The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1936-10-01
Rotary Will
Sponsor S. c..
Scout Troop
Plan Enlargement of Activi-
ties for Youth In Sank
Centre
TO HAVE 3 DIVISIONS
Community Service To Be
Important Phase of
Work

Provided certain added arrange
ments can satisfactorily be con-
summated, the Rotary Club will
sponsor Sank Centre Scouting this
year in a new and bigger program,
it was voted Tuesday noon at their
regular meeting. The decision fol-
lowed the recommendation of the
committee on Youth Work that met
Monday evening and the plan sug-
gested was adopted without a dis
senting. vote. Certain provisos were
added to the decision.
It will not be the policy Of the
Rotary Club, said members, to take
forcibly the sponsorship Of such
troops as now may be in action.
But they see in the program out
lined a chance for Scouting to
branch into more and larger fields
of community service. 1t is further
proposed that r. B. Kowalke, local
schoolman, with twelve years of
Scouting behind him and a special
course in leadership training aug
menting his Scouting knowledge,
head the corps of men who will i'm
mediately direct the activities of
the troop. The plan as suggested
and worked out by Mr.. Kowalke
and submitted to the Rotary Club
will provide for a community troop
and set up that can readily ham
die one hundred Scouts. It's for
ward looking policy should give
Scouting something to go on for
several years in advance.
Under the present setup with the
Churches sponsoring troops, Scout
ing has made a dismal picture.
Handicapped by the lack of man.
power, by number of different
troops, and the fact that some
Churches did not have enough boys
to have a troop, Scouting gradual
ly faded out of the community pic
ture. Not because anyone or any
group was at fault but because un-
der that set up enough man power
could not be commanded
Here is graphic outline Of the
plan submitted for the furthering
of Scouting in Sank Centre. At pre-
sent there are probably about thir-
ty active Scouts; it is felt by Ro-
tarians that the plan for a COM
munity troop will augment that
number to nearly the hundred
mark. At the head Of the system
will be the sponsoring organization.
From that group and others troop
committee will be appointed. Their
direction will go directly to the
Scoutmaster, responsible for the
entire troop. With his assistants,
several Assistant Scoutmasters and
Junior Assistants he will carry out
the work Of the Troop. Responsible
to this group of Scoutmasters will
be the Senior Patrol Leaders with
their subordinates, the Patrol Lead
ers. That in brief is the order for
the direction of the Scouting move
ment, as proposed.
In the program Of the Scouts
themselves will be three divisions.
The lower bracket will include Cub
bling, boys ranging in age from nine
to twelve years, with its phases.
Regular Scouting is second in line
and includes Scouts from IL to 18
years of age in the different class
es they must pass through on the
way to Eagle Scouting. The Senior
program will include older Scouts
and Scouters in a program known
as Sea Scouting, Explorers, and
Rovers. At the top of all is the Or
der of knights of the Arrow.
A brief outline, but a huge plan
that will call for all available man.
power. All phases of this plan can
not be inaugurated the first or
even possibly the second year, said
Mr.. Kowalke, but in time the pro-
gram can be worked out to be a
permanent fixture.
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