Scouting, Volume 8, Number 20, December 23, 1920 Page: 6
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SCOUTING, DECEMBER 23, 1920
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appeal to many
boys who greatly
enjoy whittling.
The patrol chairs
with panels deeply
carved with patrol
totem and the
names of the mem-
bers of each patrol
were an early en-
terprise of that
same Columbia in-
structor whose
conversation has
already been quot-
ed, Mr. Charles
F. Smith.
From Memphis,
Tenn., has come
photographs of
canes made from
different species of
wood. One of
these is enough to
suggest the mighty
interesting project
of collecting such
uniform and inter-
esting sticks, in-
volving many ob-
servant hikes, and
the finishing of a
group activity in a
thorough manner.
Scout Executive
A. S. Barrows of Kalamazoo, Mich.,
nominates the Christmas candle-stick as
a scout idea in these interesting terms:
"It was last winter while trimming up
the trees that we had felled for our scout
cabin that a Regular Scout Idea came
our way. In trimming the topmost
branches of a fallen maple I noticed a
very symmetrical growth of four branches
from the same point. I chopped this off
very carefully and was turning it over in
my hands. 'WOULDN'T IT MAKE A
FINE CANDLE- STICK! ' exclaimed
an imaginative scout. And it did. After
being shown the original, many scouts
and scoutmasters kept on the lookout
for them at the cabin and the camp, while
clearing underbrush, trimming trees, along
the roadside and in the swamp. Some-
times a root was found as shown (at
top of page 5) or a thornapple tangle.
After making the " find " the rest is very
simple. Use a saw on the top, cut the
leg^ so as to set perpendicular, bore a
Photo from XJnderwood & Underwood.
Hundreds of Knot Boards attest the enthusiastic use of the "Purposeful Act" in the
Scouting Educative Process. These Atlanta boys have evolved a very practical way
of exhibiting those knots which require a pole to show. They have also used excellent
taste in the simple " honest" arrangement of ropes and labels.
hole about an inch deep for the candle.
Shellac sometimes improves the appear-
ance. A scout made a handle by tying
up an extra branch until it was seasoned.
Leave it to the boys to develop new
ideas.
" During Anniversary Week in February
1920 we used ten of them with lighted
candles on the tables of the Rotary,
Kiwanis and other Noon-day Clubs. They
are used occasionally for Committee Meet-
ing Luncheons, Council Dinners, Banquets,
Window Displays and could be used for
Christmas gifts. They always receive
words of praise."
The development of a useful exhibit
of knots is an enterprise that hundreds
of troops undertake. Scouting has in
the past year shown many good samples
of this type of project. Yet it cannot for-
bear presenting a tastefully^ arranged
board from Atlanta which involves a
new method of showing the knots and
hitches which must be put around a pole.
Also a combina-
tion of wall scal-
ing and knot work
evolved at Wauke-
gan. In a recent
public exhibition
of scout work,
the first of its
kind in that city,
the council fur-
nished three full-
sized wall scaling
boards so that the
spectators saw the
race in other
terms than those
shown by the stop
watches. At the
conclusion of the
event the boards
were faced to the
audience, covered
with burlap,
trimmed with rope
1 Yz inches in
diameter, lettered
with rope, and
adorned with 63
samples of knots,
pictures and
splices.
Another troop
reports that its six
patrols are spend-
ing alternate Sat-
urdays on good turn hikes, each patrol
endeavoring to find some really worth-
while activity of a purely good turn na-
ture. They are not advertising the idea,
but we know there is an element of ad-
venture in this project that is arousing
real enthusiasm among these boys who
have for many months camped and hiked
entirely for their own enjoyment.
One of the greatest things in Scouting
is its boy leadership. Those men among
us who strive for an ever-open and re-
ceptive mind cannot fail to learn from the
boy's open-mindedness. There is a saying
that each new scoutmaster wrecks a troop
in learning to be a scoutmaster. If there
be some little ground for such a saying is
it not largely because we, competing
with the modern school system which has
grown ages ahead of that in which we re-
ceived our own training, discourage boys
who want to choose activities which they
can enter into enthusiastically and work
out as gang or patrol enterprises.
This wasa nroiect within a nroiect and itself made up of several minor factors, each a worthy enterprise for one boy. It is a giant
ihp Winkee-an Illinois scouts out of three wall-scaling walls, at the conclusion of that conventional contest. The borders
areofli'' rop^tugof war"iaterialTVere we el exhibits of knots,'splices, hitches, etc. The three hundred square feet of wall
was trimmed in less than 9 minutes and left for inspection by the audience after the show. C L. Ailing is executive but boys super-
vised, prepared and performed this and all otliei acts in Waukegan s Exhibition.
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