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SCOUTIflG
May June, 1955, Vol. 43, /Vo. 5
CONTENTS
Personally Speaking 1
Our Continuing Purpose 2-3
Cub Scouting Changed our Lives 4-5
Glamour Panel in Action 6-7
Worth Retelling 8-f)
How the Council Serves Your Unit 10
Olympic Games 11
The Busiest Man in Camp 12-13
No Better Answer 14-15
Scout Shorts 16-17
That Border-line Boy IS
Our Family Enjoyed Philmont 19
THIS MONTH'S COVER
Boys come off the rugged trails
of Philmont with harder mus-
cles, and browner skins, and
keener eyes. More important
still they show a sturdy self-
reliance, a growing, vigorous
manliness, and a new-found,
steady maturity.
SCOUTING is published monthly and bimonthly May-June and July-
August. Copyrighted 1955, by the Boy Scouts of America, New Bruns-
wick, N. J. Reentered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at
New Brunswick, N. J., under the act of March 3, 1879. SCOUTING
is sent to Scouters as a part of their registration. Subscription to all
others $1.00 a year. Edited in the Division of Program; C. M. Heistand,
Director.
Editor, Lex R. Lucas Production Director, George Corrado
Managing Editor, Forest Witcraft Assoc. Editors: Ted Holstein, Walter
Asst. Managing Editor, James Moise MacPeek, Sam Traughber
Art Director, Don Ross Circulation Service, Joe Williams
NATIONAL OFFICERS-BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
Honorary President, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER. Honorary Vice-Presi
dents, HERBERT HOOVER, HARRY S. TRUMAN, AMORY HOUGHTON
President, JOHN M. SCHIFF. Vice-Presidents, FRANCIS W. HATCH
KENNETH K. BECHTEL, CHERRY L. EMERSON, GALE F. JOHNSTON
ELLSWORTH H. AUGUSTUS. Treasurer, HARRY M. ADDINSELL. Inter
national Scout Commissioner, THOMAS J. WATSON. National Scout
Commissioner, GEORGE J. FISHER. Chief Scout, ELBERT K. FRETWELL.
Chief Scout Executive, ARTHUR A. SCHUCK. Deputy Chief Scout
Executive, PLINY H. POWERS.
EDITORIAL BOARD
WHEELER McMILLEN, Chairman, EZRA TAFT BENSON, O. A. HANKE,
FRANCIS W. HATCH, JOHN A. JONES, ALBERT E. LOWNES, CHARLES
McCABE, KEN McCORMICK, WADE H. NICHOLS, FRANK C. RAND, JR.,
HARRISON M. SAYRE.
Personally Speaking
Question by an Eagle Scout
"I am an Eagle Scout and senior patrol leader,"
writes a Missouri boy, "and I've got a problem
that maybe you can help me with. It's this: the
troops and packs here are lowering the standards.
A few months ago one of the committee mem-
bers wanted his boy in the troop. After a few
tries to get the boy to work on the requirements,
the Scoutmaster just gave up and passed him so
the boy's father would quit pestering him.
"In the pack, the Cubmaster wanted his son to
be Webelos before he graduated and just
skipped the Tenderfoot requirements so the bo\
could get the badge at his last pack meeting.
"When I was a den chief, I saw too many kids
who waited till a few days before the pack meet-
ing and then came running to their mothers with
vHere, quick, Mom, sign my book. I gotta get
my badge!' and mother signed it.
"loo many of the merit badge counselors just
asked me 'Did you read the pamphlet?' and then
asked me a few simple questions anybody could
answer and signed my application.
"I don't think these things are right. When 1
first started Scouting, I learned that the harder
a job was, the more I got from it.
"Are we going to lower the standards to keep
a few mediocre boys in the troop and some dis-
interested parents happy, or are we going to
keep the standards of Scouting up where they
belong and give boys a real goal to shoot at?"
Of course, there's only one answer to your
question, Eagle Scout, and every leader in Scout-
ing would give it—if he stopped to think it
through.
But the trouble is that a lot of us get so busy
we don't always take time to think about what
we're doing to a boy when we make things too
easy for him. We don t realize how, step by step,
we are helping him build just the opposite
character traits from those that we stand for.
Honestly, none of us would intentionally do
anything that would hurt a boy. Perhaps, though,
some of us have not realized how important it is
to keep up the Scouting standards.
I think your letter will help.
^^
Editor
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