Scouting, Volume 49, Number 2, February 1961 Page: 2
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DOUBLE
BIRTHDAY
CELEBRATION
With the Father of our Country
and Father of Scouting both
born February 22, your
group might enjoy doing an
original skit on a meeting
between them.
There are many points for depar-
ture. You could discuss some of
them at a previous meeting and
select the slant boys would think
most interesting.
For instance, a skit Could be
written on an imaginative en-
counter between Baden-Powell,
imbued with the truth and pa-
triotic motives in Scouting and
George's dad just after the cherry
tree episode.
Another idea could be a discus-
sion between General Washington
and Baden-Powell at the time of
Valley Forge. Preparedness could
be the theme and the importance
of the Boy Scout movement.
Charades might be played de-
picting outstanding patriotic
deeds of our first President and
the first Scout leader. Also a
question-and-answer box could be
used regarding leadership, origin
of flag, allegiance to the Hag.
Fun treat for fun times
The
lively
chewing and
hearty taste of
Wrigley's Spearmint Gum
always add to a fellow's
good times. (Wholesome, too.)
Freewheeling
I simply must say a very special
thank-you for your wonderful
article "Free Wheeling at Fifteen"'
in the November issue of Scouting.
... It gave me a real understand-
ing of my sixteen year old who I
thought was the crudest, rudest boy
to his mother that ever lived. It gave
all of us—my husband, my son, and
myself—a realistic attitude toward
ownership of his own jalopy. He
knows now we aren't plain mean
when we say he can t own a car just
yet.
Cecile M. Cloutier
Edgewood-Cranston, Rhode Island
If it isn't too undignified for a
Den Mother, I'd like to send you a
big kiss for printing "Free Wheeling
at Fifteen." It was rather roush to
find our (13-year-old) son sarcastic,
quarrelsome, and sometimes down-
right disobedient to me. Thanks to
this article I now understand ... it
isn't anything I have done but some-
thing that will pass away.
Mrs. Arthur Stanton
West Caldwell, New Jersey
Commemorative
tribute
I am sending this donation in
memory of my wonderful husband
who passed away suddenly this year.
He never had the opportunity to
become a Scout so we became a
Scouting family when our son be-
came eight years old. My husband
had a keen interest in and a great
love for Scouting.
Mrs. Lilly M. Neff
Penacook, AJew Hampshire
Two best
I have been enjoying Scouting
magazine since I became a member
of the United States Information
Service library. Scouting and Boys'
Life are the two best magazines I
ever read.
Jimmy Koo
Djakarta, Indonesia
"Personally speaking"
It is with a great deal of interest
that I have been reading the "Per-
sonally Speaking" columns, "The
Work Is Taken Out." and "Keeping
Teeth in Tests." ... I am concerned
with the serious lack of stamina and
coordination among our youth. It
is the wise leader who does not put
his name to the effort of a boy un-
less the requirements are met. To
do less, defeats the purpose and
ideals of Scouting. If a boy is to
wear the badge of his rank proudly,
he must know that it was some-
thing he honestly earned."
Bernard H. Smith
Iselin, New Jersey
Goodwill
At the last meeting of the board
of directors of Goodwill Industries
of Oregon, attention was called to
the article "Goodwill Good Turns"
in the November issue of Scouting.
The fine cooperation by the Port-
land Scouts in their annual Goodwill
Good Turn drive . . . has been by
far the largest single contributing
factor in Goodwill's rapid increase
in services to over four hundred
handicapped people in Portland.
Please accept our gratitude for the
wide publicity, both local and na-
tional, given to this effort by your
article.
M. L. Merritt
Learning to lose
In A.M.B.'s letter to "Front Line
Stuff" he said that ". . . when we
voted to have a best all-around troop
we were inviting trouble. . . ." This
sounds like the proposal to do away
with competition because everyone
can't win. This seems to be gaining
popularity these days characterized
by the neighborhood pet show that
guarantees a prize to every child.
Many schools decline to assign per-
centage grades or class standings
and resort to vague undefinite words
or no grades at all to spare the
child's feelings. . . .
Advocates of this idea want to
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