The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1933-03-30
Scouting Pro-
gram Is To
Be Enlarged
Central Minnesota Council
Has $50 Active Scouts in
Eleven Counties
YEARS PROGRAM SET
Bob Schwalen, of This City,
Is Member of the Organi-
zation Committee

The Central Minnesota Council Of
Boy Scouts, consisting of II coun-
ties and a fraction of another, has
$50 active Boy Scouts, and has TO-
I'll boys from II to Is years old
who are eligible to become Scouts.
These facts were studied Monday
night by the troop organization
committee in Little Falls.
Thirty-nine communities in the
Central Minnesota Council have
troops of Boy Scouts, and six COM
munities have more than one troop.
The communities sponsoring more
than one troop are ST. Cloud, Brain
erd, Little Falls, Sank Centre, Long
Prairie and Princeton. Some of
these communities are pioneers in
the field of Scouting, while several
have turned their attention to
Scouting during the last few years.
1t is the aim of the Boy Scouts
of America, under a 10 year pro-
gram inaugurated last year, to ex-
tend Scouting to more boys, so
that in 1912 there will be one boy
in every four who has had four
years of Boy Scout training. In
other words, the movement wants
to have rs per cent of the boys of
America Scout trained in 1912.
The Central Minnesota Council
now has about seven per cent of
it's boys from II to Is years old
interested in Scouting. There is
plenty of opportunity for expansion
here, and it is the aim Of the troop
organization committee to extend
the opportunities offered through
the Scout program to more boys
this year.
For the purpose of administra-
ton, activities and program the
council is divided into districts,
each district having an organiza-
ton of it's own and operating it's
own program in conjunction with
the others, and according to plans
which they themselves have de-
veloped at council meetings.
The council troop organization
committee, which interests itself in
the various district troop organiza-
ton activities, consists of E. L. Kali
iher, of Swanville, chairman; e. A.
Larson, of Aitkin, Bob Schwalen, Of
Sank Centre, A. E. Gongall, Of
Becker, and Charles Stith, of Swan
vile. The district commissioners
cooperate closely with this council
committee.
Each of the council COMMITTEE
men, representing different districts
will seek to promullgate the Or
ganization Of troops in the various
communities Of their districts. The
council office will send forth pub
licity to various institutions in the
communities, such as parent-teach-
er associations, American Legion
posts, churches, and civic groups
of various natures. It is by such
organizations that a Boy Scout
troop should be sponsored.
Lone Scout work, or rural scout
ing, is being developed to take care
of the individual boy on the farm
who lives too far away from other
boys to form a troop.
The minimum number of boys to
form a troop is eight. The maxi
mum is 80. The minimum age is
IL with no maximum. A troop must
have at least three troop commit
teemen and one scoutmaster, A reg
ular troop charter application form
is provided to the institution wish
ing to sponsor a troop.
Scouting is program offered to
the institutions for them to operate
for the boys in their communities.
1t is non-sectarian and non-military.
The Council and district organiza-
tons are to assist the sponsoring
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