Scouting, Volume 35, Number 3, March 1947 Page: 2
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GETTING THROUGH
TO HIM
Let's talk about getting Scouting through to the boy.
All over the country in each one of our twelve
Regions we are holding great meetings of lay Scout-
ers. Why do these enthusiastic, earnest and devoted
laymen go to so much effort to attend these meetings?
Why? The only real answer I know is that they want
to see to it that the real Scouting program gets
through to the boy.
Our Scout Executives meet together annually in
each of our twelve Regions. I have been attending
professional meetings, educational and otherwise, for
a long time, but I have never yet been present at
any other meetings where the men devoted themselves
so continuously to the work in hand, as do your Scout
Executives.
But why hold these meetings? They are expensive
in time and in money. What is it all about? As far as
I know there is only one reason for doing it, and that
is that these men may be more efficient in getting
the program to the boy.
What Happens in tlie Counpil?
A Local Council has its Officers, its Executive
Board, its Operating Committees, its Districts. All
these men put in an enormous amount of time in
planning for Scouting.
Each of the half dozen Operating Committees aim
to have just the right men on that committee. The
Organization and Extension Committee has a great
undertaking in opening a way for Scouting. The
Finance Committee is concerned all the time in see-
ing that the Council is well financed. The Camping
Committee is busy seeing to it that there is camping,
long or short term camping, throughout the whole
year. The Health and Safety Committee has to safe-
guard the health and safety of /the youngest Cub
Scout and the oldest Senior Scout. And so with the
other committees.
Why all this activity on the part of these com-
munity leaders in a well organized Council? As far
as I have been able to find out, the whole purpose of
this Council organization and administration is to
see that Scouting gets through to the boy.
By CIA&U /C. tyletwell,
Chief Scout Executive
What Makes the Leader Do It?
In every Council worth its salt there is great em-
phasis on training, the training of leaders of Cub
Scouts, Scouts and all the branches of Senior Scout-
ing. There is increasing emphasis on running the
training course as nearly as possible in just the way
the leader can run his own Unit. More and more
leaders are being trained, and the training is be-
coming of a decidedly Scoutier quality.
Scout leaders are hungry for this training. It is
found not only in large courses, but also by just one
or two or three or four men getting together and
swapping experiences. Scoutmasters who have been
long in service are training their assistants, and train-
ing new Scoutmasters. What is the real idea in all
this training? The answer is the same, isn't it? It
is to get Scouting to the boy.
There has been most satisfying progress in de-
veloping the Commissioner Staff to a point where
there is a Commissioner for every three or four Units.
This Commissioner sees to it tha«t Scouting has a firm
foundation in the sponsoring institution; that there is
an institutional representative who participates in
the planning of Scouting; he regularly and systemati-
cally visits Scout Packs and Troops and Senior Units.
Why all these thousands and thousands of Commis-
sioners? Ask any one of them and he will tell you
that it is his job to help get the Scouting program
through to the boy.
Think of the ever-increasing number of Cub Scout
Packs. There are now 15,193 of them. Think of the
Den Mothers and Den Chiefs and all these Pack
leaders, think of the parent groups, the fathers and
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