A NOTE TO SCOUTERS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 117, 3 June 1937, Page 8

A NOTE TO SCOUTERS

There is bound to come up in your minds some time or other the question, "Is it worth while my spenaing the time I do an this game. Is the troop progressing as, in my mind, it should do? We all feel like that at times, and I think that I can say that in ninetynine times out of every hundred it is raused by the Scouter trying to run the troop himself; that is to say, without letting his patrol leaders have a say in things. When he f eels Idke that he should get his leaders together and get their ideas on things, and let them draw out a programme for tKe troop activities. If he has trained them in the right way, and if he has picked the "right boys for leaders, he will find them just as keen for successful meetings as he is himself. He wall find that they can arrange a programme that will keep the boys in the troop interested and on the forward move all the time. He may have, at times, to bring them back to the matter in view, since their talk will probably wander around, but for that matter at the Scouters' meetings the chairman for the evening generally has to do the sarne thing; it seems to be the habit for discussione to get rather wide of the mark sometimes. It is no wonder that our "Chief has so often stressed the importance of the "Court of Honour" in the running of a Scont troop. Scouting is a boy's affair and it needs the ideas that are given by the sendor boys, with the advice of the Scouter, to make a troop a full success. • Also, don't keep your worries to yourself go to some other Scouter and have a yarn with him. This is one of the jobs of the Distriet Scouter or Commissioner, or his assistant, any of them will help you on and give you fresh keenne&s. You are doing great work, so don't let yourself get disconraged.