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Subj: B.-P.'S OUTLOOK (PART 14)
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Sent: 240303/1304Z 7569@WW4BSA.NEFL.FL.USA.NOAM BPQ6.0.24
Winter Training of Scouts
I AM glad to have had from some Commissioners already their ideas of what
they propose in the way of systematic instruction of Troops in the winter
months.
The winter will soon be upon us, and unless plans are drawn up in good time,
one finds that it is liable to be over before they have got well into working
order.
One suggestion is to go steadily over the whole course given in Scouting for
Boys, and I think this a very good one because most Scoutmasters and Scouts,
after reading the book, carry out the ideas in it rather according to what
they remember of them, and add new ones on similar lines (which is what I
like to see), but without much further reference to the book, and in the end
a good many minor points are apt to get dropped out of the training -- and
though they may be small and apparently insignificant, they all have their
meaning. Take, for instance, the suggestions on cleaning teeth and making
camp tooth-brushes; it is a little point which has probably quite dropped out
of recollection in some Troops, but it is nevertheless quite an important one
in its way; and there are hundreds of others like it. Then tenderfoots will
probably have joined Troops which were originally trained, before they came,
on the lines of the book, but they have only come in for the subsequent form
of training, and so know little of the original teaching. Scoutmasters
themselves on re-reading the book after the interval will probably see some
of its points in quite a new light. So, for various reasons, it may in many
cases be well to run through the book training during the winter months.
October, 1911.
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