The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1920-04-30
Maui Boy Scouts To
Camp This Summer
Plans For Big Outing Approved By
Scout Council - Every Boy To
Have 2 Weeks Outing - Commits
SiOner Puck Makes Report.

ing held in the chamber of commerce
room, Wailuku, last Tuesday after
noon.
Just where and when the camp will
be held is still to be decided, but MI.
Puck and Executive Secretary Clinton
S. Childs were authorized to go ahead
with the plan and to work out the
details as they deem best. Makena
vas talked about as a place for the
camp, but some of the members of
the council believe that a better place
may be found. Some place along the
north shore of west Maui, in the Ho-
nokahua district.was suggested also.
1t is probable hat the camp will be
made a sort of continuous affair COW
ering six weeks or more and that
some 80 or 40 boys will be in the
camp at a time for about 2 weeks
each. 1t is believed that the enter
prise will do much to maintain the
interest in scouting among the boys.
commissioners Report
During Tuesdays meeting an inter
esting report from Scout Commission
er Puck was read. 1t follows:
The following is a report as to the
standing of the troops under the
jurisdiction of the Maui Council, Boy
pNoulo Va HilNllNu,u llu lliC ihihltuldlt
needs and improvements necessary in
order that scout activities may thrive.
We have now the following troops,
namely:
Waikiki No. l, Scoutmaster w. F..
Crockett, Jr; Waikiki No. Ill, Scout
master X. X. Kan; Lahaina No. l,
Scoutmaster Souza; Lahaina No. II,
-; Puunene No. 1, Scoutmaster F.
Martin; Paia No. l, Scoutmaster
Frank Goble; Puukolii No. 1, Scout
master P. Cockett, Jr.; Waihee No.
B. o. Wist is deputy commissioner,
Lahaina.
There is a possibility of troops in
the following places in addition to the
aforenamed. Mr.. Carl Rose desires
to act as Scoutmaster of the troop
which will soon be formed in Wal
luku. Mr.. Brown of Paia will most
likely take hold of a troop at an early
date in Paia, the formation of such
a troop being under way now. There
is a possibility of a troop in Haiku
headed by Mr.. McCluskey, and Maka-
wao desires a troop, but no scout
master Is available at present.
A The eight troops hat we have are
eady for action but are being re-
rganized throughout, and We believe
bat when u organization is com
leted we will be able to compare
bvorably with any other council on
he map.
Real Workers Needed"
The reorganization will have to do,
Nor instance, with the troop commit
9tees which have heretofore been call
ed upon to do very little so far as
j trnOn activities arc concerned on
Maui. This your commissioner be-
lieves to have been a mistake. The
troop committee should be made re-
sponsible for the troop and its per-
formance in conjunction with the
scoutmaster. If the scoutmaster
handles the general work of the
troop in the field, this will take all
of any mans time, and the budget and
finances of individual troops should
therefore be taken care of by the
troop committee. 1t is with this fact
in view that your commissioner is
looking for men who take a vital in
terest in scout affairs generally and
who will not merely have their names
On the rolls and application forms, and
who will be a part of our organiza-
ton as much as our scoutmasters or
other officers are.
The second phase that stands out
prominently in the rec" nization is
that there. .Should be ar number
of assistant SEQ, / these
should be picked IT re-
placing the scoul ct
moved or otherwi ,syd for
action with the trC governs.
These men, again al be of as
high a standing o capability as the
scoutmaster if possible, and it is our
idea to get, namely, one man for each
troop to command, one man for educa.
tional features connected with the
troop, another for drilling; or, in
other words, a scoutmaster and three
men who are more or less proficient
in two or three lines connected with
scouting, such a sthe military side
~woodcraft, and general scout work.
Again, there will be a council OF
the scoutmasters hereafter, meetings
to be called for discussion and general
exchange of ideas, and this will work
to forming the troops into more uni
form character, as well as making
for efficiency in troop competition
By bringing them together often they
will learn of individual troop "activi
ties, n they will take the initiative
in bringing their W troop to a high
err standard than the other troops il
possible. Scoutmasters, and the ma
terial that We pick for scoutmasters
is of the utmost importance and in
wolves the life of the movement or
Maui; for in Waihee recently, at the
request of the boys, We organized a
troop which was headed up by
scoutmaster whose removal of resid
ence made it necessary to get an
other. The result is that in less thar
a two months period three scout
masters have worked with the troop
The foregoing is not encouraging tC
the boys, and the morale of the trooI
is affected. In this instance we de
sire advice as to what can be done in
replacing the scoutmasters with new
leaders for the boys.
Troop Should Earn Money
The troop budget should have a re