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Rh them into the ground. After all grease is gotten rid of, wash in hot water and dry with doth. Don't use the doth first and get it greasy.

Leadership: The most important thing about a camping party is that it should always have the best of leadership. No group of boys should go camping by themselves. The first thing a patrol of scouts should do when it has determined to camp is to insist upon the scout master accompanying the members of the patrol. The reason for this is that there is less likely to be accidents of the kind that will break up your camp and drive you home to the town or city. When the scout master is one of the party, all of the boys can go in swimming when the proper time comes for such exercise, and the scout master can stay upon the bank or sit in the boat for the purpose of preventing accidents by drowning. There are also a hundred and one things which will occur in camp when the need of a man's help will show' itself. A scout ought to insist on his scout master going to camp. The scout master and patrol leader should be present, in order to settle the many questions which must of necessity arise, so that there. may be no need of differences or quarrels over disputed points, which would be sure to spoil the outing.

Scout Camp Program In a scout camp there will be a regular daily program, something similar to the following:

Order of Business


 * 1) Opening council
 * 2) Roll-call
 * 3) Record of last council
 * 4) Reports of scouts
 * 5) Left over business
 * 6) Complaints
 * 7) Honors
 * 8) New scouts
 * 9) New Business
 * 10) Challenges
 * 11) Social doings, songs, dances, stories
 * 12) Closing Council (devotional services when desired) 8:45 lights out