Great Falls tribune., 1921-02-27

church, under William Dietler. and
Troop 13, at the Presbyterian church,
under f. A. Lyford, were organized.
Troops have been contemplated on the
west side and in Black Eagle, for
some time, as well as an additional
troop or two on the south side and the
northeast part. The west side Troop
has finally been organized, with eight
active members, William Carter.
scoutmaster: meeting at the school
house. 4 group under the leadership
of Malcolm Mercer is now working to
recruit at least two full patrols, with
headquarters at the Methodist south
side Sunday school. J. C. Swarthout
and r. e. Walker, of that Sunday
school have also organized group of
boys just under and just over II years
Of age, to do definite scouting work,
which will within the next year de-
velop into full-fledged troop.
The Black Eagle troop, and the
northeast side troop with headquarters
at Grace Presbyterian church. await
only leadership to complete their or
ganization.
Should Have 600 Scouts.
Great Falls should within the next
two years have a membership in its
various scouting organizations of 500
to 600 scouts. This will mean a total
tof perhaps 20 to % troops. For
these 20 odd troops, at least 80 adults
leaders have to be provided, and also
% or more active and interested troop
committeeman must be found. Many
of these troops will be housed in
schools, where the difficulties of su-
pervlsion are increased and the re-
sponslblllty upon the troop committee
and the scoutmaster is greater The
completion of the local organization
work, then, must depend in the last
analysis upon the citizens Of the com
munity. If they are sufficiently in
terested, if they can see the values
IN the work, and then if they are will
ing to devote personal care and at
tentlon to same phase of the active
work, then satisfactory expansion will
| be possible.
Camp Rotary.
Camp Rotary. between Monarch and
Neihart, on the Belt Creek, was open
cd to scouts from August 16 to Sep
! tember 3. Some GO scoutstook advan-
tage Of the offer made, and spent from
three to ten days each in camp. A
charge of S1.OO per day was made to
| thC poss. sDul uNeApeCteu SuFlHSS anu
the assumption by the local council
rebate possible after the camp was
closed, so that the total cost was only
about so cents day to each boy, in
cluding transportation.
| The forest service kindly loaned the
camp two 25man cooking and table
outfits, so that no expenditure for
cooking utensils had to be made this
first year. Hiram F. Clark. of the
Charles F. Clark company, is making
| up set Of cooking utensils this winter,
which he will present to the camp.
They are arranged to nest compactly,
SO that transportation will be easy.
The scout executive was IN general
| charge of the camp during the entire
| period. but was assisted at various
| times by Scoutmaster j. Van Teylingen
! and Assistant Scoutmaster Richard b.
Hart of Troop ,. Scoutmaster Frank J.
Parker of troop 5. and Scoutmastcr
Paul F. Hagen of troop 8. The king of
the kitchen was William Rosser, known
| to the boys otter the first two minutes
Of camp as 'BilP'. Bills hot cakes and
stews and desserts and soups filled the
| boys repeatedly with the kind Of CON
| tentment that comes only from being
well filled" and many requests have
| been made that "B:ll'' be returned in
| charge Of the kitchen for next sum
| mer's camp.
Definite Camp Program.
A definite program was carried out
| daily at the camp, starting at $50 with
first call, reveille at Gas, flag raising
at $50, calthenics Or drill or games
| until mess call at 7:3O. For an hour
after breakfast, everybody turned out
to do police and construction work
| around camp. During the camp, a
fence around the permit area was con
structed, of material furnished by the
Rotary club and the forest service.
Every scout camp ordinarily has some
camp project, and the fence was the
project for last year.
Twice each day the boys went in a
group down to the swimming hole. a
few hundred yards below camp for
half an hours swim. This was always
sufficient, because the water was cold
enough to require active exertion While
in It.
The balance of the days time was
spent in scouting games and instruc-
ton, signalling, tracking, stalking, etc.
A baseball tournament was conducted.
with games between patrols. Sew
eral hikes were taken, adventure hikes,
treasure hunts, etc. Considerable free
time was provided when the boys read,
whitfield. played checkers, hunted flow
crs. studied for scout tests, etc.
Through the cooperation of the public
!, library, several books on birds, trees,
animals and flowers, were provided.
Had Religious Services.
A camp fire every night afforded op
portunity for telling. Jacks
Alive" jokes. and occasionally more
serious discourse. Each Sunday at
least one religious service of some sort
was conducted. On the second Sunday
in camp the Rev. Father NJ. Z. O'Brien
conducted mass for the Catholic boys,
and W. NJ. Burlingame held Sunday
school at the same hour for those Of
the various Protestant faiths repre-
sented.
Each boy was required to present
certificate from his family physician,
to the effect that he was physically
able to stand the camp life. The drink
ing water used was taken from Raj
ferty creek. which empties into Belt
creek near the camp site. Samples
were analyzed and declared satisfactory
for drinking purposes before the camp
began.