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who have an inadequate camping
program.
Equipment — Increasingly,
Troops are acquiring their own
camping materials such as tents,
sleeping and eating gear. This has
many advantages for it makes pos-
sible a more varied outdoor pro-
gram, and it gives the Scouts a
sense of being prepared for what-
ever comes along. Councils help
Troops that lack equipment, but
it should be the ideal of every
Troop to acquire as soon as it is
able the necessary equipment to
camp on its own. The making of
equipment by the Scouts should
not be overlooked. This provides
activity for indoor meetings, and
when equipment has been made
the Scouts will want to use it.
Financing — An outstanding
consideration for all Troop Lead-
ers is the financing of the Troop.
There are always some costs to
camping adventures. The success-
ful Troop plans to handle this on
the budget basis. They develop a
camping fund into which they ac-
cumulate the financial resources to
finance the camping program. In
the development of this fund, the
Sponsoring Institution, the Troop
Committee, and the parents of the
Scouts are important. They can
all be very helpful in providing
ways and means for the Troop it-
self as a unit and for individuals
to earn and save money for camp-
ing. They also will contribute to
the camping fund. This is particu-
larly necessary for long-term
camping.
W
HERE the Troop plans its camp-
ing program, develops its trained
leadership, and has its equipment
and finances, there is no question
about the happy results in the out-
door program of the Troop. It is
the solving of these problems that
is the foundation of a Camping
Troop. The membership card of a
Scout should be his ticket to the
outdoors. His Troop should be the
means of bringing this outdoor ad-
venture into reality. With plans
of this kind, the experience of
Troop 3 of Newport, R. I., and
Troop 32 of Jasper, Texas, will be-
come the experience of the Troops
of your neighborhood.
The Annual Meeting
By Qeosuje M.
Deputy Chief Scout Executive
THE Thirty-First Annual Meet-
ing of the National Council will
be held on May 16 and 17 in
Washington, D. C. The headquar-
ters will be at the Willard Hotel
where the first Annual Meeting
was held in 1911.
The theme of the Conference
this year — "Physically Strong,
Mentally Awake and Morally
Straight" — is one which lends
itself to discussion of the past as
well as preparation for the future.
As the city of Washington was
the birthplace of James E. West
and the city in which his child-
hood and youth were spent, the
dinner meeting of the Annual
Meeting will be in part in the na-
ture of a tribute to Dr. West in
appreciation of his thirty years'
experience as Chief Scout Execu-
tive. The Scouting activities at the
dinner will consist of outstanding
events in his experience during
these thirty years. The National
Capital Area Council, in coopera-
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tion with officials at the Orphanage
with which Dr. West was identified
as a youth, have planned a me-
morial to him, the exercises of
which will be a part of the An-
nual Meeting.
There is every reason to believe
that the forthcoming meeting
should be the largest and in many
ways the most enthusiastic of our
history. The Local Council at
Washington, under its President,
Captain Chester A. Wells, is ac-
tively developing plans to help
make this an outstanding meeting.
We are hoping that it will be char-
acterized by representation from
all parts of America and that each
Region will have creditable at-
tendance. We will appreciate any
suggestions from the Field that
will help make the meeting the
best in our history.
Plans are in progress for devel-
oping other features, of a national
character, to which reference will
be made in later issues of Scout-
ing. Detailed information will ap-
pear in Scouting for April and
May, and in bulletins to National
Council Members and Local Coun-
cils.
Make Scouting's Service to Boys Reach a New High in 1941
MARCH, 1941 5
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