a special trip with your den or
pack, submit a Local Tour Permit Application to your
council. This application serves as a checklist for pack
leaders on adequate leadership, insurance, emergency
information, and the advantages of certain courtesies
often extended to traveling Scout units. It should be
filed with the council 2 weeks before the trip.
Help Save America's Resources America
will stay beautiful only if we are willing to do our
part for conservation. Dens and packs should plan
conservation projects in their neighborhoods.
Here are things that could be done this month:
• Build and set out bird boxes, feeding stations,
birdbaths, or bird dust baths in backyard or park.
• Plant shrubs to provide cover for wildlife.
• Plant grass seed on bare ground in park, school or
church yard to prevent erosion.
• Plant tree seedlings for shade, landscaping, or
ground cover.
• Work on Wolf and Bear conservation achieve-
ments and Webelos activity areas involving nature.
• Make window boxes, and plant flowers; or plant
tubs with trees or shrubs.
• Check with your conservation office for a pack
project to "Beautify America" in your town.
• Plant and maintain a flower garden in a park.
• Make litter bags for family's and neighbor's cars
or boats. Have a contest for best decorated, most
original, funniest, etc.
• Continue the ragweed elimination program by
identifying ragweed, then removing it to reduce the
summer pollen that causes hay fever.
• Make Outdoor Code posters to put up in school,
and explain the Code to other pupils.
• Make exhibits or give demonstrations for pack
meeting that show how clothes and food come from
the soil; why soil conservation is important.
Permission required for some of these projects
should be secured early by pack leaders.
If leaders are uncertain what conservation projects
would be most beneficial, check with the city or
county park department, local Soil Conservation Serv-
ice office, fish and game commission, or the county
agricultural extension agent. For ideas on father-son
projects, send a self-addressed stamped envelope to
Earth, I Care, Dept. CS, Somerville, N J. 08876.
Patriotic Observances May 1 is Loyalty Day
and May 29 is Memorial Day, both national holidays
which should be meaningful to Cub Scouts. Den Lead-
ers may schedule special flag ceremonies for den meet-
ings nearest those dates. Discuss our heritage of free-
dom in Den Leader's minutes.
May Pack Leaders Meeting Pack Leaders
hold their monthly meeting a week before the May
pack meeting to complete final details for that meet-
ing and to outline pack and den plans for June, July,
and August to earn the National Summertime Pack
Award. Plan and hold a pack activity each month for
boys and their parents.
Visit a national or state park, museum, zoo, farm,
hatchery, ball game, governor's home, or historic site.
Hold a picnic, dad and son softball game, Webelos Day
at Camp, swim, 4th of July parade. Have an afternoon
at a creek, river, lake, or ocean shore devoted to a
water-oriented Project SOAR activity. See National
Summertime Pack Award Planning Guide, No. 3748,
for more ideas. Give your boys activities in the sum-
mertime where they can wear their uniforms.
Extra Help for Cub Scout Leaders Your
district roundtable is an excellent source of program
helps and resources for den and pack activi ties.
PURPOSE OF CUB SCOUTING
This month's program should accomplish the
following in the purpose of Cub Scouting:
• Develop habits and attitudes of good citizenship.
• Improve understanding within the family.
• Strengthen boys' ability to get along with others.
• Show how to be helpful and to do one's best.
• Prepare them to become Boy Scouts.
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